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Speaker 5: KFI mister mo Kelly, We are live everywhere on the
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Speaker 5: Lear comes the heartfelt new comedy series Clean Slate, premiering
Speaker 5: next Thursday, February sixth on Amazon Prime Video. Clean Slate
Speaker 5: follows Harry, played by comedian George Wallace, an old school
Speaker 5: car wash owner in Alabama who has a lot of
Speaker 5: soul searching to do when the child he thought he
Speaker 5: was a son returns as a proud trans woman, now
Speaker 5: named Desiree, played by Laverne Cox. Her homecoming brings together
Speaker 5: a hilarious cast of friends, coworkers, and love interests as
Speaker 5: Desiree and Harry try to get it right the second
Speaker 5: time around. Joining me now on the show is the
Speaker 5: star of Clean Slate, longtime friend of the show, the
Speaker 5: incomparable George Wallace.
Speaker 4: George, how you doing, sir? George?
Speaker 3: Who's that?
Speaker 4: George? Don't act like you don't know me.
Speaker 3: I know you what your ugle did not just see
Speaker 3: you last week?
Speaker 5: No, No, that was someone else. You got a brother
Speaker 5: that looks like That's what I've been told, George. George,
Speaker 5: are you doing, sir?
Speaker 3: I feel good all over? How about you today?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well.
Speaker 5: It's always nice to be able to talk to you.
Speaker 5: And when I saw that you were gonna be star
Speaker 5: of Clean Slate, I could not wait to have you on.
Speaker 5: We know that Norman Lear was a master of capturing
Speaker 5: the inherent tension of family dynamics. This Clean Slate is
Speaker 5: along those lines. But what is it that's always so
Speaker 5: funny about family?
Speaker 3: Family is good and family is different.
Speaker 2: And family can make you happy, family can make you laugh,
Speaker 2: family can make you mad, Family to make you don't
Speaker 2: understand situations.
Speaker 3: And that's what clean Slate is about. I started with
Speaker 3: an idea.
Speaker 2: I wanted to reboot samping Son and at the time
Speaker 2: this show was created seven years ago we finally got
Speaker 2: it on the air, and I wanted to create Sampling
Speaker 2: sound with the great Normal liv Everything he's done, it's
Speaker 2: been great and very controversial. None more controversial then this
Speaker 2: show Clean Slate. Seven years ago, the Orangeles and New
Speaker 2: Black was a how to show out. I didn't know
Speaker 2: lebron cos I didn't know nothing about it, but I
Speaker 2: just heard a lot about it, and I said, I
Speaker 2: want to work with this great person. I hope she
Speaker 2: goes along with the idea. What happened is that back
Speaker 2: as a black old man down in Mobile, Alabama, own
Speaker 2: having a family owning a car wash, all oll the
Speaker 2: wash and uh, my family and my wife died, my
Speaker 2: son left home and I didn't there for my son.
Speaker 2: In twenty three years and I get an email said Dad,
Speaker 2: I'm coming home tomorrow. I go to the door, then gone,
Speaker 2: and the most beautiful lady you've ever seen in your
Speaker 2: life and standing at the door, and I said, oh,
Speaker 2: young lady, Anny, lady, don't well he's selling avon or
Speaker 2: you're coming back to say you over's return whatever, not today,
Speaker 2: not for me.
Speaker 3: My son is coming home. And she says, Dad, it's me.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Silence for about forty minutes, and I'm just looking up
Speaker 2: and next thing, he has a book.
Speaker 3: Come on in.
Speaker 2: But in any case, my son has transgendered. And the
Speaker 2: beautiful Laverne Cotton is sitting at the door and my
Speaker 2: daughter and we learned to live and let live. I'm
Speaker 2: being educated to learn to live with her lifestyle and
Speaker 2: she's learning to live with my old fashioned lifestyle. My
Speaker 2: house is still old like it was thirty years ago.
Speaker 2: And she just amazed that this is still the way
Speaker 2: I live. And I'm definitely amazing the way she's now living.
Speaker 2: But it's all about love and that hello.
Speaker 4: I ain't this fast.
Speaker 2: A lady is really in a good time right now.
Speaker 2: My son's coming in a minute.
Speaker 4: Dad. I'm your daughter, Desiree.
