Tyler Perry Reveals How He Built His Media Empire | expediTIously Podcast

what I was on set as recently as last year during a movie and I was the only black face there so when I get to Atlanta I feel like I'm home so looking at these kids and their and their hope and their day looking at me going I can do it too and that inspires me every day yes indeed welcome to expeditiously this is your host tipsy I Harris now here what we do is we have discussions that push the culture the community and the generation forward and we have those discussions with people well quite frankly who are relevant to the discussion my guest for the day has an inspirational journey like no other from the hard streets of New Orleans to the heights of Hollywood's a-list and the stuff that American legend is made of I born into poverty and raised in a household scarred by abuse he fought from a young age to find strength faith and perseverance that would later form the foundations of his much acclaimed a highly anticipated extremely lucrative plays films books and shows I now this brother would become such an icon in our culture and has been such a beacon in our community that I truly could never say enough to describe his impact now quite some time ago you probably saw pictures videos or even heard whispers of the the culmination of black excellence that came to Atlanta to celebrate the the opening of his of his film studio that is that that makes everything else pale into comparison if there's any way we could give a standing ovation through audio I think we would be remiss not to please everybody welcome mr. Tyler Perry thanks for having me man appreciate it man thank you for coming no come on come on you know it Atlanta had to be here you did what I'm saying first of all man thank you for everything that you've done for the coaches in the city thank you you know what I mean same to you same to you well thank you I think a lot of people have heard about your your acquisition and and the establishing of your film studio Tyler Perry studios in Atlanta but I don't think they understand the real relevance could you please tell us what it was but before it became Tyler Perry studio well yeah at one point it was a Confederate Army base where you know there were soldiers and generals and and captains and everybody plotting and planning on how to keep black people and slaves oh that very land that same land today you know thousands of cars are coming into work every day I personally have 600 employees that are working there on list on my side of the studio that are mostly black and brown people absolutely it's land that they tried to make a terrible thing is nurturing us and it's at the heart of our community which makes me so happy and excited because it gives an opportunity for kids to see that I did it and they can do it too so I think absolutely and thank you for the invitation and you know that I can't really describe how important it was to have all the people in that room at one time it was a crazy tequila come on let's go so now what we do here's a conversation man young men women and entrepreneurs can can use to move themselves forward in their journey yeah could you please tell me how you came up with your business you're a business model so I went looking into into trying to figure out how do you own the show what does that mean and ownership was key for me because when I was a kid man my father worked for this build built houses who was white man that he loved write this one out so you build these houses for and he come on in here no no no I know 1942 well okay all right all right I was about to get deep yeah so you gotta get some glasses in here man no man you know well people to get to come on sit down let's get on up out of here cheers Cheers no here's the thing my um my father worked building houses for this white man as I was saying and he would come home so happy because he had made $800 he made his money so I made this much money I can't even have to pay his employees out of because he had other subs under him right and I always watched a man who built the house and owned it sell it for $80,000 so he got 80 if my father got 800 you know it was a wonderful thing and I even remember being a kid trying to talk to my mother and my father into actually owning their buying the house and selling it but you know they came from a Jim Crow South that kind of reality wasn't for them they didn't get it so ownership was the key man ownership that's the thing that made me that has changed everything in my life I own every play every movie every character and every TV show it's all owned by me and that is what has set the difference of me being able to say I'm gonna set a path where I can open the door for everybody else absolutely or waiting for somebody to give me a job man you touched on a key point when you say ownership and you come from absolutely nothing yeah you come from the bottom you know it's a lot of people listening who also would love to come from the bottom in and put their dreams into into effect to to yield the kind of results that you have how do you start like ownership cuz usually we defer our ownership to someone for start-up costs yeah so how do you start for me I wasn't gonna do that I worked went to H&R black H&R Block did my taxes saved my tax money invested in my first play put it up it didn't work out I went on tour for every time I do the show but there was always somebody who wanted to audition I'm a homeless tequila I'm something else in these lands ethology i'ma have to slow down a minute wait a minute let me concentrate for us that give me some water y'all berries a walk so you say that's an audition no no all right so I had my tax money and I put it into my first plane and outside of that there was somebody who you know only