Speaker 1: Man, what's handing?
Speaker 2: Man? You got more Shawn Besmall Lynch.
Speaker 3: Doug Hendrickson and Gavin Newsome.
Speaker 4: And you're listening to politickets, You're going to be you're.
Speaker 1: Knowing to be.
Speaker 5: Welcome to another episode of politics.
Speaker 6: Yeah, welcome, by the way, welcome to Chicago in the DNC.
Speaker 5: We are at the DNC the first time, the first
Speaker 5: time been been to the DNC. I've been to thirty
Speaker 5: super Bowls in a row, never the DNC. Pretty cool element.
Speaker 6: I like, this is this is my super Bowl, this
Speaker 6: is the political super Bowl. And by the way, where
Speaker 6: the hell are you? Marshaan? Why aren't you?
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, Gab, I'm in an undisclosed location right now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, can't be telling my whereabouts, can't give up
Speaker 2: my coordinates or nothing like that. But just understand where
Speaker 2: I'm at. They got the best motherfucking cigars that you
Speaker 2: could ever ever. Bless your motherfucking a lungs week. You
Speaker 2: understand we're.
Speaker 5: Sitting here talking politics and more. Shawn somewhere warm weather,
Speaker 5: I would s war. I was sure warm weather somewhere
Speaker 5: with cigars.
Speaker 2: Hey fresh, stop pocket watching my boy, Stop pocket watching
Speaker 2: my beloe. But man, make sure, y'all go howand my
Speaker 2: uh at my youngsters out there in Shareck telling my
Speaker 2: seal it was handed. We will y'all gonna be good though, Man,
Speaker 2: I gave y'all the g pass, so it's good.
Speaker 4: You fear me, man, I'll tell you what right now,
Speaker 4: we're giving no pass to Donald Trump. That's been a
Speaker 4: hell of a convention the last few days. And by
Speaker 4: the way, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama. We're gonna hear Fromkamala
Speaker 4: Harris later. But there's been one hell of an experience.
Speaker 4: But tonight we've got a few interesting guests. Who do
Speaker 4: we have on We got we got Tony Goldwin, former
Speaker 4: President of the United States.
Speaker 6: Tony seen on TV President. You don't don't you watch sam.
Speaker 2: My boy fits man, but look see man Fits. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to tell you though, because you feel me
Speaker 2: nomdy nom Deuce is my boy. You know I'm talking about.
Speaker 7: Namdi's married to Kerry Washington.
Speaker 5: Who is who is Tony's Tony's Tony's wife on Scandal.
Speaker 2: I ain't online, I'm I'm a I'm a huge fan
Speaker 2: of the show, but sometimes I don't like how Fitz
Speaker 2: was handling my boy now I'm duce girl, So I
Speaker 2: mean I might have to put some hands on that motherfucker.
Speaker 2: He just glad he better be glad that I'm not
Speaker 2: in the building.
Speaker 5: And by the way, I believe Marshall, we have one
Speaker 5: of your favorites, Anthony Anderson on tonight. Anthony Anderson, who is,
Speaker 5: by the way, a rock star. Anthony Anderson has been
Speaker 5: a grinder, day one, unbelievable, done everything.
Speaker 7: Compton, California, Compton, California.
Speaker 6: And so you know, so we got the President of
Speaker 6: the United States.
Speaker 5: Is that they're not like us. They're not like us? Marshawn,
Speaker 5: Is that what it is? From Compton?
Speaker 2: You there? You go? Who's singing that song?
Speaker 5: I knew that I got Kendrick Lamar, Yes I do.
Speaker 7: I'm all about Kenrick, our.
Speaker 6: Poet laureate, Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 7: Come on, Marin, Marin City, Tupak. We got Snoop, we
Speaker 7: got Dre, we got them all in Cali.
Speaker 2: Marsh you tell y'all like this right now, y'all just
Speaker 2: got a couple of points.
Speaker 4: I love it and a little California love out here
Speaker 4: at the DNC.
Speaker 2: Marshall all, right now, who who made that?
Speaker 6: You know? I made that love.
Speaker 4: We nominated the Vice President of the United States to
Speaker 4: be our nominee the next president the United States, and
Speaker 4: we had a little California love intro, and then I
Speaker 4: announced our four hundred and eighty two votes.
Speaker 7: And by the way, you did an incredible job.
Speaker 2: How many votes?
Speaker 6: Four hundred and eighty two?
Speaker 2: What do that even mean? Though?
Speaker 4: It means she's got all the votes she needs to
Speaker 4: be the nominee of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 6: That's all it is delegates from each state. That's it.
Speaker 5: And Marshall, we can't wait to see you next week.
Speaker 5: But this is a great episode. Let's enjoy one more night.
Speaker 2: We're not making it seem like the show is over.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna jump into this bitch. Yeah, I'm talking.
Speaker 5: About We're about to jump in, absolutely right. We're about
Speaker 5: to jump in to polit chick in year.
Speaker 8: If we talk to our friends, if we listen to
Speaker 8: our neighbors, if we work like we've never worked before,
Speaker 8: if we hold firm to our convictions, we will elect
Speaker 8: Kamala Harrison as the next President of the United States.
Speaker 3: To Walls, that's the next nt President of the United States.
Speaker 3: Let's gonna have more fun than this podcast right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, what's hand me?
Speaker 3: What's up with your big dog she?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be like you when I get older.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, I want to what's that your smoking?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look this is right here. You can't worry about this.
Speaker 2: This is this came from an undisclosed location. Okay, give
Speaker 2: the coordinates out to.
Speaker 3: Okay? Cool? Cool.
Speaker 7: I gotta tell you I love that fit right now. Bro,
Speaker 7: that is a fucking fit right there.
Speaker 2: That is that.
Speaker 3: We gotta put that on a Gavin.
Speaker 7: We gotta see a Gavin Rocks out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to take a special
Speaker 2: type of individual to come dripped out. You know I'm
Speaker 2: talking about like this. You know I'm talking.
Speaker 3: About Yes, sir, I know what you talking about.
Speaker 9: Then when you get back from your undisclosed location, you
Speaker 9: got to let me know when you're back in the city, man,
Speaker 9: so we can connect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because man, you feeling like I appreciate what.
Speaker 3: You do respect respect.
Speaker 2: I didn't you know. I took a leap of faith
Speaker 2: and you know, got into a uh what you call it,
Speaker 2: a new little career.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, You've got a lot of experience in that ship
Speaker 2: that I love to pick your brain.
Speaker 9: On you feel, Oh for sure, man, because I like
Speaker 9: what you're doing. Man, you found a nice little lane
Speaker 9: for yourself.
Speaker 3: Man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like some hustle hustling flow type.
Speaker 3: Hear what you're talking about? Yeah, I know you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Big dog Man. First of all, it's a pleasure. It's
Speaker 2: a pleasure you're talking about. Plasure to get with you.
Speaker 9: Man, It's okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: Probably one of the things that I I watched you
Speaker 2: and that I probably like the best was the Transformer ship.
Speaker 2: Okay okah for me, you know, seeing you in that
Speaker 2: type of position, it was like, yeah, I mean it
Speaker 2: was a whole different little look and just showed Joe.
Speaker 2: It showed Joe range and your length, like you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, don't categorize me and don't put me
Speaker 2: in no box type ship right right? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: My man, my man, this is it. I love this union.
Speaker 9: You govin new something myself and Doug.
Speaker 3: I don't know how. I don't know how this ship
Speaker 3: got put together.
Speaker 5: I think we need a fourth host.
Speaker 3: I got you, I got you, my location all the time.
Speaker 2: My kids though, you know what I mean? They're my
Speaker 2: two sons right there. I believed the sons though, you feel.
Speaker 6: Me looking forward to that inheritance.
Speaker 2: Look, check it out. It's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 2: greater later.
Speaker 5: Hey, okay, Marshaun Marshall, let me you have to answer
Speaker 5: to this.
Speaker 7: So as you know, you and I have.
Speaker 5: Been to probably the last eighteen Super Bowls together. The
Speaker 5: first time that been to this DNC stuff. Okay, little different, Marshawn.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like the Super Bowl in some respects
Speaker 5: without the day parties.
Speaker 2: They got the political groupies outside. Yes, sir at Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to see what that political girl talking about. Political.
Speaker 2: I'm going to see what that political talk about.
