0:02
I only got one question.
0:04
Okay, let's get one more question.
0:07
Oh, wow. Man, we we got our This is
0:10
family right here, man. Every time we
0:11
see them around the world, it's just a
0:13
great feeling. It makes you feel like
0:14
you're in the right place.
0:16
I really honor these people because
0:18
they've been together for 30 plus years.
0:21
And a God's blessing is that, man.
0:23
Yeah. It's incredible. And and one of
0:25
them is one of the greatest quarterbacks
0:27
to ever touch a ball, man. 16 seasons,
0:31
But it wasn't until he played for the
0:32
Oakland Raiders that I really knew he
0:35
I know you was saying I get you. I get
0:38
Come on, man. We got the one and only
0:40
author, um, athlete, uh, father. Um, he
0:45
does it all. Husband. Give it up for the
0:47
one and only Rodney Petus in the
0:51
That's my quarterback.
0:55
See, I threw you that pass.
0:56
I love it. I love it. Just like family,
0:58
man. This is his family. Rodney, man,
0:59
I've seen you for in my mind,
1:02
you know, our kids our kids grew up,
1:05
man. You know, you're an outstanding
1:07
individual. Um, uh, I always loved your
1:10
commentary. You know,
1:12
and I and truth be told, I've been
1:14
following you forever, too, man. You've
1:16
been doing your thing for a long, long
1:18
time. And what I love about you, man,
1:21
you stand on principle. You always I
1:23
don't care who's you who you're
1:24
interviewing, who's in the studio, who
1:27
And if they need to be checked, you
1:31
I love that. Come on, man. I love it.
1:33
That's that Oakland. That's that
1:35
business. Town business. You know, that
1:38
Oakland town business also, you know,
1:40
kind of affected your wife a little bit
1:42
when you talk about hanging with Mr.
1:49
Mark Curry from Oak. Okay. The show the
1:52
show took place in Oakland. So people
1:55
think I'm from Oakland because the
1:57
character Vanessa is from Oakland and I
1:59
remember Mark used to have like two
2:01
short would come by to say and what's
2:05
the guy that played for the um Warriors?
2:09
Remember he went and did the Warrior
2:11
Oh that was um Tim Hardway.
2:14
It was hard but also Gary Payton.
2:16
Gary Pton. And so I always felt like
2:19
even though we were in Burbank that we
2:21
were actually in Oakland.
2:22
Halisa, what's that guy?
2:24
I know. Bouncing the ball. She bounced
2:26
the ball like there ain't been 17
2:28
million basketball players.
2:30
Not the old that guy. We just saw him
2:35
Just ran into him. Yeah.
2:36
But but that's Gary Payeyton. But you
2:39
know, we got the one and only Holly
2:43
Yes. You're not clapping, Rodney.
2:45
Outstanding. outstanding individ
2:49
Uh we known known for the the advocacy
2:52
uh for not only just Parkinson's but
2:56
Right. And um how's how's your son?
3:02
He was diagnosed when he was three. And
3:05
you know, many people have heard the
3:06
story over and over again, but yeah, we
3:08
were told he would never have any
3:10
meaningful employment. And he just
3:12
started his 10th season with the Los
3:16
clubhouse attended. Won't he do it?
3:19
And and he uh he loves it. It's it's
3:22
he will never not work there. He will
3:24
always be there for the rest of his
3:26
Yeah, man. Send my love, man. I'm really
3:28
proud of you, you know, both of you, you
3:30
know, for your advocacy and and
3:32
utilizing your brands to bring awareness
3:36
I appreciate that about you. I was happy
3:38
that y'all were coming in because y'all
3:39
always clean. Rodney doesn't age. I
3:42
don't know what he's doing. You know
3:43
what I'm saying? Come on, Rodney, man.
3:45
drinking. Come on. I got Hey, I gota I
3:47
got to keep up with this one right here
3:49
Who never Hey, dude. Yeah. How are y'all
3:52
doing though today? Like just we we've
3:54
been all in here and I just want to hug
3:56
on y'all and we we're hugging on y'all.
3:58
Just we're we're family as Sway
4:02
we feel y'all. Just I just want to say
4:04
that without saying it. We feel y'all.
