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Speaker 1: before I even got on television, and seeing the things

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Speaker 1: that happened with youth that through violence, you know, through depression,

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Speaker 1: through you know, suicide, all these different things and things

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Speaker 1: that I experienced too in my life. And then I

430
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Speaker 1: also would put on programs that me and my wife

431
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Speaker 1: we had a program out here in Carson, California called

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Speaker 1: the Backhouse Party and we had the kids come and dance.

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Speaker 1: That's back when the jerk movement was popping, and so

434
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Speaker 1: they would come and we put on a live dance

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Speaker 1: show UH for the youth, and we started what I

436
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Speaker 1: want to say, like we started with like twenty kids,

437
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Speaker 1: but then that grew to like four hundred kids we

438
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Speaker 1: had up in there, and it was pretty crazy every

439
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Speaker 1: time we did it, but we would pray with them.

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Speaker 1: We still stay in contact with a lot of them.

441
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Speaker 1: Now they're grown ups now, you know what I mean.

442
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Speaker 1: But I always had a heart for the youth UH

443
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Speaker 1: and helping them and seeing them grow because it helped

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Speaker 1: me too as well, like within community theater and doing

445
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Speaker 1: these showcases. And I also traveled UH with a youth

446
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Speaker 1: group as well called uh MOI, which meant messages, which

447
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: are hype in Chicago, and we would go and tell

448
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 1: non violent stories through art, which was just super super amazing.

449
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: And then I lost a few friends along the way

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Speaker 1: within Chicago, you know, and also within the entertainment business

451
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Speaker 1: as well. So it's a lot of mental health issues.

452
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that are going on, and

453
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Speaker 1: for me, I will be doing people, uh, my fans

454
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Speaker 1: that this service if I didn't tell them how I

455
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Speaker 1: got through, which was my faith and God, which me

456
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: uh making having a relationship with Christ because I grew

457
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Speaker 1: up in the church, so I knew you know, and

458
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Speaker 1: I know Christ, I know God. But then there's a

459
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Speaker 1: difference between knowing and having a relationship, meaning that you're

460
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Speaker 1: in everything that I do. Like before I started my day,

461
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Speaker 1: like you asked me, working out, well, before that, it

462
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: was spending time and worship, you know, in prayer and

463
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Speaker 1: covering my wife and my kids, and you know, covering

464
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Speaker 1: myself because God knows my future. I know, I know

465
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Speaker 1: what's gonna come up ahead, but I want to know

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Speaker 1: that I'm gonna respond in joy and not in an

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Speaker 1: emotional way. Um. And so that's what's so poor to me.

468
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Speaker 1: So when I decided to take the call because people

469
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Speaker 1: have spoken over my life where they would go, hey,

470
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Speaker 1: you should preach, and I'm like, nah. I was like, guy,

471
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Speaker 1: I want to come down. I gotta see him. He

472
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Speaker 1: right from me, like he don't have to be like him. Yeah,

473
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Speaker 1: we need you to preach. Okay, yeah, man, because right

474
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Speaker 1: because that wasn't that just wasn't me, that wasn't my lifestyle.

475
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Speaker 1: So I'm like, na, I can't I can't see that.

476
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Speaker 1: And uh, but I mean really, like when I decided

477
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Speaker 1: to go, Okay, God, you're controlling everything in mops and downs.

478
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Speaker 1: You have been here. I've seen him do miraculous things

479
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Speaker 1: in my life through my prayers and uh, through me

480
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Speaker 1: having faith in God and things that have been breakthroughs

481
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Speaker 1: in my life. And when it was one time, I

482
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: never forget that I was really preaching. Really, I mean

483
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 1: not preaching. I was in worship, really hard praying, and

484
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: he spoke to me so hard. He spoke to me

485
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Speaker 1: like I could hear his voice. He was like, you

486
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Speaker 1: to preach. I want you to preach, but I also

487
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Speaker 1: want you to stay in the entertainment business. And I'm like, well,

488
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna do that. I was like, and I

489
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Speaker 1: have no one to talk to that had a show

490
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Speaker 1: currently at this moment with this was happening, They had

491
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Speaker 1: a show in was preaching at the same time, and

492
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Speaker 1: I was like, how am I gonna How am I

493
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Speaker 1: gonna do that? Who can I talk to you? This?

