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Host Lex P
Do you navigate through, like, being in character but also being respectful to your partner?
Alexandrea
I can see why it's confusing for people.
Host Lex P
It'll be confusing for me. I'll be texting Tyler, like, what's up? What are we doing?
Tyler Lynch
HR.
Dejanae
They are the stars of the new Tyler Perry film on Netflix, Ruth and Boaz. Did y' all see any similarities in yourself with the characters that you played in the movie?
Alexandrea
I remember certain scenes where I'm just like, I feel her. You can be guarded, even though people are like, how could you be not giving in to Tyler Lepson?
Host Lex P
You know, I feel like the character of Boaz is like, you know, he is the bdb. You know what I'm saying?
Tyler Lynch
Oh, God.
Host Lex P
Talk about that balance that you all have to have because. Because you know, you have a child. You are a new mommy. Congratulations.
Alexandrea
Me and Joey just have a really good system of just communication.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
Like, what do you gotta do? What do I gotta do? How we gonna do it?
Dejanae
Well, how do y' all feel about people always over sexualizing Yalls relationships? Because I have seen people like in both of Yalls comments. I would love to be a fly on the wall. I know he talk her through it.
Tyler Lynch
It's ridiculous how surface level we've become. All three of y' all are beautiful women. But it's like if we hyper focus on that, we start to lose what y' all really are. I mean, you have a like, certain Innocence to you.
Dejanae
I try.
Tyler Lynch
No, that's a fact. Yeah, for real.
Host Lex P
What's up, y'?
Saraya
All?
Host Lex P
It's your girl, Lex P. And it's.
Dejanae
Your girl, Draya Nicole.
Host Lex P
And you are tuned in to another episode of Poor Minds where a drunk.
Dejanae
Mind speaks sober thoughts.
Host Lex P
We got a guest today.
Saraya
We got some guests today, period.
Dejanae
We have the beautiful and talented Saraya in the building. I know y' all seen her on Empire and I forgot I used to watch Kingdom Business too. Yes, girl, I love that show. And we have the handsome and talented Tyler lynch definitely in the building. I know y' all have seen him on P. Valley and on Harlem too. So yes, y' all welcome them to the show. We are so glad to have y' all in the building. And they are the stars of the new Tyler Perry film on Netflix, Ruth and Boaz, which we had the privilege of seeing yesterday. And it was such a good movie. Y' all did amazing.
Alexandrea
Thank you.
Dejanae
Yes, we enjoyed it.
Alexandrea
So glad you enjoyed it.
Host Lex P
And I will say, like, I want to give y' all yalls flowers because I know it's hard in Hollywood and you know, you have the risque films and everybody wants to see and this and that. So to do a Christian film and you know, you still want to be true to the original biblical story, but you also want to have an entertaining movie. Right? Right. So talk about that. Like, how did you prepare for a character that's, you know, a godly character but you still want to be entertaining at the same time?
Alexandrea
Yeah, I think. Well, my approach was kind of like just. Just remembering that she's just a woman navigating. Right. So for me it was, it was. I knew that there was like a. It was like faith based. But she's a real girl. She's a real girl navigating life. You know, she has trauma and you know, things with her mom and her backstory. So I was just more so approaching it from that angle.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
What about you?
Tyler Lynch
I think for me it's. It's interesting doing like a faith based film.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
Cause like you said, you know, if you're not careful, you can like judge it yourself. Maybe think it's like cheesy. Same thing with like you know, a G rated film or Disney. But like, you know, these are beautiful spaces to go tell art. So you shouldn't like, you know, fall into that pit, that pitfall. I think for me to find the reality of any character, I gotta know him on some level. Kind of like I know myself. So for me, I'm you know, my yin yang, my juxtaposition, you know, as Tyler is, I'm a, like, I'm a deeply feeling man who's, like, constantly at war. You know what I'm saying? That's like, that's my base. Everything goes out from there. So for Boaz, you know, finding his contrast, he's, you know, he's like, he's rigid in a sense. He's very. He's very determined to make sure that he wins that best wine, that tapas show. He wants to win that and he wants to put his family's name on the map and continue to get that respect. You kind of have to. You kind of have to be rigid in order to bring that to fruition. So then on the flip side, he, you know, he's got this fluidity to him to be able to pour into a relationship, pour into his passion without expecting anything in return and kind of listen to where God's taken him. So for me, discovering that and, you know, getting my feet set in that foundation makes it real.
Host Lex P
Right?
Tyler Lynch
So now we can, you know, now we can. We can, you know, we can talk about a faith based love story. We could do something that's G rated and it's still gonna have that, right?
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
And did y'. All.
Dejanae
Oh, I was just gonna ask, did y' all see any similarities in yourself with the characters that you played in the movie?
Alexandrea
Yeah, like Ruth living her life and kind of like just figuring out what she wants to do next. You know, I definitely resonate with that. I resonate with having a gut feeling about something but not really knowing what. Not really knowing what's on the other side of that.
Host Lex P
Right.
Alexandrea
There's so many things about Ruth that I definitely did resonate with. And while we were shooting it, I remember certain scenes where I'm just like, I feel her. Because if you've had a troubled past or even if you had a failed relationship or anything like that, you can be guarded. And so I was definitely resonating with Ruth on, like, how guarded she was at first with Boaz. Even though people are like, girl, how could you be not, you know, not giving in to Tyler Lethem?
Saraya
I'd have been blessing my grapes, baby. As soon as you said, oh, I.
Host Lex P
Own the winery, I said, well, you ain't said nothing.
Dejanae
She did say that during the movie, too.
Saraya
I was so.
Alexandrea
People are so appalled that she. She. She iced him.
Saraya
Yeah.
Alexandrea
So that's. But that's what makes it. That's what makes it good. And I feel like, honestly, That's. That's what. If you see his reaction after that, he's. He's interested.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
You know, he's down for the chase. So.
Saraya
Yeah, he.
Host Lex P
He got me chase. They do.
Dejanae
They do care about physical you.
Host Lex P
Are they gonna want to play that game a little bit? You know what I'm saying?
Dejanae
So what about you?
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
What.
Tyler Lynch
Are there any similarities between me and boys? Yeah, I think, you know, for me, you know, I remember I would say in two, you know, it's twofold. Like a twofold answer. I can connect with pouring into my relationship and not having, like, a condition on it. You know what I'm saying? Whether it's a good. Bad day, you know, good day, bad day left. Right. You know, we just keep pouring into it, same way you water a plant. But then also, you know, that's like, with my love life, I understand that and connect with that. But then even in my. Even in my personal life, in terms of, like, you know, what I'm chasing and in terms of, like, you know, my life's purpose, you know, I remember leaving Philly to come out to la really having nothing, but, you know, I felt inside I knew what it is that I wanted to do out here and wasn't receiving anything for the first few years, but every day was still. I was still pouring into it. Pouring into it. So I don't know if Bo. I mean, I know he's determined, but I don't know if he knows that he's going to win that. I don't know if he knows. I mean, he definitely doesn't know that he's gonna make his father proud.
Host Lex P
Right.
Tyler Lynch
But it doesn't. It doesn't deter him either way, you know, so I can connect with that as well.
Host Lex P
So y' all are both very, like, private people. I think the only thing, like, we really see about y' all online is, like, you know, your relationships, because I think it's more so of, like, not hiding, you know what I'm saying? It's like, oh, this is my partner who I'm with. So I actually saw. I saw a TikTok video that you had made a while back, and you were just kind of giving us a little background of, like, how you grew up and how you grew up kind of struggling a little bit, and, you know, you moved around a lot, and you were always the new girl. So has it ever been, like, a role that you played that kind of reminded you of how you grew up? And it was, like, maybe a little triggering because I feel like the struggle that Ruth went through. I'm like, you know, that's kind of maybe something that you went through, moving and being the new person and kind of starting over.