4:05
And just asking as family, how y'all
4:08
We're sad today. We're sad today. Um,
4:12
Malcolm Jamal Warner was not only a
4:15
friend, but he has has I mean, even if
4:19
you didn't know him personally, you felt
4:22
And my father was, uh, one of the
4:24
writers and producers of the Cosby Show.
4:27
So, um, I met Malcolm
4:31
while I was in college in the in the 80s
4:34
and my dad was on the on the show and he
4:35
was just the coolest kid. He could have
4:39
TV star kid, but he was just so cool and
4:41
so lovely and sweet and spent a lot of
4:44
time with him and his mom
4:46
and you know and and have remained
4:47
friends throughout the years. I was
4:49
looking through our DMs and our our
4:51
texts and just sort of reliving
4:52
everything. It's just a real tragedy for
4:56
and uh it's it's been tough. I couldn't
4:58
sleep last night because of it. I just
5:01
just sat there and just mourning in the
5:03
bed, both of us tossing. We knew we had
5:05
to get up early to be here, but we just
5:07
couldn't sleep. We were just tossing and
5:08
turning like how did this even happen?
5:10
So, just saying prayers for his mom and
5:12
his wife and daughter. And
5:13
so, yeah, today's tough.
5:16
I was going to ask you, Rodney, one of
5:17
the things that I I spoke on about
5:20
Malcolm Jamal Warner is the the person
5:22
he always was, right?
5:24
But not just on the set and off the set.
5:26
And he gave guys like you and me
5:28
permission, you know, to we didn't have
5:31
to be thugs necessarily or how Hollywood
5:34
likes to portray us as,
5:36
you know, one or two. We're angry, we're
5:38
thugs, we're allucated, uneducated, you
5:40
know, great, emotionally, you know,
5:43
deprived, you know, all these different
5:45
things. But Malcolm as characters and as
5:49
was the antithesis to that. You know, he
5:52
show Did How did he impact you? you
5:54
know, just a black man,
5:55
uh, you know, he he really did because I
6:00
and often times you you like you said in
6:02
the black community or in just in
6:04
stereotypes, you you're portrayed as a
6:06
thug or you're portrayed as uneducated.
6:09
I was fortunate enough to grow up at a
6:11
home with two parents and I had my mom
6:13
and dad, they were married for over 60
6:15
years and and and um and both of them
6:18
Wait, wait, wait, wait. We can't skip
6:22
That's not a you know throwaway path
6:26
But but you know you grow up and my mom
6:30
was a school teacher and my dad was a
6:31
football coach and and growing up a lot
6:35
of times cuz my mom was so strict on us,
6:37
my brother and I, that she wanted us to
6:40
to learn in school and to speak right
6:42
and to walk right and act right. And
6:48
that would get some people or offend
6:50
some people. It's like make fun of you.
6:52
Oh, you you sound impeding proper. You
6:53
sounding white. You sounding this way.
6:55
You're not educated. But but watching
6:57
Malcolm grow up in a home with both
6:59
parents working and professionals made
7:02
it okay. Made it was it was cool. He was
7:04
still cool. He was educated. He wasn't
7:06
thuggish, but he was he was he was real.
7:10
You know, and and that was the cool
7:11
thing about him. And like you said on
7:13
and off camera, he was the same guy.
7:15
Same guy, man. and he used to come to me
7:17
and my partner King Tax home in in
7:20
and I used to just trip on how regular
7:26
down to earth and eager when it came to
7:28
his music and in music in general. We
7:31
had Eric Surman from EPMD call in today
7:33
and talk about how you know
7:37
Rocky, you want me throwing a beatd
7:42
rocking on the playlist?
7:44
Absolutely, man. He spoke to how Malcolm
7:46
would show up to his video shoots for so
7:48
what you're saying and and and all the
7:50
different Heather talked about the
7:53
a video direct he was a director as
7:54
Yes. People didn't realize that. They
7:56
didn't realize so many of the iconic
7:58
videos that he directed and he was he
8:00
was layered and he didn't feel the need
8:03
even in his music to necessarily be on
8:05
the charts or any of that. He did it for
8:06
himself. And you when you watched him
8:09
perform you you know and we're seeing
8:11
all these great videos. Look at all this
8:13
content that he had out there. A lot of
8:14
people didn't even know the spoken word
8:16
stuff that he was doing and how deep
8:18
this brother was. And so I guess the
8:20
silver lining is that we're really
8:22
getting to see him um
8:24
be who he was and we're getting to know
8:26
who he was. It's just just hurts that
8:28
he's not here anymore.
