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Speaker 1: actually working in pain, dancing around, doing filming. All of

427
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Speaker 1: these things were happening, and I will be in so

428
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Speaker 1: much pain. And you know, once but while I was working,

429
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Speaker 1: it's like it didn't bother me. But once I came

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Speaker 1: off stage or sit down, my knees will be hurting

431
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Speaker 1: me so bad. And after going through the surgery, not

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Speaker 1: knowing how I was gonna if everything was gonna work properly,

433
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Speaker 1: you know, if my body was gonna just to this

434
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Speaker 1: material being in my body, and I'm like, Lord, you

435
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Speaker 1: know I need you to help me overcome this. And

436
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: then with the wellness thing again, it's like I didn't

437
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Speaker 1: want to be a liability of my family. So it's like,

438
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,200
Speaker 1: you gotta do something different if you want some different results.

439
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: So it's I'm still That's why I took the album

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Speaker 1: the name Overcoming, because it's a day by day walk

441
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Speaker 1: that by faith, I'm gonna overcome. I'm overcoming. I've lost

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Speaker 1: some weight, but it's I still got goals that I

443
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Speaker 1: want to reach. I want to complete and finish that

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Speaker 1: that I started. And with the with the needs and everything.

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Speaker 1: I went through therapy, like you said, and it's like

446
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Speaker 1: every day, every day, you know, it's getting better and better.

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Speaker 1: It's it's been two years. July so it's like I'm

448
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Speaker 1: getting better and better, and I just want to be

449
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Speaker 1: like that. Even in my life, I just want to

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Speaker 1: get better. I don't want to be even though I'm fifty,

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Speaker 1: in my fifties, I still want to be able to

452
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Speaker 1: learn from somebody. I can learn from a young person

453
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: or even the older person. I'm open to receive it.

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Speaker 1: If it's gonna make me better, I'm willing to do that.

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Speaker 1: So that's how I'm working at being an overcome up

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Speaker 1: every day, and I'm encouraging those who are watching it

457
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Speaker 1: and listening that we all can overcome and we can conquer.

458
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Speaker 1: Come on that you special that the two albums songs

459
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Speaker 1: on the album Overcoming and comfort, did you just slip

460
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Speaker 1: that in so smooth? That's dealing with a pro you know,

461
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Speaker 1: and you can overcome And that's not the words started

462
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Speaker 1: with completion. And when I looked the word up finishes

463
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Speaker 1: in it so a lot. And I realized a lot

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Speaker 1: of things we've started in our lives, and I even

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Speaker 1: in my own life, I took it personal. All these songs,

466
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Speaker 1: I took it personally. I've started things that you know,

467
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Speaker 1: you start cleaning up in the room and before you

468
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Speaker 1: know you know, started another room and you haven't even

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Speaker 1: finished completing that task. So my thing is to stay

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Speaker 1: focus and finish this album. We're started with finished work,

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Speaker 1: the work that God has begun in us. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: finish and with his help, we're gonna complete it. And

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Speaker 1: then the album. The last song on the album is

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Speaker 1: called finish that we wouldn't finished, and we're gonna finish well,

475
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 1: well the beauty If this's not you've always had people

476
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Speaker 1: write songs for you, you always never participating in that

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Speaker 1: side of it. Talk about that because you know it's

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Speaker 1: it's about confidence too, It's about well, what you write

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Speaker 1: makes sense. Well, if you told somebody you wrote this

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Speaker 1: with they what they look at you and just pacify you.

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Speaker 1: But and then say that's good you you you well

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Speaker 1: you in order to do what you do, because those

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Speaker 1: are my exact out as a as a songwright, it's

484
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Speaker 1: just gonna make sense. I don't know, and I mean

485
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Speaker 1: me and my daughter were sitting with the producer and

486
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Speaker 1: he really helped me on. He did it for me.