third people showed up but there was somebody who wanted to invest in it and that person did one play that didn't work out then another person came along they won't you know how to shade it yeah absolutely absolutely so for years we were doing that but but I wouldn't give up any control you want I got to Hollywood but I've been successful with plays but at that time I'd made 75 million dollars doing live shows I got a Hollywood nobody knew who I was by but i cultivated us I've worked with us know I nurtured us as an audience they took care of me I took care of them I gave them the best I had they gave me the best that they could so it's like we always get our degree or something that we run from the culture we don't live around us we don't work around us that's right our culture is rich men and every other race comes in and rapes their minds everything we have and take it out but they don't leave anything for us it'll go today exactly right so when we can take our own culture and and have it be here's what I'll say about that like segregation was a horrible thing right horrible thing yeah when it ended a lot of black businesses ended okay because under black businesses businesses did so much better on the segregation because we were forced to buy from each other that's right when that ended we just went in all different directions and we buy from everybody but us hence the the sentiment behind the late great Martin Luther King dr. Martin Luther King Junior's statement I believe I've integrated my people into a burning building that was one of his last quotes before his assassination I believe that he saw that the very inclusion or integration that he was fighting for turned around to bite the community in the ass just like you suggested yeah but it's listen it's a beautiful thing I love that I can go anywhere my son can go to any school I love that sure but but what I'm hoping that we remembered inside of it that we can go anywhere else why not go back to us now that lays some burden at our feet to to be completely honest you gotta step up our game that's right professionalism in and how we honor the customers and how we honor the people that are holding us up so that is what it's important and once we can do that and get on people to realize cuz I know listen I know black people I said I ain't going over there yeah you got security issue you get customer service issues actors right so you have manufacture do times open an eye you got that 11:30 come on so so once we learn to really be professional and a forthright and just downright organized with everything I think that a lot of us will start to support us and that's what happened with me man my audience is diehard Lord man I'm talking about like I mean and they have been ever since you were doing live shows yeah what made you go into like plays what indication did you have the stage plays were why not straight to movies i I've never felt like anybody would take me seriously in the movies I didn't know enough about it I need to learn okay and I'd be having on plays for years I didn't have the money to go there's the Saenger theater down in New Orleans I don't have the money to actually go to the entire show so I was tipping in an intermission when everybody come out to smoke I said I sneak in and see the rest of the play like wow you know back in the day they had the mama-mama ma-ma-ma-ma-ma to sing no no that was a good one tell em I'm on the couch with Mama's cousin next-door neighbor eating chitlins play you know yeah I wanted to elevate it I didn't want to elevate it so much that it left us and became something that we don't watch like Broadway a lot for us but I want to elevate it from where it was you know two pieces of plywood and a sofa on the on the stage and that was the set even the sound system seemed like they got it for Grandma so I had to upgrade that and when I did that man it was a lot of appreciation for and they were right there with man I can remember hearing about you know Tyler Perry plays before I knew who you were like I think we kind of dude you were to man now you started like with 96 92 93 nights we ever 13 yeah I didn't hear about it maybe to like 97 98 you probably had your wheels roll through but I would hear about it and I would just see like you know right going about my evening grind pass say the Fox or the Civic Center Lions wrapped around the corner you know to me and I always wonder how could it get to this point without me having some familiarity with it like what were the underground behind-the-scenes moves that you made to create like relevance for church church man in black women okay man black women like like maze right now maze hadn't done an album since 1911 right but but they can they can sell out of building of an arena right now because that loyalty and these these women that I went to church with that I grew up with you know I was I was speaking a language that they understood because of my mother and my sisters growing on the hip watching that pain and all the hell that they went through so that day and dear to me man I was cousin and uncle brother you know and and they have been my sole support the whole time and you've been speaking for them like you know through your characters and through the the the arcs of your characters the stories that you're telling speak to the plight of black women specifically but if I may ask how did you come up with the idea for Madea I I was watching Eddie Murphy do the Klumps okay and I thought wow let me try my hand at a female character and and I had just done my old man character now in my first play and it done really well okay so I said okay I'm gonna try a female character I was only gonna do it one show in Chicago the Regal theater 79 Stony Island I was scared to death the first time I I didn't