>> James: NOW WE HAVE TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR
BRILLIANT DEBUT BOOK, IT'S SO GOOD.
ACT LIKE YOU'VE GOT SOME SENSE AND OTHER THINGS MY DAUGHTERS
TAUGHT ME.
>> THANK YOU.
>> James: WHAT INSPIRED YOU, WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE THIS
AND WHY NOW.
>> AS YOU CAN SEE MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IS ON THE COVER.
>> James: GREAT COVER.
>> PIE KIDS ARE SO-- MY KIDS ARE SO INCREDIBLE AND SO WE ALL
TALKED ABOUT T I THINK IT'S TIME FOR ME TO WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT
HOW I PARENT.
BECAUSE I CALL MYSELF, LIKE A NEW DAD, YOU KNOW, LIKE ALL THE
OLD SORT OF DISCIPLINES THAT I LEARNED FROM TEXAS, I KEEP THOSE
BUT RAISING YOUR DAUGHTERS OUT HERE IS DIFFERENT.
AND THEY TAUGHT ME A FEW THINGS AS WELL.
SO MY OLDEST DAUGHTER, YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT, THEY ARE
DOING SO WELL.
MY OLDEST DAUGHTER JUST SOLD A SHOW TO ABC JUST YESTERDAY.
>> James: BOW.
>> YEAH, AN SHE'S PRODUCING IT TWNS SHE IS PRODUCING IT BUT SHE
CREATED IT.
WHICH IS AMAZING.
AND THEN MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IS SO INCREDIBLE.
SHE'S 5, 10, SHE IS 13, BUT SHE IS LIKE 5, 9, 5, 10, SO SHE
SINCE SHE WAS 10 OR 1 1-RBG SHE PLAYS ITS PIANO, AND THE GUITAR
AND SHE HOOP, THE LAST GAME SHE HAD AGAINST COVID AGAINST THE
BOYS, SHE HAD 21 POINTS, 17 REBOUNDS AND 5 BLOCKS.
RIGHT?
AND, AND THEY ONLY SCORED 26 POINTS.
SO JUST SO HAPPY TO HAVE SUCH GREAT KIDS.
AND THEN IN THE BOOK AS YOU SEE T IS NOT JUST ABOUT THEM, IT IS
ALL THE STORIES THAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH COMING UP, YOU KNOW, AND
HOW IT SORT-- .
>> James: THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT STORIES AND THERE IS THE
THEME OF STRONG WOMEN THAT RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK.
THE BOOK DEDICATED TO YOUR LATE GRANDMOTHER, ESTELLE, WHO WHEN
YOU READ IT SOUNDS LIKE A LARGER-THAN-LIFE CHARACTER.
SHE TOOK EVERYBODY IN IN THE TOWN.
>> EVERYBODY.
>> James: WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE WOULD SAY ABOUT THE BOOK?
>> FIRST OF ALL, THE ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE IS WHAT SHE
WOULD TELL ME ALL THE TIME.
WHEN WE GO, IF ARE YOU BLACK GROWING UP AS A KID, YOUR
PARENTS TAKE YOU IN THE STORE, LISTEN WHEN YOU COME IN THE
STORE, YOU ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE.
YOU SHE WOULD TELL ME THAT AND I ACTUALLY SAID THAT LINE ON MY
OSCAR SPEECH.
NOW I DESCRIBE MY GRANDMOTHER BECAUSE SHE WAS TOUGH.
AND I KNOW TYLER PERRY THINKS THAT HE WAS THE FIRST MADEA BUT
MY GRANDMOTHER WAS THE FIRST MADEA.
AND IF YOU READ THE BOOK YOU WILL FIND SO MANY COOL THINGS.
LIKE WHEN SHE HAD TO GET MY BACK ONE DAY CUZ I DIDN'T HAVE
A-- AND SOMEBODY WAS MISS MESSING WITH ME IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD.
SHE SAID COME ON, AND SHE PUT ON A MOO MOO, AND WALKING DOWN THE
STREET IN THE MOO MOO AND ON THE RIDE SOOT THE MOO MOO IS GOING
LIKE THIS, I SAID WHAT YOU GOT IN THE MOO MOO, AND WHEN SHE GOT
TO THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE SHE PULLED OUT THE 380 AND THERES WITH A
380 IN THIS MOO MOO.
SHE SAID THIS BOY IS SPECIAL NOW, I DON'T WANT YOU MESSING
WITH HIM, HE'S SPECIAL.