494
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: And my wife? What year was this? What show? What

495
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Speaker 1: year was this? And what sure show were you? This

496
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Speaker 1: was this? This was around I want to say two

497
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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, like around two thousand seventeen, two thousand and eighteen,

498
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Speaker 1: and I was on a show called Game Shakers on Nickelodeon,

499
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Speaker 1: and so uh within this show, and I was just like, well,

500
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Speaker 1: what how am I going to do this? You know

501
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: what I mean? And I would still preach, I would

502
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: you know, talk to the kids, and I would do

503
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Speaker 1: all these things while I was still working, and I

504
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: was seeing that. I'm not like it was easy, because

505
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't easy, you know what I mean. It's still not,

506
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But God gives me the

507
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Speaker 1: endurance in the comfort through the Holy Spirit to to

508
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: be able to make it happen, you know, which is

509
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: which is which is awesome. But He had been rooming

510
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Speaker 1: me for this for you know, so many years. Uh.

511
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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm very transparent with my teams. You know,

512
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Speaker 1: I tell them how I've been there, I know what

513
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: you're going through. Don't go through that door. Don't make

514
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: that choice. Life is a lot a lot about choices.

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Speaker 1: Even with being a youth pastor, they'd be looking at

516
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Speaker 1: you sometimes like and you don't know if you're getting

517
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Speaker 1: through to him. But then like, well, you know because

518
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Speaker 1: you speak to teams and it's like but then three

519
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Speaker 1: months later they come to you and they tell you

520
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Speaker 1: a breakthrough that happened in their life or something that

521
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Speaker 1: they got through because of something that you told them,

522
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Speaker 1: and it's like this stuff. It's such a beautiful moment

523
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: because it's kind of like, oh, you were listening, we

524
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Speaker 1: will pay all bills back. In a moment with Kel

525
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Speaker 1: Mitchell on naked, Every champion and carry champion is to

526
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Speaker 1: be a champion of Champion and carry champion and carry

527
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Speaker 1: Chapian a champion and carry Chappion and carry Chappi and

528
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Speaker 1: then the team making make h Chepion the ca Chapion Champion.

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Speaker 1: They care Chappion Chapi and they care Chapion. They care.

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Speaker 1: Kell began his acting career with keenan at fifteen years old.

531
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Speaker 1: A fifteen years old and he's still so pleasant where

532
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: he is talking more about his career. The hard thing

533
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: at the hard thing. Here's the hard thing. The hard

534
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: thing is, especially with all the different messages. The hard

535
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: thing is is when you are no you have a calling,

536
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: or even if you know that you have faith and

537
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: you believe in Jesus and you present you're like, I'm

538
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: a Christian, I'm a Jesus believer. Um. And you find

539
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: yourself living in both worlds, which we do. Um. You

540
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 1: always can lead by example, but I do know that

541
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: people will try you and say, well, if you are

542
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: a Christian, you shouldn't be doing this. You know, you'll

543
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: have that from the church, or you'll have that from

544
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,239
Speaker 1: people who are not in the church, or let's have

545
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: people in general saying that. And sometimes the message can

546
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: be blurred. UM. And I'm speaking from my experience. A

547
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: message can be blurred because sometimes the messenger isn't presenting

548
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: how people think you should present. When you said, it

549
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: was very clear to you that guy wanted you to

550
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: do both, that he spoke to you and said you

551
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: should do both. The both part was what why do

552
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: you think it was necessary for you not to necessarily

553
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: leave acting stay acting, but also preach because it's the

554
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: I had to realize too, where everybody's journey is different.

555
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: I used to do a lot of comparison as far

556
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: as I this preacher is doing this and this is

557
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: going this way. Uh. And the Lord spoke to me

558
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: so clearly, like, this is your journey, this is your ministry,

559
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: this is how I want you to minister to people,

560
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: and this is the reason why you went the route

561
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: that went so then that way they could see my

562
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: heart through you. Here's what's really deep about it. When

563
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: I decided to say, okay, I've seen so much within

564
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: the entertainment business behind the scenes of the mental health,

565
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: of the depression, of the things that people are going through.

566
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Speaker 1: Are these people gonna come into church on Sunday? Some

567
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: of them but others probably not. And the thing about

568
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: it is is that now when I'm one of these

569
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: sets and I'm in these meetings, I'm also bringing God

570
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: with me and I'm seeing it through His eyes, and

571
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: it what's been beautiful. It's not like I bust in

572
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: the on set and be like y'all but love Jesus.

