Speaker 1: From iHeartRadio and Doghouse Pictures. This is Fight Night. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Keating and.
Speaker 2: I'm Kenny Burns. We're back, Episode two.
Speaker 1: Round two. I got.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about when we first met in person, because
Speaker 3: I will never forget this and how you This is
Speaker 3: how I knew I may have a new friend, a
Speaker 3: new advocate, a new So do you remember where you
Speaker 3: met me?
Speaker 1: Because I do done a lot of drugs. Okay, well.
Speaker 2: I'm joking with the drugs alcohol, yes, but please tell us.
Speaker 3: All right, so at some point we're hooked up and
Speaker 3: we've got a chance to pitch universal l Oh my
Speaker 3: goodness at the studio. Okay, don't forget. This is Will
Speaker 3: Packer's home, you know. So you walk in and you
Speaker 3: know you can see some of his movies. Everybody's waiting
Speaker 3: for Will. I'm waiting to see you. And you walk
Speaker 3: in again with this fucking energy. I mean, I'll never
Speaker 3: im It's just the smile, like it is Fight Night energy,
Speaker 3: and again you're like you embrace me.
Speaker 1: It was like welcoming from.
Speaker 3: The door, and I was said, God, who the fuck
Speaker 3: is Like I want to just walk as you know,
Speaker 3: follow this guy in. So but it's you me, Lars Will?
Speaker 3: Uh was James Lopez thy.
Speaker 2: Lars giving me my money? Yeah, that's going to be happening.
Speaker 2: I don't know if James is that don't remember.
Speaker 3: Well, definitely the four of us. I want to say
Speaker 3: James money, but the four of us. So now this
Speaker 3: was a mistake and I'll and and again it's part
Speaker 3: of just the learning. Yeah, you know, but but Lars
Speaker 3: did the first of all, I should have been.
Speaker 1: A part of that pitch. Now you should have let
Speaker 1: I should that.
Speaker 3: And the way that he did it, which is probably
Speaker 3: just the way reps do it, is he's basically just
Speaker 3: reading and just giving a play by instead of and
Speaker 3: so at some point and I'll never forget, Will chimes
Speaker 3: in and basically starts to give more of the flavor,
Speaker 3: just like forget about the you know, and the turns
Speaker 3: and the acts and whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like because it's hard listen.
Speaker 2: And Lars was going off with the script that he
Speaker 2: wanted to.
Speaker 3: Say, and what the and that's fine, but that's there
Speaker 3: was no no, no.
Speaker 2: And to be honest, that's why when you asked me
Speaker 2: to host fight and I was like, are you stupid?
Speaker 1: They should have let me talked the whole I would
Speaker 1: have sold it.
Speaker 2: But if you'd have just talked about the first time
Speaker 2: that JD and Chicken amendment. But I mean continue, because
Speaker 2: we did end up coming.
Speaker 3: Well Will Will Will jumps in smartly at some point,
Speaker 3: and then at the end they start asking me questions
Speaker 3: and I started, so you can start to see like
Speaker 3: them a little bit get excited.
Speaker 1: But we should have had him from the get go.
Speaker 3: So again, the way that we just organized that pitch
Speaker 3: was just too sterile is probably the best word. And
Speaker 3: again we should have just like, dude, you were the
Speaker 3: pop culture of the life, so like there was certain
Speaker 3: energies and things that needed to be pushed.
Speaker 1: And now you see it like I can't say.
Speaker 2: When Will was speaking, I came through with a little even.
Speaker 3: I remember, but I'm just saying that there's something about
Speaker 3: Lars couldn't capture Atlanta and we needed to be able
Speaker 3: to get that early on and stuff and so whatever.
Speaker 1: At some point we did.
Speaker 3: But but that was that was But I got to
Speaker 3: meet you, and so then it's this like, so now
Speaker 3: you again, we don't even have a deal with Universal.
Speaker 1: That's just a pitchy So over the.
Speaker 3: Next eighteen I mean it was a long cause you're
Speaker 3: dealing with life rights and states and all. But I
Speaker 3: just want to say now personally, just to thank you
Speaker 3: because you were an advocate, took my calls, help me
Speaker 3: call all we did, all that stuff you got on
Speaker 3: the phone with Will. I mean just saying walking through
Speaker 3: helped get through Dallas, all those different things. Like people
Speaker 3: don't understand how process and how integral you were to
Speaker 3: that process, Like you you had a way of guide
Speaker 3: because you know, like our personalities are so different, you know,
Speaker 3: nervous and I'm like, and you're just cool.
