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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Happy Friday, everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for January eight. It

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Speaker 1: is a beautiful weekend of sports ahead. We got six

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Speaker 1: NFL games hopefully the Natty still schedule from Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Alabama Ohio State. Very excited about that. We got a

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Speaker 1: monster podcast ahead. We have our NFL picks at the end. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Best Bet is back. Took many days off since

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Speaker 1: last weekend. Actually, on the gambling front, I did do

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Speaker 1: some silly gambling wages during the week. Luckily I didn't

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Speaker 1: put them on Best Bet. It was a brutal week

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Speaker 1: from in the NBA. But I digress. I want to

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Speaker 1: quickly before we get to our great guest from Salam

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Speaker 1: What an interview. You guys are gonna absolutely love this instantly,

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Speaker 1: a top ten interview we've done here on Straight Fire.

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Speaker 1: I want to quickly touch on something and listen. We

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Speaker 1: always talk about on this podcast wanting to see the

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Speaker 1: forest through the trees. Okay, we want to see things

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Speaker 1: before they come to light, and I mean listen. There's

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Speaker 1: really no better hype week for this podcast than what

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Speaker 1: we've done in the last two days and from just

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Speaker 1: an NFL perspective. We saw early that the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: did something dump yesterday. We advanced that early in the

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Speaker 1: morning with the podcast man Deshaun Watson's piste off by

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Speaker 1: the Texans stepped in it what a disaster and by

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Speaker 1: what five o'clock on Thursday instantly the big news from

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Speaker 1: courtesy of rap Sheet a k a friend of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: He was a guest in Deshaun watson Is piste that

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans asked him for his input on the

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Speaker 1: g MS. Hey, what do you think about this guy?

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Speaker 1: And do you have anybody? Oh, yeah, I know this guy,

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Speaker 1: and then they didn't even talk to the guys that

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Speaker 1: Watson recommended. And then Adam Schifter of ESPN then followed

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Speaker 1: up by saying, yeah, it's ugly, and there is speculation

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Speaker 1: that Deshaun Watson could force the trade. Now I said

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Speaker 1: that yesterday. Deshaun Watson is not in his DNA to

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Speaker 1: don't see that happening. I think obviously he'll wait to

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Speaker 1: That's pretty well known to anybody who follows the NFL,

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Speaker 1: who has talked to anybody around the league. Watson wants

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Speaker 1: the enemy. We now have a new England Patriots front

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Speaker 1: Eric the enemy. We'll see. It doesn't look good right

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Speaker 1: now for Watson and the Texans. But again, we'll toot

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Speaker 1: our own horn a little bit. We will blow out

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to our guest today. Former NFL player.

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Speaker 1: He's a great story um, great storyteller. He's pivoted since

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Speaker 1: his NFL career ended from playing football, going to a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, starting as a rookie two Hollywood, and he

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Speaker 1: is now writing movies, producing movies. It's awesome. You guys

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Speaker 1: are gonna absolutely love this from Salam. Jason likes to

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Speaker 1: think he knows everything when it comes to sports. I

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Speaker 1: know what sports fans want, but for everything he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: He knows a guy who does. Let's just say, I

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Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome into straight fire. A guy you

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Speaker 1: know him from the NFL. He's making a career in movies. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm super impressed. Really great bio e from salam he

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Speaker 1: Owes a Fox Sports radio show from How you doing, Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm good brother, How you doing? I've been hanging in there.

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Speaker 1: You know, tough times out here in l A with

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Speaker 1: the COVID, everybody trying to stay safe. Fortunately there is

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Speaker 1: happening in America this weekend. Um. You know we could

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious when you hear what's going on with

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Speaker 1: I can go nine months without um hanging out with people,

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Speaker 1: like this. Do you think you get it from your parents? Like, UM,

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Speaker 1: all right, So my wife has relatives. We would hang

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Speaker 1: pre pandemic, like five years ago, worst case scenario Jason.

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Speaker 1: offensive scout team offensive line scout team from my my

428
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Speaker 1: freshman year in high school, I was at I mean,

429
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Speaker 1: in college, I was like, well, I went right into basketball,

430
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: worked out with the basketball coaches, and the funny things

431
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Speaker 1: I remember that tryout because they were doing stuff like, Okay,

432
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Speaker 1: we're gonna throw We're gonna throw the ball off the rim.

