Jamie & Corinne Foxx on Family Bonds, His Legendary Career & a Second Chance at Life

Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corinne share incredible stories with Keke and celebrate Beat Shazam’s 100th episode. Jamie breaks out his hilarious impressions, revisits his greatest hits from In Living Color and Django Unchained to how Oprah kept his Oscar run for Ray on track. In an emotional moment, they revisit his stroke and why he credits Corinne with saving his life. Plus, a birthday surprise for Keke brings her to tears. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Keke Palmer?

  Today's guests are a true father-daughter powerhouse. Jamie Foxx is an Academy Award-winning actor, Grammy-winning musician, comedian, producer, and one of the greatest multi-hyphenates to ever do it. And his daughter Corinne Foxx is making her own mark as an actress, executive producer, and women's health advocate. Together, they've taken their relationship from home to Hollywood, working side by side across multiple projects, including eight seasons of Beat Shazam, which will mark its 100th episode this summer. We're getting into how their very different upbringings shaped them, the family stories behind their careers, and the ways they've shown up for each other through health challenges, career pressures,

• 0:44Keke Palmer?

  and major family milestones. Because through every chapter, they've protected, supported, and held each other down, proving that for the Foxes, it really is family over everything. So, let's get into it.

• 1:28Keke Palmer?

  Today's episode is brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Seventh Generation. I know I'm extra. They know I'm extra. We've made peace with it. But my cleaning products don't get to be extra. They get to work. Seventh Generation keeps it simple, so I don't have to pretend otherwise. Let's get into today's show.

• 1:48Keke Palmer?

  Okay, baby, this is Keke Palmer, and baby, this is Jamie and Corinne Fox. Hey, y'all!

• 1:57Speaker 01

  Kiki!

• 2:00Speaker 02

  Man, you doing that?

• 2:05Keke Palmer?

  I love you. I feel like I used to see you all the time at the Red Carpet.

• 2:08Speaker 01

  At the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice. Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards?

• 2:12Keke Palmer?

  Yes, it's so good to see you guys. What's up?

• 2:15Speaker 02

  Man, you, ay, ay, ay. No bigger fans over here.

• 2:19Keke Palmer?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 2:20Speaker 02

  No, we trying to get you.

• 2:21Speaker 01

  No, we want to do something.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  No, we trying to get you.

• 2:22Keke Palmer?

  When we doing it?

• 2:23Speaker 02

  No, no, listen, listen, listen. I got sent, I got sent messages from some really high-up white people that are trying to get you right now.

• 2:31Keke Palmer?

  Come on, what's the matter?

• 2:33Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, no. I mean, some, I don't want to say it on here, but I mean, some real high-powered people.

• 2:38Keke Palmer?

  We can bleep them out.

• 2:38Speaker 02

  They said, "Could you please send a message? We want to..." They just, they want to go all, well, we, I mean, but...

• 2:45Keke Palmer?

  And it's a movie, or it's a TV show?

• 2:48Speaker 02

  Everything!

• 2:49Keke Palmer?

  Yes, Corinne, guys. We have to do this.

• 2:52Speaker 01

  It's overdue.

• 2:53Speaker 02

  It's overdue, but we, but we got some real... I can't curse on here, right?

• 2:56Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, you can curse.

• 2:57Speaker 02

  We got some real [BLEEP]. No, no, no, but you know what? What were you talking about? First of all, my daughter runs my company.

• 3:02Keke Palmer?

  Yes, which is, this is, that's what I want for my little boy, Leo. Leo's gotta be like Corinne. Got to.

• 3:07Speaker 02

  She runs the company, and I'm gonna be honest with you. My hunches ain't what they used to be. So, my daughter be like that.

• 3:15Keke Palmer?

  She got good taste.

• 3:16Speaker 02

  But that, that. But my executions, I'm like, I do that thing. So, my hunches, all that is not, but she takes it and makes it amazing. But what she does and what we do at our company, we do that stuff that our peers are gonna be like, "That's a hot [BLEEP]."

• 3:32Keke Palmer?

  Yes.

• 3:32Speaker 02

  You know, because, because, and I'm thankful for everything that I do.

• 3:37Keke Palmer?

  We got no wood.

• 3:38Speaker 02

  I'm thankful for every, I'm thankful for everything that we do as far as what I'm working on. But sometimes I'll be like, "Man, I'm looking for that one thing where I, where Kiki be like, "Ooh, ooh." And so, we have some of it.

• 3:51Keke Palmer?

  So, what's that thing that makes you say, "Ooh"? Because you know it is hard to find, Corinne.

• 3:56Speaker 01

  That's not down the middle. Like, he was just saying, like, a lot of stuff right now, it's just down the middle.

• 4:00Speaker 02

  It's down the middle.

• 4:01Speaker 01

  It's safe, and, but you don't do, you don't do that stuff. I think you just said when he walked in that he's your inspiration, but I see so much, of, of course, you guys are your own talents, but the way you've been moving through your career. You can, she sings, dances, acts, you're a comedian. You do it all, and so I...

• 4:20Speaker 02

  Kiki, you got that fire. Ay, ay, you know what's crazy? No, no, you're just crazy?

• 4:23Keke Palmer?

  That's you, Jamie.

• 4:24Speaker 02

  I'm watching the BET, and you know, I love, I love everybody. I love Juicy, but, but that moment of you and Juicy, and you say, "Give me this damn..." I said, "Ooh, bah." And so, so what, what we long for in our company is that we do...

• 4:41Speaker 01

  You're an entertainer.

• 4:42Speaker 02

  We do great projects, but we want to, we want to put great people in great vehicles that where, so when, you know, our peers, when our peers see things, it's different. It's like, I'll do it, I'm so happy to be working.

• 4:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:57Speaker 02

  But sometimes I'll do a movie, and then I, I'll know, I, I can tell by the way people see me, "Hey, Jay." I said, "Damn."

• 5:05Keke Palmer?

  They didn't like that last one.

• 5:06Speaker 02

  At all.

• 5:07Keke Palmer?

  That one, they weren't impressed with.

• 5:10Speaker 02

  And then what, I get, I got one, I was on a boat. That was a nice yacht. I'm thinking I just dropped something, and one of the dudes said, "I said, 'Damn, really?'"

• 5:18Keke Palmer?

  What was it that did that?

• 5:19Speaker 02

  Nah, I ain't gonna say. Because I don't, because I don't, no, because I don't want to disparage the people that worked on it.

• 5:24Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 5:25Speaker 02

  But, but the dude, and I kind of got mad at him a little bit. He could have kept it to himself. He was like, "That last one."

• 5:30Keke Palmer?

  Who the hell was he?

• 5:32Speaker 02

  Man.

• 5:32Keke Palmer?

  He was [BLEEP].

• 5:34Speaker 02

  But, you know, one of them dudes.

• 5:35Keke Palmer?

  Because you still watched it.

• 5:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:37Keke Palmer?

  You still got that ticket.

• 5:38Speaker 02

  But, but I, but I, but I, I'm looking to make him go, "Damn."

• 5:43Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 5:43Speaker 02

  And so, in other words, Kiki, we come here on...

• 5:47Speaker 01

  We're the biggest fans.

• 5:47Speaker 02

  With a big fan.

• 5:48Keke Palmer?

  Ditto, ditto, ditto. And like you said, I live for them back-of-the-day Kids' Choice Awards, girl. We was up in there.

• 5:54Speaker 01

  Well, I know, yeah, I know you get, you get torn up about your old looks from the Red Carpet.

• 5:59Keke Palmer?

  Girl, that red carpet is a mess.

• 6:00Speaker 01

  No, but me, I have them too. You should look up nine-year-old me at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. No, it's not happening. So, I, I feel your pain.

• 6:08Keke Palmer?

  I feel like they weren't like they used to. I feel like when we came up with the, at the Kids' Choice Awards, it was really given, given.

• 6:13Speaker 01

  I, I wore Ugg boots, jeans, leggings.

• 6:16Speaker 02

  My daughter told me one day, she said, "Dad, can we talk about your stylus?" I said, "What? No more patches of leather on your shoulder."

• 6:24Keke Palmer?

  I know that era she's talking about. I know that era, that Jamie era. It was patches.

• 6:28Speaker 02

  The patches of the leather, and she said, "Just knock it off."

• 6:31Keke Palmer?

  It's very R&B king.

• 6:33Speaker 01

  R&B king?

• 6:34Keke Palmer?

  R&B king, which, you are.

• 6:36Speaker 02

  No, no, it was terrible.

• 6:37Keke Palmer?

  Wait, so, let's get into these pre-show pull-up questions, because I can't actually believe that I don't know what your Zodiac sign is, Jamie.

• 6:42Speaker 01

  You can guess it. You can guess it.

• 6:45Keke Palmer?

  I mean, as funny as you are...

• 6:47Speaker 02

  I am dedicated to not being dedicated.

• 6:51Keke Palmer?

  Wait a minute, this sounds like...

• 6:53Speaker 02

  I'm dedicated to not being dedicated.

• 6:55Keke Palmer?

  This right here sounds like Gemini.

• 6:56Speaker 02

  I over, no.

• 6:57Keke Palmer?

  It ain't.

• 6:57Speaker 02

  I overpromise.

• 7:00Keke Palmer?

  Is this a SAG?

• 7:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:01Keke Palmer?

  Yes, because, so I was gonna say SAG, but when she's, when you were like, being like all indecisive, I was like, "Is it a, is he playing around?" SAG energy down. I'm a SAG moon.

• 7:11Speaker 01

  Oh, life of the party.

• 7:13Speaker 02

  You're a SAG moon, but what are, Virgo, that's what I said.

• 7:15Keke Palmer?

  Do you know you're rising, or you're...

• 7:17Speaker 02

  No, no, no, I don't cheat.

• 7:18Speaker 01

  He calls it cheating.

• 7:20Speaker 02

  Because y'all [BLEEP] cheating.

• 7:21Keke Palmer?

  On the sun.

• 7:21Speaker 02

  If you don't like your sun, like your, your main sign, you say, "Oh, but my rising, no." Keep your [BLEEP]. And they always trying to say I'm a SAG, but no, I keep [BLEEP].

• 7:30Speaker 01

  Aquarius.

• 7:30Speaker 02

  There you go.

• 7:31Keke Palmer?

  Period, January and February. I love Aquarius. February.

• 7:34Speaker 02

  That's Oprah Winfrey.

• 7:35Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, it is. Oprah Winfrey.

• 7:37Speaker 02

  Kiki!

• 7:37Keke Palmer?

  There's a couple other people, too.

• 7:39Speaker 02

  Kiki, Kiki! I love you, Kiki, Kiki! Corinne!

• 7:44Keke Palmer?

  Do you know you're rising in your moon?

• 7:46Speaker 01

  Rising Pisces.

• 7:47Speaker 02

  Don't cheat, bro.

• 7:48Speaker 01

  She not cheating. I'm not cheating. Rising Pisces, Aries moon. So fiery moon.

• 7:53Keke Palmer?

  That Aries is, that's what told them the patches had to go.

• 7:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 7:58Keke Palmer?

  That Aries don't play.

• 7:59Speaker 02

  Man, y'all just better stick with y'all own sign. I don't have no rising.

• 8:03Keke Palmer?

  What is your love language?

• 8:06Speaker 01

  Love language?

• 8:09Speaker 01

  I like, wait...

• 8:10Keke Palmer?

  Clip it.

• 8:12Speaker 01

  I get, I get confused with, with love languages. So, is it what I receive, or what I give?

• 8:18Keke Palmer?

  You asking the right thing, because you know it is both. They say it like, what is the love language? How you like to receive it? And then they say you have sometimes different for how you give it.

• 8:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:28Keke Palmer?

  Like, I feel like I give it...

• 8:29Speaker 02

  I don't know if I want to listen to my daughter talk about this.

• 8:31Speaker 01

  God.

• 8:32Keke Palmer?

  But you was a hell of a word and everything.

• 8:34Speaker 02

  But what is the love, what is?

• 8:35Speaker 01

  It, it's, it's how you feel.

• 8:38Keke Palmer?

  No!

• 8:39Speaker 02

  All right, because I'm about to say, y'all done got both. Where's how you receive it, how you give it? I said, "Y'all can talk about this, but I'm gone."

• 8:45Keke Palmer?

  "Teeshining of honey, love." You remember that, Jamie?

• 8:48Speaker 02

  Teeshining of honey, love. Dude tried to steal that song from me.

• 8:51Keke Palmer?

  Who?

• 8:52Speaker 02

  I ain't gonna say.

• 8:53Keke Palmer?

  Tell me, Drew Hill? Who tried to say that?

• 8:55Speaker 02

  It was a, it was a problem with the publishers, but they tried to take it from me. I wrote that song.

• 9:00Keke Palmer?

  OG, 1998. I remember. I had no business listening to it.

• 9:03Speaker 02

  At my, at my house, and somebody tried to take credit for the, anyway, I ain't gonna say.

• 9:06Keke Palmer?

  Who tried to say you ain't gonna give us the tea?

• 9:08Speaker 02

  It was beautiful, and it was so great. Gracious.

• 9:10Keke Palmer?

  It's absolutely a classic.

• 9:12Speaker 02

  But he had on a leather vest and no shirt.

• 9:15Keke Palmer?

  Uh-oh. I know exactly. We are going to go to the next one. What is something that your friends roast you for?

