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Speaker 1: What's up his Way Up with Angela Yee.

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Speaker 2: And this is the first and you're making me feel

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Speaker 2: so good already, Nicole Ari Parker is here.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Way Up.

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Speaker 3: Thank you good to be here.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: Listen when I tell you just such a legend as

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Speaker 2: long as you've been in this game.

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Speaker 1: You know, from Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking about that because it's mirrors from Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Tree Unique. But I know today we're

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Speaker 2: here talking about your entrepreneurship. But I have to say

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Speaker 2: there was a point where I did a scene on Empire.

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Speaker 3: I know I was would say, we work together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds so good. Say that again, we work together?

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Speaker 3: We did?

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Speaker 2: We work together guys, so yes, And you made me

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Speaker 2: feel so much more comfortable because that is not like

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Speaker 3: Well, a set in general is pretty hectic, you know,

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Speaker 3: like getting their hair makeup, everybody fussing over you, the

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Speaker 3: and then the tape and then everything.

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Speaker 2: And doing it like a billion times and being there

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know how you guys do this.

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't even know how it still gets done,

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Speaker 3: Like so much time is involved to get one shot.

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Speaker 2: Did you always know this is what you wanted to do?

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Speaker 2: Like this was your path?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I graduated from high school at seventeen. I

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Speaker 3: you know, become something that I could quote unquote fall

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Speaker 2: What does fully committing look like? Like, what did it

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Speaker 3: Me meant, you know, the Tisch schooler Arts is a

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Speaker 3: also it means there's not necessarily a there's no job guarantee.

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Speaker 3: When you get out. You still got to hit the

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Speaker 3: pavement you have to be proactive. Back then, you get

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Speaker 3: your head shots, mail them, okay headshots.

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Speaker 3: Then trying to afford the head shots, then your three jobs.

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Speaker 3: Then once you're out of the dorms, you know, you

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Speaker 3: I remember I got Boogie Nights and I was living

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Speaker 3: and like it was everybody. It was like French, African musicians,

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Speaker 1: It was actually like by Columbia's campus too.

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Speaker 1: Because that's like when sixteen Columbia Universe, right.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, what a Greatffman movie to like book first,

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Speaker 1: He's young.

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Speaker 3: It's Freddy Eagle like, like this was her normal she

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to feel like this is what I want to

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Speaker 3: And I had to like recalibrate myself really like I'm

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Speaker 3: Imagine that I was gonna get in trouble mom and dad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he edited really well, I think you saw boob.

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Speaker 3: I set it up like I'm gonna do a movie

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, yeah, you know, but you know I

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Speaker 1: Oh good answer.

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Speaker 3: Good night man. I was like twenty five or something.

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Speaker 1: That is crazy.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting for that to be your first experience,

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Speaker 2: So all of that is only fans, Yes, and sometimes

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Speaker 3: Like what's more interesting is the market for it that

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Speaker 2: I just think, you know what else, I think it's

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Speaker 2: Like you know the listip clubs, like the guys will

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Speaker 2: I don't know too many male strip clubs where we

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Speaker 3: Know, I think that I don't I don't know what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I feel like a actual club like, we

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Speaker 3: Because I don't think men bring in the same amount

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Speaker 2: Powerm What we need to do is for these women

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they don't mess up their hair.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, they are the hottest, so they need

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Speaker 3: Well, I made it twelve years ago in my kitchen.

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Speaker 3: And I did research on women's health, and I just

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Speaker 1: I see your tattoo right here. How many tattoos do

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Speaker 3: I have two? This one is inn diigrid symbol from Ghana.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it's hat out to my makeup artists keys.

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Speaker 2: Her birthday just passed, like I want to say, it

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Speaker 2: I think she's like eighteen. Yeah, she's like my daughter

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Speaker 3: Get go right to the pull on the heart strings

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Speaker 3: and mommy, okay.

443
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Speaker 2: Yes, so talk to me about this whole entrepreneurship journey

444
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,680
Speaker 2: for you, though, I want to say another thing, as

445
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 2: we were talking about earlier, you know, diet and making

446
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 2: sure that we're taking care of ourselves from the inside out.

447
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:47,919
Speaker 1: You know.

448
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 2: We also on the show have discussed a lot about

449
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 2: like women's health issues and fibruarys and detoxes and things

450
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,199
Speaker 2: like that. What are some things that you do to

451
00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 2: make sure that you maintain yourself as amazingly as you have?

452
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Speaker 3: Well, I think I think that if people really sit

453
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 3: down with themselves, sometimes we don't work out because we

454
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 3: just don't feel like it, even though we know all

455
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 3: of the benefits.

456
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 1: It's my last priority, last priority.

457
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,199
Speaker 3: So I sat down with myself and I was like,

458
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Speaker 3: what is this? I don't feel like it. What is

459
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 3: it really about? And I prayed about it and all

460
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 3: the things, and I meditated on it, and I realized

461
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:28,439
Speaker 3: that it wasn't convenient. You know how when you have

462
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 3: stuff to do, it all can work. I can pick

463
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 3: up that before work, I can get to work, I

464
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 3: can do that after work. I can make somebody help

465
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 3: me pick up my kids after this. Before you have logistics.

