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We have Will pack up what's happening, 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.479 and we have Kevin, Kevin Hart, he's here, he's here. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:27.720 We have elect Kevin Hard. So it's allowed for you. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.760 So Kevin was supposed to be her. I'll tell you 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:30.720 the irony of this, right. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:32.280 Kev's hungover right now. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.160 But if you read the first chapter in Will Packer's book, 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.039 he has a chapter called We're Gonna Die tonight, right, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.200 and it's essentially this story. This isn't what you were 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.959 worried about, Will, you were concerned about. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.400 Listen, brother, he almost ruined both our careers. This is 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:48.920 not This is not the first time. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:50.360 Listen. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:50.880 See. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.480 The difference is that Kevin is at a point now 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.240 he can get away with the ship. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.000 You know what I'm saying. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.560 He's Kevin Hart, right, so you know people will just 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.080 wait and been over back. Isn't all that There was 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.880 a time when it was the biggest movie of both 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.400 of our career. He was absolutely right along with ice Cube, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.600 and we had done things like a man. That was 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.720 the one that really kind of caltiposed to Kevin and 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:13.560 everybody was like. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.519 Okay, what's gonna do next? Like, what what are they 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:16.239 gonna do next? 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.040 So this was the one the biggest budget of our 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.720 careers everything, And Kevin, you remember what happened? 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:25.840 Did I? Like? Absolutely? 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.720 Did we get what we were supposed to get? And 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.840 did we get back to where we were supposed. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.120 To be so Envy were shooting? 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.040 Did we get back to where we were supposed to be? 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.119 We barely got back? 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.600 Vita, why are you. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:42.760 Bitch all the time? You see this? This is people 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.920 want to know what a producer does. Right, They asked me, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.000 this is what. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.160 A producer does. You see it? You see him smelling 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:53.000 the coffee, trying to get you're trying to come back 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.560 to life. This is what it looks like. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:55.959 So Kevin was supposed to be I was supposed to 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:57.520 be here three hours early, four hours early. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.480 Boy issued. First of all, tell me why the people 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.440 on radio need to know that it's radio? So you 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.760 say they need a fucking breakdown. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:08.440 Four hours earlier. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.280 And they said Kep can't make it because he's SI 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.079 and we all said, bullshit, he was drunk because he 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:13.840 went out last night. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.919 I did not go out last night. So let's let's 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:17.840 that's actually true. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:19.760 I go out last night. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.600 By the way, I do not go out. I'm forty 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.880 five years old. I don't go to fucking clubs. I 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.960 don't go to parties. I was working. I did promos. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:30.200 My weekend. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.480 I own the fucking weekend, and then I have to 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:33.120 show face. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.040 I have to be there. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:38.440 My weekend. I go. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.640 We have clubs, I gotta show face. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:44.080 To the club. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:50.240 No, well, yes, no, on all seriouslys So last night, uh, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.280 you know, we're doing promo and everything for Fight Night, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.680 rolling out all of the carpet of the carpets. So 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.880 before the actual premiere, we announced it. But I had 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.960 to leave because I had to do Seth Myers and 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.520 Seth Myers has a segment called Drinking with Seth, and 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.720 you you go to a bar and Seth makes these 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.840 drinks or whatever, and it's like, you know, for hour 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.920 and after two hours, you're drinking throughout the interview. And 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.400 you know, I don't drink anything outside of my fucking 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.599 tequila at this point in my life, so you know, 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.000 anything else, anything else I'm very unfamiliar with. And said, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.320 let's close it out with your tequila, but let's start 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.120 it with everything. So he threw it all at me 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.960 like I'm talking. It's Jaegermeister and wild Turkey. I mean 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.080 we were brown, we were dark, but. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:48.360 You can. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.240 But you have to understand the beauty of good television. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.480 And it was a good conversation, great interview and while 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.719 we're drinking for good reason behind the answers, and we 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.880 we finished it with is to kill it. We went 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.719 through a lot and I just don't remember the back 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.320 half of the time. And that's why I didn't show 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.480 up to the after party. I missed that. And this 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.000 morning is to say, m I would have been here. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.200 Bro, Why couldn't you missed the after party after the 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.800 garden that night? So y'all could have just got back 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:16.200 to you. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.640 Because we weren't drinking. That's why I want somebody's being 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.960 a bitch like Kevin. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.080 It was our money. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.720 We weren't fucked up like oh man, where's my jacket? 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.760 We weren't just out at a show. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.000 The biggest movie of our career. Okay, where's your tampon? 