• 9:23Speaker 02

  My hairline?

• 9:25Keke Palmer?

  It look cool to me.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  Now, right now. I got it.

• 9:28Speaker 01

  You got it, yeah.

• 9:28Speaker 02

  You got a pair. You know what's crazy?

• 9:30Keke Palmer?

  He said you got a pair.

• 9:30Speaker 02

  I got to put, put the dust in it, and what I realized, you know, when black people put the dust in there, right? When black, my white friends don't know what that is, that, you know, black men and their hairline, that's the thing. So, when I go to the clubs, and there was this, this gang of white girls, like, "Oh, my God!", and they did like that. I said, "God damn this. I gotta go."

• 9:49Keke Palmer?

  She had her hand all up in the dust?

• 9:50Speaker 02

  Everywhere.

• 9:50Keke Palmer?

  Oh, no!

• 9:52Speaker 02

  It was a gang of thon, it was like she was getting booked. You know, had all the Beijing, she was like...

• 10:00Keke Palmer?

  It does seem dangerous. You would think by now they have it to where it can't come off of y'all.

• 10:05Speaker 02

  Nah, man, look, and you notice, if I throw a par, a pool party, I'm not near the pool.

• 10:10Keke Palmer?

  Oh! Well, y'all need to do whatever Steve was doing with that lace front. Why don't y'all ever, why don't guys want to do lace fronts?

• 10:17Speaker 02

  I got something, though. I got, I got, shout out to my boy, Taylor Perry.

• 10:20Keke Palmer?

  Taylor Perry, not Tyler, Taylor.

• 10:22Speaker 02

  Taylor.

• 10:22Keke Palmer?

  Who's Taylor Perry?

• 10:24Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:25Speaker 02

  He does a little thing.

• 10:26Keke Palmer?

  He does a little lacy. I'm telling you.

• 10:28Speaker 02

  No, no, no, it's a, it's the...

• 10:30Keke Palmer?

  Microblading.

• 10:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:31Keke Palmer?

  For your scalp.

• 10:31Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 10:32Keke Palmer?

  That's that new, new.

• 10:33Speaker 02

  I can swim now. Swim, homie?

• 10:38Speaker 01

  I can get in a room with you, too, in two months.

• 10:39Speaker 02

  I could dive off in there. Somebody knocked me in the pool one time, I had to swim all the way to San Bernardino. I didn't want to come up.

• 10:44Keke Palmer?

  Come on, San Bernardino!

• 10:45Speaker 02

  I fell in there, I said, "Uh-oh, shit." I ain't coming up, because all of it...

• 10:48Keke Palmer?

  By the time I come back, it's gonna be Mr. Clean.

• 10:51Speaker 02

  You know how the, uh, uh, cactopus, octopus, when they release the ink?

• 10:57Keke Palmer?

  Oh, yes. Uh-oh.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  I said, "I gotta swim all the way to..." Anyway, anyway, anyway.

• 11:04Keke Palmer?

  What's a movie that you both can watch over and over and over again?

• 11:07Speaker 01

  You have a lot of them.

• 11:09Keke Palmer?

  Dang, really?

• 11:10Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 11:10Keke Palmer?

  Give me top three.

• 11:11Speaker 01

  You, you go through The Exorcist.

• 11:14Keke Palmer?

  That's one you sitting at home just kicking it to?

• 11:16Speaker 01

  You did watch that a lot of times in a row.

• 11:18Speaker 02

  I did watch it a lot of times, because the devil was, was snippy in there.

• 11:24Speaker 02

  People don't know what that means.

• 11:25Keke Palmer?

  Cause of jokes.

• 11:25Speaker 02

  No, no, he was snippy. Remember when the priest came in the first time? And he said, "Who are you?" "The devil." And the priest was like, "Okay." And then the drawer opened.

• 11:37Speaker 02

  And then the priest went like this. And the priest told him, "Do it again," and the devil said, "In due time."

• 11:44Keke Palmer?

  I do like a comedic evil villain.

• 11:48Speaker 02

  I said, "Oh, the devil got an attitude."

• 11:52Speaker 02

  No, I like, I like, uh, uh, Drumline.

• 11:55Keke Palmer?

  Okay.

• 11:56Speaker 02

  Anytime it's on. Whenever I see Nick Cannon, I say, "Yo."

• 11:59Keke Palmer?

  Drumline is good. It's a classic one. They say it was kinda like the precursor, like Dallas Austin-y vibe. I think that's like his story loosely.

• 12:07Speaker 02

  It was developed on Dallas Austin, but when I watched that movie, I get a, I get a feeling, and I like, what's the, the Holiday Tyler Perry one? I watched with the kids.

• 12:19Keke Palmer?

  A Tyler Perry Holiday one. I mean, it could've been as simple as Madea's Holiday. It's Madea with whatever year it is. But I, who was the actors in this one?

• 12:28Speaker 02

  Oh, man, it was, uh, Bow Wow.

• 12:30Keke Palmer?

  Oh, yes. That's the one with Bow Wow. That's the one with Tiana. That's the one, oh my gosh, Big Happy Family. Madea's Big Happy Family, I think it's that one.

• 12:37Speaker 02

  That go hard.

• 12:37Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, Lower London.

• 12:39Speaker 02

  New Jack City.

• 12:40Keke Palmer?

  Oh, my gosh. That movie was crazy.

• 12:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. Is that what this is about? That was Wesley Snipes acting. Huh, yeah. Right, damn.

• 12:50Keke Palmer?

  I just remember Ice T, it was scary as hell, telling some, "I wanna shoot you so bad. My dick is hard." It's like, what the hell?

• 12:56Speaker 02

  I love, I love.

• 12:57Keke Palmer?

  Like, what is this?

• 12:59Speaker 02

  I love it.

• 13:00Keke Palmer?

  "I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick is hard." What's going on?

• 13:03Speaker 02

  And I loved everybody in there. "Your ma, your soul is required in hell, young man." That old man, "Your soul is required in hell, young man." And then, uh,

• 13:12Keke Palmer?

  He's a young man.

• 13:13Speaker 02

  Wesley Snipes, everything.

• 13:16Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 13:17Speaker 02

  That old man really wanted to kill me, didn't he? Yeah, man, but I got your back. Anyway, you guys.

• 13:24Keke Palmer?

  What about you, Corinne?

• 13:26Speaker 01

  Oh, my God. I feel like I, I like, like, rom-coms, like, like, The Holiday, like, those kinda things, like, just cozy. Like, I like a cozy movie.

• 13:35Speaker 02

  The Notebook.

• 13:36Keke Palmer?

  The Notebook can get so sad, but also happy, cause they really, you know, spoiler alert, they made it on Home Together.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  They did. They did.

• 13:44Keke Palmer?

  I love that. Love that. Love that. Okay, so now we got out of the pre-show pull-up questions. Let's get into, you know, the family life, because we know you guys all personally, but what is it like, actually, when it gets quiet at home? What are y'all doing? What do y'all be kicking back and vibing to?

• 13:55Speaker 02

  She married now.

• 13:57Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, I'm married.

• 13:58Keke Palmer?

  So you don't be kicking it with dad on wedding?

• 13:59Speaker 01

  No, I do. I see you every week.

• 14:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's true.

• 14:02Speaker 01

  I see you every week.

• 14:03Speaker 02

  I'm trying to get him to move.

• 14:04Speaker 01

  This is a whole.

• 14:05Keke Palmer?

  You trying to get them to move? Where, where, so you guys are, you live far?

• 14:08Speaker 01

  So he lives, you know, in the burbs. I'm still in the city. I'm young, you know what I mean? But he, you know, younger.

• 14:16Keke Palmer?

  She's young. We're the same age.

• 14:17Speaker 01

  We're the same age. And he wants me to move into the backyard.

• 14:21Keke Palmer?

  Oh, your daddy lie you down.

• 14:24Speaker 02

  Exactly. But explain the backyard. It's not, it's forty acres. So I cleared out like ten acres for her to have.

• 14:30Speaker 01

  He wants a comp, he wants a compound, and then he.

• 14:32Keke Palmer?

  And that's my dream too, Jamie.

• 14:34Speaker 01

  But see, like, he claims, "Oh, I'm not gonna see you. I'm gonna leave you alone." No, he's gonna be right there.

• 14:40Speaker 02

  Well, I just wanna check to make sure you're okay. You know what I'm saying?

• 14:42Keke Palmer?

  You are gonna bother them.

• 14:44Speaker 02

  Nah, I just wanna, I just wanna see him, you know what I'm saying? But I, but, but at the same time, we, we, we loved it to just chill, the holidays, this thing. We take trips, we.

• 14:54Keke Palmer?

  So y'all are a vacationing family?

• 14:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 14:58Keke Palmer?

  Where y'all like to go? Are we thinking Ireland? Are we thinking like, oh, we're in Nantucket or Cape Cod?

• 15:03Speaker 02

  Ooh, Nantucket. Never done that.

• 15:05Keke Palmer?

  What's y'all's number one favorite place to vacation at? Damn, I wish my daddy was here.

• 15:11Speaker 01

  South of France. South of France.

• 15:13Keke Palmer?

  Really?

• 15:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:15Keke Palmer?

  Is that what it gives?

• 15:16Speaker 01

  He loves a boat moment.

• 15:17Speaker 02

  I love the boat.

• 15:18Speaker 01

  He loves to be on the boat.

• 15:19Keke Palmer?

  I do like a little yacht moment.

• 15:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:21Speaker 02

  Come on.

• 15:22Keke Palmer?

  That's cool.

• 15:23Speaker 02

  So, so we make it official here, next year, we're in the south of France, Keke Palmer.

• 15:28Keke Palmer?

  Yo, let's go up.

• 15:35Keke Palmer?

  Y'all, I, I'm fun.

• 15:36Speaker 02

  Don't play though.

• 15:37Keke Palmer?

  I can go up, I can go down, I'm chilling, I'm, you know, I'm whatever we need to be.

• 15:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:41Keke Palmer?

  Whatever we need to be, I'm your girl, you know?

• 15:44Speaker 02

  I love you. I love you.

• 15:45Keke Palmer?

  Okay, so you grew up in Terrell?

• 15:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, Terrell.

• 15:48Keke Palmer?

  Texas. Terrell, Terrell.

• 15:49Speaker 02

  Terrell.

• 15:49Keke Palmer?

  I always do that with Terrell Owens too. I try to put a little sass in.

• 15:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, if you from Texas, you'll say Terrell. That's how we say it. But y'all grew up in Terrell, Texas.

• 15:57Keke Palmer?

  So what was it like growing up? I mean, you grew up in Baptist church?

• 16:00Speaker 02

  Come on, man.

• 16:00Keke Palmer?

  Was you singing in the choir?

• 16:02Speaker 02

  I was singing. I love where I came from. I'm glad I'm gone.

• 16:04Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, yeah. Was it slow?

• 16:06Speaker 02

  No, no, it was, the, the, ah, I don't explain it.

• 16:11Speaker 02

  I don't wanna disparage my city.

• 16:13Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:13Speaker 02

  It was a great city, but I was an artist. And so, some of the...

• 16:20Keke Palmer?

  The traditionalism with many pages you had.

• 16:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, in the south, some of the thing, I said, "I gotta get away from here." Because I just felt like, you know, I feel like Monday through Thursday, they called me certain names. But on Friday, they called me a god, cause I was a quarterback at a high school team.

• 16:36Keke Palmer?

  Okay.

• 16:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, so I passed over a thousand yards. So that was, it was, it was great. But I had, I had to get out.

• 16:43Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:43Speaker 02

  I, I had to get out.

• 16:44Keke Palmer?

  Yeah. Were there things about your childhood that you did kinda wanna create for your kids? Any, any specific things? You're like, you know, I want my kids to have this vibe, you know?

• 16:51Speaker 02

  I feel like they have it already. I, they, my, my daughter is grounded. And so that was the biggest thing. Like, you know, being in Hollywood, you know, you see kids, you be like, oh, man, I saw, these kids today, man. One of these kids.

• 17:06Keke Palmer?

  It's a lot of influences, especially in a big place.

• 17:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know, the drugs, everything like, so, so what I hoped was that Corinne, Annalise just could, could feel where I came from. There's no way to mimic it. But they have it. They have this down home. Corinne used to joke with me about going to restaurants, his dad is gonna be a big plate and a little bit of food in the middle. And she says.

• 17:31Speaker 01

  You know those fancy places, they don't give you the normal portion?

• 17:34Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, everything's hors d'oeuvre.

• 17:35Speaker 01

  It's, it's this big.

• 17:37Keke Palmer?

  Everything is hors d'oeuvre, child.

• 17:38Speaker 02

  So she's like, she was just, she's right, and to me, that's Texas. That, that's Texas. So, so that's what they do naturally have.

• 17:45Speaker 01

  I will say, like, I think part of that was that he did move out of the city. And he, you know, lived far away, and then also when we went to things, like, you know, the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards or this, we, he never big timed anybody. He, we were fans. We went up to everybody. We got pictures, we got this, and it never felt, it felt like, oh, this is an exciting, fun thing, but we have regular lives. And so, I feel like we just, we always felt normal.

• 18:13Keke Palmer?

  So, yeah, what was it like for you growing up? You grew up in LA?

• 18:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:16Keke Palmer?

  You know, and, and you know, you, when did you know your daddy was like, "Oh, my daddy Jamie Foxx," you know?