Speaker 2: I've always been Desiree.
Speaker 4: We haven't spoken on the law.
Speaker 2: How long three is?
Speaker 4: What happened? How this place looks exactly the same.
Speaker 3: Let you know what they say, but they ain't broke.
Speaker 3: Don't fix that's broke. I got a picture. We have
Speaker 3: a very special surprise guest.
Speaker 4: She ran a very fancy art gallery in New York.
Speaker 2: City, says for Taylor swift By Sunglasses.
Speaker 3: So what happen up there?
Speaker 4: I arrange for a gallery space and then my funding
Speaker 4: fell through. It your bus broke, and you live at
Speaker 4: your mama broke. Oh, she brought jokes with her from
Speaker 4: New York. I ain't perfect, and I don't pretend to
Speaker 4: know it all, but that's a rate. Coming back and
Speaker 4: opening up like that was a major step. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: what we're in your living room?
Speaker 2: Girl? Pressure?
Speaker 4: Are you crazy?
Speaker 2: How about crash with you? I ain't crashing when you're
Speaker 2: home until they're gonna have to be decorated.
Speaker 4: Come guss lave me dad.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that because I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: To my door, to our daughter, don't get your remember
Speaker 4: our dad. I wasn't asking you out. I just thought
Speaker 4: I might need to get in touch.
Speaker 2: It's timy d Clutter we can start by replacing that
Speaker 2: isso on the ball. This is my class possession and
Speaker 2: it ain't going no where, son, daughter, dammit.
Speaker 4: Yar, I'm going to retire off this.
Speaker 5: Would you say Harry is closer to Fred G. Samford
Speaker 5: or Archie Bunker or George Jefferson.
Speaker 2: George Wallace, all four of them mixed, all four of
Speaker 2: them mixed together. Because it's a new day at a
Speaker 2: new time. With the climate of America today, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be really accept it. It's gonna be controversial,
Speaker 2: It's gonna be talked about for a long time. I
Speaker 2: think nothing has hit the screens like this and me
Speaker 2: dealing with it. And I'm glad to be Harry, to
Speaker 2: be learning about life. It's good to learn something new
Speaker 2: that you don't know about and learn to live with it,
Speaker 2: and you can learn to accept different ways people live,
Speaker 2: because as hard as hell to live with me, I'm
Speaker 2: an old black man and what I say gonna go okay.
Speaker 5: But that's actually there's a lot of truth in that,
Speaker 5: because if you come from a black Flan dynamic, that
Speaker 5: is very much the case in many households. How much
Speaker 5: did you draw upon your own family dynamic experiences for
Speaker 5: something like this, How much, oh.
Speaker 2: Much everything is from It's the real George Wallace. It's
Speaker 2: a real my daddy, George Wallace. It's a real my granddaddy.
Speaker 2: It's a real people. I grew up in the neighborhood,
Speaker 2: you know. I' from Atlanta, Georgia, and we grew up
Speaker 2: in a neighborhood where it didn't matter. Everybody was your daddy,
Speaker 2: didn't matter who everybody was your mama.
Speaker 3: That's the neighborhood I grew up. Man. It's all about
Speaker 3: respect and love and be loved.
Speaker 5: How much room did you give yourself? Yes, it's your idea,
Speaker 5: but how much room did you give yourself to be spontaneous,
Speaker 5: to be off the cuff, to be unrehearsed in your scenes?
Speaker 4: With Laverne Cox.
Speaker 3: Being an executive producer, she also executive producer, we.
Speaker 2: Did our own thing and you'll see a lot of
Speaker 2: my lines and have things I would say, things would
Speaker 2: just come up out of nowhere. Uh. And my next
Speaker 2: your neighborhood is tell My Hopkins. She's my aunt esther,
Speaker 2: so we fight all the time. You shut up, you
Speaker 2: don't tell me what to do up and she helps
Speaker 2: me a lot in learning how to live and live
Speaker 2: there in the LaVerne's community.
Speaker 5: I get the sense that this is gonna feel like
Speaker 5: a warm blanket, something very familiar, but at the same
Speaker 5: time it's gonna be something very different. Did you, when
Speaker 5: you were sitting down with Laverne Cox, say Okay, this
Speaker 5: is as far as we can go.