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Speaker 1: He helped me on, help me to really realize that

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Speaker 1: my words and even with Travis Green he wrote finished,

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Speaker 1: I sit and talk to him for about about an

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Speaker 1: hour of what I wanted to talk about it. He

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Speaker 1: took all my words and put them into finished and

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Speaker 1: the same thing when he did it for me with

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Speaker 1: feel and all of us just working together. It's like

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Speaker 1: he helped my confidence come alive, you know, like dealing

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Speaker 1: with sometimes you know, it takes you switching up and

496
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Speaker 1: doing something with somebody else to see to stir up

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Speaker 1: the gift in, you know. And that's what's happened on

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Speaker 1: this album that I realized that my words can be good,

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Speaker 1: and that that they are important, and that they're not

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Speaker 1: too small, that they can be that they can be used.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely know that she's talking about Philip Bryant and my

502
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Speaker 1: boy are Kurt Franklin knows only Travis Green, who I love.

503
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Speaker 1: I loved it. I gotta get back on the show.

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Speaker 1: And then you have my bar. I called him the

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Speaker 1: church outlaw, Todd, the lady, the church all tell him outlaw.

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Speaker 1: That is good for him. How you get the church outlaw?

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Speaker 1: All your church girl huh overcome punkrock? He did it

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Speaker 1: for me. I called Tied and I said, Tod, I

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Speaker 1: wanted to talk about finishing. I said, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk about the work that we've begun in the Lord

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Speaker 1: to finish. And when I tell you, he called me

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Speaker 1: back and I was it was a scratch of him

513
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Speaker 1: playing on the piano and I said, man, I said,

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Speaker 1: this is it. So we wound up going to Chicago

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Speaker 1: with his band and singers and recording it live with

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Speaker 1: his producer, and man, I tell you, it was so

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00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: it was like a heavenly experience. And we was in

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Speaker 1: a in a sanctuary with just us and just a

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Speaker 1: very few people that work in the church. But when

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Speaker 1: I tell you, it was like the Lord met us there.

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Speaker 1: And I'm I'm so excited because it's like another side

522
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Speaker 1: of me that no one's seen or heard on finished work.

523
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Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just geet and nervous forever. You know.

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Speaker 1: Of course, when you come with new music, you don't

525
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Speaker 1: know what people gonna receive and all that. But I

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Speaker 1: just believe in my heart that that God has given

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Speaker 1: me it's gonna really be able to bless the people.

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Speaker 1: And that's my goal, is to bring hope, inspiration and

529
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Speaker 1: let people know that the mercies of God still exist

530
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Speaker 1: on this earth and everybody is not out to get us,

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Speaker 1: and that we can accomplish those things that God has

532
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Speaker 1: begun on us. He's a healer that he can heal

533
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Speaker 1: us of all manner of diseases that's going on in

534
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Speaker 1: the world. We don't have to walk in fear. If

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Speaker 1: we do what we need to do and do what

536
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Speaker 1: we're supposed to do, we're gonna work out and we're

537
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Speaker 1: gonna be fine. One of my all time favorites. And

538
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Speaker 1: when she did the amazing Grace and i'ma be honest

539
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Speaker 1: with you, Um, every time I see you, I see

540
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Speaker 1: I see that moment, And there's gonna be a moment

541
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Speaker 1: when you're gonna just settle into understanding all your blessings.

542
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Speaker 1: Like that's why this album is special, Overcome Up, because

543
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Speaker 1: you you finally stepped past the things and said, my

544
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: words have value. You know, I can write it down

545
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: and it's gonna mean something to somebody else because it

546
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: means something to meet. The next thing is going to

547
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: be like that journey you went up to Chicago and

548
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: did with Todd. The next half, all y'all gonna be

549
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: in the room. Travis Green gonna be in the room

550
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: with you, Kurt Franklin gonna be in the room, Philip

551
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: Bryan gonna Kimbro gonna be in the room with you,

552
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be about you telling everybody you know

553
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: about the King about he did it for me, talk

554
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: about the conqueror, talking about all these journeys that means something.

555
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Speaker 1: And I just want to let you know this, this

556
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Speaker 1: album is a blessing for you because finally, I think

557
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: that's the final step. Because you know, every time I

558
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Speaker 1: interview you, I'm always I love David, I'm always stepping

559
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Speaker 1: into you because I know you a person, how all

560
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: these great talent you kind of background in a little bit,

561
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: and David has pushed you out there, and finally you

562
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Speaker 1: fill the anointment of who and what you can be.