Alexandrea
Yeah. And those are the parts of her that I deeply resonate with.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
I mean, obviously not the mother part.
Host Lex P
Right.
Alexandrea
Her mom basically abandoned her. But there are so many parts of, like, picking it up and putting it back together again over and over and over that I definitely understand. And I understand, like, what it is to be a woman navigating that space, too, and seeing my mom do it as a single mom, you know, navigating. So those parts of Ruth were very real for me. Yeah. Yeah.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Alexandrea
I love that you saw that.
Dejanae
TikTok.
Host Lex P
Yes, girl. Look, I like to do my research now, you guys, to know what I'm getting into now, as far as you. You know, I feel like the character of Boaz is like, you know, he is the bdb, the man that everybody wants. You know what I'm saying?
Tyler Lynch
Bdb? What's that?
Host Lex P
Big Dick Waller.
Dejanae
We used to say that on.
Host Lex P
We used to say that a long time ago, but he's like the bibalone that people want, you know, and the women are like, oh, my gosh, it's Boaz, you know. So how did you relate that to how you are in real life? Because, I mean, we see the material, we see the comments, you know what I'm saying? So how did that feel? How did you make that transfer on screen?
Tyler Lynch
You know, I think it's more about, again, him just staying dedicated to what it is he was trying to serve, you know what I'm saying? I feel like. I mean, everybody has their own aesthetic, and, you know, people are gonna have their opinion about it.
Host Lex P
Right, right.
Tyler Lynch
It really has nothing to do with me. I think. I think for me, it's a. You know, it's attractive to see anybody not give in to that surface level. I feel like, you know what I'm saying? Like, outside of the aesthetics.
Host Lex P
Right.
Tyler Lynch
You know what I'm saying? It's just. It's attractive as a spirit, as a heart, to watch someone show up and pour into his passion. Watch someone watch someone show up and pour into someone, even though she's resist. You know, she's resisting him a lot initially. And I think that's, you know, even watching that chase is kind of enticing. It's like, oh, okay, I wanna see what he does next, you know? And, you know, you end up rooting for him a little bit because I feel like you see his heart.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
Cause that's what surprised me. Cause I feel like most of the time, men, they be like, oh, she don't want me. I'm moving around. You know who I am? I'm Boaz, girl.
Alexandrea
Okay.
Saraya
You know what I'm saying? That's how they are.
Dejanae
But I feel like men aren't like that, though, when they find someone that they really want. And that's obviously what it was in that movie. Like, he really wanted her. So it's like, okay, I'm a chaser. I'm gonna try to. I'm gonna do what I need to do to prove to her that I'm not nothing like these other men. So I do wanna ask y', all, how did y' all balance with making the movie? Well, making your character authentic to how you wanted to portray it and it still be entertaining, but then keeping the authenticity from the Bible story.
Host Lex P
Ooh.
Alexandrea
I think really just kind of like making sure that she's just a real person. I can't say that on set, I really was. I didn't feel the weight of, oh, my God. This is a biblical story. Yeah.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Alexandrea
I didn't feel that. Even though it is. Right. It was more about making. It was more about creating the space in the world in which these characters live. Right. And who they are from the day to day. Because I don't know if you guys are religious or spiritual, but I am. And that doesn't mean that I can't, you know, go out, have a drink, and then go to church.
Host Lex P
You know what I mean?
Alexandrea
So that's us, girl.
Dejanae
You are tribe.
Alexandrea
Right.
Saraya
So that's what I'm trying.
Alexandrea
So I think it's just that element of just remembering that this isn't like a massive. This is more so her. The fabric of who she is.
Host Lex P
Okay, that makes sense.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
Yeah. I think not having it feel that daunting is a testament to the writers.
Host Lex P
Right.
Tyler Lynch
They did a lot of the work already for us. So when you show up and the script is that strong, it's really on us to just find the reality in it moment to moment. And I feel like, you know, you pair the, you know, the hard work in front of the camera with all the hard work behind the camera, you know, on the script and whatnot. And it, you know, I felt like we. I felt like we did the story justice while still giving our own, you.
Host Lex P
Know, twist to it. Absolutely. Yeah. So, y' all know, I got to be a little messy now because the chemistry was amazing because one thing I.
Tyler Lynch
Can'T stand Can I get another drink for this?
Host Lex P
Come on. Dang.
Saraya
Same girl. Same. Hey, everyone.
Dejanae
My name is dejanae, and today's drink is the Garden of Grace. So this is a great drink to watch with Ruth and Boaz when you are sitting down watching Netflix. So in this drink today, we have some passion fruit, some elderflower. This could be a great cocktail or a mocktail, whichever you prefer. We have a few dashes of lime juice and some fresh sweet and sour. So definitely make this drink when you're watching Ruth and Boaz, I think. Well, yeah, I want a shot.
Tyler Lynch
You want a shot? Oh, you better get messy.
Saraya
Yeah, it's time to tie it up.
Dejanae
Real messy.
Host Lex P
So I do have to ask, because I'm a movie girl. I watch movies. I. All day, every day. And one thing I cannot stand is when I see people that are supposed to be a couple on screen, but there's just no chemistry. Right. So y' all had amazing, great chemistry. Like, it was truly believable.
Dejanae
So.
Host Lex P
But at the same time, how do y' all film? Cause obviously, y' all have been in multiple projects and where you're at somebody's love interest. But how do you navigate that space of still, like, being in character but also being respectful to your partner? Because I know sometimes people fall in love on set. It happens.
Alexandrea
No, no, you're right. I think I don't. It's very interesting because I get this question a lot, especially from, you know, like, people like musicians or just people that are, like, outside of film. Honestly, it's just a part of the craft. It doesn't feel. Although that is a true sentiment. It's just a part of the craft to. To emulate life. So what you're really doing is just. You're imitating real life, and so you bring those feelings that you felt before. You know, we've all felt what it feels like to stub our toe, for instance. So it's like, when you do that, that's what you're doing. It's not as deep as, like, oh, my God, I can't, like, do this because, you know, my relationship. And obviously, that's a separate situation conversation you gotta have with your person, too, Right?
Dejanae
Yeah.
Alexandrea
But I mean, with a partner who gets it, obviously, I'm also with someone who does the same thing as he understands. And if you're on set and you see how not real it is, that's.
Host Lex P
What people be saying.
Alexandrea
Everybody tells us.
Dejanae
It's so awkward because there's so many people around you.
Alexandrea
Yeah, I can't Tell.
Host Lex P
Cause that's why I'm like, do you like me or something? I thought that we was kissing for real. I can't tell nothing.
Dejanae
I mean, you can't come on set.
Saraya
You know what's going on. I thought we was really in love. Okay, but how about you?
Host Lex P
Like. Cause you have a partner also, as well, that she does acting and things like that. So.
Tyler Lynch
Yeah, I mean, I think Saraya hit the nail on the head. So first, it's about communication with you and your partner. I feel like if y' all really locked in and. And y' all understand what's. What's going on, this is just. It's a profession. I feel like it starts there. You have your foundation right at home so that you can go off to work and do what you're supposed to do professionally. And then I think when you're professional for long enough, it's. It's kind of like. Like she said, it's. You really don't even think about it.
Host Lex P
Right.
Tyler Lynch
It's kind of just. I mean, there's. I don't know. I wouldn't say there's a reality to it. We're finding truth in the moment, for sure.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
But it's not. It doesn't follow you.