466
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 3: So I was like, I have to put exercise in

467
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,919
Speaker 3: an easy logistics for me. So I did for a

468
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,560
Speaker 3: while because I wanted to try different things. One thing

469
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 3: I tried is I would put my let's say, leggings

470
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 3: on or my shorts on and my tank top and

471
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Speaker 3: that's what I would sleep in.

472
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Speaker 1: So you get up and go right away, and I

473
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Speaker 1: get up and go right away.

474
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 3: I had to pre prepare. And that's a little dramatic,

475
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Speaker 3: but that's half.

476
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Speaker 2: The battle is getting dressed. Yes, yes, once you put

477
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Speaker 2: the clothes on, don't committed.

478
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 3: The second thing I did was because then going to

479
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 3: the gym became problematic. I created a side of the

480
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 3: bad workout. Just get down there. You don't need any equipment.

481
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 3: You do push ups, sit ups, squats, lunges, jump up

482
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,359
Speaker 3: and down and call it a day. You could do

483
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Speaker 3: that whole thing three times every day.

484
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Speaker 1: Have you posted it?

485
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Speaker 3: I did. I had a fitness app for a while. Yeah, Like,

486
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe we'll do it together, gym wraps. We

487
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 3: need to, We'll do a FaceTime and do it together

488
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 3: like women.

489
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Speaker 2: Because I travel a lot too, and so I noticed

490
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Speaker 2: that for a hotel and it's perfect for it.

491
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Speaker 3: So then I was like, Okay, make it a part

492
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Speaker 3: of a pre prepared routine, that's the getting dressed at night.

493
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Speaker 3: Do it on the side of the bed. And then

494
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Speaker 3: there was a third excuse, and it was like because

495
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 3: I don't feel like it could still win. I was like,

496
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 3: most of us believe in being grateful, right, whether it's

497
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 3: to whatever God you believe in, you always say thank

498
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 3: you to that high apoblety. And I decided, what if

499
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 3: I categorized a short circuit or exercise of some cardio

500
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 3: as the way I say thank you? Okay, I bow

501
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 3: my head every day before a meal, every single time,

502
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 3: at an airport, in a fast food chain, or at

503
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Speaker 3: a dinner table. Why can't I take thirty minutes to

504
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 3: say thank you. Okay, just thank you. I'm not trying

505
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 3: to lose weight, I'm not trying to burn this, I'm

506
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 3: not trying to build anything. I am just saying thank you.

507
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Speaker 1: That's a great idea.

508
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 3: And I just tie my gym wrap on and say

509
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 3: thank you.

510
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Speaker 2: Because I really do all the things like look, I

511
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 2: don'n downloaded apps.

512
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: Yes, I got yoga mats.

513
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 3: For the traveling for the hotel room.

514
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Speaker 2: I got treadmills, I got a bike, I got all.

515
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Speaker 1: The things like where what is up all these?

516
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Speaker 3: And you know, he's Spartacus, and if you go back

517
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 3: twenty five years, he looks exactly the same. He's one

518
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 3: of those people that was, of course an athlete, but

519
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 3: when he stopped playing professional tennis, it's just in him

520
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 3: to want to feel a certain way. So exercise is

521
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 3: part of that.

522
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so yeah, it's not fair, it's not fair.

523
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 3: But so he works out all the time. So when

524
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Speaker 3: I created a gym rap, I had to include men.

525
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 3: So he wears them every day. He just ties the

526
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Speaker 3: black bandy or the cameo full train.

527
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Speaker 2: What I like is that they're beautiful too, And sometimes

528
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 2: I think like things like that normally aren't like cute,

529
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 2: but I also like to work out when I have

530
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Speaker 2: like little cute things to work out in it. Yes,

531
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Speaker 2: I don't want to be one of those people that

532
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: always like take pictures, because you know how there's people

533
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 2: that go to the gym and they like take pictures

534
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 2: and videos and that's it, and you're like, did you

535
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 2: do anything? But it is nice when you can have

536
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 2: something cute on. It makes you a little graphic. Yes,

537
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 2: you feel a little pumped up. I think we need

538
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 2: a gym rap playlist along. Yeah, I want to know

539
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 2: what's on your What is on your playlist? It could

540
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 2: be like whatever, Like what is some things you listen

541
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 2: to when you work out?

542
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 3: Well, right now I'm listening to Bad Bunny. Yeah it's serious.

543
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 2: So you were excited when they announced that he's doing

544
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 2: the halftime show. Yes, yes, I think it's a beautiful thing.

545
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 3: Yes, me too. I think you know. Sometimes we were

546
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 3: talking before we went on the air about the craziness

547
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 3: we're all experiencing and witnessing, and sometimes God puts craziness

548
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 3: in front of your face to make everyone come together

549
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 3: and wake up. And there's something about the NFL choosing

550
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 3: bad bunny to do that right, and so everybody is

551
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 3: coming out of the woodwork to celebrate this moment, which

552
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 3: makes me feel good in the craziness Roles.