Speaker 1: You know, you're my rock or the whole thing.
Speaker 3: But you but you also get the value I brought
Speaker 3: to the table.
Speaker 2: And always I saw you, and I think that yeah,
Speaker 2: but I but I saw you. I saw who you were,
Speaker 2: I saw what you were trying to be. And I
Speaker 2: think for all aspiring entrepreneurs, filmmakers, you know, just good
Speaker 2: humans like you have to be able to see people, right.
Speaker 2: And that's why, like I love Will so much, because
Speaker 2: not only was he with us in that journey of
Speaker 2: securing their life rights, getting Dallas straight, doing all the things,
Speaker 2: like he didn't have to do that, Like you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, and to be honest, he got back
Speaker 2: to no, he no, he had our back until we
Speaker 2: actually came to Peacock. And what these people are about
Speaker 2: to witness is a testament of him, like us, getting
Speaker 2: it to a certain point in him. But you need well,
Speaker 2: oh my god. So we'll get into that, you know,
Speaker 2: in a couple of episodes, but you know, actually next episode,
Speaker 2: the end of this, next episode into the other, because
Speaker 2: Will is the go. But I think that you know,
Speaker 2: when you look at that eighteen months and you look
Speaker 2: at like what we really had to endure, you.
Speaker 1: Got to learn too, because I've been through that.
Speaker 2: But that's why I've always stuck by you. That's so
Speaker 2: it's never been about money in this project. For me.
Speaker 2: I learned the game and it was like the game right.
Speaker 2: So if you're thinking about industry guys, and you're thinking
Speaker 2: about film, I would encourage you to get in something
Speaker 2: with life rights first and many hands in the pot
Speaker 2: so you can learn how to navigate and get through.
Speaker 2: Because Jeff, this went away, This went away. We ended
Speaker 2: up getting a deal and as quick as it seemed
Speaker 2: right to get in business with Will and then or
Speaker 2: for Will to say I got you, I want to
Speaker 2: do this and then go to universe and then it's
Speaker 2: staggers again and it's kind of moving slow, and it's like,
Speaker 2: oh wait, but it's been fifteen years at this point
Speaker 2: for you, two years at this point for me, three
Speaker 2: years from me. You get to this point and you're like,
Speaker 2: is this shit gonna go away? For real? No? We
Speaker 2: have a feature film at Universal. What do you remember hearing?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, because we can kind of
Speaker 2: fast forward to the.
Speaker 3: End of it at some point, you know, you hear
Speaker 3: that it's going to go into turn around again. So
Speaker 3: I've been through that process us and listen, you're deterred.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, okay, I got Kenny and Will now
Speaker 3: and they know this.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, and you never stopped, by the way,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, even with Will and not having all
Speaker 2: these things going, you are you and I stayed connected
Speaker 2: at the hill? No? No, always say no, no what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. But like you think, like it's over again.
Speaker 2: I know you were frustrated. I remember the.
Speaker 3: Calls, but again not like I'm just like, let's not
Speaker 3: let this thing die that like, okay, fine, they don't
Speaker 3: want it. Let's walk across the street, like I knew
Speaker 3: I already had a project. Now I got you. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm not letting go now. It's like, you know, Will Power. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is but this is important because we lose the project.
Speaker 3: And how how far after that did the fiftieth year
Speaker 3: anniversary of the heightst come?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, only about a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Okay, So but my point is right. So for those listening,
Speaker 2: we had a deal, deal went away. It was a
Speaker 2: year or two, maybe not almost. And then you called me.
Speaker 2: You were like, Kenny, the fiftieth anniversary is coming. Do
Speaker 2: you think we could? You know, because it was always
Speaker 2: talk to Will? Is what is Will saying? All right?
Speaker 2: Do we want to try something else? I mean obviously
Speaker 2: they had the option, but literally the fiftieth anniversaries upon
Speaker 2: us and you're like, I got the idea.
Speaker 3: Well, so let me let me tell you where that
Speaker 3: came from. This we gotta give us props. So Dan
Speaker 3: Bush props to you. Dan, yeah, big time, because again
Speaker 3: he's so Dan and I've known each other twenty years.
Speaker 3: Him and his crew sold the Signal at sun Dance
Speaker 3: about twenty years ago, horror film and just kind of
Speaker 3: helped everybody rise, Dave Bruckner shout out to you as well.