Alexandrea
I see why it's confusing for people.
Tyler Lynch
I get it.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
But it's really not confusing for me. I'll be texting Tyler, like, what's up? What are we doing tonight?
Dejanae
Not, what are we doing tonight?
Saraya
Cause I thought.
Dejanae
I did not see.
Tyler Lynch
I'm calling hr.
Saraya
Hr I was just about to say.
Alexandrea
I was just about to say that. Tyler, you have to understand that, like, it's.
Host Lex P
You are at work.
Alexandrea
So, number one, etiquette is, like, making sure your scene partner is comfortable. Right? So doing those things can make them uncomfortable.
Dejanae
Therefore, hr.
Host Lex P
Cause don't they, like, choreograph everything, too? Right.
Tyler Lynch
We have intimacy coordinators, so if anybody steps off and starts doing something weird, you know that that hasn't been choreographed. Everybody knows it's weird because we sat here and we choreographed the whole roll around.
Host Lex P
Got you.
Dejanae
Okay, but question. Has that happened to y' all before? To either one of y'? All, like, where they stepped outside of what was already coordinated, and you was.
Alexandrea
Like, hold on, this ain't part of the script.
Tyler Lynch
I haven't.
Alexandrea
No.
Dejanae
That's good.
Alexandrea
Thank God.
Dejanae
She said thank God. I'm like. I can imagine that would be opposite.
Alexandrea
Yeah. I have had the opposite, though.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Alexandrea
I have had to, like, try to come up with conversation with my scene, with my Scene partner outside of filming just so that he could, like, relax. Cause I'm like, what we don't want is what you say for people to be like, they look weird. What's going on? You know what I mean? How do we get you to, like, relax?
Host Lex P
Right. Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
From the audience's point of view, like.
Host Lex P
It'S just, like, you can tell. But I think we're in such a sensitive climate right now, so it's like, you want to make it believable, but you don't want to make them, you know, uncomfortable. You want to be respectful.
Alexandrea
So it's a fine line, but I think it's just communication, being vocal about it.
Tyler Lynch
I think once you find that respect and comfort.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
You know, it allows you to find, like, find the truth. You can play around and find it. You understand that there's boundaries here. You feel safe, and, you know, we just play like we in the playground.
Host Lex P
See, y' all too professional for me. I need to go on a Tubi movie. Okay.
Saraya
They ain't got no.
Host Lex P
Wait, y'. All.
Dejanae
They probably don't have the coordinator for a Tubi movie.
Saraya
He stop playing.
Host Lex P
But I do have a question for you, because we have had Julian Horton on the show, and we've had devale.
Dejanae
On the show, and we had Isaiah and Gilbert.
Host Lex P
Well, I met so more so because they used to play sports.
Dejanae
And I feel like that's something like.
Host Lex P
A little segue that a lot of the guys do.
Dejanae
Like, they play sports, they play sports.
Host Lex P
And they somehow end up in the acting world. So talk about that transition for you.
Tyler Lynch
I think what helps, coming from an athletic background, transitioning into this space is probably just the discipline, you know, the work ethic that it really takes. Really, just the discipline the day in, day out. You know, we're used to that. Playing football is not just going out on Sundays, you know what I'm saying? You got treatment for your injuries. You got the film room, you got ice, you got, you know, seven on seven drills. Then we got, you know, Skelly's and then team, you know what I'm saying? It's just a lot that goes into that Sunday. So I feel like that's one thing that helps us through the transition, I believe, is just having that, you know, having that sense of discipline.
Dejanae
Okay, Soraya, I do have a question for you. So you worked with Babyface on a song, Goodness of God for the movie soundtrack. How was that working with Babyface? I mean, he saw. Legendary.
Alexandrea
I know. He's so legendary. And I was so nervous, you were I would imagine. I was very nervous. But he has this calming spirit and he's just very, he's very grounded and so he's just like, it's fine, you know, we're gonna find it and we're gonna do this and it's gonna be great. And I was like, okay, you gotta turn it on.
Dejanae
It turns really good.
Host Lex P
Yes, it was almost in that.
Alexandrea
Thank you.
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Alexandrea
But I knew that everything was going to be okay.
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Without them.
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Host Lex P
So talk about, like, because the roles that y' all have played, and I know a lot of times people get typecast in Hollywood, right? So what is, like, a dream role that y' all haven't played yet that you feel like, okay, I want somebody to take a chance and let me do this, because I know I can do it.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
I love.
Alexandrea
I want to do an action.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Alexandrea
I love, like, I'm super. I grew up very athletic, too, and I love physicality. Yeah. So that would be something that I would love to, like, get in there and, like, actually go to stunt training and, like, really be in that mode.
Dejanae
I see you in, like, a storm in, like, a new X Men movie.
Host Lex P
But also, people forget that Vivica A Fox was in Kill Bill.
Alexandrea
Yeah, she was.
Host Lex P
And she was beating bad. It wasn't like, oh, nah, she was in there doing it.
Alexandrea
So I think a lot of times.
Host Lex P
People are scared to put black women in those type of roles. They think it'll look weird. But Vivica showed us she gets down now.
Alexandrea
She did.
Host Lex P
She was killing me.
Saraya
She did.
Host Lex P
So what about you? What's the role that you feel like you haven't gotten yet that you want to show people that I can do this? I don't know.
Tyler Lynch
You know, I'm real conscious of the roles that I pick, because I like to do different things. I like to. To tackle challenges, you know?
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
You know, Benny, Benny, you know, is. Is this color. Diamond is. Is a different color.
Host Lex P
Yes.
Tyler Lynch
Like Ian on Harlem is a way different color. You know, you go even, like, duplicity, you start getting a little crazy, you know?
Host Lex P
Yes. That was such a good movie. That plot twist at the end.
Tyler Lynch
I was shook, you know, and then this is like, you know, this is a pure romance film. I tried to switch it up. I think I'm also like, such a, like, physical person. I just love physicality. I want to do an action film, but then on the flip side, I would like to do something because I am so physical, maybe I could do something where, you know, there's no physicality in it. I don't know if it's. Oh, like, you know what I'm saying?
Alexandrea
Opposite.
Host Lex P
Yeah, yeah.
Tyler Lynch
Like, I don't know if he's, you know, knock on wood. I don't know if he's, you know, confined and, you know, maybe by a wheelchair.
Alexandrea
So I don't know.
Tyler Lynch
You know what I'm saying? But, like, something where that would be, like, challenge. Yeah. So I like challenges roles, you know what I'm saying? I can. I can bring that role alive physically, you know. So, like, what does it look like if you didn't have the physical?
Host Lex P
Right.
Dejanae
Like when 50 Cent played that role, remember he had to lose all of that weight.
Host Lex P
Oh, he was like a hospital bed.
Alexandrea
He was.
Dejanae
He was like a cancer patient.
Tyler Lynch
Dedication to do something like that.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Saraya
Okay.
Host Lex P
I like that. Okay, you want to get. Look, we ain't even got to the first. We haven't.
Dejanae
We haven't even gotten to the first topic yet. We've been having such a good.
Host Lex P
Since we're taking a new age approach to Ruth and Boaz's story, this game is about, like, a modern relationship and asking questions. So y' all have to answer. Who's most likely to do this, Ruth or Boaz? Okay, so first one is slide in the DMs. Would Ruth or Boaz be the first to shoot their shots in 2025?
Tyler Lynch
I feel like if. Now if you was really still giving me the stiff arm, I might have slid in Ruth's DMs.
Saraya
Okay.
Alexandrea
Yeah, I can't see Boaz.
