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Speaker 1: Pal Podcast Pal Hey Pal with Jared and Hey Pal,
Speaker 1: Hey Pal, come Oistas. I don't know, just how are
Speaker 1: you just keep going? I wanted you told me we're
Speaker 1: gonna start this week off, you know, smooth, nice like,
Speaker 1: let's let's just go. Let's just go. Come o stasybian
Speaker 1: you too. Oh see that was smooth. You know I
Speaker 1: was gonna pull out, Yeah, I Devin Grade spannest. So
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about what do you
Speaker 1: miss about? Obviously you just went serious I did. It's
Speaker 1: about about normal life. What are things that you miss
Speaker 1: about normal life? Because I'm gonna tell you what I
Speaker 1: missed the most. Can I start with what I don't
Speaker 1: miss about normal life? And that's hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's been a blessing. I'm so thankful. I'm
Speaker 1: very thankful I have not had to hang out with you.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Things that I miss I don't know.
Speaker 1: I miss, I miss sports, I miss going places. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I mean playing sports. By the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well going places is obviously, you know, probably number one
Speaker 1: on the list we missed going places, But one of
Speaker 1: the things that I really miss and I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1: Is I miss uh Target runs? You've missed. I missed
Speaker 1: going to Target. I missed going to tar j as
Speaker 1: some people call it, what is your What do you
Speaker 1: think that you love most about tar J? Well, I
Speaker 1: haven't been able to do it in a long time
Speaker 1: because you know, you and I suffer from the same
Speaker 1: ailment of being single. But one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: in life target with with a girlfriend. It's so much fun.
Speaker 1: But you haven't had one of those twenty years target
Speaker 1: in twenty years. I mean, I've got a Oh you've
Speaker 1: got a load of kid but I'm saying this is
Speaker 1: something that you miss and I miss. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is actually even outside of I thought we were talking
Speaker 1: about the pandemic. No, I just missed going to target. Anything.
Speaker 1: If you go back to like, you know, broken Pal,
Speaker 1: I get it. But we've moved own from that, right,
Speaker 1: we're trying to block that. We are trying, but um,
Speaker 1: I missed going to Target. And what's incredible about Target
Speaker 1: is sometimes there's amazing stories that come out of Target.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there are amazing stories that come out of Target.
Speaker 1: Are you are you leading into our guests right now?
Speaker 1: I think, and I'd like you to tell our audience
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Pal. Well, look, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that you were going to go there, but since you
Speaker 1: went there, Yes, I missed target too. We all miss target.
Speaker 1: The only person who doesn't miss target, Dave with which
Speaker 1: I wish our audience could see, would be the owner
Speaker 1: of Walmart. Would be would be Kyle Tequila because we
Speaker 1: know that with the way he dresses in that hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't dare step into target me and you will
Speaker 1: step into Target. He's going to like Jay Crew and
Speaker 1: Tommy Hill figure and like all that. Um. Anyways, I
Speaker 1: just want to go on to Kyle Rant. Yes, our
Speaker 1: next guest. He uh, he did work at Target, which
Speaker 1: is crazy. That's where he got found. He basically was
Speaker 1: working at a Target and and uh and then that
Speaker 1: is when he got approached and was talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: to go audition for this Tupac movie. By the way,
Speaker 1: you know what else is crazy about that? And by
Speaker 1: the way, I was doing some some reading, you know
Speaker 1: that Nicole Yokich. By the way, I know this seems
Speaker 1: a little off topic, but the Center for the Denver Nuggets, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just it's off topic because I thought you were
Speaker 1: only at a doctor Seuss reading level, and that's why
Speaker 1: it's off topic. Well, you said I was doing some
Speaker 1: reading like you like, well, like you are. You are right, Dave.
Speaker 1: I found out that he was riding horses before. We
Speaker 1: never played basketball, so that wasn't hard to read a
Speaker 1: picture of a horse. I love it. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: in all serious, Joker was a horse jockey. How crazy
Speaker 1: is that? No, I'm being serious. Look, I was doing
Speaker 1: some research and and at age ten, he played basketball
Speaker 1: for the first time. He didn't like it. Okay, he
Speaker 1: stopped playing basketball for like five years, and he just
Speaker 1: and he starts riding horses. And then at fifteen, his
Speaker 1: dad was like, are you sure you don't want to
Speaker 1: play basketball? So he goes back and he says, before
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play, I go and he goes and watches
Speaker 1: all these YouTube clips of of Magic Johnson and sees
Speaker 1: how Magic moves on the court and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and then he just started to play basketball. But it's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy because Demetrius, like you were saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about target and and you're you know,
Speaker 1: your your long lost girlfriends or lack thereof that you
Speaker 1: would go to targets with, you know, he he sort of.