Speaker 1: And so at some point this is the funny thing.
Speaker 3: So Dan knows Connell their buddy, I mean they were college. Yeah,
Speaker 3: big time Connell. We'll get to that pitch in a second.
Speaker 3: And so Dan comes to me, he's like, hey, you
Speaker 3: know you got this audio. You know you should think
Speaker 3: about doing a podcast. Now, in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's the dumbest, Like yeah, I do, why I did so?
Speaker 1: And now I'm like that's the vain.
Speaker 3: But but he gets this idea and so and he's like, hey,
Speaker 3: I know you've got this movie thing. So I think,
Speaker 3: because I know Connell, we can pitch this in a
Speaker 3: way where you can still keep all your connections and
Speaker 3: actually bringing Will and Kenny, you know, to the table,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to do this. So and he's
Speaker 3: got an idea also, like hey, how we can lay
Speaker 3: this out, you know, in narrative form, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: And so he gets me on the phone with Connell
Speaker 3: and our EP Noe Brown, and I'm telling you, I
Speaker 3: pitch him on the phone, you will universal whatever I think.
Speaker 1: In forty eight hours, I get an offer, No no, no,
Speaker 1: an offer.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know how long that and not only
Speaker 3: that props to irony within maybe I don't know, a
Speaker 3: couple months of that, the deal's closed and we're off
Speaker 3: and running because I think they knew what they had. Yes,
Speaker 3: they also knew we got the fiftieth coming up. They knew,
Speaker 3: hey we got will Packerd blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: No one nobody thought it would turn it into this.
Speaker 2: Nobody come on, not even me. And I'd be very
Speaker 2: honest because when you called me, you told me what
Speaker 2: was going on, you asked me to hoste. I was like,
Speaker 2: I pushed back because you know, being with you all
Speaker 2: that time, how passionate you were about the story in fact, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: not not just on the tapes. I mean, and we
Speaker 2: had the audio, which was huge. But the other thing was,
Speaker 2: you know, we had lost JD, right, you know, Chicken man,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, so we were who else knew them
Speaker 2: and could really talk about that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And you did an exceptional job, you know, and that's
Speaker 2: what ignited this new I mean limited TV series that
Speaker 2: is sweeping the world. Like I mean, we're coming out
Speaker 2: on Peacock September fifth, the second biggest airtime for the NFL,
Speaker 2: which is the first game of the season. I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: which is I said, which is the first game of
Speaker 2: the season. But I'm saying that at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, look at all the bullshit we've.
Speaker 3: Been There's two stories you got to hear because you're
Speaker 3: gonna all right. So the first one is just again
Speaker 3: props out So Linda Burns and JD Taylor, who are
Speaker 3: here in town and they've been part of this community
Speaker 3: film for years. They were the ones that helped me
Speaker 3: get that audio and video recording of JD and Chicken
Speaker 3: Man that one day now, so we've got that. That's important,
Speaker 3: Like we've got that locked for years. They actually did
Speaker 3: a let's call it five minute documentary that we were
Speaker 3: showing that. We show that to Dallas. He goes nuts.
Speaker 3: We're showing execs. So we're getting that video out there.
Speaker 3: So again, just props with them. Blake Guthrie, who worked
Speaker 3: at Eddie's Attic with me, I was a door guy.
Speaker 1: So just imagine this.
Speaker 3: I get my deal with Dallas Austin, I get my
Speaker 3: first check for an option what's you know whatever, ten
Speaker 3: to fifteen cable to me back then I'm working the door,
Speaker 3: but I can't get that check for like a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. So to celebrate that night, I got to
Speaker 3: work a shift at the door just to get the
Speaker 3: cash to go out tricks.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So Blake right a few timest Okay.
Speaker 3: So Blake got three writes this article for Creative Loafing. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's my first big press ever cover story. Again for
Speaker 3: all you know that gravel if you know, it's nice,
Speaker 3: but it's not a big paper. But to me, it's
Speaker 3: like what So my friends when it comes out, we
Speaker 3: go to Buckhead, you know, we're like, it's like entourage,
Speaker 3: like they think, but they bring the like they bring
Speaker 3: the you can't get anything, the phone, they bring the article.
Speaker 3: My pictures not even on the article, okay, but they're
Speaker 3: walking around like literally we're entourage, Like we're gonna pick
Speaker 3: up every girl along the way. They're reading the article.
