1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: Money. We are than take val. We are the authority 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: on all things, and ladies and gentlemen, my name is 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: take this. You already be money podcast that it is 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: your authority. All things are and you got you got 5 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: a move. You can't throw up in the building. Um. 6 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: You know, some people are gifted, many are called, but 7 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: the chosen a few come on preaching. We've we've watched 8 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: this young man grow from just smell a little bud, 9 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: smeller the seat, through the wire, through the wire, smell 10 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: little buds the seat, into the biggest superstar in the world, 11 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: our friend in the building. Yeah he wops. Okay, this 12 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: is who game. We're still working on this Who game. 13 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: But but he's still a good friend. Makes might Yeah, man, 14 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: graddri it's cooling. Finally Snigger brought oranges. He brought oranges. 15 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: Its acute orange is a cute one one did not bring. 16 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: I ate the rest of him on the ride over here. 17 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: He's a solo artist. Damn you understand what the team player. 18 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: He's a solo artist. It's crazy like we see Frank, 19 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: but he ain't got no cute that all Frank ugly Well, 20 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: Frank is all beard. He said he don't have at 21 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: he thought he might be, thank you, my brother, the 22 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Man. I know you are. Um, 23 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: you're on a world win um of a tour um 24 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: and life has just been really good as it has 25 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: um from the inside looking in, from the outside looking there, 26 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: and um as we've known you for so long. UM, 27 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: you deserve it. Thank you, man, you deserve it. Appreciate it. 28 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: You work hard, you got the gift, and you're only 29 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: getting better, which is very scary, very scary. No boy 30 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: directing there, no, no listen, listen. Yeah, you're gonna you 31 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: You're gonna eat everything on the say. I mean, there's 32 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: some things on the table. I didn't even see yet, 33 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: so I gotta you know, I'm at this part of 34 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: the table. But this there's there's a there's a there's 35 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot more table to go through. 36 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: So let's let's do it. Let's let's do a kind 37 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: of a fast track. Let's do We want to keep 38 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: you long, but we want to get to some information. 39 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: Let's do a fast track. Let's do let's start at 40 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: Let's start at that first phone call after after after 41 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: the magical audition, and someone says you got the part 42 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: which part which one. The first one was the Wire, 43 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: the first one major role for Whire wasn't the first one. 44 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: Hardball was probably the first ball. Yeah yeah, I mean 45 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: baby Baby still trying to prove he wasn't. I I 46 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: would say, you know, the Wire, the Wire, No, sorry, 47 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: Hardball was probably the first one that really had me travel, 48 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: you know, part of an ensemble cast, you know, per 49 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: diem you know what I'm saying. You know, it was real. 50 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: It was real, you know, like like you know, just 51 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: the whole production of like making a feature film. That 52 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: was like my first kind of introduction to like the 53 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: game on that level, working with you know, Keanu Reeves 54 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: and Diane Lane, you know, just um, it was. It 55 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: was one of those projects at the time. He was 56 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: shooting The Matrix, so we didn't even know what that 57 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: was going to be, you know what I'm saying. So 58 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: it was I think he was in the process of 59 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: shooting it. We met Lawrence Fishburn. He took us out 60 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: to dinner one time, all the kids and stuff like that. 61 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: We met Lawrence Fishburn and stuff like that. So you 62 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: call him Larry Larry, I didn't. I can call him 63 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: Glad No. But but but I think that was the 64 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: first I was the first kind of like, you know, okay, 65 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: I can I think I could do this? Is this 66 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: is cool. I'm more curious about the industry, you know, 67 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: understanding a little bit of the fundamentals of what acting is. 68 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: Before that was just kind of like just showing up, 69 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: reading the lines and you know, and trying not to 70 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: you know, fuck up. But that one was the first 71 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: time I think I'm kind of teetered into the realm 72 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: of like a character and like how to like you know, 73 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,239 Speaker 1: so to speak. So, yeah, so are you in school 74 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: at this time? I'm in school, you know what I'm saying, 75 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: getting like tutor, you know what I'm saying. So I'm 76 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: just skipping a lot of days of school. But at 77 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: the same time, you know, there's a there's an on 78 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: set teacher that you got put in a certain amount 79 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: of hours in that you know, us and the rest 80 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: of the kids will you know, do a couple hours 81 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: of school and then and then get back to work. 82 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: So when does school change? When is it you go 83 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: back after to like regular to regular school, went back 84 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: to Harriball regular school. Uh, And at that point, you know, 85 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: you're still in the acting tip. You know, what I mean, 86 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: you're still hustling, You're still trying to with that. I'm like, 87 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: you not a star at school. I mean I'm Hollywood, 88 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I think everybody that's 89 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: trying to do something in the entertainment industry in like 90 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: middle school, high school becomes Hollywood no matter what, like 91 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: that's your nickname. They're not really that creative outside of that, 92 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: it's like Hollywood. It's like what it is? So like 93 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: that was the like a cheer, like yay, Like nobody 94 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: understood it. I mean, how could you you know, you're 95 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: doing something that's so against the norm. And where are 96 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: you New y So, nort New Jersey doing that? Uh 97 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: you know yeah yeah, So I'm sure that's tough. You're 98 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: from Brick City and you're going to do movies and 99 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: because it's just it's just it's not normal. It's not 100 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,239 Speaker 1: how do they process it? I mean, ain't for nobody 101 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: really process you know what I'm saying. But for me, 102 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it was it was it 103 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: was you know, leaving school early, going auditions, mission days 104 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: of school. You know, you might see a you know, 105 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: a model's ad in the Sunday paper or toys or 106 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: rest add or you know, a little Freedo with those 107 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: the de rito's, uh you know value pack with the 108 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: little like you know points on the back of it. 109 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: You were collecting like buy something off the you know, 110 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: out of the book. Like, yeah, I was a little 111 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: kid in that, you know, shit like that I was doing. 