Speaker 1: Demetrius started very late and you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: got found in the target and Nicola Yokitchen started late
Speaker 1: and got found on a horse. Amazing. I feel like
Speaker 1: you don't like this story. Should we just get into
Speaker 1: our guests? No? I I love the story, and let's
Speaker 1: just let's just move on. Let's get to our guests.
Speaker 1: Um our next guest rose to fame in the two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen film All Eyes on Me, where he portrayed
Speaker 1: Tupac as the film's lead character, and has absolutely been
Speaker 1: on fire ever since. Uh since then. He has been
Speaker 1: the antagonist in season one, in season two of the
Speaker 1: highly talked about TV show All American, and Just How
Speaker 1: a Movie Come Out, where he plays opposite Ethan Hawk,
Speaker 1: Terrence Howard, t I Wesley Snipes in Cutthroat City, directed
Speaker 1: by Hey Pal guest Mr Rizza, Please give a Hey
Speaker 1: Pal podcast, Welcome to Our Pal to meet your ship,
Speaker 1: Junior D. How are you doing? What's going on? I'm great?
Speaker 1: Are you know what? That was very nice? Him down.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever asked us how we're doing. That's true. He's
Speaker 1: a very well mannered young man. Thank you to Beatris.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm doing very well. How are you? You
Speaker 1: know what? You know what de Beatris, I'm doing very
Speaker 1: well too. Thank you very much for asking. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to hear it. Man um So, d I know that
Speaker 1: you've talked about your story a million times and we
Speaker 1: can get into a little bit of it, of of
Speaker 1: you being at a working at a target and and
Speaker 1: like all that stuff. But what what Dave and I
Speaker 1: were just talking about at the top of the show is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like Nicola Yokich who plays for the Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 1: he didn't really start playing basketball till he was fifteen.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about how like when he he
Speaker 1: was actually uh racing horses, right, Dave, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: it was racing horse. He was I don't know what
Speaker 1: he was gonna do the horse. The horse wouldn't have lasted,
Speaker 1: but he was racing. It really shock being a jockey, like,
Speaker 1: come on the horse. It's very it's very true. And
Speaker 1: we were talking about how like what he decided to
Speaker 1: do when he picked up basketball fifteam was he he
Speaker 1: was just obsessive about watching Magic Johnson, you know, YouTube
Speaker 1: clips and how magic. Johnson moved on the court and
Speaker 1: and just just everything about magic until he until he
Speaker 1: then felt good about it, and then he went on
Speaker 1: the court and started applying those moves. So our question
Speaker 1: for you is, look, you weren't acting right, like you
Speaker 1: weren't in classes. You didn't really have any aspirations at
Speaker 1: first about it, and then all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: just thrust it into the world of Hey, you have
Speaker 1: to now go an audition for Tupac, which you and
Speaker 1: which you then you know, eventually get And so when
Speaker 1: you get it, what did you decide to do to
Speaker 1: prepare for Did you watch a bunch of Tupac videos
Speaker 1: or did you decide to I'm gonna go watch a
Speaker 1: bunch of acting videos first and then to Tupac. Can
Speaker 1: you take us through that process? In preparation, I would
Speaker 1: stand I would sit side by side the TV and
Speaker 1: record myself doing the interviews, various interviews from Tupac. I
Speaker 1: would write them down. I would I would listen to
Speaker 1: him a bunch of times, write it down, and then
Speaker 1: once I felt comfortable with you know the words, I
Speaker 1: was sitting next to the TV and record myself doing
Speaker 1: the interviews along with him, And what that was able
Speaker 1: to give me was I wanted to be able to
Speaker 1: get the cadences and how he spoke, you know, down
Speaker 1: and then I also wanted to be able to get
Speaker 1: the hand gestures and movements and you know, just different
Speaker 1: nuances that he had. But that's that's what I started
Speaker 1: doing it through, like once the guy to beginning serious, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what's So did you decide to did you know,
Speaker 1: did you just to then go watch any any films
Speaker 1: or anything like where you wanted to study different kinks
Speaker 1: or different you know, movements from different actors or did
Speaker 1: you just stick to Pok since you were about to
Speaker 1: play Tupac on the biggest stage. Well, yeah, because it
Speaker 1: was about poct, I just stuck within him, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, just just all of his stuff. I
Speaker 1: think I might have watched some of his movies, um,
Speaker 1: but that was about as far as I went in
Speaker 1: terms of like the acting. But it's just it was
Speaker 1: such huge shoes to feel that I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure I had every you know, nuance down and I
Speaker 1: possibly could. Was there a particular time where you kind
Speaker 1: of it clicked for you and you knew, like I
Speaker 1: got this down, like I am this guy, Like, was
Speaker 1: there a moment when that happened for you? Um? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think when I did one of the interviews, it
Speaker 1: was like this Christmas interview, So that was the one
Speaker 1: that I was really proud of. Um, it's like a
Speaker 1: nine eight nine minute interview. Is I condensed it to
Speaker 1: me like six? Um? But I got it down and
Speaker 1: I watched it and I'm like, yeah, I'm there. The
Speaker 1: more importantly, Dave. More importantly, Dave did he ride any
Speaker 1: horses in the process? Was there any horse riding involved
Speaker 1: any Kentucky Derby Preakness? You know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could see uh, Demetrius ship Junior as a horse jockey,
Speaker 1: It's it's possible. I mean I couldn't see Nicole Yoki
Speaker 1: as a as a disc jockey either, So I don't
Speaker 1: know what as a disc jockey you as a DJ.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that word. How old are you? I
Speaker 1: haven't heard the word disc jockey in fifty years. Precocious?
