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Da Partments 2 Cast Exposes the Funniest Behind-the-Scenes Stories Yet

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Da Partments 2 Cast Exposes the Funniest Behind-the-Scenes Stories Yet

The *Departments 2* sequel is a celebration of authentic, community-rooted Black comedy that emerged from real-life experiences and creative independence. The cast—T.I.A., Erica Duchess, Henry Welch, and Tyler Chronicles—share behind-the-scenes stories of how the project began during struggles with mainstream networks and rejections, leading them to forge their own vision. Inspired by conversations at a liquor store and grounded in real community dynamics, the film emphasizes improvisation, humor, and raw emotional truth. The team highlights the importance of patience, chemistry, and shared belief in their vision—rejecting outside validation to create a genuine, heartfelt experience. Fans are invited to experience the film’s authentic humor, real-life moments, and emotional depth, especially through its portrayal of Atlanta’s underground comedy scene. The cast acknowledges the joy of creative freedom, the power of spontaneity, and the unforgettable moments that occur when comedians and actors truly connect—making *Departments 2* not just a film, but a cultural moment rooted in authenticity and mutual respect. The word of the day, "ebuelience," symbolizes the high energy and enthusiasm that defines the project and its cast.

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This is expeditiously, I am too, T.I.A. Uh-huh, now the following experience is not a test, the conversations and stories expressed on this podcast are meant to be an expression of purpose and truth. This show, properly entitled Expeditiously, is a free exchange of ideas and opinions, no judgment, no preconceived beliefs, no fear. You're encouraged to share your thoughts and ask any question as long as it's done with respect. It's through true love and respect for others that we would change the world and speak truth to power, once you're at a time. Now without further ado, this is Expeditiously, I'm T.I.A.A. Hey man, it's a very special day, got a very special show. We got the cast, uh, with some of the cast members of the department's two, uh, now it's important because every care member that is here today was also in the department's moment, you know what I'm saying. So we like the OG department, cast, uh, members and one is actually a writer, uh, a co-writer for, for the script, um, they're all comedians on the underground scene man coming out of Atlanta, but not all from Atlanta, you know, saying we got one of my partners is from LA, you know, I mean, another one of my partners is from Alabama. You did what I'm saying. And, you know, the third, they're deadly from the west side. We're gonna be doing the days we're gonna be talking behind the scene story, unforgettable moments on set, favorite scenes, what fans can expect from this, uh, from this sequel. Uh, and without further ado, man, we have Erica Duchess, Henry Welch, and Tyler Chronicles, right here with us today, oh, it's the dish. What's happening? What's happening, guys? Oh my God. Yeah, man. Well, we got to ain't got the sequel. Yeah. Yeah. To independent sequels is crazy. I don't have to say they can't do it without that. I did the, the, the, the idea or the, the thought for the departments come, come to you. How did you know? Oh, man, shout out to Ronnie for catching COVID off the rip. I want to be here. I mean, shout out to C19. Remember, remember, we call it a corona Corona. We were like, hey, y'all fucking up the man. Yeah. It was. Yeah. No, we were getting the test every year. So, you know, lost during media, man, Ronnie had got COVID, you know, shout out to Clay. You know, OG Clay, man, he, he saw me at the hell. Yeah, show. And he was like, man, you look like you can play an old nigga. Let me call a tip. I had those, I had those bullshit that I ain't gonna have a little vest on. I had the whole flood, whole flood. I had a little show. Okay. I don't know they can be older. Yeah. I look forward to him. I'm fucking crazy. Yeah. So, yeah, he hit me and, you know, that's when I talked to you on the phone and then y'all had another table reading, you know, everything kind of went from there. Okay. What about you? No, I was playing walks once again. OG Clay was the best. He said, Hey, man, T, I got a part for you in the movie. He was 100 degrees. Yeah. I know. I'm in the movie now. He was hot that day. I didn't count. Okay. But I knew it was going. It was so much fun on the set. That one made it so unique. Yeah. It was so much fun and stuff. But when we won family, we was having so much fun. So that one made it so great for me. I said, yeah, this is going to be a one of them one day. When I, when I seen no white fold out like, oh, yeah, he had to put out. He had to put out the shirt. I said, I'm going to be a little bit more like we had real trailers and shit. Yeah. How sad. Look at this shit. Really? My name on that beer. That's a, oh my God. I'm a star. Oh, yeah. I had a view. You got your own room. You got my name. You can't tell me. I'm like about T.I. If you hung around the set, you might have got put in the movie. That's one thing about T.I. The comedian. If you was in the right spot the right time, he put you in the movie. And I'm not, yeah, it's about telling people you had to be there. Right. It was a hole in the wall. Someone you don't know the trenches boy. Yeah. Yeah. The folks had a front door in the back door right next to each other. I don't know if they're ready to go to work. I'm like, it's people really living in here. Yeah. And I'm looking out cat. Yeah. We're trying to go to work. Yeah. I can get it. I got nothing. It's my bus. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's real shit. Yeah. She's the whole old man. I'm here to crack my bus. She was a real kid. A lady for real. Yeah. She was a real kid. A lady. She was a real kid. A lady. I'm like, "Damn, let me get an oatmeal pie." Yeah. I'm so fucking mad. I was so mad. We got to go back there twice. We had the same spot again. And that was amazing. It was a love, both times. Yeah. There you had a ball. She didn't play though. She even want you messing up her guy. That house. No, I mean, according to that, she got the leader. Yeah. Yeah. She just said the can. Yeah. Yeah. All of my bad before you move on, when did the idea come to you? When did you first start about thinking about doing a movie that way? Right. The idea came when me and DCF like kept getting dull, slammed and I facing, getting rejected after we were going around different networks and different streaming. Also, what was your opinion? I thought you were pitching that. We were pitching something different. It wasn't the pie thing. It was still a community-based comedy. It was said at a liquor store though. Okay. It was said at the, it was called Boone and Broly. Okay. So it was said at a liquor store. Was it Claude and Rayson? No, whatever. Yeah, we messed up that. That would be him. Claude and Rayson, we could get that tomorrow. Oh, yeah. So, after we just was kind of pitching, I identified five show. And it was stated people that, you know, didn't look like us. And you know, the people that we were not marketing towards and that we were not aiming at demographic wise, they were telling us what they felt our people would and would not respond to. And, you know, that kind of, we felt a little deflated, leaving the means and we were just looking at each other like, "Man, you know what, man, fuck what they say, man. Why do we got to ask them? They just, they just do something, put some shit together, and do what I see up." And we had like partnerships with that script. So we just kind of started something new. And the apartments were what we came up with. Yeah, go ahead. I always thought you was pitching apartments, and then what would that sound like? No, no, no. But would that happen too? So that happened to you after we shot the first three episodes. After we shot them first three episodes, man. We did pitch them too, and that also didn't work. So we went from series format to film. But that just, that goal to show, at least it showed us that you don't need nobody else's validation. You, nobody else has to agree with your vision. And how does you, and the people who you, who you, who you have within your support system, if you can pull it together and y'all can, and y'all can do it, then you don't need nobody else's approved. I'm telling you, because they watching this movie, like, "I'm all for good." I can't go nowhere without being called Mr. Walter. [laughing] Mr. Walter, you really got the bag. I told ya. [laughing] I heard you can't even take it asked me. You got to crunch it up in grits. You don't look like you ain't got no white blood still. When I come back, this shit better be gone. Man, I don't want to hear that shit, man. Let me finish this guy. Fuck you in that car. That shit better be gone when I come back. He posting. Oh, they love it, man. It's one of the fun, it's movies. People got all black. We not hating nobody if you ain't seen it. You crazy, though. This is one of the fun movies in the movie. Not just saying it 'cause I'm up for Oscar, but I'm fucking mad at you. It's such great movies. You up for a Harold, nigga. No, I'm not. I'm a little old. Oscar, my, what I see over there. I'm still up. Hot dog. What was your favorite scene? There you go. No, I'm doing my part. There you go. There you go. Do you know who you got? So do you get powers? No, I don't get powers. No, man. No, I'm a real step. Is that what we're hot dog? No, no. It's just funny. I'm like, "Damn it. This is your son." Hey, man. You get mad when you get him. That's my favorite. Are you kidding me? I'm gonna put this shit in there. I think that the pain and struggle you have to have or go through or just the your awareness that you have to have to be a really good stand-up comedian is really good for acting as well. And in order to be a great stand-up, you got to get on stage. You can't wait to fry it in Saturday. That's right. Yeah, you got to go. Let's try like about Tia. He was going on stage every night. Every night. Every night. Every night. I'm tired of you comedian showing up and I said, "Hey, you need me to go up. I don't care. You need me to go up. You wasting gas. We come from here. Hey, man, put me up next. I mean, we love that. We'll go up at the Richard Proud hologram. We didn't come up. I had to not draw all the way. I had to not go up. You knew how you were going to net the stock, Richard. If you need me to go up for me. I need you now. One time I'm going up. How many of you got? Can I go up third? That one. I want you to know. Yeah. If you really about it. I see your face. I think you want to go up. Come on. Yeah. Can I go up third? That one. I want you. Yeah. I see your face. Come on. You and show it up. You. That is a trip. I'll