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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, what's up y'all?

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Speaker 1: Aka Greg And of course Thomas Jones is here with

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Speaker 1: us today too, a.

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Speaker 3: Ka omar, Yes, Johnson.

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Speaker 4: All the Johnson's and then earthquake as well.

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Speaker 1: Your character's name is go ahead, I'm trying to repeat

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Speaker 1: a booker.

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Speaker 4: I love seeing the dynamic. But you and DL Hughley on.

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Speaker 1: There together as the ogs on the show, but also

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Speaker 1: somebody who will take down your mama as well. But

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Speaker 1: let's get into it, because all of you are on

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Speaker 1: the show on Bounce TV, the hit show on Bounced

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Speaker 1: TV Johnson, which I know has to be amazing for

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Speaker 1: like people to watch, because I felt like guys really

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Speaker 2: I mean obviously we all know that.

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Speaker 5: You know, black men have notoriously been portrayed as one

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Speaker 4: You know, I still don't understand.

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Speaker 5: It changes, you know, it changes, you know, but we

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Speaker 5: a very honest voice, a very authentic voice, and we're

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Speaker 5: having a good time doing it. We broke a lot

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Speaker 4: Okay, TV, bounce it up.

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Speaker 2: And we got some legends on the show too.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Taj, this was your creation. You created a show. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: So tell me, like your background of what made you say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this. Because it's so hard to get

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Speaker 2: I knew there was an audience.

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Speaker 5: You know, you see shows and you see people talking

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Speaker 5: You know, we talk about important topics that happen in

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Speaker 5: Tom met Thomas Q Jones. You know, he agreed, very

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Speaker 4: Now? How the earthquake did?

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Speaker 6: I said, You're getting Totain a good friend of mine,

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Speaker 6: I have four brothers, so I can't be out here

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Speaker 7: Young, childhood childhood friends they named Johnson. Obviously there's a

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Speaker 4: Even for me.

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Speaker 6: Don't worry mine, I need say black Gold Bachelor.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but no, that's the point is you get to

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Speaker 3: They've been told to like you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: But sometimes they miss out on the black men that's

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Speaker 3: To watch and also black men to see and say, hey,

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Speaker 7: I don't have to be like Omar to be this,

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Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about some of the things that have

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Speaker 1: And you guys can binge watch this on Hulu right now,

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Speaker 3: I mean I feel think, yeah, you just have to know.

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Speaker 3: So I think if you care about.

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Speaker 7: I think again, I do. I think you have to

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Speaker 1: I think guys act like they don't care, maybe, but

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Speaker 4: We have a very strict code.

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Speaker 1: Like I like him and not that it doesn't happen,

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Speaker 7: But I do think sometimes you know, as men, when

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Speaker 3: Don't care necessarily, you know what I mean. And I

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Speaker 4: What do you think, earthquake.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna ask for approval, then I'm gonna move on.

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Speaker 6: I know I'm gonna tell you that I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: And that's great because not a lot of you know,

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Speaker 1: just when you think about the numbers of professional NFL

445
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,960
Speaker 1: players who will go on to have a career just

446
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Speaker 1: as thriving as it was when they were in the league,

447
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,880
Speaker 1: those numbers are not going to be very high, right,

448
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Speaker 1: No they're not.

449
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 7: But also I committed to it and I let football go.

450
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,959
Speaker 7: And that's hard to do when you've been good at

451
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 7: something for so long, and you recognize for something for

452
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,920
Speaker 7: so long, to let it go and take a chance

453
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Speaker 7: that leap into the next thing. And that's what I

454
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Speaker 7: was able to do. When I was able to take

455
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Speaker 7: the coaching and take the criticism and also get a

456
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Speaker 7: lot of things that I didn't necessarily want to deal

457
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Speaker 7: with off of my chest and learn how to put

458
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Speaker 7: all that into a character. So now all the traumas

459
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Speaker 7: and things that I dealt with are the most beautiful

460
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Speaker 7: things in my life as an actor because, for example,

461
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Speaker 7: the Omar character in the episode that we're talking about,

462
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Speaker 7: where he's being the most vulnerable I've ever been as

463
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Speaker 7: an actor, I was able to use things in my

464
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Speaker 7: real life and put that into the character. And I

465
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:47,880
Speaker 7: wouldn't have been able to do that if I didn't

466
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Speaker 7: have therapy in my acting classes talking to my acting coaches, right.

