our next guest has been entertaining us
since she was a kid raven simone was
just four years old when she first
played olivia on the cosby show
she went on to release music and star in
her own sitcoms that's so raven and
raven's home well now she and her wife
miranda are giving us a glimpse into her
home life with her new youtube show 8pm
in one episode miranda casually drops
drops this little nugget during a road
trip
i left two potatoes in the oven so
hopefully this is traffic you left them
in the oven i had what do you mean they
weren't done what am i supposed to do
between a rock and a hard place
oh you should have turned the oven off
and let it just slowly yeah
we'll update you guys on the status of
our home once we get back there
was everything okay we assumed
everything was fine she makes the most
amazing potatoes even if she leaves them
in the car or i mean in the oven
overnight do they still taste good they
always taste good
your wife miranda you get married in the
pandemic and now you've got this youtube
show together you i mean up until now
you've been keeping your private life
fairly private why did you decide
now would be a good time to to start
this show uh i figured now would be a
good time because i found my life
partner i found the person that makes me
feel comfortable and in my skin and
she's down for the cause and you know
she kind of brought it to my attention
there are not a lot of people in the
industry that are in our age bracket a
part of the lgbtq plus community
multi-racial
talented and want to make positive
change want to have conversations i want
to make sure that you know if you don't
agree tell me why you don't have to cuss
me out you don't have to cancel you can
just tell me why talk about it and we
can talk about it and we can learn from
each other and i learn from her every
day and hopefully she learns from me
vice versa but i feel comfortable and
she's down for the cause she's a good
talker she's much better than me
[Laughter]
she makes you laugh too i know she's
kind of the impetus behind these extra
friends that you have
show up on the show you know these these
little cutouts we've got the queen yeah
we got the queen we have danny devito um
we also wait is this for real no listen
the house is flooded with celebrities
they might not have blood in their
system
but they're definitely in the house um
that's nicholas cage right there
it's always important to surround
yourself with playlists you know what i
mean you got to make sure that you're
you know high level this is so funny
yeah it's it's great
you have been in our consciousness since
you were four years old and you go
that's a raven you're the cheetah girls
all this as as this happens was this the
natural progression to actually be let
us see you
as opposed to these other characters
i believe so sir i believe that
when
your outlet of youtube instagram tick
tock and all of that allowed for me to
say hey there's not a writer there's not
another creator behind the process of
telling me how to show emotion
and that was hard for me too because i'm
trained to say the line and make
somebody feel somebody else's words
and i'm learning more about myself with
this process i'm learning about being in
a marriage i'm learning about just who i
am right before uh the pandemic started
i started realizing that i would like
talk and sit with people and then on a
joke i would leave or face out
and you guys know what i'm talking about
for those who don't know you got a face
towards camera so i'm like hey hey hey
yeah i know right
and i'm like i'm in real life right now
i need to give my life
freeze frame and credits rules like
where's my card
so i'm working on life
one of the things that we all enjoy in
addition like literally watching you
grow up you've become a bit of an
activist uh at this point in your life
and and for those who haven't been
following the story closely down in
florida this week the governor there
governor desantis signed what some call
the don't say gay law uh and raven
simone and her fellow castmates decided
to to walk out
you walked out there you since returned
to work but why was it so important for
you and your castmates to do that
well i'm a part of the lgbt plus lgbtq
plus community uh we have a lot of
diversity on our set as well um and
i'm gonna say this and this is my thing
if there's a don't say gay bill there
should be a don't say straight bill
because it's not fair and there are
multiple kinds of humans in this world
and you are ruining the psyche
the confidence of so many young children
because you are discrediting their
parents the people they love the people
that raise them the people that teach
them the manners when they walk into
that school room so if you're not going
to honor their family your family
shouldn't be honored either so let's
just make it even slash equal maybe we
should we should point out we did reach
out to the walt disney company for
comment haven't heard back but after the
bill was signed into law monday the
company did release a statement as you
know and that statement does read in
part we put it on our screen here our
goal as a company is for this law to be
repealed by the legislature we're struck
down in the courts and we remain
committed to supporting the national and
state organizations working to achieve
that all right and last but not least
you stay busy i don't know how you
juggle all these things i told her
during the commercial break my kids have
this healthy obsession with her and
raven's home we were in puerto rico they
got out of the pool so they could watch
her show
but when they're with you i feel like
they're safe yes there's a there's a
message to it there's a theme raven's
home really quickly yeah what do you
want to say i just want to say we're in
season five of raven's home we have
rondell isaac emmy felix michael
michelle we are back in san francisco
and things are popping there are
characters that you remember when back
and that's the raven adrian bylon is
making an appearance and multiple other
people please check it out on disney
channel oh they do
raven thank you
new episodes of 8pm weekly on youtube as
well
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