112 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: And then you know, then the wire kicked in and 113 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: all my children, Yeah, and then it was you know, 114 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: was on the story. It was the storytories. Man. Yeah, 115 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: you didn't know that. I did know that. I know 116 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: something I don't know. He's probably watching the stories. No, 117 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: my mama watched Mama grandmama had the stories a lock, 118 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: That's what it was. So like all my children was 119 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: definitely where I kind of like learned like the work 120 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: ethic of acting like the actual Yeah, because they locked 121 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: then yeah, I mean you do like one hundred and 122 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: you know, episode and a half a day, one hundred 123 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: hundred plus pages a day, you know what I'm saying. 124 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: Plus yeah, they're cranking them daily. Tyler Perry before Tyler Perry, 125 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: what I mean, soaps is some machine. I mean there 126 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: is no like you know, you rarely get multiple takes, 127 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: so It's like if you didn't if you ain't study, 128 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: if you ain't know your shit, the next day it 129 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: will be on air and people will be watching you 130 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: fuck up. So like you only need one and two 131 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: those so you like, no, no, no, should no, no what. 132 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be prepared. I'm gonna know my ship better 133 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: than anybody. So like that was kind of like, yeah, 134 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: and when and when that did you move to LA 135 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: to do the Stories or were you still I was 136 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: in New York, so like, so after I finished the 137 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: soap operas, that's when I moved. Once I wasn't going 138 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: to college, I was like, all right, I'm not going 139 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: to school. I'm gonna move to LA. I'm gonna keep 140 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: pursuing this thing. And so so right after I finished 141 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: my my run on the Stories, I up and moved 142 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: to uh to La. That's what y'all scoundrels. Yeah that time, man, Yeah, 143 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: part boy, And what was that transition like for you 144 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: coming from New York coming to LA And maybe the 145 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: chase is different, maybe the you know, the process is different. 146 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: Just now being in Hollywood versus being in that space 147 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: in the middle. I feel like the grind was like 148 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: I had a work ethic and developed a work ethic 149 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: from like being on the East Coast. It was just 150 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: a certain level of like grit and like just wanting 151 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: to go get it that really kept me locked in 152 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: out here in LA and then seeing the pace of 153 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: La is a little bit different than it is, not 154 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: a little bit a lot different than it is on 155 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: the East Coast. So just yeah, just the you know, 156 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 1: just being hungry when we want to like, you know, 157 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: lock in sacrifice. You know, the one thing I did 158 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: was hooping audition. That was it. We rarely went out, 159 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, well, besides when me 160 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: and Sterling was promoting you hooped? What mean? League? Come on, 161 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: I'm just asking listen, y'all know if y'all you know 162 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: you who? If who you know too? Because I mean 163 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: I know y'all know you and I have we got championship. 164 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: Oh my lord. You know what I'm saying. Y'all were 165 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: playing a political game a lot longer than me. So 166 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: you had already knew that you had the politics with Shane, 167 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: you had to do this, and that you got the 168 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: little Stack team and play with your friends. I would 169 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: just have stucky to get on the squad. This is 170 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: the worst time I heard that. Yeah, team, I mean 171 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 1: you had team chemistry, y'all play with who y'all wanted 172 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: to play with? I got, I got my homie and 173 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: then everybody else. Yeah, I had got, I got place 174 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: for a team, You had your home, you had who 175 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: was he? Did you not long it took to get league? 176 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: When you finally got it, he shot for all the seasons. 177 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: So yeah, scored thirty five? You shot eighty times. You 178 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: know y'all lost, right, I don't let you get that 179 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: A little boy like that, man, Yeah, maybe maybe fifty times. 180 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: Because I got I got a championship with my first team. 181 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: So you write about the politics though, because my first 182 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 1: team we won and who I finally got me Jamie 183 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: fob Yes, Corey Hardrick, King Spurs, Okay, we were the King. 184 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: I was on the King's Corey Hardrick. Uh Roderick fucking 185 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: Roderick right man? Yea, yeah, yeah, come on. Roger Kenneth 186 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: Career was on my team. Uh time, Marcus Polk, Charlie 187 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: Burrell and Brione we had and then when I finally 188 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: got JN they put him on an island and he 189 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: was taking forty shots. He was averaging thirty two. Yeah 190 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: for y'all um, now, but that was that was the 191 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: beginning of really all of our relationships due the Entertainment League, 192 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, where we really built our 193 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: bond with each other and everybody started to just get 194 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: get to know each other because they were there were 195 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: people in the league that it was just like, uh, yeah, yeah, 196 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: du talented, but I don't really fun with him. Yeah, 197 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:19,839 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And that's just life and that, 198 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: you know, I mean. In an interesting thing, I felt 199 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: like the league kind of brought that concept of how 200 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: if you do make it to one of the professional leagues, 201 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: you're dealing with multiple people and multiple personalities because what 202 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: we do is very singular, like even with you go 203 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: to your trailer, like we found we found out that. Okay, 204 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: now we're in a locker room with each other. Now 205 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: we're going to eleague parties. Now it's like damn, they're 206 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: sanctioned things and they taking all star teams to different 207 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: cities and guys are participating in that, and you start realizing, like, yo, 208 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: who's a real person. Yeah, Like you know, I remember 209 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: when we first really got cool and and it was 210 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: something it might have been an egg event and he 211 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: was like, man, just gonna pick me up. And I'm like, 212 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 1: all right, shit, little far As here at the time, 213 