8:29
And something very what I what I noticed
8:31
I was telling Sway and the citizens this
8:33
there was also something distinguishly
8:36
regal about him. He carried himself like
8:38
a king in the midst of being grounded
8:42
His mom Pam was just she was very
8:45
protective and you know you had to be
8:47
when you have a child star like that.
8:49
But I remember seeing her on set at
8:51
Pam you could you know you had to get
8:53
through Pam to get to him and she was
8:55
just raised him as a single mom and was
8:58
just just a a fierce lioness as a
9:01
Yeah. and uh I I I know the way he was
9:05
raised is reason one one of the reasons
9:07
why he was such a outstanding
9:10
Just give that man a round of applause.
9:11
We're going to be celebrating him for a
9:14
thank y'all for sharing.
9:15
Thank you for sharing.
9:16
Can I say one more thing?
9:17
Absolutely. I think that there's no
9:20
silver lining to this, but maybe there
9:22
will be more opportunities to
9:25
rebroadcast the Cosby Show now
9:27
because you're seeing all these clips
9:29
and all these Gordon Gard all this fun
9:32
and just selfishly speaking and that was
9:34
part of my dad's legacy too.
9:36
And sort of when a lot of that stuff
9:39
that show went away. Yeah.
9:41
And that should be on like
9:43
Friends that should be on everywhere
9:45
everywhere. So maybe that will that will
9:47
I would love to see that. I would love
9:49
to see that. Um Holly Robinson, Peter,
9:52
Rodney Peter here 30 plus years.
9:55
Yeah. And and here they are hosting a a
10:01
Yes. I'm excited cuz my my one question
10:07
And and and it's starring Carlos Boozer,
10:09
right? Thaddius Titus O'Neal Bullard and
10:12
Tyson Beckford who's a good friend of
10:17
my little bad baby brother
10:18
Tyson off the chain but it's interesting
10:20
to me that you know what's interesting
10:23
about King's Court these are real
10:24
bonafide celebrities right and there
10:27
trying to find that perfect woman for
10:30
them uh which could be difficult when
10:32
you're a celebrity for a couple of
10:34
reasons you don't know why people might
10:36
be interested in you
10:37
uh number one you might have a U
10:40
entitlement issues. Uh number two, and
10:43
and it's just when you're a celebrity,
10:45
you got so many choices. Why settle for
10:53
you got so many?" You got my head
10:56
I'm throwing I'm throwing it at you.
11:00
Yeah, it's true. It's true. And that's
11:02
what's I think so intriguing about the
11:04
show because obviously
11:06
the other thing is you know celebrities
11:08
have baggage, right? We they've dated
11:10
and you know we just saw in the last
11:13
one of the potential queens googled
11:16
Carlos and got information on him and
11:18
then tried to spread it around the the
11:20
house and and so that's also you know a
11:23
pro a byproduct of being a celebrity is
11:25
that you know your stuff is not private.
11:27
So, um, so at the end of the day, um,
11:30
that that is definitely a difficult
11:32
Well, how was it for y'all, you know,
11:34
because you both were you were hanging
11:36
Mr. Cooper, you were NFL quarterback
11:39
when y'all met, right? So, how was that
11:43
Um, put it this way. Had we met at 22,
11:46
when I was 22, we wouldn't be here 30
11:51
Why not? Why not? Well, you know,
11:55
elaborate sometimes you got to get
11:56
certain things out of your system a
11:58
little bit before before you settle
12:01
I always I always wanted to be married
12:04
and have a family and all of those
12:06
things. Um, and I think timing is is a
12:10
big part of it as well.
12:11
We met each other at the right time. We
12:13
She had, you know, went through college.
12:15
She was on a show uh before 21 Jump
12:18
Street. She was on that. She was on Hang
12:20
with Mr. Cooper. So she was out there
12:21
and I was in the league for 5 years
12:23
already. So you know I we had done
12:26
certain things and and so we both
12:28
understood our lifestyles.
12:30
I think which matched and and we
12:32
understood the commitment that we both
12:36
equals kind of equals uh at the time. Um
12:39
and so before Travis and Taylor
12:42
and before social media
12:44
you say that like you hang out with
12:45
them. Tra and Tay Tra.