467
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Speaker 1: And you know, part of the show is also that

468
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,640
Speaker 1: your son wants to play football really badly, and that's

469
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Speaker 1: hard for a parent because you know, I'm sure you

470
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Speaker 1: want him to your ex wife or as soon to

471
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,639
Speaker 1: be ex wife doesn't want him to play football, and

472
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Speaker 1: it's hard because he really wants to. But at the

473
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Speaker 1: same time, it is dangerous and he got injured.

474
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's dangerous.

475
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Speaker 7: And plus he's working on his marriage and you know,

476
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Speaker 7: he's made some mistakes with his wife and he's trying

477
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Speaker 7: to clean it up, and you know, he cares about

478
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Speaker 7: his family. And that's that's the good thing about this character,

479
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 7: and I like it. It gives the good black men

480
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Speaker 7: that love their wives and love their kids and fight

481
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Speaker 7: for their families.

482
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Speaker 3: It gives them a voice. You know.

483
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Speaker 7: There's obviously the dead beat dad narrative that's out there,

484
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Speaker 7: and there's a lot of guys that aren't taking care

485
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Speaker 7: of the responsibilities. And I've said this before. If you're

486
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Speaker 7: a dead be dad, you can't be my friend, you

487
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying. But there are good black men

488
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Speaker 7: that do love their families and ladies.

489
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Speaker 4: You should not date a deabie dad either, because.

490
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Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, listen. Deadbie dads to me are

491
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Speaker 7: I just don't know how you could be a debbie dad.

492
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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I don't know what instinct you

493
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 3: don't have, it says Provide, and I personally don't. You

494
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.

495
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Speaker 7: That's why I couldn't have someone like that in my

496
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Speaker 7: friend's circle. But there are black men who are going

497
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Speaker 7: through the court systems that maybe have, you know, a

498
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 7: dysfunctional relationship with the mother their kid, and so they

499
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 7: might not.

500
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Speaker 3: Be able to see the kid.

501
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Speaker 7: The thing I get the most from my character is

502
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Speaker 7: fathers that DM me, you know, or say, man, thank

503
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 7: you so much for speaking my truth. You know, because

504
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 7: it's because there are a lot of black men that

505
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 7: do care about their families and their kids, and sometimes

506
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 7: they don't have the voice that they might necessarily should,

507
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Speaker 7: especially in the Hollywood space.

508
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Speaker 1: And you know, I hope us talking about all of

509
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: these themes on the show is going to make people

510
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Speaker 1: who haven't seen it go and binge watch it ahead

511
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: of season four starting August third. Now, I also want

512
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: to discuss squatting because that's a huge issue right now

513
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and it ends up because this show is

514
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: shot in Atlanta being an issue on this series as well,

515
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Speaker 1: and I was like, how would one handle that situation

516
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: in real life? You know, you Airbnb is your place

517
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: on the show, Greg's character and the person is not

518
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: trying to leave, and it's like, look, I did my

519
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: thirty days. Now I'm a resident and I live here.

520
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, from Chicago, from Chicago.

521
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Speaker 5: You know, it's funny because it seems like people from

522
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 5: Chicago got to let you know.

523
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: From Chicago. She probably told you. She'll tell you in

524
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Speaker 1: a second, Okay.

525
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Speaker 5: But you know, Thomas and I will discuss storylines as

526
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 5: we're prepping for a new season, and that was one

527
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Speaker 5: of the storylines that we discussed, and it's it's coincidence

528
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 5: because just after we, you know, create that storyline and

529
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Speaker 5: write it in, you start seeing these news articles of

530
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 5: this happening more and more.

531
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's been happening, right.

532
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out laws to make sure that

533
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: people can't do that, because that's crazy. If I just

534
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: am here thirty days not paying, had to.

535
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Speaker 4: Do is get one bill? Yeah, exactly, Jordash ordering my name.

536
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 5: People are smart, you know, I mean, criminals are smart.

537
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 5: Criminals are too damn smart. It's like, you know, they

538
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 5: figure out how to cheat the system, and so I

539
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 5: think they're learning and taking advantage of these loopholes. So yes,

540
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 5: the character Greg has a squatter in his house in

541
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Speaker 5: season three.