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: way out, all right, we're picking about and but just 214 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: building those relationships and finding people within this industry. Man 215 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 1: shout out to Shane, shout out, Shane. Put something together 216 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: that really connected a lot of us that we've kept 217 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: going and then even you know, me creating with Tank 218 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 1: the R and B money run for years that now 219 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I had to like calm it 220 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: down because start going viral and like take put your 221 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: phone up, tut of these phone calls that you know 222 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: you were a part of. Chris Brown and pulled up 223 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: and you know, the brim Brothers and Jamie Fox and 224 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,719 Speaker 1: but somewhere safe that you know, we're not gonna get 225 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: some food that just want to hack us exactly because that, 226 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: you know, because we do other stuff, because we have 227 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: something to do it. It is what I'm always trying 228 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,719 Speaker 1: to tell Jay Valentine. I do other things. Yeah, but 229 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 1: he knows I have shows on the weekend, right, but 230 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: on the fastest break, he wants to hack my wrist, 231 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: He wants to hack my fingers. This is the money 232 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,959 Speaker 1: making part of the ball. This is hands are not 233 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,959 Speaker 1: part of the ball. Where is your client manage me? 234 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: You know what times I quit? I can't even imagine. 235 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. You wasn't getting a shout out. It's okay, 236 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: all right, out of this basketball place. Nobody plays better 237 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: than me. Oh my lord. Did you ever feel any 238 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: downtime or or any lag or pc yourself in a 239 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,719 Speaker 1: space where you were at a crossroad and trying to 240 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: really figure things out to get to that next level? 241 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I would say the summer maybe 242 00:13:52,679 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: before I booked Red Tails, I would say was probably 243 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: one of the crossroads for me. I was like, all right, 244 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: this is the last rent check I got. I don't 245 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: overdrafted everything I could overdraft and borrow money from every 246 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: out I could think of. This doesn't work out this month, 247 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm heading back to Jersey, and you know, we were 248 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: gonna figure it out. We're gonna you know, I don't 249 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do, but we're gonna we're gonna 250 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: figure it out. Um. And then audition for it, booked it. 251 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: That found out that thing's giving that that I had 252 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: got the role, and that was like the first time 253 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: that I had enough money that I could actually stack, 254 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool, I could pay off everything 255 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: I need to pay off this, put a little something up. 256 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: I can stay out here for another six months, you 257 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, et cetera, et cetera. And then 258 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: literally the jobs just kept I kept booking from there. 259 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: It was just kind of like that kind of opened 260 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: up the floodgates for me, and then it just kind 261 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: of continued from that moment. So I would say, like 262 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: when I moved out here, you know, I was still 263 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: booking like little episodics, you know what I'm saying, guest 264 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: starring roles on you know, Cside or Lauren Order or 265 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: whatever it was. I was cool, but I was getting 266 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: to know town. I was getting no casting directors. I 267 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: was getting to know, like, you know, the players that 268 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: are in there, that are in the you know, the 269 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: entertainment world. And also you know, the executives and the 270 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: casting directors loved the shows that I was doing, so 271 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: like it was the work that I was doing that 272 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: they would see that either if they didn't like it, 273 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: their wife loved it. You know what I'm saying, Oh 274 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: my god, my husband loves you. Oh my god, my 275 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: wife loves you, like, let's come in. So like it 276 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: was like this invested interest of like, you know, certain 277 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: people in town to kind of keep me booked them busy, 278 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: I guess a little bit. So that that was that 279 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: was that was a good run. But you know, I 280 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: would say that when I first moved out, it was 281 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: like still booking jobs but still dead broke. So like yeah, 282 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: you like, oh yo, that's wasn't name from the wire, 283 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: but I'm like, yeah, but I'm me and Sterling's applying 284 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: at Jack in a box or like you know what 285 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 1: I mean, and like no, y'all overqualified. Like it was 286 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: a moment where it was like, yeah, we were going 287 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: to fast food spots um trying to you know, apply 288 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: for jobs, and it was like one of those moments 289 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: sitting in the car before we went there, it was like, Yo, 290 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: we're about to do this shit. Are we about to 291 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: apply for goddamn fast food right now? And these nigs 292 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: gonna know who I am, So it's not like, oh, 293 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: it's like a random person Like no, that's the tough spot. 294 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: I was willing to take the l you know what 295 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying, and like and deal with the you look familiar, 296 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: are you the you know what I'm saying, just the 297 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: kind of definitely was gonna get that with a number eight. 298 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: He didn't even know that he could have just called 299 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: me out of the game a quarterdouns. He didn't realize that, 300 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I am on the back 301 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: you know a hey man Wallace, Wallace, I know, I 302 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: know you man. Nah nah the time take your food 303 00:16:48,320 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: to keep it quishing. Um the fast food. I listen. 304 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 1: I remember being in ranch of Couca Manga after the 305 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: money when the money was low and I was I 306 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: had a I had a rented Lincoln town car that 307 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:16,880 Speaker 1: I was hiding from the rental company. Okay, um the story, okay, 308 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: it was taking. It took off because I had you know, 309 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: they had a two bedroom. There was only like so 310 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: I took off the ranch. All got in there. You 311 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: picked me up around that area. So we were deep 312 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at this best Buy like I could 313 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: pack boxes here, I could I could stack some box right, 314 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: because if you go do the like the open night 315 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: and made me trying to figure it out though, but 316 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: hanging out with box right and it looking like yeah, 317 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 1: everything was together when him at the party and I'm 318 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: right next to him and the almost was rubbing. It's like, okay, 319 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: they're doing it. And then I drive that the town 320 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: car back to back to ranch show. Yeah, you know 321 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that rubber really meets the road and 322 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what that next movie. That's the 323 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: entertainment business in a nut show. Yeah, because it's it's 324 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: about staying the course. It's about staying out here or 325 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: wherever that is. That that's that you're close to the 326 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: work that will one day you'll wake up and you'll 327 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: get that phone call that it changes for you, you 328 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like I remember having a conversation 329 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: with you. He's like, I gotta go to the bay. 330 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: I was like to the bay and he was like, 331 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: it's a movie out there. It's like it's an indie movie. 