• 18:20Speaker 01

  It took me, it took me a while, because when I was younger, I didn't see a lot of his stuff, because it was rated R. So I didn't see it. And, and then.

• 18:30Speaker 02

  Booty call, man.

• 18:31Speaker 01

  Booty call.

• 18:32Speaker 02

  Booty call.

• 18:32Speaker 01

  But when I, I went to the Oscars with him, when I was ten years old, when he was nominated for Ray.

• 18:39Keke Palmer?

  And won for Ray, and we was going up.

• 18:42Speaker 01

  And won for Ray. That was, I was sitting there, like, looking up at him, and I was like, okay, he's, this is a big, he's a big deal.

• 18:50Keke Palmer?

  That was honestly the same, like, I know it's totally different what I'm about to say, but it was like when Barack Obama became president. Like, that's like, literally, when you, when, when, I will never forget when you won that Oscar, Jamie.

• 19:02Speaker 02

  Man, it was crazy, dude. And it was, it was, I had to be careful because, I'm gonna give you a little his, history. It was, uh, uh, I was about to blow it.

• 19:13Keke Palmer?

  What you mean?

• 19:20Keke Palmer?

  I am, by every definition, a lot. My outfits are a moment. My reactions are good. I've been called dramatic in three different group chats this week alone, and every single time, I said, "Correct. That's just who I am." And honestly, I've made peace with it. But somewhere along the way, I learned there's a difference between extra where it counts and extra where it's just showing off. And my old cleaning products were absolutely showing off and doing more to cover up than to actually clean. Girl, sit down. So, I switched to Seventh Generation. Bio-based cleaning power that handles the job without the theatrics. Plus, no dyes, artificial fragrances, or bottles full of ingredients auditioning for a part they didn't get.

• 20:05Keke Palmer?

  It just works, and it doesn't need to announce itself while it's doing it. Seventh Generation provides a powerful clean without anything extra. So, if you already bring the extra to the function, make the switch today to Seventh Generation. A powerful clean without anything extra. My son Leo sees everything. I mean that literally. The kid misses nothing. Every detail, every person, every moment that most adults would walk right past, he is fully present for all of it. Traveling with him has genuinely changed the way I move through the world, because he reminds me to actually be in it. And what I've learned from traveling with Leo is that the best trips aren't about where you go.

• 20:49Keke Palmer?

  They're about what you're dropped into when you get there. A neighborhood that has character, you know, a, a home that has a backyard and a kitchen and a living room big enough to actually live in. A super host who points you toward the coffee shop and the park, and the spot that doesn't have a sign, but absolutely should. When I book a stay on Airbnb, for us, it's not just finding a place. I'm building the world he gets to explore for those few days. And watching him explore it, that's the best part. This is Leo's summer. Find a home on Airbnb and build that world for your kids.

• 21:29Speaker 02

  Because during the Oscar run, I didn't know it was a campaign. And I didn't have the right publicist at the time, so I was wildin'.

• 21:34Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, yeah, you doing you.

• 21:36Speaker 02

  I was, no, I was wildin'. And then me, and I'm not gonna say the girl's name, but me and a young lady, we went, we went to the Golden Globes, and I remember we,

• 21:44Speaker 02

  we were augmented.

• 21:45Keke Palmer?

  We about to all look that up.

• 21:46Speaker 02

  We were augmented. We were augmented. We were augmented.

• 21:49Keke Palmer?

  Like AI.

• 21:50Speaker 02

  Something was happening, and we went on the red carpet, and we was like, I remember I was nominated in three categories. We got out of, uh, out the limo. Three! Three up in his bits! Three! And I was like, oh, [BLEEP]. And so everybody was like, what's wrong with him? And so, and then I got to some fights and [BLEEP] and the Oscars coming up, and, and I got a call. Oprah Winfrey called me.

• 22:12Keke Palmer?

  And was she a part of Ray?

• 22:14Speaker 02

  No.

• 22:15Keke Palmer?

  She was just the counsel, the black counsel.

• 22:17Speaker 02

  Jamie Foxx! Jamie! She called me on the phone. I said, who's this? Jamie Foxx! You know when she sing is real. Jamie Foxx! So she was, she was singing on the beat.

• 22:30Keke Palmer?

  Jamie!

• 22:31Speaker 02

  She said, Jamie, she said, you're blowing it. I said, what do you mean? She said, you're gonna lose this thing because you keep going crazy, so.

• 22:39Keke Palmer?

  She said, you keep going crazy.

• 22:40Speaker 02

  So she says, I wanna take you somewhere. She took me to Quincy Jones' house.

• 22:43Keke Palmer?

  Quincy, and another black counsel.

• 22:45Speaker 02

  Taking me to, hey man, [BLEEP]. Man, you're blowing it, man. You gotta go in there and do the right thing, man. You're not gonna lose this thing. You're out there partying and doing whatever, man. You gotta get your [BLEEP] together, you see? And you know, I was in Quincy's house. You see on the wall, man, that's Michael Jackson. Fifty-four million records, Jamie, you know that. You know Usher, don't you? You know Usher? So, so they take me to Quincy, she takes me to Quincy Jones' house, and it's all these black actors and actresses from like the sixties and the seventies I grew up with.

• 23:13Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh.

• 23:13Speaker 02

  And they all shook my hand and said, hey, we're, we're counting on you.

• 23:16Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh, Jamie.

• 23:18Speaker 02

  And so then Oprah says, okay, are you ready to meet the person that you need to talk to? I said, yeah. And standing over in the corner was Sidney Poitier.

• 23:26Keke Palmer?

  Sidney Poitier, I knew it! I knew it! There was only one person it could be!

• 23:30Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 23:30Keke Palmer?

  There was only one person it could be!

• 23:33Speaker 02

  So I go up to Sidney Poitier, and he goes, I saw you one time. You were at a party. Do you remember that? I was like, yeah. I,

• 23:42Keke Palmer?

  I was like, yeah.

• 23:43Speaker 02

  I want to give you something. When I saw your movie,

• 23:48Keke Palmer?

  Oh my god.

• 23:49Speaker 02

  My soul grew. I'm giving you one thing. Responsibility. Responsibility of your work. And then I weeped. And then Oprah came, and then Gail was there. Jamie! Jamie, Oprah's, Jamie, Jamie, Oprah's ready, Jamie! Jamie!

• 24:09Speaker 01

  You gotta stop. It's too much.

• 24:12Keke Palmer?

  That is Gail.

• 24:16Speaker 02

  Kiki, you're so brave. I wish I could come on your show and work with you. You're so great, you're so gracious.

• 24:24Keke Palmer?

  Jamie, you are ridiculously good.

• 24:26Speaker 02

  Kiki, you're so great. Kiki!

• 24:33Speaker 02

  I love Keke Palmer. She's a great black. I love her. She's a great, look at her. She's a great black. I like her. She's a great African.

• 24:41Keke Palmer?

  This is a.

• 24:42Speaker 02

  She's a great African. There's a lot of great people out there. She's a great one. Look at her. She's so pretty.

• 24:47Keke Palmer?

  How?

• 24:48Speaker 02

  She's so amazing.

• 24:49Keke Palmer?

  Jamie, how can you be?

• 24:51Speaker 02

  I like the Teslas. I love a great, I love a white Tesla. They're privileged. I love a black Tesla. They're quick. They're fast.

• 25:03Speaker 02

  They're durable. They're strong. You can give them one charge and they'll run for four hundred years. I like a black, no, I'm just kidding.

• 25:09Keke Palmer?

  Jamie, how can you? I mean, why was it, okay, so I know you've described yourself, Corinne, as, you know, you're reserved, you're chill, but then your dad is all of this. How, like, was there ever a moment, because obviously you're doing incredible in this industry, was there ever a moment you were like, I don't know if I wanna be doing all what he doing? Did it ever deter you?

• 25:29Speaker 01

  No, I just think he is so naturally like this. Like, this is him all the time. He's not just on because we're on the show, and, no, he's like this in the car. He's like this when you wake up in the morning. He's like this at all times. And so, I mean, I love it. I'm also numb to it.

• 25:46Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, yeah, because it's your dad.

• 25:47Speaker 01

  This is just him. But I feel like in high school, it was more so when I bumped against it more.

• 25:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, because I, I made a mistake. She was at school, and I don't know if you remember this, but I had a Rolls Royce drop head. And I went to go, I went to go pick her up, and she wouldn't get in the car.

• 26:05Speaker 01

  I just wanted to show up in a minivan or something.

• 26:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, I pulled up, and I was like, look, look, the top go back, come on! The top go back. She's like, man, if you don't get the [BLEEP].

• 26:13Keke Palmer?

  That is so cute. And it was just because you felt like it, it put too much spotlight on you? Like, what was the vibe of it?

• 26:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, I don't know. I think when you're in high school, you wanna blend in. That's like the time when you just wanna, you don't wanna stand out, and he stands out. But I grew out of that. We grew out of that.

• 26:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, we grew out of it. I'm a label whore.

• 26:34Keke Palmer?

  So what was the turning point for you, being little Corinne, going to the Nickelodeon events, going to all the places with your dad? We seen each other so many places, too, saying, you know what, not just hanging with my dad at these events, I actually wanna be into the business. What was the kind of flip that switched?

• 26:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, there, there was, I, for a long time, was like, I don't know if I'm gonna get into it, I don't know. And then I was sitting in a cubicle in New York City, working a nine-five job in an advertising firm, and I looked out the window and I said,

• 27:04Speaker 01

  I don't wanna do this.

• 27:06Speaker 01

  And, and I really had always wanted to be in the entertainment industry, but I just never allowed myself to really go for it.

• 27:13Keke Palmer?

  Sure.

• 27:13Speaker 01

  And so as soon as I did, we did the show and beat Shazam, and then just things kind of snowballed from there. Um, but I feel like I had to like really choose it for myself. It had to be my choice.

• 27:24Keke Palmer?

  And congratulations, you guys, on Shazam. It's literally one hundred episodes.

• 27:28Speaker 02

  Hundred episodes.

• 27:28Keke Palmer?

  And you guys have given away, what is it, over ten million dollars?

• 27:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, of my own money. And I want it back. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

• 27:37Keke Palmer?

  What was that like, jumping into that with your dad, working with him every day? Because obviously you had acted before, but then now you're gonna be literally hosting a show with him.

• 27:45Speaker 01

  I love this show because I feel like this is the truest version of him, because he gets to do comedy, sing, dance, like do everything, and so this felt so natural for us to do. And we have, like, I think people see themselves in our relationship and the way we,

• 28:01Keke Palmer?

  Yes.

• 28:02Speaker 01

  You know, like, oh, okay, dad, you know, that whole thing. Um, and so it was just, it just felt so easy, so easy. And it's such a rewarding gig. I mean, you do, you do a show, too. You do Password?

• 28:13Keke Palmer?

  Yes, I do Password.

• 28:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, and you guys.

• 28:15Keke Palmer?

  And it's my dream for Leo to be doing something with me. So I love watching y'all do that. You know what I'm saying? Like, I would be so sad if Leo didn't wanna be in entertainment. It would be, it would literally break my heart.

• 28:25Speaker 01

  How old is he?

• 28:26Keke Palmer?

  He's three.

• 28:27Speaker 02

  Oh, come on, he's so.

• 28:28Keke Palmer?

  And he already has a catchphrase. Whenever my assistant comes in, because he knows whenever she comes in, we about to get to work, he says, Paige, not again!

• 28:38Keke Palmer?

  It's so cute!

• 28:39Speaker 02

  That's so great!

• 28:40Speaker 01

  Oh my god, he's so cute.

• 28:43Keke Palmer?

  Thank you. Now you bring, you're just talking about it multifaceted, right? You sing, you act, you do everything, Jamie. Was there ever a point in your career, though, where people were like, you're doing, you're doing too many things?

• 28:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, of course, because when we first started, you know, I played the most recognizable woman character on TV with Wanda. So imagine being Wanda, like, hey, for real, dog, girl, I'm doing all this, and, but I wanna do the music. So, so I remember being dressed, I got the tits on, the ass, whatever, and, uh, uh, in, in Vogue, in Vogue is guest started. Yeah. So, that's in Vogue.

• 29:24Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 29:24Speaker 02

  So I'm like, I'm finna shoot my shot.

• 29:26Keke Palmer?

  Period.

• 29:26Speaker 02

  But I got to, I got to go on. So I was like, so, uh, I would go, for real, or cut? So what we doing? They like, please, they like, please. I asked, y'all don't wanna go out? Uh, no. You know, so I said, well, damn. So, so that was one thing. And then, I remember Teddy Riley came to Living Color. I got the tits on and the ass again.

• 29:47Keke Palmer?

  Come on, Teddy.

• 29:48Speaker 02

  And I, I finished doing my thing, but Teddy about to leave, so I grab, I grab my, uh, demo tape. And I'm running, mind you, Teddy ain't seen me. I wasn't on the show.

• 30:00Keke Palmer?

  Jumpscare.

• 30:01Speaker 02

  I'm running down the hallway as Wanda with my, with my, with my tape on the Teddy, and I said, Teddy, man, I'm Jamie Foxx, I do music. He says, man, impossible. And I said, what? And he walks out. So.

• 30:15Keke Palmer?

  Man, impossible.