Speaker 1: You are very precocious. Don't go anywhere, Hey, Pam will
Speaker 1: be right back after a word from horse sponsors, all right, now,
Speaker 1: d Oftentimes, when athletes go on the road for a game,
Speaker 1: they're they're the bad guy, the crowds rooting against them,
Speaker 1: and when they come home in front of the home crowd,
Speaker 1: they're the hero, their beloved. Now you've done both in acting,
Speaker 1: where you've been the bad guy like you are on
Speaker 1: All American, and you've been the good guy. You know
Speaker 1: where you your Tupac. So tell us about that, the
Speaker 1: differences in all the different perspectives of what that brings
Speaker 1: U and which one, which one do you like more? D?
Speaker 1: Do you like like in our analogy? Do you like
Speaker 1: home games more? Or do you like road games more?
Speaker 1: In my experience, now I love the tyrone. You love
Speaker 1: the bad guy. He loves going on the road and
Speaker 1: going into someone else's stadium and pissing off the crowd. Okay,
Speaker 1: D's it's a little, it's it's it's more to it
Speaker 1: than just that. Though for me, honestly, um, it comes
Speaker 1: because one being playing that. I play such an iconic
Speaker 1: figure in Tupac, such a huge role, right. Um. The
Speaker 1: big looming question, even prior to me going in, and
Speaker 1: even more so after I got done with that role,
Speaker 1: you know, was how do I come out of that?
Speaker 1: How do I not become pigeonholed, and how do I
Speaker 1: not only just be known as a guy that played
Speaker 1: Tupac um. And I don't think anybody had the answer
Speaker 1: to that, like my agings at the time, my manager's friends,
Speaker 1: nobody really had a direct line up. This is what
Speaker 1: we do to make sure that you don't become just
Speaker 1: that guy, right, And everything just played out in perfect
Speaker 1: timing and harmony. And you know, I'm blessed that I
Speaker 1: got All American and that it went and did very
Speaker 1: very good on Netflix two seasons straight. Um. And that's
Speaker 1: where it was like, I'm not even I'm no longer
Speaker 1: like Tupac, like people will see me as Tupac or
Speaker 1: people will see me as Tyrone and not even though
Speaker 1: that I played Tupac, And that's amazing. And so for me,
Speaker 1: I was like, uh, I love it. And also, you know,
Speaker 1: along the lines of what you're what we're saying in
Speaker 1: the analogy, UM, people are when they seem there like
Speaker 1: I hate you Tyrone, like I can't stand right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that but I love that because that actually, you know,
Speaker 1: that's more pinpoints to just me. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: portray anybody else. That's just a character that I that
Speaker 1: I brought to life in my own way, with my
Speaker 1: own flavor and you know, my own abilities. Um, and
Speaker 1: for that to resonate with people where it's like, you know, wow,
Speaker 1: I really don't like you. Seeing you in person makes
Speaker 1: me uncomfortable. Seeing you in person scares me or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like my kids, my daughter when I go to their school,
Speaker 1: like some of the kids are like scared of me
Speaker 1: because they've watched All American and they love me a tyrone. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: that's also a testament to your talent and to your
Speaker 1: ability that you could play two such different characters, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it says a lot about
Speaker 1: your ability as an actor that you could do either or,
Speaker 1: which is great. So so what about so d what
Speaker 1: about if we just handed you a script? Right? You
Speaker 1: love this script and there's a protest agonist and an antagonist,
Speaker 1: and you can either play the lead guy, the hero,
Speaker 1: or there's just as much as meet with the bad
Speaker 1: guy in the villain. So it's a two hander. Who
Speaker 1: who is to meet your ship? Gonna go for the
Speaker 1: good guy or the bad guy? I'm always go for
Speaker 1: the good guy. That I have to be, okay, because
Speaker 1: you know, when I watch movies you know, you're rooting
Speaker 1: for the I want the character that people are going
Speaker 1: to root for, you know what I mean. And then
Speaker 1: you it's a little different sentiment and a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different connection when you're rooting and you're hoping
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh man, alright, you you've been in
Speaker 1: that situation and it's something relatable that you can you know, um,
Speaker 1: draw too for your own life. Uh, it's it's I
Speaker 1: definitely would like to go for that because that's ultimately
Speaker 1: my I don't know if this is a question, but
Speaker 1: a dream role of mine is to play something along
Speaker 1: the lines of like, you know, the guy that people earned,