Speaker 3: I got a question.
Speaker 5: But you grew up and you grew up in La obviously.
Speaker 5: You know, came from Compton, Marshawn came from Oakland. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and you got to find your way out. He got
Speaker 5: to find his way out he did, obviously, you did.
Speaker 5: Two A huge fan of work and what you've done
Speaker 5: your career has been incredible.
Speaker 7: You've been a hard worker, done your thing. Did you
Speaker 7: always want to get into show business?
Speaker 10: How did you?
Speaker 5: How did you get out of get into what you
Speaker 5: gotta do here.
Speaker 9: This is all I ever wants to do. Since I
Speaker 9: was nine years old, you know, I was. I'm the
Speaker 9: oldest of four kids. My mother was a failed actress
Speaker 9: back in the day. She's still a horrible actress, but
Speaker 9: she's working now.
Speaker 6: Horrible.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 9: But she was in the production at Compton Community College
Speaker 9: of Raisin in the Sun and me and my two
Speaker 9: younger brothers were in the back of the theater at
Speaker 9: the time, and I looked up on stage and I said,
Speaker 9: that's what I'm going to do with the rest of
Speaker 9: my life. Well, you know, I only wanted to do
Speaker 9: three things. I wanted to play football for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 9: I wanted to be a lawyer, and I wanted to
Speaker 9: be an actor. And at nine, I realized that if
Speaker 9: I became an actor, I could become all three of
Speaker 9: those things and where whatever else I wanted to become
Speaker 9: in life.
Speaker 4: Love that, I mean, you literally had that clarity. Yeah no, bs, no, no,
Speaker 4: that's not a story that you're not telling you.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's real.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: Literally looked up said this is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 9: I was in the backstage, in the back of the
Speaker 9: playing with my brothers and my two brothers, and I
Speaker 9: looked up and saw them doing what they're doing, and
Speaker 9: instantly I said, that.
Speaker 6: Is what I'm going to do with the rest of side.
Speaker 6: How did you manifest it?
Speaker 9: Did you start any any opportunity I got to be
Speaker 9: in front of a captive audience, be it singing in
Speaker 9: the church, choir, singing solos in choir and I can't sing, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, reading aloud in schools, spelling bees. Anything that
Speaker 9: got me in front of an audience, I jumped at
Speaker 9: the opportunity. And then I sought out you know, acting
Speaker 9: conservatories and acting classes and whatnot. At an early age,
Speaker 9: went to the high School for the Performing Arts, went
Speaker 9: to Howard University as a theater major. So but since
Speaker 9: the age of nine, I had I put the hours
Speaker 9: in it, and that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 4: But that's really it's interesting that you had that mindset
Speaker 4: of in front of any audience, because that's I mean,
Speaker 4: that kind of describes your career today, right, I mean
Speaker 4: from the Emmys to Plug and Play with Kimmel, uh,
Speaker 4: to doing these games I mean just men back.
Speaker 6: To anywhere there's a damn audience.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I've always been fearless. You know, I've
Speaker 9: always been fearless and uh and confident in who I
Speaker 9: am and authentic to myself.
Speaker 6: You know what's so interesting, mar Shawn, You're the same
Speaker 6: damn way.
Speaker 4: But how the hell, I mean, how do you is
Speaker 4: that your parents?
Speaker 6: Is that your upbringing? To find that fearless?
Speaker 7: I know one thing. You guys both have good mamas.
Speaker 9: I know Mama Lish Hey, hey, hey, your mama played
Speaker 9: Bengo Marshaw. Come on, man, I said, that's why my
Speaker 9: mama wouldn't come to the White House to visit Obama
Speaker 9: because you had a Bengo tournament.
Speaker 2: It ain't nothing gonna stop a mama from getting to
Speaker 2: that Bingo you So we definitely, yeah.
Speaker 9: Now exactly, we got to get together, man, and get
Speaker 9: our mothers together because that that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 9: It was it was upbringing, but it's also something that
Speaker 9: I believe we were born with. It was instilled in
Speaker 9: this as well. But you know, we were born with that, man,
Speaker 9: and that's.
Speaker 3: Something that you can't get away from, you know.
Speaker 5: Because you've look, You've always been really anthy I've always
Speaker 5: loved what you've done.
Speaker 7: You've always been real. He's always been real. Even right
Speaker 7: now you're here.
Speaker 5: A lot of a lot of people don't want to
Speaker 5: mess with the political stuff. You're here, Marshaw is doing
Speaker 5: the show with us, because you know what, at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, you don't give two ships. You
Speaker 5: want to do what's right for you, right for your family,
Speaker 5: right exactly, live your life that way.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 9: I mean that while we're here. Yes, you know, you know,
Speaker 9: voting is my black job. That's what my pars say, Marsian,
Speaker 9: Voting is my black job. You know, we gotta make
Speaker 9: a difference, you know what I'm saying. And I keep
Speaker 9: telling these kids whenever I go back to the hood,
Speaker 9: whenever I go back to Compton and whatnot. Uh, you know,
Speaker 9: we got to start from an economic base, you know,
Speaker 9: first and foremost. But also we can't wait for every
Speaker 9: four years to make a vote. We got to vote
Speaker 9: locally at the local level, you know, superintendent, school intent,
Speaker 9: school supervisors or whatever they call comptrolls and all that.
Speaker 9: We got to vote for things that affect us directly
Speaker 9: in our neighborhood. You got it, you know, because those
Speaker 9: those are the people that really are going to have
Speaker 9: an effect on our lives.
Speaker 2: Damn, I'm glad you said that because I show was
Speaker 2: finna get on. Gavin and Doug ass like, man, y'all
Speaker 2: had this shit right now to run DMC. Y'all talking
Speaker 2: about who and that motherfucker got a voice, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean to stand up and you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, look at it from a perspective of what
Speaker 2: you just gave right now. So I'm glad you and
Speaker 2: that motherfucker and I don't want you to, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, miss a beat without y'all feeling educating
Speaker 2: my two sons, I mean, you know, I mean we
Speaker 2: had these talks all the time. Yeah, No, tough to
Speaker 2: hear from an outside. You know how kids be when
Speaker 2: they hear their parents talking like that's just pops, he
Speaker 2: just talking shit. But you know when they hear from
Speaker 2: somebody else starts with him, you feel me.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, no, definitely, I mean you know that's being
Speaker 9: a parent. Man, I sit down. You know you met myself,
Speaker 9: both of you guys met my son of the game.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: So he doesn't listen to me because I'm his father,
Speaker 9: but he'll listen to Marshaan. He'll listen to you guys.
Speaker 9: And you guys are saying the exact same thing. So
Speaker 9: it's good that we you know, look, it takes a village,
Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying, and sometimes, uh, the people
Speaker 9: in the village didn't always listen to the head of
Speaker 9: the village.
Speaker 3: It comes from the other elders.
Speaker 9: And that's what happens in our community, That's what happens
Speaker 9: within our family. And so you know, I'm glad. I'm
Speaker 9: glad you said that, Marshan. And I I'm just here
Speaker 9: to have my voice and to do what I do.
Speaker 4: Man, what was that appreciate? Whether the community? And who
Speaker 4: are the big mentors? Who are the people you looked
Speaker 4: up to in Compton growing up?
Speaker 9: First and foremost my parents, But then I mean it's
Speaker 9: just crazy the kids, you know, my boys that were
Speaker 9: in the street really yeah, you know, they had some
Speaker 9: of the most brilliant minds. If only they had directed
Speaker 9: that towards something else than the street then drugs and
Speaker 9: gangs and all that. I was like, yo, man, you
Speaker 9: can run a fortune five hundred company. I see how
Speaker 9: you're running these blocks, you know, But it's all about circumstance.
Speaker 9: So those are the guys that I looked up to
Speaker 9: and took a page from their book, and they looked
Speaker 9: out for me, you know.
Speaker 3: They made sure I stayed away from that.
Speaker 9: They supported me in every way that I could, but
Speaker 9: also were big brothers to me and was like, Yo, no, man,
Speaker 9: stay away from this shit. You know, this shit ain't
Speaker 9: for you, you know, because I wanted to get into it.
Speaker 9: I wanted to be a part of the fast money.
Speaker 9: I wanted to get the girls. I wanted to get
Speaker 9: the cars. I wanted to get all that shit. But
Speaker 9: it didn't work, and they were like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 9: you got a bigger future than this.