• 30:17Speaker 02

  Because you gotta think about it, like, that's all I was known for, so there was a thing where when I would try to sing, people like, man, that go Wanda, man, trying to, trying to sing. And so I had to sort of outlive that a little bit, and then catch another vibe somewhere else. In walks,

• 30:36Speaker 02

  I'm having a party at my small house, uh, for some people, Missy Elliott, everybody's at this little small.

• 30:44Keke Palmer?

  It's in Atlanta? Where we at?

• 30:44Speaker 02

  No, no, I'm in LA.

• 30:45Keke Palmer?

  You in LA?

• 30:46Speaker 02

  I had a little two-bedroom house, but everybody would come there, right? So at this one party, it was Puff, it was Missy, it was everybody. And then, uh, standing on the wall, this is how long ago, standing on the wall was a guy named Jay-Z that nobody knew. Standing, he had a little green tracksuit jacket on. The party's crazy. I said, yo, I know you. He said, nice party. It's crazy. Started off in Marcy Projects. You know, Dame had an idea, said we'd do the music. You know, then we started, stored at the clothing line, you know, Marcy, and then I met Beyonce.

• 31:19Speaker 02

  So.

• 31:20Keke Palmer?

  With a hat on. That's too good.

• 31:21Speaker 02

  Right there. Then I go in my garage, because I have my cheap liquor that I put in my good liquor bottles, and when I'm coming out, it's a tall guy and a shorter guy. The shorter guy goes, yo, B, it's like this all the time, like people singing karaoke. And I said, yo, who are you? He said, we're the Neptunes. My name is Pharrell.

• 31:37Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh!

• 31:39Speaker 02

  Later on, and what I.

• 31:40Keke Palmer?

  How could this be so happy?

• 31:44Speaker 02

  So, what I would do is I would throw parties and invite musical people because I was trying to get into the music.

• 31:50Keke Palmer?

  Come on, network.

• 31:51Speaker 02

  And I had a studio, and then in walked this dude, jaw busted.

• 31:54Keke Palmer?

  Uh-oh, I know who this is.

• 31:56Speaker 02

  Backpack.

• 31:57Keke Palmer?

  Kanye.

• 31:58Speaker 02

  So Kanye says, "I, I, I got a song that, that, that I think you'd be good on. Uh, I want to play it." I said, "Come on." We go in the back of my studio, and he says, "She says she wants some Marvin Gaye."

• 32:11Keke Palmer?

  Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross. I mean, I stopped there, they won't let us play.

• 32:13Speaker 02

  And watch this. But when he trying to teach me the song, you know, I'm from R&B, so I said, "Hey, hey, I got it. Let me put..." I said, "She says she wants some Marvin..." And he hit the button, he says, "Uh, what you doing?" I said, "Well, you know, I'm R&B, I gotta put the..." He's a, he's a, "Uh, don't do that." He said, "Just sing the song." You know, like the hit. And so, this, this is honest. In my mind, I'm like, "Ah, he don't know what he talking about."

• 32:39Keke Palmer?

  Right.

• 32:39Speaker 02

  I got to put the R and... So I begrudgingly sing the song. I leave for like eight weeks and do a bad movie. I come back.

• 32:44Keke Palmer?

  What's the bad movie?

• 32:45Speaker 02

  I don't even want to talk about it.

• 32:46Keke Palmer?

  I gotta find that one.

• 32:47Speaker 02

  So I come, I come back from the bad movie. Uh, still, still. I come back from the bad movie, and I'm in Miami with Brian, and Brian said...

• 32:56Keke Palmer?

  Oh, who's Brian?

• 32:58Speaker 02

  Brian, the dude who hooked, who hooked all my music stuff up.

• 33:00Keke Palmer?

  Got you.

• 33:01Speaker 02

  So Brian said, "You remember that song you said, what [BLEEP] is it?" It's number one in the country, because I was in Australia shooting. I said, "What?" And we were in Preve, in Miami. And he, it's two, three in the morning, he tapped the DJ on the shoulder and said, "Are you gonna..." Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I ran to the booth full throttle. And said, grabbed him like, "That's me. That's, that's, that's me." And so that's how the music birthed, but it be, but it be, it came at a time where people that weren't old enough to have seen and live in color.

• 33:34Keke Palmer?

  Interesting.

• 33:34Speaker 02

  Was just like, "Oh, that's the dude that sings with Ye," and then it was a hit song. And so then things started to open up. And now, just like yourself, when we look at you, those doors being open, now you are busting them wide open. And so now, uh, not only do I, not only have I benefited from it, but we now all benefit and we can do whatever we want to do.

• 33:58Keke Palmer?

  Man, I mean, you're the one. When I think about that stand-up show, when you went to, you did Luther Vandross, you did,

• 34:09Keke Palmer?

  that, what, what, well, how did you? I just have to know, because it is so difficult, not only to create a stand-up show, but to do one as original as yours. I mean, me and my friends sit back and pull that up and watch, and watch, and watch. How you could just pull off being so cool and so funny and then so on the cuff? Like, you have to tell me, what was that process of putting that together?

• 34:32Speaker 02

  It, it, it was, my grandmother made sure I learned music, so, but, but what was my secret sauce was throwing music into my comedy. So when I first got to LA, you got to understand, y'all were young. It was 1987, 1988. So when I was doing stand-up, I saw all the comedians that you know right now. DL,

• 34:53Keke Palmer?

  DL.

• 34:54Speaker 02

  Uh, uh, the Wayans, the Rock, everybody. But the difference was, I would put music into my joint. So, I'll never forget, I went to college for classical piano. So I was singing, you know,

• 35:20Speaker 02

  So I would do a, so, so now Snoop has a song out, and I would take that onstage and say, "What if Snoop had a song? What if Snoop's Gin and Juice was opera?"

• 35:34Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 35:34Speaker 02

  And he'd be like, "Rolling down the street, smoking Nando, sipping on gin and juice, the juice, the juice, with my mind on my money, and my money on my mind, bitch." So now, I started putting all of the, the, the music stuff and anybody that I could do an impersonation just into the music. So I would couple it with what you referring to. When I was young, my grandmother wouldn't let me listen to no R&B stuff, so I would listen to songs on TV like, uh, uh, The Brady Bunch. And change it into some R&B. Here's a story of a lovely lady.

• 36:18Keke Palmer?

  Yes!

• 36:18Speaker 02

  You know what I'm saying?

• 36:19Keke Palmer?

  Yes!

• 36:20Speaker 02

  And so then, I would take all of the people that I know how to do impersonations of, and then put them in. So Luther was like, "Still in love, I say."

• 36:35Speaker 02

  You know what I'm saying? So, so then it was like, here's what I tell Kiki, and you'll notice. The stuff that I did at the lunch table as a kid, ended up being a payoff as I got grown. This, I used, fifth grade, third grade, this is all I was doing. So now, to be able to do it, uh, on this level, uh, is, I would try to do this because I had to disrupt Tommy Davidson. I had to disrupt the Wayans. I had to let them know. I had to separate myself with, with the music. And then there was a situation, I know DL Hughley remembers this.

• 37:12Keke Palmer?

  Uh-oh.

• 37:13Speaker 02

  I'm walking, no, this, no, no, no, no, it's, it's a good story. I'm walking, this is when, I ain't know nobody in LA. I'm just doing my thing. I don't have no crew. This one, gang members, everything was, every, I ain't know nobody. So, I'm just doing my [BLEEP]. So I'm walking to this comedy club, and all the comedians come outside. I said, "Man, you cheating." I said, "What?"

• 37:33Keke Palmer?

  What?

• 37:34Speaker 02

  "Yeah, man, you, you singing, man, and then you ain't supposed to be singing." I said, "Oh, my [BLEEP]. I didn't know it was a, uh, it was a comedy union."

• 37:45Speaker 02

  They said, "Well, you wouldn't be funny if you wasn't singing." And I said, "Uh." I said, "Uh." So, and this is DL, uh, Buddy Lewis, they was jamming me up, but I, I was, he was fans of them.

• 37:56Keke Palmer?

  Right.

• 37:56Speaker 02

  So I go into the, to the comedy club to do my set. I don't sing. I do 25 minutes of that [BLEEP]. And people going crazy. I said, "Wait, wait, wait, wait. I just want to know, did I sing tonight?" And some girl said, "We waiting." I said, "No, no, no."

• 38:10Keke Palmer?

  We waiting.

• 38:11Speaker 02

  Somebody told me outside that I wasn't funny unless I sung. And so, I'm not gonna say, they was like, "Well, I knew it wasn't [BLEEP], it just went up."

• 38:21Speaker 02

  So when I came outside, DL said, "Man, that was brilliant." Buddy, they, they gave me my props.

• 38:27Keke Palmer?

  So what's up?

• 38:28Speaker 02

  But what they did was, they forced me to sharpen the comedy so that the music was just the cherry on top. So that they still, I'ma still have them laugh. But then the music was just something that I would, you know, lay on it. It wasn't, in other words, if, if, if comedy's a banana split, this was just the musical whipped cream. You know what I'm saying?

• 38:49Keke Palmer?

  I mean, I'm hearing, like, brave, authenticity. Um, we, growing up, watching your dad, both creatively seeing his work, but then up close and personal, what did you learn and take from him in terms of the work ethic? I can only imagine, you know?

• 39:05Speaker 01

  I mean, his work, I mean, I would say more so what I took from him is his dedication to his family. Because he worked my entire childhood, but he always showed up. And so I still don't really know how you balance that, dad, because they would call my mom from the Jamie Foxx show and say, "Please don't tell Jamie about Corinne's soccer game, because we need him on set, and if you tell him, he's gonna leave set." Like, he was so dedicated to being present, showing up. I never like looked out in the crowd at like a recital, and he wasn't right there. And so, I'm still like amazed at how he was able to do that.

• 39:46Speaker 01

  And so I feel like that, those are the, the values that he's instilled in me.

• 39:51Keke Palmer?

  And what was it like being on set? Because I know you were on the Jamie Foxx set back in the day.

• 39:55Speaker 01

  I was, I was in the episode.

• 39:56Keke Palmer?

  You was a little baby, yes, you was in the episode.

• 39:58Speaker 01

  I was a flower girl in the 100th episode.

• 40:01Speaker 02

  That's crazy.

• 40:02Speaker 01

  I, I remember that, and I, it was my first time acting, and I didn't know you had to do more than one take.

• 40:07Keke Palmer?

  Oh, yeah, they gonna have you up there doing it a million times.

• 40:09Speaker 01

  I threw out the flowers, and they said, "Okay, put them back in the basket." I said, "I just did that."

• 40:14Speaker 02

  I just threw them?

• 40:14Keke Palmer?

  I did it, y'all.

• 40:15Speaker 01

  Yeah. But, uh, yeah, I was in a little episode.

• 40:18Keke Palmer?

  That was, "Here I come, here I come, here I go. Come on, let's get sunny, you know what's up, so..." Yes! "If you want me to." Yes! You know, I love that show. Yo, how did you pull that off? You, you come from In Living Color, then you executive produce, you, you put on your own show, you found a way to put the singing and the acting and the comedy together, and give yourself a bit of a narrative. Like, what was the, how'd you do that?

• 40:48Speaker 02

  I didn't have a, I never had a white boss. I know that sounds weird. I never had a white boss when it came to my artistic expression.

• 40:56Keke Palmer?

  Break that down for the folks.

• 40:57Speaker 02

  Meaning this. All the authenticity came from this black dude from New York. His name was Keenan Ivory Wayne. So Keenan Ivory Wayne, yeah. So when I, when I, imagine going on to the set of In Living Color. So I go into the set of In Living Color, it was all black everything, they tripped me out. It was black writers, it was black performers. I smell somebody, I said, "What's that?" She said, "That's smothered chicken." I said, "What's that?" "The craft service."

• 41:23Keke Palmer?

  What?

• 41:24Speaker 02

  And Keenan said, "This is how I run it." So, from that, I never had to second guess anything, and everything that we did was watercooler. And Keenan said, "This what I'ma teach you."

• 41:38Speaker 02

  If you ain't great, don't do it. He said, if you ain't, he said, because as a black performer, if you're not great, you're not, I said, but he said, because we gonna grade you harder. So on In Living Color, it was twenty-three minutes of program. And Keenan ran the [BLEEP] to the point to where, he was tough, but he had to be, because imagine,

• 41:57Keke Palmer?

  He had to be.

• 41:58Speaker 02

  First of all, I'm funny as [BLEEP]. I was the eighth funniest person. Tommy Davidson, David Allen Greer, Kelly Cofield, all, all thirty-nine Wayans. I mean, it wa- it was just Jim Carrey.

• 42:11Keke Palmer?

  Jim Carrey.

• 42:12Speaker 02

  You know, I, I, so, so, so having Keenan teach me how to be serious about comedy. We would come in and be like, man, Keenan, man, the writers ain't writing good enough. Keenan like, no, they writing good. Y'all just lazy, get on your feet.

• 42:29Speaker 02

  He would work everything out. He said, don't ever sell anything short, get it all. So by the time I got to the Jamie Foxx Show, I was actually wound up too tight. Because, I was wound up too tight, because everybody on In Living Color was a killer.

• 42:43Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 42:43Speaker 02

  While on the Jamie Foxx Show, these were young ladies and men who had never done this. So I was like, get everything, and, and so I had to teach them, I had to teach, uh, uh, Braxton, I had to teach, uh, Garcell, how to get to it, right? But because Keenan Ivory Wayans taught me the way to, to preserve the funny in a black way, it just, it reverberated to everything. And so that wa- that way, when I was on it, I said, no, I know this works.