332 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is, you know our relationship and 333 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: my relationship with with our fellow brother Tristan Wild. He 334 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: also was supposed to be part of that movie and 335 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: got sick when he was doing UM nine two one 336 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: zero And I remember you called me and you were like, bro, 337 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: this this movie is is special. And at first you 338 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: didn't tell me what it's about you, just like you, 339 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: you know. And then I never forget this. You said 340 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: you should come up here. I was like why, and 341 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: he was like, no, nig because you're from the Bay. 342 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: I'm telling you you could just play one of the parts. 343 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: And I was like, ning, I'm not an actor. I 344 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: knew you setting me up there, but I could say 345 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: brow three times in the movie and I'm like, nah, 346 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: I'm cool. I mean you told He was like, he 347 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: finally told me what the movie is about with Oscar Grant, 348 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: and I was like, oh shit, I knew about the 349 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: whole thing. I was like, this is about it's about 350 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: to be different. This is going to be different. And 351 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: the crazy thing is my cousin at the time was 352 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: going to college or before. But before that, with Ryan, 353 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: your cousin was the number one linebacker in the nation 354 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: of the time. He go to sc him and Ryan 355 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: both from Oakland. They linked and him he already telling 356 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: me about him. And then you like, hey man, this 357 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: young director out the Bay. He got this great idea 358 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: and and what you did with that movie it represented 359 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: us so well with you not being from the Bay, 360 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: like just not aside from us all being black men, 361 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: but just the Bay Area. We have a very like 362 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: it's a particular island that we live on out there 363 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: right there. It's just so different from the rest of 364 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 1: the West Coast. But the rest of the world. We 365 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: got our own language, we got our own the way 366 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: we dressed. It's just we live in our own world. Tanker, 367 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: tell you go up there, he'd be like, I enjoyed myself. 368 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: I love it, but it is different. So to capture 369 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: that and the way you captured it, bro, I don't 370 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: even know if I've ever even told you over all 371 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: these years, like you really made me proud of just 372 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,719 Speaker 1: a friend because I didn't see my friend anymore. Ye, 373 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: And that's a huge part, you know that with acting. 374 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 1: I did not see Mike, you know what I mean, 375 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: Like I saw you playing Oscar and I'm like, oh, 376 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: he he did this such a great service. I appreciate that. 377 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: So thank you from us, No, no, thanks all mine. 378 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: And just be able to like embody that that character 379 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: and that you know that moment in time. You know me, 380 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: I was real pissed off around that time just in general, 381 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: just like it was a lot you know, shooting's going on. 382 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: Trade by Martin just got shot. There was a lot, 383 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: a lot, a lot of shit going on in the world, 384 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: and like that was an outlet for me to kind 385 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: of express myself the way I could, which is through 386 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: the work. You know what I'm saying, And then you know, 387 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: and say something. You know what I'm saying. So so 388 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: you know, meet and Ryan and you know, going through 389 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: all the steps, so moving up there and living and 390 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: staying in you know, you know, just you know, in 391 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: close proximity to to you know, Oscar's friends and family, 392 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: you know, people that you know. I had had to 393 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: get to know him through the people that knew him 394 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: the best, you know. And that was my first time 395 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: really doing like a like a real deep dive like that, 396 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: you know, as far as doing like a real the 397 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: real homework, you know what I'm saying, and like and 398 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: and so so for me, it was doing a bunch 399 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: of things. I got a chance to say something, I 400 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: got a chance to prove that could carry a film, 401 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: you know. But then also I represent you know, so 402 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: many other you know, Trayvion Martins and Oscar Grants throughout 403 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: the world. You know what I'm saying that that don't 404 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: get their stories told. You know what I'm saying that 405 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: doesn't get an opportunity to you know, to get justice, 406 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So so yeah, that movie 407 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: meant a lot, checked a lot of boxing for him. 408 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: I want to get to the where are you going? 409 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: You know? I want to get to the I want 410 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: to get to the Blockbuster. It's happening right now. But 411 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: I just want to ask you one question before we 412 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: get to the you know, to the series of of amazing, 413 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: amazing body of work that you've got. Appreciate that, um, 414 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: because we see, like we've we've been in Hollywood for 415 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: quite some time, and we kind of understand the overtones 416 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: and then the undertones of how this thing kind of 417 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: moves and shakes and and the question I wanted to 418 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: ask you is like, why do you think it's you? 419 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: Out of all the people you've come up with, and 420 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: out of all the people you know, you've worked with, 421 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: that you know put in the work and who are 422 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: talented and you are amazing, is only talented amazing work ethic? 