Speaker 1: um pursuit of happiness. You know, that's the role that
Speaker 1: I want to I really would like to have one day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's a I mean it's a great that's a great
Speaker 1: comp Yeah, um so. D So, our next question for
Speaker 1: you is you came onto the scene with all eyes
Speaker 1: on me, and that was kind of like making it
Speaker 1: to the big leagues, Right, you're here, then you then
Speaker 1: you get you know, all American and that's that's sort
Speaker 1: of like you know the playoffs that we like to
Speaker 1: say as you made it, you made it to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and in between you went and did a movie called
Speaker 1: Cutthroat City, and you were opposite these this all star cast,
Speaker 1: right like t I and Terrence Howard and Ethan Hawk
Speaker 1: and Wesley Snips and Shamik More and just I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it goes it goes on and on and on,
Speaker 1: and that kind of feels like in in in our world,
Speaker 1: like the All Star Game, right when you get on
Speaker 1: a set and you're looking all around you and it's
Speaker 1: all these stars and it feels like an All Star game.
Speaker 1: Do you just take a deep breath and you you
Speaker 1: kind of like soak it in and go, Okay, I
Speaker 1: I've made it. Like now I finally realized like I'm
Speaker 1: here and I'm here to stay, or like, what what
Speaker 1: was that feeling like for you to be surrounded by
Speaker 1: by so many people you probably grew up even watching
Speaker 1: um that feeling was crazy. And I just actually tweeted
Speaker 1: something like that, like I said, I mean, I'm really
Speaker 1: alongside Ethan Hawk and Wesley's Knights in the movie where
Speaker 1: I grew up watching these guys, like Training Days one
Speaker 1: of my all time favorite movies. UM So coming up
Speaker 1: and being amongst that it is like Wow, I have actually,
Speaker 1: you know, I made something happening life, Like I've done
Speaker 1: something that a lot of people won't even you know,
Speaker 1: we'll dream about, we'll never get the opportunity to do.
Speaker 1: So it's like really like a surreal, um just amazing, blessing,
Speaker 1: blessed feeling. Is you know how I was. Some of
Speaker 1: the seems like it seems like you feel like having
Speaker 1: that opportunity and working with those type of individuals is
Speaker 1: an actor. That's really when you were like, okay, like
Speaker 1: I'm really here. Even though you did you know, the
Speaker 1: amazing iconic role as Tupac, and even though you did
Speaker 1: the successful show All American, it seems to me listen
Speaker 1: to you talk about it, that was a big moment
Speaker 1: for you where you're like, wow, like now I've actually
Speaker 1: really really made it, you know what I mean, Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I was. That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: It's like it feels like, wow, I have arrived. Like
Speaker 1: when when we talk to these athletes, right, they're like,
Speaker 1: yeah I got drafted right, or yeah we made the
Speaker 1: playoffs my second year. But but when they when they
Speaker 1: finally made the All Star Game, they're looking start and
Speaker 1: they're going like Wow, these are my these really are
Speaker 1: my peers. Now that's when they're like, I've I've arrived,
Speaker 1: Like and you have arrived. Yeah, I definitely feel like
Speaker 1: that that last scene with myself and Eathan Hawking cut
Speaker 1: through city, I'm like, yeah, almost, like yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: you can't really you know, it's it's not areating anyway,
Speaker 1: but it's like, yo, that's you know, I've I've I've
Speaker 1: definitely come a long way, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's like again, not a lot of people
Speaker 1: are going to be able to experience that, you know
Speaker 1: that just that full three sixty from watching you know
Speaker 1: Ethan Hawk is a child, to being alongside him and
Speaker 1: then just soaking the game and then just watching him
Speaker 1: and then all yet the whole time drawing inspiration from it,
Speaker 1: you know, because now I looked at it when I
Speaker 1: watched it recently, I'm like, I want to be able
Speaker 1: to have that type of career, you know where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, they are household names that they have had
Speaker 1: these fans of careers from, you know, however far back
Speaker 1: they go to even right now, like they're still doing
Speaker 1: it at the highest level. Um, and that's amazing. So
Speaker 1: it's more inspiration now to like really be the best
Speaker 1: that I can be in the crab every time I'm
Speaker 1: to play like a younger athlete that they get to
Speaker 1: play against the players that they looked up to, they're
Speaker 1: able to take something from that and learn from them.