• 43:15Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 43:16Speaker 02

  Because when you would get a note, I said, nah, nah, nah. Keenan, Keenan taught me this. And Keenan might not, I hope he gets a chance to see this, because we haven't spoken in a long time. But, but he, he really taught me something that I hold to this, I tell her. To this day, I know how to get it. I know how to get it. I say, my hunches ain't great, but I know,

• 43:34Keke Palmer?

  You can execute.

• 43:35Speaker 02

  I know how to execute it. And that came from a black family in New York, who was doing crazy numbers, and birthed J-Lo, Jim Carrey, Tom, I mean, everybody. And then when we got to the Jamie Foxx Show.

• 43:53Keke Palmer?

  Super Bowl halftime show.

• 43:54Speaker 02

  The first. So Keenan Ivory Wayans said, we gonna do a halftime show. I'm like, what you mean? He said, during the halftime show, they got this bull [BLEEP]. We gonna do our show. And that was the first.

• 44:04Keke Palmer?

  Ever.

• 44:05Speaker 02

  Ever have. So I learned from someone great who was fearless in our business. Keenan didn't take no [BLEEP]. And what I mean by that is, and I hope I can speak freely on, on this.

• 44:16Keke Palmer?

  You can, yeah.

• 44:17Speaker 02

  Keenan, in Hollywood, at that time, as a black man, that was unheard of.

• 44:24Keke Palmer?

  Yes.

• 44:24Speaker 02

  And what I mean is, Keenan had some [BLEEP] where his [BLEEP] go in his dressing room, but he had two big security guards in the, in, in front of his dressing room. Big black dudes from New York.

• 44:34Keke Palmer?

  Okay.

• 44:35Speaker 02

  So people would come, the network would come up to give notes. And the big dude said, what's that? Nah, nah, Keenan not seeing nobody right now. But we're with the network.

• 44:44Keke Palmer?

  No.

• 44:44Speaker 02

  We with the network, yeah, I get all that, but, uh, Keenan not seeing nobody right now. Could you let, nah, we not doing it. And so he would, they would make the network stand over here, and Keenan, you know, Keenan's six-four.

• 44:55Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 44:55Speaker 02

  So he [BLEEP] would walk out, [BLEEP] clothes on, [BLEEP] and walk right past him. They couldn't give him no notes. And all that [BLEEP] you saw was him pushing the envelope and pushing and pushing. At one point, we were doing a sketch where I had a dead dog. And animal rights was like, yo, you, you gotta get a faker dog.

• 45:19Keke Palmer?

  Cause he looked too real.

• 45:20Speaker 02

  He looked too real. So, so, so Keenan had a, had a fake dog, and he would put it in, it didn't look like a dog. But while they was there watching, yeah, the dog, and they leave. He put, I mean, he was just,

• 45:33Keke Palmer?

  Wow.

• 45:34Speaker 02

  And then, s- something got funky, because he was too powerful. He was too powerful. Something got funky, and they, they snatched the show from him.

• 45:44Keke Palmer?

  I wonder how that happened?

• 45:45Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 45:46Keke Palmer?

  I gotta talk to Keenan, man, I be wanting to talk to him, see if he comes around with me.

• 45:49Speaker 02

  What happened was, they self, kinda, I don't know if they self syndicated, it was weird, I don't know. I don't know that. But I just know it got funky, and then, all of a sudden, he leaves the show. So when I got to the Jamie Foxx Show, and we hired all of these writers. I see a dude, a, a brother, I said, man, you funny, man, come write on my show. He said, I don't know how to turn on a computer. We'll help you with that. We'll help you with that, but I need that kind of, I need that kind of funny. And so we would teach him how to do it, and then,

• 46:16Keke Palmer?

  I'm here to turn the computer.

• 46:17Speaker 02

  Then we needed a, we needed a, we needed a woman's point of view, a black woman's point of view. So I hired Mara Brock.

• 46:25Keke Palmer?

  Mara Brock a kill. Yo, that's crazy.

• 46:29Speaker 02

  Mara Brock is on the show, and I told all the dudes, I said, hey, man, there's too much dudes going, too much testosterone in here.

• 46:37Keke Palmer?

  Too much dudes.

• 46:37Speaker 02

  And Mara came in and leveled that [BLEEP]. And then she went on to do everything she did.

• 46:43Keke Palmer?

  I mean, Mara's honest.

• 46:44Speaker 02

  That all came from the Jamie Foxx Show. And now, to be honest, at that time, they did try to shake us. Because once we started doing our [BLEEP], you get the phone calls, we wanna go in a different direction, well, where's that?

• 46:56Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 46:57Speaker 02

  Well, we wanna go here, and go, that's, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. And they wanna replace everything, nah, nah, nah, nah.

• 47:02Keke Palmer?

  Well, they talk a lot about you, there's a lot of you, S-S-SAS on YouTube, or even people do articles about that, about the era of that network, of UPN, of all those, that, those shows that built those networks, they were black shows.

• 47:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's black shows.

• 47:14Keke Palmer?

  And then, once all the advertisers have come in, then suddenly you wanna move in a new direction, where you don't want, you know, the shows that got the eyes to be made.

• 47:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, they wanted to move somewhere, I said, but wait a minute, man, we doing Seinfeld, we doing numbers, like, so I, I, I stuck to my guns, and I won't discuss what all happened behind the scenes.

• 47:32Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 47:32Speaker 02

  But it was tough. But what was great about it was, we did it on our own merit, and it was, it was amazing. And, and, and I look at Mara all the time, I go like, man, that, that came from,

• 47:43Speaker 01

  She's amazing.

• 47:43Keke Palmer?

  You both.

• 47:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 47:44Keke Palmer?

  I mean, this is insane.

• 47:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, so that, so I hope I wasn't too, uh,

• 47:49Keke Palmer?

  You were so eloquent.

• 47:55Speaker 02

  I want to tell you this. The Black Panther was always here.

• 48:02Keke Palmer?

  So Corinne, obviously, you creative acting, but you are also an exec, I mean, you run the production company.

• 48:08Speaker 01

  I do.

• 48:08Keke Palmer?

  That's totally different than, you know, performing. Performing is one thing, but then when you making these decisions, you're, like your dad said, you're finding what the right material is. What let you know that you wanted to get into that deep into the business?

• 48:21Speaker 01

  I feel like he always saw it for me. I feel like I've been on both sides of the camera for so, my whole life.

• 48:27Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 48:28Speaker 01

  And I, I started as a writer, I started writing, and, and then it just like, kinda naturally grew into producing. But when he, you know, when I got this new role as the head of the company, which was in February, I, the first month, I really felt that pressure of like, I wanna take his ideas and, and put them on the screen, I wanna bring them to life. We have people now that their livelihood depends on the success of this. And so I really took it so seriously, and now I feel like I've grown into the role. But it was, you know, it's a big responsibility.

• 49:04Keke Palmer?

  It is for me, myself, you know, it's always entertaining and moving even more as I'm getting older into, you know, this is the Keke Palmer company, not just Keke Palmer, the talent. This is, I have KTV, I practice my Palmer, I have my wellness, and, and so I really feel you, girl. We need to like, have lunchtime and just to get into it, because it's like, there's no way to know how to do it, other than to do it.

• 49:24Speaker 01

  Just to jump in.

• 49:24Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 49:25Speaker 01

  You just jump in.

• 49:25Keke Palmer?

  Yeah. What, what has it been for you to see her taking on this challenge? Okay.

• 49:30Speaker 02

  Corinne don't, Corinne don't [BLEEP] around. If the meeting ain't going right, what are we talking about? Cause we need to,

• 49:36Keke Palmer?

  I love that.

• 49:37Speaker 02

  No, no, no, she don't wanna talk about it. We had some meeting with some big people, she's,

• 49:43Speaker 02

  are we gonna get to, what, what is, what are we talking about? I said, yes, and she,

• 49:47Keke Palmer?

  Have to do that.

• 49:48Speaker 02

  But, but it's a natural thing, and I don't, look, it's on her, but she laughing right now, but when, in the meeting, she be like,

• 49:54Speaker 01

  Not what I think.

• 49:54Speaker 02

  And, and, and, no, no, no, this is what she does. She'll get a underbite.

• 49:58Speaker 01

  That's what he says.

• 49:59Keke Palmer?

  What does it look like?

• 50:00Speaker 02

  It, no, she'll get a underbite, if she ain't feeling, she'll go,

• 50:04Speaker 02

  she'll do this, look, like, she'll be like this, you know, hi, hi, and then that [BLEEP] don't sound right, she go,

• 50:11Speaker 02

  she will turn into LeBron. She'll turn into LeBron James, she be like,

• 50:15Keke Palmer?

  You don't feel like you knew that, you don't feel like,

• 50:17Speaker 02

  She does, she turn into LeBron James, she be like this.

• 50:19Speaker 01

  I don't have a poker face. I guess I don't have a poker face.

• 50:21Speaker 02

  You don't have, you, you can't play poker, cause when you don't like this [BLEEP], you be like, this is the book. We was at, we was at a dinner, we was at a dinner, and she just said, I, I gotta go, I gotta. But what it does, it makes whoever that she's meeting with, get to the business.

• 50:36Keke Palmer?

  That's right.

• 50:37Speaker 02

  And she says that, I don't wanna be, she said, this ain't, we ain't socializing, let's get it.

• 50:42Keke Palmer?

  Do you recognize this still? In her, or do you feel like she's tougher than you?

• 50:47Speaker 02

  I would say she's tougher than me when it comes to that. I'm [BLEEP]. Come on, man, I got ADD and HD, I can't,

• 50:55Speaker 01

  And HD.

• 50:56Speaker 02

  I can't,

• 50:59Speaker 02

  I'm just gonna [BLEEP] crazy. She, she nailed the [BLEEP] if it ain't going, she out, and I, can I speak on it?

• 51:05Speaker 01

  I don't know what you're gonna say.

• 51:08Speaker 02

  She's already, she's already sold a major

• 51:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, we have, we have, we have really big stuff going on.

• 51:15Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no.

• 51:16Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh.

• 51:16Speaker 02

  She's trying to say we. She sold a major show, and I was like,

• 51:20Keke Palmer?

  What can you give me, what can you tell me, without, you know, giving me your press release?

• 51:26Speaker 01

  We have, yeah, we have a really big show that we can't not talk about. But,

• 51:31Speaker 01

  but, we have, um, we have a really cool, whole third, we, we have a,

• 51:36Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, give me an exclusive.

• 51:37Speaker 01

  Actually, Kiki, this would be really good.

• 51:40Speaker 02

  It's, it's an exclusive.

• 51:47Keke Palmer?

  You know what just came back into my life like it never left?

• 51:52Keke Palmer?

  The Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. And the second I saw it on my Starbucks app, I knew fall was just around the corner. The first sip took me right back to that fall feeling. And I remember how much I LOVE this part of the year. I can't wait for the leaves to have their whole moment, and the air to finally have some personality to it. When I actually wanna be outside, instead of rushing past everything, that's what I'm excited for. It's funny how a walk I've done a hundred times feels brand new, just because fall is almost here. That's the thing about fall rituals, they're familiar, in the best way. The iconic Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte falls right into that category for me. Same drink, same me.

• 52:36Keke Palmer?

  But somehow it feels like a whole moment every single time it comes back. So let this be your sign to slow down, soak the season in, and grab a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte as fall begins. Celebrate fall with the return of the iconic Pumpkin Spice Latte. Order now on the Starbucks app.

• 52:59Keke Palmer?

  Tastes like fall. I've said it, I've heard it. We all know the saying, "You need to go see that lady." And sometimes, you know, we give an excuse. "I'll deal with it later. It's probably too expensive. What if it doesn't help me?" Meanwhile, we're still struggling and somebody's worried. But with some research, I found out about Rula. It's a real healthcare company. Sessions average about $15 with insurance, and they tell you that cost before you book. Providers are vetted, outcomes are tracked, and the majority of patients report genuinely feeling better. You can find someone who specializes in exactly what they're going through. Don't talk yourself out of therapy because you think it'll cost too much, won't work,

• 53:42Keke Palmer?

  or you have no idea where to even start. And trust me, that advice goes both ways. If you're ready to stop talking yourself out of finding care and making progress, then head to rula.com. That's R-U-L-A dot com. And take the first step.

• 54:01Speaker 01

  We have a horror series. It's a poltergeist show that is with the Hayes brothers, who created the Conjuring series.

• 54:12Keke Palmer?

  Yes.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  It is so dope. It's really, really cool.

• 54:16Keke Palmer?

  And we're talking about coming to the light, Caroline Poltergeist? Is that the vibe? That's the vibe. It's the same type of vibe, right?

• 54:23Speaker 01

  It's haunting.

• 54:24Keke Palmer?

  It's the haunting thing.

• 54:25Speaker 01

  It's a really cool show.

• 54:26Speaker 02

  I can't tell them what it is. The other thing?

• 54:29Speaker 01

  No, I don't think you can tell me about it.

• 54:31Keke Palmer?

  Well, tell me just so I can react and we'll cut it out.

• 54:34Speaker 01

  It is just beep.

• 54:35Speaker 02

  No, no, no. But it's a major... Can I say the person's name?

• 54:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 54:40Speaker 02

  Okay, Michael Ealy.