563
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Speaker 1: I just I was just so happy for you. I

564
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Speaker 1: am so happy for you. Thank you so much. You look,

565
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: you're bringing tears to me. That's great, you know. I

566
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Speaker 1: know then and then you know, every time I come

567
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Speaker 1: on this show, I got to talk about the family

568
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: because you mentioned your daughter earlier. And you know, y'all

569
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Speaker 1: y'all went out on tour a couple years before the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Was all of the country doing there the telling man

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Speaker 1: entertainment to him talk about the family. Your eyes all

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00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: coming together, how they how they how they went through

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Speaker 1: the pandemic and all that good stuff. Just just talk

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Speaker 1: about the journey that you and your husband are putting

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Speaker 1: together in the future that you're gonna have for us,

576
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: because we already know you got movies coming out, TV

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00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: shows coming out, Alvin Overcoming coming out. What's coming out

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00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: with you and your husband. I gotta go back to

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Speaker 1: the family core. Not my daughter till the youngest one

580
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: vocal produced me in the album. She had her hand

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Speaker 1: and everything. Uh, and her her boyfriend name is Justin Pierson.

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00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: They're actually sitting right here with me right now, and

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Speaker 1: it's amazing how they were able to help. They took

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Speaker 1: a relief off of David Sr. And they were they

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00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: stepped into the role, and I mean they really stepped

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Speaker 1: into the role to help me with this thing. And

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Speaker 1: it's been incredible just to see her develop and and

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00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: for her skills to come out, and for all of

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00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: us to see that this hidden and fear that she's had.

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00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: It's like, finally she's stepping into herself and into her

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Speaker 1: own and you know, even like everybody, you know, with

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Speaker 1: my other daughter that works in the in the company Porsche,

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00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: and then David Jr. Everybody is finding their rightful place,

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Speaker 1: which is causing the company to grow. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I have to pray hard because once everything gets really smooth,

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00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: the enemy tries to show his head and and it's like,

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00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: of course, to try to bring discord and make try

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Speaker 1: to mess things up. But he's doing his job. That's

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00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: why I have to steal on my job praying. And

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00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: we have to steal on our job in what we

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00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: need to be doing and stand in our lane to

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Speaker 1: make this thing grow. Because even as individuals, they have

603
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: great talents of their own that I really appreciate. You

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00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: thank God for the Lord stirring up. But I always

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00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: tell them you gotta keep God at your base if

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Speaker 1: you want to be blessed. This is how your mom

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Speaker 1: and dad has been blessed. It's been the favor of God.

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00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: It's been God keeping his hand on our lives. I

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Speaker 1: can't take no credit for none of it. It's all

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00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: been God using us and be directing us. We know, um.

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Speaker 1: We laugh with her. We've seen her grow as a

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Speaker 1: young lady, as a as a wife, as a mom,

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Speaker 1: and but the new CD, an overcoming Kamelaman has been

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Speaker 1: more involved than ever in this songwriting, lending her input

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Speaker 1: to nearly every track. Never actually been more creative with

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Speaker 1: her vision, been more powerful or heart more than this

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00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: collection upon your songs the past few years. You've seen

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Speaker 1: the physical setbacks, you've seen overcome. You've seen her smile

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Speaker 1: when she had paint and all paint and her body.

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Speaker 1: But what never stopped me is telling you I love you,

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Speaker 1: telling you I love your husband, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversations again. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. This has been a joy today. You got

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Speaker 1: you got me hyped up. Well. I hope whoever's after

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Speaker 1: you today is gonna be as hype. I know it

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Speaker 1: not because you you You got your own you got

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00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,719
Speaker 1: your own pain. You're in the lane out about yourself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for shocks as usual. You're a

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Speaker 1: blessing to me and you're a blessing to our community.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing and bringing us some good information.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Cool. We will be right back

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Speaker 1: with more money Making Conversations with your host, Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald Hollywood, super produced to Will

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Speaker 1: Packer has produced films that have earned more than one

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Speaker 1: billion dollars at the box office. Will Packard tells me

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Speaker 1: why marketing his brand as a producer wasn't normal in Hollywood. Well,

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Speaker 1: when I came in as a producer, I knew how

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations with your host Rashaan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: My next guest is Alan Maldonado. A smile when I

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Speaker 1: say that name. He's an actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur.