Speaker 5: It's interesting because Marshaun says the same thing about him
Speaker 5: in Oakland with the streets in terms of sports.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it is it.
Speaker 5: Obviously they knew you were going entertainment and that was
Speaker 5: your path. Is the same way for other kids that
Speaker 5: were doing other things too, is they recognized you might
Speaker 5: have the ability to get out and like no, no, don't
Speaker 5: touch him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's exactly what they saw in me, what I
Speaker 9: saw in myself because again, this was a journey and
Speaker 9: the path that I started at nine years old. So
Speaker 9: these are the kids that watched me grow, you know,
Speaker 9: even though they may have been a few years older
Speaker 9: than me. They saw what I was doing. I played ball,
Speaker 9: I did all this other shit with them. But they
Speaker 9: saw me and my nickname was the actor. They were like, oh,
Speaker 9: here comes the actor. Okay, the actors here. But you know,
Speaker 9: they looked out for me. They gave me money when
Speaker 9: I needed money. They gave me cars when I needed cars,
Speaker 9: you know, to go out on dates or to go
Speaker 9: on auditions and whatnot. They made sure I was taken
Speaker 9: care of and they kept me insulated or protected from
Speaker 9: the world in which they were in even though I
Speaker 9: lived in that bubble.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marshall, and you have a similar experience all those
Speaker 4: early years.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Most definitely what what the uh? What do you just
Speaker 2: describe right now? That's that's that's a saying that we'd
Speaker 2: like to say was raised by OG's and not i G.
Speaker 2: You feel i G is instagram OG's self explanatory. But
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, from from listening to you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, what he was just talking about, you
Speaker 2: have to have that type of that type of village
Speaker 2: around you, considering, you know what I mean, the conditions
Speaker 2: that you win, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: it's more about survival. I mean, a lot of the
Speaker 2: individuals who you know, I mean for me and I
Speaker 2: can almost contest to the same for you. A lot
Speaker 2: of those individuals, that was what they did in order
Speaker 2: to survive because that's what they knew, right the mindset
Speaker 2: and what you talked about, A lot of these could
Speaker 2: have win and ran five hundred uh fortune the companies
Speaker 2: you got the you got the brain power to do it,
Speaker 2: but your circumstances and these individuals they understand that. But
Speaker 2: for the time and where they at at that point
Speaker 2: in time, they get caught up into the you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, they get waste deep, knee deep ways deep
Speaker 2: into it. And it ain't like something you could turn
Speaker 2: your back on. Once you in that ship, once you win it,
Speaker 2: then you win it. But for the younger generation coming up,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, you want to see them
Speaker 2: do better for you. So therefore, when you do do that,
Speaker 2: their payoff is seeing you going to put that ship
Speaker 2: into action, whether it's I mean acting, whether it's sports,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. One thing that you said
Speaker 2: that that resonated with me was a lawyer. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 2: you was thinking beyond that's how you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was already outside the box before you. I mean,
Speaker 2: at nine years old, to see some shit a lot
Speaker 2: of us we don't see, and to have that type
Speaker 2: of mindset and then put it into the fact that
Speaker 2: shit if I act, you know, I mean, I could
Speaker 2: be that lawyer, I could be that doctor, I could
Speaker 2: be that motherfucking politician or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 2: and bring that ship full circle and still be able
Speaker 2: to put it on for individuals who might not see
Speaker 2: it the way that you do. But now you got
Speaker 2: to you got a different type of I mean, you
Speaker 2: say you vote black, but now you've got a different responsibility, yes,
Speaker 2: to their community, and that's to give the ism back
Speaker 2: now that you're done conquered, you know, I mean your
Speaker 2: position and where you at so hell yeah, you feel me.
Speaker 3: To top it up when you're back, man, because it's
Speaker 3: all about it.
Speaker 4: That's exactly how my Doug and I talked when we're together, exactly.
Speaker 11: Just look at the candidates. Kamala cares, cares about kids
Speaker 11: and families, cares about America. Donald only cares about himself.
Speaker 11: On her first day in court, Kamala said five words
Speaker 11: that still guide her. Kamala Harris for the people, that
Speaker 11: is something that Donald Trump will never understand. So it
Speaker 11: is no surprise, is it that he is lying about
Speaker 11: Kamala's record. He's mocking her name and her laugh sounds familiar.
Speaker 3: But we have him on the run now.
Speaker 12: I come from a state like our nation of dreamers,
Speaker 12: of doers, of entrepreneurs, of innovators, that prides itself on
Speaker 12: being on the leading and cutting edge.
Speaker 3: Of new ideas.
Speaker 12: California is the most diverse state in the world's most
Speaker 12: diverse democracy and democrats. I've had the privilege for over
Speaker 12: twenty years right to see that future taking shape. We
Speaker 12: go with a star in Alameda courtroom by the name
Speaker 12: of Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I saw that star.
Speaker 12: I saw that star fighting for criminal.
Speaker 13: Justice, racial justice, economic justice, social justice. I saw that
Speaker 13: star get even brighter as Attorney General of California, as
Speaker 13: a United States Senator, and as Vice President of the.
Speaker 4: United States of America.
Speaker 12: It's time for us to do the right thing, and
Speaker 12: that is to elect Kamala Harris as the next president
Speaker 12: of the United.
Speaker 3: States of America.
Speaker 13: California, we proudly passed our four hundred and eighty two
Speaker 13: votes for the next president.
Speaker 5: Come on, parents, I want to ask him question. And
Speaker 5: you may not remember this and Sean as you know
Speaker 5: as an agent, I am. I remember back in two
Speaker 5: thousand and seven, I'm with you with Justin Tucks event
Speaker 5: and we're at the bar at at before the event
Speaker 5: he had.
Speaker 3: In New York.
Speaker 7: In New York, I think you might have just had
Speaker 7: a show. Can something happened?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: And never forget we're sitting at the bar having tequila
Speaker 5: and and you're between stuff, And tell me your mindset
Speaker 5: back then, because you're kind of you're going to your
Speaker 5: career and unlike sports where the phone might stop ringing
Speaker 5: or you got to get a try out, whatever it
Speaker 5: may be, you're between jobs. I don't know what it was,
Speaker 5: but I'll never forget. We're sitting there, you're between stuff.
Speaker 5: You don't know when the next thing's coming. So the
Speaker 5: mentality of an actor, because Marshaun's now an actor, how
Speaker 5: do you go through that process? Like I gotta I
Speaker 5: gotta do. Are you calling your agent, you're calling your
Speaker 5: manager or you're like shit, I hope something comes in.
Speaker 5: How is your mindset when you're between stuff and this.
Speaker 7: Is your livelihood?
Speaker 9: You know, it's it's all about being your authentic self, right,
Speaker 9: the industry and your agency and your managers. I don't
Speaker 9: need to call them if I'm in between gigs. They
Speaker 9: know what their job is. They know what the hustle is,
Speaker 9: and it's the hustle up the next thing for me.
Speaker 9: But for me, it was also about creating that next
Speaker 9: opportunity because if that opportunity, if I'm looking for things
Speaker 9: and things aren't being written for me, stories aren't being
Speaker 9: written about me, or about the culture that I'm from
Speaker 9: or anything that I could be a part of. I
Speaker 9: have to create those things for myself. And that's what
Speaker 9: I was able to do with my very first television show,
Speaker 9: all about the Andersons I created, you know, Blackish, and
Speaker 9: creating that with my partner Kenya Barras and telling our story.
Speaker 9: So it's just all it's about creating those opportunities for
Speaker 9: yourself and not sitting back and waiting on somebody to
Speaker 9: bring you something or create something for you that may
Speaker 9: not be right for you, and then you have to
Speaker 9: conform to that.
Speaker 3: It's like, no, I want to tell my story, you never.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love everything to say with political terms,
Speaker 4: you know, it's just not them. To experience is something
Speaker 4: to manifest decisions not conditions determine our favor in future.
Speaker 4: But this notion of having agency, I mean again, is
Speaker 4: that just?
Speaker 6: I mean, was that?
Speaker 4: And I just think it's fascinating you've had that mindset
Speaker 4: and you've had that self confidence. But ultimately what you
Speaker 4: continue to say that I think resonates mostly me and
Speaker 4: I know in terms of my appreciate for Marshan, this
Speaker 4: notion of authenticity, you keep bringing that up and just
Speaker 4: what just being yourself?