• 54:42Keke Palmer?

  Oh, I love Michael Ealy.

• 54:44Speaker 01

  Oh, we have other stuff, too. Yeah, the Michael Ealy thing is really cool.

• 54:47Keke Palmer?

  I love Michael Ealy.

• 54:48Speaker 01

  We have a show with Michael Ealy.

• 54:49Speaker 02

  Hey, hey, hey. No, no, but she didn't call me, though. She didn't call me. She called me after it was sold.

• 54:55Speaker 01

  I told you, I did tell you to get on the Zoom, though.

• 54:58Speaker 02

  I got on the Zoom. I hopped on the Zoom, but then I got off. But she sold it, and I don't let her... I don't let her... I'm like, that is a major thing. And Michael Ealy is a good...

• 55:08Speaker 01

  He's so good.

• 55:09Keke Palmer?

  I've loved Michael Ealy since I was a kid. I love Michael Ealy. But what I want to go to what your dad is saying, because anybody that's never maybe pitched something, it's really hard.

• 55:16Speaker 02

  It's tough.

• 55:17Keke Palmer?

  Like, it's hard, y'all. Like, you can do a million of them. You know, you maybe not never get a call back. You know, you do a million calls preparing for the pitch call. You know what I'm saying? So for the fact that you're selling so many of them, what would you say is your, like, what gets you in the head of it? Like, what gets you in the game mind to be like, okay, we about to pitch this? And how do you know when something's going to sell?

• 55:38Speaker 01

  I do, I know it's frustrating for creatives, but I feel like drilling it and getting it tight. People have very short attention spans.

• 55:45Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 55:46Speaker 01

  And you can tell on a Zoom when people, they just start... And then they're looking at other things on their computer, and you're like, we lost them. So I think having it tight and engaging. And when you have Michael Ealy on, it's really hard.

• 55:56Keke Palmer?

  The packaging.

• 55:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's really hard to not be engaged.

• 55:59Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 56:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, but she be on their ass. What she trying to say is...

• 56:03Speaker 01

  I'm not a tire race.

• 56:05Speaker 02

  She be on their ass. They be uncomfortable. She said, "Y'all don't get [BLEEP] right." She's...

• 56:10Speaker 02

  Look, look, okay.

• 56:10Keke Palmer?

  You'll be whipping them in the shape.

• 56:12Speaker 02

  But at the end of the day, she sold it in an impossible time of selling things, and it's because she said, "Yo, get this [BLEEP] right." That's all right, I'm done.

• 56:21Keke Palmer?

  Speaking of whipping things into shape at the sake of a bad pun, Django Unchained.

• 56:27Keke Palmer?

  Django Unchained. I have to get into that movie. Okay, you had already won the Oscar, obviously from Ray.

• 56:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:35Keke Palmer?

  What, I mean, a lot of people... I remember when that Django script was going [BLEEP], and a lot of people were afraid to touch it.

• 56:40Speaker 02

  First time I heard about that script was Tyler Perry. "Hey, man, have you heard this, um, this thing that they're doing, Quentin Tarantino's doing? It's called, um, The Django or something like that." That's not right.

• 56:51Speaker 02

  That's not my Tyler Perry.

• 56:52Keke Palmer?

  Everybody kept saying The Django.

• 56:53Speaker 02

  "Hey, man, this Django thing." So I said, "I don't know what it is, but if it's Quentin Tarantino, it's gotta be tough." So I wasn't in the running for Django, because I was in the middle of switching my management around. So I didn't know nothing about Django. But I heard that a lot of people was up for it. One, Will Smith. But Will was like, "Yo, so we're here, and so it's Django." And when I went there to talk to QT, I was like, "Yo, so as a slave..." Yo, [BLEEP] was like, "What you talking about?" I said, "Will, you have to play it." "Yo, but a slave. Nah, nah, we're there."

• 57:38Speaker 02

  I said, "You gotta do it." So he passed. Now, I'm doing a show like in Maryland or something, and all of a sudden, Idris Elba is in backstage, and he's sort of, "You know, Quentin Tarantino was... Quentin Tarantino mentioned this movie. It's called Django, you know, where I play slave. I'm a slave, and then I get raped, and someone else gets raped." And I said, "Man, they ain't gonna rape you." I said, "Well, I could imagine your big, beautiful, black ass on that goddamn horse with your shirt off." "Well, you know, you really don't know if I should do..." I said, "All right, [BLEEP] it." So he passed. So now it's my turn. My management hooked me up, and it was, this was funny. I switched my management, and I went into my agency.

• 58:22Speaker 02

  And when I went to my new agency, they were like, "Jamie, it's a press start, is, yeah. What do you feel like playing a slave?" I said, "Man, what [BLEEP]?" I just, "Man..." They said, "No, no, no, no, no. Uh, Django." I said, "Oh, I heard about it." So now, I go to Quentin Tarantino's house, but I know it's a, uh, it's a Western. I bring my horse.

• 58:45Keke Palmer?

  Now, that's what I'm talking about, multifaceted.

• 58:47Speaker 02

  Listen, my horse is parked outside while I'm doing the thing.

• 58:50Keke Palmer?

  The performance has begun.

• 58:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm doing my thing in there. And I said, "QT, you know what? I know you're looking at a lot of people, man, but, uh, I just want to let you know I got my own horse." "What?" "My horse is in your driveway." "You have your own [BLEEP] horse? What the [BLEEP]? You brought a horse to my house? What do you mean? There's a [BLEEP] horse?" I said, "Yeah, man, right outside." So I go outside. "What the [BLEEP]?" I'm showing my horse. I said, "QT, I know everybody trying to get on, but I think Django and his horse is a real thing. It's gotta be, it's gotta be some energy." I said, "And what's crazy is my horse look just like your stunt horse. You just gotta paint the shoes white." So Quentin calls my new manager, Rick Yorn. "Hi, man.

• 59:33Speaker 02

  Um, I don't know what this Jamie Foxx is selling, but I'm buying it." And so that's how I got in the movie.

• 59:40Keke Palmer?

  And so a lot of people to your, what you just... Those incredible impressions. They were scared of that script. People were scared of the Django, of the slave, of everything with it, of the satire. Is this humorous? The Sam role? You know, everything was spooky about it. As an actor and as a performer, what? Just like what you were saying, that you said to, uh, what you said to Idris.

• 1:00:01Speaker 02

  Quentin Tarantino watched me, "It's ripe. I get ripe."

• 1:00:03Keke Palmer?

  Boom.

• 1:00:04Speaker 02

  "There's ripe."

• 1:00:05Keke Palmer?

  We seen all these scenes. Was it you? How did you come into here and say, "This is how this needs to be done"? As a performer?

• 1:00:11Speaker 02

  I'm gonna be very... I'm gonna be, first of all, we had a great leader, Quentin Tarantino. And one thing Quentin said, when we were talking about the dynamic of the movie, Quentin said, "Hey, man, I'm not gonna hide behind my [BLEEP]. I'm not gonna hide. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna throw you to the world." So he says, "I'm gonna stand in front of this. However, when it came to certain things, when it came to us, I said, "QT,

• 1:00:37Speaker 02

  I want to bring somebody to the set on the most horrific day." It was Kathy Hughes, who does Radio One. So Kathy Hughes comes to the set. I said, "Ms. Hughes, I want you to watch this scene." And this was the scene where the dogs were ripping apart the slave. Ms. Hughes wept, and she says, "This is a movie that's necessary." She says, "I will make sure on Radio One," because she touched 98% of black people, "that this is a movie we need to watch." And then in return, Quentin did Kathy Hughes's, um, uh, interview show. So he was nice enough to do her show. So there were certain checkpoints where I go like...

• 1:01:14Keke Palmer?

  Yes, this is important.

• 1:01:15Speaker 02

  I hope he doesn't mind me saying, like, like, because what I was telling, what I was telling Will and Idris, I said, "Man, all the stuff that I know about Quentin, what he put in his, in his script, he don't shoot that."

• 1:01:26Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:27Speaker 02

  But what he put in his script, he don't always shoot that. So the movie gonna be different. And then, of course, some of that stuff, you ain't gonna be able to do no way. But you gotta be vocal and not be, not be afraid. If you read the script, Broom Hilda and Django get raped.

• 1:01:45Keke Palmer?

  Oh, yes.

• 1:01:46Speaker 02

  But once we got together, Quentin and I and Carrie, we wanted to protect Carrie Washington. Why? Because movies are forever. Meaning that if there is some bombastic scene, you can't take it out, and it's forever.

• 1:02:02Keke Palmer?

  And you can clip it out of context.

• 1:02:03Speaker 02

  Yeah. And we wanted to make sure that we protected Olivia Pope. And at that time, that television show wasn't out yet, but I said, "Hey, she's gonna have this, uh, show, and we wanna protect her." And he was with it. So all of that sort of outlandish stuff left. And then, certain things...

• 1:02:25Speaker 02

  This is what I, this is the only, I'll only say this because we have a great leader. I said QT. When I read the script, the only thing that I see is Django, he ain't trying to cure slavery, but he loves his woman. So right now in the, in the, in the script, his woman ain't in there enough. All he wanna do is, I want my woman back. He'll kill anybody, black, green, red, blue ground, just to get his woman back. So if we're able to increase that, and then Quentin goes, yeah, um, yeah, it's an omelet. It's an omelet and all these ingredients, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw some more of room held it. So in the movie, when you watch it, those scenes where Kerry Washington is sort of in his eyes, that wasn't in the script.

• 1:03:08Speaker 02

  He placed Kerry Washington to make sure it was a through line so that, so that Django, it was a guy about going to get love in the worst circumstance. So therefore, when people watch it, it's like, oh man, he's on a journey to get his girl. Cause if you look, when the first girl is, when he said, John Brittle, I like how you die, boy, boom, he shoots him. He don't go untie the girl that was being whipped.

• 1:03:31Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:32Speaker 02

  That's not his thing. I'm going to get my girl. So in moments like that, QT was so, um, accommodating.

• 1:03:42Keke Palmer?

  Well, he was, to your point, a good leader. A good leader respects the people that he put in place.

• 1:03:47Speaker 02

  But it could be dicey, cause [BLEEP] could've said, man, if you don't get the, you don't see my [BLEEP]. So I, but I was very, um...

• 1:03:52Keke Palmer?

  But you rolled the dice, and I think that's what artistry is. And whenever I get a chance to sit up and have a conversation with an icon like yourself, the main thing I want to be able to pull out is how to apply myself. And for anybody, you get into these positions, right? Whether you are an actor, or you're an entrepreneur, whatever you are, you, you suddenly, when you're asked, or when you're brought in as a collaborator, you forget to speak up.

• 1:04:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:04:14Keke Palmer?

  People forget to speak up. They forget to take their expertise and make the material, or whatever, whatever it is they're doing, better. And that's, that's what you brought.

• 1:04:23Speaker 02

  Oh man, well, I, you know what? I, I was so appreciative, and then on that movie, some go-getters.

• 1:04:30Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:31Speaker 02

  Me and Kristoff Woss, we worked for six weeks by ourselves, and then Samuel Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio walked on that set, smoking they vape, walking in slow motion, and I said, he's [BLEEP] ready to go. And people don't realize, the, the, the, the Leo, the Leo dude, he ain't no [BLEEP].

• 1:04:47Keke Palmer?

  He said, the Leo dude?

• 1:04:48Speaker 02

  He not, eh, he not no joke when it come to his craft. Like, you see him on the boat, you know what I'm saying, South of France, the models, no. But when he come in there, and this [BLEEP] me up. He came in, he taller than me. So, he taller than me, so when, when we have our first, you know, uh, rehearsal, he turn around and he like this, I'm just curious, and he blow the smoke in my face, and I went.

• 1:05:17Speaker 02

  So during the rehearsal, he, every, I can't beat him. [BLEEP] taller than me, blow the smoke in my face, this [BLEEP] killing me. So I went to the wardrobe, people, I say, Ms. Lady, I need, I need you. I need you to put four inches in my boot when I do this scene. She said, right now, no, no, no, not until the camera come on. She says, why? I said, don't worry about it, I just need four inches.

• 1:05:38Keke Palmer?

  You on point.

• 1:05:39Speaker 02

  Man, when I turned around, I'm like, yeah, [BLEEP] suck.

• 1:05:45Speaker 02

  Django, homie. And he was like, but you had to do certain [BLEEP] because they was coming.

• 1:05:53Keke Palmer?

  Yes, you, you on point.

• 1:05:54Speaker 02

  And Samuel Jackson, forget about it.

• 1:05:56Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:57Speaker 02

  No, no, no, no, no, no.

• 1:05:58Keke Palmer?

  I know.

• 1:05:58Speaker 02

  No, no, on the set, better than everybody.

• 1:06:01Keke Palmer?

  I know.

• 1:06:01Speaker 02

  And he was in and out, say, action.

• 1:06:03Keke Palmer?

  Action.

• 1:06:04Speaker 02

  Master of can to use a mask.

• 1:06:06Keke Palmer?

  Cut.

• 1:06:06Speaker 02

  What? So how was that?

• 1:06:08Keke Palmer?

  Yeah!

• 1:06:09Speaker 02

  And me and Leo, [BLEEP] and he's like, ma- master of can to use a mask, [BLEEP] cut. What y'all think about that? And Leo goes to me, he says, he's [BLEEP] amazing. I said, he is.

