Hey, Kerry.
Hi, how are you?
I'm fantastic.
How are you?
I'm good.
It's good to be back.
It's good to see you.
It's great to see you.
Congratulations.
The Emmys were Sunday.
You won the Emmy award last Sunday for the Creative--
for producing--
right?
For--
Yes, for Live in Front of a Studio Audience.
Right.
Congratulations--
Yeah.
--on that.
So this--
Thank you.
--Sunday was-- you were all dressed up.
So was that the first time you wore real clothes in a while?
Yes.
It's the first time I've worn high heels in, like, nine
months.
It was crazy.
Yes, we got to get really jazzed up.
There, we were pretending that this year is over,
because I think a lot of us are ready for this year to be over.
Yes, we sure are.
Yeah, 2020 has not been a good year.
It's been a very strange year.
So I don't blame you for wanting to have a New Year's Eve
party early.
I think we should--
Yeah.
--do that every day and hope that that
happens for all of us.
Your dad is-- first of all, he must have been so proud, right?
That you won the Emmy?
Well, he's really proud that he won the Emmy, because he was
a featured background artist.
My dad is a member of the Backademy.
And so he was super happy that he won an Emmy,
because the show won.
So that meant he won.
Right, of course-- probably mostly due
to his work in the background.
We have a photo of him in the show.
OK.
So after seeing your dad getting all that atte--
He's back there.
What's that?
He's back there somewhere.
Somewhere.
Well, there's an arrow, so we just have to follow the arrow.
I'm sure--
That's right.
But again, he is responsible for your Emmy.
We know that.
So your dad is getting all this attention.
Does your mom now want to go into acting?
No, my mother doesn't want to go anywhere near acting.
My mother is way too dignified and elegant
to be slumming it with us.
But I actually-- when I was guest-hosting on Kimmel
a few weeks ago, my dad couldn't get his line right
at one point.
And so my mom starts whispering it to him
and tell him to adjust his screen.
And I was like, is mom your producer?
Is that what's happening right now?
So she's working behind the scenes.
Oh, wow.
So she's like a stage wife.
That's right.
Yeah.
She's pulling the puppet strings.
I didn't know she was the master--
Wow.
--strategist behind all of this.
It's a ripple effect that you're causing.
It's amazing.
Your talent and you acting is causing this to happen.
Summer feels so long ago.
Apparently, it is still September, though.
But it looks like those are--
what are-- are you in a classroom right now?
Is this your home classroom?
Well, my house is a classroom.
So this-- I do put some of their work up behind me.
But yeah, I'm just--
our whole house has become a classroom, really.
What are you teaching them right now?
What are you working on?
Well, they both do online work with their classes.
But I've also been really trying to use this time
to teach them things that may not be on the curriculum.
Like, all summer, we did--
first, we did planets, and then we
were doing continents, but really with a focus on Africa.
So I was walking them through lots of different African
cultures-- the Nubians, the Maasai warriors,
Egyptian culture--
and just scouring the internet for projects
I could do with them and children's books
about those cultures to really immerse them.
I think, a lot of times, kids, when they're
learning about Black history, in particular,
you learn about civil rights and the Jim Crow era.
You learn about all the things that Black people
were told we couldn't do.
So I thought it was really important to immerse them
in the rich culture of who Black people are and were,
even before the Martin Luther King's
and all of the great, great civil rights leaders.
Very cool.
That's amazing.
tWitch, I know you wanted to talk about this because you
have kids at home, and--
Yeah, absolutely.
--it's an interesting time to talk to your kids.
Absolutely.
And I think that is really fascinating
because I think, Kerry, you--
Hi, tWitch.
Hi, Kerry.
How are you doing?
Good.
Good to see you.
And I know you and I have kids ranging in ages.
So I was wondering, with everything going on
with the injustices and that type of thing,
what those conversations have been like with your kids
and how you introduce that.
You know what's interesting?
Is-- and I'm sure you find this, too--
every kid is so different, right?
In parenting, there is never a "this works for every kid."
I think such a big part of it is knowing who your kid is
and, as you're having the conversation,
watching and listening for the cues
to be present for this stuff, because I think a lot of us
remember the moment in our own childhoods
when we were first confronted with negative views
about race-- with racism, with institutionalized racism.
I remember, as a kid, learning those things.
And so I want my kids to know that I'm
fully present as they're exploring those ideas, too.
So it's weird, but in a lot of ways,
I have to make sure that I'm taking care of myself
as I'm having these conversations,
and just, on a daily basis, doing
what I need to do to stay calm, and to stay present, and stay
informed so that I can just really be there
for them as the world unfolds around them,
you know what I mean?
Absolutely, 100%.
And I think it's also super important, too,
because different than how they are coming up,
we're in a different place, as parents,
to teach them from a different perspective.
So I think--
Yeah.
--that that's also one of the most interesting things,
too, is how these conversations can start different from how
it started for us, you know?
Yeah, and live it, right?
To live it.
If I'm going to--
which I do.
I wear the Breonna Taylor T-shirt.
Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.
So if I'm going to wear that, which I do proudly,
I have to be ready to have that conversation in my house
and answer those questions.
Right.
Well, more power to you.
We're all trying to learn all this thing together,
so much love.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Same, same.
And good for you for continuing the conversation about Breonna
Taylor, because we can't stop that until they are arrested.
It's crazy that they have not been arrested yet.
I know.
Regina King and Uzo both wore incredible Breonna T-shirts
at the Emmys, which I thought was so great.
I saw that.
Yeah, that was--
Yeah.
--fantastic.
All right.
We have to take a break.
More with Kerry after this.