Speaker 4: Or did you say, we don't have any limits. Let's
Speaker 4: just see where it goes.
Speaker 2: You are the smartest person off talk to exactly. We
Speaker 2: have no limits. Let's just do this. Let's deal with it,
Speaker 2: and we deal with it with love and laughter. That's
Speaker 2: why you're going to enjoy the show. Some things I
Speaker 2: don't understand and you won't understand them with me. Some
Speaker 2: things she doesn't know about me, my happiness. But we're
Speaker 2: gonna learn to live and love each other, and there's
Speaker 2: gonna be some tough moments there. I'm having a heart
Speaker 2: attack and then she's taking care of me all of
Speaker 2: a sudden. That's where the love comes in and you
Speaker 2: know we can take care of each other.
Speaker 5: George, I'm not even gonna ask you. I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: make you hold on because I want to talk to you.
Speaker 5: For a second segment, my guests on the line right
Speaker 5: now is the incomparable comedian George Wallace, who is the
Speaker 5: star of the new Amazon Prime video show Clean Slate,
Speaker 5: which premieres next Thursday, February sixth I'll have more with
Speaker 5: George Wallace and more of Clean Slate in just a moment.
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Speaker 2: The got me in a hotel here three hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty five dollars a.
Speaker 3: Night, That's what I said.
Speaker 4: I said, Oho, I.
Speaker 2: Said, I ain't going no way. If that's gonna be
Speaker 2: a show, it's gonna be in my room, three hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty five dollars a night.
Speaker 3: They don't want you to steal the towers. I on
Speaker 3: the hell of the tars, I'm taking it. Sorry. This one.
Speaker 2: Woke up one morning, thought and had a light breakfast,
Speaker 2: order some raisin toast.
Speaker 3: Lady came upstairs.
Speaker 2: The raisin toast was seven dollars and twenty five cents
Speaker 2: seven dollars until I told her, I said, you take
Speaker 2: this toast back downstairs, and you take six dollars worth
Speaker 2: of those raisins off this.
Speaker 3: Toast, and I took two of the raisin. I said,
Speaker 3: and here's a little something for yourself too. Me.
Speaker 2: I really do like him, Mama, I just saw at
Speaker 2: home depot.
Speaker 3: You know, you know her teeth.
Speaker 4: That's so quiety. She got a job making keys.
Speaker 3: But that's a whole lord.
Speaker 4: Ye man, that's a whole different story.
Speaker 3: You ain't gonna bush me.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna just me in front of all these
Speaker 2: people here, Okay, Ricky smiling, mamaself fat.
Speaker 3: She got a real horse on.
Speaker 4: Her polo shirt.
Speaker 3: She's so fat.
Speaker 2: When she gets on the elevator. Oh it's going down,
Speaker 2: Ricky smile, and mamaseul fat. When you go to the beach,
Speaker 2: we can't see the ocean. I love ladies, and I'm
Speaker 2: gona print princes.
Speaker 3: Turns me on. Look at all these dates.
Speaker 2: Animal print dress over that turns me on. But some
Speaker 2: of you laterst and that when y'all want these animal
Speaker 2: print dresses, you can't be logger than the animal that
Speaker 2: you represent. Lady Jim in there another night when a
Speaker 2: zebra fit, everybody said, it's a savant.
Speaker 4: It's ava.
Speaker 5: I am continuing my conversation with the very very funny
Speaker 5: you heard those clips. You know his name, you know
Speaker 5: his work, The very, very funny George Wallace as we're
Speaker 5: talking about his new TV show, which is from the
Speaker 5: late legendary television producer Norman Lear Is called Clean Slate
Speaker 5: and the premiere's next Thursday, February sixth on Amazon Prime
Speaker 5: Video and just to reset. Clean Slate follows Harry, who
Speaker 5: is played by George Wallace, an old school car wash
Speaker 5: owner in Alabama who has a lot of soul searching
Speaker 5: to do when his son leaves and then comes back
Speaker 5: twenty three years later as a transwoman. It's really really
Speaker 5: funny and can't wait to see all the episodes. George,
Speaker 5: did you ever have a formal conversation with Laverne Cox
Speaker 5: and ask hers like, where is the line as far
Speaker 5: as humor versus either hatred or mean spirited comedy? Because
Speaker 5: we've heard a lot in the past year or two
Speaker 5: about how transgender people have been vilified or talked about
Speaker 5: in comedy.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what we're gonna learn in this series as
Speaker 2: you watch it. And we had a conversation about just
Speaker 2: letting life live. This is mostly about her life right
Speaker 2: now and we're all learning this at the same time
Speaker 2: and see.