Speaker 3: We've made it into the night. I'm with my three
Speaker 3: or four guys with there's no girls. Like I was like,
Speaker 3: please don't ever do that.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: All right, so fast forward, We've we got this podcast going.
Speaker 3: We got will here's the podcast. So that's another thing,
Speaker 3: like he hears this, he gets on the phone, he's like,
Speaker 3: this is like he gets it. He's like, wow, we
Speaker 3: got an I P Now we got the full story.
Speaker 3: This is flushed out. So immediately he like his he's on.
Speaker 3: Now It's like, but we're gonna we're gonna push this,
Speaker 3: and he does. He starts pressing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and so he got it to Kevin and
Speaker 2: big shot to Kevin Man. Kevin, I love that one.
Speaker 2: You you know, you are a friend. You have been
Speaker 2: you know, you know if you have a friend and
Speaker 2: you don't see him like the rest of the world,
Speaker 2: because you know him and you appreciate it, right, Like
Speaker 2: you appreciate his work. You love the movies. Your kid
Speaker 2: loves Jumanji all the things. But I'm not looking at
Speaker 2: him like superstar, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: My god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so when you think about like the level
Speaker 2: of talent that Heartbeat Productions and Will Packard Productions brought
Speaker 2: to this limited TV series film, it's a limited TV
Speaker 2: series film. This ship is films.
Speaker 1: Made like like eight films. It's like eight film really is.
Speaker 2: And when you think about the let's talk about this
Speaker 2: because I remember you and I as we started hearing
Speaker 2: about the talent and where did Sam fall in the place.
Speaker 3: Second, if I'm not mistaken, let's not even get to
Speaker 3: say Kevin.
Speaker 2: But he went to Kevin, So we already knew Kevin
Speaker 2: for me. But we knew Kevin wanted to play Chicken Man.
Speaker 2: We knew that was happening. But when we heard that
Speaker 2: Samuel L. Jackson Frank Molten was gonna be Frank Molten,
Speaker 2: we were like, get the fuck out of here. Like
Speaker 2: we were like, what part of the dream sequence is this?
Speaker 3: And it just started, Terrence, and you're just waiting for
Speaker 3: that less like who's gonna play chick?
Speaker 2: Who's gonna play j D? And when you you, I
Speaker 2: think you told me. I think they will tell me.
Speaker 2: But when I heard Jade, I was like, get the
Speaker 2: fuck out of here, and I want to talk about
Speaker 2: Cheetoh for second.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, but it's listen.
Speaker 2: You know, you think about legendary actors and we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about everybody. They have two more episodes for you.
Speaker 2: But when you think about how it had to be
Speaker 2: Jeff without Cheetah playing JD, and mind you you just
Speaker 2: named Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji p Henson, Terrence
Speaker 2: Howard and rounding it out because j D was almost
Speaker 2: like the rounding out right. It was when he one
Speaker 2: of the the last ones.
Speaker 3: JD was the last one cast with a very vital role.
Speaker 3: That's my point.
Speaker 2: So, like when it was said that Don Cheetle was
Speaker 2: gonna play j how did you feel Because I remember
Speaker 2: our conversation and you couldn't like control, Like it was like,
Speaker 2: I don't believe this shit, Like Kenny, can you imagine?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? And who would have known
Speaker 2: the dynamic between Kevin and Don on screen? It was
Speaker 2: almost like the stories you would tell me about JD
Speaker 2: in rev. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was you want
Speaker 2: to cry.
Speaker 1: I'm just.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying it was. That was a lot just
Speaker 3: to see that star power just got it.
Speaker 1: But because those are those are your pillars.
Speaker 2: Although Frank Molten and I don't think anybody's ready for
Speaker 2: Terrence Howard, Sam Jackson in the show, I don't think
Speaker 2: you ever know you need oh my god, but those
Speaker 2: are the pillars when you think about JD and.
Speaker 1: Even Taraji with just all the evan We'll.
Speaker 2: Get into that, but I'm saying, like in theory about
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 3: Well, so when I first wrote the screenplay that Dallas
Speaker 3: got years ago. I mean, I told Cheetle this Cheatle
Speaker 3: was the guy for Chicken. You know, I'm just in
Speaker 3: my mind, like you know, I'm thinking again, Kevin, it's
Speaker 3: years back. He's not even doing you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: he was there so to even see them as a
Speaker 3: part of this. And let's also remember I go to
Speaker 3: Will Packer's company, which was Rainforest Films years before you
Speaker 3: even got to I couldn't even get in the door though,
Speaker 3: Like I call and they're like, oh we'll try that.