12:50
They were over last night. Don't worry.
12:53
when I look at them and I look at some
12:55
other celebrity couples, even Sierra and
12:57
Russell might be a better example.
13:00
You know, they're under there's so much
13:01
scrutiny and we didn't have social
13:02
media. And I think if we had had social
13:05
media, we would not be sitting here
13:07
today. We wouldn't be here today.
13:08
No, because it it it was it's so
13:14
Yeah. So I I think that that really
13:16
helped us get this far for sure. Um but
13:19
but yeah, that time when I
13:21
you could go hang out and not worry
13:25
cameras on phones or anything.
13:27
Also, I would have gotten kicked off of
13:29
every Sorry, honey. I would have got
13:30
Rodney kicked off of every team he
13:33
Really? Well, because with social media,
13:37
if I know some stuff went down that
13:39
they're saying in the media is not true
13:41
about Well, they benched him because I
13:48
Can I tell you a quick story?
13:49
I'm playing in Philadelphia. You know,
13:51
Philly, right? Philly is hard on the on
13:54
The fans are hard. They they the you
13:56
know I would say they the best fans in
13:59
and and probably in a lot of sports, but
14:01
they also the worst fans for the home
14:03
team, too, because they own you. If you
14:05
don't win, even when you win, they own
14:06
on you. They still own you.
14:07
They still on you. And they they will
14:10
they will talk about you, but they don't
14:11
let anybody else outside talk about you.
14:14
So I'm playing and um
14:18
we I think we just got married. We were
14:20
a year in and Holly's from Philly, so
14:22
she knows everything about Philly. Her
14:24
family's in Philly and her fam her
14:26
family was harder on me than the fans.
14:30
Like, I didn't go win the game by by 20
14:32
points. I throw three touchdowns and one
14:35
interception. Why you throw that
14:38
Oh, man. So, so I got So, there's a
14:41
there's a big time talk uh sports talk
14:44
radio station called WIP
14:46
in Philly. And they're talking about me
14:50
and and I had a bad game or something
14:52
like that. No, they said you smile when
14:54
you throw an interception. And I'm like,
14:57
he he just got big teeth. He's not
14:59
smiling. And I was like, "This is
15:02
yeah, it was a couple things, too. It
15:03
was like It was a couple interceptions.
15:05
Ball got tipped and receiver fell down.
15:08
Something like that. But she calls into
15:09
the show trying to disguise her voice.
15:13
Y'all don't know what you're talking
15:14
about. I specifically know on that
15:19
Yeah. And about 30 seconds in, they go,
15:32
Social media was around. We've been in
15:34
Y'all be in trouble. Oh yeah, man. Come
15:35
on. Holly Robinson Pete, Rodney P. We're
15:37
talking about King's Court, Aaron
15:39
Sundays on Bravo. 900 p.m. And this is
15:43
produced by Will Packer.
15:45
Shout out to Will Packer.
15:46
Will Packer put me in my first movie.
15:48
Yeah. Stump the yard.
15:49
Oh. Oh, is that right? Will Packer.
15:52
He's amazing. He's When he called and
15:54
said, "I I think I have a really good
15:55
project for you guys." Uh, he was right.
15:58
He really he really understands the
16:01
So, are the guys really it like if if
16:04
you know I'm I'm single again just in
16:08
So, um, write that down. Write that
16:11
Are the guys serious about finding love?
16:14
They are. They are. I think they really
16:17
are. Um, you know, and like you said
16:19
earlier, it may not sound that way
16:22
because they're celebrities, they're
16:23
wellknown, they have access to whatever
16:25
they have, but you never know. And
16:28
sometimes when you put people in a
16:29
captive environment like that and you
16:31
start to get to know people,
16:33
things can change and sparks can fly and
16:36
and that's what happened uh, you know, a
16:38
lot of times and so yeah, absolutely.
16:40
They're they're ready for it.
16:42
Is there a lot of um, you know,
16:44
everybody's in it's Tyson, man. We, you
16:46
know, it's Carlos. We're anticipating a
16:54
Trying to get all the questions out for
16:56
season two if you want to audition or
16:58
How was that, Tracy? I was trying to
17:02
Okay, flow with it. I mean, how could it
17:04
not be behind closed doors? Like,
17:07
got that cute house. It's really great.