542
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Speaker 2: He's from Chicago. He won't leave.

543
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 5: The issue is, you know, he can't just go and

544
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 5: change the locks. You know, he can't just kick him out.

545
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 5: He can't just be physical because the laws are on

546
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 5: the squatter's side, and Greg end up getting arrested. So

547
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 5: he has to formulate this this plan to kind of

548
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 5: make the squad leave on his own. But I just

549
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 5: saw an article last week about a woman who changed

550
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 5: the locks she got arrested.

551
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's wild the stuff that they're doing. They're

552
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: changing the laws in some states, and so we'll see

553
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Speaker 1: what happens.

554
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Speaker 4: But that was just something for me to wise that

555
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 4: was painful, you know.

556
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Speaker 7: I mean, that's really and it's crazy. It's really happening

557
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 7: everywhere an earthquake.

558
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about all the specials

559
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 1: that you've done, but your most recent one legendary.

560
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: Yes.

561
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: You know, people talk about how cool it is to

562
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: even have, you know, specials on television, and there's a

563
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: lot of comedians. Godfrey was up here the other day

564
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: talking about how he's, you know, starting his goal fund

565
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: me because for some reason, like even though he's a

566
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: great comedian, the networks aren't knocking on his door. But

567
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: you I feel like I've been putting out specials like NonStop.

568
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: Have you self funded any of them prior to this?

569
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Speaker 6: No, I haven't self funded any of them of my own.

570
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Speaker 2: I am.

571
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Speaker 6: Matter of fact, Me and Dave Chappelle is going to

572
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Speaker 6: do another one this year in Atlanta. Okay, yeah, we're

573
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 6: gonna do another one to follow up the hit one

574
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 6: that we had, one of the highest DERI yes, Netflix

575
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 6: special ever. It's horrid because it's subjectives. What's funny to

576
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 6: some person that's not funny to another. Being in the

577
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 6: business for thirty years and people come to me all

578
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 6: the time and say, well, Quake, why don't you have

579
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 6: your TV show and your movies?

580
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 3: Yet?

581
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 6: I said, apparently I didn't make the right person laugh yet,

582
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 6: And that's the thing about it is. And Dave Chapelle

583
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 6: came to me and put his name and his relationship

584
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 6: with Nextflix up and said he wanted to produce mine,

585
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 6: and that in turn got me into the door. And

586
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 6: I knew this was gonna be a game changer for

587
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 6: me off of it in which it was and open

588
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 6: up everything else for what I'm doing now, my own

589
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 6: TV show, on radio show, and all the other things

590
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 6: that I'm doing. But it is hard on Godfield because

591
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 6: you know, you have to get into executives such as

592
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,239
Speaker 6: my man over there and say, hey, I want you

593
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 6: to fund this special and it's a million comedians, and

594
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 6: you have to see in certain people even if you

595
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 6: funded yourself, that don't mean they're gonna buy it from

596
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 6: you and you and you can't hold it like it

597
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 6: took y'all ten years to get the season four if

598
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 6: you do a special, you gotta sell it within that year. Yeah,

599
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 6: because you know it's gonna turn, you know what I mean,

600
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 6: So you have to find it. So I'm just blessing up.

601
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 6: But I always believe and if godfeel was talking, when

602
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 6: it's your turn, it's your turn. Because as God turn,

603
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 6: just continue to continue to put the work in and

604
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 6: that opportunity is gonna come. And when the opportunity is

605
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 6: presenting yourself, be ready to be able to distinguish yourself

606
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 6: between the rest of the Communitians out and they'll take

607
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 6: care of itself.

608
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Speaker 1: I feel like you made a lot of people, a

609
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: lot of men feel like I got to go get

610
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: this prostate exam, you know, and that special.

611
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean because I was. It breaks my heart

612
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 6: my people anywhere that we're dying for diseases that's already

613
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 6: godless gave a cure too, And the mental anguish that

614
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 6: comes along with especially your prostate exam, is keeping a

615
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 6: lot of the men from seeking the necessary treatment they need.