Tyler Lynch
Maybe Boaz. Yeah, but I feel like Ruth's trying to get off of social media and whatnot.
Saraya
Yeah, she trying to hide. Remember that girl uploaded that video? Girl, I'm trying to hide. What is you doing?
Dejanae
She ended up being solid in the end, cuz at first we was like, she a up. Low key. But no, she did have your back.
Saraya
Yes.
Host Lex P
It was making me nervous.
Alexandrea
I love this.
Host Lex P
Okay, Dre, do you remember when we had Brianna Bible on the show a long time ago?
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
She told us the story of Ruth.
Alexandrea
And Boaz on that episode, and they.
Tyler Lynch
Ended up being the lineage of Jesus Christ.
Saraya
Oh, Amen.
Host Lex P
That was a. That was an ending I was not ready for. I'm like, I know I heard this before, but go ahead. Go ahead.
Dejanae
Okay, so cash app, love offering. Would Ruth send a man $40 for a haircut before the first date?
Host Lex P
Ooh.
Alexandrea
No.
Saraya
That's why I said, ruth, don't give me them vibes.
Dejanae
Question mark.
Host Lex P
Ruth said, I'm a pray for you, brother.
Dejanae
All I got is a prayer and a hole.
Tyler Lynch
Ruth is on the bus. I don't know if she got it.
Saraya
He had wrong. Me too.
Host Lex P
In that.
Alexandrea
In that.
Saraya
Okay.
Host Lex P
All right. Posting first. Who would post the relationship on Instagram first? Ruth or Boaz?
Tyler Lynch
Hmm. I don't know. Bo. Bo don't strike me as a. Like, he got social media like that. I don't know. He out there like, hold up. But I think if. I think if Boaz.
Alexandrea
I don't know.
Dejanae
I think he's giving me the.
Host Lex P
Like, this is my woman. You are.
Saraya
My bad.
Host Lex P
It's like, he's the hero. He's like, look what I do.
Saraya
My woman is my.
Alexandrea
My wine vineyard.
Host Lex P
Exactly. Look what I found in my great bushel. Iron down, pulling up.
Dejanae
Would Ruth pop up at Boaz's job unannounced to check in?
Alexandrea
Yep.
Host Lex P
Sure would.
Tyler Lynch
Sure would.
Alexandrea
She sure would.
Host Lex P
And she did.
Alexandrea
Actually. That scene got cut. Okay.
Host Lex P
What happened to them?
Alexandrea
She did pop up. What's going on with you? You know, they had a little slight.
Tyler Lynch
Yeah, we had a lot of scenes.
Alexandrea
Things that were.
Tyler Lynch
They shot so much great stuff, ended up cutting a few things, but it really. As much as we wanted to see certain things.
Alexandrea
Amazing.
Tyler Lynch
Yeah.
Alexandrea
Good.
Tyler Lynch
They did it justice by kind of staying, you know, on the through line in the spine of the story. Some, like, great scenes, but it kind of took away from.
Host Lex P
Right.
Tyler Lynch
You know, us. Us rooting for them all the way to the end.
Host Lex P
That. That party scene when you were performing and then the camera panned out and the boy was in the crowd that was looking for you. Everybody was like.
Dejanae
And then the fire.
Saraya
Oh, my God, child. I was on the edge of my seat.
Tyler Lynch
That's one of the things I love about the film, too, is like, you know, even every. All the excitement you talked about. Right. Outside of faith.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
So it's like, of course it's a faith based film. You know, we all love God. Of course. But even if, you know, even if you just want to watch a great film, it's, it's. It's got enough to hold your attention.
Host Lex P
Yeah, for sure.
Dejanae
And I feel like it's a good message too, because even with Boaz is like, I would say his tenacity and like, will to keep moving forward. Because even when the fire happened and the whole vineyard was ruined, he was still so excited and optimistic. I feel like in the midst of that, like, he was letting Ruth know, like, it's okay because you were really more so the one that was a little stressed out. He, like, it's gonna be fine. Everything is gonna be cool. We just gonna rebuild. So I feel like that's a good message for a lot of people in a lot of different, you know, areas in their life.
Host Lex P
And don't forget too. Another message, because Ruth held it down.
Saraya
She picked up that wine bottle and it was all burnt up. And she.
Host Lex P
She said, let me take a swig for my man. Cause I wasn't drinking none of that.
Saraya
You wasn't a guy in hell?
Host Lex P
No, I don't try that.
Saraya
She held it down.
Host Lex P
She said, this is good.
Dejanae
And it was the best thing she did.
Host Lex P
She held it down. See, I need to learn how to hold it down. God was trying to send me a message now. Okay, moving on. Password sharing. Okay, who would ask for the Netflix phone password first? I'll say phone. Who would like, be like, oh, give me the password. See the phone?
Alexandrea
Ruth.
Tyler Lynch
Hey, Ruth.
Saraya
Yeah, Ruth. You think so?
Host Lex P
I think Ruth. I think it would probably be Ruth just because of what she went through in the past and like her trust issues. And I wouldn't think it would be like, she thinks that you're cheating. It would be more so like she's scared. Like somebody that you're maybe having conversations. Like you trying to set her up. You know what I'm saying?
Alexandrea
What's going on?
Host Lex P
Like, her fear of not another woman, but, like, what you got? You talking to the ops? Yeah, I gotta watch my back. Cause I'm not. You know what I'm saying?
Dejanae
Hey.
Alexandrea
We do that all the time, girl.
Dejanae
We having that telepathy.
Host Lex P
Okay, X text.
Dejanae
Who's more likely to respond to a hey, stranger from an ex?
Host Lex P
Oh, I'm answering like it's me.
Tyler Lynch
I mean, I feel like they're both focused on, you know, the now. I don't know. Neither one of them strike Me as something that's gonna entertain the past.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
I don't know what you think.
Host Lex P
Well, I was gonna say Boaz, just. But not on some. Like, I wanna date you. It's like, I need some more workers to pick these grapes. Okay, girl? Cause that's all I'm saying.
Dejanae
We trying to rebuild the vineyard.
Saraya
It burnt down.
Host Lex P
We need some more work to the vineyard. Or not, but it wouldn't give me cheating vibes. I got a job for you if you need it. I got a life for it.
Saraya
He had everybody packed on the back.
Host Lex P
Of that pickup, bruh.
Dejanae
He did.
Host Lex P
He needed some more people. He was working too, I'm telling you. So, yeah, I think he would respond, but it was more so like, do you need a job? Do you need some money?
Alexandrea
You need something?
Host Lex P
I need this money. Okay, last one pulling a toxic move. Who would be the one to block, unblock, just to get a reaction?
Tyler Lynch
That's so petty.
Host Lex P
I don't know who ain't never done.
Tyler Lynch
That to get a reaction in real life. Y' all playing games. No. What y' all doing?
Dejanae
So you can. We don't follow each other that well.
Host Lex P
You gots to get mad for ass.
Alexandrea
Yeah, I don't think either of them would. No, I don't think so.
Host Lex P
I'll agree with that. I think the maturity that we saw in both of the characters, they passed that me. That's fair. I'm not there yet.
Alexandrea
Now, my girl in my 404 group.
Dejanae
Now, she would've did that.
Host Lex P
I agree.
Dejanae
She the fight.
Host Lex P
Okay. Okay. You wanna move on? Dre, what we gonna do? The topic one?
Alexandrea
Yes.
Host Lex P
Okay, so we're gonna get.
Tyler Lynch
Is that as far as it comes.
Host Lex P
Up, back to the movie. Did either one of y' all discover something about the story that you didn't know before the film? Because I think, you know, I was raised in the church. We, you know, go to church. We're familiar with the story. But was there anything that you learned about the story that you didn't know before?
