Debra Jo Rupp
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203 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Debra Jo Rupp’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He has to take Deja to go visit her mother. Court ordered visit. Court ordered visit in jail. And he's having a judgment about it. Like, you know, how dare this woman, you know, drive her daughter around with an unregistered gun? Like, that's the most irresponsible thing. And Beth's like, well, you know, you don't know. I was like, no, I don't know if I have any patience for this at all.
Like, I'm going to do this because I'm supposed to do it, but I don't really want to be there.
Come on.
Like, we're all... The way that we so snap judge folks as human beings. Yeah. Because it's easy to be able to put somebody in a box and then you just sort of like don't have to deal with them anymore. Sure. Right. And the show is always challenging us like, hey, just be careful of these boxes that you throw people into arbitrarily. Right. Black, white, whatever. Anybody is capable of doing it.
Right? So we go to prison and whatnot. I got to say, I remember working with Lyric on this, the young Deja, and she's a very serious-minded young lady. Yeah. So I'm always trying to do things to try to get her to laugh. Most of my scenes with Lyric are like, can I get her to smile?
So we go to prison and it's a real defunct prison. And it's always sort of an interesting thing when you do, have you guys done the real defunct prison thing? And it's like, Oh, I don't want to be here.
Energetically, it's like, no, I don't like these places. This don't feel good. So we go. Randall has this moment where he shields her eyes because he doesn't want her to see handcuffs. And she's like, I haven't seen handcuffs before. And he's like, I've seen handcuffs, too. And she's like, on TV or real life? I'm like, come on, man. Like, real life. And he's like, it's TV. On TV. Right?
We go in there, uh, Deborah Jo Rupp, our social worker is telling us good news. You don't have to be between a partition today. You actually get a chance to hug your mom. Right. She's so excited. So looking forward to seeing her mom. We go inside, we're waiting. I'm talking about her hair again, just trying to be silly, get her to laugh or whatnot. Enjoy yourself.
Deborah Jo comes up and she says, you know, something happened. She doesn't want to see. Yeah.
I was like, I didn't know she could opt out. Like she said, yeah, you know, it's court order, but she has the option of not, you know, coming. And I sort of like say something, I was like, man, who's looking out for this kid, man? Like, this is some bull. Like we, she went through all of this stuff to be here, to see her.
I'm like, and it's sort of like indicting her as well as like, you guys, somebody has to be caring for this child. And she's like, look, bro, you coming after me? And this is, this is shout out to all social workers. Unquestionably. They're saints. The things that they see.
It is incredible because there's a very high turnover in social work. It's a matter of like two, three years sometimes.
Understandably.
And she basically reads him, like, look, before you tell me if I'm looking out for somebody or whatnot, I learned sign language for people who have, like, eardrums laid out so I can tell them things. Like, I know how to say it. We haven't found parents for you yet. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And then Randall sort of, like, says, my bad.
Goes back, tells Deja something happened. There was a confusion. He made up a story. Folks, yeah, he makes up a story, confusion. She said, well, can I get my purse? I brought some money. I've been saving my allowance so my mom can get all the stuff that she wants in here. So he's like, okay.
So they leave and you see a delightful flip of R&B where Beth is, you know, at the time, like, this is ridiculous that this woman put her through this. I love it when they flip. I love it when, I was like, wait, I thought I was gonna be the bad one. Happens once in a while on the show. And she's like, no, it's me right now.
It happens for Ryan and I every once in a while, too. It's like, Ryan's like, I don't like it when you get mad, Sterling. He's like, you stay calm. Yeah. Ooh, I want to see Sterling mad. I don't get mad often. And my kids will say the same thing. Like, Dad doesn't get upset often. He's like, when Dad does.
That's the point.
Absolutely. So then we get home, we have that scene with R&B, and then Randall goes back to visit Shawna himself.
And we see that Shawna actually got jumped, faces sort of black and blue, beat up, says, I didn't want my daughter to see me like this. And they sort of have this conversation about who's best for Deja, what not. Randall says something like, well, I'm on this side of the glass. And again, she's like, you think you know my story. Like, you know, I was trying to get myself right.
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