Tamron Hall Overcoming Odds to Emmy Award Winning Talk Show Host to Media Mogul

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	What's it saying, besides a good man's a good woman?
0:02.6	I never thought that.
0:03.4	I'm behind.
0:04.6	Yeah, I live my wife walk first.
0:06.4	I don't know how to do that.
0:08.9	Well, I mean, most people, most men, marry up for sure.
0:12.4	You think so?
0:13.4	We are all products of that.
0:14.8	Yeah, I think so.
0:15.6	I think so.
0:16.1	So my dad definitely married up.
0:17.4	But my mom was my dad's third wife,
0:20.5	and he was 25 years older than her.
0:23.6	And he was our landlord.
0:25.8	And I used to tell my mom, stop it.
0:28.2	No, I used to say the hell.
0:29.5	I said, dad, on paper, you're a terrible guy.
0:33.6	Like, did you think about it three times married?
0:35.8	And he married the lady who was renting from him
0:38.6	who had a kick.
0:39.8	But the day my dad closed his eyes,
0:42.2	and he passed away when I first moved here, I saw pure love.
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