616
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 6: And if you are gonna have cancer, God forbid, the

617
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 6: cancer you want to have is prostate because it's ninety

618
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 6: nine percent treatable if detected early. And as a person

619
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Speaker 6: that has to always monitor and make sure minds don't

620
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 6: get into anything. I do it, and so I just

621
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 6: wanted to talk about it and make it funny so

622
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 6: you can even the best way to get my people

623
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 6: and I do our people is laughing to it, you

624
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 6: know what I mean. You can't preach it to it,

625
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 6: you can't demand it to it, you can't shame him

626
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 6: to it. You gotta laugh at to him.

627
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt like that was so informational for people

628
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: while they were laughing.

629
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 4: It's also like I better go get mine done.

630
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 2: You know.

631
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure guys were thinking that when they were watching it.

632
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: I felt like you should get some type of endorsement

633
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: with life. You know, they're trying to figure out how

634
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: to make man go and go to the doctor even

635
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people don't even go to

636
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Speaker 1: the doctor.

637
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 4: Every year, so.

638
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 6: Many women has came to me, he said, thank you.

639
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 6: See say you love quake, don't you quake went.

640
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 2: Over it, you know, And then it then came to

641
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: me and actually.

642
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 3: Told me crying.

643
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 6: You saved my life because it was diagnosed and now

644
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 6: I'm going through treatment. Had I not went down there

645
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 6: and did it, I wouldn't even be here. I mean

646
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 6: it's it's is strange, it's humbling.

647
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 4: I feel like that'd be.

648
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Speaker 1: A good storyline, you know, in the future, just because

649
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: health and going to the doctor and black men and

650
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,479
Speaker 1: I think people in general like not wanting to go.

651
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 1: But I think for in particular, you know, just that

652
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: because I thought about that watching your special and then

653
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: also on the show, because how do you guys come up,

654
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: Like do you sit down with each other and like,

655
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Speaker 1: this is what's happened in my life. This would be

656
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: a good storyline. How does that happen in the process, Yeah, I.

657
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Speaker 2: Mean the process.

658
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 5: A lot of it happens with conversations that Thomas and

659
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 5: I have ongoing. This guy doesn't sleep okay, you know,

660
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 5: he calls me to text me like two three in

661
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 5: the morning. I'll be knocked out. But we have creative conversations.

662
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 5: You know, pay attention to what's going on in the world.

663
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Speaker 5: Some things are taken from current events that are happening,

664
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Speaker 5: you know, controversial topics that people are discussing, gentrification, gentrification,

665
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Speaker 5: organized religion, things like that.

666
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Speaker 4: But police brutality.

667
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but a lot.

668
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Speaker 5: Of it is taken from borrow from experiences that I've seen.

669
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Speaker 5: You know, friends of mine go through conversations I've had

670
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 5: with people, and we turn it into an entertainment factor,

671
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Speaker 5: but still keep it enlightening.

672
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Speaker 1: You know, what are some things that you guys have

673
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Speaker 1: gone through that that happened on the show.

674
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Speaker 3: I'll let the creator.

675
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 6: Well, I take one going to the barber shop and

676
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 6: have a ball head and only have three strings, and

677
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 6: they charge you like they gave you a full failure,

678
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 6: fifty five dollars. Send me like a tip for what.

679
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's happening to me too, you know on the

680
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 2: where they charged them sixty five to shave your beard,

681
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 2: you know, and then you got to tip to tip

682
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: me like twenty dollars.

683
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 4: I can't sympathize getting our hair down.

684
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 6: Well, you have your hair, you know what I mean.

685
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 6: We're talking about us not having hair, and we can

686
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 6: shave our own head. The only problem is I can't

687
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 6: line mine up, so I have to go in there

688
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 6: and get it lined up, and you give me the

689
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 6: same price. And she was tutting Thomas, Hey, I like,

690
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Speaker 6: here you go, come on, man, I mean I don't

691
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 6: even have sixty string of heads. How you gonna charge

692
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 6: me sixty dollars? And it's a shame. So that part

693
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Speaker 6: of it. When he covered that at the barber shop,

694
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Speaker 6: I stood up and looked at my barber because we

695
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 6: weren't watching that. Yeah, I was watching the Bob. I say,

696
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 6: that's how I feel every time I pay you.