be hosting some shit and see a comedian like shit. I could probably put you up next about now. I'm good. Why are you over here? Oh, don't give up. Say this. I ain't in for like coming up. Well, you should have never win up. They still in joke. There you go. There you go. There you go. I'm gonna get that bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna get that shit. Yeah. Yeah. How do you think the putt missed two compares to the first one? Way better. Why do you say that? It way better. I think. I don't. Yeah. I mean. It's funny. The first one. I think the second one. Well, I say way better than the second one. We was more of a sculpture and really this time. Yeah. Really the father. Because what we did, we see what we did with the first one. It was good and stuff like that. But it was, we also seen it was good to follow the script. The first one was a great setup for the second one. Yeah. I mean, first one. Let you know the characters. Let you get to know them. And then you see how funny everybody was. And then the second one was like, oh, okay. We added more characters. And it's a good storyline to it. Oh, damn. Somebody didn't got hit. And now we got a whole little dramatic. And we had like, we had money in the second one. Yeah. Yeah. I was like a step up. Yeah. People making faces and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You could tell the difference. The glow wasn't great. And I think there was a lot of like in the second one. It was like things that you will miss from laughing at stuff in the beginning. Like, you know, how you go back and watch all the classic shit that we like. But then I ain't see that the first time I hit. Man, like the one of the funniest things in me when Tokyo badly said, she's like, now you ain't getting away out of me. I ain't that type of fat bitch. Yeah. Now she's a fool. I love her. I mean, something cool on it. Because what? I like guns. They're more reliable. And they hit the spot every time. So you ever think sometime you'll live with a brain? Maybe I'm just not picking them right. What? The guns? No. The niggas. Ah, ah, ah. Don't do it. Hey, my shirt. Now, to the actors. They didn't hear it right now, man. Did I hear Tokyo Vanity Money Bad? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I thought I won. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Hey, man. What do y'all think? So you as a writer, Tyler, what do you think was the most interesting scene? That you wrote that, that, you know, this all come to life. Man, I think, first I think it was interesting that my name wasn't in the credits as a writer, who would tell my name. But no. How about that? No, you did, man. I love you. I love you with them to make sure that it wasn't right. I told them my name. I told them I was filled with everything. My mom would say, "You ain't in the credits to write, man." I said, "I don't know what happened, but everybody knows what time it is." So you let them lead to some. Huh? You let them lead to some. Yeah, man. Yeah, you said. Make sure they get it right. I don't say who thought it was, but they ain't. I ain't for what, no fame. I don't say who. I ain't just the one. Not with them. But you listen, bro, to see from my idea of the end of the church scene with J.S.K. as the pastor, to see what I actually did with him when I walked in there and then to see the end result with the choir and everything. I had that kind of inhibition, but I went just above and beyond what I thought. Tell me from your perspective, what was the most surprising part about making this movie? Oh, that we were getting paid. [laughter] The people didn't believe it. Yeah, we really did. Yeah. [laughter] The most surprising part of me was how easy it was to work with everybody. I hate when I couldn't be on set. Like, if you ain't working this day, like, man, I want to come up with a date. I ain't even working. Right. I don't feel like it's a bomb. [laughter] You ain't working. You want to be on the set. No, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's it. It's something when you ain't working and you still want to come to work. You still pulled up. And another reason why I knew it was going to be great too, because I had did the movie with you before when you had did the track. So I knew about your comedians again. I was like, back with T.I. I know it's going to be a lot of fun. Hey, so, so, so did you stick to the script? Henry, or, or did you, did you improv a lot? So I'm up. And if we, yeah, we was doing that. But they would let me get it off too. Like, Henry, you're going to talk about, you know, they showed you the premise. But there was a lot of them. They let me just come out of my head. Okay. That's what I love about doing the comedy and being a comedian. Okay. Got to have that. Yeah. You can't improv or come out of the dome. Tyler. Yeah. time I suggested for you to see some and you're like, "Say what?" Did I tell you to say some shit? You were like, what the fuck you mean? - Nah, I ain't had that problem. - You didn't, no, you were straight with me. You like, you made me hear me well. And there's some water, so it was all good. - Yeah. I had a problem with 'cause I know you like one time, you like, you know how to ask for some money. (laughing) - Yeah, you know what I'm doing. (laughing) - Like what? (laughing) - And you know, I mean, I think that it could, 'cause a lot of it come from shit that I've heard, why I've shit that I've heard more fucker say, just in life. Experiences in