rehearse with the costume I never put the costume on me brown a-kor we all lost a deal like you're not gonna put the costume on like no day of the show I put it on man I was so crazy on coming but um but the audience loved it yeah when I was just like really you just kind of channel what is it your mom yeah that's that's totally my I got an aunt in Texas named Mayola sipper and that's a real name simply only super and Mayola sipper Mayola super and she told like that she went and we got always crooked and she always smoking that's her man that's her funny bunnies could be and your meteoric rise man to success has not come without some level of criticism some like I mean man you know we brothers here man you know but I mean but you have people like you know saying Dave Chappelle being one and you know just other people in Hollywood and in the industry that's saying it is much easier especially for a black man to become successful when he chooses to put on a dress how would you addressed it I listen Chappelle is one of the most brilliant people I have ever seen in my life man just not just in comedy but the man is smart or heavy right a brilliant thinker so if that is the case in Hollywood then okay that's the case but you gotta understand that's not my case right I didn't I didn't nobody own that dress right but me that's right nobody told me it's a two billion dollar franchise nobody told me to put it on that's right nobody makes me put it on okay no that was all on stage black man owned the whole show was my choice right so when I got to Hollywood and and we wanted to do diary of a Mad Black Woman it was my choice and 19 movies since then it's big so I don't I don't maybe that's too maybe that's the way it's been for some other men who had done that but for me and I'm take a look at this man I'm not a man that enjoys wearing a dress for me as an actor whose costume that's right it's like if somebody goes to Walmart to work they put on their uniform for me that's put it on a uniform going on making people laugh lifting them up encouraging them and and the the good that it does for so many people my favorite moment in the show and I just finished the last show in my favorite moment is the last 30 minutes of every plate that's when I'm sitting there that's the only time I don't feel foolish or ridiculous uh-huh cuz I get to sit on stage in front of thousands of people in arenas now plays in arenas essa' - okay I can't believe it I'm telling you man spit wisdoms that speak to people's lives in a way that that makes it all right for me so so some people may not like the way the the message got there but it's for me it's important that the message landed and help somebody I agree with you in totality I don't think people even have a problem with say you know you or whoever may choose to do a a character of a woman as a male I believe it's being suggested that there is an agenda to emasculate the black man to a certain degree and that is what is kind of put out there in sort of a propaganda kind of way now what you're saying is even if that is the rule Tyler Perry is the exception well well listen a few people feel like that I can't help people's thinking I can't know what they feel or how they come to the conclusion of that but again for me in what I what I what I'm doing is I'm acting that's right period that's right you know when I just played : power I'm not : one of my favorite books thank you brother I'm not I'm not I'm not James Patterson's that was cross but I'm an actor so and I think that it's unfair to have an actor not be able to portray anything he wants to or she wants to as a character because of someone's opinion so I'm just gonna do me could you please talk to the generation the listeners of expeditiously about the sacrifice of accepting the bag right now versus having equity in your art in perpetuity did this here's what a lot of people don't know the budgets for my shows are really really low okay and the reason that they're so low is because being a black show being a black writer I get they do models for me mm-hmm even my movies my budgets are really low I see white boys walk in and they get four or five times as much as oh and make nowhere near right being black I had to go into these rooms and try to figure out okay how do I make this work for me so I was like okay I I own the studio I own the lights I own the sound I own all that stuff so here's what I'll do I'll go in I'll take that lower budget and I'll make it work and my audience is gonna show up and they're gonna make it work and I'm gonna make it a hit right and every year every few years we're gonna try to negotiate to get that number higher but in that I'm doing all the sacrificing make sure everybody else is paid and get what they want but my sacrifice comes on the end because it's part of my catalog ok so that's where my value is it's not I'm not making the money upfront it's in the long game right so if you're going and you're looking for the bag then great you go by your Bentley your rolls-royce great that's also good that's wonderful you've had it but but then what you've done is signed it all away right they own you and they're never gonna give you an opportunity to be in that position again I think a lot of people need to hear that I believe a lot of people need to hear that do you do you know remember what it was that made the shift in your head to go from stage play to feature field yeah was it was people loving the stories that I was telling and not having enough seats in theater we were selling man I was exhausted I was doing over 360 performances a year what I kid you not man except my work ethic is popped up Richter man hi my ass off so I'm on tour doing these shows and I'm like I gotta find a way to get to more people so I think okay let's try