Speaker 1: So you being in those situations with Ethan, with Wesley,
Speaker 1: what were you able to observe and kind of learn
Speaker 1: and take from them? Watching them, you know, work on
Speaker 1: their craft. Um, there's power and just taking your time.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I watched t I or not
Speaker 1: tis not to just credit to your but Um Terrence.
Speaker 1: I watched Terence closely. I watched Um Wesley closely, and
Speaker 1: I watched Ethan of course, and they were very comfortable
Speaker 1: in what they were doing, and they were just taking
Speaker 1: their time. They were owning all of what they were
Speaker 1: doing and not owning it in terms of like just
Speaker 1: trying to get it done. But it was like, this
Speaker 1: is mine, this is my time, and I'm taking all
Speaker 1: the time that I need to get it right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, not to get it right, but
Speaker 1: just to feel it and be any So Um, and
Speaker 1: then when you watch it and then they I'm like Wow,
Speaker 1: it's so powerful to watch them take their time, and
Speaker 1: it's it's that thing. And I think Jared and I
Speaker 1: spoke about this before, uh with Denzel and how like
Speaker 1: he doesn't really rush his scenes. He takes a lot
Speaker 1: of time in his scenes. But that's what's so powerful
Speaker 1: about all of his performances is that he takes his time.
Speaker 1: He owns it, it's his and you feel it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so that's what I took from it, is like
Speaker 1: every time I want to, you know, on on set now,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I'm owning my character
Speaker 1: and that I'm not just trying to act, but I'm
Speaker 1: really just taking my time owning it and just putting
Speaker 1: it together, filling it out. Well, it sounds like it
Speaker 1: raises the level of professionalism too, because I know, like
Speaker 1: everyone I've spoken to you that's worked with Denzel, they're
Speaker 1: like the one thing about working with Denzel is I
Speaker 1: have to be prepared. I have to have my ship
Speaker 1: together because I know when he steps out on set,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's a pro, he's ready to go, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So there's no opportunity screw up
Speaker 1: or mess around, Like you have to bring your a game,
Speaker 1: but you certain you are right to meet yours on
Speaker 1: taking your time, and we probably, you know, the younger actors,
Speaker 1: they don't really know that, you know. And and the
Speaker 1: reason that these actors become that and know that is
Speaker 1: because they spend more time on set and they realized
Speaker 1: the process. You know. I remember when I first made
Speaker 1: my my short film. I was on set thinking like, ah,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna work and this is and then I
Speaker 1: get in there in the editing room with Kyle, who's
Speaker 1: just a wizard in there, and he's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: can do this, this and this, and I'm like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I don't have to perfect it on set, right,
Speaker 1: Like you can do your thing right. You can take
Speaker 1: your deep breath, take your time. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to all be beat beat for beat, beat perfect
Speaker 1: and then they can cut it up in the and
Speaker 1: you just have to make sure that the performance is
Speaker 1: there and the emotion is there, and however long that
Speaker 1: takes you to get there, you're you're you're right. It's
Speaker 1: like taking your time with so much power in that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They I didn't watch the Russia scene at all, and
Speaker 1: I know that that's a habit that I've had, you know,
Speaker 1: with trying to get it right. You know, that's something
Speaker 1: that I had done before. I felt myself pressured, you know,
Speaker 1: um to try to get it right that I'm like
Speaker 1: tempo tempo, you know, trying to and rushing myself for whatever.
Speaker 1: But there's I watched him and then again taking their
Speaker 1: time and just feel through it and it's it's it's
Speaker 1: come out very powerful every time. Well, this is a
Speaker 1: great lesson for me as Jared's co host, because now
Speaker 1: I just have another reason that I know why he
Speaker 1: didn't make it as an actor, because he obviously didn't
Speaker 1: take his time amongst the other twas taking my co
Speaker 1: host for this show. And I'm really regretting that I
Speaker 1: took my time. Alright, So don't go anywhere, hey, Pam
Speaker 1: will be right back after a word for our sponsors.
Speaker 1: D For athletes, the off seasons are really interesting time, um,
Speaker 1: because you know, they finished this long, grueling season in
Speaker 1: sports and they're able to take a deep breath and relax.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're able to eat some pints of ice cream
Speaker 1: for the next couple of weeks, um, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: some of them are hitting the gym right away. So
Speaker 1: for you when you get a break, when you have
Speaker 1: an off season after you know, finish a project before
Speaker 1: you start another one. Um, how do you handle that
Speaker 1: off season because obviously, as an actor, you know you
Speaker 1: have to be concerned about your physical appearance and you
Speaker 1: know you might get the call to to go in
Speaker 1: for an audition. So can you entirely let yourself go
Speaker 1: and have those points of ice cream and just relax
Speaker 1: or do you have to stay kind of focused and
Speaker 1: locked in? And what kind of ice cream are you eating?