573
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Speaker 1: It's like when they said to my actions, right, this talent,

574
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: this talent, this creativity, everything that was given to me,

575
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: God given. And then what happens is is that through

576
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: my actions on set, you have people in the parking lot.

577
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: This literally happens all the time in the parking lot

578
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: that would be like, hey, yo, hey man, I'm going

579
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: through something. I heard you was going through something. Can

580
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: you pray for me? We're praying. I'm praying over the set.

581
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: I'm praying over the set before I go. Friends from

582
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: the nineties that will work together, now they'll go something

583
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: different about you, bro, what's going on? You said very different? Okay,

584
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this is what's going on. And you

585
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: had others that were in entertainment business. One brother hit

586
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: me up. He was like, okayl how are you so vocal,

587
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: because aren't you afraid that you work? That's where I

588
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: was going. Do you find that they that you I

589
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: may have lost out on opportunities because they don't want

590
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: you to be on set praying for people. You know

591
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: what's deep I've gotten. It's it's it's elevated, it's even

592
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: more work. It's even more doors that have been opened

593
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: because of me being obedient and consistent to Christ, which

594
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: is very very deep, you know what I mean. And

595
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: I can tell that to anybody, and if if anybody

596
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: has followed my career, they can see that that this

597
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: is what's happening right now. And it is so beautiful

598
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: because it's me saying and and I don't care, because

599
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: the thing about it is that I know, I know

600
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: if as long as I'm following him and I'm doing

601
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: what he tells me to do, all these things are

602
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,239
Speaker 1: gonna open up. All these doors are gonna open up.

603
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: And then also too with through producing and writing my

604
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: own things, and then I tell people this story all time.

605
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: I was at a huge, huge meeting, you know, very

606
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: big agency, right, So you got all these agents and

607
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: producers and are all sitting there and they want to

608
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: work with me because I do other projects as well,

609
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there and within this they go, you know,

610
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: we see that you talk about your faith a lot,

611
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: you know, online, so I'm thinking it's gonna go left,

612
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: you know, But then they were like, tell us more

613
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: about that, tell us about testimony. And it was like

614
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: a pursuit of happiness moment because I was literally in

615
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: tears and I'm talking with them and telling them about it,

616
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: and it was just like a beautiful moment. And so

617
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: I want to let people know because there's so many

618
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: people that be like, oh, it's just it's just say

619
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: it in entertainments, just that other. And it's like there's

620
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: some believers in there too, a lot of believers, and

621
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: there's people that are believe in God, that love God,

622
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: and it's all ministry. And when you look at it

623
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: like that, you know, when you tell these stories or

624
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: these beautiful stories of people triumph, having triumph, getting through something. Uh,

625
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: that's what I look at in any any project that

626
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: I do, I look at it in that way too,

627
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: like what was the outcome? What was the breakthrough within

628
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: the character? What happens um And that's and you feel

629
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: that within your heart when you hear these stories. So

630
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: for me, it's just it's part of my journey. They

631
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: might not be everybody's, you know, ministry journey, but for me,

632
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: it's been beautiful. And when kids come and they go, man,

633
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: i've seen you on good Burger, So that's why I

634
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: came to the church. That might have been the only reason.

635
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: And that does happen. Then they sit down and they

636
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: hear the love of God, they hear the how, the grace,

637
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: and they feel that in their hearts. Then they join

638
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: the church and give their life to Christ. That's that's

639
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Yeah, that's that's a beautiful that's

640
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: a that's a beautiful thing. Any And even in the

641
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: aspect that I'm not diminishing being, you know, when you

642
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: people give their life to Christ. But the aspect of

643
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: being able to help someone, knowing that that's what you've

644
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: been called to do, you feel I mean, I don't

645
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: know about you, but I think you're like, there's my purpose,

646
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: there's my legacy. I feel better that I'm able to

647
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: help somebody. I'm able to lift someone up and I'm

648
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: not so focused on me. And it feels very um

649
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: rewarding in a world that wants us to be selfish,

650
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: in the world that says that it should be all

651
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: about us. And you know, look, I ain't perfect. I

652
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: get caught up in the selfishness of it all, but

653
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: it's it's it's absolutely beautiful to hear you be so

654
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: bold about it, and to hear also that you are

655
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: being rewarded, obviously, because God's rewarding you for being obedient.

656
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: But you're in this big meeting and they're like, so

657
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: tell me more about your faith. You talk about it.