17:09
great sexy black bachelor house
17:12
he's already got him in the hot tub and
17:14
it's only it's only episode two anyway.
17:18
Well, I just to sort of jump on what you
17:21
asked Rodney, I I do feel like the show
17:24
doesn't really work unless you get a
17:26
sense that they're actually looking for
17:29
And I really do believe that they all
17:30
are. I will say that Tyson has sort of
17:33
set in his ways as far as because people
17:36
come to him, girls come to him so much
17:39
that he has to sort of slow down when it
17:41
comes to, you know, I'm dating everybody
17:44
here, you know. So, it's it's hard for
17:45
him, harder for him. But with the help
17:48
of his big sister and his big brother,
17:51
we are constantly sort of guiding him.
17:53
And that's what I love about the show.
17:55
Unlike other shows where you have like a
17:57
couple hosting, um they're just sort of
17:59
directing traffic, right? Tonight you're
18:01
going on a hot air balloon ride. Tonight
18:02
you're jumping on a plane.
18:04
We are in the mix. So we're there when
18:07
stuff is going down and then we can
18:09
comment in real time like that that
18:11
we have sitdowns. I got sit down and the
18:13
aggressive there was a a thing about a
18:15
young lady saying, you know, I don't
18:16
like you calling me aggressive. And I
18:18
had to like help help Thaddius
18:22
to understand what that meant and how
18:25
black women are offended by it because
18:26
he really didn't get it. So that by the
18:28
time he sat down with this young lady
18:30
and she explained it, he was listening
18:32
and open. So we like being part of the
18:34
process and being fluid.
18:36
Okay. Well, you guys do a great job at
18:38
it, man. I want I want to pass it over
18:40
to New York. Tracy's in the New York
18:41
Hi, Tracy. Hi. What's up, Tracy?
18:44
Um, you know, Sway had mentioned how
18:47
celebrities have so much access and so
18:49
that gives them like option overload,
18:51
but also like the average person when
18:53
you think about the way like dating apps
18:55
are designed, they too have option
18:58
overload. And like speaking to a number
19:00
of my friends, whether they're male or
19:01
female, um, it's like they can always
19:06
continue the search for perfection. It's
19:08
like perfection is just a scroll away,
19:10
you know, and so folks end up being very
19:13
selective. And so I wanted to know from
19:15
both of y'all, like what is the
19:18
difference between adhering to your
19:20
standards, which you're allowed, but
19:23
maybe recognizing that you're insatiable
19:26
cuz you're searching for the
19:28
perfectionism that doesn't exist.
19:31
Good question. Take that, H.
19:36
That was a little too deep for you, huh?
19:38
You're like, "Oh, hold on."
19:42
Rody doesn't get myself in trouble.
19:44
Rody doesn't remember when he he doesn't
19:46
remember when he was insatable. Of
19:48
course I do. Or do you?
19:50
It's been 30 years, honey. It's been 30
19:52
years. It's okay. It's okay.
19:55
It's okay to not have any games.
19:57
It's like It's like you told on me when
19:59
we walked in the studio.
20:01
So I I think I think what I would say is
20:04
that's self you have to have some
20:05
self-inflection like you have to be able
20:07
to understand that you're not nobody is
20:09
perfect and you're the search for
20:12
perfection the search to find this
20:14
perfect mate. It's not going to happen.
20:15
I have this great guy here. He's not
20:17
perfect. I'm not perfect. We're
20:19
imperfect together. And so you have to
20:21
really decide, do you want to be find
20:24
your soulmate and be with someone and
20:25
grow and learn and become better with
20:28
that person or do you want to keep
20:29
looking for that perfect man or perfect
20:33
woman and that chase will take you into
20:36
your 40s, your 50s, your 60s and beyond.
20:39
So you have to think about what you
20:41
want. Some people are fine being alone.
20:42
They don't necessarily I don't want
20:43
nobody, you know, in my bathroom. But at
20:46
the end of the day, you have to look
20:48
inside and decide, you know, what do I
20:50
want? And if I want that, you know,
20:53
perfect person that does not exist.