Alexandrea
Ooh. Yeah. I think it was more about, like, the timeline of how everything happened.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
Cause I've heard it also, like, referenced in church, like, find your Boaz.
Host Lex P
Yes. You know.
Alexandrea
Cause Ruth wasn't looking, you know, when Boaz found her.
Dejanae
That's what they be saying there.
Saraya
You do.
Alexandrea
Who finds a wife finds a good friend.
Host Lex P
I know that's right.
Alexandrea
You know what I mean? So that's the context that I would always hear it. But I think actually going and studying to see really just, like, the total Story of it, I think the timeline and how and how the different events occurred that got Ruth to. Even for Boaz to even meet Ruth. I think that's what I learned. Yeah.
Host Lex P
What about you?
Tyler Lynch
Anything new? I don't know. I approached it like I had. I had read through it, but I didn't want to get so locked into it that I was unable to come up with my own. Not intuition, but like impulses, you know what I'm saying? So did I learn anything new? I can't say. I don't know.
Host Lex P
I think for me, something that I learned new was seeing the actual dynamic of Ruth and Naomi the mother, that it took me aback just because once the mother learned of why her son and the father had passed away, but she still had that love in her heart and it didn't matter, you know what I'm saying? So I know a lot of times we talk about the dynamic of, you know, man and woman, husband and wife, but a lot of times we don't see that dynamic of how important it is, like parent to child or even though it wasn't her real daughter, that love that was there between two women. So that was something that I took away from the movie. Like, it made me teary eyed. Cause Phylicia Rashad, when she cried, when she cried, I was like, oh my gosh, I cannot run. It gets me every time when she cries. It feels so real. So I think I took away from that. Like, actually. Cause like I said, I think the story of them, you focus on Ruth and Boaz. But I think that dynamic of their relationship too is extremely important that a lot of people don't talk about, you know, what else you got, Drea.
Dejanae
So I wanted to ask y', all, in your own dating life, do you feel like you're more like Ruth, like patient, understanding, loyal, or more like Boaz, and you're more of a protector and provider?
Tyler Lynch
I mean, I definitely feel a little, you know, of course, I have my own sides, you know, as well. But there is a side that I have that's just like Boaz for sure. I think even in my own. Even in my own relationship, as we planned for this wedding, my fiance and I.
Host Lex P
No, that's right.
Tyler Lynch
I wanted them. Now I'm a My fiance youtuber, period.
Alexandrea
We love that.
Tyler Lynch
But I think that, yeah, for sure, I definitely can connect with, just not. Not. It's not that I don't expect anything in return, but I don't demand it. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's gonna come in Its own time. And, you know, my job, you know, if we look at it from a team aspect, you know, my job in the dance is not to show up and take from you. You know, if I show up and feed you and feed into this and pour into it, and you're doing the same thing, like, we all gonna eat.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
You know what I mean? So, like, that aspect of it, you know, I definitely connect with Boaz on for sure.
Dejanae
Okay.
Alexandrea
Yeah, no, same here. I would say the way that she approaches life, I definitely. Like, I think I can resonate with her on that. And another thing that is really important, like you said, patience and having that nurturing side, I've learned that that's so important that the balance in a relationship to have. Yeah.
Host Lex P
And you said something before the movie started last night when you were giving, like, your speech beforehand and you were talking about black love.
Alexandrea
Yes.
Host Lex P
And I think it's just. I feel like a page is turning, though. You know, I feel like it was a moment where everybody was online doing, like, the man versus woman thing. I know. And I feel like. And I always say this, we used to join in on those conversations before in the early days of our podcast, but we have definitely stopped that because it's just like, it's so important to see, you know, couples like you in real life. Couples like. Like seeing a black man sit on this couch and say, my family, like, we need to see more of that. You know, somebody coming to support. Like, we saw Jovi last night supporting you and seeing that. I think that's what we need to see more of.
Alexandrea
I agree.
Host Lex P
And I think this film shows a good example of that. You know what I'm saying? So kudos to you for pointing that out, because we need more of that, for sure.
Dejanae
I agree. Both of y' all are definitely really good examples, I think, for younger generations of, like, healthy black love.
Tyler Lynch
I appreciate that.
Alexandrea
But just like the. Just like the story, you know, it's like, there are the trial and the error. There's the push and the pull. And I think that's also a good thing that the movie portrays is just, like, it was sweet at the end, but it wasn't just sweet the whole time.
Host Lex P
Right, Right.
Dejanae
It took a while to get there.
Alexandrea
That's an important message to also get across, too, for the younger generation.
Saraya
Okay.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Dejanae
All right, so now it's time to get into the bed. The bed about the be.
Host Lex P
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Alexandrea
Okay?
Dejanae
Be in the studio with Baby Face.
Saraya
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Host Lex P
Yay.
Saraya
Come on now.
Host Lex P
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Dejanae
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Alexandrea
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Dejanae
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Dejanae
Okay, so I wanted to talk to y' all about this because I feel like we all see the people in the comments all the time under your pictures. You and your fiance, you and your. Cause you're. You got engaged too recently.
Saraya
Oh, that rock been over here blinding me.
Host Lex P
You see.
Dejanae
Girl, and obviously y' all are.
Alexandrea
Sorry.
Dejanae
Obviously y' all are both extremely attractive people on your own, but y' all partners are really attractive as well. So how do y' all feel about people always over sexualizing yalls relationships? Because I have seen people like in both of yalls comments before. Like, I would love to be a fly on the wall. I know he talk her through it under both of y' all comments.
Saraya
So, like, how do y' all feel.
Dejanae
About people saying this type of stuff about y' all relationships and y' all partners and like over sexualizing a relationship? Because y' all are really attractive.
Saraya
Cause I'm not gonna lie, you know.
Host Lex P
You and your fiance are a meme.
Saraya
So when she was dancing on him. But you hiding lips.
Host Lex P
I love that picture.
Saraya
I look cool. Kudos to my girlfriend. Really?
Host Lex P
Yes.
Tyler Lynch
Oh, my God.
Saraya
It was so funny though.
Host Lex P
It was so cute. Cuz I see that picture all the time. Like, girls see like a fine man. They'll leave that comment. That picture in the comments.
Saraya
But.
Host Lex P
But honestly, like I said, cuz I'm a very open person, but sometimes I'll see comments that even make me clutch.
Dejanae
Make me uncomfortable when I read it. I wonder, how do y' all feel when people say that stuff under yalls comments?
Alexandrea
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Like, being in a public relationship is just different.
Dejanae
Right?
Alexandrea
Everything is like, yeah, right. You know? So reading those comments sometimes or seeing that energy around it is a little. It's uncomfortable. Sometimes I just have to kind of like unsubscribe. Like, I'm just not gonna look at this today because, you know, I think it's something that I had to definitely get used to. Cause I'm not used to that.
Host Lex P
Right.
Alexandrea
What do you mean? I'm not used to that with my partner. Oh, with your partner receiving that energy or those comments and things like that. So it's definitely something I had to get used to. But now I'm just like, chow. Yeah.
Host Lex P
Do y' all ever talk about it? Like, look at this. This is so weird.
Alexandrea
Absolutely.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
Absolutely.
Host Lex P
And you know what's crazy? Sometimes I'm gonna be a little devil's advocate here. I think that women think that they can say the comments because they're women. So they feel like, oh, because I'm a woman and I'm saying it to another woman, it's okay. But it still be like, calm down, girl. Like, I'm a human being. Like, it just be a lot sometimes.
Tyler Lynch
That's the issue right here. Like what you just said. You're a human being.