553
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a really clever choice.

554
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 2: It wasn't even somebody I was thinking of, because when

555
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 2: we were trying to speculate, you know, they're always like,

556
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 2: who's going to be doing a super halftime show? I

557
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 2: was thinking, like, Tayla's so, but then they said she

558
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: was out right, and then when they annasced, I was like,

559
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 2: that's really like the perfect choice right now in the

560
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 2: midst of all this is super smart to be able

561
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 2: to do that, and he's a huge star, you know,

562
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 2: no matter what. But now you see Ice is saying

563
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: they're going to be they're going to have the President's office.

564
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 2: They're saying they're going to have Ice there to kind

565
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 2: of like, I guess, harass people or I don't know

566
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 2: how they put it, but yeah, so that's the other.

567
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 3: Thing, you know, Molly Willim danger Girl.

568
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 2: It feels like a movie, Like that's what it feels like.

569
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 2: I can't believe this is, you know what things have

570
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 2: come to. I saw in Canada they've made like a

571
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: travel warning to come to the United States, and you

572
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: see how many people are like canceling travel here. You

573
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 2: see how Vegas is struggling right now, they're like doing

574
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 2: their first discounts ever because internationally people aren't trying to

575
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 2: come here right now. They don't feel they don't feel

576
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 2: safe come into the United States. But everything that's happening here,

577
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 2: and I think that's awful, Like that's not what this

578
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 2: is supposed to be about.

579
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Speaker 3: So I just don't understand what the what the forecast is,

580
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: Like what are you hoping to achieve? Like for all

581
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 3: of us to be gone? And then y'all stuck with y'all?

582
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 3: Like fine, Latinos and blacks can survive in their own neighborhoods,

583
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 3: right if you just like you know, Tulsa, like we

584
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 3: are fully sufficient. We're athletes, bankers, musicians, restauranteurs, everything, But

585
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 3: the elimination is the frightening thing.

586
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: Like who are y'all gonna temorize? If you we're not hearing?

587
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? But no, but like,

588
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 3: what are you hoping to achieve? What is this just

589
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 3: just white faces? Is that what're you're going for?

590
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 2: Like it's and it's so interesting to me because when

591
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: we talk about people who are, say undocumented, there's white

592
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:47,959
Speaker 2: people undocumented here.

593
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Speaker 1: They're just not getting harassed.

594
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, because for some reason, are we supposed to think

595
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 2: that that's what America is like white people are the.

596
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: Like, no, that's not what this is.

597
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 3: Like, I just I just don't get it. Yeah, And

598
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 3: they're and they're and they're adding the narrative of criminal

599
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 3: you know, criminalizing us and all these things, and it's like, Okay,

600
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 3: you're all all it's going to be pure lily white. Okay,

601
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 3: get your dream come true. There's going to be thieves

602
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: and criminals and and all kinds. You're going to face

603
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: to face with yourself. It's a it's a pipe it's

604
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 3: awful pipe dream.

605
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: What what are some projects that you're working on in

606
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: the future.

607
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, like, aside from obviously you know, the

608
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: gym wraps have been popping.

609
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: I know. I'm sorry. That's why I want to get

610
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: back to you.

611
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 3: Yes, oh okay, tell me who sah?

612
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: All right? What else is Nicole Iie Parker working.

613
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 3: On a lot of little things? You know, with the

614
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: actor you you can't say yes, yes, okay, oh, but

615
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 3: I'm in Green Lantern.

616
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I see that DC. Yes, all right, well.

617
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 3: It's coming out. The series is coming out next year.

618
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 3: I shot it this summer.

619
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's all done and wrapped.

620
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: Yes, all done and wrapped.

621
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Speaker 1: So I'll see you again for that. Yes.

622
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 3: And you know I love being back in New York.

623
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 3: Took fifteen years to get Boris to say, let's come back.

624
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: I know we're happy that you're back here till I

625
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 2: can't even imagine how different it is from when you

626
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: lived here before.

627
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 3: Oh it's it's very different. But I just love this city.

628
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 3: I love it so much.

629
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: This city loves you so thank you to see now,

630
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: how can people get these gym reps to just letting

631
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 2: people know where they can find it?

632
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: And then I know you're going to be working on

633
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: that playlist too.

634
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I am to make note for yes, okay,

635
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 3: it comes out tomorrow. Okay, okay, all right, I'll have

636
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: it out tomorrow. So where can people find it? Gimrep

637
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 3: dot com.

638
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: Oh well that makes sense, gymrap dot com. I'm on it.

639
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: By the way, we're going to be ordering those because

640
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: I can see myself looking.

641
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 3: Cute and I'm going to send you a gift box.

642
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: All right, I'm still order it though. It sounds like

643
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 2: a great gift in time for the holidays. Yes, I

644
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: love that.

645
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: And you got to come back up and see us.

646
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: Now that you're here, there's no excuses.

647
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 3: I will always for you.

648
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: All right, thank you. It's way up