NOW AT FIRST GLANCE I LOST ABOUT 30 POUNDS WHEN IT HAPPENED.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT CAUGHT ME,-- TAUGHT ME, MY GRANDMOTHER
WAS WILLING TO GO TO JAIL TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS OKAY.
AND SO IN A SENSE, I TOOK THAT, WHEN I PUT THIS IN THE BOOK, IT
IS LIKE YOU GOT TO BE WILLING TO GO ALL THE WAY FOR YOUR KIDS AND
YOU WILL SEE THAT, AND THAT IS WHY I THINK.
>> THERE ARE BRILLIANT STORIES, SO MANY RICH STORIES IN THE
BOOK.
I THINK, I LOVE THERE ARE SO MANY STORIES I COULD PICK FROM
THIS TO TALK ABOUT, THERE IS A GREAT STORY ABOUT A
PLANE-- PLANE TRIP TO AUSTRALIA, TO OR FROM AUSTRALIA ON NEW
YEAR'S EVE, WITH LEONARDO DICAPRIO.
TELL US ABOUT THAT.
>> WHAT HAPPENED WAS WE TOOK A TRIP, HE WANTED TO GO DO A NEW
YEAR'S IN AUSTRALIA.
SO IT IS ME AND MY DAUGHTER AND HER MOM, YOU KNOW, BUT AT THE
SAME TIME IT IS LEONARDO DICAPRIO, IT ST MODELS, IT IS
CRAZY.
AND I COULD JUST HEAR, AND I'M SITTING WILL.
>> James: ON THE PLANE.
>> ON THE PLANE.
AND I'M SITTING THERE WITH PIE DAUGHTER, AND WE WATCHED FINDING
NEMO ABOUT 30,000 TIMES.
BUT I COULD HEAR-- BUT I COULD HEAR THE PARTY THAT I PROBABLY
WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL IN, BUT I GOT THE LITTLE ONE.
SO IT WAS SORT OF LIKE MY MATUREATION, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM
SAYING, BECAUSE LIKE I MEAN IT WAS TOUGH.
IT WAS TOUGH CUZ THEY EVEN HAD LIKE TWO YACHTS IN AUSTRALIA.
THEY HAD THE FAMILY YACHT, SHUFFLE BOARD AND PETTING KOALAS
AND YOU JUST SEE LEO AND THEM BAS BY.
I WAS LIKE TITANIC!
BUT WHAT WAS SPECIAL ABOUT THE TRIP JUST, WHAT WAS SPECIAL
ABOUT IT, WE COUNTED DOWN NEW YEAR AS-- NEW YEAR'S IN
AUSTRALIA.
GOT BACK ON THE PLANE.
FLEW ALL THE WAY BACK TO LAS VEGAS AND COUNTED DOWN NEW
YEAR'S ANSWER.
>> WOW.
>> HOW BALL IS THAT?
>> BUT AND WILL YOU READ ABOUT IT IN THE BOOK, I STILL MESSED
UP AS A FATHER.
MY OLDEST DAUGHTER MEETS ME THERE BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T MAKE
THE TRIP.
SHE WASN'T OLD ENOUGH TO GET INTO THE CLUB THAT WE WAS GOING
TO BRING THE NEW YEAR INTO, SO I'M LIKE JUST, YOU ARE RUINING
IT, ME AND MY FRIENDS.
AND YOU WILL READ IN THE BOOK THOUGH SOME PEOPLE REALLY LOOKED
OUT FOR US AND MADE SURE THAT BY THE TIME WE SAID TEN, NINE,
EIGHT, WHATEVER, WE WERE ALL TOGETHER AND COULD CELEBRATE.
>> James: THE BOOK IS GREAT.
PICK UP YOUR COPY, ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE AND OTHER THINGS
PIE DAUGHTERS TAUGHT ME EVERYWHERE WHERE BOOKS ARE SOLD,
STICK AROUND, JAMIE IS GOING TO BE HERE WHEN WE COME BACK.
COME ON BACK, EVERYBODY.