Speaker 1: And tell us the truth? Well, you know, I'll ruin
Speaker 1: it for you. I'm not big on ice cream. Um, well,
Speaker 1: but I am. I love cookies, so I have to monitor. Yeah, OK, yeah,
Speaker 1: I will go crazy on literally. Um, but I'm very
Speaker 1: disciplined that that way. Um. And I think me preparing
Speaker 1: for all eyes and me helping me with that, I'm
Speaker 1: really I know the game plan and get disciplined for
Speaker 1: like meal prep, you know, and eating and diet. That's
Speaker 1: a bigger part. That's the biggest part of you know,
Speaker 1: standing in shape or getting in shape is you know
Speaker 1: you're diet and all eyes to me, I was on
Speaker 1: like this very very strict diet. I had to lose
Speaker 1: a lot of weight very fast and get ripped up
Speaker 1: in all of that stuff fairly quick. But um, I
Speaker 1: was able to do it, and that discipline kind of
Speaker 1: stuck with me from then on. So now like I
Speaker 1: still kind of like meal prep. I still make sure
Speaker 1: that I I could eat the same thing over and
Speaker 1: over again. It doesn't really bother me. Um uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I know how to speak my metabolism up, metabolism up,
Speaker 1: and burn fat and drink a lot. I drink a
Speaker 1: love water. Um. And I just myself had aspirations of
Speaker 1: reaching the physical peak you know that I still haven't
Speaker 1: got yet. I actually had Michael bees um Prey picture
Speaker 1: up on one of my vision boards, and it's like,
Speaker 1: that's one of my goals I want to be. You know,
Speaker 1: that's super like ripped up, you know, in in in
Speaker 1: great shape actually figure style. Yeah. So so then so
Speaker 1: then so really it sounds like to us is that
Speaker 1: there is no off season, you know, and that's because
Speaker 1: you have to stay you You always have to stay
Speaker 1: ready because you never know if you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: call from your agent that tomorrow you gotta go meet
Speaker 1: with you know, uh, Christopher Nolan, or or you might
Speaker 1: that is that? Yeah, pretty much. You gotta stay on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you you some people, I guess, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've seen people kind of like just let
Speaker 1: it go. But it just depends on where you are.
Speaker 1: For me myself, I'm not, um, I haven't reached the
Speaker 1: goals that I have myself just yet, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of those goals are well. Some of those
Speaker 1: girls have to do with how I you know, um,
Speaker 1: how I look physically, and I want thoughts. I want
Speaker 1: that to complement my the roles that I get as well.
Speaker 1: So I want to be able to have a role
Speaker 1: where I'm you know, looking great in shape. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe I get the bad boys see where I'm running
Speaker 1: fine six pa, you know what I mean? Maybe I
Speaker 1: get that? All right? I love it. I think you
Speaker 1: know what time is? I think it is It is time.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell? Why don't you tell the listener?
Speaker 1: It is time. It is time for the Hey Pal
Speaker 1: playoff seating one of the most exciting parts of our show.
Speaker 1: It is week by week it is you. You've made
Speaker 1: it to the you have made it to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Demetri show. Um, so what we have decided with you
Speaker 1: and your seating is you were a actor who played
Speaker 1: a rapper in a movie. So for the seatings here
Speaker 1: we have taken people that started out their career is
Speaker 1: a rapper and then played an actor and we fliped.
Speaker 1: So we flipped it. So we've got um Here we go.
Speaker 1: This is Demetris ship, Junior's playoff seating. We've got the
Speaker 1: one seed verse, the a seed demet your ship. Let
Speaker 1: us know who's advancing. The one seed is ice Cube
Speaker 1: with obviously, I mean I know you don't need to know,
Speaker 1: but with movies like Friday and Boys in the Hood
Speaker 1: verse the eighth seed that came in at as a
Speaker 1: kid in play with movies like House Party. So who
Speaker 1: was advancing between the one seed and the eight seed
Speaker 1: is easily ice c I did. That's why they're the
Speaker 1: one seed. They did their job. They held home court. Alright,
Speaker 1: So moving on, we go to Eminem with eight Mile
Speaker 1: versus Queen Latifa, who had Chicago hairspray. We got the queen.
