Speaker 1: From iHeartRadio and Doghouse Pictures. This is Fight Night. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Keating.
Speaker 2: And I and the co executive producers. I cannot leave.
Speaker 2: Speaking of executive producer and co executive producer, do you
Speaker 2: remember the first night you got your executive producer chair?
Speaker 1: Talk to me that that that I got a little
Speaker 1: vocal with that as well too.
Speaker 2: I really did. Look can I say mine first? Okay? Great? Thanks?
Speaker 2: I literally Bro came on said, now, mind you, we're
Speaker 2: a Chicken Man's House, the original house, and you and
Speaker 2: I had did some picture taking and scouting prior to
Speaker 2: but later that evening, you're sitting in your chair and
Speaker 2: I walk up behind you and I see your name
Speaker 2: on the chair, and I'm not gonna lie. You know
Speaker 2: how I feel about you. You know, there's no ankst,
Speaker 2: no whatever as far as anything. And I just got
Speaker 2: so emotional like for you. I was like, Bro, you
Speaker 2: got your fucking chair like you were like can't he no?
Speaker 2: Like too, And they surprised me. How was that?
Speaker 1: I mean again, it was just so you see your name,
Speaker 1: you see the title, You're on the show. It's got
Speaker 1: Fight Night on in front of Chicken Man's House front
Speaker 1: of chicken Man's house. It's a lot man. Let me say,
Speaker 1: we haven't used this line. Reality has exceeded my dreams.
Speaker 1: Come on, Reality has exceeded my dreams. Not only is
Speaker 1: not only is the dream real, but reality has exceeded
Speaker 1: everything that I imagined, everything that I pictured, all the worlds
Speaker 1: and things that I thought could develop, everything has exceeded
Speaker 1: at it's just getting and it's in front of and
Speaker 1: now I'm sitting and everybody's calling and text me when
Speaker 1: I send a picture, make sure you take that or
Speaker 1: steal out and don't let that get away from you.
Speaker 2: And I remember, Bro, I think you know it was
Speaker 2: we were off to the side and I think I
Speaker 2: saw Kevin and and walking up the street. So I
Speaker 2: had turned around after you know, I was giving you
Speaker 2: all the love and saw your chair. And then I
Speaker 2: had came back into the tent and they gave me
Speaker 2: my fucking chair.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And I literally I was like, I'm going to say something.
Speaker 2: I want to ask for my chair, like where's my chair?
Speaker 2: And then I got my chair, bro, and I was
Speaker 2: just like, thank you, Bro. And it was to your point.
Speaker 2: It was a testament of the work and the journey
Speaker 2: because seeing that as small as it is, right, and
Speaker 2: you don't get the chair, by the way, ladies, gymen,
Speaker 2: you get the little sliff the sleeve, while I ordered
Speaker 2: one on Amazon so I can put that chair. Absolutely, chair.
Speaker 2: I'll buy you a s Tiffany, buy him a chair.
Speaker 2: But listen, I literally I was, I was, you know,
Speaker 2: And again we're in front of Chicken Man's house, and
Speaker 2: I want to just give props to the family, you know,
Speaker 2: the family. He still lives in the house, you know.
Speaker 2: And I remember saying to you, how the fuck did
Speaker 2: all these people get in this little ass basement?
Speaker 1: You remember that, you know absolutely, because I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the house.
Speaker 2: I'm like, and I'm assuming back in the day, that
Speaker 2: was a nice size house. It was, right, it was
Speaker 2: a nice house. But ladies and gentle when I tell you,
Speaker 2: it was twenty five hundred square feet all of it,
Speaker 2: the upstairs, downstairs, back rooms. And I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: they had a whole casino, VI and ladies and Germany.
Speaker 2: When you see this, you know, come to life on
Speaker 2: Peacock September fifth, go binge, watch it when it's available.
Speaker 2: If you're just hearing this for the first time get
Speaker 2: immersed into the world. You can literally drive by the house.
Speaker 2: That was the thing that I guess like through me
Speaker 2: the most, Like, wow, fifty something years later and the
Speaker 2: family still lives there. How did they feel when you know,
Speaker 2: you ended up talking to them and like this is
Speaker 2: happening and we're at the house, like I know, they
Speaker 2: were freaking out, like whoa.