423 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: What is the special quality about Michael B. Jordan that 424 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: sets him apart from everybody else? I mean that's tough 425 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: only because women of faith and understanding, you know that 426 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: it's above us, you know what I'm saying, Like our 427 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: blessings were blessed, you know what I'm saying, and highly favored, 428 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: you know, so we know spirituality, God has a lot 429 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: to do with us and success and the blessings that 430 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: we have, and just and just the avoidance of bullshit, 431 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that could knock us off 432 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: our path, because that's equally as important. You know, I'm 433 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: talking about family prayer circles, people that we're shielding. So 434 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: there's that that that goes there. Um. I mean I 435 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: was a little bit what this movie was about for me, 436 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: you know, trying to figure out like you know, having 437 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 1: that conversation, you know, kind of exercising my way through 438 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: you know, why me? You know, and I think part 439 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: of it is chosen you know, for certain things. And 440 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: then also my ability that I think maybe the I 441 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: don't know, process information, think, put things together, you know, 442 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: build shit, you know, I um my gut, my intuition. 443 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 1: You know, I listened to that shit all the time, 444 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: you know. Um being able to read people. You know, 445 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: here the hear the note behind the note? You know 446 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,879 Speaker 1: what is it? What is what is the real intent 447 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 1: behind things? You know? Being able to kind of like 448 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: dissect that all the time, um, which is a lot. 449 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's my norm, you know 450 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: what I mean, So you know, And then I said 451 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: the work ethic. You know, it's a combination. It's it's 452 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of different things. I don't think it's like 453 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: the one thing that that makes it makes it different. 454 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: I think it's just a combination of just um particular 455 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: point of views and approaches and disciplines that that equal. 456 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: You know, the ability to like, you know, do what 457 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: I do. You know, Um, that's the I want to 458 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: accept all of that, right, because all of that is 459 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: very much true. Oh, I feel like you're you're part 460 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: of a bigger universal message. It's empathy, bro. I think 461 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: it's empathy being able to, like I feel, I'm an EmPATH, 462 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But once you feel and 463 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: you understand what it is, you can give people what 464 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: they need. Well, that too, that you are proof that 465 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: good people went hmm, that being a good aggression, being 466 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: an amazing human being, because there's always this quote of 467 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: good guys always finished last. That's not true. I agree, 468 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: And you are giving good people an example, an example 469 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,159 Speaker 1: you can do it the right way. You cannot be 470 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: part of that, part of that and these other things. 471 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: You can do it the right way. You can be 472 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: raised right, you can talk right, you can act right, 473 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: you can walk around, you can do your best. I 474 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: met your mom and daddy. Yeah, yeah, you're from you 475 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: from good stock, bro, Like you come from good things. 476 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: And what he's saying is absolutely right. You're an example 477 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 1: for that, bro, And we're here to tell you that. 478 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,479 Speaker 1: Look all the rest of this ship, you have been 479 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 1: consistently you from the day I met you, And I 480 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: had no idea you was going and looking at Jack 481 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: in the box applications because that didn't matter to me. 482 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: I like, that's the homie. Like I never get caught 483 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 1: up in none of that. My friends and my friends, 484 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: but now we all know what this life has done 485 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: for you in a position that put you in and 486 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: you are the same exact person. Appreciate that you're the 487 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: same exact person. If like, listen at the at the premiere, 488 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: if we catch your eyes, it's expected. Yeah, I don't. 489 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: I don't care who in this mild. We gonna hug out, 490 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: We gonna tell each other we love each other. Man. 491 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, and congratulations, and this is what 492 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be when it's a real brotherhood. Yeah, 493 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: this ain't about nothing else, and we got to stop 494 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: telling people that it's about Oh, he ain't checked in 495 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: with me, he ain't called me. And I man, we 496 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: got lives and we're busy moving. But when we when 497 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 1: we catch you, we catch these eyes and I see 498 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: my brother, tell where we left, bro, So you know 499 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: close to you. For that, I appreciate in a real way. 500 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out if you was trying 501 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: to ask why you wasn't kill Munger, and he was, 502 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 1: that's that's I thought you was going there, but you 503 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: didn't go there. You didn't go there. No exact question. No, 504 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: we're curious. You know when we kill mother. No he 505 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: killed Killker. I can't be killed Monger. He went crazy, 506 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: he rocked. I just made him think maybe like the 507 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: home killed Morkers home. Let's get let's let's get to 508 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: the ship man, let's get the creed man. Let's do it. Um. 509 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: Bro in In the one, I said, okay, he's coming. 510 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: In the two, you sat in that hospital bed, you 511 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: shook me up. I said, he's here. In three, I 512 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: said he's out of control and you cheated. What you 513 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: talking about the little girls in cheek of control? It's 514 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: a cheek coat. I said, Oh, out of your mind, 515 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: eurtic control. He must be stupid stum sitting I'm in 516 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: there doing this. Whatever, Bro, I watched, I watched. I 517 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: watched Create three and I was so proud of you 518 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: favorite so many levels. I watched that entire movie with 519 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: a smile on my favor and even when I was emotional, 520 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: I still had a smile. Yeah it was. It was 521 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: a man. And I'm sitting next to Kevin Gates. And 522 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: when I say enjoying himself, I'm talking. You see that's 523 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: where it goes right there, that's a souldier You had 524 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: the what's going on? Right? So y'all were engaged? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, 525 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: I say, at the time of his life, I love it. 526 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: Great movie. It was, Bro, it was, it was it 527 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: was amazing, and it was more growth. Yeah you're the director, man, 528 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's a star. Give me give me the 529 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: process real quick. Of you learning sign language? Oh so 530 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: like I was learning sign language while I was working 531 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: out in preproduction too. So like one of the things 532 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: me and Bianca once I got the me and Tessa. 