433
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Speaker 1: I want you to grab the rebound and then put

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Speaker 1: it back. So they would throw it off the rim,

435
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Speaker 1: and before it came now I just go up and dunking. Right,

436
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 1: we want you to come off the screen. Take one dribble. Shoot,

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Speaker 1: So I come off the screen, take one dribble, dunk

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Speaker 1: the ball. And every after every drill they would say, okay,

439
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,719
Speaker 1: shoot free throws, and then they will go talk at

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00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: half court like and then come back, We'll do another drill.

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Speaker 1: After the third drill, it was like, all right, go down,

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Speaker 1: ste get your uniform, get you blah blah blah blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. And so I practiced with the team for

444
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: two weeks and was about to make my debut as

445
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: a freshman in basketball. The whole football coaching staff got fired.

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00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: That was Al Lougan building all Sean Payton Ton Payton,

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00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: uh c J. Who's now who's been the New Orleans

448
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: receiver coach since Sean has been there? Uh? They all

449
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: got fired. It was only one holdover coach, Coach Shram.

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00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: He was a tight ends coach and the recruiting coordinator,

451
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: And the day I was supposed to make my basketball

452
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: debut in college, they pulled me in with the athletic director,

453
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: coach Shram and our basketball head coach, and they basically said, look,

454
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Speaker 1: because I'm on the primary football scholarship that the new

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00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: coaching staff that came in, which was Ted Tolner ed White,

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, his whole his whole uh staff, they

457
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: had priority over their scholarship athletes. And because they were new,

458
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: they wanted every they wanted to get to know that.

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00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: I didn't have two months to to be away from

460
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: football and and with with a new coaching staff. So

461
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: they said, look, we're not telling you can't play basketball,

462
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Speaker 1: but basketball would have to offer you a full ride scholarship.

463
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Speaker 1: It's the middle of the basketball season. They don't have

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Speaker 1: any full ride scholars that's sitting around. The basketball coach

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Speaker 1: is like, look, we can't give you a scholarship. We

466
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Speaker 1: want you to play. You would have to give up

467
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: your football scholarship and we'll see what we can do

468
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: next year. I'm like to get all that. So I

469
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: went back and played UH football and didn't get an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to play basketball again. To my junior that sucks.

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to fast forward from two. Uh, Um,

472
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Speaker 1: you've finished your football career. You were with the Atlanta Falcons,

473
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Speaker 1: seventh pick, started a Super Bowl as a rookie. Impressive.

474
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Speaker 1: You go through this long career, it's awesome, and then

475
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: it's like, well, what am I gonna do next? And

476
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: in one of the coolest pivots you are now in

477
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Speaker 1: the film industry out here in Hollywood. I was reading

478
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: about this. I'm obsessed with this stuff. Um, I guess

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Speaker 1: tell me about how how did that happen? Um? I've

480
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: always been in in enthralled and involved with the media.

481
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: My rookie year had a radio show on V one

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Speaker 1: oh three in Atlanta called Falcon Fridays with Porsche Fox

483
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Speaker 1: and e from Salon Fox. Do I know that, I

484
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Speaker 1: know who? I know that. It was a big time

485
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: vj back back or disc jockey back then, and UM,

486
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Speaker 1: it just it just so happened that. Um I was

487
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: a guest because we we had a really successful year

488
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: and it was like, Hey, you want to come in

489
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Speaker 1: and be on the radio, and I was like yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I went and it really went well. And so

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Speaker 1: from then they offered me Hey, do you want to

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Speaker 1: come in and do a weekly show. So that is

493
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: where my love for media started. In every market I

494
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: played in for the next thirteen years, I had a

495
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: TV and the radio show, and so in the off

496
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: season I would come and I would do stuff for ESPN,

497
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,959
Speaker 1: for Fox Best Damn Sports Show. I remember I hosted

498
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: that the last six months when Carissa and Chris Rose

499
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Speaker 1: was doing it. I hosted it the last six months

500
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: that it was on for free, just to get the experience.

501
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: So media was always something that I was into. Now,

502
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: the movie thing happened when my best friend I called him.

503
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,959
Speaker 1: My brother's name is Dian Taylor. We grew up together.

504
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: He's actually the reason I went to San Diego State.