697
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

698
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Speaker 7: I think it's I think for me, I can't really

699
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 7: think of one in one particular. It's just the beautiful

700
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 7: friendship that we have as the four lead characters, because

701
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 7: we're like that in real life. The playful banter, how

702
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 7: we joke with each other, how we you know, make

703
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 7: fun of each other's insecurities in a way where it's

704
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 7: it's letting the other person know, hey, it's all right, man,

705
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 7: you don't have to take it that seriously. I think

706
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 7: that's the part that I really love the most because

707
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 7: that's how guys talk, right, You know what I'm saying.

708
00:32:58,600 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 3: When you're and your friend.

709
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 7: Group, you know your friends, you know which friend is

710
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 7: going to be sensitive to what conversation or what insecurity

711
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 7: they have. And you know, I think because we're so

712
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,719
Speaker 7: good friends, Derek's Brady who plays Jarvis, Phillip Smithy who

713
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 7: plays Keith, and then obviously Deiji and I, we've built

714
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 7: this brotherhood in this chemistry that's just magical. And when

715
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 7: we get on screen, when we get on camera, just

716
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 7: it's magic, you know what I'm saying. So I think,

717
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 7: just for me, that's how I am with my friends

718
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 7: in real life, you know what I mean. And a

719
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 7: lot of men watch the show, and I think that

720
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 7: that's what they connect to. They connect to. These guys

721
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 7: are real friends, and they're not acting like they like

722
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 7: each other. They really are really really are really good

723
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Speaker 7: friends and brothers.

724
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Speaker 5: And shout out to the Women of Johnson too. Most man,

725
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 5: we have some incredible co stars. You know, this isn't

726
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 5: This is not a show about men just sitting around

727
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 5: complaining about life. This is us navigating life, our relationships

728
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 5: with you know, black women and Khalila Joy, Terrence Simmons.

729
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 5: We have the beautiful Terry J. Vond on the show

730
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 5: for a couple of seasons as well. You made an

731
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Speaker 5: appearance on this Women of Johnson. Can't think about Rosa

732
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 5: so many you know, and they're all equally important because

733
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 5: that's a part of the guy's story. And I think

734
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 5: that's one of the compliments that we get all the

735
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 5: time is the show is so well balanced when it

736
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 5: comes to these different perspectives, it's not heavily weighed on

737
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 5: the men's side or the women's side. It is equally

738
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 5: balanced and everybody has a perspective, right.

739
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 7: We show the men make the mistakes with women, the

740
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 7: same mistakes that women talk about. We show the guys

741
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 7: doing that and we have the women call them out

742
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 7: on it, but we also have the friends call the

743
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 7: guy out on it too, you know what I'm saying,

744
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 7: because that does happen, you know, I know sometimes you

745
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 7: know it doesn't feel like men make each other accountable,

746
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 7: but it does happen.

747
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Speaker 3: There.

748
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Speaker 7: If you really care about your friend, then you love

749
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 7: your friend and you want him to be the best

750
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 7: version of himself, you can't be afraid to call him out.

751
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 7: And that's what we do on this show. So the

752
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 7: black women on the show, great actors, beautiful, all different

753
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 7: essences and energies as well different hairstyles. I mean, the

754
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 7: blackness of this show is also something I'm proud of.

755
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 7: It's a very black show in regards to just the culture.

756
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: The culture is a character actually, I mean, and you know,

757
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: shout out to Derek's Brady. He's not here, but he

758
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: plays the character of Jarvis. He get on my nerves

759
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: on that show so much. He's married, he was married

760
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: to a white woman, and his views on things can

761
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: be a little very like whitewashed, you know at times.

762
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 4: But then.

763
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Speaker 1: No, I mean, but that's sometimes things happen that make

764
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: you realize, yeah, that's true.

765
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Speaker 3: We needed we needed him because he's a black man too.

766
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 7: He's just that version of a black man, and most

767
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 7: of the time that version of a black man gets

768
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 7: written off right because he has a different point of view.

769
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 7: But let him get pulled over by the police. He's

770
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 7: still a black man regardless of whatever he's believing. So

771
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 7: it's the show is trying to be fair to all

772
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 7: as many versions of a black man as we can.

773
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Speaker 7: So when black men watch this, they can see a

774
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 7: version of themselves, because that's the whole point of it.

775
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 7: It's like we're not monolithic, but we were still black

776
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 7: and we still have similar experiences.

