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Speaker 1: Alan Maldonado. I smile when I say that name. He's

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Speaker 1: an actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur. Among his films and

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Speaker 1: TV critics include Straight Out of Compton, Equalizing Cake, Sony's

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Speaker 1: He's smiling, man, because I love talking to him. Man, actor, writer, director,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. What an incredible intro. I appreciate it. Man.

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Speaker 1: and the Council. You went back now you're doing a

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Speaker 1: movie and went back to my era, you know House

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Speaker 1: Party reboot. You know that brought back some memories and

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're invrolved with it, you know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I leeve Jacob Latimer from The Shy is uh starting

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Speaker 1: in the movie with you. Uh talk about that reboot,

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Speaker 1: I know you know back then, Uh, you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of comedians were involved in a lot of great

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Speaker 1: comedy actors were involved in it. When that was approached

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Speaker 1: to you put on your docket. Talk about that experience.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, you have a past relationship, working relationship

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Speaker 1: with Lebron James on Survivor's Remorse, and that's what I

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Speaker 1: love about you. Whenever we talk, you have a clear

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Speaker 1: understanding that, like we talked about a few minutes ago,

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Speaker 1: relationships build opportunity, and on that opportunity, you still have

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Speaker 1: to deliver the work, and you don't. You don't fall

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Speaker 1: back on I just that's my boy. He's gonna take

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Speaker 1: care of you, going there with the mindset that I

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Speaker 1: still have to deliver in order to get the next

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Speaker 1: opportunity from my board or from my girl. Correct that

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Speaker 1: it's correct, man, um, I think people. Uh, And that's

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Speaker 1: the respect aspect of it all. Just because you're you know,

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Speaker 1: friends are you're closer to one person versus the next,

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you lose respect for your craft or your

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Speaker 1: job or what they have hired you for. And a

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Speaker 1: lot of times we do do that, and it's disrespectful

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Speaker 1: to whoever your friend is because it's like, man, that's

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Speaker 1: something separate, like I hired you to do something, but

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Speaker 1: house party is it is one of those I p

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Speaker 1: s are you know classics that to be a part

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Speaker 1: of this new version and this new creation of it.

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Speaker 1: As you know, you know, people tend to think of

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Speaker 1: reboots as sequels, and that's not really what it is.

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Speaker 1: To reboot. It's a different version of this similar world,

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Speaker 1: this coming of age story that we got to experience

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Speaker 1: early nineties that you know has transferred to to now

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Speaker 1: which is almost thirty years UM. Shout out to Reggie

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Speaker 1: who directed the first one, who's um, you know, the

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Speaker 1: mind and the creation, the brilliance behind the first one.

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Speaker 1: He's a part of the reboot as well as an

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Speaker 1: executive producer. So we're in good hands with Lebron. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Chuck, our director. Um. You know, and

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Speaker 1: we we we were looking in and we're determined to

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Speaker 1: put some very very funny on screen. Now will be

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Speaker 1: fun Yeah, that you know people would enjoy at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, and that's all that matters. You know.

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Speaker 1: Before I go, I I'll be remissed. I kind of

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Speaker 1: mentioned their names a little bit. We talked a lot

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Speaker 1: about James co starring with you and the stars series Heels,

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Speaker 1: but you have two leads in there. Because I mentioned

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Speaker 1: start in the series Viking series and also starting the

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Speaker 1: Arrow series. Can you talk about that their talents and

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Speaker 1: working with their talents and how how they just incredibly

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Speaker 1: gifted young men and nice people as well. Oh Man,

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Speaker 1: Stephen the Mill uh and Alexander. Um, they're they're pure professionals. Man.

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Speaker 1: I love sharing the screen with them. Some of some

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Speaker 1: of my favorite scenes in the series are with them. Um,

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Speaker 1: some some really good dramatic work. Uh and just lions

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Speaker 1: man like we gotta we gotta den for the lions.

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Speaker 1: And Stephen the Mill is the captain of the ship

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Speaker 1: man uh and second up Axander and they set the tone. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know there's scenes I've seen with scenes Xanders throwing

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Speaker 1: chairs and all types of crazy stuff. I love it

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Speaker 1: like it's it's it's it's a beautiful, you know, sort

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Speaker 1: of dance that you get to witness close and personal

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Speaker 1: when you when you get to work with phenomenal actors

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Speaker 1: such as such as them man and along with the

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Speaker 1: entire got Chris Bow Like shout out to Chris. He

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Speaker 1: with wild Bill on this show. Um, Chris is hands

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Speaker 1: down one of my favorite actors to watch work this witness. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He's such a pure artist. Uh. And every time, every

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Speaker 1: it's something special when you go get something unique. So

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's the whole cast is incredible and

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Speaker 1: oh my god, I just can't wait. Well before I

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Speaker 1: want to end on a personal note, we were recording

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Speaker 1: this interview via zoom and in the background I see

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Speaker 1: some tributes to Kobe Bryant in order to see the

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Speaker 1: images that I'm seeing. Obviously, he had an impact on

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Speaker 1: you of users, and his death unfortunately allowed me to see.

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Speaker 1: I only knew Kobe Bryant the basketball star, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of knew about him as Kobe Bryant the father.

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Speaker 1: But afterwards I realized how he took the time to

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Speaker 1: pack so many people. I see images of him on

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Speaker 1: your back wall there. Talk about why that's important that

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Speaker 1: you have that on your back wall, and Kobe Bryant

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Speaker 1: and why he has an impact in your life. Uh

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Speaker 1: he you know, Mama, mentality is the gospel. It's the

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Speaker 1: uh you know, away of life over here. For me, man,

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Speaker 1: just that type of dedication and that obsession to what

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Speaker 1: you love and to your craft. You know, just the phrases,

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Speaker 1: you know, different animals, same beasts, Like these are things

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Speaker 1: that ring in my head daily when whenever I'm in

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Speaker 1: like there is no nose, there's only as uh and

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Speaker 1: and it's a lot inspired by you know, Kobe, watching

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Speaker 1: him work, watching watching his um, his rise, his struggles,

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Speaker 1: his wins, his losses, um and just his perseverance and

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Speaker 1: his legendary work ethic is what uh you hear about?

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Speaker 1: And only this is gonna the legend is only gonna

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Speaker 1: grow as the stories continue to go. Even in his

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Speaker 1: past and so uh Kobe personally means a lot of

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Speaker 1: an l a kid as well. So um, we we

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Speaker 1: watched him grow and you know, to see him pass

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Speaker 1: in the manner that he did was just so traumatic

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Speaker 1: and um it's impacted everyone, you know, definitely condolescence to

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Speaker 1: how they feel, and being that we felt so heartbroken

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Speaker 1: even though we and me personally I didn't know him

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Speaker 1: personally at all. So uh, just an incredible human being,

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Speaker 1: incredible inspiration. So um, you know, he's definitely at the

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Speaker 1: top of my mouth rushmore as far as the inspiration,

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Speaker 1: appreciate as always appreciate that all of we are, we

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Speaker 1: would definitely be seeing you again. It's always about to

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Speaker 1: movie project that's coming out next year, so we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking next year. It's always appreciated. Always appreciate you man again.

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Speaker 1: I'll be watching TV with your face only a lot

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