505
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: He was a basketball dynamo. He got a full ride

506
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Speaker 1: scholarship to play basketball at San Diego State in the

507
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: year before I graduated. As kids, we dreamt about and

508
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: talked about going to the same college. When he got

509
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: his scholarship, it was like I got my scholarship. All

510
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: I was doing was waiting on a recruiting letter and

511
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: I was to go there anyway. That's why I went

512
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: to San Diego State and so um I remember I

513
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: was playing for the Denver Bronco. Fast forward. I was

514
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: playing for the Denver Broncos at the time, and he

515
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: called me and said he was playing basketball in Germany. Right,

516
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: tried out for the NBA at six three. It was,

517
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, it was the avenues weren't as vast as

518
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Speaker 1: they are now. But he played professionally and in overseas

519
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: for five years. Really good basketball player. And he called

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00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: me and was like, yo, I got an idea for

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00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: a movie. I was like, what a movie? And he

522
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: said yeah. All he was doing in Germany was his

523
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time, his wife now would be sending

524
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Speaker 1: him DVDs and and and and vhs. And what he

525
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: would do is because everything he didn't speak German and

526
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: there was no American television over there, and what he

527
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: it was he would watch the director's cuts, behind the scenes,

528
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: the interviews, all of that, and he just got enthralled

529
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Speaker 1: with it. And that started this creative process for him.

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Speaker 1: So about ninety two, I mean two thousand two, two

531
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Speaker 1: thousand two or two thousand three, he said I got

532
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: an idea for a movie. He flies out to Denver,

533
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: We sit, we talked about it. He goes and we

534
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Speaker 1: had a friend of a friend of a friend whose

535
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Speaker 1: cousin thought he was was a screenwriter or whatever, right

536
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: like it was one of those things. And they put

537
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: together a um oh my god, can you guys hear that? Okay? Good?

538
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: They put together Um, we had he had a friend

539
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: of a friend of a friend who said that he

540
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: was a screenwriter. So we took our idea, took it

541
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: to him and put a script together. So now we

542
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: have a script and in all season we went out

543
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: to Hollywood. We're gonna make a movie. Yeah, it doesn't

544
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: work like. It doesn't work like that. It does not

545
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: work like that at all. So we spent a couple

546
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: of years trying to shop this movie and get funding.

547
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: And so I said, hey, man, why don't we just

548
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: make it? Make it ourselves? And I wrote a pretty

549
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: sizeable check that you were the money at the time.

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00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: At the time, the check was bigger than what I had.

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: Uh Like, it left me with less than what the

552
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: check was. I should say, but I always bet on us,

553
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: I said, Hell, I mean if I can't, if I

554
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: don't believe in myself and invest in us, who else will.

555
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: So that really started the process in terms of of

556
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: of film, and we started we hired. Uh, he had

557
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: I never produced. He had never His girlfriend rock sand

558
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: who's our head producer, she was an assistant at the

559
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: d g A at the time, and she was like, well,

560
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: I can kind of help navigate you. And we hired

561
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: a tremendous director of photographer. His name was Phil Lee,

562
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: and the director we had actually hired it was just

563
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: the money grab. He had no intentions of of of

564
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: fulfilling our vision of the project. So Phil was like,

565
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: why don't you fire him and out and you direct

566
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: Dion and I'll teach you how to do it. And

567
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: that's how he became a director. That's how That's how

568
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: it started. And fifteen what is this? That was two

569
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: thousand and I would say two thousand three, two thousand four.

570
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: So you know, sixteen, seventeen years later, we have the

571
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: company that we have hit an Empire Film group that

572
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: has had the success that it's had and and a

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00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 1: lot of that successes is due to number one DNS

574
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: vision because all the time he was building his company,

575
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: I was playing I was playing football, so I had

576
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: my my mind on other things. Roxanne, who is one

577
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: of the best producers in Hollywood right now, and our

578
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: other partner Robert Smith, who's the wealthiest African American man

579
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: and on the planet Earth. Uh it's the same Robert

580
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: Smith who a couple of years ago, uh Allevie eradicated

581
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: the entire debt of the more House graduating class. And

582
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: he's believed in us along the way. He's helped us

583
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: fulfill our vision. But the legwork has always been the

584
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: vision of Dion Roxanne and UH myself to just try

585
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: to and and our other I calling my little brother

586
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: Omar Joseph's. It's a family run company, but um, it's

587
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: just a group of people who decided that they wouldn't

588
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 1: take no for an answer. So I try to specialize

589
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: in doing things that we've always dreamt about doing as kids.