Speaker 6: I mean something again, nature nurture? Was that something Mom said?
Speaker 3: It's just how I was raised and it's just who
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 9: And I think that's what endures Marshan and myself to
Speaker 9: the public the way that it does. You know, they
Speaker 9: they you know, they look at Marshan, they look at
Speaker 9: myself and it's like, Yo, that's my man on the block,
Speaker 9: that's my uncle, that's my cousin, that's my family right there.
Speaker 9: And I think that's what has resonated with people around
Speaker 9: the world, in particular for me, because they see me,
Speaker 9: they see themselves up there. You know, they see someone
Speaker 9: that's unapology jady, that that's doing it their way, that
Speaker 9: doesn't mind making mistakes, you know, and we learned from
Speaker 9: those things, man, And you know, going back to you
Speaker 9: know something that Marshan was saying earlier. It's about paying
Speaker 9: it forward, you know what I'm saying, going back, you
Speaker 9: know to the cats that we grew up with, who
Speaker 9: saw something in us and invested in us so that
Speaker 9: we could be in the positions that we're in right now.
Speaker 9: So now it's my responsibility to go back and lift
Speaker 9: as I climb.
Speaker 3: You know that. That's what it's all about. And that's
Speaker 3: what I do.
Speaker 9: And I believe that's what Marshaun has been doing with
Speaker 9: you know, with his foundations. You know, I've been following
Speaker 9: your brother, I've been seeing with you. I've been I've
Speaker 9: been a fan of yours for a long time.
Speaker 2: Mann spit that ishm though y'all talking about Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then you know what I mean one thing that like,
Speaker 2: I just went. I went crabbing for the first time, Okay.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the fucking experience like a motherfucker right.
Speaker 3: Yeahs.
Speaker 2: And as I'm catching the crabs and I'm throwing them
Speaker 2: in the burrow, you feel me, I'm damn. I was
Speaker 2: so excited about Damn, I gotta crack. Oh, I got another.
Speaker 2: I got another Oh, I got fourk pies. I got
Speaker 2: two piece and I'm throwing them in there, and Dan,
Speaker 2: you find me at the end of the experience, I mean,
Speaker 2: at the end of the trip. I look in the
Speaker 2: in the bucket and I'm like, oh shit, this is
Speaker 2: the mentality that I heard the crab in the bucket
Speaker 2: type of situation, and that was like damn. From looking
Speaker 2: at it and actually seeing it with my own eyes,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh fuck. It resonated to me so much
Speaker 2: on a deeper level than I'm like damn. But what
Speaker 2: it sounds like when you speak is more so your
Speaker 2: mindset and your mentality was to shake that shit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not be you.
Speaker 2: Feem me though a prisoner of of the fucking whether
Speaker 2: it be the fucking police officer you know what I
Speaker 2: mean down the street, or the motherfucking teacher or the
Speaker 2: principal who tell you you ain't gonna be shit, that
Speaker 2: you're gonna be dead or jail by the age of eighteen,
Speaker 2: because they're so used to putting that type of fucking
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, my fucking spelled on us because they
Speaker 2: using those words, you know what I mean, to trap
Speaker 2: our mind and to believe that shit because it was
Speaker 2: up until what I was with nineteen twenty when I'm
Speaker 2: looking at it like damn, im, I'm not in jail,
Speaker 2: nor am I nor am I dead?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Oh, these are extra lives that I got right now,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it like that, like I just got
Speaker 2: a green mushro and now I got an extra life.
Speaker 2: All right, Now, I got another time to try this,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean when you talk about you know,
Speaker 2: looking at it from not making a mistake, I mean
Speaker 2: from making a mistake, being comfortable with that, knowing that
Speaker 2: motherfucker I ain't perfect. I mean to do this thing
Speaker 2: called life, and I might have been giving you feel
Speaker 2: me though the short end of the stick. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make sure I rock. I rock, and I'm enjoy
Speaker 2: this shit. But at the same time, I'm make sure
Speaker 2: I bring individuals along with me who, for show didn't
Speaker 2: have an opportunity and or a Yeah, now I get
Speaker 2: to show individuals because anything I do, it's almost like
Speaker 2: ain't nothing new under the old moon. You feel what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, right, And you know, I mean there
Speaker 2: has been innovators and motivators, you know, I mean before
Speaker 2: you I mean, before there was even a thought of
Speaker 2: a Marshaan Lynch. And now when you talk about paying
Speaker 2: it forward, like you know what I mean, you say
Speaker 2: you vote black? You know what I mean? Fuck in
Speaker 2: this almost all right. Look, I'm not the first one
Speaker 2: to do this, I'm not the last one to do this,
Speaker 2: but hey, check it out. Yeah, caught up with that
Speaker 2: mindset that we got to be the crabs in the bucket, right,
Speaker 2: create our own situation beyond Yeah, to go beyond it,
Speaker 2: to go beyond what an individual is going to put
Speaker 2: on us, to make us wear that ship. Like that's
Speaker 2: who we are.
Speaker 7: And the best question.
Speaker 5: So you look your you grew up a sports guy
Speaker 5: and you're also political guy. Yeah, you can trade places
Speaker 5: with where Shawn going to the Hall of Fame, winning
Speaker 5: a ring or the governor.
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 7: What do you want to do this? You can be governor,
Speaker 7: or you could be Marshan in his career.
Speaker 3: Ship. I'm Marshaan Lynch all day, every day. I'm Marshal
Speaker 3: Lench all day every day.
Speaker 7: Vegas was going.
Speaker 3: I know this ship you go through. I don't want
Speaker 3: to go through that ship.
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm gonna tell you ship when they when
Speaker 2: they put off the uh the picture and the press release.
Speaker 2: I wasn't even aware of it, you feel me because
Speaker 2: I don't run my Instagram. So as I'm walking through
Speaker 2: the airport, I'm on my way to go and shoot
Speaker 2: our first episode, and the motherfucker walk up to me
Speaker 2: like you fucking scumbag. You're fucking terrible, and I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the take my earphone all like like what's up.
Speaker 2: I'm just here so I won't get fine, like what
Speaker 2: fuck you, you scumbag? And I'm like, oh ship, oh that
Speaker 2: they hit different?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hey you you cool bro, like fuck you? You you
Speaker 2: fuck with Gavin Newsom and.
Speaker 7: Who yeah, this is the story telling you.
Speaker 3: It's deeper.
Speaker 2: You know you from ball game right.
Speaker 6: Marcia and used to walk the mean straight to the
Speaker 6: convention with me. Yeah no, see you would have a
Speaker 6: different feel difference.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, it's a different Monday through Sunday.
Speaker 7: Anthony, I think more Sean.
Speaker 5: One thing I appreciate about him he the mental health part.
Speaker 5: When he remember the press conference, take carry mentals, yeah,
Speaker 5: take carry chicken.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, take yeah yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: For you, I appreciate you doing the mental health I
Speaker 5: mean doing the men's health stuff for men that people
Speaker 5: don't want to do getting the exams, the one that
Speaker 5: take me through your mindset on the health part of it,
Speaker 5: of what you've been so passionate about.
Speaker 3: I'm a type two diabetic.
Speaker 9: I was the first person diagnosed in my family with
Speaker 9: type two diabetes. Then my mother became diagnosed with it,
Speaker 9: and then later on down the line, my father we
Speaker 9: found out as a type two diabetic, but had been
Speaker 9: undiagnosed for more than twenty years. And I realized that
Speaker 9: from the symptoms that I had when I first was
Speaker 9: diagnosed as a type two diabetic, thinking back to my childhood,
Speaker 9: my early teenage years, I was like, oh shit, that's
Speaker 9: what my dad was going through back then.
Speaker 3: But as a black man, and it's.
Speaker 9: Unfortunate that within our community, our men rarely go to
Speaker 9: the hospital unless they're appendied and appendage is falling off
Speaker 9: or something like that.
Speaker 3: But regular shit, we don't do.