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.880 Jesus Christ books a show at Madison Square Guarden. He 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.080 takes a comedy special in the middle of our movie. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.880 I tore while filming a movie faithfully he does. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.040 Which is not a good thing. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.080 Boys and girls like and you're looking at how to 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.080 be successful, like, don't overbook yourself. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.000 That one thing about my friend here, do it because 0:05:54.560 --> 0:06:00.920 nobody's going over working. I'm a bad don't do it, Kevin. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:02.920 Look at his career. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.119 He's been doing wrong this whole time. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.000 Oh I'm sorry, kids. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.080 Kevin booked the fucking cloud showing Madison Square Garden take 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.520 the Special and got to work and on time for 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:18.760 the biggest movie in his career. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.080 I was gonna say, people that are listening, no, it's 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.160 because you have people around you who will save you. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.120 You have folks that will save you. And that's what happened. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.520 He booked it right, and so he left the show 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:32.599 in the middle. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.840 Of it, right, the biggest moves for Universe Studios. He leaves. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.000 But you know what he does, because this is the 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.880 evil genius of Kevin Hart. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.320 He goes, hey, man, I gotta do this show. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.080 It's next week, you know, he tells me a week 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.680 before he goes, hey, you know what you and Tim 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.040 Story did the Like He's like, I got the jet, 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.520 you know what, bring bring the wine. So my dumb ass, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.479 I'm like, you know what he brought, and you know 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.240 what he said. He said that way you can make 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.839 sure that we get back on time, because I knew 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.880 we had to shoot the next day. So we're shooting 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.560 one day. He's gonna go do the show that night, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.120 and then we had to shoot the next morning on 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.680 a location we can only get that day. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:09.480 He's like, come with let. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:10.960 Us driver in Alabi. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:19.280 So absolutely right, absolutely absolutely. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.680 I think I was a professional because direct producer for me. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.640 You can't think I'm an asshole. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.960 They would be. Kevin has an amazing show of Masies 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.520 Square Guard. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.920 All the celebs come out afterwards were after party that 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.800 he did not tell me about. I'm in there with 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.920 Carmelo Anthony buying bottles, going, oh, we dying tonight? 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.920 We turning up tonight? 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.160 Why wars have power? Why are we going to die 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:40.320 to that? 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.160 This is what? Well we're gonna die to? That means 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:47.320 we're having a good time. You're choosing to die over life. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.480 How good of a time is that? Last night? I 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:51.640 didn't say we're gonna die tonight. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:52.600 I was like, oh, this is work. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.400 When I was in that club and I saw my 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.360 career flashing before my eyes, because I realized there was 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.000 no way we're gonna be able to get back in time. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.680 I had that moment because I'm sitting there look at keV, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.840 and I realized we're not gonna make it. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.800 And keV looks at me, he goes, well, we tried, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.200 we tried. That was it? 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.680 Remember in Usual Suspects, when he realized that was sitting 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.840 in front the whole time. I looked at Kevin Hart 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.400 and I realized that he had convinced me, the producer 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.480 and director of the movie, to get on a jet 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.480 with him, so that when Universal called and said, why 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.320 are y'all over budget and not able to finish the movie? 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.880 And they say, well, Kevin Hart, Will Packer and Tim's 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.840 story were there, so the producer went with him. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:28.880 It would be on me. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.680 When I was complicit, I realized that was his evil 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.840 plan all in along. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.560 I called him a diabolical rascal, spawn of Satan. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:43.760 That's true. I love him, but that's truer words never spoken, sir. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.480 I will ask you and your listeners, what is a 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.520 life without a great story. It's something that can't be 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.200 talked about. It's untold. A life with our stories is 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.080 nothing you need fucking stories, good and the bad. He's 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.400 bitching about a great story. And by the way that 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.240 story did what amplified our relationship? And look at where 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.360 we are now fright night, we're talking about something else 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.280 that we're yet in business and we produced and developed together. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.280 Do we get here without that moment? 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:12.720 No? 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:13.320 We do not. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:14.720 So why did you still want to be his friend 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.920 after that? After you figured that out? You could have said, 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.679 you know what, this relationship no longer happens. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.440 You know what I'm saying, You need it, you need 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.040 to envy. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.680 I'm so afraid that if I leave Kevin Harts Like 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.640 he'll just get close right he just burn up on 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:32.120 the spot. 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:33.559 I just don't know what he did. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.559 Without it's close to being over it. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:40.960 Have brought you to that works so well because even 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.840 like just here with you guys in person, it's like 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:44.640 I could I could listen to this back of a 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.160 fall day long really talking. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.560 With each other's most frequent collaborators kept one a ton 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.560 of movies. I've done a ton of movies, TV projects. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.760 We haven't worked with anybody else more than we work 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:53.280 with each other. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.040 I'll give it. I'll give will this on air and 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.600 half of it is because I'm still drunk and by 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.840 the way of some of the best fucking to kill 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.319 it in the market. He's kind of commercial, but it's 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.320 just a time to let people know smooth taste. And 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.440 it comes to it. You got to understand what and 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.360 why Grand Cormino is that and has been that, which 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.560 is why I drink it at the level that I do. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.760 But it's not about that right now. It's not about 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.240 the product. It's about the passion. Let's get to that 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.160 and we'll toast it that after with Grand Cormino. But 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.679 I would say this is about Will. I don't say 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.520 it enough if people don't understand it, and I think 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.320 they should. Uh, I don't get to where I got 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:44.880 in career or business without the information and relationship of 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.560 Will Packer, you know what I mean. Like when it 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.960 came to producing and when it came to development, or 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.120 it came to packaging, Will Packer is the guy that 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.760 was the definition of what that was. So from the 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.960 early days of think like a man, he was the 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.080 producer that came to me and said, Hey, I got 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.600 this thing, I want to do this thing, and I 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.520 think you're the guy. And those are words words without 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.559 action are just that. He put action behind the words. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.480 Everything he said he would do he did. He got 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.520 the people he wrangered, wrangled, the directors, the actors, the actresses, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.520 the producer partners, writers, etc. He can figured a way 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.720 to formulate and activate. And I was like, goddamn man, like, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.040 how do you do that? And he taught me. Will 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.360 taught me how to do it. And as I progressed, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.600 I never forgot who he was and what he was. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.160 So our relationship today is based off of never forget, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.679 like you don't you don't forget the real side of 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.200 like success attached to just care. He gave a fuck 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.080 about me, then he gives more fuck about me. Now 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.199 in return, I doubled down on my level of give 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.640 a fuck about him. So I don't I don't want 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.160 to win if I can't figure out a way to 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.080 win with my brothers. So the commitment that we made was, hey, man, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.880 let's figure out a way to continue. Although keV, you're 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.439 doing and you have, but how do we still do? 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.440 And I love the fact that we still are, uh, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.360 and we're committed to figure out more ways to do more. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.000 And what you're seeing today is a definition of what 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.480 we want people to follow through with like, we are 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.160 no egos. We are help your brother so he can 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.520 help you. We are that And I think it's the 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.640 best story in Hollywood if people were more privy to 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.079 how deep and like in depth it actually is facts, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:32.560 right the. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.160 Fight Night TV show, right, it shows these characters operating 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.320 within a black world where they all hold power. So 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.640 to your point, keV, how effective has that concept been 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.640 for you both in the world of Hollywood. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.120 I think I think it hasn't been effective enough. And 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.200 I think you know when you look at the ice 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.920 Cube and Kevin Hart of it all are the middle 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.800 common denominator packering. All right, guys, let's do this, but 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.320 let's make it and Cube come in and like, there's 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.079 always a through line of connectivity and that person has 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.560 to be willing to go above and beyond. Fight Night 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.160 is the definition of going above and beyond, all right, keV, 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.559 I got this idea. The idea came after I was 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.199 supposed to do Uptown Saturday Night. Uptown Saturday Night was 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.040 gonna be me and Chadwick Boseman rest in peace to 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.240 the legend himself. Fuck, oh my god, I had no idea. Well, 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.760 I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.920 that without Chadwick. That project is dead to me. Will 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.200 had the actual rights, the original story, the true story. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.000 So Will came to me. I said, well, I can't 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.920 do a comedy because of this. Can it be serious? 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.480 Can we do it in a way to where it's 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:43.120 like a lot deeper raw real? He said, Kevin, absolutely, Hey, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.920 the podcast was points me to the podcast that he 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.080 was a part of that understood, etc. All right, shit, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.800 this is like real information now real knowledge. Will. I'm 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.480 a fuck with it because it's you. But let's make 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.920 sure that we try to go above and beyond to 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.560 package it correctly. How do we do a premium a 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.880 premium cultural piece of IP that has the bandwidth to 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.800 live forever? And you can't do that without big stars. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.720 To get big stars, you need real relationships. So the 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.440 leverage of understanding that we both shared and that we 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.960 had at the top of get the studio's commitment, get 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.280 the studio to back and support, then go get the talent. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.520 I gotta be honest with you. My guy was a 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.600 big part of all of that conversation, and I followed 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.320 the lead of most and I think where we were 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.640 collaborative was dope as fuck and the outcome was amazing. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.720 Talent configuration and now an example of what the business 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:42.640 should follow through with, which is collaboration. Collaboration, you can 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:47.040 win more together, you win less as an individual, How 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.400 do you put yourself in a position to collaborate more? 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.800 So if we can be the example of hopefully most 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.200 will follow through and hopefully we can do more and 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.280 people will say, oh, that's great because they do dope 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.520 shit and here's an example of it. Let's do some 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.720 dope shit with them. That's where I'm at in my 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.280 career now. I could care less about the individual star 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.080 of Kevin Hart. I'm looking for the moments. I'm looking 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.040 for the IP and I'm looking for the evergreen like material. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:14.920 You can't do that. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:15.640 That part is true. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.000 I will tell you that, like Kevi has definitely reached 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.200 a part in his career, a moment in his career 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.080 where you know you've had success and it's like how 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.560 do you grow, how do you work with people that 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.760 you respect, and how do you build a machine that 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.080 then empowers others. It's interesting, Charlomagne, you talked about like 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.240 the world of Fight Night, Fight Night, is really about 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:41.480 a group of hustlers, dreamers, entrepreneurs who are trying to 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.160 take Atlanta and turn it into something. It's back in 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.760 nineteen seventy, right, Martin Luther King had just been shot 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.680 a couple of years earlier. Atlanta was like seen as 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.520 a small country town that you. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.040 Had a couple of civil rights folks. 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.200 Like people didn't know if it was going to be 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.200 the next Charlotte or Birmingham, and nothing wrong with those cities, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.800 but it definitely wasn't looked at on the level of 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.240 a global superpower or a New York Chicago LA. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.840 You know, it was Atlanta and it was not respected. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.960 But you had a group of folks, which is not 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.040 unlike how Black Hollywood is right now, where you got 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.720 a group of dreamers trying to figure out how do 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.800 we work together now. Of course in Fight Night, you 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.840 got you know, a character who's Kevin's character. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:18.560 He's a hustler. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.680 He's going YO, give me a shot, give me a chance. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:22.480 I can just turn it Lanta into something great. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.400 Chicken Man, Chicken Man. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.280 Weirdly, Sam Jackson, who plays the big gangster the Black 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.360 Godfather in the show, he actually also got a dream too. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:30.680 Right. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.720 Even though he's a big gangster's running a black mafia, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.000 his dream is saying, you know what, the white man's 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.560 been holding me down for a very long time. If 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.760 y'all give me a shot an opportunity, I can take 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.680 over Land. I could turn it Land into a black mecca. Oddly, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.600 even though like Kevin, Sam's characters are odds for most 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:44.880 of the. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.000 Series, the reality is that they have the same kind 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:48.600 of a dream. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.680 That's kind of how it is right now in terms 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.080 of like folks like us in Hollywood in real life. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.800 Who are all trying to work together. Is it true 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.920 that Samuel Jackson was really there in Atlanta? Right there? 0:16:58.960 --> 0:16:59.120 Dog? 0:16:59.160 --> 0:16:59.960 He was at more House. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.040 Sam old as fuck. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.600 Like that. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.520 I remember, like we were we were on a call 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.199 with Sam at the start of with Sam said like, yo, 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.480 he liked that he would do it. We were on 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.119 a call. We're going through the materials seeing what Sam 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.920 said about the characters. Sam was like, yeah, man, y'all 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.120 got to change a lot of the ship because more 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.240 happened then. You know, I think we got the story, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.560 you know, because we you know, the podcast and everything. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:34.000 We got the really, motherfucker, I was there. What do 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.600 you mean by that. He's very adamant about telling you 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.080 where he was, what he knows. So the story of 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.640 Fighting Night got better. It got so much better as 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.119 we went on. Oh my god, she is the best 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.919 by the way, you and me, I mean since the 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.480 joke with the little Mike, we have never left that stage. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.800 You're the best, uh walking on? She gave out much 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.879 to them, all this right here, got here, get this 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.160 right here. I need Greek. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:05.480 Brother. 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.240 There's a chance right now I may not make it 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.639 to the end of the I'm giving you everything I 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.879 got to try to say, tell you. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.719 Always makes it. It's going to fall off to did 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.679 you did you see your You know. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:28.800 We look at the iron the war finish, look at 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.840 this man, I mean, and is that cha? 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.800 Sam and Chadwick and Ca Wow. On the scale weill 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.439 as far as size because he'd be small. But is 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.480 that that crazy? 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.119