Host Lex P
Yes.
Tyler Lynch
Right. And we've. You know, and I'm not. I'm not even no type of preacher man.
Alexandrea
You know what I'm saying?
Tyler Lynch
I'm the type to get lit and, you know, be myself, like, for real. I'm not even appreciative at all. But, you know, it's ridiculous how surface level we've become. Yeah, it really is. Everything is hypersexualized. Women, men, like, it's nonsense, you know? Like, y'. All. All three of y' all are beautiful women for sure. You know? But it's like, if we hyper focus on that, we start to lose, like, what y' all really are. I mean, you have a. Like, you have a. Even in the short amount of time that I've been here, like, you have a certain innocence to you. Right? Like, you.
Dejanae
I try.
Tyler Lynch
No, that's a fact. Yeah. For real. You do, though. Like, you have a. You know, you have this star quality. You can see the passion coming, like, from the inside of you out. Right? You know what I'm saying? You have a certain. You have a certain discipline about you. She was the one telling us, like, stop with a drink and we go home. Cause she got stuff to do in the morning.
Saraya
I do.
Host Lex P
That was that night a little bit.
Tyler Lynch
Even getting them together here and whatnot. You have a little bit of that. And if we hyper focus on what y' all look like.
Host Lex P
I do, though, but I think in the work world, I'm very. I'm very strict.
Tyler Lynch
I'm picking that up from you. And if I'm just focused on what y' all look like, we miss all that. You miss the human. If you just looking at the package now I get it. Like, like packages look shiny. You want to look at them so it's cool. And social media is like not even today. Be taken seriously. That's something I've learned. I need to take it seriously.
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Tyler Lynch
Calm down. It's not even, it's not a big deal. And it's like I had to breathe like, all right, yeah, you're right.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Dejanae
So you the strict one. You the strict one in a relationship.
Tyler Lynch
Sometimes I don't, I can be a little cool, a little street, but it's like, you know, if we focus on the surface level, man, you missing everything. Yeah, it's sad that we like that.
Alexandrea
Yeah, I agree.
Tyler Lynch
I just let it roll off the shoulder. It's not a big deal. It's whatever, people gonna talk.
Host Lex P
But I do think about that a lot. I think like as women, we're used to, you know, men doing that to us and telling us like, oh, you so bad, you know, I'll do to you and this and that. And I'm not saying that we should be used to it and that it's okay. I. I just think it's more like we're used to it. But when we see a woman or women or men do that to another man, it's like, oh, he's a man, he's just supposed to take it, you know what I'm saying? So I think it's kind of like a double edged sword, A little bit double standard. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dejanae
I don't know. I mean, to touch on his point a little bit more, I do think that the world is just really super like hyper sexualized. Because people will even look at Yalls relationships and be like, oh, they're such an attractive, like I want a partner like that and not even realizing the connection. Like, I'm sure both of y' all are not solely with your partners just because they're fine people or they, they look good. It's a deeper connection. But people look up to other relationships when they see people online and they like, oh, they so fine. They look so good together. I want that too. But it's much more that goes into making a relationship. Working obviously with both of y' all about to get married. Like it takes a lot to meet a partner and decide. I'M gonna spend my life with them. It's beyond just looks, right?
Alexandrea
Yeah, it has to be.
Dejanae
But people are so surface level these days and hypersexualized, like he said.
Host Lex P
Cause I think that's just the icing on the cake.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
I put the cake together. That's a place. Right? So I do wanna talk about that a little bit. Cause y' all have been on this crazy run promoting the movie and stuff. Talk about that balance that y' all have to have. Because, you know, you have a child. You are a new mommy. Congratulations. So talk about that like you on the road. I know you probably missing your baby and things like that. So how have you been balancing it?
Alexandrea
Oh, I don't know.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
I'm not sleeping.
Host Lex P
I know it.
Alexandrea
I'm here. Yeah. That's all I know.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
I'm just here right now, getting through it. Yeah. And that's. And even in that, you know, I give myself grace because I'm like, I do miss my baby. But I'm like, I'm working and I'm excited to get back to work. Like, I feel like myself again. Because, you know, there's this whole. There's a whole journey when you have a kid. So on one end, I feel really good. On the other end, I am thinking about him. I literally was just thinking about him like, two seconds ago. I'm like, I wonder if he's okay. Is he crying? I don't know what's going on, you know, so. But it's great. I mean, I balance it with. Honestly, me and Joey just have a really good system of just communication.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Alexandrea
Like, what do you gotta do? What do I gotta do? How are we gonna do it? And then that's how we get it done. And we have a great support system around us.
Host Lex P
How was your pregnancy? Did you have, like, a good pregnancy or were you, like, sick? Like, what? How was it?
Alexandrea
I was very sick in the first trimester. But then after the first was done, I was, like, pretty. You went sailing? Like, I was back in the gym. I was dancing. I was doing everything.
Host Lex P
Okay, so is there gonna be another one? Are you like, I want more or you like, one and done?
Alexandrea
It's so funny, because I do want.
Dejanae
More, but not right now.
Host Lex P
Okay. Uh. Okay.
Dejanae
She, like, give me a second. Give me a second.
Host Lex P
She just said this one.
Saraya
Look, I, like, I got to know.
Alexandrea
I'm still healing from this.
Host Lex P
Give me a minute.
Alexandrea
Give me a minute.
Host Lex P
Okay, so how is it for you, balancing fatherhood in your relationship and traveling and working?
Tyler Lynch
You Know, I just do my best.
Host Lex P
You know what I'm saying?
Tyler Lynch
Like, there are times where I wish I could be around more.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
But, you know, they're like, I have three kids.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
So, like, they all know, you know, whether they understand it or not, they've all heard since they've come out the womb, you know, Daddy's working so that y' all can be happy.
Host Lex P
Right.
Tyler Lynch
You know what I'm saying? So they do. They understand that. So as much as I wanna be around, you know, it's so funny, I had asked. We'll get back to the real in a second. But I had asked my oldest, he about to be eight, Leo, and I explained it to him. You know, he getting to the point now where he's, you know, he can have a real conversation, like. Like a grown conversation.
Dejanae
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
He know he ain't grown, but, you know, conversations. And I said, like, you know, so, you know, what Daddy does for work, you know, Daddy gotta be away a lot, you know, if you could prefer for Daddy to be away at work so that you can go to the school that you like, you know, he feel like the G wagon is just like a monster truck.
Host Lex P
Oh, that's right.
Tyler Lynch
Where we can drive around, you know, the car that you like, you know, you can hang around the friends that you want and just, you know, eat what we want. You live the life that you. That you want to live, you know, loves going to piano and swimming class and all these things. Like, if. If I was to stay at home and you would have more time with me and not have the things, you know, some of those things I had mentioned that you like, or you could have me be away a little bit more so that you could have some of these things you like, you know, what would you prefer? He said, yeah, I would like you to be away and work so that I can have things at life.
Host Lex P
You know what I'm saying?
Tyler Lynch
He kept real.
Dejanae
He's saying, I like the way I'm living.
Saraya
Go ahead.
Tyler Lynch
That lets me know that he understands the, you know, the sacrifice.
Host Lex P
Yeah.
Tyler Lynch
You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, that's what it's for. So I would like to be home. I would like to be home, you know, some more. And when I'm not making it home as much, you know, we. We all face time all the time, every day. But, you know, it's just one of those things you try to. Try to do your best at. You try to give yourself. Give yourself grace and always stay communicating. You Know him understanding how I'm feeling and what's really going on helps him grasp, you know, what I'm really doing this all for, which is not myself.