533 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:39,719 Speaker 1: When I got the new script, I was like, man, 534 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: we should have just kept up with it from Creed too. 535 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: We would have been way more fluent right now. We 536 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: would have been great, you know what I'm saying. But 537 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: but we we put ourselves on a you know, a 538 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: fast track to kind of like learn it, uh while 539 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: while I was working out. So like, while I was 540 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: working I would work out, you know, have production meetings, 541 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: script meetings, you know what I'm saying. Whatever, we're building 542 00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: the thing. But then I'll just go off to the 543 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: side for a little bit, do an hour a day, 544 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, with with my coach, and 545 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: we would uh, you know, go through the basics, you 546 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He would kind of like, you know, 547 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: he would sign I would you know, you know, mimic 548 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: the sign, and then he will test me on those 549 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: like four or five signs, you know what I mean, 550 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: every like fifteen minutes or so, and then we would like, 551 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: you know, recap that entire hour and I would try 552 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: to go off memory and do that, and then the 553 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: next day they'll recap half of what we did the 554 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: day before, et cetera. Et cetera, and kind of just 555 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: stare stepped me to uh until I didn't have any 556 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: more time laugh. But honestly, on the day, I'm a 557 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: real visual person. I'm a visual learning so I could 558 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 1: I could, I could pick up on signs pretty quickly 559 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: and then register it digested and then and then go 560 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: go do what I gotta do. That was that was 561 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: a very special part of the movie. Thank you, and 562 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: and it and it was like it was it was 563 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: we put we we It was a natural evolution of things. 564 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: Of course movie. You know, Donnas meets the love of 565 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: his life. You know what I'm saying, He asked progressive 566 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: hearing loss. You know, we don't know what where where 567 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 1: that's going? Cool? Second film we pick up he's starting 568 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: a family of his own. You know what I'm saying. 569 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: Now you know that the daughter can or can't she? 570 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: You know, the parents have more concerned you know, a 571 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: healthy baby. You know what I'm saying, kiddy get passed down? 572 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: Does she have it or not? The heartbreak of you 573 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: know within you know internally between the Donnas is okay, damn, 574 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: Now what how am I going to move forward with this? 575 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: Questions around that and it was played beautifully by you know, 576 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: Rocky and Adonnas. You know what I'm saying, really trying 577 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: to figure out like what manhood is and like what 578 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: parents all about. You know, cool, we got that the 579 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: third film. I don't have to talk about it. We're 580 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: already fully a self family. You know, the house is 581 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: already tricked out, and Donnas has clearly invested time to 582 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: make sure and money to make sure his daughter is 583 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: going to get all the things that he never got, 584 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and really trying to like 585 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: you know, make her life a lot better and comfortable, 586 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, and building all the things and 587 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah whatever. So in this movie it 588 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: was really important, like to just normalize in the way. 589 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: You know, it really felt inclusive and it wasn't about 590 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: the audience or anybody having sympathy for her. It's like, no, 591 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: it's the empathy. You know, I understanding. You know what 592 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: I'm saying, what you need. She's Mila Davis Kent, Mila superstar, superstar, superstar, Yeah, 593 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: and so talented, and I learned so much from her, 594 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: so just and then she encouraged me like look like 595 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: even if you don't know exactly the sign gesture, your 596 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: body language is signing you know what I'm saying. And 597 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: the deaf community appreciates that so much by not just 598 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: talking to them or like getting frustrated, no gesture like try, 599 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: like and that's something for us that you know, the hearing. 600 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: We're definitely you know, you know, we're ignorant in a 601 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: lot of ways. But but but and and but just 602 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 1: getting out of your own get it out of our 603 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: own head and being like, oh I can't do this, 604 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: somethe feel stupid. D No, just try and I think 605 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,719 Speaker 1: it'll make a big difference. And my last piece, I mean, 606 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: listen and them, I mean, let me tell you something, man, listen, 607 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,839 Speaker 1: what's up? What's up? Yeah, because I act a little 608 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: bit like if you're a TV one and and and 609 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: like lifetimes I'm like Michael beal okay, um, Michael G. 610 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: I'm like Michael G. Michael G four Michael anyway, Um, 611 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: you guys were having so many conversations outside of the script, 612 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: like just within the physicality of how you guys were 613 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: dealing with each other, from eye contact to no eye 614 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: contact to when I say it was crazy. It was 615 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: like y'all had done movies before, like you guys have 616 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: been sync before in other moments to build because the 617 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: build up that of chemistry, yeah, is really crazy and 618 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: it's rare. It's rare, and that undercurrent that y'all were 619 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: carrying along with what was being said in the environment. 620 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: But it was incredible, Thank you. Man. No, he's he's 621 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: a special talent, you know what I mean. He's a 622 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: kindred spirit too, you know what I'm saying. He immediately 623 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: he would feel like one of us, like like a 624 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: brother for sure. Um and and and he he he, 625 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: he has so much depth to him and complexities that 626 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: just played perfectly you know in the film that we 627 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: needed from our antagonis you know what I'm saying, to 628 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,840 Speaker 1: to to counter the counterbalance are equally as complex and 629 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: the depth of a Donos you know, of our heroes 630 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: so so so he played that perfectly. He was a workhorse. 631 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,240 Speaker 1: He you know, he was willing to get into shape. 