590
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: Everything I want to do, people tell you you can't

591
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: do it. Right. I was told I couldn't be a

592
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: professional athlete. My guidance counselor told me to pick something else. Right,

593
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: So when I'm fifteen, she tells me, well, you know

594
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: it's too hard to do that. You know you should

595
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: You're very smart, you should go be a doctor. I

596
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: was like, I want to be, you know, a professional athlete.

597
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: So I became a professional athlete. I wanted to be

598
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: in media. I've been a media now for twenty plus years. Right,

599
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: national level, local level, doesn't matter. I've done it. While

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00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: we wanted to make movies that came out in movie theaters,

601
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: I want to be able to produce. We've done that.

602
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: I also have a new venture I've been doing for

603
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: the last two years. As I'm quite the storyteller. So

604
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: for me, my wife was like, you should become a writer.

605
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: Two years ago. She got me an introduction in the

606
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: screenwriting class that met once once a week for five weeks.

607
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,919
Speaker 1: And now I'm a w G, a certified writer. I've

608
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: worked on worked on two premium cable television shows. I

609
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: just signed my contract or just did a deal to

610
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: UH to be in my third writer's room on a

611
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: new project coming out. I wish I could. I probably

612
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: could tell you, but I'm not sure. But it's a

613
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: pretty big project UH. And also last year I wrote

614
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: my first UH screenplay as a romantic comedy. So all

615
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 1: of these things along the way that we were told

616
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: that we couldn't do right. We were told we couldn't

617
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: get distribution right. In two thousand nineteen, we had two

618
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: films come out the same year as an independent film company.

619
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: We had The Intruder that came out in May, and

620
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: then we had Black and Blue that came out in October. Right,

621
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: these are this, This is right theatrically I'm talking about

622
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: worldwide and it did extremely well and Trudor did over

623
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: forty something million at the box office. We made it

624
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: for four and a half million dollars, And that's just

625
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: so inspirational. Man, I like to hear that you got

626
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: You can't let people dictate and determine what you do. Right.

627
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 1: So many times when I go around this country talking

628
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: to kids in schools, always tell them, look, I don't

629
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: care if it's your mom, your cousin, your teacher, your

630
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: counselor your friend. Nobody can tell you what you can

631
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: accomplish because nobody knows how hard and how much you're

632
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice to accomplish those goals. I sacrifice my

633
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: financial stability to invest in a company that I believed in,

634
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: and it took, in reality, fifteen years before we even

635
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: solve the type of success we're having now. Yeah, nothing

636
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: happens overnight. You know, I hope people aren't listening. Oh

637
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: I can do that, I can do It's gonna happen.

638
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: And that's the that's the problem with society now right now,

639
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Speaker 1: because we live in an instant gratification society because of

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00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: social media, right because you can post a video, go viral,

641
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: and tomorrow be famous. But the problem is that fame

642
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily generate into sustainable income and wealth. So yeah,

643
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: you may go viral, but then what it happens so

644
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: fast for some people, they don't know how to continue

645
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: to monetize it and continue to grow it because they

646
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: think I'll just do it again and it can happen

647
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: overnight again. But that's not reality. Like I'm The funny

648
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: thing is people always like to say, how the hell

649
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: did you get verified on Twitter or Instagram. I don't

650
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: have a lot of followers because I don't spend a

651
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: lot of time on social media, which everybody tells me.

652
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: A lot of people like, hey, you need to build

653
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: your brand, But I tell people so I remember when

654
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: I before I ever sent a tweet, I was verified,

655
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: before I had two followers, I was verified, and somebody

656
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: was like, oh, how did you steal your verification? I said, hey, man,

657
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: google me right, don't talk to me about verification if

658
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: you don't even have a Wikipedia page, right, Like, if

659
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,439
Speaker 1: you don't have a Wikipedia page, don't even come talk

660
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: to me. Right before all of this, I had been

661
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: paving a way for success for myself. So by the

662
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: time I did get on social media, I was it

663
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: was already verified who I was. I didn't need followers

664
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Speaker 1: to the terrified who I was on social media. So

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00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: my wife's brother has a kid, who I guess is

666
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: twelve now, and he's on Instagram and TikTok and he's,

667
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: you know, trying to build up his brand. And I'm like, dude,

668
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: don't don't waste your time with that stuff. Dude, you're twelve.