Speaker 1: We got the two seed versus seven. Oh, it looks
Speaker 1: like this is a good games. Eminem did his thing
Speaker 1: in a MoU really really deep but one of the
Speaker 1: most iconic in black cinema. The most iconic scenes ever
Speaker 1: is England Tifa in that lolo when she's about to
Speaker 1: roll through the police at the end of set at all.
Speaker 1: That is like cinematic so so Dmetri Ship Junior, hold on,
Speaker 1: He hasn't he hasn't said it yet, day Demetri Ship Junior.
Speaker 1: Is that scene enough for a seventh seed upset against
Speaker 1: a two seed? Or will eminem and eight mile hold court?
Speaker 1: He cannot hold home big the Queen, the Queen. The
Speaker 1: Queen advances, okay, coming into the three seed, and I
Speaker 1: know this is gonna hold a special place in your heart.
Speaker 1: Uh is tupac with obviously movies like Juice and Poetic Justice,
Speaker 1: um above the rim. I mean we can I know
Speaker 1: what you did here, I know what you did? He
Speaker 1: what did I do? What did I know? I know who?
Speaker 1: I know? It's three versus six, right, three versus six,
Speaker 1: I know who to six seed. But go ahead, by
Speaker 1: the way, there's there's no chance you know who the
Speaker 1: sixth seed is. You know why because we didn't do this.
Speaker 1: We didn't do it. It's it's it's the fans and
Speaker 1: the listeners at hey, pal, they email in, they give
Speaker 1: us their requests and this was the seeding. Jared has
Speaker 1: six friends in Texas that listen to our show, six
Speaker 1: friends seeding together. It sounded it's it sounded more professional.
Speaker 1: When I said to Beatris, what are you laughing at?
Speaker 1: Let's hear what the boys said, Jared. Wait, wait, First
Speaker 1: of all, I want to know who were you thinking?
Speaker 1: Was if everyone could see de Beatris right now? He
Speaker 1: was laughing his ass off, de Beatris, ship, who did
Speaker 1: you think was gonna be the sixth seed? I thought
Speaker 1: you want to put Will Smith in the six seed? He,
Speaker 1: by the way, that is a great guest. That's a
Speaker 1: great guest. He is not the sixth seed. But but
Speaker 1: you might hear his name? Might hear his name? The
Speaker 1: sixth seed? Is you? Or co host? From co star?
Speaker 1: Co host? Co star? I was thinking about you, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, geez, sometimes I think about you. Do well,
Speaker 1: nobody's that good? So Pop alright, well t is out.
Speaker 1: I mean he does some good work at a t
Speaker 1: L and American gangster and aunt man, he's good. Okay, Pop,
Speaker 1: that's not even a question. Pat he would respectfully understand.
Speaker 1: He would know that's fair, that's fair. Hit him with
Speaker 1: a Dave my co host. It's the four seed. We
Speaker 1: have the aforementioned Will Smith from Bad Boys, hitch I
Speaker 1: Robot Independence Day, and of course the Fresh Prince of
Speaker 1: bel Air. I think I think it's I think it's
Speaker 1: aforementioned either way, Fresh Prince. And then you have uh,
Speaker 1: oh wow, out of Boston from Boston Fear didn't even
Speaker 1: read this, Ted, Shoot, you got Mark Wabug. So you
Speaker 1: got Wabug versus Will Smith. I don't know what my
Speaker 1: co host is doing to meet your Oh, I gotta
Speaker 1: go with Big Willie. All right, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. So we've got the one
Speaker 1: seed Verse, the seventh seed, ice Cube Verse Eminent or sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I misspoke. I misspoke. No, it's not emin
Speaker 1: it's Queen Latifa's right. So we've got ice Cube Verse,
Speaker 1: the Queen. That's a tough one. Who's advancing to the finals.
Speaker 1: Dmitri ship Jr. Damn hold on, I need a second, BROA.
Speaker 1: This is wow, right, this is I love this because
Speaker 1: this is very tough. This might be the toughest one.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, we will we will, we will take we
Speaker 1: will take thirty seconds, we'll go to commercial break and
Speaker 1: we will be right back with Demetri Ship Junior. Let's
Speaker 1: do it. Don't go anywhere. Hey, Pam will be right
Speaker 1: back after a word for our sponsors. And we're back
Speaker 1: here with Demetri Ship Junior. We've given him some time
Speaker 1: to think about it. It looks like he's still he's still.
Speaker 1: It's still you know. Oh, he's got it, he's got it.
Speaker 1: Here we go. He's made some of the biggest movies
Speaker 1: for the culture. I have to go, que. Look that
Speaker 1: went to a game seven. Yeah that that series went
Speaker 1: to a game seven, and that's the game second alright.