• 1:06:20Keke Palmer?

  He is, he's [BLEEP].

• 1:06:21Speaker 02

  Imagine all of that. It was so, we were cooking one day, so I won't say who it was, but we were all cooking so much on the scene.

• 1:06:31Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:32Speaker 02

  There was a guy who only had like maybe one line, he couldn't get it out. Because it was, you know,

• 1:06:38Keke Palmer?

  It was hot?

• 1:06:39Speaker 02

  It was hot. And, and Samuel Jackson, you better have your [BLEEP] tight.

• 1:06:44Keke Palmer?

  I'm so scared.

• 1:06:45Speaker 02

  Cause Sam, Sam, Sam, you couldn't beat Sam.

• 1:06:49Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh, yeah.

• 1:06:50Speaker 02

  And I did certain things just to try to get on Sam's level. Cause Leo couldn't say the N-word when we first started rehearsing. He would go, pal, I can't.

• 1:07:00Keke Palmer?

  Come on, pal.

• 1:07:01Speaker 02

  I can't say that, pal. And Sam goes, say that [BLEEP] just another Tuesday. Say that [BLEEP]. Sam was crazy, crazy with, Sam was going crazy with it, and then...

• 1:07:13Keke Palmer?

  Powerful man.

• 1:07:14Speaker 02

  At one point, Sam would make sure that he knew, Sam let everybody know he the one. So I had to do some [BLEEP], I had to do some [BLEEP]. I apologize now still to, we're doing a read-through.

• 1:07:27Speaker 02

  Sam cooking, I said, Sam, [BLEEP] all that.

• 1:07:31Speaker 02

  He's what's that, you heard me, [BLEEP] all that. You ain't the only [BLEEP], here's a new sheriff in town, [BLEEP] that [BLEEP]. And I'm saying, I'm saying, this ain't in the script, man, [BLEEP] all that, man, everybody running scared from you, ain't nobody scared of you. And then Sam goes,

• 1:07:48Speaker 02

  okay.

• 1:07:48Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:49Speaker 02

  And then Leo was like, what was that? I said, I gotta try to do something. And then that set me up because later on,

• 1:07:56Keke Palmer?

  Oh no.

• 1:07:56Speaker 02

  that black man cooked me. And it wasn't no words. We were supposed to be staring at each other.

• 1:08:04Speaker 02

  So Quentin was like, okay, you and Sam have your stare off. I looked at Sam, Sam said, [BLEEP].

• 1:08:15Speaker 02

  Quentin was like, can you say, I said, I'm trying. Action. And then after, and they said, cut, Sam was like,

• 1:08:25Speaker 02

  And QT, Quentin was like, can you say, I said, I'm trying. Action. And then after, and they said, cut, Sam was like,

• 1:08:34Keke Palmer?

  Sam knows he's Sam, it's just [BLEEP].

• 1:08:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, he was like, and he did this, the best.

• 1:08:42Keke Palmer?

  The best. I mean, you have this doubly. Anytime you're running a production company, you are thinking about the legacy of this production company. But then also, you are the legacy of your father. What would you want it to be? Like, when you're thinking about what you're building, what do you see for the future of, of this production company, of your dad's legacy that you're gonna be carrying out? You and your little sister, Annalise.

• 1:09:03Speaker 01

  Big question.

• 1:09:04Keke Palmer?

  I know.

• 1:09:05Speaker 01

  And it's, it's great you ask it because it's something I think about every day. And I thought about when I was given this position, I was, I thought about what is the pillar? First of all, who is Jamie Foxx? That I know, but also that the people love? What do they wanna see from him? And then also, what don't they expect? And so, I mean, we came up with like words that like are the ethos of who he is. Um, entertainer, um, universal, like all of those kind of words. But I feel like the things that we've been gravitating towards lately have been kind of the left of center things.

• 1:09:41Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:42Speaker 01

  Um, the things that aren't so commercial. And so, um, I feel like that's the kind of stuff that, that we wanna, that we wanna do.

• 1:09:49Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, to continue to double down on what he's always been.

• 1:09:52Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:09:52Keke Palmer?

  Which is out of the box.

• 1:09:53Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:09:53Keke Palmer?

  He made that stage, so now people know what that is. Like, people see when I'm coming in, somebody like myself coming in, they know the blueprint of what that is. So continuing to push that forward, I think that's totally in line with what your dad has always done, for sure.

• 1:10:06Speaker 02

  And we cannot wait to try to talk to you.

• 1:10:12Speaker 02

  We was talking about, man, you, you, Kiki, it is very rare to see a talent like yourself to where, you know, I, I equate it to this, sometimes you see people and they only are that in front of the camera. Or they only are that singing the song, but to see it, to see you have it all the time, and it's, it's, it's, it's measured. It's like I'll watch you, it goes, oh, you gear down, you gear up, you gear down, and then, and then when you go to your serious, serious moments where, and then when you, when it's, when it's this, and so we go like, man, how do we, how do we make sure that we pour everything into you?

• 1:10:53Speaker 02

  And then lay everything at your feet and be like, man, have a look at it, and we not gonna bring you no [BLEEP].

• 1:11:01Keke Palmer?

  Oh my gosh.

• 1:11:02Speaker 02

  We not gonna have you looking like a [BLEEP].

• 1:11:07Keke Palmer?

  The hell y'all laughing about?

• 1:11:09Speaker 01

  Okay, you know.

• 1:11:13Keke Palmer?

  It's the sideline, like, mm.

• 1:11:15Speaker 02

  Cause we've had some meetings where people, we'd be like, and she's like, she'd turn in, she'd turn in,

• 1:11:20Speaker 01

  It's always that.

• 1:11:21Speaker 02

  She turned into LeBron.

• 1:11:24Keke Palmer?

  Yo, I mean, we have to talk about the fact of what you guys overcame. I mean, that was incredible. Obviously, you suffered a brain bleed, Jamie, which was, I mean, we all,

• 1:11:34Speaker 02

  Crazy.

• 1:11:34Keke Palmer?

  was just like, we can't lose Jamie. But I can only imagine what it was like for you as his actual daughter, and the family being together. So what was that time? Like, I know you said your aunt, it was your aunt Deb that,

• 1:11:45Speaker 01

  Aunt Deidra.

• 1:11:46Keke Palmer?

  Excuse me, Aunt Deidra.

• 1:11:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:11:47Keke Palmer?

  Aunt Deidra. They had found out something was wrong.

• 1:11:51Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 1:11:54Speaker 02

  It's, it's,

• 1:11:54Speaker 01

  It was, it was really crazy.

• 1:11:56Speaker 02

  It's insane, man.

• 1:11:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's, you know, in my mind, my dad,

• 1:12:00Keke Palmer?

  And talk about as little as much as you want. You ain't gotta, I ain't, I ain't pulling, I don't pull stuff out that I wanna talk about.

• 1:12:05Speaker 02

  It, it wasn't that, it was,

• 1:12:07Speaker 01

  It's not that at all.

• 1:12:07Speaker 02

  It was, it was, it was me, like, I was talking to him, I said, bro, what you talking about? This is me, bro. Like, I put the smiles on people's faces. Why me? And, uh, look at all these bad people out here, and he said, those bad people already belong to somebody else. He says, this is your time, and I said, ah. And it was so...

• 1:12:31Speaker 02

  You just couldn't, you couldn't imagine, like I, like when I finally came to my senses, what happened? They say, they say you had a, a stroke? You had a, what are you talking about? I couldn't, I couldn't get, I couldn't make sense of it.

• 1:12:49Speaker 02

  And I remember the, the, the parts I do remember, like the rehab part was frustrating. Cause I'm like, they say you got a second chance. It's a, the second chance, what was wrong with my first chance? This doesn't happen to anybody. How does it happen to me? Uh, it's a funny though, like.

• 1:13:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, they was there.

• 1:13:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, they, they, they, they couldn't do wellness checks on me because I, I only had comedy to lean on. So I was just funny, I was always joking all the time. So when they come and say, who are you today, sir? And I was somebody different, uh, who are you today? Damn, it's crazy, I'm Dave Chappelle. Somebody said I had a stroke, pow, damn, it's crazy. There's no way Dave Chappelle had.

• 1:13:30Speaker 01

  But, but even when you got admitted, they asked you what your name was and you said Denzel Washington. Not because he didn't know who he was, because he was making a joke.

• 1:13:40Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, cause he's playing around.

• 1:13:41Speaker 02

  Alright, so that's what you're telling me, huh? Okay, uh, uh, uh, uh, okay. So you're telling me I had a stroke, okay. You're, you're telling me I had a stroke.

• 1:13:49Speaker 01

  And they don't know, is he okay or not? Right, you're confused.

• 1:13:52Speaker 02

  Uh huh, so that's what you're telling me. But that was the only way that I could stay, that's the only way I could find myself.

• 1:14:00Keke Palmer?

  Of course.

• 1:14:00Speaker 02

  Because here's the, the, the trueness of it, like when this all transpired, I went back to meet the sixty nurses that kept me alive. Cause I don't quite remember. And this is crazy, this is in Atlanta, Piedmont. So this is crazy. One of the black girl nurses came up to me and said, Jamie, I listen to Future, I'm from the streets. I was like, what? I listen to rap music, I said, what does that have to do with anything? I'm just giving you a frame of reference of who I am. I said, okay. She said, but Jamie, I want you to know something. You're a miracle. I said, what you mean? She said, less than three percent of people that come in with what you have, walk out of here. We usually put them in a box. I says, I said, oh wow. She said, but when I saw it was you in the emergency, I rolled my sleeves up.

• 1:14:45Speaker 02

  I said, man, man, thank you so much. She said, what you thanking me for? I rolled my sleeves up for everybody. She said, but just remember, you're a miracle, Jay. And I was like, oh. You know, so then it.

• 1:14:56Keke Palmer?

  God bless her.

• 1:14:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, but, but it, it, it makes you wanna go get it. And then Dr. Shute.

• 1:15:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, his surgeon.

• 1:15:01Speaker 02

  I had a good surgeon, a great surgeon, yeah. And he wore a Laker jersey. You know, one of them cool white boys, you know, it was cool. He was just like, like, I asked him, was it, was it? He said, were you nervous? Nah. I said, come on, he said, yeah. I said, he said, you were sick? He says, but uh.

• 1:15:18Keke Palmer?

  You were sick? That's how them doctors be.

• 1:15:19Speaker 02

  Yeah, he was, am I right?

• 1:15:21Speaker 01

  He was very cool.

• 1:15:21Speaker 02

  He was very cool.

• 1:15:22Keke Palmer?

  What were you thinking? Especially with your dad playing, he play all the time. Was there ever a moment where you were like, you, you know, where you were scared? Where you were like, yo dad, like, you know, or, or just what was your energy like?

• 1:15:35Speaker 01

  It's, when you're in it, you don't have time to be scared. Because you, your, your brain overhauls adrenaline. You're just, you're in caretaking mode and you're never really ready to take care of your parent. Like, you never feel, you're, you're never ready for that moment. But when it happened, I was like, I got this. Like, we were, like, I was so laser focused in taking care of him and protecting him and making sure that he was gonna get to the other side and, and I could only do so much.

• 1:16:07Speaker 02

  Michael Corleone.

• 1:16:08Speaker 01

  That's what he calls me.

• 1:16:13Speaker 02

  Oh man, damn.

• 1:16:19Speaker 01

  We don't wanna go there.

• 1:16:20Speaker 02

  No, no, no, I'm just saying, when you look at The Godfather, right? And Michael Corleone is out with his girl on Christmas. And he picks up the newspaper and sees that his father has been shot. And he says, it doesn't say if she, it doesn't say if he's alive. It doesn't say if he's alive. And he's not really telling his girl what he's reading. It doesn't say if my father's alive. And Michael Corleone left and he went to that hospital and he took over. And he told one of the guys, there were people coming here to do danger to my father. I need you to help me. That's who she was. Cause when.

• 1:17:06Speaker 02

  Like when I talked to the doctor, I said, hey, listen, I hear everybody's stories. I hear everybody's stories. I wanna know from you what it was. He said, hey man, without her, you wouldn't be here. So I said, hey, that's Michael Corleone, so forever, you know, forever. And, you know, the doctor was like, no one handles it like this. No one handles, he says, because you were on the slab, TMZ, all these other, and she, she handled it. So, sorry to.

• 1:17:39Keke Palmer?

  Aw man.

• 1:17:39Speaker 02

  Get like that.

• 1:17:40Keke Palmer?

  I mean, cause a lot of people be, especially with the type of jobs we have, a lot of people be in it.

• 1:17:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:17:45Keke Palmer?

  Until you really need them.

• 1:17:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:17:46Keke Palmer?

  You know what I'm saying? I don't even know your situation, I just know when I'm hearing it.

• 1:17:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:17:50Keke Palmer?

  Just, the reason why I imagine you getting emotional is cause somebody has your back.

• 1:17:54Speaker 02

  Had your back. When, when, when, and that's, that's how I know that I'm gonna be okay. I said, because when it was really, cause you know how this business is.

• 1:18:01Keke Palmer?

  Yes.

• 1:18:01Speaker 02

  Man, when it's good, you know what I mean? And then when it get weird, people, man, she helped, man. Ten, how they say, ten toes down, whatever it was. But I talked to the doctor, cause I wanted to know his version. He says, when I finally got my bearings, he says, man, your daughter saved your life. And he talked about Corinne, she saved, she saved you. She said, she's the reason that you're here and the way she had to.

