00:00Hey, all right, everybody, I'm your hostess with the mostest game show, Noni, and it's
00:05game time.
00:07Now, before we get started, let's say what's up to our booming business contestants.
00:12Not only are they watching from home like you, but they are each entrepreneurs.
00:17So we're going to give them a chance to introduce themselves and their businesses.
00:21Roshanna, we're going to start with you.
00:23I'm Roshanna, and I'm in the business of connecting Black people through Vocal Action LLC.
00:28And I do that through project management, training and technical assistance, philanthropy,
00:33and program development.
00:35You better let them know all the credentials.
00:37All right, Ayesha, you are up next.
00:40I am a makeup artist and licensed cosmetologist and beautypreneur.
00:45I specialize in making women look and feel good through makeup artistry.
00:50I also just launched a lipstick and lip gloss line.
00:54I love it.
00:55All right, so Kristen, you are up next.
00:58Hi, I'm Kristen Farmer.
01:00I'm owner and founder of Curly Contessa.
01:02We are the Curly Girls Guide to Gifting.
01:05We are an online home goods and giftware shop.
01:08Our products reflect positive self-image while captivating women of color.
01:13Come on, Curly Girl.
01:14All right, I'm about to follow you right now.
01:16Okay, so then up next, we have Byron.
01:19Byron, tell the people who you are.
01:21Hey, all you love heroes out there.
01:23My name is Byron Jamal, and I'm a love and success coach helping ordinary people find extraordinary love.
01:29I love it.
01:31And last but not least, Dr. Simone Lewis.
01:34Hello, my name is Dr. Simone Lewis, and as a clinical psychologist, I know how awful it is when you wear this look off the shoulder, and then when you move, it like pops up.
01:46So my product is Bare Elastics, and it keeps your off-the-shoulder fashions in place, and you ain't got to worry about it.
01:55That is absolutely amazing.
01:57Always coming up with solutions.
01:59I love our entrepreneurs.
02:00Okay, so now, are you guys ready to have some fun and play some games?
02:04Yes.
02:05Yes.
02:05Yes.
02:06The game is called What the Bleep.
02:09The game is where memory is key.
02:12I'm going to show you four clips from the Essence Archives.
02:17Each clip has a statement with a word missing.
02:20It's your task to figure out what that missing word is.
02:24Write it down on your fancy answer board.
02:26And when the time is up, you must turn it around and reveal your answer.
02:30And for our viewer audience at home, make sure you share your answers in our live chat.
02:36Winners will get some juicy prizes.
02:38Are you guys ready?
02:39Yeah, I'm ready.
02:40All right, let's get started.
02:41Let's see what our first clip is.
02:44I'm in the studio with Rita, and first she came to the studio with
02:49that I had never seen or heard of before in my life.
02:55All right, write them down just as a reminder.
02:58This is from Jermaine Dupri from our ATL Entrepreneur Summit.
03:04He said, I'm in the studio with Aretha Franklin, and the first thing she came into the studio
03:09with blank that I had never seen or heard of in my life.
03:14What did Miss Aretha Franklin walk into the studio with?
03:18I'm going to call on each of you one at a time.
03:20Have you explain your answers?
03:22Rashauna, let's see what you thought was in the bleep.
03:26She came in with cat.
03:29Is that cat?
03:30No, it's a coat.
03:31Sorry, I'm trying to.
03:32Oh, coat.
03:33I know that he's probably seen a coat for her, but Aretha's always known for her very fabulous
03:38coat.
03:39And so it might've been a specific.
03:43That's a good guess.
03:44All right.
03:45Ayesha, what about you?
03:46What did you think?
03:47I have to confession.
03:49I did change my answer, but I'm just going to go with music.
03:52I really don't think he said that, but what I was thinking, I just was trying to keep it
03:57PG.
03:58Oh, no.
03:59Jesus.
04:00Don't strike us down.
04:01That's your guess.
04:02We'll see what it is in a little bit.
04:04Kristen, what did you think?
04:05I wrote down bars, maybe she was wrapped up in some bars.
04:11I don't know.
04:11So it's like the biggest bars you ever heard or seen from Ms. Aretha Franklin.
04:15All right, Kristen, that'd be interesting.
04:17Byron, what did you have?
04:19So originally I thought coat, but I went with jewelry.
04:23Jewelry.
04:24You're all very cold right now, but these are very interesting.
04:28Dr. Simone.
04:30Black Panther.
04:31The biggest black panther he's ever seen or heard of.
04:36Wow.
04:37Amazing guesses.
04:39Let's see what he actually said.
04:42Roll the clip.
04:43I'm in the studio with Rita, and first she came to the studio with barbecued Chinese food
04:49that I had never seen or heard of before in my life.
04:53And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
04:56It was barbecued Chinese food, and that sounds delicious.
05:00But nobody got it.
05:01I think that was pretty tough.
05:02Nobody would have guessed that.
05:04All right, are you guys ready for your second clip?
05:05You're all warmed up.
05:06You ready for your second one?
05:07I'm ready.
05:08Yes, I'm ready.
05:09All right, all right.
05:11Let's roll the second clip.
05:12You feel like you can't be yourself.
05:14So that was one of the things that I was constantly struggling with.
05:18Like, I was always being accused of being, you know, a if you will.
05:23All right.
05:24Woo, that's a loaded one.
05:26And that was Carrie Champion.
05:28What do you think she said?
05:32Write it down now.
05:33I'm actually going to start with Kristen, because she's so confident.
05:36I want to see what she said.
05:37Kristen, what do you have?