film go to Hollywood they're like well who are you what do you do I'm famous with black people I can't walk down the street in the south without muddy right get to Hollywood they're like whoa I don't know Tyler and why does she say give me some sugar on this page what sugar why does she change what I said black people talk yeah you know so in understanding all of that it's just how much of a translation did you have to do because I imagine has an incredible amount of translation especially when you turn your film in yeah and I'm sure their comments that come from executives like well I don't know about this part and why does this have to be in there nope you have four control you know I really I went to a Fox Searchlight was the first place and they gave me all those notes about changing thing I said I'm not changing anything this is the way it's gonna be or we I'm not doing it right they're like no I have an army behind me man I had all these people watching my show ready to show up bootlegging it all over the place right so I um then I you know it's agent Charles King he's marching me all around King another king into being great agent man trying to get to trying to get all these different conversations going I'm like I'm out of here forget this man I don't need this headache right go to Atlanta and I get a call from Lionsgate and they say what we want to do the movie with you I'm like okay great then I don't want to you notes I'm gonna do my way he's gonna be better than that and he was like okay and this is Phil hammered oh no this is uh this is um Pasternak my passionate okay passing it so I had a great conversation with Mike man and I'm like I was shocked that he said okay okay what the movie they looked at the movie that I shot it they saw them like and we don't know I had a conversation with felt my first time meeting him he's like you know I said how much did you want the movie to do he said well if it does 20 million then great I said okay 20 million the first weekend he laughed at me at the table ya know these kind of movies don't do those numbers I got went online talked to my cuz I built a fanbase before Twitter Instagram I said stuff I had my online email email them directly told him what was going on they went out there man and said that thing I've well up over 20 million the first weekend oh yeah and after that how were you dealt with in the building did they say okay well we clearly see this gentleman knows what he's doing though is it did you have some no thought it was a fluke that's why I tell people stop fighting to let make people understand who you are stop fighting so yeah I did this and I stopped giving your damn resume shut their mouth I'll tell you why because you can make the best deals when you're underestimated that's real don't go in there telling them how great you are and all the things you do just like well how about we do this just say you got a deal with somebody that's a big industry the thing you and they don't they don't know what to do with you they don't want to pay you a little amount of money okay I'll do that I'll take that a little amount of money but let me ask you this if I get this many people to show up right and you give me this more money there's more of them of an amount right which is so important that we learn how to that's got a Becky and bonus isn't it no but not not even that I'm not talking about real real real back-end because a lot of time they pay yeah yeah equity percentages in perpetuity exactly right okay so just having us understand that we are two disadvantage because we're black and this is not our town right we've got to come in and understand how they play the game sure and realize that we can get in and get to what we want to get to by not selling out not doing anything crazy but by understanding how they play the game it's fascinating to me I'm from New Orleans man just you know third water New Orleans well I got here now saw Holly wait folks operate I was like wow it's crazy man you know you just want to be over over with it right that's the fake it bet but no hope just pay attention yeah someone outside of the culture trying to tell someone within the culture what's authentic to the culture is one of the most ostracizing things I have I've witnessed you know I think that is it really insults my intelligence you know what I mean that's just like me walking into a mechanic shop and telling my mechanic how to fix this Bentley when you don't know when I have no idea I've never done it before in my life I've never even seen anyone do it exactly you know the most I've done is pay for someone else to do a friend and I get me a loaner in the mean and I think that's something that we have to like like you see it you have to get you change the game from the inside yeah and I think a good book to suggest for people to read is the spook that's set by the door that's like I can't recall the extra altar but the spook they set by the doors ago and from Superman to man that's also good and it basically these are fictional stories they're kind of detail the approach that you just that you just spoke of and I think people can you know people can relate to it and they could use it on their journey let me ask you what was like the hardest part or should I say which is harder stage like putting the play together from top to bottom and having it be successful over the course of a tour or film putting a film together from top to bottom oh the same for me man my brain has to work in all those different areas mm-hmm I love the stage because it's an immediate give-and-take the audience tells you what they like right away to tell you what they don't know the film is like having a baby right hmm and you put the baby out and you think you got a cute kid in everybody your baby that's why I