Speaker 1: In the next semifinal, we have the legendary Tupac versus
Speaker 1: the legendary Will Smith three seed verse, the four three
Speaker 1: versus four. This, this is this is hanting him. He's
Speaker 1: hurting right now. He's thinking of his childhood. I have
Speaker 1: no emotion is attached. I have to be reel at
Speaker 1: all times. I have to go with Will Smith taking Tupac.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how it goes, Dave, you gotta take
Speaker 1: you know, it's it is. We have our final. We
Speaker 1: have we do have our final and this is this
Speaker 1: is pretty good. So we've got the one seed. They
Speaker 1: held their court all the way, and they will be
Speaker 1: playing the fourth seed. The one seed is ice Cube
Speaker 1: again Friday Boys in the Hood Verse, the four seed
Speaker 1: Will Smith, Independence Day, Bad Boys, hitch I Robot, Demetrius
Speaker 1: Ship Junior who is winning the finals? Okay, that was
Speaker 1: with that, by the way, that was without question. What
Speaker 1: is your favorite Will Smith movie? Since you were so
Speaker 1: quick to answer that Pursuit of Happiness. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: saw from that I would have to go it Ali. Oh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's amazing, dude, come, oh my god, is incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what's amazing about Ali is Michael Mann who
Speaker 1: directed it. Um, that movie came out what twenty years
Speaker 1: ago at this point. Michael Mann, because the type of
Speaker 1: artist he is in the type of director he is,
Speaker 1: he's still re editing that movie because he wants to
Speaker 1: re release it with a re edit. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: amazing because he can't. It's like George Lucas with Star Wars,
Speaker 1: like he can't let go of it, and Michael Mann
Speaker 1: can't let go of of Ali. He still wants to
Speaker 1: make it even better, which I think is amazing. That's
Speaker 1: f I had no idea about that. Yeah, when is
Speaker 1: he going to rerelease it? Dave give us the inside info.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's constantly tinkering with it. He's constantly
Speaker 1: working on it, so it could be some time. But
Speaker 1: take everything, Dave says with a grain of salt. I
Speaker 1: don't We don't ever know if he's telling the truth
Speaker 1: here Dad, for you Spanish listeners, But you know what,
Speaker 1: we have a champion. We do have a have a champion.
Speaker 1: Will Smith is the champion. Dimitri Ship Junior, you are
Speaker 1: our champion. Thank you so much for being on the
Speaker 1: show and joining us. We appreciate it so much. And
Speaker 1: uh and we will be following your career and we
Speaker 1: want you back on the Hey Pal podcast whenever you
Speaker 1: will come back on. You are brother coming needs success. Great?
Speaker 1: All right, than I'll be let's go, I think, Dave,
Speaker 1: we've learned one thing here today. Oh boy, No, I'm
Speaker 1: being serious. We've learned one thing here. What Will Smith prevails?
Speaker 1: All well? Will Smith is an icon absolutely, I mean
Speaker 1: he's an icon, but I mean Tupac. Yeah. It says
Speaker 1: a lot, though, for Demetrius to pick Will Smith over
Speaker 1: someone he portrayed, says a lot about how he feels
Speaker 1: about Will who would have won this thing for you?
Speaker 1: Because I think it would have been m for me.
Speaker 1: Eminem would have won this thing for me. Um, I mean, Walberg,
Speaker 1: you were so excited with that Boston accent. Well, he's
Speaker 1: so excited, is the man. I mean, you can't really
Speaker 1: go wrong with the funky bunch ever. Um, So you
Speaker 1: know he's got a great resume. Um. I would say
Speaker 1: for me, it's a tough call between ice Cube and
Speaker 1: Will Smith. I think, Okay, So there you go. H
Speaker 1: Demetrius are simpatico. We are simpatico. And you know, I
Speaker 1: gotta say I can't say enough about him, but to
Speaker 1: see a young actor like as humble as he is,
Speaker 1: and to hear him talking about how he you know,
Speaker 1: revered and watched these greats, it's pretty cool to see. Like,
Speaker 1: I think, he's incredibly bright. Things are gonna happen for him.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. Well, we'll have to have him
Speaker 1: back on the show. We will. If he'll take your call,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll take him. He'll he'll take the call, you know,
Speaker 1: or the text message or whatever. Well, we'll figure it out,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, Well, thank you for listening to
Speaker 1: another episode of the hay Pel Podcast. Dave, why don't
Speaker 1: you know what Dave you do the outroo. I mean
Speaker 1: our show, not my show. It is our show, Pal,
Speaker 1: with a hint of it being your show, but you know,
Speaker 1: little hints. Um No, just another great episode. It's great
Speaker 1: to be here with you, Pal. You really enjoy this
Speaker 1: and enjoy our banter and giving each other a hard time.
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