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Speaker 1: And he's like, how are you verified? He asked, like

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00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: you know his dad, who then asked my wife how

671
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: Jason verified on Instagram? I was like, Connor, you you

672
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: look at me, dude, you come out of that on

673
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: TV for four years started with yeah, Google man, and

674
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: I feel saying that. But you you can say that

675
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,479
Speaker 1: you're an NFL player, do you? But it doesn't matter.

676
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 1: Look Jay, because it doesn't matter because those are your accomplishments.

677
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: You were able to do it because of hard work, perseverance,

678
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: So now you don't need others to verify who you are.

679
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: Your body of work has done it. So yeah, when

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00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: you tell somebody to google you and all that, it

681
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: may come off as pretentious and conceded and arrogant. But

682
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: that is not the case, right because when because if

683
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: it's the answer to the question of how did you

684
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: get verified, the only reply is google body of work? Right,

685
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: look at my body. Look at what I've accomplished prior

686
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: to social media, because I was doing radio and TV

687
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: where there was no social media. I was never on

688
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: my Space or or black Planet or any of that.

689
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: Just no black Planet was a real thing. Now Black

690
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: Plant this way back into my space when it first started,

691
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: like I never, I never did that. I was like, well,

692
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: you could turn on the TV and see me like

693
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: I do CNN and and headline news all the time,

694
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: Like you can tell who I am, Like a computer

695
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: algorithm doesn't need to verify that I am who I

696
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: am because you can turn on national media and see

697
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: just like for you, it's like you want to flip

698
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: it on the other person, be like who are you?

699
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: What have you done? Like don't talk to it, Like

700
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: but anyways, now I'm getting negative on the trolls. But

701
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: I love your story from and UM, I'm gonna say

702
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: this in closing, like this is kind of embarrassing to admit.

703
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: So when the pandemic started, you know, you can't do anything.

704
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: There's no sports. You can't do a podcast about sports,

705
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: you can't gamble on sports, you can't there's nothing to do.

706
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, I've been tinkering with

707
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: screenplay ideas. I'm gonna hunker down. I had got some

708
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 1: screenplay books a couple of years back, and I dug

709
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: in man and I made some major headway. And then

710
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: the football season started, Um, and I had to get

711
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: back to the grind, you know what. I got the

712
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: podcast and all this other stuff. So but my off

713
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: season valve for I will get a screenplay and I

714
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: will send it to e From so his company can

715
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: reject me or accept it's a really great idea. And

716
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: I'll do is. I'll be very uh up front and critical, right,

717
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,479
Speaker 1: that's the only that constructive criticism is how you get better.

718
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm not because I'm not the world's greatest writer,

719
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: but I'm still learning, trust me. But I'll be open

720
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: and honest. And the one thing I will tell you

721
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: is for your first project, right, what you know? Right,

722
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: you could go and write a science fiction uh something

723
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: like that, but to sharpen your tool and to work

724
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: on your chops, right, something you know. Like my first

725
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: project I ever wrote was a romantic romantic comedy. Right.

726
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: It was called The List. And the premise of the

727
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: list is there's a married couple have been married for

728
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: some time, they hit a little rut. And the notion

729
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: of this list everybody and every married couple has a list. Right,

730
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: you get five celebrities on your list if if given

731
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: the opportunity, you get to, you know, have one night

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Speaker 1: of roman An Tike Escapade. Right, everybody I listened, like, Jay,

733
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: who's on your list? Nobody? Just my wife? Yes, that's

734
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: I bet you if you ask your wife who's on

735
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: her list, she can run them off to you. Right,

736
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: whatever that is? Right, So that was the premise of

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00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: my thing because my wife and I we had talked

738
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: about this a lot, and we we've had a relationship

739
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: vlog on YouTube called Partner Playbook where we gave relationship

740
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: advice and stuff like that. So we're big in that

741
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: relationship space. So I wrote about that. I wrote about

742
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: a couple who you know, explored the list and the

743
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: turns and the twist that would happen if that actually happened.