life I've heard more fucker say, why I shit, and I just, you know, if I see a circumstance, you know, something that might fit that phrase than I thought I'd tell. - That's what a good director does, man. - How you do it? - How you do it? - And you'll be remembering everything. I can't remember what you're doing. - Yeah, what you mean? - You can't remember, you can't remember anything. - Yeah. - What you mean, remember what? - Everything, that you mean. (laughing) - I haven't seen no teleprompter when you up there rapping. - I haven't seen some time, man. - I haven't seen some of the people when we had, don't even know they lived here. (laughing) - Don't even know they lived here. They lived near the crowd. (laughing) - No, man, whenever we get the show going, we need to kind of build a real community for the people. - Yeah. - You know what I'm saying? Because it's a lot of die-haw, it's a cult following a people who really have been, you know, saying keeping up with the fam. - Yeah. - And the characters, you know what I'm saying? - Yeah, yeah. - You have a need of pain. - You need a pain. - Yeah, let me know. - We got one, departments2.com. D-A-P-A-R-T-M-E-N-T-S-2.com. If you don't wanna, if you don't wanna subscribe, no well, you just wanna watch it and wanna have it and own it, you can go to departments2.com and you know what I'm saying? Have it in your lab, bro. I also workin' on merch. I also work on merch, yeah. - Okay. - Look at all that. So we can continue, man, in the service-out audience. - You might wanna get a tour then. - Hey, man, you know what? - That ain't a bad idea. - Yeah, I don't wanna get a tour. - We got the funny comedians in the world. We'll put 'em up against anybody. - That ain't a bad idea, man. Hey, so I, I mean, I hate to ask this with me in the room, but knowing me personally, knowing me personally and spending time around me off set, versus knowing me as a director. What is, what is the biggest difference? - Tup average the director. What is that like? - Well, it's more different T.I. and Tup. - You're right. - What does that mean? - It's a different. - It's like that. - You as Tup, like, now you Tup. - What does that mean, yeah? - It was T.I. he different. - That's a different one. - He went into a business, like, and I like that, you know what I'm saying? If we've been grown now, you know when it's turnin' on and turn it off. And then when we see-- - You do? (laughing) - Pause. - You turn it, you go, you go, you go, you go, you go. - He growin' now, we growin' now. (laughing) - It's a sorry look you do, too. It's a sorry look you do when we know you like serious. - What, what you been doing? - Hey, Brad, yeah. - What ain't got to say now? - Nah, listen, that's how he told K-Dub. Get his lines right? He was that ass serious and what's up? - I got him in a nest, though, like, man, come on. - Oh, his stuff is spreadin' a little down. - He's gon' be a professional, man. - I'm just here, this one, I don't like to see-- (laughing) I don't like to see T.I. go to sleep. When do we go to sleep? - The shop, man. - This man is always up and movin' all day. Look, it's somebody send me a picture of T.I. sleep. I got money. (laughing) - I got money. - Tiny. - I got money. - I'm gonna see a picture of T.I. sleep. - It's not as real. - Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. - The difference is, like, as a director, you ain't on your phone. When I'm kicking it with your record, you gonna be on that phone, right? Somebody's gonna be calling to you and I hate asking for something. Some of your time, some of your energy, whatever it is. But when you direct me, you really are focused on that shit, but yeah. We just kicking it-- - Oh. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You can be talking to him. - He's talking to him. - No, I'm away from him. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And if you're talking to him on the phone, he can be talking to other people. (laughing) - He's talking back on that too, you know? - Like, hello? Yes, I'm still here, man. Yeah. (laughing) - Whoa, whoa, whoa. - That's him. That's you really. - Yeah, let's talk about it, dude. - I'm going on with you. - With the end of the time, you know what I'm saying? We was filming the movie and, you know, 'cause we would definitely go off the page. But with the end of the time, I suggested for you to say something. You were like, say what? Did I tell you to say some shit? And you were like, what the fuck you mean? - No, I ain't had that problem. - You didn't. - No, you were straight with me. Like, you made me hear me well. And there's no water, so it was all good. - Yeah. - I had a problem with it 'cause I know you were like, one time you were like, you know how to ask for some money. (laughing) - Yeah. - I'm not going to do that. - Like, what? (laughing) - You know, I mean, I think that it could, 'cause a lot of it come from shit that I've heard, while shit that I've heard, motherfuckers say, just in life. Experiences in life I've heard, motherfuckers say, why shit? And I just, you know, if I see a circumstance or, you know, something that might fit that phrase, then I throw what I do. - That's how you do it. - That's how you direct people. I can't remember what you mean. - You can remember. - You can remember the stuff. - Yeah. - Everything. - Yeah. - I haven't seen some teleprompter. - I haven't seen some of the people that we have. - Don't even know that you're living here. (laughing) - Don't even know that