658
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm curious, do you think that there are

659
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: roles that you won't do because of your faith? You know?

660
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: I take I touched on that a little bit earlier,

661
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: but yeah, I take every role, uh into consideration within

662
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: my thought process and within my journey of what I'm doing.

663
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: So literally, like when I get sent something and I

664
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: look at the character, I read the entire script, and

665
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 1: for me, it's about the story. In the beginning, when

666
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: I was just it with certain roles that I will

667
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: pass up because I just was like, no, I can't cuss,

668
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: I can't do this, I can't do that. But now

669
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: I look more at the character because I'm going, what

670
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: do they learn at the end of this? As the

671
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: audience was watching this, what is the outcome? And so

672
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: when I started looking at it in that way, um,

673
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: it opened up a lot more characters for me and

674
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: a lot more of character work that I was doing

675
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: in stories that I put out as well, which I

676
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: think is as amazing, you know what I mean, and

677
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,919
Speaker 1: a a good thing to do, a good thing to do.

678
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: So but I think with every actor, we all you know,

679
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: of course you want too, uh. I think, yes, every

680
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: actor was like nine doing that. Like there are things

681
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: you just in your career period acting actor. I'm not

682
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: doing that, or I am doing that, or that's what

683
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: doing that, And you gotta get there. You can't take

684
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: you know, like you want to take everything, but you

685
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: should really think about the longevity of this thing. By

686
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: the way, you have not lied because you do have

687
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: to get there. Well, here's what's interesting. People talk about

688
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: teenage actors all the time. There was this this rap

689
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: that you know, especially during a certain time, you grew

690
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: up on set, you're by yourself, you have these crazy hours,

691
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: school is really secondary. You hear all of these these

692
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: stories that suggest it isn't an environment that can help

693
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 1: you be a positive, productive adult. And then I see

694
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: so many stories now yourself included, where you're like, no,

695
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: it can happen. It does happen, um And even if

696
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: you did have a troubled you know, post teenage life,

697
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: you can still read down. I see it in actors

698
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: like Jason Bateman who always talks about how he was

699
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 1: raised on set and he had a drug addiction and

700
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 1: now he's he's found his life, you know, or Robert

701
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: look at it. I could just name a bunch of

702
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: different actors, right, um, and now I look at what

703
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: you've been able to do and the world that you've

704
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: been able to create, and the people that you've been

705
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: able to be around and still be very talented. What

706
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: would be the next chapter for you? In terms of acting?

707
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: What would do you want to do? Is there a

708
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: movie role that you want to do? Is there's something

709
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: that you work on that you feel like, this is

710
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: this is it for me, this is my role. So

711
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: my my north star is always Oprah, right, I say

712
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: that that's my But like, if if I was an actor,

713
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: I would want to play Oprah. But I want to

714
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: be I want to live her life. I want to

715
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: be in the garden picking flowers and and all my

716
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: private jet carrying avocados where I go. Because I was like,

717
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: I just take avocados where I go, everywhere I go,

718
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: I just take avocados, guys from my garden, and you know,

719
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: I go to the restaurant, I'm like, open because you can.

720
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: I wish I would show up to the local restaurant

721
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: with my my avocados and be like, here you go here,

722
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: you go? Can you make these for me for my garden?

723
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: So that's my north star. I am on the day

724
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: when I can bring my avocados to the restaurant. What

725
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: is it for you? You know what? For me? Um,

726
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: I have gotten to a point where I'm enjoying God

727
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: doing what he does within my career, and so that

728
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: means I'm open to I'm literally open to whatever career

729
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: path that comes up within the character that I'm gonna play,

730
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna take it to him and be like, yo,

731
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: is this it's pray about it and then just go

732
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: for it. Because even with me being an author now

733
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: as well, was all orchestrated by God, you know what

734
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, producing directing when it was

735
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: a time where it was like I wasn't getting rows,

736
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: and then I said, I after told me, hey, well

737
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: you know what they give you, the rules you make up,

738
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: all right, And so that I started writing and who

739
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: knew that? Then years later this writing process of me

740
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,959
Speaker 1: doing these independent things turned into me now being able

741
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: to write and be a writer and all these different things.

742
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: So I'm just really enjoying the journey. I was talking

743
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: to my wife about that and every time I finished

744
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: the project, We're like, man, I'm excited about the next

745
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: project or what the next project is gonna be, the

746
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: next witty idea, uh that we get um. And then

747
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: staying ready that's very important to me, Like staying ready

748
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: like you know, continuously acting, continuously working out and getting

749
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: your body ready for whatever opportunity. Because something something to myself.