632 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: He was sacrificed, you know what I'm saying. He's you know, 633 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: you know, just time just to really put it in 634 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: and take this shit seriously, learning choreography, learning a certain style, 635 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 1: you know, and bodying you know Damien as a character, 636 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying coming from Crenshaw just being 637 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 1: like just an la la story and and it and 638 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,399 Speaker 1: it worked, man, it really worked. And then the box 639 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: and stuff just really like um fell into place. And 640 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: that was one that I probably daydreamed the most about 641 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: from like just over the course of the entire trilogy, 642 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: just like how would I do the fights if I 643 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: ever had an opportunity to do them? And like that 644 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: was something that I really like said, we just want 645 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: to swing for the fences. So why is he here? So? 646 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: Why is he here? I mean, this is an R 647 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: and B money, This R and B parka podcast. What 648 00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 1: was it? Okay, let's do it. Yeah, so you drink 649 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: your tea. Oh yeah, I'm here to Uh no, Lord 650 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:02,879 Speaker 1: wanted to keep me humble. Were going with a cheat. 651 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,920 Speaker 1: I don't know where he's going down? Where you going? 652 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 1: It was a little bit like it was little cheers 653 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: and that a little bit. I heard cheers a little bit. 654 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,279 Speaker 1: It's a lot of bar action. It's low kind of 655 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:18,399 Speaker 1: far action to top five. Yeah, don't look at your 656 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:27,280 Speaker 1: top five, Michael, looking at you, Michael, You're top five? 657 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: All be single yea, all this be Song, Micha Be, 658 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: mich Go Bees talk five yo yo yeah, Tang Yang 659 00:37:49,920 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: Tang Tan Yeah, clearly right now, Michael stop up, fuck 660 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan's your top five R and B singers. 661 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: I'm going Marvin Gay. M h gotta go Marvin Gay. 662 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 1: I'm going Russian. There's no particular order us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 663 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 1: I'm going. So if he's the king of pop, does 664 00:38:44,080 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: that consider for play with Michael Jackson Beyonce four? Oh man, um, 665 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: this is tough luth who ended out right look and 666 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,319 Speaker 1: that thing out right? Yeah yeah, lufa, lufa. I don't 667 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: mention thanks going in there. I got you said. I 668 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: don't mention thanks going in there. You're six man. You 669 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I got I gotta you know, 670 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,560 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, I don't mind coming off the bench. I'm 671 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:34,680 Speaker 1: just saying, but I started, Yeah, we got we got 672 00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 1: one more thing, one more thing for you. Wonna let 673 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 1: you out the doll You've been associated with it a 674 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: lot of great people. Yeah, but in this segment, you 675 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,439 Speaker 1: better not. I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying 676 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:07,040 Speaker 1: no name. I ain't saying no names. Don't you don't 677 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: say shit? I ain't saying no. I love y'all. I'm 678 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,719 Speaker 1: sorry I took to get here. I got this again, 679 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: back standing invitation. Listen right now, you give us a 680 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 1: story funnier fucked up or funny and fucked up. The 681 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,280 Speaker 1: only rule to the game is you can't say no names. 682 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 1: This is Michael B. Wakanda, Creed Wire, Fruit Fruit Bill 683 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: Station Jordan Whoa. I ain't saying no names, man, I 684 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,279 Speaker 1: got stories now. I gotta figure out how to tell 685 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,400 Speaker 1: these stories without no names. Okay, let me see what 686 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:12,879 Speaker 1: I got for y'all. It was frank. It was trying 687 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:22,000 Speaker 1: to think. What's it going? Um My mind goes, y'all, Okay, 688 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: this listen. Uh you know, I'm no I'm gonna think 689 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,200 Speaker 1: it's something good. So so so let me let me, 690 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 1: let me ponder. Come on, ponder. I would rather y'all 691 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: give me like a city and then let me and 692 00:41:45,040 --> 00:42:09,359 Speaker 1: then okay, okay, okay, is getting warm. Uh So I'm 693 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,880 Speaker 1: down in Miami. You know I usually stay at that 694 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:20,319 Speaker 1: particular hotel, and um, I'm promoting the film, so I'm 695 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,600 Speaker 1: money down there for a little bit of time. You know, 696 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,040 Speaker 1: you hit you know certain outlets. You know what I'm saying, 697 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,839 Speaker 1: you know, just television, Telemundo. You know what I'm saying. 698 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,279 Speaker 1: You know, you bounce around, you do your press or whatever, 699 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,279 Speaker 1: and you go back to the hotel and then that's 700 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:38,320 Speaker 1: when you do the rest of the press. You know 701 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,320 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, press, junk and cool. Cool. So I 702 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,800 Speaker 1: had my dad press. I didn't eat that much that 703 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,840 Speaker 1: day because I woke up. It's a little late. You 704 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,879 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Uh, from the night before, which 705 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: is it is we're in Miami, so there's not a 706 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:56,600 Speaker 1: lot of sleep going you know. You know, liquid I 707 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:03,200 Speaker 1: v's are helpful, Coconut water's top top tier rehydration. So 708 00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,640 Speaker 1: next day, don't eat that much. Don't eat that much. Um. 709 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 1: A couple of other co stars don't eat as much 710 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: as either, So nobody's really eating a lot. A lot 711 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,960 Speaker 1: of tea. Un get the voice together, talking a lot. 712 00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,560 Speaker 1: So we leave the hotel and when we go to uh, 713 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,319 Speaker 1: we go to dinner. At this point, you know, order 714 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,280 Speaker 1: advertisers here. I said, but you know, we're really drinking. 715 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,440 Speaker 1: We're really we're drinking a lot, you know, alcohols flowing. 716 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,959 Speaker 1: So it's a lot of drinks, not a lot of food. 717 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,920 Speaker 1: I repeat we have, we haven't. We didn't eat a 718 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,040 Speaker 1: lot the last couple of days. So we proceed to 719 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,880 Speaker 1: have a good time. Take a little little nibble here, 720 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,040 Speaker 1: a little of this, a little that, you know what 721 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Tasting a little bit, and I ain't eat 722 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,400 Speaker 1: a full meal. Cool? Great, right as time. I'm a 723 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: little lit um. A couple of the people that I'm 724 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,880 Speaker 1: with they lit too, a little bit more more lit 725 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:01,480 Speaker 1: the I am. I'm usually the guy that, like you 726 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,839 Speaker 1: can't tell, is like really drunk, but I'm but I'm nice. 727 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,040 Speaker 1: I'm there, I'm all the way there. It looks like 728 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:14,080 Speaker 1: the lights around. Ain't nobody home? All right? A couple 729 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 1: other people a little bit more visibly messed up. So 730 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,759 Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, okay, cool, let me let me, 731 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,799 Speaker 1: let me let me help these people get to where 732 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 1: you know where we're going, you know what I'm saying, safely. 