Speaker 1: Well, even during the making of the podcast, James, who
Speaker 1: was living in the house, he even said, it's weird
Speaker 1: just to go back in time and just got because
Speaker 1: you know, again he's I think a leave a little
Speaker 1: younger than I am, so he'd heard stories, right, you know, so.
Speaker 2: It probably wasn't as enthralled as you, to be honest,
Speaker 2: not as much. But he started obsessed.
Speaker 1: But he's absolutely and he started to be And let's
Speaker 1: but let's use this word obsessed. Wasn't because everybody asked
Speaker 1: me that, so I want to I want to properly
Speaker 1: define this. So obsessed wasn't the right word. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why, because it wasn't like, like it's something Kenny
Speaker 1: that at some point I could even put down like
Speaker 1: I'm saying the project in general, and it always just
Speaker 1: came back to me like I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to I am a witness of that. Actually, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Just want to say, like this project, I mean again,
Speaker 1: you say whatever. I feel like it chose me in
Speaker 1: some capacity to be a part of this in some capacity.
Speaker 1: But whenever anybody had to, it just came knocking on.
Speaker 2: Justuse we've actually thought it was over a few times. Yeah, together,
Speaker 2: we would taught it.
Speaker 1: Would always something would come. I'm saying a little hint
Speaker 1: or a re an article back and it just so
Speaker 1: I'm just saying as much I was passionate, passionate, passion,
Speaker 1: but never obsessed. And it's always just.
Speaker 2: Guess what I'm obsessed with.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 2: For get us some obsession, Colonne, exactly, We're gonna start
Speaker 2: wearing obsession. Colone. I just feel that you're right. You
Speaker 2: know when we got into the scenes, right and then
Speaker 2: you know, obviously I got a character and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about that momentarily. But you know, this was
Speaker 2: the house that the robbery happened. Downstairs. People got shot,
Speaker 2: you know, people got tied up, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: they were in their underwear, like and these people live
Speaker 2: in this house and I'm outside the house and you're
Speaker 2: outside the house. We're not exactly chairs, like it's a
Speaker 2: whole mind fuck, to be honest with you. And then
Speaker 2: I remember a few days later, I go to assembly
Speaker 2: to you know, get my wig and cat Daddy's coming
Speaker 2: to life, and the first scene was in the basement
Speaker 2: and we weren't in the original house anymore. We were
Speaker 2: on set at the assembly, but they made it look
Speaker 2: like a basement from the seventies. You guys who are
Speaker 2: seventies babies and eighties babies. You remember that bean that's
Speaker 2: downstairs in that old house you had and used to
Speaker 2: do pull ups on it, used to do all types
Speaker 2: of stuff on. You had those poles. It looks it
Speaker 2: looked like the basement.
Speaker 1: And then the way they built it up with the
Speaker 1: casinos and the craps tables unbelievable. It brought you right
Speaker 1: into that party again, like you were there.
Speaker 2: You were there, And I remember this, y'all, And and
Speaker 2: ladies and germen, I was in my draws. That's right,
Speaker 2: episode three. I don't know if it's episode three or four,
Speaker 2: but I'm in my draws. So ladies, get ready, I'm married.
Speaker 2: I don't need any DMS, yes, you know, but the case,
Speaker 2: the shit is I'm mad at Kevin. You wont to
Speaker 2: know why I'm mad at Kevin for them fucking long.
Speaker 1: Jacobs are long that giants not his?
Speaker 2: No, but I'm like, I can't believe he actually wore
Speaker 2: the long johns. It's part of the story. No, I
Speaker 2: tell the story though, because I had to bring that
Speaker 2: up because everybody was in their draws. Oh yeah, in
Speaker 2: slips and brawls and pannies, and then Chicken Man had
Speaker 2: on long jaws. Please tell that story.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, shayak Vana shout out to our
Speaker 1: show runner. Yes, he got to come into the basement
Speaker 1: of the real house as well. So now you can
Speaker 1: see as he's riding the way that he can envision.
Speaker 1: So that was cool just to watch that go y.
Speaker 1: So then yeah, part of again you'll see it. But
Speaker 1: Chicken Man is wearing his long johns for a reason,
Speaker 1: and it's part of the storyline, which you'll see.
Speaker 2: But it's you can tell that part. You're not telling
Speaker 2: the whole story. Talk about the long johns, well.