Speaker 9: So I partnered with Novo Nordis to start this campaign
Speaker 9: about get real about diabetes dot com and it's just
Speaker 9: more of an informational website that people can go to
Speaker 9: to get information about being a diabetic and the things
Speaker 9: they should ask their doctors are things that they should
Speaker 9: look out for. But it's more so me traveling the
Speaker 9: country and having these conversations within our community about yo,
Speaker 9: go get yourself checked out. Man, go to the doctor
Speaker 9: because you get your oil changed in your car every
Speaker 9: three thousand miles. But you don't want to go to
Speaker 9: the doctor every six months, every four months, every quarter,
Speaker 9: you know, because if you go, because they're afraid of
Speaker 9: they might find I was like, Okay, well you go.
Speaker 9: It might be preventative, you know what I'm saying, or
Speaker 9: they may find something and it's not too late. But
Speaker 9: if you don't go at all, that's that's it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: I lost my father to complications from diabetes because he
Speaker 9: was undiagnosed for twenty plus years and it ravaged his life.
Speaker 7: So that he would he would have he would have.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, that's that's that's that's what it is.
Speaker 9: And another thing, I just want to go back to
Speaker 9: what Marshall was saying. You know, he had turned nineteen
Speaker 9: or twenty and realized that you know, he had a
Speaker 9: green mushroom and he got extra lives. You know, I
Speaker 9: was so proud when I reached a certain age that
Speaker 9: I wasn't the statistic that society said that I may
Speaker 9: be coming from the place that I came from, and
Speaker 9: I sit here today as a fifty four year old
Speaker 9: man with the succession.
Speaker 3: That that I've had.
Speaker 9: Yeah, fire, just turn fire, just turn five fall on Thursday,
Speaker 9: maybe August fifteenth.
Speaker 2: Thank you. First of all, congratulations. You don't look at day.
Speaker 2: I think I thought I had you though.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, Hey Marshall, you know black
Speaker 9: don't crack ship. You know, I said, chip around the
Speaker 9: corners a little bit, but it don't crack.
Speaker 2: Hey, oh god, I respected by damn.
Speaker 9: I ain't know you was og like that, Yes, sir,
Speaker 9: So to sit here as a fifty four, fifty four.
Speaker 3: Ain't that guy that held over here?
Speaker 6: But yeah, yeah, you guys mentioned about it some goddamn.
Speaker 9: But but here but but but but to be fifty
Speaker 9: four coming from what we've come from, seen what we've seen,
Speaker 9: and experiencing what we've experienced. They're not too I can
Speaker 9: tell you this. They're not too many fifty four year
Speaker 9: olds from my eighth from my block. Yeah that I
Speaker 9: grew up with, I get it.
Speaker 2: And there's not too many thirty eight year olds from
Speaker 2: my you know what I mean. I don't either bury
Speaker 2: or I got to get on the jack and talk
Speaker 2: to them while they ain't in the pin exactly.
Speaker 3: And that's how it is for me.
Speaker 2: Fifty four, I ain't really a fifty four. You're fifty four,
Speaker 2: you feel for.
Speaker 3: You know, it's different than the fifty four that we
Speaker 3: grew up with. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Exactly fifty four.
Speaker 9: Yes, And to be fifty four sitting here on a
Speaker 9: zoom with you in an undisposed location, sitting next to
Speaker 9: the governor, and sit next to Doug who does.
Speaker 3: But he's done on a big level.
Speaker 7: Yo, I'm winning.
Speaker 5: Hey, so, Anthony, here's a beautiful and you talked about
Speaker 5: this other day with Moreshawn. So this is the year
Speaker 5: More Shawn is going to go to the Hall of Fame. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: but guess what else we did. We talked to Kimmel
Speaker 5: the other day, okay, and kim Well said, listen, my
Speaker 5: favorite host is Anthony Anderson.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, so we also have the campaign for you
Speaker 7: to take that job over when he retired. That should
Speaker 7: to us, he's probably gonna walk away. Yeah, you said,
Speaker 7: hey boo, but who's the next host? It might be you?
Speaker 1: He knows.
Speaker 7: Now, we got it. Now we've got a position for that.
Speaker 3: He knows.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 9: You know, next to Adam Carolla, I've sat on Jimmy
Speaker 9: Kimmel Live.
Speaker 3: More than anybody that's ever been there, and.
Speaker 9: I've hosted or co hosted the show more than anyone
Speaker 9: that's that's come on. Uh And and Jimmy's my guy,
Speaker 9: and he knows that. Whenever he leaves, I'm putting my
Speaker 9: bed in to take off.
Speaker 2: You're not show and Ben and doing that. Hey man,
Speaker 2: that's different. We had a conversation where, you know, I say,
Speaker 2: when we look at the individuals from our neighborhoods, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, we don't We don't see too
Speaker 2: much you got you know, I mean the most successful
Speaker 2: motherfuckers that we've seen that doesn't touch you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, some some some some two chicken probably come
Speaker 2: from you know what I mean, pamping, hustling, feeling, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, just trying to make ends meet.
Speaker 2: But when I look at this young individual's, well you
Speaker 2: ain't in front of me, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: you get the point. And then I'm like, okay, from
Speaker 2: the movies to the producing, the directing, all the ship, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean to talking about being the next host for
Speaker 2: the OSCARS type ship.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're doing that.
Speaker 9: We're doing that because Jimmy walked away from that too.
Speaker 9: You know, I've already done it in me, so we
Speaker 9: gonna see. But you know what, you gotta claim it,
Speaker 9: you know, And that's what I do. I claim it
Speaker 9: as my own. If it's meant for me to have
Speaker 9: and just manifest it, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 9: that's how I live my life.
Speaker 14: It's up to us to remember what Kamala's mother told her.
Speaker 3: Don't just sit around and complain. Do something.
Speaker 14: So if they lie about her, and they will, we've
Speaker 14: got to do something. If we see a bad pole,
Speaker 14: and we will. We got to put down that phone
Speaker 14: and do something. If we start feeling tired, if we
Speaker 14: start feeling that dread creeping back in, we got to
Speaker 14: pick ourselves up.
Speaker 3: Throw water on our face. And what.
Speaker 15: I'll be getting out every day to help people get
Speaker 15: out and vote on November fifth and elect Kamala Harris
Speaker 15: and Tim Wallas as the next president and vice president
Speaker 15: of the United States. After the results or tally that night,
Speaker 15: we can, in the words of the Great Steph Curry,
Speaker 15: we can tell Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Night Night, I do.
Speaker 5: What do you want to do the next five ten
Speaker 5: years besides the Kimmel Show and all that? What else
Speaker 5: excites you that you want to do that you haven't
Speaker 5: done or do again?
Speaker 7: Movies or TV or whatever it may do?
Speaker 9: You know, continue in my lane as an actor, you know, movies,
Speaker 9: TV and all that, but also give other people the
Speaker 9: opportunity to tell.
Speaker 3: Their stories who may not have the opportunity.
Speaker 9: Now, you know, we stand on the shoulders of those
Speaker 9: before us, And it goes back to me, say, it's
Speaker 9: my responsibility to lift as I climb. So somebody made
Speaker 9: an opportunity or made a way for me to do
Speaker 9: what it is that I'm doing. So it's my responsibility
Speaker 9: to make away the next generation. So that that's what
Speaker 9: I want to do. I want to get more involved
Speaker 9: in having people tell their stories and producing things with
Speaker 9: and for them.
Speaker 3: That's what I want to do.
Speaker 9: I'm going to continue to be in front of the
Speaker 9: camera as an actor and behind the camera as a director,
Speaker 9: but more so I want to get on the production
Speaker 9: side and build brands for other people.
Speaker 6: I love it, Yeah, I love it. And how do
Speaker 6: you think this brand building is going for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey man, you know we both HU graduates.
Speaker 2: Now you want to get political with your big head ass.
Speaker 3: Look at you one, So we're going to see. We're
Speaker 3: going to see.
Speaker 6: You went back and got your damn you.
Speaker 2: I went back.
Speaker 9: I went to Howard in eighty eight. I was supposed
Speaker 9: to graduate in ninety two. I ran out of money.
Speaker 9: I couldn't call home and ask my parents to send
Speaker 9: me money. I was the oldest of four children, so
Speaker 9: I went back home with every intention on returning back
Speaker 9: to Howard University to graduate. But then life gets in
Speaker 9: the way, you know, get married, start having kids, my
Speaker 9: career takes off. My son got accepted to Howard University
Speaker 9: in two thousand eighteen, and I was like, you know what, son,
Speaker 9: You've inspired me to go back to college, so I'm
Speaker 9: going to walk with you in twenty twenty two. You
Speaker 9: walked with your son, Yeah, But unfortunately real life got
Speaker 9: in his way Mark Shane, and he dropped out after
Speaker 9: his freshman year.