look at it for these critics but you love your baby anyway that's right but what what I love about my audience man is that no matter how many critics I always got receipts and I'm always winning because of it that's real tell us who inspires you Oh should I say what inspires you you know at this point I honest honest to god man going into those gates every day looking at these twenty twenty-five thirty year old kids a nineteen year old coming to work there with this hope of these black kids who just nobody ever gave him a chance by they never would have had a chance of Hollywood I was on set as recently as last year doing a movie and I was the only black face there so when I get to Atlanta I feel like I'm home so looking at these kids and their and their hope and their day looking at me going I can do it too and that inspires me every day because because listen I would a cash-in took the bag a long time ago I could be doing really good right now when I say it 6-under people selling selling the fridge Riviere exactly right right on my own I mean you you had so many of our icons as influences in your career like you say Sidney pottier Diahann Carroll Cicely Tyson I have these connections shaped you as a man and an artist I asked Sidney Poitier and Cicely Tyson to fly with me to Africa one year and I literally man on the plane sat at their feet listening to them talk about their journey and their life and what they've been through and I felt like so overwhelmed by by just having this experience like a sister silly said something that that blew my mind when she started talking about my generation after mine she said I don't think we left them enough to fight for mmm Wow I don't think we left them enough to fight for so think about all these people who went ahead and carved and fought and did all of this for us and we don't even have the decency to just take a moment and say thank you mm-hmm so they really inspired me just by mr. Pete ma'am is 48 his class right he let me know it was okay to have class you know it's just amazing you recently just got I mean I can I can I can definitely concur with the I mean I think I'm much long cuz I want to take this down it's crying in a minute okay I mean one of the coolest things I saw man you know was you get your uh your own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yeah that was real cool like I was inspired I was you know but then okay a cooler thing that I saw when when I was awarded I would say an invitation which was an illustrious invitation now you know saying they did the invite now you got smaller budgets on your movies but the budget for this party had to be through the roof invitations were impeccable ya know the party was a movie I couldn't pay for a movie but when I got there seeing that you had made your own Walk of Fame at Tyler Perry studios naming buildings after our icon celebrating their success right that must've I mean it was it was like just phenomenal for me to see yeah so to be able to actually do that must have been incredible no it's really really incredible man because I'll get a meeting that was like yeah meet me at the so-and-so building on this studio lot I'm going okay when we gonna meet it when can I meet you there Washington Street so I wanted to honor them people those people man and Whoopi and Will and Cecily and Halle and Denzel and just Diahann Carroll who died the day before the day before the party you know and Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis and John Singleton absolutely lists all these people who and T are people who laid it down for us man and and nope and never got the perspective they deserve it that's due to them in this town man I commend you a salute you I appreciate you for all that you've done on behalf of the culture I mean these things they are you nothing you must be protected at all cause you know saying nation Islam man we got to surround this brother and become a shield because he is doing exactly what needs to be done to get us not just a seat at the table but to have our own table I think that's incredibly important now I just got to know his Madea really dear like she can't be she can't be and and this last tour was the most successful tool I've ever had right you know I just I mean arena after arena after arenas just packed I was like wow what is going on I'm thinking after 1819 years that is people be tired of it but you know they still went around but but I'm pretty I'm pretty settled with it being done man one of my favorites that you done was a daddy's little girl starring interest man and one time for my partner now what made you want to do movie a movie about a father because most of your materials directly shaped towards the voice of a woman the blade of a woman right because my audience is largely women so my focus and why I'm writing is woman it's like somebody who is is selling pantyhose back in the day okay you're not gonna try to target men because your audience is women right so that's that's why my focus has been women and because of my mother and all the things she went through and my sisters and if I could if I could be a voice and somebody could see a movie and their mothers will happen and smiling and I don't have to think about or be the little boy that I was looking up at my mother when she was going through all that hell that's what was important to me hmm yeah but no daddy's little girls is uh was one of my favorites it is yeah but but you know just telling that story I to write for woman's point of view think about a woman you have to come from emotion and and when I'm writing that's what I'm thinking about the emotion show and emotions are so much richer with women right alright and it's harder it's harder for to write a man for me because the emotions are much different that makes