you're living there. (laughing) - Hey, man, would ever get the show going, man. - You go, man. - Get to the end. - You make it happen, man. - What's one memory from this movie that you'll never be able to forget? - I'm gonna die. - You, I'm gonna die. - Oh, yeah, which time? - I had good urgent care. - Yeah. - Shit, I don't know what day it was, but I had on the green, had on the green road. - Okay. - Yeah, I had, I had overheated, bro. - Yeah, overheated. - Yeah, I had overheated. - How did you know? - Shit, I ain't feel good. And my hands got beat. - Oh, you know, that beat. - Yeah. - That's the only reason I'm with the urgent care. My hand swole up, and I was like, that's great. - So you would dehydrate? - Yeah, that said, it was some, I would dehydrate it. And also, like, I was a pescatarian at the time. - Oh, yeah, you never see somebody change up my diet. - God, there you go. - So you back on chicken now? - Nah, man, I don't fuck with chicken still. - So what you do turkey? - Yeah. - I had turkey look around beef here and there, but, you know what I mean? - Hammer chicken. - Hammer chicken, but yeah, I got off a pescatarian 'cause you got to kind of like eat according to your blood type. - Man, I know my time trying to eat meat, man, I'm a diet, sorry, I ain't being like that, diet. - So what would you say? What would you say? What would you say? What would you say? What would you say? What would you say, pescatarian? - I would just try to just go, you know what I mean? - Like pescatarian. - Yeah, whatever the terrier it is. (laughing) - I would do it. - All vegetables. - I would do it, and I would just like. - What made you mad at the fat vegetarian? I'm like, I mean, how you a fat vegetarian? (laughing) - You gotta stop. - You got the weight on first and then say I'm gonna be a bitch. - And the way down. - Confused. - You caught 'em on the way down. - And the way down, man. - And the way down. - Hey, man, you know what I'm saying? - What's the what, what's the what thing you learn about each other, why shooting this movie? - This one, that's a great question. - Well, when I say him, it was really acting real good. I didn't think he was gonna act like that, but I was like, "Shut up really got them real Mr. Walts." - Yeah, I had to come over here. - Yeah, I saw like, I was, I like that. - 'Cause I didn't wanna have another Mr. Walts. - Yeah. (laughing) - Part two of the last game, Mr. Walts. (laughing) - I had to get Prince Prince. (laughing) - Well, he, who that Walts? That was the Wal to come. (laughing) - And with Tyler, I don't want with Tyler before and stuff like that. And I see that he really be like, serious. It's like he's serious, like he's a serious actor, but then he's acting, but he's still acting at the same time, and being funny. - I don't think he's gonna understand what you saying. - Yeah, I don't think so. - Yeah, I don't think so, I understand. - Yeah, yeah. Tyler, I always get my shit. (laughing) - I actually understand. That's all you can do, come over here, man. - Yeah, what that shit called when you got a person like that? - Telekinesis. - Yeah, go with you, love it. (laughing) - Yeah. (laughing) - I am full of kinesis. (laughing) (laughing) - I kind of want to do this. - I kind of know what you're thinking. (laughing) - What you're thinking, what you're thinking, what you're thinking. - What you're thinking, what you're thinking, what you're thinking about homies? - Yeah. (laughing) - Yeah, okay. - Okay. - Okay, all right. - I'm gonna say what I learned, I learned about everybody else that comedians had patience, 'cause you gotta be patient to be patient, you know what I mean? So a whole lot of waiting around and comedians that usually ain't our wheelhouse, you know what I mean? We recorded rock and roll ready to go, but I saw having a bunch of comedians on set and waiting to go and do stuff, nobody was really tripping, you know what I mean? Everybody was on cue ready to go, so. - And I learned that a lot of people, they swear we'd be late, but everybody was on time. - Yeah, he was on time. - Early in the morning, y'all still don't think we'd be out all night? Yeah, people was up early. - You know what I'm saying, I don't like air in there. - Yeah. - Come on. - Yeah, it's gonna be all night. - Come tonight, we did that. - Yeah, we'll get there on time. - Yeah, we'll deal with it later. - So give me one person to end it up being in the movie that you never thought we're gonna be in the movie. - She rabbit. (laughing) - Rabbit. - Can you try not to ram it? - Rabbit, yeah. (laughing) - You're a rabbit? - Oh my god. - Hey, this is so funny 'cause we did the premiere and Tiffany, DC was sitting up there there doing a quick interview with her. Rabbit, we're sitting right next to her name. - Yeah, I see it. - Oh my god. - I tell you, it was a pride of me, the keys. - Oh the keys. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And you did a good job. Yeah, I ain't a lot, bro. I didn't think y'all was gonna make good game do that What at the end? Why I thought y'all gonna let it go. No, I want you me. She went she did it She did a damn thing. Yeah, man. What about uh, okay? Character I ate a character. There's not there's not here Who did you enjoy From the movie and think of a question that you want to ask them when they sit down. Okay, Kelly. Okay, what do you want to add Kelly? Yeah, I seen let me put it in. Oh The moon robbing Amber man, man, man, man, oh, I got you, man, they did it. I want to add money back. Well, he's for real cuz he'll fall He won't be able to do that back at the window and fuck the But yeah, right man character man. Oh, yeah, very funny very funny. Hey, man. What are you most proud of about the film? It looks like, you know, obviously grand hustle studios, but it looked like it, you know came from a I think that what I'm probably more proud of that we did it together. I need nobody else's authority Well, I appreciate it. I appreciate you shit. Oh man come on man. I couldn't have did I couldn't have been up there Behind the camera and in front of my fucking, you know, I don't see you do that before need it. I can't talk to myself Okay, next movie. We need buddy read on a soundtrack. Okay, okay, I'm really hard not a bad not a bad not a bad situation Now speaking of for the next one, who do you think the most eligible to move act to put me to move out? He did be over there. He stayed already. Yeah, because any people live there bishop candy. Talk to you on my move. Okay, you think so. Yeah, talk to you. I'm a man of some I think that we created a universe with characters in it man. They could go, you know, as far as the imagination with care is thanks to you guys bringing these characters to life And finally, why should people go and check out the apartment to because it's because every lab every lab person on their panel showed up did they shit and had hilarious moments heartfelt moments Yeah, and and and really did make people wonder what the fuck going on in the apartments in Atlanta. Yeah, like authenticity. That's why you watch it. It's real Authentic and we were in the theater the way people were laughing people like other people. It was roaring in the movie. So funny man, if you don't want to laugh, don't watch it. But if you want to laugh, go sit down and get you a good laugh. Yeah, if you If you ugly don't watch it. Yeah, nobody think that you're gonna say the little mean that's going around saying that somebody gave you a thousand dollars for being ugly with you take it. Hey man, thank y'all for really just being some of the funny motherfuckers on the planet and being willing to work with us and bring the vision to light. We really appreciate it. And also thank y'all for you know, you're just showing up. Stopping about a date doing this expeditiously. We'll just appreciate it. My brother, we appreciate it. We'll add to be here now. Here's too. Come on. He'll expeditiously, man. We have something called the word of the date. Okay. The word of the day is something that's dedicated to the guests. So either something that used to describe the conversation and the word for the date that I chose. You read the error. Yeah. Word for the day is a billion. Hold on. Say it, break it out. A billion. A billion. So that let me know. Uh-huh. If it's done with the e, if you hit with the e, okay, that means it's me. I'm just trying to bring down the word. Then you say brilliant, brilliant, you, you, you, you, you, you, and she really could read you, you, you, you, you, go, you, go. Can you say you? Can you say you? Can you say you? So you're saying brutal, but can you say you? You, and I say, you, brutal. Take the hour out. Yeah. Yeah. Take the hour and the debut. That arm killing you, you, you say beautiful. Say, say, you say view, say view. Show me your nail. I say, you can't get it out. Say, you, you, you, you, there you go. That was good. You got them. That's your home. Man, I'm gonna kick you. I'm gonna talk to you. I have your tongue. I'm gonna go straight. Okay, ebuelience. Ebuelience means high-spirited enthusiasm or energy. I was quite. Ebuelience. And you, I'm using it in the center. So you know how to, you know how to make pretend like you knew it your whole life. The ebuelience of departments, two cast was impossible to miss as the enthusiasm and chemistry kept the audience engaged from start to finish. I love you. Don't you? [LAUGHTER] Yeah. Oh, no. I can't see it. I can't see it. You got a good speed. Yeah. Yeah. I feel your speed. I feel your speed. So, man, for moments like this and more, man, go check out department 2 at department2.com. If you ain't already seen it on our black, I love and respect. This has been Expedition. This is Expedition. I am to TIH.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast *Expeditiously* promotes open, respectful dialogue without judgment, emphasizing truth and personal authenticity.
  2. The sequel to *Departments* features an all-Black, community-driven comedy production, with real-life authenticity and behind-the-scenes moments from cast members.
  3. The team, including T.I.A., Erica Duchess, Henry Welch, and Tyler Chronicles, shares personal stories of how the project began, including inspiration from community interactions and rejections from mainstream networks.
  4. The filmmakers emphasized creative autonomy—rejecting outside validation and choosing to build the project based on their own vision, leading to a more authentic and impactful final product.
  5. The cast highlights the importance of improvisation, comedic chemistry, and real-life experiences in shaping scenes and characters, with standout moments like the church scene and the "Mr. Walter" jokes.
  6. The film is praised for its genuine humor, emotional depth, and authentic representation of Atlanta’s underground comedy culture.
  7. A key takeaway is that the project succeeded not because of external approval, but due to the cast’s dedication, unity, and shared belief in their vision.