Speaker 3: But I walked. I walked in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you was a school at the same time
Speaker 2: as Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I hope that was an inspiration for him
Speaker 9: to see me walk across the stage and get my degree.
Speaker 9: And he was like, okay, because he's following my footsteps.
Speaker 9: He's a young actor, he's had several shows. He's talented.
Speaker 7: Did you want him to go down your path or no?
Speaker 3: No, it was something he chose to do on his own.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah it was something you tell him not to
Speaker 5: get into it, or you couldn't talk, or no.
Speaker 3: I didn't want if that was his passion.
Speaker 9: You know, he saw he was born into this lifestyle
Speaker 9: that we have, and he saw what it did for
Speaker 9: our family because of my hard work.
Speaker 3: And he wanted to be a part of that.
Speaker 9: And I can't deny and be like, no, man, don't
Speaker 9: do this, don't go don't go into the family business.
Speaker 9: I was like, no, you see what the family business
Speaker 9: has done for us.
Speaker 2: And he's talented, and just like and just like it.
Speaker 2: To go ahead and tell Brian Brown like, hell, yeah, bro,
Speaker 2: I appreciate what you did. You know what I mean,
Speaker 2: you got you get that, you get the rock out
Speaker 2: with your son. Yeah, I think we need to normalize
Speaker 2: what you did with you know what I mean, with
Speaker 2: your with your little one.
Speaker 3: At the same time, Yeah, everybody's doing it, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a motherfucking blessing.
Speaker 9: So I support it man, and he and he's talented
Speaker 9: and he's doing this to and he works.
Speaker 3: So yeah he works.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you're working and uh pretty much every work
Speaker 4: and gress on all your success.
Speaker 6: Thank you on that damn degree. Thank you, sir, and thank.
Speaker 5: You for taking But Anthony, by the way, I want
Speaker 5: you to ask gat the same question. Give me a
Speaker 5: question you want to ask you, because that's real. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, you know what we do things like hell yeah,
Speaker 5: But here's the deal, like a questions. So here's the
Speaker 5: deal with al about Marshaun Anthony's people go up to
Speaker 5: him and you, and what do they want? They wanted
Speaker 5: me to get a picture. No one wants to say,
Speaker 5: hey man, how you doing as your career exactly? You've
Speaker 5: done differently what was done? So people don't ask the
Speaker 5: I like to ask questions.
Speaker 3: I want to know what.
Speaker 9: Question you want to ask As an entertainer who was
Speaker 9: born and raised in California, who works in California, who's
Speaker 9: upset when we have to take our business out of California,
Speaker 9: I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: And this isn't your fault, this is I'm just curious.
Speaker 9: A yeah, yeah, no, I'm just curious as to why
Speaker 9: don't we have the tax incentives that Canada, Georgia, Florida,
Speaker 9: you know, all these other states have, you know, especially
Speaker 9: when Hollywood is in the backyard of California, Los Angeles.
Speaker 9: This is our industry. Why are we exporting our goods
Speaker 9: so these other places.
Speaker 4: We put our feet up, we stopped investing in our
Speaker 4: lead in the world we invent.
Speaker 6: It is competing with us all around the globe. As
Speaker 6: you know better than anybody.
Speaker 4: That said, I increase those tax and sent us at
Speaker 4: three hundred and thirty million dollars a year. We also
Speaker 4: loosened up the requirements and stipulations on how you access
Speaker 4: those tax credits, and we're looking to continue to build
Speaker 4: on that and expand them deeply.
Speaker 6: Mindel Yeah, well there's criteria for access.
Speaker 2: And by the way, shit they go to red tape.
Speaker 4: No, no, we try to eliminate the damn red tape
Speaker 4: with the new changes.
Speaker 6: Marshan, I listened.
Speaker 4: I mean again, I mean, you know, we significantly increased
Speaker 4: the poky words just a few years ago.
Speaker 6: It would literally triple where we were just okay years ago.
Speaker 4: But I agree, it's not yet near where we need
Speaker 4: to be against Georgia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're York.
Speaker 7: We go to these places.
Speaker 9: There's a thirty percent tax credit for tax credit.
Speaker 2: I just got finished shooting the film with I don't
Speaker 2: even know if I'm supposed to say to Night, but
Speaker 2: she with love and we went and shot the motherfucker
Speaker 2: in Winnipeg. Yeah, you know what I mean. I think
Speaker 2: I want to say it was a because I was
Speaker 2: telling somebody that I think Georgia had the best uh
Speaker 2: tax credits for you know, the entertainment space, and they
Speaker 2: was telling me, I think it was like seventy percent.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's crazy, I mean.
Speaker 4: And the problem is for us, it's a race to
Speaker 4: the bottom because the costs would be astronomical. And you
Speaker 4: look across the spectrum of issues from biotech, life science, nanotechnology, uh,
Speaker 4: obviously the AI space, everybody's chasing those incentives. And in California,
Speaker 4: I mean, I think we're trying to differentiate what's our
Speaker 4: added value the creativity to create a climate where people
Speaker 4: feel welcome, feel included, can fully express themselves, to.
Speaker 6: Continue to maintain that talent base.
Speaker 4: But it's harder and harder, and I recognize that with
Speaker 4: the bleed once folks move, and then you've got the
Speaker 4: studios yeah, out out in places like Georgia. So look,
Speaker 4: we're deeply mindful of this, and we, despite some of
Speaker 4: the budgetary constraints, maintained those commitments.
Speaker 6: And we're looking to advance them. So it's a legit question.
Speaker 9: Two more questions, How can you get into there? You know,
Speaker 9: just just just getting just getting too the tax thing.
Speaker 9: You know, California. I'm born and raised in California. It's
Speaker 9: an expensive place to live. Can you just explain to
Speaker 9: me why our state income tech is what it is
Speaker 9: and why does it continually increase in increments or whatnot
Speaker 9: compared to the rest of the country and whatnot.
Speaker 4: So the vast majority of Texans pay more in taxes
Speaker 4: than California's.
Speaker 9: Okay, uh, and they have much more money too because
Speaker 9: of the oil. Well, can we say that.
Speaker 6: There is well that that's true, and it's not.
Speaker 2: True companies that's moving out of California two.
Speaker 4: And a lot of companies in fact, moved back to California.
Speaker 4: Since twenty fourteen. We've never had more fortune five hundred
Speaker 4: companies than we do today.
Speaker 6: Actually just broke that record.
Speaker 2: That's said they can pay for that ship.
Speaker 6: Don't hold on.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Oh no, one second, I got you, I
Speaker 2: got you.
Speaker 4: What's interesting about our tax We have the most progressive
Speaker 4: tax rate ina uh. And the tax rate is the
Speaker 4: high is highest for the one percent or middle class.
Speaker 6: We're about average compared to dates. And so it's about
Speaker 6: who you're for.
Speaker 4: I'll give you an example in Florida, the one percent
Speaker 4: or tax less than the bottom twenty percent.
Speaker 6: And that's a value proposition. Think about that.
Speaker 4: And so, yes, California has a high tax rate, but
Speaker 4: not high taxes compared to many other states across suspective
Speaker 4: property tax, of sales tax, you.
Speaker 6: Look at payroll tax, you look at all of those taxes,
Speaker 6: you stack them all together.
Speaker 4: California is slightly above average, lower than some of those
Speaker 4: red states for the vast majority of our residents, but
Speaker 4: not for the one percent thirteen point three percent that
Speaker 4: you pay. So you're in that rarefied air. And that
Speaker 4: has not increased since twenty eleven. It was twenty eleven
Speaker 4: the voters approved that tax rate. The only tax increase
Speaker 4: you've had is the elimination of the state and local
Speaker 4: tax deduction.
Speaker 6: And that was a Trump tax trisp.
Speaker 5: Yeah you're anthey, real talk when Marshawn you're coming on.
Speaker 5: He was so excited, so we wanted the honest and
Speaker 5: true story. We want to thank you Ben because he
Speaker 5: was like getty to talk to you.
Speaker 7: We were excited. My client was a cousin and and whatnot.