Host Lex P
Right.
Alexandrea
The information gives him confidence, for sure.
Tyler Lynch
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
Host Lex P
I love that. Okay, so now it's time to get into the bow. About. This is my favorite segment. I love talking about music.
Saraya
We be having a time, girl we.
Host Lex P
Talk about all day, every day. So Bop of the Week is the song that we have been jamming and listening to this week. And I'm not gonna lie to y'. All. Y' all know I'm an RB girly at heart. I love R and B and that's, you know, in my blood. But Cardi dropped her album.
Dejanae
Oh, my God. That was my bop, too.
Host Lex P
It's okay. I have one bop that's on there because she sampled a song by two Non Blondes. She has a song with Lizzo, and they sample what's going on, and it's such a good song. Lizzo was singing her ass off. I know she was in that studio holding her ear, just going to work. So I love the song. Y' all know Lizzo is from Houston. Shout out to Lizzo. Shout out to Lizzo. So, yeah, I think the album is good, but what's Going On Feature Lizzo, Cardi, B Bop. Love it. I've been jamming it all week.
Dejanae
So I love Cardi's album. Like, I love the album in general, but if I had to say one specific song I really like, say featuring Kalani.
Host Lex P
Okay, I like that one too.
Dejanae
Like, I like that song a lot.
Tyler Lynch
When did it come out?
Host Lex P
It just came out. Yeah, like last week.
Dejanae
So what have y' all been listening to?
Host Lex P
What y' all been listening to? Well, I mean, this week, this.
Alexandrea
Well, thinking about the Cardi Drop, I was. I was listening. I didn't get as far to the Lizzo one, though. Yeah, but I was just letting it. Letting it play in the car. And there's a song. Is it called hello?
Host Lex P
Yes, hello, it's me.
Saraya
Hello?
Dejanae
I like that song, too. Yeah, it's random because I feel like.
Alexandrea
It was like when I first heard Cardi's music when she was on Love and hip hop, that's when I started listening to her. And it made me feel like one of those records off the mixtape.
Host Lex P
Yes, it does.
Alexandrea
That's why I really like that it.
Dejanae
Sound like mixtape Cardi.
Host Lex P
It do. People got to realize Cardi has that music that when you trying to really, like, pop your. You getting ready for a night Out.
Dejanae
That's what I see. Y.
Host Lex P
You mad at your. You ain't talking to Boaz tonight. We outside.
Dejanae
You outside with your girl?
Host Lex P
Yeah, we ain't picking no grapes today, Boaz. I'm outside.
Saraya
You know what I'm saying?
Host Lex P
That's how Cardi makes her music. So I'm like, y' all need to understand it got to be in a certain setting.
Alexandrea
You got.
Host Lex P
You know how to have a certain setting for certain vibes. So I like, hello. That's the bop. What you been listening to, Tyler?
Tyler Lynch
Future is real heavy on my playlist.
Host Lex P
Oh, I love Future, Our toxic king.
Tyler Lynch
I've been listening to a little bit of Young Boy.
Dejanae
Oh, okay.
Tyler Lynch
And. And I. You know, I never really was.
Host Lex P
He cuts up.
Dejanae
He on tour right now.
Tyler Lynch
Was on. On his music like that. And then, you know, I seen tour was going crazy. Just see what's going on. You know what I'm saying? I just started listening to some. The of his stuff. He got some.
Dejanae
He really does he do that. Meme had me weak when they was on Twitter and they was like, this looked like when what is his name, Scar took over Pride.
Saraya
Hawaiians.
Dejanae
The W going crazy.
Host Lex P
Having them going crazy is one of them Artists, like, you just got to give it a chance because you used to seeing, like, the little kids being to it, and they like, oh, you.
Alexandrea
You think they bad.
Tyler Lynch
But that's what it was. I never really got into it, cuz I'm like, damn. I'm like, I got a couple grades. I'm like, I'm getting old.
Dejanae
He like, I'm not a Y no more.
Saraya
I am with.
Tyler Lynch
I rock with it, though. I like it.
Saraya
Yeah, it's got a little vibe to it.
Host Lex P
Shout out to Young Boy. Okay. All right, what we got next, Dre? Oh, the item.
Dejanae
So now it's time for the item of the week.
Alexandrea
Yes.
Dejanae
So in this week.
Host Lex P
Yeah, so we have an item of the week.
Dejanae
We have some products from La La Land Cosmetics.
Alexandrea
Yeah.
Host Lex P
So they actually had sent us some stuff before, so I guess y' all was buying it up. So make sure y' all go to lalalandcosmetics.com. we'll make sure we put that at the end. But I just want to read the letter that she wrote us. It says, hi, Alexandrea. Thank you so much for letting me share my brand with your amazing platform. Congrats on Travel Queens and all your incredible successes. I've been cheering you on since Wind Down Wednesday, and you both continue to inspire me to chase my dreams inside. You'll Find a few goodies of our new La Vie en Couleur collection. Damn, I'm reading good today.
Dejanae
You are.
Host Lex P
I know. That's right. Four liquid blushes, two nourishing lip oils, and a lip oil for tattoos. Ty's not here today, but we make sure we give that to her. The blushes are super pigmented, so a little goes a long way. It can be worn alone for a natural glow or layered with makeup. And they apply best using your fingers or the Kalure blush brush. Okay, so y' all get a discount code listeners. Okay, so use the discount code P O U r. And it's lalalandcosmetics.com and we'll put that in the description. Thank you so much.
Dejanae
Thank you, girl. And I love this lip oil. It's really.
Host Lex P
I love this.
Dejanae
Cause yours look good, too.
Alexandrea
Yeah, your lips do look good.
Host Lex P
What you got on your lips?
Alexandrea
Ooh, what do I have? I have cork from Mac.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Dejanae
I love cork.
Alexandrea
I love cork. Yes. And I actually was at Sephora. I'm trying new stuff. I have a makeup by Mario gloss.
Saraya
Oh.
Host Lex P
See, I've never tried this product.
Dejanae
Blush right now. I love his blushes, too.
Host Lex P
I know that's right.
Dejanae
That's a good product.
Host Lex P
Thank you.
Saraya
Lala. I know you ain't got.
Host Lex P
Which one you prefer.
Tyler Lynch
You know, I like the old school. This is the old school chapstick. The blue. The. The blue stick.
Host Lex P
Okay, I know which one you mean.
Tyler Lynch
All right. Medicated one.
Host Lex P
Are you like what she said?
Tyler Lynch
He said he traditional.
Host Lex P
He's a traditional man.
Tyler Lynch
Oh, he a traditional man.
Saraya
But let me ask you this.
Host Lex P
Are you a kind of guy? Like, you get your nails done, your feet done, all that stuff, facials? Cause I think it's important that men do that.
Tyler Lynch
You know, if I got time. Yeah, for sure.
Host Lex P
Okay.
Tyler Lynch
I mean, you know, I shower. You know what I'm saying?
Alexandrea
That's for sure.
Tyler Lynch
But, you know, I actually stopped biting my nails recently.
Host Lex P
You know, I bite nails?
Tyler Lynch
Yeah. Like, I'd be like, you know, picking at them and fidgeting and whatnot. But it's just like. It's just be crazy, you touching everything. I need to go get them done.
Host Lex P
Them little. I hate when people bite it down. They got the nubs.
Dejanae
That's why I bought that, because I'm like, you don't have the nails. You don't have the type of nails that look like you bite them, because normally they be, like, real short, and then they be.
Host Lex P
They dried up, blood on the side.
Dejanae
Because they be biting them they do dried up blood.
Alexandrea
Yes.