Summary:

The *Departments 2* sequel is a celebration of authentic, community-rooted Black comedy that emerged from real-life experiences and creative independence. , Erica Duchess, Henry Welch, and Tyler Chronicles—share behind-the-scenes stories of how the project began during struggles with mainstream networks and rejections, leading them to forge their own vision. Inspired by conversations at a liquor store and grounded in real community dynamics, the film emphasizes improvisation, humor, and raw emotional truth.

The team highlights the importance of patience, chemistry, and shared belief in their vision—rejecting outside validation to create a genuine, heartfelt experience. Fans are invited to experience the film’s authentic humor, real-life moments, and emotional depth, especially through its portrayal of Atlanta’s underground comedy scene. The cast acknowledges the joy of creative freedom, the power of spontaneity, and the unforgettable moments that occur when comedians and actors truly connect—making *Departments 2* not just a film, but a cultural moment rooted in authenticity and mutual respect.

The word of the day, "ebuelience," symbolizes the high energy and enthusiasm that defines the project and its cast.

FAQs

The podcast is a free exchange of ideas and opinions, with no judgment, preconceived beliefs, or fear. It encourages respectful dialogue and sharing of personal stories and truths.

The idea came from the creators' frustration with being rejected by networks and streaming platforms, and a desire to create a community-based comedy that reflected authentic experiences, not just mainstream appeal.

No, they allowed improvisation, especially through the comedians' natural instincts. The team encouraged creativity, letting actors improvise and bring their own experiences to the scenes.

The film features real-life moments, unfiltered humor, and genuine interactions from the cast, showing the authenticity of life in Atlanta and the close-knit community behind the scenes.

The cast and crew were surprised by how easy it was to work together and how much they enjoyed the process, especially because they were able to make the film without needing external approval.

It offers hilarious, heartfelt, and authentic moments that capture real community life, making it both entertaining and emotionally resonant for audiences who appreciate raw, unfiltered storytelling.

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