733 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:24,759 Speaker 1: So I'm in the middle of, like, you know, trying to, 734 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,360 Speaker 1: you know, help people get to where they gotta go, 735 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,200 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. We run across some ladies. All right, 736 00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,040 Speaker 1: this is Miami. You know what I'm saying. We're outside, 737 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, the venue in which we're 738 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,920 Speaker 1: getting ready to go into, and some ladies that are there, 739 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,200 Speaker 1: they might have recognized maybe a couple of us or 740 00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,000 Speaker 1: whatever case may be. All right, they wanted to roll 741 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:48,279 Speaker 1: in and we all rolling all access. So we're in 742 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:53,319 Speaker 1: this particular spot, more drinks are coming, a certain group 743 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:58,800 Speaker 1: of ladies are there. Um, one of the people that 744 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,319 Speaker 1: they're starts now look so good, you know what I'm saying. 745 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,640 Speaker 1: They they you know, they stumbling a little bit, you know, balanced, 746 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: a little off, all right, cool, And I'm like, hey, yo, 747 00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 1: I think it might be good. You probably should go 748 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 1: back you know what I'm saying to where we came from. 749 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, where we where we reside at. 750 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,480 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I think it's I think 751 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,000 Speaker 1: it's I think it's done. You know. We gotta get 752 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,120 Speaker 1: up in the morning. We gotta leave. This is we 753 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,040 Speaker 1: did it. We did it, guys. We had a great time. 754 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:26,040 Speaker 1: It was a great time. Cool. So he didn't want 755 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,800 Speaker 1: to go. So he didn't want to leave, So he 756 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:36,239 Speaker 1: proceeded to to grab the bottle from a lady that 757 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,320 Speaker 1: was with us, and he grabbed it like so like 758 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,080 Speaker 1: he grabbed the bottle with like such force that he 759 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: he cracked his own like face with it right like bah, 760 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,640 Speaker 1: and he just kind of like kept drinking. I saw 761 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:55,800 Speaker 1: it vividly, so I was like, oh shit. I was like, 762 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:57,320 Speaker 1: oh man, like that that was like that was like 763 00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,280 Speaker 1: it was you know, it was a big bottle filming 764 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,600 Speaker 1: like that. I with that. That that's that's hurtful. That 765 00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,200 Speaker 1: that's not that doesn't feel good. But he kept drinking 766 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,759 Speaker 1: like it was nothing. So everything was cool, blah blah blah. Great, 767 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:09,000 Speaker 1: So we had the rest of the night, had a 768 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,240 Speaker 1: good time. But blah blah blah. Get back in the car, cool, 769 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,160 Speaker 1: get back to the tell cool. I'm skipping over a 770 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:16,919 Speaker 1: lot of things, but that's not important to the story. 771 00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:22,560 Speaker 1: Got it. Next morning? Wake up? My phone is like, 772 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,960 Speaker 1: what is going on? Hey, what's up? Fastop? Yeah, what's 773 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:35,040 Speaker 1: going on? Oh shit, what happened to you? What happened? 774 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,160 Speaker 1: He no, Mike, tell me what happened? Well, no, you're good. 775 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,919 Speaker 1: Happen what's good? What's what's going on you? Yo? Oh? 776 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,960 Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I don't I don't know how to. 777 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,880 Speaker 1: I don't know how to. You know, if he was 778 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,680 Speaker 1: calling the person I was supposed to calm him down 779 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,200 Speaker 1: and like act like it wasn't that. I wasn't. I 780 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,719 Speaker 1: wasn't the one. I'm fresh fresh, I'm fresh, Yo. You 781 00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,440 Speaker 1: need to you gotta we gotta call somebody. And I 782 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,160 Speaker 1: don't know if you can get on the plane like that, 783 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:03,880 Speaker 1: like like I don't know if they're gonna let us. 784 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,799 Speaker 1: Do you want a plane like that? So you might 785 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,160 Speaker 1: need emergency dentists, you know what I'm saying, some stitches 786 00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,320 Speaker 1: you feeling? It was, it was the whole situation, and 787 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:18,560 Speaker 1: that was. It was a knight in Miami. That's saying names. 788 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,000 Speaker 1: I did a good job. A couple of times I 789 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,640 Speaker 1: almost sucked up. I did a good job, a good job. 790 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,239 Speaker 1: Moral of the story is, huh, don't drink with Michael B. 791 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:33,279 Speaker 1: Jordan without eating, without eating? Yeah, because you want to 792 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,359 Speaker 1: try to match my ship, and don't don't match my ship. 793 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:41,040 Speaker 1: And if you're looking for you're looking to be consoled, 794 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 1: consolt or comfort, don't call don't, don't, don't don't. I'm 795 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,200 Speaker 1: gonna tell to you real you're not you. You butch 796 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,400 Speaker 1: your ship, you bunch your ship. It's it's it was, 797 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,880 Speaker 1: it was, Yeah, it was m wow, I have been 798 00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,719 Speaker 1: any knights in Miami of those kinds that I don't 799 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: really remember, you know, just just thank the Lord. I 800 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,240 Speaker 1: woke up in the hotel I checked in. That's crazy, 801 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,040 Speaker 1: not me. I don't live like that anymore. Ever, what 802 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,040 Speaker 1: you mean? I don't live like that. I always know 803 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,440 Speaker 1: where I'm gonna wake up at again. Ever, Okay, you 804 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:19,719 Speaker 1: know me a long time. You ain't never seen me 805 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,200 Speaker 1: get they ain't. Nobody had to do. I know you 806 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,920 Speaker 1: hold your ship very well too, though. No, no, no, no, no, 807 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:32,160 Speaker 1: he doesn't. He don't do what we're talking about. But 808 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:39,320 Speaker 1: he gets extremely violent. Yeah, depends what he drinking, you know. Okay, 809 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:45,640 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Nice guy. He's like people, Yeah, these niggas. 810 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,759 Speaker 1: And then it just goes from there. It goes from there. 811 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,920 Speaker 1: It goes from us having a great time to him 812 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:56,440 Speaker 1: telling Steph Curry all right, telling niggas take a picture 813 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,239 Speaker 1: with us if he want to be safe out there. 814 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,279 Speaker 1: I said, why do I have to sell them? Why 815 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,719 Speaker 1: do I have to if you want to be safe? 816 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,080 Speaker 1: Why does it have to be the masage? Why do 817 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 1: I why I got the picture with pictures on my face? 818 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:24,000 Speaker 1: Shot crazy? That's not how I related The man with 819 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:28,480 Speaker 1: his brother. But Mike be my brother. Oh man, you're 820 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,200 Speaker 1: awesome brother. Yeah. And that's just not that's just not 821 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,359 Speaker 1: you know, friends talking. That's that's um. You know, I'm 822 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,960 Speaker 1: gonna pull myself outside of that outside looking at it. Man. 823 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:42,040 Speaker 1: Amazing brother, man, thank you've done amazing work. Um. Um 824 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,839 Speaker 1: your your your legs clean man, and keep it that way. Brother. 825 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,759 Speaker 1: You represent well my ladies and gentlemen. My name is taking. 826 00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,279 Speaker 1: This is the Army Money podcast and uh do you 827 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,839 Speaker 1: say that? Cool? And uh what else can I say? Man? 828 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:11,279 Speaker 1: Brekn Us in the building. Michael Petrone. 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