• 1:18:27Speaker 02

  I mean, you had to deal with a lot of stuff. She had to deal with the internet.

• 1:18:30Speaker 01

  That was, that was a whole, that was a, a, a part that I was not prepared for.

• 1:18:34Keke Palmer?

  They be saying anything, cloning, what y'all doing?

• 1:18:37Speaker 02

  They talking about cloning, and watch this.

• 1:18:38Speaker 01

  I had to block.

• 1:18:41Keke Palmer?

  Like many black. I put my hands behind my head.

• 1:18:46Speaker 01

  Yes, and like, the, the, I had never been on the, on the bad side of the internet. I always had, you know, nice comment, people were nice. But as soon as he went dark, the inter, it was scary, the places the internet went. With the cloning and the conspiracy. And I was like, what? I mean, I just wanna be like, it's not that interesting, actually. What it is, is, you know, it's a human thing.

• 1:19:09Keke Palmer?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:09Speaker 01

  And, but it also was not my place to ever release his medical information.

• 1:19:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:19:15Speaker 01

  And so, I, I had never really experienced that before. And that was the toughest part, was just trying to manage that, but it didn't really matter. I don't, they can say whatever they want, as long as he's good.

• 1:19:27Speaker 02

  Yeah. That, and that was, hey man, look, I, I mean, so now, God is amazing. And when you say the, you know, that, that thing, I say, I didn't want the second chance, but when I look at her now, I say, ooh. Gotta live this thing, gotta live it, cause that thing, you know what's crazy? Was no singing, no Peter blowing his horn. It was just.

• 1:19:48Keke Palmer?

  It was quiet over there?

• 1:19:49Speaker 02

  Man, gone.

• 1:19:49Keke Palmer?

  I'm.

• 1:19:50Speaker 02

  If I, look, look, if I hadn't came back, I'd just be like, alright, go. But awakening and realizing how much love and how much strength someone had for you. We should all have a Corinne Marie Fox, and I, and I, no, I'm serious. And she loves to play it down, but that dude, I said, man, give me that real. He said, man, bro, he said, I done seen people fall apart in here. And he says, she had to deal with so much. And she's sliding, but the, but, but the, the, the so, the, not social, but the media part of it is a tough thing to do, because we all, we all live and die in comments.

• 1:20:26Keke Palmer?

  Yeah, it affects everyone.

• 1:20:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, and, and I'm older, so I don't necessarily, you know, I was on Black Planet in my space.

• 1:20:32Keke Palmer?

  Yeah. Come on, Black Planet.

• 1:20:34Speaker 02

  You know what I'm saying? But, but I couldn't imagine being in that situation where people are really trying to, uh.

• 1:20:42Speaker 01

  And calling the hospital, asking for your medical records, things like that.

• 1:20:46Keke Palmer?

  I think, I think people don't often realize what, you know, because they get so connected to, to folks and again, we watch your whole, it, it doesn't mean that they should, but people don't understand how they demoralize or dehumanize somebody. You know, and don't really think about the fact that maybe you shouldn't be calling up there. You know, would you do that to your neighbor down the street? But because it's Jamie Foxx, you thinking it's, it's not a big deal, you know?

• 1:21:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:21:06Speaker 02

  Thing, but, but hey, man, we here now.

• 1:21:09Speaker 01

  Now, like, and to be able to do the show with him is a whole new context now, being able to work with him. I was already really grateful, but now it's like, it's such a blessing to be able to work with your family.

• 1:21:21Keke Palmer?

  Yes.

• 1:21:21Speaker 01

  You know?

• 1:21:22Keke Palmer?

  It's a huge blessing.

• 1:21:23Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:21:23Speaker 02

  And that's what I tell everybody.

• 1:21:24Keke Palmer?

  Family business, as it should be.

• 1:21:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:21:27Keke Palmer?

  And also I'd, I'd wanna, you know, say congratulations.

• 1:21:29Speaker 01

  I got married.

• 1:21:30Keke Palmer?

  And married. Yeah, you got married, you got married to Joe, and y'all got married during this.

• 1:21:35Speaker 01

  We, we got, we got engaged while you were, um, in rehab. And that was like, a, a really nice, light thing that could happen while we were.

• 1:21:45Speaker 02

  That boy killed that thing. He, he killed that thing.

• 1:21:47Keke Palmer?

  Draw some light up in there.

• 1:21:48Speaker 02

  Tell him how he did it.

• 1:21:49Speaker 01

  We were in Chicago, that's where he was rehabbing, and he took me to a park. And we were in front of this beautiful tree and he gave, um, he, this woman his phone for a picture. He said, let's take a picture. But on the phone, he had, on a note, it said like, I'm proposing, can you press record? And so.

• 1:22:04Keke Palmer?

  Love a man that plans.

• 1:22:06Speaker 02

  I love a man that plans.

• 1:22:07Keke Palmer?

  He's director.

• 1:22:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:22:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, and then we had a, we had a whole after thing at his, in his, you know, rehab room. And it was really special, it was really, really special.

• 1:22:15Keke Palmer?

  Oh my god, you always like Joe?

• 1:22:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, man.

• 1:22:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:18Speaker 02

  I like Joe, cause Joe saved some black people.

• 1:22:22Speaker 01

  You know, we can't get into that story right now.

• 1:22:26Keke Palmer?

  You ain't gotta tell.

• 1:22:27Speaker 02

  Have you ever seen [BEEP] in nature?

• 1:22:29Keke Palmer?

  Is it a TV show?

• 1:22:30Speaker 02

  No, we was, we went to Hawaii. We was in Hawaii.

• 1:22:33Keke Palmer?

  She said it's real life.

• 1:22:34Speaker 02

  We went to Hawaii. And so, you know, Joe.

• 1:22:37Speaker 01

  Why not? He's 6'5".

• 1:22:38Speaker 02

  He's 6'5".

• 1:22:39Keke Palmer?

  Okay, and you sing.

• 1:22:42Speaker 02

  Blanco. So, so a man.

• 1:22:44Speaker 01

  He can swim.

• 1:22:45Speaker 02

  He can swim. So he can swim. So all these black people on this goddamn boat trying to snorkel. So we in Maui, and you know, I know Maui. I just live there, so I see the wave. I said, I ain't going in there. And I'm always eating. I said, I ain't going in there. So.

• 1:22:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, we all jumped in. And he said, I'm not going in there.

• 1:23:00Speaker 02

  I'm not going in there. So as everybody started floating back to San Diego.

• 1:23:05Keke Palmer?

  Oh, no.

• 1:23:06Speaker 02

  Joe dives in and just saves one of, I got him. Throwing him on the boat.

• 1:23:10Speaker 01

  It was a, it was a choppy day.

• 1:23:14Speaker 02

  Look, he was just saying, I got Joe, went and saved my whole black family. And then, one of my homies, Dave Brown, his daughter, I got it. I said, you don't got it. And she done floated all the way back to Pebble Beach. And so, so, so Joe, I said, Joe, she way out there, don't worry.

• 1:23:31Keke Palmer?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:23:34Speaker 02

  And saved my whole, saved my whole family.

• 1:23:36Keke Palmer?

  We love you, Joe.

• 1:23:36Speaker 02

  I said, that's the one right there, Joe.

• 1:23:38Keke Palmer?

  Husband Joe.

• 1:23:38Speaker 02

  And he's a great director.

• 1:23:40Speaker 01

  He's watching from the boat.

• 1:23:41Speaker 02

  I'm watching from the boat. I didn't get in.

• 1:23:42Keke Palmer?

  He was gonna watch him go.

• 1:23:44Speaker 02

  Ooh, it's choppy. I said, that's another one. No, that's not, he's not with us.

• 1:23:48Keke Palmer?

  I'm howling. Well, look, I ain't gonna take up no more of y'all's time. When I tell you that I have had a ball, I feel like we just kicking back at the house. Y'all, you guys are just so awesome. And I just hope that one day, I'm just sitting up there having a conversation with Leo about how he's running my [BEEP]. Yeah. That is a blessing and a dream. And I'm just so happy, man. I'm just so happy for you. Happy to have this moment with you. Happy to have this moment with you, Corinne.

• 1:24:12Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:24:12Keke Palmer?

  Seriously.

• 1:24:12Speaker 02

  You're amazing.

• 1:24:13Keke Palmer?

  Thank you, guys. Back at you.

• 1:24:14Speaker 02

  Crazy.

• 1:24:15Keke Palmer?

  Hey, right?

• 1:24:16Speaker 02

  Crazy.

• 1:24:16Keke Palmer?

  I just, I felt like this was a Jamie and Corinne. Felt like this is how I had to show up for y'all. You know what I mean?

• 1:24:22Speaker 02

  Love it. Thank you so much.

• 1:24:23Keke Palmer?

  Love, love.

• 1:24:27Keke Palmer?

  Ah, you guys, I love this conversation. Because underneath all of Jamie and Corinne's talent and success, what stayed with me was how deeply they support one another in every aspect of life. Their relationship has grown and shifted over the years, but the constant is the way they protect each other, believe in each other, and stay connected through the highs and the hard moments. And I think that's something all of us can relate to. Whether it's with a parent, a child, a sibling, or a friend, we all need people who celebrate us when things are good, steady us when things get hard, and remind us who we are when we need it the most. That kind of support is a real gift.

• 1:25:09Keke Palmer?

  Be sure to catch Jamie and Corinne on Beach Shazam on Fox. And I'll see you next time. It's baby, this is Keke Palmer.

• 1:25:20Speaker 03

  Happy birthday, mommy. Happy birthday, mama. I love you. Happy birthday, mama. I got dancy and a big [BEEP]. Dance, dance, oh, oh.

• 1:25:34Speaker 04

  Leo, you done?

• 1:25:35Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:25:36Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:25:45Keke Palmer?

  Leo, Beo. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

• 1:25:56Speaker 02

  Happy birthday, dear Kiki. Happy birthday to you. Yeah.

• 1:26:06Keke Palmer?

  I love you so much, son.

• 1:26:08Speaker 04

  You see the picture?

• 1:26:09Speaker 02

  You know, Leo, Beo.

• 1:26:14Speaker 04

  These scandals is crazy. Yay.

• 1:26:22Keke Palmer?

  Right, ain't got no long power.

• 1:26:25Keke Palmer?

  I love you so much, dad.

• 1:26:26Speaker 04

  You see this picture?

• 1:26:27Keke Palmer?

  I love it so much. I love you so much, son.

• 1:26:31Speaker 04

  You was crying, you must have seen the video of him. Girl, this man here, we was trying to keep up with him in that room. That's what we.

• 1:26:39Keke Palmer?

  They made me cry, man, playing that video.

• 1:26:41Speaker 04

  You know, he was, he, we hid him for three hours. And for the whole three hours, he kept saying, I wanna see my mama. I wanna say happy birthday.

• 1:26:50Keke Palmer?

  Thank you, girl. That, that took me out.

• 1:26:54Keke Palmer?

  That took me out. Son, you made me just so happy, son. I love you so much. I, I love your outfit, boo. It's good? What do you think?

• 1:27:07Speaker 04

  He been talking about cake all day.

• 1:27:09Keke Palmer?

  You like it?

• 1:27:12Keke Palmer?

  Wow, that video was so awesome.

• 1:27:14Speaker 04

  You know what?

• 1:27:14Keke Palmer?

  He said, I haven't been.

• 1:27:16Speaker 04

  You know what? He charged him for coming here. You know, he charged him. He said he needed some cake and ice cream. When we got here, Hillary had that cake and ice cream. And he ate it.

• 1:27:26Keke Palmer?

  Thank you, guys.

• 1:27:27Speaker 02

  You know what he called Hillary?

• 1:27:30Speaker 04

  Miss Hillary?

• 1:27:31Speaker 02

  Young lady.

• 1:27:32Speaker 04

  Oh, he said, Kelly, young lady.

• 1:27:35Speaker 03

  He saw me, he said, Paige, you're here?

• 1:27:38Keke Palmer?

  Not again.

• 1:27:39Speaker 03

  Not again.

• 1:27:42Speaker 04

  Catch a friend, girl, he gotta catch up. You see, Leo, look who's on the cake. Look who's on the cake.

• 1:27:48Keke Palmer?

  Who's that? Who's that?

• 1:27:53Speaker 04

  He saying anything. He said, happy birthday, mommy.

• 1:27:56Keke Palmer?

  Son, I love my video. Did you see the video you made?

• 1:27:58Speaker 04

  He did not, no.

• 1:28:00Keke Palmer?

  Play that video again, y'all.

• 1:28:01Speaker 04

  Let him see it.

• 1:28:02Keke Palmer?

  He gotta see his self in action. Look, Leo.

• 1:28:09Speaker 03

  Happy birthday, mommy. Happy birthday, mama. I love you. Happy birthday, mama. I got dancy and a big [BEEP]. Dance, dance, oh, oh.

• 1:28:24Keke Palmer?

  Leo, you were awesome.

• 1:28:27Keke Palmer?

  That just was, that was. I can't believe it.

• 1:28:29Speaker 04

  Now, y'all need to go take a look at the room.

• 1:28:32Keke Palmer?

  He tore it up.

• 1:28:37Speaker 05

  Baby, this is, this is Kiki. Baby, this is Keke Palmer, yeah.