Speaker 3: It doesn't whatever, let me Sita has That's where we go.
Speaker 5: Who was the first to break character and start laughing
Speaker 5: during the scene?
Speaker 4: You were Laverne?
Speaker 2: Well, you know with me, because you know I could
Speaker 2: be because I'll change lines every year, every scene, so
Speaker 2: I know my lines. But you know this could be
Speaker 2: plenty yet the time, Let's do another thing. Let's do
Speaker 2: it this way, Let's do it that way. And then
Speaker 2: that's when you know you're having fun. You know. See
Speaker 2: Leapurne is never the chance, never done comedy, committic role,
Speaker 2: but now this is different for her, and she's learning,
Speaker 2: and I'm throwing out all kinds of crazy ideas and thoughts.
Speaker 3: That's why it's funny.
Speaker 2: I'm me and she's here, and we put it all
Speaker 2: together and it's really fun.
Speaker 4: Is there a blooper Real?
Speaker 5: Are there any outtakes where you said, oh, we can't
Speaker 5: put this up on air?
Speaker 2: Hell? Yeah, there's we're more he said, not editor, that's
Speaker 2: no such word as editor.
Speaker 4: Edge Year edg Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I went to night school right at
Speaker 2: your so so. But it's a lot of fun, so
Speaker 2: we we go above that, put the regular nothing beyond.
Speaker 5: Yes, there's an educational component in the way that there
Speaker 5: was an educational component of all in the Family and
Speaker 5: the Jeffersons, where you try to move society forward, try
Speaker 5: to educate them, but not at the same time proselytize
Speaker 5: or preach to them. How do you know that you're
Speaker 5: hitting the mark with America later on after the show
Speaker 5: comes out.
Speaker 2: Because there's always as it's a trick and coming and
Speaker 2: how to write a joke AB three one two c
Speaker 2: ab and with the twist at the end, that's how
Speaker 2: we had a very serious how do we handle this?
Speaker 2: Let's settle it for the laugh.
Speaker 5: AB three one two c Now are you going to
Speaker 5: be watching it? Are you gonna be watching this win?
Speaker 5: It premieres on Amazon Prime February sixth, or you want
Speaker 5: to watch your own work.
Speaker 2: See I've had a problem with it so far. It's
Speaker 2: been given to me. But watching me, I guess I'm
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 3: I don't know. They say it, so I'm good.
Speaker 2: I will watch and I will enjoy and I will
Speaker 2: I know that's good we put it like that. I
Speaker 2: know it's funny, and I know a message has been
Speaker 2: sent most of all, and it's gonna make this thing happen,
Speaker 2: and America is gonna love it. And even if it's
Speaker 2: country version, you know, even dealing with the church.
Speaker 4: You know, the church people, Sam George is radio. They
Speaker 4: can't see that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking at you. It may be radio, but
Speaker 2: they can't see me on radio. They can see I'm
Speaker 2: the greatest of the whole time. People seen me on
Speaker 2: the radio and the movies and television. People see me
Speaker 2: in on radio. That's what mahama A Lee used to say.
Speaker 5: From legendary television producer Norman Lee, the idea comes from
Speaker 5: for this heartfelt new comedy series, Clean Slate, premier on Thursday,
Speaker 5: February sixth on Prime Video. It stars Laverne Cox and
Speaker 5: my guest George Wallace, friend of the show, George. I
Speaker 5: love you and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 4: Nothing't do my line in front of me. I just did,
Speaker 4: George Wallace, what you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Hang up on me. I'm but let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: People are using my line. I'm gonna sue you. I
Speaker 3: love you and there's absolutely nothing you can do by it.
Speaker 3: By he you you said that again. You're going to court.
Speaker 3: We're going to court in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4: Get off my show.
Speaker 3: Hope be a Republican say you know what when we're here.
Speaker 5: Bye George, Bye boy, I love you, Thank you so
Speaker 5: much for everything.
Speaker 4: Bye George.
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