Speaker 7: So I've known you a long time. We love what
Speaker 7: you're all about. We love what you do. Uh and
Speaker 7: and this is what their show is all about.
Speaker 5: We want to bring guys like you Wane, that get it,
Speaker 5: that are real, authentic, understand life on borrow time, live
Speaker 5: life the fullest, enjoy.
Speaker 7: It as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, okay, we're gonna have a couple of drinks tonight, right, yes, sir,
Speaker 5: tonight and whatnot.
Speaker 7: We don't know where he's at.
Speaker 3: He's outing one, that's okay. Hey, hey, hey be smoked.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put one in the air for you myself tonight.
Speaker 2: Yes lord, you know I mean, because I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you this much. I don't know how the laws he
Speaker 2: is over here, So I don't want five no you
Speaker 2: hear me, No, no duty right now. But you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. I do got good cigars, very very
Speaker 2: good cigars. If you catch my drift.
Speaker 3: I got you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make sure I'm gonna dedicate at least a
Speaker 2: good minute, minute and a half to just remember that
Speaker 2: goodw put up a good good that beautiful flower smell, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: to put me in my element.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, you enjoy your rest trip there, Anthony. We
Speaker 5: we appreciate you. Man, We all got to hang in Cali.
Speaker 5: We're back in Cali, okay, and let's hear the movie together,
Speaker 5: you two guys.
Speaker 7: At some point we got to see that I need I.
Speaker 3: Need your info. Man, We get it from Doug. Is
Speaker 3: that cool?
Speaker 1: Hell?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But look though, when you do got a situation
Speaker 2: going on because I am, it ain't even got to
Speaker 2: be no road. It could just be a come down
Speaker 2: just to check out what's going on, just for I
Speaker 2: could see you feel me. I'm you feel me though, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: Me and Doug like the joke public school, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I was in uh special resource classes, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So yeah, my learning capability, I
Speaker 2: have to actually be there.
Speaker 6: There we go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got Sean.
Speaker 6: We love you baby, all.
Speaker 16: Right, and with your help, she will lead with joy
Speaker 16: and toughness, with that laugh and that look, with compassion
Speaker 16: and conviction.
Speaker 10: She'll lead from the belief that wherever we come from,
Speaker 10: whatever we look like, we're strongest when we fight for
Speaker 10: what we believe in, not just against what we fear.
Speaker 10: Pamala Harris was exactly the right person for me at
Speaker 10: an important moment in my life, and at this moment
Speaker 10: in our nation's history.
Speaker 3: She is exactly the right president.
Speaker 4: All Right, mister President, it's good to have you at
Speaker 4: the convention.
Speaker 1: The hell is like my own convention, your own convention.
Speaker 6: Your own convention.
Speaker 3: But what was it like?
Speaker 4: I mean, you participated in a number of previous Democratic conventions.
Speaker 6: I think the big one for you is twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the first time I was on the stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're nervous as hell?
Speaker 1: Is that one? I was nervous as hell. You know,
Speaker 1: I had never done that before.
Speaker 17: And it's a very unusual environment, really to walk out
Speaker 17: on this stage in this huge arena.
Speaker 1: We'll have the noise that it's different.
Speaker 17: At that time, I was we were doing the show Scandal,
Speaker 17: and I was playing the President. And Kerrie Washington, who
Speaker 17: had been who'd done it before, I said, do you
Speaker 17: have any advice for me.
Speaker 1: She's done it in twenty twelve.
Speaker 17: I think, yeah, And she said, all I can tell
Speaker 17: you is it's the most nervous I've ever made in
Speaker 17: my entil life.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, thanks a lot.
Speaker 6: So that's wild to me as an actor. I mean,
Speaker 6: you're always performing.
Speaker 4: You look at it just like another performance or is
Speaker 4: it just way out of the.
Speaker 1: Element normal all the same?
Speaker 17: I mean actually in sixteen I stood, you know, backstage
Speaker 17: getting ready to go on, and my heart started pounding
Speaker 17: really hard. And so I said to myself, I'm like, God,
Speaker 17: damn President the States.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, that was very helpful.
Speaker 5: No, Tony, big fan of yours in terms of what
Speaker 5: you've done your whole career and so coming out here
Speaker 5: on yeah, I mean, you killed it the other day
Speaker 5: and everyone loved what you did. It's all over the
Speaker 5: internet of what you did and how you did and
Speaker 5: all that stuff. So was it in the prepared in
Speaker 5: terms of the last couple of the last year's of scandal.
Speaker 7: Coming out allows you to come out and do what
Speaker 7: you did, well, you.
Speaker 1: Kind of learn.
Speaker 17: I mean I thought doing that show, I realized that,
Speaker 17: I mean, you know, Governor like there was a certain
Speaker 17: theatricality and their performance aspect to the job of being
Speaker 17: an you know, you have to do so. I the
Speaker 17: thing that shocked me as an actor when I started
Speaker 17: doing Scandal is that people started treating me with this
Speaker 17: deference as if I was actually the president of And
Speaker 17: it freaked me out. And then I was like, Oh,
Speaker 17: everyone who assumes office is just a normal person who
Speaker 17: is doing that job and has to figure.
Speaker 1: Out how to find themselves.
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 17: And so then you know, the kind of imposter syndrome
Speaker 17: that sometimes we feel. You just go, well, no, I'm
Speaker 17: just gonna play the role because that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: You know. I thought that must be part of the
Speaker 1: job anyway, and you get used to it, you know.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what do you recommend?
Speaker 6: Acting or politics?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, or you're gonna stay me. I
Speaker 1: gotta stay with acting. Would be no good politics.
Speaker 6: Well what do they say about politics? It's acting for
Speaker 6: ugly people.
Speaker 1: So you're good.
Speaker 4: Hardly. But so, you guys, it's an interest for me,
Speaker 4: you know, for people to put themselves out. It's such
Speaker 4: a polarized time. People are talking down talking past each other.
Speaker 4: Everybody seems to be in their camps. I mean it
Speaker 4: takes a little guts for you and your profession to
Speaker 4: come out and do something again and assert yourself. I mean,
Speaker 4: you got to really believe in this stuff. This is
Speaker 4: not yeah, I mean this is in your soul. Have
Speaker 4: you always had a political sort of bug and energy.
Speaker 17: I've always been fascinated with politics, and I've always been
Speaker 17: felt that I as soon as I had a platform
Speaker 17: that felt a bit fraudulent just for its own sake,
Speaker 17: I was like, I'm an actor or you know. But
Speaker 17: when I realized I could use it to advocate for,
Speaker 17: you know, And initially it was advocating for causes or
Speaker 17: on issues specifically. The first campaign I was ever a
Speaker 17: part of was Hillary's campaign in sixteen because they asked
Speaker 17: me to they knew I was a supporter, and then
Speaker 17: I said, sure, that sounds really interesting. So I've always
Speaker 17: been fascinated with it. But also I felt like, if
Speaker 17: you have the platform, you should have the courage to
Speaker 17: use it for what you believe it and so yeah,
Speaker 17: and the people I most respect in my world, whatever
Speaker 17: their whatever their beliefs are, you know that they they're
Speaker 17: not afraid to put themselves out there because they're worried
Speaker 17: about what someone's going to think.
Speaker 5: Or well, Tony, we always say Marshawn and I are
Speaker 5: our co host. Marshan, who's not here tonight but he's
Speaker 5: listening is and me and Gab we all still.
Speaker 7: Run borrow of time.
Speaker 5: And I appreciate that because so many people are has
Speaker 5: it just to jump in for a cause, and you've
Speaker 5: been doing that your whole life, an innocent project.
Speaker 7: But going back before that, as.
Speaker 5: A fate growing up in your family, did you think
Speaker 5: about besides show business? Because your family's obviously an unbelievable
Speaker 5: epic family in the show business, did you ever think
Speaker 5: about going into finance or or something else?
Speaker 17: Well, you know, I yeah, I'm like the third generation
Speaker 17: of entertainment industry in my family.
Speaker 1: So as a.
Speaker 17: Kid, I wanted to do anything, but I didn't know what,
Speaker 17: And then I was too young to think about what
Speaker 17: I wanted to do. But then in high school I
Speaker 17: started doing high school plays all these just because my
Speaker 17: older brother did it and I wanted to be like.
Speaker 1: Him, and immediately was bug bitting.