sense yes a lot it's it's internalized so much is internalized this part is hard to say what to show that's why denzel's such a brilliant actor man because he's carrying it he you see him carrying the that internally every time he does something so yeah those men act with their eyes and facial expressions you know the money you kind of have to show what they're thinking but at the time even if there are no words being spoken I could write but I'm gonna do everything then I'm you know when the sweater I don't I don't set out to write a story right I'll just like fall from grace I didn't set out to write that story yeah but that was my next thing because because this much is is dads and men were represented in daddy's little girl fall from grace made Nick [ __ ] looked horrible I'm talking about date though no listen bro I like man I don't want no no other men around none of my mama's know the whole dog none of my sister hold on I'm just saying but here's the thing no I always think that why did why is everything an indictment on us like what room white people could tell any kind of story is true but the minute we tell a story is just like the minute we tell a story about and there's a person that's bad it's like oh you're trying to make every black person bad how you were trying to make it I just said in the particular story that were told yeah it was told so well that it left and as a black man I'm like damn is that bad [ __ ] really that bad now you told me about a new project you have coming out with with Nickelodeon yes I'm doing so yeah yeah okay young for kids it saw this kid get adopted by his aunt and uncle and it kind of sounds familiar so I got a five-year-old so I won't be able to see some of my stuff in and enjoy it so I'm pretty excited about that right oh man and I mean I can't wait to see it man and there's also you did a huge deal the biggest content deal ever done at Viacom you did would be et did you please tell the people about this yeah without well with all of icons so I I have yes a huge deal would be so you did a deal with Viacom and BET's like a part of it yeah gotcha so I could program anything Nickelodeon also bike gotcha I can program any of those networks and it was great working with the Oprah network but it was only one channel oh my capacity to put out and so much have so much he had a lot of value yeah so that's why it's been great now did you see this when you did you deal with TBS because you had to deal with TBS what you did not many people know of the arc of the the 110 90 100 episode so and not many people are successful today yeah because people got opportunity to do it and then didn't make it past five episodes you know so did you see this play then I always looking for the next moment but when I did that I I remember I'm having to deal with CBS and I wanted that deal to go to fall apart so back feel good about it it fell apart it was gonna be between the Tyler Perry show two to Half Men yeah so they won't be two and a Half Men and I went to Atlanta I said I'm gonna go down and I'ma shoot 10 episodes of a show of my agents everybody's like well I shot him put him in a can nobody wanted them see see see the CW and UPN merged uh-huh or was it was it something the two of the merger whatever I could I could really remember that if it wasn't for this tequila but once they did that I had these ten episodes and there was affiliates without programming so they started calling around Hollywood hang what do you have what do you have what do you have and my agent said would know I've got this ten episodes of the show they put it on it was higher than the shows that were there this was House of Pain this was House of Pain yeah they got you so that I Connor this person wants to order sixteen episodes we never heard of that this person was like no I want a hundred I knew then 100 minutes indication I said I need 90 right you don't bring me 90 I'm not doing it it's real and TBS called Steve Conant over there he said we'll order will take them we'll take the man and and listen USA Today did this horrible article the worst thing I've ever seen is awful never did you frame it I wish I could I'm gonna go back a fine ever work we are approaching 300 episodes best show man that's an S phenomena and with and in addition to that the other things that you have the new program you have but there's so much this is success is tremendous man and everything I've done so far has just been through man I will actually was next but I'm scared I'm scared to ask you know I'm doing it you know I'm do it I'm taking some of the land in Atlanta and I'm building a shelter for battered women LGBTQ youth okay it's trafficked girls and boys okay that's that's what's next that's that's the next thing man I actually have an initiative where I'm working with I'm working with the Governor on trying to you know limit or at least just combat the the abundance of human trafficking for our women and children coming through Atlanta when I found out it was a her me being a father of daughters and just you know a lover of my community myself I felt compelled let's get the other man and it was something that you know the governor reached out to me Oh after seeing the video that I shot and I um you know the governor and I we hadn't seen eye-to-eye on a lot of things so for him to reach out you know says okay look whatever we disagree about we could put that to the side coming together on something that we can't agree on and get something done what's most more of us will get that man more of us will get that bill I'm gonna do I'm gonna talk now man for the greater good that's right we got differences of opinion you do your thing I do mine I don't like what you do you don't like what I do I get that but for the greater good to help these kids that's because