Speaker 1: I think again, it was part of the weather at
Speaker 1: that time that Chicken Man, you know, was wearing as
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you're long giants. It's underneath you're going
Speaker 1: out in the cold in October, you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But it becomes again something where people are eyeing and.
Speaker 2: It's like, why, yeah, how do you go on? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And what's funny is you're thinking the same thing when
Speaker 1: you're forget about this movie itself, You're like, what are
Speaker 1: we exactly?
Speaker 2: But that's and that's I wanted to share that because
Speaker 2: people haven't follow in the podcast and are listening late
Speaker 2: and haven't saw the episodes yet. You know, it's it's
Speaker 2: something that Frank Molten was wondering too, Like you little motherfucker.
Speaker 2: You You just why you got on Long John's Yeah,
Speaker 2: and why didn't they give me silk draws? Like Frank
Speaker 2: mot you had the wave, daddy, I had a whole
Speaker 2: Fruit of the Loon situation going on. I wanted some
Speaker 2: silk draw and I remember a funny little story about
Speaker 2: the basement. I didn't share this ship. So you know,
Speaker 2: although you and I you eventually got more comfortable. You
Speaker 2: moved around set like you should as an executive producer.
Speaker 2: I was doing it from day one. Yes, okay, but
Speaker 2: I'm in there. But I don't go to the cast
Speaker 2: and say Hey, I'm the executive producer. I came in
Speaker 2: like talent, and I hadn't been in the basement yet, right,
Speaker 2: And I wish I knew this young brother's name. But
Speaker 2: we're in there, and you know, extras are always fighting
Speaker 2: for the camera, that's true, right, And I mean literally
Speaker 2: they're moving. When somebody moves, they slip in. And so
Speaker 2: I'm literally in there. And again I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 2: Kenny Brown's exactly producer. A lot of people don't know me.
Speaker 2: You're younger. Yeah, I'm cat daddy, right, And so Atkins
Speaker 2: and I had this position. I saw it, right, and
Speaker 2: what's the AD's name? Let the woman? What's the woman's
Speaker 2: saying that I can't? Yes, I love her so much,
Speaker 2: and you know she was, you know, saying you should
Speaker 2: be here. Atkins's going to be here, Kevin's here, you know,
Speaker 2: Terrence is here. And I'm hearing this lineup and she's
Speaker 2: saying that I'm gonna be in this shot with these
Speaker 2: amazed So I'm drifting. I'm in a dream sequence. I'm
Speaker 2: not you know what I'm saying. I'm there, but I'm
Speaker 2: not there. I'm trying to get character, but I'm trying
Speaker 2: not to fan out, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 2: although these are my people and I know them in
Speaker 2: real life, I'm about to be in a limited TV
Speaker 2: series film Kevin.
Speaker 1: Here, you're right here, you film Sam Jackson's back here.
Speaker 1: I'm watching it again. I'm in the village watching you
Speaker 1: film me. By the way you're making me, You're like, Jeff,
Speaker 1: make sure you feel the minor So it's a double
Speaker 1: fa It's like, I'm into this, into this. I got
Speaker 1: the double thing going on.
Speaker 2: And so we had this part where we had to
Speaker 2: stand up, you know, move and people had to get up,
Speaker 2: and so of course people moved. And then you know
Speaker 2: that first time we shot it it was no problems.
Speaker 2: The extras were in pocket. But you know, we had
Speaker 2: to do a reshoot. And when we did the reshoot,
Speaker 2: it was this one kid man and he was so
Speaker 2: pressed and I'm like, if in my mind, if you're
Speaker 2: sitting behind me, you're gonna be in the shop. So
Speaker 2: and I guess he doesn't know who I am in
Speaker 2: the scene or what I mean to the scene, and
Speaker 2: so it got one point where he kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, excuse me, Like, no, excuse you, this is
Speaker 2: like your seventeenth time doing this. I just want you
Speaker 2: to move back and just be calm. Okay, you're going
Speaker 2: to have your spot, right. So everybody else who knew
Speaker 2: me were kind of like, yo, dude, is good because
Speaker 2: people who know me I will kirk out. Not kirk out,
Speaker 2: but like, yo, get the fuck back there, please, Like,
Speaker 2: don't play yourself. You cannot be in the scene. Yes,
Speaker 2: And it was just a weird we're kind of juxtaposition
Speaker 2: because after he came like you I didn't know, I said, well,
Speaker 2: you should always treat people you know like I treated you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I could have been in position myself. Don't position
Speaker 1: me exactly.