Host Lex P
Cause they bite them and they start to bleed.
Dejanae
Well, you know, thank y' all for joining us. This has been an amazing episode.
Alexandrea
Cause you what, I'm cutting the blood.
Saraya
You don't got time for a pour your heart out? No, no.
Host Lex P
Damn. Okay.
Tyler Lynch
I just spent an hour on.
Saraya
Yeah, exactly.
Dejanae
We've been having a good time, so.
Saraya
Yes.
Dejanae
Thank y' all so much for joining us. Tell everybody where they can find you. I mean, I'm sure they know already, but ask Saraya.
Alexandrea
On every platform.
Tyler Lynch
Everything is Ty, luckily.
Saraya
And what y' all got?
Host Lex P
Your too. Anything else other than Ruth and Boaz, what else can we expect to see y'? All?
Alexandrea
Yes. Music dropping.
Host Lex P
Okay, I'm ready for that. Girl, you need a background dance.
Dejanae
You have a beautiful voice.
Alexandrea
Hey, thank you.
Host Lex P
I got you, girl.
Saraya
I'm gonna show up.
Dejanae
She gonna try to get in the stool.
Saraya
She's not playing.
Host Lex P
What about you, Tyler?
Tyler Lynch
We got this coming out on Friday on the 26th. Netflix, a few other projects. We actually have another movie dropping later on.
Saraya
Okay.
Tyler Lynch
Yeah, I'm just finishing up writing this while I was having the script written for me that I'm, you know, producing. Just trying to put the producer hat on and try to bring all the ideas I have to fruition.
Host Lex P
That's exciting.
Tyler Lynch
Just staying on it.
Host Lex P
Well, thank y' all so much for joining us.
Dejanae
Thank you so much, y'.
Saraya
All.
Host Lex P
Hope y' all had a good time. And anytime y' all have anything going on, come back, sit on the couch. Andrea, Muse, Beauty. Tell them what a shot, period.
Dejanae
Muse Beauty Collection.com. make sure you get your lip glosses, lip liners, blushes, mascara, eyeliner. I got everything, period.
Host Lex P
And y' all make sure y' all watch. Love Lexp. We drop every Monday at 10am and we'll see y' all next week.
Dejanae
Bye, y'.
Alexandrea
All.
Saraya
Bye.
Host Lex P
Yeah, baby. So until.
Saraya
New Jasmine, if I had you back in my world I would prove that I could be a better girl. Oh, let me back in. I was sure enough Never, never let you go again. Hey, baby. I was so foolish to ever leave your side Searching for what was right before my eyes it was me who didn't realize till it was gone but now I know I need you in my life, boy I need you bad as my heartbeat Bad as the food I eat Bad as the hair I.
Dejanae
Breathe I can't take this pain, boy.
Saraya
I'm about to go and say. Cause I need you, I need you, I need you What I gotta do? I need you, I need you do it all for you baby there's nothing I wouldn't do Give back what we had when love was true no lie I give up all I got just so I can get back in my spy Bad as a heartbeat Bad as a food I eat bad like the hair I breathe I need you bad I can't take this pain, boy I'm about to go insane I need you, I need you what I gotta do I need you, I need you do it all for you.
Host Lex P
This is how Ruth needed Boaz.
Saraya
Y'.
Host Lex P
All. Y' all got to read the Bible sometimes because y' all don't know what be going on on this so bad.
Saraya
That you gotta get them back. Say oh stop.
Host Lex P
This is a Bible episode.
Saraya
Cause you won't get it better. There you go together say oh if you believe in love but you can't give them up say oh oh you won't do to get back with your boo say oh Bad as a bad like the air I breathe I need you bad I can't take this pain, boy I'm about to go insane I need you, I need you what I gotta do I need you, I need you do it all for you.
Host Lex P
I didn't know if that was Jasmine.
Saraya
I got. Damn it.
Host Lex P
Cut the cameras. This is the church episode.
Saraya
Boaz, come get your girl.
Alexandrea
Come back to me, baby.
Host Lex P
Come back.
Saraya
Walk one bumba clock.
Dejanae
Of course we. Because we girls.
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On this lively episode of Pour Minds, hosts Lex P and Drea Nicole sit down with actors Tyler Lynch (Lepley) and Saraya (Serayah) — stars of Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film "Ruth and Boaz." The crew dives into the art of portraying iconic, faith-based characters while navigating personal growth, public relationships, Hollywood challenges, and modern relationships. The conversation is equal parts candid, insightful, and hilarious, touching on Black love, oversexualization, career ambitions, and maintaining authenticity on and off screen.
Approach to Their Roles (06:10–08:28):
“She’s just a woman navigating. She has trauma... I was more so approaching it from that angle.” — Alexandrea (06:35)
“To find the reality of any character, I gotta know him on some level… my yin yang, my juxtaposition…” — Tyler Lynch (07:08)
Similarity with Characters (09:08–11:23):
The actors focused on grounding their performances in relatable, everyday emotions, rather than strictly adhering to weighty expectations of religious storytelling (15:15).
“I didn't feel the weight of... ‘Oh my God, this is a biblical story.’ It was more about creating the space in the world in which these characters live.” — Alexandrea (14:58)
Strong and supportive writing allowed the actors to bring nuanced interpretations without the pressure of deviating from the Bible (15:52–16:17).
“Not having it feel that daunting is a testament to the writers... we just find the reality in it moment to moment.” — Tyler Lynch (15:52)
“It’s part of the craft... to emulate life. When you’re on set and see how not real it is, that’s what people don’t get.” — Alexandrea (17:38)
“You have your foundation right at home so that you can go off to work and do what you’re supposed to do professionally.” — Tyler (19:14)
(A playful segment at 29:38–36:18)
The group explores who would be more likely to slide in DMs, send money before a date, or post first on IG if Ruth and Boaz were dating in 2025.
They also reflect on trust, maturity, and healthy boundaries, all while bringing in laughs and cultural references.
“Ruth said, ‘I’mma pray for you, brother!’” — Host Lex P (30:59)
“It's ridiculous how surface level we've become... If we hyper focus on that, we start to lose what y’all really are.” — Tyler Lynch (44:01 & 45:57)
“We need to see more of that… This film shows a good example.” — Host Lex P (41:38)
(52:00–56:02)
“That lets me know that he understands the, you know, the sacrifice.” — Tyler Lynch (55:28)
On Overcoming Surface-Level Focus and Hypersexualization:
“All three of y’all are beautiful, but if we hyper focus on that, we start to lose what y’all really are.” — Tyler Lynch (44:01 & 45:57)
On Love and Representation:
“We need to see more of that... This film shows a good example of that [healthy Black love].” — Lex P (41:38) “Just like the story... there’s the trial and the error. There’s the push and the pull. It was sweet at the end, but it wasn’t just sweet the whole time.” — Alexandrea (41:54)
On Parental Balance:
“I’m not sleeping. I’m just here right now, getting through it... but I have a great support system.” — Alexandrea (52:24) “That lets me know that he [my son] understands the sacrifice.” — Tyler Lynch (55:28)
The conversation is candid, warm, and peppered with humor and encouragement — true to the relaxed “girl talk with wine” energy of Pour Minds. Both guests and hosts keep it relatable, discussing everything from boundaries and work-life balance to makeup tips and favorite tunes. Listeners are left with not just behind-the-scenes insight into "Ruth and Boaz," but also real-world perspectives on love, ambition, and the realities (and rewards) of navigating relationships in the public eye.
For more on "Ruth and Boaz," check out the guests' upcoming projects, music, and appearances, and be sure to hit play on Pour Minds for your weekly fix of real talk, laughs, and inspiration.