Speaker 2: So wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So and then Rainforest Films that took me back.
Speaker 3: Not only that, Craig Brew is in Atlanta. I go
Speaker 3: to the premiere of Hustling Flow, well at least the
Speaker 3: Atlanta premiere. I'm waiting on a stage forty five people
Speaker 3: to pitch him this story.
Speaker 2: Are you serious?
Speaker 1: I get to like, I.
Speaker 3: Get to twenty people in and it's like, now he's
Speaker 3: got a break. So I don't even get a chance
Speaker 3: to say it. So I tell him. I was like,
Speaker 3: so now I got the guy that I waited And
Speaker 3: that's what I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: So you got to use your words more. You fucking
Speaker 2: didn't tell me Brewer or Brainforce Films was.
Speaker 1: So amazing thinking cheetles. So it's just all these things.
Speaker 3: I was like, wait a seconds, So now I got
Speaker 3: Will who I went to, and I got Craig Brewer
Speaker 3: who went to and so all this so maybe you
Speaker 3: always telling me to manifest or think things will finally
Speaker 3: happen of it.
Speaker 1: They're starting to like flow like.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. The one thing you need to know
Speaker 2: about this man right here, with these amazing talents, is
Speaker 2: that this should have been your first project, Like think
Speaker 2: about it all that time. You know this is for
Speaker 2: it was nobody it is. Yeah, I mean first into
Speaker 2: into the entrepreneurs and the spying, you know, entertainment Mogan,
Speaker 2: the filmmakers.
Speaker 1: Like overnight success right over.
Speaker 2: You think it's easy. You think this ship is easy.
Speaker 2: My goodness, so you know we we have the cast.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, so so to your poort, like what you're thinking?
Speaker 3: So and I'm talking to you know mom about this
Speaker 3: like in my mind when I get and this is
Speaker 3: not a good way thing. But I'm just thinking it's
Speaker 3: all down here like I'm never.
Speaker 2: You're such the worst, I'm at the top. No, here
Speaker 2: with all these like we're getting we're getting this this
Speaker 2: information on these on these amazing genius level actors, right
Speaker 2: and actresses, and he's talking to me every day like
Speaker 2: it's possible, it is gonna go away. I'm like, motherfucker,
Speaker 2: you know they're signed, right, you know we have a
Speaker 2: date because we did get moved.
Speaker 1: And that's scared to strike. Scared Jeff.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's about to establish in the pinky toe
Speaker 2: like he literally was like, wait, no, we have that.
Speaker 3: Well we got the deal and then the strike cabins, bab,
Speaker 3: you're right what we got the deal and you.
Speaker 2: Were but you acted like literally in the middle of
Speaker 2: all that amazingness assembly that it was still might not happen, right,
Speaker 2: And so he always does this, ladies and gentlemen. You know,
Speaker 2: through this episode you'll see how he still doesn't believe
Speaker 2: it's coming out September fifth on Peacock. But I you know,
Speaker 2: I think you know it's a testament man to you
Speaker 2: know what you said, luck and timing. You know what
Speaker 2: you said, Luck, I said timing. Now, how do you
Speaker 2: feel because we have the cast, right, and then when
Speaker 2: you look at the cast, it was older, but it's
Speaker 2: the seventies, right, you have to have someone that identifies
Speaker 2: with the seventies. You have to you know, your mama,
Speaker 2: and them had to be fifty babies, damn near for
Speaker 2: and all of the people. Obviously Sam was alive, right,
Speaker 2: And I remember saying, tell the story. No, but I'm
Speaker 2: saying I remember him telling us the story that he
Speaker 2: heard about fight night. So you have integral pieces. You
Speaker 2: got seventy babies that are stars. You got Sam who
Speaker 2: was there, I mean not at the event, but in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: and and so it's shaping up. And then we had
Speaker 2: to go get some young energy, right, And I just
Speaker 2: want to give Chloe Bailey a shout out, you know,
Speaker 2: I want to give Melvin greg a shout out. I
Speaker 2: want to give Miles Bullet a shout out. I want
Speaker 2: to give Saint kwih Walls. I mean the young cast.
