Surviving Fame, Finding Love, & The Bill Cosby Effect — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Unfiltered
Hot & Bothered
Melyssa Ford
4.7 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This program is intended for informational purposes only and does not contain medical advice. |
| 0:04.8 | As always, please contact your physician or qualified health care provider with any questions regarding a medical condition. |
| 0:14.6 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:17.8 | Thank you for joining me on another episode of Hot and Bothered with Melissa Ford. |
| 0:23.1 | Today's guest is somebody that I have been looking forward to interviewing for a really long time. |
| 0:29.5 | He is a singer, a songwriter, a spoken word artist. |
| 0:34.3 | He's also a director and a producer. |
| 0:37.2 | But he was also one of the stars of one of the most |
| 0:39.6 | iconic TV shows in television history. You might remember him as Theo Huxstable, but I want to |
| 0:47.2 | introduce you to Malcolm Jamal Warner. Thank you so much for joining me. You don't understand |
| 0:53.0 | how blessed I feel because this |
| 0:55.7 | episode has been a long time in the making. I'm so glad you were able to make a pit stop. |
| 1:01.7 | I'd be waiting at the airport. Malcolm Jamal Warner, this has been like, when we got the call, |
| 1:07.4 | we got you. I was like, no way. Yeah. You know, you're a big deal, right? |
| 1:14.0 | Sure. Sure. Okay. So prior to, you know, all of this, we were really talking about existentialism and, |
| 1:22.7 | you know, just light stuff, you know, and I was telling Malcolm about this book that he's got to get. It's so incredible because it's one of those things where, you know, and I was telling Malcolm about this book that he's got to get. It's so incredible |
| 1:28.8 | because it's one of those things where, you know, it just reminds you of your humanity, you know. |
| 1:36.5 | And it's a book that I give away his gifts all the time. It's called Tuesdays with Mori. Have you ever |
| 1:41.0 | read that book? Oh, God, you got to go pick it up. When you're at the airport, please pick it up. Drink it. Okay. Because this book, and also, you're going to sob. You're going to sob. I don't need that in my life right now. No, no, no, no, no. It's in the best possible way. In the best possible way. Maybe you can read it like with your wife. You know, it's one of those things. Like, it's just a really dope experience that you feel like you want to share with everybody. I remember the first time that I read this book, I started writing letters to everybody. Like, oh my God, you're so meaningful to me. I just want you to know. I'm giving you your flowers right now. Like, it's just, I'm a |
| 2:18.1 | scorpion. I'm very dramatic. I'm sorry. But this is, this is literally how I feel like this book |
| 2:23.3 | makes you feel. And it's one of those moments where you kind of look around and, and you hear the |
| 2:30.7 | birds and you see the trees and you look around in like childlike wonderment |
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