744
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was funny. Uh, and you will

745
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: see it in theaters. It will get made, I promise

746
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: you that. And and so I felt comfortable with that

747
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: being my first foray into writing. And I also met

748
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: a tremendous um tremendous talented writer women as well, Victoria.

749
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: Her name is Victoria, and she was a producer on

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00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: our film The Intruder, and we started talking and she

751
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: was a writer, and we teamed up together and she

752
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: helped me. She co wrote my first screenplay with me.

753
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. Well, congratulations on all your success from Salam. H.

754
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: We'll see in movies. I'm sure you're talking about sports.

755
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: Who's winning the Super Bowl this year? Um? I now

756
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 1: barring COVID, you know, if if the teams can get

757
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: their healthy, I got Kansas City. I got Kansas City

758
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: over Green Bank. Tough to go against the two number

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00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: one seeds from Salam. Thanks a lot for your time, man.

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00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: And so today Friday, a movie called saytal was in

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Speaker 1: theaters for the last two weeks, UH from our company,

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Speaker 1: directed by Dion, produced by Roxanne, produced by myself and

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Speaker 1: Omar Joseph. Uh it's called Fayetals with Hillary Swank, Michael Eally,

764
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 1: Mike Coulter, Tyrann Turner. Everywhere today where you can rent

765
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Speaker 1: and buy movies. Faytale. Trust me, you're gonna like this one.

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Speaker 1: It's a psychological thriller. So back through uh to to

767
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: to all of the great psychological thrillers, um fail attraction,

768
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: all of that type of stuff. You're gonna love it.

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Speaker 1: It's called Faytal, Hillary, Michael to two big names. Man,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome. Oh yeah, we were we worked. Now we

771
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: worked and uh we we were partnered with lions Gate,

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Speaker 1: so there was a distribution arm Uh. It came out

773
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Speaker 1: it supposed to. It was supposed to be a summer release,

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00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: supposed to come out of June nineteenth. There was gonna

775
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: be a huge movie for us, but of course the

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Speaker 1: world shutdowndown. Well, congratulations. From then now you know we'll

777
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: we'll continue to follow your success. Absolutely. The only thing

778
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 1: better than sitting on your couch watching the gig. He's

779
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: making money while you do it. Here's your best bet,

780
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: great stuff from from Salam super interesting guy. We're going

781
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: to continue to kind of go outside the box and

782
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: finding phenomenal guests here on straight fire. All right, it's

783
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: time for the best bet, and best bet. Started off

784
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: the new year with a rocky weekend. I had to

785
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: do the tally sixty two sixty and five against the

786
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: spread man. It was a while back we were cruising

787
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: and now we are just cruising for a bruise and

788
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: I guess all right, unfortunately we have the wild Card

789
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: weekend here to rebound. I have several bets I've already made,

790
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: and two more I plan on making here as I

791
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: reveal the bets. All right, so let me tell you

792
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: what I've already bet here so far for Super wild

793
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: Card weekend whatever that. I don't know where they got

794
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 1: the super from, but everybody obviously gamble safely and hopefully

795
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: we will um start the new year with some big winners. Uh.

796
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: First up, Baltimore Ravens favored by three and um, this

797
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: is this is one of the first bets I made.

798
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: I couldn't resist. Um, you're telling me I get the

799
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: better team. Yes, they are the better team by any

800
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: metric you want. I get the better team. Looking in

801
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: a quote unquote revenge spot. Um, and they totally outplayed

802
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: Tennessee earlier. This year, they actually outplayed Tennessee in the

803
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: playoff game. I mean they had two hundred more yards.

804
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: They had over five hundred yards of total offense, moved

805
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: the ball up and down the field. They just flubbed

806
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: a couple of fourth downs and that flipped the game.

807
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: I like the Ravens here. If you remember in the

808
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: off season, after Derrick Henry had a buck nine in

809
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,479
Speaker 1: the playoff win over the Ravens, Baltimore said, we gotta

810
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: get tougher, we gotta stop the run. They go out

811
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: and improve the defensive line. Plays Campbell. He's back. They

812
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: go out and draft Patrick Queen. He's had a rough year.