Speaker 2: I was telling everybody, but you know, we accomplished, Jeff,
Speaker 2: I don't think you realize, well, we accompished, because I'm
Speaker 2: telling them on set. I'm like, you know, you're on
Speaker 2: stage daily at Assembly, You're in the field with some
Speaker 2: of the greatest actors ever, and you're being tapped. I'm
Speaker 2: telling all of them this you're being tapped as the
Speaker 2: next ones because I feel seeing Chloe in in this role,
Speaker 2: seeing Lori Harvey, you know, Belola Falana, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I mean, it's it's an unbelievable balance. How
Speaker 2: important was that for us? Because I don't think people
Speaker 2: really understand the dynamic and trying to put this type
Speaker 2: of talent together and actually make it work.
Speaker 1: I didn't get, Like, now I see why they were
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to you know, well I didn't get it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was trying to tell you got it. I was
Speaker 1: trying to tell you, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I was so appreciative of the old and just and
Speaker 3: that's just all I'm thinking. But to bring in this
Speaker 3: their everything, I mean, first of all, the talent level
Speaker 3: that you just named. Watch I'm telling people, I don't
Speaker 3: even know who I'm looking at you, but just watch out.
Speaker 3: I mean, I I'm just saying, but I watched Miles
Speaker 3: B I watched Sinkual. I mean, there's a whole host
Speaker 3: I'm teresa'm and all and they're just like the watch
Speaker 3: out for these people. They brought it and we got
Speaker 3: to give a shout. Our local guy, ron Rico him
Speaker 3: going with Don and Sam and I mean, he's brilliant
Speaker 3: local legend, and so we've really got some talent across
Speaker 3: the board here. And let's also say, and I know
Speaker 3: we'll get into this, but just the behind the scenes
Speaker 3: talent that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was Nazio ya ya Yah in Ladies and Joe.
Speaker 2: We're gonna definitely talk about that. But I want to
Speaker 2: give Shay, oh yeah, it's props because in this whole process,
Speaker 2: you know, And I'll never forget, Yes, Shay, we love
Speaker 2: you so much. I'll never forget us going to dinner.
Speaker 2: You know, when we had tapped him right to write
Speaker 2: this and we were talking about we want to bring
Speaker 2: some of the you know, really important Atlanta music, even
Speaker 2: though it's the seventies, you know. We could put Sporty
Speaker 2: o d you know, and it, we could do international player,
Speaker 2: we could do certain and we're talking and we're having
Speaker 2: this amazing thing. But the fact that Shay was from
Speaker 2: Atlanta and he was so passionate about it, it sold He
Speaker 2: got it. What sold it for you with Shay? Though?
Speaker 2: Was it the dinner too?
Speaker 3: I Mean I'd spent four days with so that you know,
Speaker 3: we'll fly some in and Shaye walks in and he's
Speaker 3: just like he just goes off about how much he
Speaker 3: loves the Pot. He's just yeah, and he just like
Speaker 3: the podcast is everything, It's the foundation. So the fact
Speaker 3: that he just got it, that he appreciated that he's
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, I mean, I knew we bonded quick and
Speaker 3: then I was like, I got to hook him up
Speaker 3: with Kenny because I knew you'd get it. And then
Speaker 3: he he loved your vibe. He's like this, you know,
Speaker 3: So our.
Speaker 1: Team was just come. You know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: just the team building was just amazing.
Speaker 2: In the process and actually got to spend time doing it.
Speaker 2: That's what mattered most in that. But Shay got it
Speaker 2: and and him being from Atlanta, man, you know, even
Speaker 2: when we were shooting bro.
Speaker 3: But it was handing off the tour, like I knew
Speaker 3: when the pot was like it was ready, but in
Speaker 3: my time, no, no, no, but it was I got to
Speaker 3: say this, like like I needed at some point to
Speaker 3: hand this off. You were ready, I was ready, And
Speaker 3: by the way, I was like, I got to tell
Speaker 3: myself the podcast, I gotta do it.
Speaker 1: Kenny gave me the opportunity to host this like I'm
Speaker 1: good like her. You can see that.
Speaker 3: I just I'm like, i'ma hand it off to you.
Speaker 3: And I felt from day one, I got your back.
Speaker 3: Whatever you need from me, this is yours now.
Speaker 2: Boom Yeah. And he every day was so dialed in.
Speaker 2: But we're going to get into the rest of that
Speaker 2: in episode three of Fight.
Speaker 3: Night from iHeart Radio and Doghouse Pictures. This is Fight Night.