if they really knew how bad it was it's hard they'd be like do whatever you can to help right so that's that's the purpose I'm glad you that man I mean come on join me with man absolutely man I love to do everything and I know a lot of people ma'am you know could we talked a lot about success and when we talk about success as far as you know with monetary gain and success of the world a lot of people want to know man when Tyler why Tyler ain't tired the night when Tyler gonna get with a nice you know someone that he can share share all this [ __ ] with I have someone who's wonderful is she's getting her share of all of it and brain and but is salad but absolutely even my son man like being in the public is just I I want him to know who he is before I could start to and she not really good about that just making sure he at five years old he's protected he's clear about who he is before people start telling him who he is makes out a sense you know well I'm good with that now that ain't that ain't I'll tell you yeah moving right along you have some of the greatest parties like I've been you know 19 just talking back to one last year that you invited me to I'm talking about like I remember the Tuskegee Airmen party and a lot of P at your personal house which you're a brave man to do I would never invite all these [ __ ] in my house I was trying to help them man I was trying to help them go sell that movie so I was like you have like a model plane collection yes you fly model tonk RC planes yes RC planes so how does one get into modeling planes is you know what is for me man only God would give me a hotdog where I'm looking up to the skies [Laughter] I'll buy them on the road I buy more I like to set by and I got home and I and I had we I was moving at a time so they were all over the place right we got him in one room and I had hundreds of them I was like to him so but but no it's it's it relaxes me I'll go out there with my son and we'll be flying planes around the skies it's a really cool man I walked around your house man you know saying a guy saw that yeah you did say that house man before quite the markup I'm sure you know what the marker which loves big loss but that's Georgia that's true yeah I mean I say I never never pay over two point five for a house in Atlanta yeah that's what I say never pay over two point five for a house I didn't take my own advice so you know I'm up on that I'm up on the two but guess what you don't want to see what I did in Douglasville then what but did you be up from the ground okay well if you bail for you built from the ground you got equity already in you know but but you know what I'm the reason I built it the way that I built it is because no black person has left a legacy home and when I'm gone it the properties 1200 acres and it backs up to a park so I want the park to be a part of it and I want the house itself to stay in my state for my son and so people can visit it and be something like you know you know just something that people want to see over over a hundred years from now man I appreciate how that you've done I'm gonna say it again and and I had will Packer sitting sitting with me and and you know and I I will offer you the same question I offered him why in the hell has it taken us so long to find the right role for me I'm not sure I watch your films and all I do is I look at different characters yeah I could have been that you know I do you know like honestly I sometimes I get intimidated the guy called you know yeah yeah because guess what we all our business man you never cannot be given on the front end we can receive on the Becky I don't mind sharing in the growth yeah no I get that but letting my folks think you your folks is taking care of now you know a lot of people who see it now as far about to follow from great movie now I saw black Twitter tell us up after he addresses about the week yeah you know saying what person see it what Percy what is they say man I saw the girl get in the shower in the water hit it in the wig didn't move they said the we're getting get wet when she got in the shower that person with me bad it was like oh do you like this some of it man some of it is hilarious about about it matters is the money tell you bout my hair Department those those those those ladies and guys they make six five dollars an hour ooh 10 to 12 hours a day right so a lot of them are new and trying to get it together all right learning right and I'm okay with that that's all okay with them trying to find their way yeah you do they're gonna make some mistakes so so I for them I felt depression not for myself I don't really but for them but but I tell you what it did everything they're doing now is so much better so it's okay that's alright just wait on the next 11 movies no but but listen you got Christa Fox tika Sumpter I'm not - you think of something else have now at Crystal Fox pretty sure web Cicely Tyson phylicia rashad macabre Oaks they out acted all that - out in that movie is the way that we've never seen her before and I in the history of this generation I ain't never seen her like this if anybody ever seen file from grace you know I'm saying put it in you and all you to do list to go check it out and also networks absolutely on Netflix in the trending section I understand you also have a new show coming out oh btw collar roofless the actual bt+ I'm a part owner and BT plus our streaming service and we're doing don't blaze about it now we're not going to breathe better now you say you part owner of BT plug okay now BT plus is the streaming platform extension of B et yes which is which would mean that so you brought to say some crazy the Netflix version of B et yes you are part owner in yes okay yeah come on midnight let's get to the rest of it I just didn't want to get