813
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: But again they want to fortify the middle of that

814
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: run defense. And if you look at who was inactive

815
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 1: in the earlier Ravens Tennessee meeting this season, oh Randy

816
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: Williams and Calais Camble. They missed the game. Oh I

817
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: see now, Okay, Henry had a strong finish. He went

818
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards in overtime and Tennessee one. I

819
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: like Baltimore here. I bet them Baltimore favored by three.

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Speaker 1: That was one of the first bets I made I

821
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Speaker 1: also took the Indianapolis Colts getting plus seven in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: You guys know that fade the public is a funny

823
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: thing that a lot of people mock and ha ha

824
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: the public. Oh, come on, you can't fade them. That's

825
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: the amateur hour stuff. Fade the public. Well, if you

826
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Speaker 1: look at what game the house needs more than any

827
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Speaker 1: other this wild card weekend as we record this year

828
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Speaker 1: Friday morning, it's the Indianapolis Colts. The public is loaded

829
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Speaker 1: up on the bills. And why not. They've won six

830
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:01,479
Speaker 1: straight games covered I believe in eighth straight. Okay, they've

831
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: won three straight games by twenty nine or more points.

832
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: They're a juggernaut right now. Everybody loves Buffalo. Well, what

833
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: do you do when every single person is going to

834
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: the window with a Buffalo ticket, say give me a

835
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: Colts ticket. You go, Colts. You got seven. Now this

836
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 1: dip down to six and a half. Um, I don't

837
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: know if we'll see a six. Probably a lot of

838
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: public money coming in over the weekend. I'm taking buff

839
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Speaker 1: I'm taking Indianapolis getting the seven points. I think the

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00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: eber Flues zone defense, as we talked about, I believe

841
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: it was Monday on the podcast. Can give Josh Allen

842
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: some looks that's going to confuse him. Um. I think

843
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: the Forest Buckner is really one of the most underrated

844
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: defensive linemen in the league. Look for him to have

845
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: a big game. Yeah, A little worried about Philip Rivers.

846
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: He is four and o in wild card games. But

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be called Philip Rivers and cold weather. Blah

848
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Speaker 1: blah blah. Indianapolis Colts plus seven. So Baltimore minus three,

849
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: Colts plus seven. Um, I have a teaser for you.

850
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this one? Teasers are gonna be

851
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: big this weekend because of the favorites. Okay, number one,

852
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: I'm teasing Buffalo down to pick them. I do like

853
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,919
Speaker 1: Buffalo to win. I think the Colts can keep it close.

854
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: So I got the Buffalo Bills pick up Baltimore Ravens

855
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: plus three. Okay, so Buffalo pick him Baltimore plus three

856
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: and New Orleans minus three. I think the Saints should

857
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 1: handle Chicago convincingly. We'll get to that in a moment.

858
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: So that's a teaser. So that's three bets right there. Um,

859
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: I took Now, this is this one's gonna be tough

860
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: for you. Guys. I took Pittsburgh early in the week

861
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: minus four, but I can't give that out here on

862
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: the podcast because it's not available. I am seeing six

863
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh. I think they're fine at six six and

864
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: a half. It's just a bad matchup for the Browns.

865
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: I don't really know how anybody can go into this

866
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: thinking the Browns have an advantage really anywhere. You know,

867
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: you've got your great head coach. He's not going to

868
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: be available for this game. Stefanski covid out, he won't

869
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: even be able to like be in the stadium, said

870
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: d Place. Obviously you know this. He'll have the scripted

871
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: plays that will work on all week to start the game.

872
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 1: But after that, you gotta have stuff on the fly.

873
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: Your offensive line coaches out, you gotta starting left guard out.

874
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: The secondary is still banged up. Like I mean, this

875
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: is this is a big advantage toward Pittsburgh. UM, you've

876
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: got silly trends that really don't matter. But Mike Tomlins

877
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: never lost at home. UM against the Cleveland Browns, I

878
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: think the number is fourteen and oh with nine double

879
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: digit wins, like he dominates his team. They get pressure

880
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: on Baker Mayfield there. They have number one in pressure

881
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: rate in the NFL. Baker, what does he do under pressure?