750
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: Who was the guy? Right? Go ahead? Yeah, this mental, physical,

751
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: and spiritual for me within everything that I do, and

752
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: that's why I want Yeah, that's why I want my

753
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: book Blessed Mode, because I'm just I'm enjoying in the journey.

754
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: And that's what faith is. It's religion saying I'll take

755
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: the leap of faith for whatever it may be, and

756
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: it can be just these wonderful things that happen even

757
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: within my career, in within my life, you know, So

758
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: people can get Blessed Mode. That's a memoir, right, it's

759
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: about Mode is a devotional. Now. People who told me,

760
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: you know, Carol, you've been through a lot, you should

761
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: do a memoir, and I was like, no, I want

762
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: to do a devotional because a devotional book a lot

763
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: of people are busy, you know what I mean. And

764
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, when you read a devotional it's different each

765
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: day and you can just tap in and you can

766
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: read for like three minutes and it helps. And so

767
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: for me, food and get back into the day and

768
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: get back into the day. And uh, it's been very awesome.

769
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: I did a book trailer with it, which is super cool.

770
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: I also did a music video. We put out a

771
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: song with it, uh, and I did that with the book.

772
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: I really just really wanted, you know, people understand that

773
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: they beautifully and wonderfully made by God and to go

774
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: after their day and be motivated for that day and

775
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: choosing gratitude enjoy within everything. And these are the things

776
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: that I had to do to get out of kill

777
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: reacting emotionally. And that's why I called it blessed mode,

778
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: because when I react and kill mode, it might be emotional,

779
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: it might be like this person be at this though,

780
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: but if I react to what God wants, It's always

781
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: gonna be a loving reaction. Uh. So that's what, you know,

782
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: really what it was with that. And then then Prank

783
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: Day came along too as well, which is my new

784
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: book which I'm super excited about as well. After available

785
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: everywhere guys where they sell books. Y'all know where they

786
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: get the books at Amazon and stuff and then Barnes

787
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: and knowest the books books and stuff. And if you

788
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: like me, like, okay, so tell me where Prank Day is.

789
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, but tell tell us what. Okay.

790
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: So Prank Day, Uh is a novel for tweens, you know,

791
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: eight to twelve, but a lot of people have been

792
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: reading it that's older than that. They've been reading it now.

793
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 1: But it's about a kid that uh does April Fool pranks.

794
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: And when he does the pranks on April Fool's Day,

795
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: the next day, on April two, the pranks come true.

796
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: So now you gotta run a refrigerator running through the neighborhood,

797
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: you got flying spiders, you got clowns coming out of toilets,

798
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: and he has to figure out why this is happening

799
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: and one of his pranks. It's gonna change his life

800
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: forever if he doesn't figure this out. And so, uh,

801
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: it's definitely definitely an awesome story from that idea just

802
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: took it on his own a movie. Yeah you know what,

803
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: thank you for saying thank you. I'm not like no

804
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: as you're saying. You can totally visualize that the Next

805
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: Day is a great movie that would be super popular

806
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: with the tweens of not the adults like myself. Okay, go,

807
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Well, I'll tell you this because you're

808
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: entertainment you you appreciate this. Like I tell a lot

809
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: of like writers and authors and this book, uh, prank

810
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: Day originally what I wrote it as a film, right,

811
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: I originally wrote as film. It was a film script,

812
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: and I had it at a network. Uh. The network

813
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: went through an emerging process and they, uh, they fired

814
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: the movie. You know, all the people that I said,

815
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: of the movie and film division, and they went to

816
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: other places and everybody was like, oh no. But then

817
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: they the network held onto my you know, my film.

818
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: So my attorney went in and did what he had

819
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: to do, got it back for me. And then I

820
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: was like, well, I'm gonna take it. I could take

821
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: it somewhere else. And I just was kind of sitting

822
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 1: on it. And then when I had put out Blessed

823
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,959
Speaker 1: Mode with HarperCollins, they said, hey, what Tommy Nelson wants

824
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: to do something with you. Do you have like a

825
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: kid's you know, you know, kid book or something like that,

826
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: And so I sent them a whole bunch of ideas,

827
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: other ideas, and then I put that in there too.

828
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: I was like, well, it's a movie, but let's see.