777
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 3: We're just different. Jarvis gets a lot of people's nerves.

778
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But you know, some great

779
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 4: moments he does, he does.

780
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 3: He does.

781
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 7: But what Deiji always says is, you know, we play

782
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 7: on the stereotypes of black men and then we flip

783
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 7: them on their heads, right, you know what I'm saying,

784
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 7: because you have to really give these characters somewhere to

785
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 7: go and somewhere to grow. And if you watch all

786
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 7: three seasons, which is streaming out on Hulu and the

787
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 7: season fours will be on Bounce August third, you'll see

788
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 7: how far these characters have come from season one to

789
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 7: season four, totally different characters. And that's an evolution process

790
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 7: that we try to create with these four black men

791
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 7: that you generally see at some point in real life

792
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 7: with real black men too.

793
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Speaker 4: What can we expect for season four?

794
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: Like, what are a couple of things, you know, as

795
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: we left off from season three at the end, and

796
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Speaker 1: I like the fact that y'all, by the way, shout

797
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: out some great organizations. I saw y'all was eating a

798
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: slutty Vegan, you know, I love that restaurant. Shout out

799
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Speaker 1: to Pinky Cole, Big Brother, Big Sister program. You know,

800
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: you guys also showed some love to them. But these

801
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: are real life things that can affect people's businesses, which

802
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: is a positive thing.

803
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 2: That's right.

804
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, what we want the show to be as authentic

805
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 5: as authentic as possible.

806
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 2: The culture is a character study, Vegan.

807
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 5: You know, different locations that we film in Atlanta, different

808
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 5: artists that we have featured on the on the show.

809
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 4: It's really nice.

810
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 8: Yeah.

811
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Speaker 5: You know, a show that I love when I was

812
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 5: a kid was New York in the Cover and I

813
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 5: loved how soundtrack was. Soundtrack was dope and like every episode,

814
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 5: every other episode they were I think it was Natalie's

815
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 5: name of it. They had a lot of performance, I'm

816
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 5: not mistaken. So we wanted to make sure that music

817
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 5: was a big part of the show as well. And

818
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 5: so yeah, Jay Noble's performed on the show, Kenya and Dixon,

819
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 5: Josh Dean, who's in Wonderlands, Emmy scres So. So season four,

820
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 5: it's going to be fun, a funny season. We're going

821
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 5: a journey in season four. Literally, you know there's a

822
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 5: chance we might be going to an exotic destination. Okay,

823
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 5: you know, change it up, Yeah, yea change it up

824
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 5: from Atlanta and go go to a nice beach somewhere

825
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 5: for a few episodes.

826
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Speaker 2: So I'm really looking forward to that.

827
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 5: And yeah, I think I think, I think the audience

828
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 5: is gonna be very satisfied. If you've been following these

829
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 5: characters from season one and you get the season four,

830
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 5: you're gonna be very satisfied as when you see how

831
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 5: far they've come and how far they've how far they've grown.

832
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 4: Are you guys gonna still talk after the show and

833
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 4: have like.

834
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: Oh the talk back?

835
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if.

836
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 3: I don't know if we're going to do that season four.

837
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 7: But if you haven't seen the conversations Sir Johnson after show,

838
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 7: they're on YouTube. You can go to their Bounce YouTube

839
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 7: channel and you can pull up all of the after

840
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 7: shows and so after each episode we'll have a conversation

841
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 7: about what happened during the episode and the specific and

842
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 7: you know, get opinions and all that from the characters

843
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 7: and then Deij as well. Those conversations to me sometimes

844
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 7: are like the most I guess satisfying, you know, because

845
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 7: you when you're in the creative space like Deiji and

846
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 7: not most are most of the time, there's so many

847
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 7: things you're thinking about. You're thinking about the logistics, you're

848
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 7: thinking about being you know, you know, not reckless with

849
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 7: with what you're saying, what you're writing, not offending people,

850
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 7: but you're also thinking, you know, still keep it real,

851
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 7: still be authentic, you know what I mean. So there's

852
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 7: a lot of creative decision making that isn't just raw.

853
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 7: Where the after shows are just raw. You can be

854
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 7: raw in the conversation because you're talking about this character.