that bad yeah yeah yeah we need so yes so BT plus is reserves we're doing well ahead of what we thought we'd be doing this I'm very happy about it and this is ruthless is the first show that's gonna be launched on it the Oval is on BT now and doing so well there's a moment in there where this woman from a cult takes a baby well this show is the cult where she took the baby ha ha so if you're watching The Oval on beat equal to BT plus and baby is and that show is crazy direct reference like right from the perspective of I want people to go from watching this show gaining interest to go to this show that [ __ ] is brilliant from Ikea in New Orleans do you know what I'm saying figuring out how to get into the theater at intermission yeah to developing a long game scheme flight plan and or strategy to get you here to where you have so many multifaceted ideas and layers to how you execute these ideas man how can you manage all of that you know meticulously without you know anything falling through the cracks I got a great team man and I only work eight months a year I take a lot of time off I take from my son's birthday all the way through the holidays I take off in the summer I take a couple of months off but I got a great team that helps me hold it up you don't got to do yeah man yeah and and run by black woman and you know runs my company and mostly black people what's her name Michelle Michelle Sneed Michelle Sneed and shout-out to Michelle's knee and the rest of the team at Tyler Perry studios man you guys are doing a phenomenal job and next time a script comes in you please remind oh my god what he said I wanted to mention this because cuz Master P I saw something he was blasting me because he was like you know what he would he we from the ones I thought he would embrace me as I've been on the show before yeah so this surprised me right so I got to uh New Orleans to do the essence festival it was crazy because I just landed and they crushing me and I'm sitting I'm moving all around it was chaotic backstage okay boo the judge coming this we got this one coming this way and I'm trying to get through and and and I see him and hug him say hi and and you know I kept me moving I wasn't trying to like shade come on man I wouldn't do anything like that so I don't know I don't know how his perception became that in that in that way today right now man because because P is a fan a friend L of expedition I'm a fan of his I'm a huge fan of him man and his face I'm a fan of P I'm a fan of his just like I admire your acumen coming from where you are where you were to where you are he down the street from me I have an equal amount of appreciation for his journey what he's done and where he's laid the generation absolutely never should anyone you know discredit the work and and sacrifices of people who open doors for the rest of us to come through and benefit from him I don't see you as that kind of guy I definitely don't see peers that come here I'm not that kind of guy right so therefore ain't no reason why we can't come to the table sit down and gain a high level of on you know I don't even think it's that serious as much as it is I wanted him to understand because he he made a public I've only him notice and publicly ain't no shade man I was I never I would never disrespect him because honor what he's done and and just both of us come from New Orleans and grinded yeah and that was just a crazy caught up day for me well you know what man I think that that must be accepted received and respected and again man if anybody's in a lot of man at least get a chance to ride up Lee Street and check out the Tyler Perry studio once a Confederate Army base for the tactics and strategies to fight the Union to keep us enslaved yeah you know I mean so it goes from this place was used to fight for slavery to now we got Tyler Perry in here employing black people in the middle of the same way the same exact land man thank you I can't I can't say it enough now we have a tradition here expeditiously this tradition is the word of the week and that a word of the week is a word that I use I usually pick it from the conversation or something that I take from the guest and the word that I chose for you today Lord is oligarch hmm yes hmm oligarch now an oligarch is a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence now what I would do is I use it in a sentence hmm so the people who listening can go back to work or home and use it oh no Chris okay Tyler Perry savagely navigated himself through the tyrants and oligarchs of Hollywood to become a highly esteemed producer perfectly now I can't again man the generation needs to get past our love you know because media is controlled by people who want to direct the thoughts and opinions of the mass public pressure you know true or away from somewhere we have to get back to being our own thinkers having control of our own mind developing our own opinion based off of facts that we've researched right and things that we know from experience truth you know so we need to get away from the the unwarranted criticism and get to appreciate the the the man in business and and personally the Tyler Perry er has become and the man that has made sacrifices for the generation and the culture and the community for us to have opportunities to move ourselves forward so I was saying to you straight up I appreciate you love and respect you always have a seat at my table whatever take if it's big enough for you and thank you again for joining us here this has been expeditious for you man thank you [Music] watch your favorite episodes of expeditiously right now on the expeditiously you to pay [Music]

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Length: 50min 31sec (3031 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 09 2020