829
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: Y'all sent them the script, said, y'all read the script.

830
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: They loved it, and we turned it into a novel,

831
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 1: which was just super super, you know, awesome. So it's

832
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: always like, this is what I'm saying about with God

833
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: and that faith and just knowing that it might not

834
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: happen the way you want it, but it's gonna happen.

835
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. It may be at the timing you

836
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,479
Speaker 1: want it or when you want it, but it will happen. Yeah,

837
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. That's real. It was meant for you

838
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: cannot pass you by. I see it all the time

839
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: with so many people and they tell these great stories.

840
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: I appreciate you even first of all being such a

841
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air and being bold in your faith.

842
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: I think anybody who's bolden what they believe in really

843
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: truly both from a place that is not selfish, self centered.

844
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: Um is rare in this industry and rare in the

845
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: world in which we live in today. So I think

846
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I really do. UM So again, folks out

847
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: there and grab it. I I have something else to

848
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: ask um. Before I let you go, you told me

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Speaker 1: a really funny story about Good Burger. This is just

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Speaker 1: my personal This is my personal ask. I'm asking for

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Speaker 1: me if y'all, I don't care if I like this

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Speaker 1: question or not. I need you to tell me your

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Speaker 1: favorite line yours. You're specifically not so much at Keenan's,

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Speaker 1: but kel's your favorite line from Good Burger? What was

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Speaker 1: the icon you still feel like everybody whole classic moment? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: from the TV show of the movie Um, okay, from

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Speaker 1: the movie what one of Them? Uh? Where Kurt the

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Speaker 1: the evil guy in the movie, and he was just like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you better watch your butt. It goes what And he

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Speaker 1: actually looks and he like yeah, and he's like making

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Speaker 1: circles and he's like, no one can do that. It's

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Speaker 1: it's too How do I watch my button? Guys like, no, seriously,

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Speaker 1: that's a logical question. I don't think anything's wrong with that, smart, logical,

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Speaker 1: wealth out out kept question. No one can do that. No.

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe now with a little surgery you can,

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Speaker 1: but I mean it's next to impossible. Metchell Um, thanks

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Speaker 1: joining me on naked. Is there anything else or folks

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Speaker 1: should be checking out for you? Uh? Definitely check out Deliciousness.

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Speaker 1: That's my show on MTV that I do with Tiffany

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Speaker 1: Theis and Angela Kensley. Uh, Tim Shodo Ron Sue was

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Speaker 1: a spend off of Ridiculousness. Uh, so check that out

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Speaker 1: as well. We're in our third season. Get Prank Day available.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, everywhere. Books are so awesome. Awesome book

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Speaker 1: awesome read y'all check it out. Um, super excited about that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then I got a Christmas movie. I'm not to

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Speaker 1: come back and see you talk about that. I would

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Speaker 1: like I would like it. Yeah, yeah, so we just

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Speaker 1: love it. I would love it. Your spirit is great

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Speaker 1: and you're and you're encouraging people even today myself included.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Jacquis and Dwayne, although they were angry earlier.

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Speaker 1: Those are the staff members on my show. I think

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Speaker 1: you've beat them happy, um on. They're working really hard.

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Speaker 1: I could feel them smiling now. So thank you for

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Speaker 1: doing that, and thank you so much for draining me.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Hey, thank you, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for what you do as well as well as well.

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Speaker 1: I've had the opportunity to interview a couple of comedians

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Speaker 1: since David Arnold passed away. And I know some of

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Speaker 1: you may not know who he is because he wasn't

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Speaker 1: really known in terms of being the guy in front

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Speaker 1: He was a loyal friend, it appeared to be, and

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Speaker 1: he loved his family. Most of his his comedy was

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Speaker 1: about his kids and his wife, and I appreciate that

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Speaker 1: because he felt very genuine to me and very kind.

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Speaker 1: His death was considered untimely, and the point of me

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Speaker 1: asking uh different artists, especially those in the comedy community,

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Speaker 1: about his death and what he meant. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: pay respects to who he was because or who he

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Speaker 1: is really, because his memory still lives on, and I

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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that you all paid attention to

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Speaker 1: who he was. Perhaps maybe if you have some time,

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Speaker 1: you can google who he is. Send some love rather

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Speaker 1: to his family and his friends, because I think we

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Speaker 1: lost a great guy again. I appreciate you all for

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Speaker 1: joining me here on Naked. I'll talk to you all

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Speaker 1: next week.