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Director Will Packer gives the fellas tips for finding love at Essence Fest
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00:00you met your wife at essence festival and proposed kidding me i love essence fest
00:07i love it essence fest i i met her um i don't know what year it was now oh eight oh nine it
00:15was a long time ago honey and if she asked you remember yeah he remembers and i was down there
00:19with idris elba and she was down there with um the company that he was she was there with coors
00:24light coors light was hosting a boat crew idris elba was the host okay and so we both ended
00:30up on this boat and idris got off and her company got off before it sailed but she and i both
00:38were trying to get off before the boat actually left the dock because we were going to go on
00:42do our thing and then leave we hadn't met each other okay we both got stuck on the boat now
00:46that's that's universe we got stuck on the same boat that we were trying to get off of driss
00:50was gone with his crew her company and her co-workers left we both ended up on that boat
00:55met on the boat and then you saw her like four years later i saw her like that and she didn't
00:59want to have anything if we're gonna keep it real uh she was not thinking about me there's a lot of
01:05dudes on the boat they were all trying to holler you know gotcha and my wife is fine she got it
01:09going on and you know a lot of thinking about me it's okay though it's okay because that's all
01:12history her over that's all history and a lot of folks now come down to essence festival trying
01:17to find love do you have any tips it's there it's there you have any tips for them for the
01:21fellas first of all um you know it's a big party it's a good time okay you gotta kind of try to stay
01:26sober on bourbon street guys you know you're not gonna catch what you think you're gonna catch
01:30after four hurricanes because after four hurricanes you're gonna catch something but in the next
01:35morning when you wake up it ain't what you thought it was so my advice to the guys is that go slow
01:41okay go slow go on bourbon but don't go hard go to the concerts and the convention center that's
01:48where the good ones are the quality women at essence in the convention center they're collecting
01:53all their little free bags and listen to the ayala seminars that's what they are then you can go where
01:59the ratchets are on bourbon and get drunk later this is official essence i'm lying this is not
02:06official essence has not endorsed any of this but you're definitely dropping gems that's a gem just
02:11just write that down just saying
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