855
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 3: You're not talking about yourself, you know what I mean.

856
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 7: So yeah, if you get a chance, you can go

857
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 7: to the Bounce YouTube channel and you can see all

858
00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 7: of the Johnson after shows from season one, two and three.

859
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point though not offending people. Earthquake,

860
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: I know you have to deal with that all the time.

861
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 4: And no, you don't think about it at all. I

862
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 4: want to talk about it.

863
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I'm under the banner of I'm a comedian.

864
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 6: You should never let a clown hurt your feelings. I

865
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,479
Speaker 6: never write a joke and mean spirit. So well that's

866
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 6: not how I get down. So I walk in there

867
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 6: with it is a joke off of it, and you know,

868
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 6: so I don't. I don't. I don't have time for that.

869
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 6: So God given gift and I utilize it.

870
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Speaker 2: I can. He's telling the truth.

871
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 5: Because we're on set Earthquake will say whatever the hell

872
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 5: comes to mind.

873
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 2: There's things that we had to cut out. Yeah, luckily

874
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: were the editors.

875
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 4: See Bounce TV is a little different than stand up you.

876
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 6: Know, right, Well, they give you the freedom and you

877
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 6: want to go there and then let them bring you back, okay,

878
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 6: you know, and that's you know, it's a great thing

879
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 6: they allow you and they have the best set period,

880
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 6: the atmosphere for you to be able to create. Been

881
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 6: on so many shows that you sit there and be like,

882
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 6: why did you hire me? You know what I mean,

883
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 6: I'm not an actor. I'm a movie star. So utilize

884
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 6: what I am, you know what I mean, and the

885
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 6: talent that's given to me, and you sit there. But

886
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 6: when you got there, they he gave me the script,

887
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 6: he said, Quake, I need this, this, this, this, and

888
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 6: he worked with me and we got it. And once

889
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 6: I got it, it was it. That's why I'm one

890
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 6: take Quake.

891
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: And we would be remiss not to mention Quake's House

892
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: after Dark, which is coming soon. So just give us

893
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: a little preview of what that's.

894
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: Oh, what I'm gonna do.

895
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do a late night talk show. I have

896
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 6: the number one show on Serious x Simon is called

897
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 6: Quake's House. And what I'm gonna do now is do

898
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 6: a late night talk show. If you want to know,

899
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 6: it's like the View with jokes. I bring four comedians

900
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 6: in and we sit down and talk about hot topics

901
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 6: and then each other other the rooms in the house.

902
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 6: We do different interviews when we have to do a

903
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 6: when we sit and doing something important with a kitchen

904
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 6: table thing like we have it there. And when we

905
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 6: do sketches like the Dave Chappelle had on there, we

906
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 6: go down to the theater room and I do my

907
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 6: sketches and off of there. And when we do a

908
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 6: musical guest, we go down there and just sit down

909
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 6: and say, we go down to the music room sometimes

910
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 6: like Tigger used to do, put them in the booth

911
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 6: bas bend and rock off of it. So we're putting

912
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 6: that it's called quake after dark and we're getting it together. Well, man,

913
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Speaker 6: I need all.

914
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Speaker 3: These jobs I need you do. Yes, really a job.

915
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 6: Yes, it's never as job. I'm not good at doing

916
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 6: things I don't want to do.

917
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen season four August third on Bound TV.

918
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: But you could watch the first three seasons on Hulu

919
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: right now. Congratulations though to you guys, it's amazing to

920
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: watch the show. And I know if you haven't seen it.

921
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: Y'all need to go back and catch up so that

922
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Speaker 1: you're with us.

923
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Speaker 7: August third, Thank you so much tuning in the season

924
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 7: once you can see Angelae.

925
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 9: Episode episode Angelou is doing it and humbly from one

926
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Speaker 9: radio person to another, congratulations, thank you.

927
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Speaker 6: No congratulations. I know what it took for you to

928
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Speaker 6: get here, and I'm so proud of you.

929
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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't you should have never told me I'd be

931
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: sitting in the same room with earthquake when I was,

932
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Speaker 1: you know, coming up in this.

933
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Speaker 4: I appreciate you.

934
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Speaker 3: I love you girl.

935
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Speaker 4: I love you too for you.

936
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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. I appreciate y'all so much. Johnson know