20:55
And I think one of the ways that we've
20:57
been together all this time and we we
20:59
call it same page love, which is just
21:02
means that we have like these meetings
21:04
where we sit down and get on the same
21:06
Um, but that you got to find somebody
21:08
that's willing to do that. That's to me
21:10
a perfect person. Someone who's willing
21:12
I got that same page, love. was like,
21:16
So, you going to get on season two?"
21:18
Yeah, we got your name down.
21:19
Oh, man. Your ring is going to go off
21:24
Talk I'm talking everything.
21:26
You got to call your boy Will back, man.
21:31
Yeah, man. Um, well, I congratulations
21:35
and all that. I always see y'all
21:37
Yeah. What was your question? Did he
21:39
Well, he he did he stole my question
21:41
about getting on the show, but as you
21:42
guys were talking, it it it dawned on
21:44
me. So, for for us growing up, I think
21:47
before social media, my first couple
21:49
that I saw like dealing with this big
21:52
social media, everybody knew their
21:53
business was the great Magic Johnson and
21:56
Cookie Johnson, you know, and I wondered
21:58
as a as a young teenager, how will their
22:01
marriage make it through this? And then
22:03
you fast forward years later and I'm in
22:06
this God has blessed me with this
22:09
purpose that I'm in right now. And then
22:10
I see you guys traveling together and
22:12
and enjoying life. And me and my husband
22:15
watch you all and it's like this is so
22:17
dope. This is beautiful. And you guys
22:19
been married 30 years. They've been
22:20
married 30 plus years. Um I'm just
22:23
wondering what are the conversations
22:25
like cuz I also see Mr. Sam Jackson and
22:27
his beautiful wife and these couples.
22:29
What I'm attracted to with it is that
22:31
same page love that you so beautifully
22:33
put it. Like I'm like saying to my
22:35
husband, "Horse, this is dope." Like
22:37
these people have been together, you
22:39
know, in double digits and they they
22:41
find a way to travel together and love
22:42
on one another and support one another.
22:45
And so I was just curious as to what
22:47
that fellowship is like.
22:48
That's uh we get to start talking about
22:51
Irvin Magic. Uh we can go and cookie, we
22:54
could go on forever because they there
22:56
are there are goals. They're there. He's
22:59
I've known him since I was in college.
23:02
And he knew me and Ronnie separately
23:03
before we knew each other. Knew each
23:05
other. And he played a little bit of
23:07
matchmaker with it, too.
23:08
Really? Oh, yeah. Magic. He threw.
23:12
Okay. That's a good one right there. He
23:14
told her I was a good one and he told
23:16
me, "Hey, that's that's that's a good
23:19
It is it's great to be around couples
23:21
who have been married longer than you or
23:22
a long time because there's certain
23:24
languages that you understand. Mhm.
23:26
Um, so he's curated that, right? You see
23:28
these trips, he goes out, he gets
23:29
couples that you can't come on there
23:32
you know, you have to have be in a
23:34
committed relationship for a while
23:36
and, uh, it's just such a blessing to be
23:38
their friends and their goals. They're
23:39
they we look up to them.
23:41
Wow, that's amazing.
23:42
Some good conversations. Thank you for
23:44
sharing that. No, it's beautiful to see.
23:47
It's like anything, you know, it's like
23:48
when you know, whether it's your mentor,
23:50
your parents, or somebody older told
23:52
you, it's it's really about the people
23:53
you hang around, right? You got to
23:55
eliminate the bad people in your life.
23:57
And what he's done is really cir, you
23:59
know, circled himself around with great
24:01
people and couples. So you win,
24:03
who want to see you win and and have the
24:06
same goals as as they do. And that's why
24:08
the couples come on the trip.
24:11
I got to get into a couple
24:14
trip. They going to let me get on a
24:17
He loves you. But you ain't get on a
24:19
We're not going to name We're not going
24:21
to name any names. There a couple
24:22
couples that didn't are not together
24:23
anymore that don't make this trip.
24:27
All right. Damn. Don't name no names.
24:29
Rodney, you over here snitching. Dry
24:31
snitching. We know we can research that.
24:35
There's more than one. Okay.
24:39
Yo, give him a round of applause. Holly
24:41
Robinson, Pete, Rodney, Pete Legendary,
24:44
Kings Court, Bravo 9:00 p.m. Sundays.
24:47
I'll be watching. Make sure you watch,
24:49
too. Come back, y'all. He's okay. All