Speaker 2: I like that. Okay, Jeff, But that was one of
Speaker 2: my favorite moments because it was a teachable moment for him.
Speaker 2: It was a moment where I actually got a chance
Speaker 2: to act with some peers and superheroes. And that wasn't
Speaker 2: even my lines. That was just me kind of in
Speaker 2: that same Yeah. And then we the second shoot, we
Speaker 2: got into a little bit more because you know, that
Speaker 2: was the scene that Kevin had made a play for
Speaker 2: the gun. Me and Silky got up and we were like,
Speaker 2: and I'm in the background of that too now, So
Speaker 2: that's a little extra scene. Thank you, Craig. You came
Speaker 2: back on and put me back in another. Yeah scene.
Speaker 1: But Kitty got a trailer, as cat Daddy. Tell him
Speaker 1: what your trailers like, though, give them the real world.
Speaker 2: My trailer wasn't ship Okay, I got a bathroom. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I didn't get a damn sprint her. What did Kevin
Speaker 2: have it? Kevin had three fucking campers. I had a bathroom.
Speaker 2: But I was thankful. Flour was wet.
Speaker 1: I came up and knocked that first time I come up.
Speaker 1: The stress you open up, so you got the afro,
Speaker 1: you got the fruit, you got shorts on your bare
Speaker 1: white little skitty whatever. And then your what kind of
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 2: Boots say roelopisode? Yeah, but it was beautiful, man, But
Speaker 2: I want to really the lines, you know my lines.
Speaker 2: I don't think people understand the hurry up and wait
Speaker 2: process of filming. You know, we were supposed to film
Speaker 2: at ten PM. I didn't get the film to two
Speaker 2: a m. And it was the last shot at least right,
Speaker 2: and it was the last shot keating, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And I'm like, you.
Speaker 1: Got a budget, they got a time, they got a time. Starting, yes,
Speaker 1: starting to rain. I got the umbrella, the little things.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, So.
Speaker 2: Starting to rain. You know, it's like not pouring, but
Speaker 2: it's starting like that little misty.
Speaker 1: Car sliding down.
Speaker 2: Remember they killed it, That's what I want to say.
Speaker 2: So then they got us driving these old vehicles right,
Speaker 2: and y'all you're not gonna notice it in the TV series.
Speaker 2: But we had two takes of the cars, and I
Speaker 2: only had two takes of my lines. Now, mind you,
Speaker 2: this is a very intricate scene. Melvin greg is on
Speaker 2: the car, he's leaned up playing. Lookout right, I'm driving
Speaker 2: up with some foxy ladies. I'm about to ask where
Speaker 2: the party is. Right. Then Silke comes up parallel to
Speaker 2: Now mind just three cars in a row. We got
Speaker 2: to get this right lined up perfectly, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, to execute the scene, and we did it
Speaker 2: in two takes. Yeah, so I was at.
Speaker 1: The wet surface where they had to get sliding and
Speaker 1: they get to pull back.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the car of Atkins car ak Silke, the
Speaker 2: character Silke, he literally his car stopped. You remember that
Speaker 2: they have to fix it real quick, you back it up. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was an amazing feat. But my lines were, you know,
Speaker 2: I want to want to wait it started with safe Player.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave it there, Okay, like that, all right,
Speaker 2: ravaplus for me. But I you know, it's a testament
Speaker 2: man to like even what you're saying about how you
Speaker 2: felt about the chair, how you felt first day on set,
Speaker 2: how you felt meeting Don Cheto. Han't had him in
Speaker 2: the back of your mind as a player in the
Speaker 2: game or player in this particular. You know, a series,
Speaker 2: and you know we're getting to this point, you know,
Speaker 2: in the process, and this is a five month almost
Speaker 2: six month process, right, it's five months, right, and we're
Speaker 2: literally like wow every time we show up the set,
Speaker 2: by the performances, the stage design, the on location I mean,
Speaker 2: and by the way we went to all the landmarks
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. We were at the Beautiful we did the
Speaker 2: Claremont Lounge, We had so many important we were at
Speaker 2: the plais Region. Yeah. Hi, that was a cool night.