Speaker 17: The bug got me and I was like, oh no,
Speaker 17: so predictable and then I, you know, thank God, because
Speaker 17: it's been and now, you know, once I was able
Speaker 17: to kind of find my footing in the profession, I
Speaker 17: felt so lucky to be part of the legacy. It's right,
Speaker 17: it's a really interesting thing to to be a part
Speaker 17: of a multi generational family industry that's got.
Speaker 4: To imagine that comes with expectations. But that got to
Speaker 4: be some burden in that as well, right, it.
Speaker 17: Was it first, Yeah, it was, but I realized it
Speaker 17: was my burden to figure out.
Speaker 1: You know, like.
Speaker 17: In my twenties, before i'd kind of found my identity
Speaker 17: or my sea legs, it was.
Speaker 1: Hard having a famous last name. And have you any
Speaker 1: already come up?
Speaker 17: Oh, I know your dad or my brother was very successful,
Speaker 17: my own brother and so. But then I knew I
Speaker 17: was like, I just got to push through because honestly,
Speaker 17: no one really cares. People don't care, right, take care
Speaker 17: if you're good, if you can do the job or
Speaker 17: if not, amen.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, So.
Speaker 17: And whatever, sort of like we were talking about putting
Speaker 17: your stick in your neck out for what you believe in.
Speaker 17: You know, if someone's gonna trash talk you for nepotism
Speaker 17: or whatever, it's like, that's fine.
Speaker 4: Amen. Yeah, But Doug mentioned the Innocence Project, which I
Speaker 4: appreciate because we've been doing a lot of prison reform.
Speaker 4: I know you're in California trying to model but the
Speaker 4: innis Project. I mean a lot of folks don't know
Speaker 4: much about it. How'd you get involved in this project?
Speaker 1: So I was working.
Speaker 17: I developed a movie, a movie that I directed that
Speaker 17: came in a twenty ten called Conviction, which is which
Speaker 17: It was a movie with Hillary Swank at Sam Rockwell,
Speaker 17: and it's a true story about a guy who was
Speaker 17: spent eighteen and a half years in prison for a
Speaker 17: murder he didn't commit, right, and Hillary Sam played that
Speaker 17: character in Hillary played his sister, Betty Anne Waters. And
Speaker 17: they were poor, uneducated kids from you know, outside Boston,
Speaker 17: and she was the only person who believed her brother
Speaker 17: was innocent, and she'd never graduated tenth grade. She decided,
Speaker 17: she said, if you stay alive, I will get you
Speaker 17: out of prison. And she went to high school, got
Speaker 17: a ged, went to college, went to law school, became
Speaker 17: an attorney, just to find a way to get her
Speaker 17: brother out. And she found this organization called the Innocence Project,
Speaker 17: which had pioneered the use of DNA to prove innocence.
Speaker 17: And she called Barry Shack right now, dear friend Barry Sheck,
Speaker 17: who was here last night, you know, and said, would
Speaker 17: you represent my brother, and they said, if you can
Speaker 17: find some DNA existing evidence, will maybe consider it. And uh,
Speaker 17: miraculously she found, you know, a sixteen year old box
Speaker 17: of bloody evidence in the Old House of Boston and
Speaker 17: they got him out.
Speaker 1: And so we made a movie of that. And then
Speaker 1: I found out.
Speaker 5: By the way, by the way, phenomena movie.
Speaker 1: Phenomenal movie, Thank.
Speaker 17: You, And so yeah, oh look who's here's.
Speaker 1: How you know?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: You the president?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I dodge your hat man San Francisco brother.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: By the way, we're trying to get a scandaly, but
Speaker 5: we're trying to get you guys back.
Speaker 7: In a scandal you would carry and will bring Anthony.
Speaker 1: Anthony and we'll hold, we'll do a whole nother things.
Speaker 17: So anyway, so that got me clued into the whole
Speaker 17: innocence movement. In the work that Bury and his his
Speaker 17: co founder Peter Newfeld, and they're bout two of the
Speaker 17: great civil rights lawyers in the country, and now the
Speaker 17: INSINCE Project is the foremost civil rights I mean, the
Speaker 17: foremost on you know, criminal justice reform organization in the country.
Speaker 4: It's extraordinary and profound, I mean, and it goes I mean,
Speaker 4: we mean, so much of conversation about being you know,
Speaker 4: rich and guilty versus being poor and innocent sort of
Speaker 4: manifests in so much of the work that they're unwinding
Speaker 4: and reconciling.
Speaker 3: But that's great.
Speaker 6: So you've maintained that commitment.
Speaker 1: Do everything that I possibly can. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4: Well, appreciate you coming out and doing that. This year
Speaker 4: was a little different for you though, No, I mean
Speaker 4: you weren't. It wasn't one and done.
Speaker 1: You were the m C the first night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a little Stressy, that's that's pretty good, but stress.
Speaker 1: But it was super cool.
Speaker 5: So that one I says you're a political guy, Tony.
Speaker 5: I want to ask you a question. I want you
Speaker 5: to ask the governor question of one thing or two
Speaker 5: things you want to ask him, really that you haven't
Speaker 5: asked it, really because.
Speaker 3: I get that all TI get I get that.
Speaker 5: All the time, and I want to hear from you
Speaker 5: what you want to ask.
Speaker 1: No, idea.
Speaker 17: How we didn't your views? How did you know this
Speaker 17: energy we all feel? How do we maintain this momentum?
Speaker 17: That's the key between Thursday night and November.
Speaker 4: We just had the Olympics. I didn't see anyone run
Speaker 4: the ninety yard dash. Yeah, I mean it was like
Speaker 4: they were at peak there running one hundred and ten
Speaker 4: yard dash. And that's got to be the mindset we
Speaker 4: talked about Hillary Clinton. You're obviously going support. We were
Speaker 4: all out there. I think we all ran the eighty
Speaker 4: yard dash. We kind of believe the punitry and the polls.
Speaker 4: They said, we're going to dial this, and we just
Speaker 4: got to dial it up when we got to keep
Speaker 4: Donald Trump on the defense, keep him on the mat.
Speaker 4: He's on the mat. He's flailing. He can't he can't
Speaker 4: even throw a punch, let alone land of punch right now.
Speaker 4: And so we just have to keep that momentum. That
Speaker 4: means everybody has to just double down, do more. No
Speaker 4: one has to worry as much as they were in
Speaker 4: the past. So we just have that maintain that moment
Speaker 4: in the passion action. Uh, and we can.
Speaker 3: Pull this thing out.
Speaker 4: But look, no one should underestimate Donald Trump, right no,
Speaker 4: one just can't. Yeah, I mean he's a he wrecks
Speaker 4: of the Republican Party, right, Yeah, he'll he'll mate you
Speaker 4: or he'll devour you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so he's got that base locked up.
Speaker 6: And I'm worried about this RFK thing too.
Speaker 1: Were he's going to make an announcement something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he may be jumping at who the hell knows, Anthony.
Speaker 9: Do you know I want him to stay at home whatever.
Speaker 9: I hope that's his announcement that he's going to stay home.
Speaker 9: He's gonna stay home. Yeah, yeah, that's what I hope.
Speaker 3: And and you you didn't stay home.
Speaker 6: You're here as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm here, big. I showed him for you.
Speaker 7: Oh you really?
Speaker 4: You showed up for me in a Dodger hot Yeah,
Speaker 4: damn Dodger on top of my list.
Speaker 3: Kame along really really long tween you.
Speaker 9: And I I thought that's what the ticket was gonna be.
Speaker 3: Really really really.
Speaker 4: I think we have enough Californian's represented here, but Jesus
Speaker 4: and enough San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, let's stay on. We got to win this,
Speaker 3: damn Yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Jesus, Well, Tony, it's amazing that you're here again. Thanks
Speaker 4: for all your supporting of the party, but more poorly,
Speaker 4: thanks for just the causes you're committed to an engagement,
Speaker 4: this project top of mind, and thank you for all
Speaker 4: the work that you're doing for all of us. That
Speaker 4: was that was a spirited way to kick off the convention.
Speaker 4: The two nights you want, Monday night and Thursday night.
Speaker 4: See he was prime time. Okay, that's that's what's when
Speaker 4: people tune in because they're excited. So congrats, Thanks for yeah,
Speaker 4: thanks Tony M.