05:38I'm very confident.
05:40Okay, I said peacock.
05:42I wanted to keep it PG.
05:43Okay, she was accused of being a peacock, is what Kristen said.
05:49That's interesting.
05:51All right, Aisha, what did you think?
05:53Okay, now, I don't know if this is spelled right, y'all.
05:55Now, I can't spell, but I think she said narcissist.
06:00That's right.
06:01All right, and good guest, though.
06:04Dr. Simone, let's go to you next.
06:06What do you think?
06:07Snob.
06:08The biggest snob.
06:10All right, Roshanna, let's go to you next.
06:13I hope this is okay for Essence, so I tried to censor it myself, but I think that she was called the B word.
06:21Okay, and I appreciate the censorship.
06:25Byron, you are last.
06:27Let's see what you got.
06:28I went with boss.
06:31The biggest boss.
06:32All right, these are some interesting guesses.
06:35Let's see who got it right.
06:37You feel like you can't be yourself.
06:39So that was one of the things that I was constantly struggling with.
06:42Like, I was always being accused of being, you know, a tart, if you will.
06:47So the answer we were looking for was tart.
06:51So nobody got it right, but it's all right.
06:54We have a lot of games to play.
06:56We have a couple of more of these.
06:58So far, no one is in the lead, but you have the opportunity to make it up.
07:02All right?
07:03I need you to open your ears and see what the next clip is.
07:07Let's roll it.
07:08The first time I ever hosted, I hosted First Take, and I will never forget it.
07:14It was me and Michael Kim, and the teleprompter came out, and I had been, you know, going over
07:19the scripts and everything.
07:20Teleprompter came out, and there wasn't nothing in there.
07:22And I had to do it now.
07:25All right.
07:27That was a real-life story from Jamel Hill, recalling when the teleprompter went out.
07:33What do you think?
07:35She said after that.
07:36The teleprompter came out, went nothing in there, and I blank.
07:43All right, you guys play at home like I see you doing in the chat.
07:46Let's see what you think, she said.
07:48Byron?
07:49She went quiet.
07:50She went quiet.
07:53Okay, that's a good one.
07:55Aisha, what you got?
07:57Honey, I think she had to just suck it up and just, you know, do what she had to do.
08:03You know?
08:03Yeah.
08:04I like that.
08:06Kristen, what do you think?
08:07I think she just stalled.
08:09She stalled.
08:10Really good guesses.
08:11Really good guesses this time around.
08:13Dr. Simone, what about you?
08:15I was like, what the heck?
08:18Very good.
08:20Roshanna, what about you?
08:22Listening to Jamel's podcast, I think she cussed, and then she froze for a second.
08:27Froze.
08:28All right, so now let's see who's the closest to the answer.
08:33Roll the answer.
08:34The first time I ever hosted, I hosted First Take, and I will never forget, it was me and
08:40Michael Kim, and the teleprompter came out, and I had been, you know, going over the scripts
08:45and everything, teleprompter came out, and there wasn't nothing in there, and I had nothing
08:48to say, and I'm sorry.
08:49All right.
08:52So the answer was she had nothing to say.
08:56I'm going to give it to Byron.
08:58He was the closest one.
08:59He said she went silent.
09:00So we're going to give Byron that answer.
09:04Don't worry, ladies.
09:05There'll be plenty of room to redeem yourselves.
09:07We actually got one last clip.
09:09This one comes from Queen Latifah.
09:11Let's roll it.
09:12We need to support each other, and we need to lift each other, and the problem is we don't
09:17do that enough, and so it makes it a lot easier for these same old ways of controlling
09:22us to continue.
09:23Right.
09:24We control a lot of ****.
09:26There's a reason why Essence is having this.
09:28What do you think Queen Latifah said?
09:31She said, we control a lot of ****.
09:35I'll give you a hint.
09:36It's definitely one word.
09:40Kristen always finish so fast.
09:43She's sitting there like.
09:46All right.
09:47Everybody's got it.
09:48Okay.
09:48Okay.
09:50So, Aisha, let's go to you first.
09:52I said that we control a lot of lives.
09:56Hmm.
09:57Okay.
09:58Kristen, what about you?
10:00We control a lot of stuff.
10:02We control a lot of stuff.
10:04Got it.
10:05All right.
10:05Dr. Simone, we're going to you next.
10:09A lot of boop.
10:11Okay.
10:12Thank you for the censorship.
10:14All right.
10:15Roshana, what do you think?
10:16I'm with Dr. Simone and Kristen.
10:19Wow.
10:20Okay.
10:20Okay.
10:21And last but not least, Byron, what did you think?
10:25I said businesses.
10:26We control a lot of businesses.
10:28That was good.
10:29I thought about that too.
10:30I did.
10:31All right.
10:32Let's roll the answer.
10:34We need to support each other and we need to lift each other.
10:37And the problem is we don't do that enough.
10:39And so it makes it a lot easier for these same old ways of controlling us to continue.
10:45Right.
10:45We control a lot of dollars.
10:47There's a reason why Essence is having this.
10:50Dollar, dollar bill.
10:51The answer was actually dollars.
10:56But thank you guys so much for that first round.
10:58Just to recap right now, so far Byron is in the lead.
11:02But don't worry ladies, we have two more games where you can catch up and get that grand prize
11:07at the end.
11:08Back to you, Noni.
11:09Right.
11:09I'm sorry.
11:10I'm sorry.
11:10I'm sorry.
11:13Mm-hmm.
11:14And the last one of us to choose from is when someone is constantly visiting to our
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