Speaker 2: And let's get to it now.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well before just real quickly, so that basement scene,
Speaker 1: I just want to kind of give you a little
Speaker 1: bit more how this how the family has merged with
Speaker 1: this project. So James, who owns the house, where the
Speaker 1: heights took place. Now obviously not that then, So without
Speaker 1: even telling me, so he I guess he either wants
Speaker 1: to be an extra, get into acting, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I'll have to find out the story. But somehow no.
Speaker 1: But but what I'm saying is he doesn't call. He
Speaker 1: knows me I'm an executive producer, he'd get me. He
Speaker 1: does this on his own. He calls the company, he
Speaker 1: auditions whatever. He shows up that day, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: what you do, like James, And he's he's got the boat,
Speaker 1: by the way, He's in several scenes now, so he's
Speaker 1: in there with But I'm just like James. He's like,
Speaker 1: but I did so just how cool that he just
Speaker 1: wants to do this on his own and he could
Speaker 1: position himself in a way.
Speaker 2: But he's just so.
Speaker 1: But I reverse it, and I was like, I tell everybody.
Speaker 1: I was like, you got to you know this is
Speaker 1: the family?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and the family came to set.
Speaker 1: Family comes to set. They show him around, they get
Speaker 1: to see everybody acting, they get to see the real
Speaker 1: home where their family.
Speaker 2: Used to live.
Speaker 1: It's the emotional scene of them showing up and being
Speaker 1: guided around, getting meet the stars, talk to Willpacker everybody.
Speaker 2: So it's very cool. It's amazing, man, because as you said,
Speaker 2: you kept being drawn back to this project to make
Speaker 2: it happen. And then and then what we went through
Speaker 2: with the life rights with the family and how much
Speaker 2: money they thought was on the table versus what it
Speaker 2: was though, just all the things and what to be done.
Speaker 2: And that's why, like I was wanting to bring up
Speaker 2: the higher regency. You know, the Polaris is a main
Speaker 2: staple in this and it still exists in Atlanta today. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: And so when we were in that lobby and we
Speaker 2: talked about it briefly on the other episode. But like
Speaker 2: I'm looking up in the air and I'm.
Speaker 1: Watching a trium you remember that was on May first
Speaker 1: a Triums back in the days what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: it's still the same elevator. It's still the same that
Speaker 1: the glass elevator, you know. So you could see everybody,
Speaker 1: people in their full thing, going up and down.
Speaker 2: And I remember I remember Lori Harvey scene and she
Speaker 2: kept going up and down the and I'm just like
Speaker 2: where am I right now? Like I know, I'm being
Speaker 2: teleported every time I come to set to nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: but like, you know, it's such movie magic. You know,
Speaker 2: you hear that term, you know, like movie magic or
Speaker 2: things fall into place or a line and and and
Speaker 2: Kevin might be a part of the illuminati. I just
Speaker 2: want to say it might be a part of them.
Speaker 1: Was already pushing that.
Speaker 2: Now, listen to what I'm saying. Every single time he
Speaker 2: and I had a moment, you know, when you have moments,
Speaker 2: you're like, bro, look at this, he's like I told you,
Speaker 2: he said, watch what happens every single time, and I
Speaker 2: would tell you some of the times, like you know,
Speaker 2: he said, this is going to be a da da da,
Speaker 2: And it's like, how do you know this? I need
Speaker 2: to know how you know this? But it's dope because
Speaker 2: that's the belief he has in the film. He's not
Speaker 2: a clearly nother part of the but it's like the
Speaker 2: confidence his air, you know. And I don't mean to
Speaker 2: be talking about him this nicely this much like I mean,
Speaker 2: it's you know, I don't know if he's he's ever
Speaker 2: had this many compliments for me, but it's like he
Speaker 2: just had he had an air the entire time Sam
Speaker 2: Jackson had an air, Taraji had air about her in
Speaker 2: her performance and how in control she was and how
Speaker 2: good she smelled every day on set. Jesus Christ. Look
Speaker 2: but it looked. Yeah, but it was like everybody had
Speaker 2: a seriousness. It was almost like a mission, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, to like do the very best in
Speaker 2: their individuals.