882
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: Throws interceptions? Um listen. I like the Browns. I had

883
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: a great year. They're a great story. But this is

884
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: a bad spot. Give me Pittsburgh now. I bet him

885
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,439
Speaker 1: at four. I'm telling you guys six, I would still

886
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: take the six and a half UM. So that's three bets, sorry,

887
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: four bets when you include the teaser UM and a

888
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: quick total here for you under forty two and a

889
00:53:56,200 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: half Rams Seahawks third meeting. Familiarity too great run teams,

890
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: two very good run defenses. UM, Seattle's defense. There's some

891
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: fugazi in those numbers, but they have trended well the

892
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: second half of the season. UM. Rams. Obviously you lissen

893
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey on DK Metcalf, take him out of them

894
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: equation as he did in two meetings this year. Metcalf

895
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: one catch for eleven yards in two meetings with Ramsey.

896
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald has just feasted on that offensive line. They've

897
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: sacked Russell Wilson I believe eleven times. Russ in two

898
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: games this year against the Rams, one t D two picks.

899
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: Even you go back to the meetings last year, he

900
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: did not excel. Um. I love the under here under

901
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: forty two and a half and the final bet Uh.

902
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: And this is a little exotic, you know. Um, I'm

903
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: sure a lot of people aren't gonna be into it,

904
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: but I got under twenty two and a half. First half, yes,

905
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: first half, Tampa Bay Washington. I just feel like Washington's

906
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: defense is gonna come out and do some things to

907
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: rattle Brady. Um, we got the night game narrative. Tom

908
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: Brady slow starts in night games this season. It's not

909
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: like he's finished rade either. Um. Tom Brady really has

910
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: struggled at night. You know, we covered earlier in the

911
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 1: week that he is a creature of habit. He likes

912
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: to go to bed early. This has been a thing

913
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: there oh and four against the spread in night games

914
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: this year. Tom Brady oh for seven in his last

915
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: primetime games. Um only one in three, uh, straight up

916
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: in in primetime this year. And you look at when

917
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,359
Speaker 1: they face good defenses, Bucks are oh and four top

918
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: ten defenses, Tampa Bay struggles and guess what, Washington's number nine.

919
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: I think there's an edge here for uh Tampa and

920
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: and the first half, and it'd be low scoring with Washington.

921
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: So I got under twenty two and a half first

922
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: half Washington Tampa. So to recap under twenty two and

923
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: a half first half Washed Tampa. UM. What was the

924
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: next one? Seattle rams under forty two and a half?

925
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 1: UM as I as I jot them down in the system.

926
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: Here we had the teaser of Buffalo, New Orleans and

927
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: Baltimore to plus three. That's not the best one. Uh.

928
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:16,839
Speaker 1: You know you want to tease through seven and three.

929
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: Obviously we did that twice with that. UM, I just

930
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: don't see away Baltimore loses. I'm sure that'll bite me

931
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: in the ass. I got Pittsburgh. We gave out Pittsburgh here,

932
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh minus six right now. I don't know if that

933
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: touches seven. We'll see, Uh it could possibly. Um and

934
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 1: then finally Baltimore minus three and the Colts plus seven,

935
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: so six bets. Geez. We need some hits here, and

936
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: I've promised college basketball and NBA they are coming back.

937
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 1: I just need to figure out a way. The problem is, honestly,

938
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: like COVID and late scratches, with all these NBA back

939
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,280
Speaker 1: to back. So you know, Rob g and I joked

940
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: that Kauai played it back to back. Well, how about

941
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: Kyrie irving on Thursday afternoon saying he's sitting out for

942
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 1: personal reasons, passing it along to his coach. The coach

943
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: called him back, Oh what, what's the reason? Couldn't even

944
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: get Kyrie on the phone, like Steven Nash was like,

945
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: I couldn't get in touch with him. I don't know

946
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: why he's missing the game, Like I don't want to

947
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: give out a bet early in the day Kyrie misses

948
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: the game, like, you know, that's unfortunately, gotta wait a

949
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: lot on these games. And um, yeah, So anyways, it's

950
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: been a great week here on the podcast. I will

951
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: say this, um, and I know we don't talk about

952
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: numbers on the podcast in terms of like how many

953
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: people are listening, but we just went from December six

954
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: to January six and had our greatest thirty days stretch

955
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: by far that this podcast is seen. And it's not

956
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: just here, it's you know, in the company. The numbers

957
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: were staggering. I'm blown away. The bosses are producer Drob

958
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: g We're like wow. So a big, hearty thank you

959
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: to everybody for listening. Obviously, subscribe, rate and review and

960
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week.