Speaker 1: You know, you know Kevin, you know. So I don't
Speaker 1: obviously I know the persona. I've grown up as the comedian.
Speaker 1: So I'm just letting everybody know as a guy that
Speaker 1: was there for four or five months while this guy
Speaker 1: was all business. I'm just listening to a comedian that
Speaker 1: was not cracking up on set. I mean, you find
Speaker 1: he's joke whatever. This guy is business. And and let
Speaker 1: me also say this, He's on set four or five days,
Speaker 1: He's getting in a plane, he's flying to god.
Speaker 2: Knows where, he was doing a couple.
Speaker 1: Of shows, a couple of shows, coming back back to work,
Speaker 1: going to do the honors at the DC with the
Speaker 1: Mark Twain, just like nonsense. And he's showing up every
Speaker 1: day on set doing his business. And and so I'm
Speaker 1: just saying.
Speaker 2: This sleep on set then waking up and doing his
Speaker 2: lines noble like pop.
Speaker 1: Fing work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never actually you know seen anybody work as
Speaker 2: hard as like, I've never artist. Yeah, so big shot
Speaker 2: to Kevin art Man. You really brought his home. You know,
Speaker 2: we're getting close to the end of the front where
Speaker 2: so Fight Night, these bonus episodes were a brilliant idea
Speaker 2: because we never got to sit down together. So seeing
Speaker 2: how it actually begin in all the trials and tribulations
Speaker 2: to get to this masterpiece of a TV series. You know,
Speaker 2: how do you see Fight Night in the future? Right, Like,
Speaker 2: and then we're talking about fandom. It doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be a show, but how do you see fighting Because
Speaker 2: we have these shows in our history right that have
Speaker 2: you know, resonated with us in such a way where
Speaker 2: you watch them fifty years from now. So if we're
Speaker 2: celebrating fifty years plus year is the actual and fifty
Speaker 2: plus y if somebody's gonna be watching this limited TV series,
Speaker 2: how does that feel to you? Right? And then there's
Speaker 2: possibilities for other things. But right now you know that
Speaker 2: these eight episodes will live forever. Twenty years ago you
Speaker 2: had no idea that this will become a real thing.
Speaker 2: And now for the rest of eternity, as long as
Speaker 2: this small planet exists, somebody can watch Fight Night and
Speaker 2: see Jeff Keating and Kenny Burns and Will Packer and
Speaker 2: Kevin Harden say at the end of these credits, at
Speaker 2: the beginning and end of these credits, how does that feel?
Speaker 2: I just fucking had a moment. Yeah, it's fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: And Will and you had always kind of in your
Speaker 1: minds thought of this not as just a project of
Speaker 1: a series, but in an event, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: saying well, I'm serious. And even on set it felt
Speaker 1: so it's like, Okay, you're come, you're a family, you're
Speaker 1: working whatever. But it feels like every time you remember,
Speaker 1: you're just like it's an event, Like we're walking on things,
Speaker 1: this is this is a place in time, you're stamping this.
Speaker 1: We're looking back, but we're also looking forward and we're
Speaker 1: gonna like have this forever. And so I started to
Speaker 1: reframe like the way I was thinking, we're man, this
Speaker 1: this thing isn't the project. It's like it's got to
Speaker 1: And Will said this often it's.
Speaker 2: Got a life of its own, Like, no, it's got
Speaker 2: it's so to your point though, when when so many disciples,
Speaker 2: i mean, you talked about it, you talked about the
Speaker 2: you know, the wardrobe. You talked about the you know,
Speaker 2: construction people, the set design all night. You know how
Speaker 2: many people who are a part of this. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about actually putting it together. That's also the evangelist, right.
Speaker 2: But then now it's available to watch.
Speaker 1: On first of all, promos on the Olympus.
Speaker 2: Come on, bro, I'm watching the Olympics and it comes
Speaker 2: on TV. I'm like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: This is right? And then the Blast the opening night
Speaker 1: of NFL. It's like, and that's where we're gonna release,
Speaker 1: and you got the premiere.
Speaker 2: It's you could have not scripted this better. No, it's crazy,
Speaker 2: you know. And and I'm gonna say it right here,
Speaker 2: right now on the Fight Night Million Dollar Heights podcast.
Speaker 2: This is your first project, my first project of this magnitude,
Speaker 2: and we're about to win some awards and I'm just
Speaker 2: going listen. It is no way that this type of
Speaker 2: lineup doesn't get the acclaim. It's just it's no way
Speaker 2: because the dynamic, and we talked about it, its entire
Speaker 2: you know, these entire episodes, all these episodes were telling
Speaker 2: you how dynamic Taraji and Kevin were. You never knew
Speaker 2: you needed Terrence and saying on the screen. Jd ak
Speaker 2: Don Cheato comes to life in a way that you
Speaker 2: probably haven't seen him. I'm talking about on films. And
Speaker 2: so when you get magic like that, and then you
Speaker 2: have a whole new cluster of superheroes like the Melvin Gray,
Speaker 2: the Miles Bulloks to you know, the Chloe Bailey's, the
Speaker 2: sin Kwa Walls, the Lori Harvey, like these people did
Speaker 2: amazing jobs.
Speaker 1: You know, I get nervous, right so when I started
Speaker 1: to keep those nerves. But on set when I'm talking
Speaker 1: to Kev's and I got one story about the arage
Speaker 1: but his entourage and and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big shot to Kevin Kwan, I love you man.
Speaker 2: He got the photo of me, Kevin Terrence and Sam
Speaker 2: Jackson the first day at that house or the first
Speaker 2: day at that house. And when I tell you my
Speaker 2: great great great great great great great great, they're gonna
Speaker 2: that's gonna be in the fact like that is. It's
Speaker 2: one of those types of framable Yeah. Yeah, so I
Speaker 2: feel you wholeheartedly. I don't know where we go from here, Jeff.
Speaker 2: I know we have other projects. Now I'm not even
Speaker 2: talking about fighting because we're coming to a close. Because
Speaker 2: we were talking about a bunch of projects we want
Speaker 2: to do together and that we are going to do together.
Speaker 2: But it's you know, a testimony man of of seeing
Speaker 2: it to the finish line. And we are at the
Speaker 2: finish line, Jeff, So as we get up out of here, man, like,
Speaker 2: how does it feel to be at the finish line?
Speaker 2: Getting ready for September fifth and Fight Nights going to
Speaker 2: premiere on Peacock.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, yeah, I was offered and again shout out
Speaker 1: to everybody you know to watch Dally. You know, so
Speaker 1: I turn you know, I turned everything down. I didn't
Speaker 1: read the scripts, I didn't watch the day so everybody's
Speaker 1: he did not want to see anything I know, so
Speaker 1: I have not except for the trailer honestly, so you
Speaker 1: ca'm now it's everywhere. But I'm just saying, like for me,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I was so because I want to see
Speaker 1: it on the bit, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: I just the first time I want to see it
Speaker 1: all I listen, I've watched scenes. I know you know
Speaker 1: this little story but I'm talking about and by the way,
Speaker 1: shout out to who's composing this music.
Speaker 2: And it's important that people know right now before they
Speaker 2: go watch this amazing presentation. Yeah, Top Live, You're going
Speaker 2: to feel different. Yes, it's great. I mean I'm talking
Speaker 2: about from the soundtrack, to the actors, to the help.
Speaker 2: This was an amazing experience and I'm so proud and
Speaker 2: honor that we got to do it together. Brother, I
Speaker 2: really am.
Speaker 1: I'll close with this, there's only one other person in
Speaker 1: the world that loves this project more than I do,
Speaker 1: and he's sitting across from me now. So to be
Speaker 1: on set with Kenny's energy, with his passion, with his excitement,
Speaker 1: with his boyish enthusiasm with them in all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: and to watch the way that you move like throughout
Speaker 1: everything and allow me to kind of, you know, follow,
Speaker 1: But just to be there together on all the days
Speaker 1: that we got to do that was just a real
Speaker 1: honor and a privilege. And sitting across from you now,
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to do this. I hope We've got
Speaker 1: many more opportunities. But Kenny, Kenny's my rock everybody, and
Speaker 1: he's a big part of the reason this got done,
Speaker 1: and we're going to enjoy this ride together.
Speaker 2: Of you tube brother. Alright, Buddy, the dream is real.
Speaker 1: From iHeart Radio and Doghouse Pictures this is fight night,