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Speaker 1: Among his films and TV critics include Straight Out of Compton,

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Speaker 1: Equalizing Cake, Sony's remake of The Superfly, the Netflix movie

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Speaker 1: Project Power, the Netflix series Sneakerheads, the TVs TV series

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Speaker 1: The Last O, g Blackish, You're the Worst, and many more.

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Speaker 1: Now that is the past. Now this is what's coming

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Speaker 1: up new and the movies and on TV. Alan starting

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Speaker 1: a new Stars action back series Heels Plus this fall.

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Speaker 1: He'll be starting in the Wonder Year's reboot for ABC,

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Speaker 1: the House Party movie reboot, and Psyche three. This is

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Speaker 1: and make comfortation. He's smiling, man, because I love talking

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Speaker 1: to a man, actor, writer, director and entrepreneur. My man,

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Speaker 1: Alan Maldonado. Hey you doing, Alan, I'm excellent, man, Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. What an incredible intro. I appreciate it. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm over here listening liqually as you go down the list, like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, I was on all that stuff. But you

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Speaker 1: know something, Alan, every time you come on the show,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, man, we've been having this

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Speaker 1: relationship going on four years, you know, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and just watching watching the growth because we you know,

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Speaker 1: your talent as an actor, which has always been out there,

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Speaker 1: How are you able to balance that? And all you

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Speaker 1: are is being able to balance the acting. Is it

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Speaker 1: a balance both? Wow? Man, I guess how what's the

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Speaker 1: best way to put it? Put it all in perspective? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: for me, I had to understand balance. I had to

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Speaker 1: It's been in a good way. Um. God has given

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Speaker 1: on other shows, I burned myself out. I'm not gonna lie,

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Speaker 1: you know. So, uh, after the quarantine, I really made

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Speaker 1: I gotta be just as driven in my personal and

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Speaker 1: self care. Absolutely. I'm talking to interviewing Alan maldon Alto.

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Speaker 1: I remember when you first came on Money Making Conversation,

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Speaker 1: for a serious and not just one. It's a series

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Speaker 1: of things, which is really beautiful and uh, and let's

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Speaker 1: talk about Heels. You know, because on social media, you know,

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Speaker 1: So that's why I like about your alum. You know,

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Speaker 1: that they need for this series that's on Stars called Heels. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't shocked at all. Man. Um I had, uh,

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Speaker 1: it was just me meeting up with my blessings. Um

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Speaker 1: begin with that, you know, wholeheartedly. It was. It was

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Speaker 1: Do you go sleep? Because I always tell people I'm

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Speaker 1: my opportunities. And I've always felt that about you when

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Speaker 1: But we always always see activity in your eyes, and

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, because you always this conversation is just one

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Speaker 1: When those guys, I went, I got to watch that,

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Speaker 1: mauldin Off and guess what you were sitting just like

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Speaker 1: Yea man. Now working with those guys are incredible, I

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Speaker 1: got I must say that. Shout out to our showrunner

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Speaker 1: Michael O'Malley, uh, and just everybody has stars for collecting

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Speaker 1: a group of actors that are extraordinary. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a dream team. Man. You you wake up as

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Speaker 1: an artist in you dream of being surrounded by people

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Speaker 1: that share your same passion, your drive, your intensity to

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Speaker 1: uh being an artist. And that's the cast appeels and

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Speaker 1: James Harrison, who I often tease and I'm the little

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Speaker 1: brother that he never asked for. But even with him

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Speaker 1: excited for people to see just all of these talented

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Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Man. I can't wait for people to say

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Speaker 1: It was a super Bowl supero. I was there. He

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Speaker 1: but he always they always neglect me out of NFL history.

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Speaker 1: But it's all right because you know, he's a workout freak.

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Speaker 1: That's one thing. That's one thing for sure. If you

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Speaker 1: him when I was with Steve Harvey on the Steve

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Speaker 1: He's a character and he will tell you what's on

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Speaker 1: myself to you know, basically shadow him, shodow him while

851
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: he trained. So these are four four or fifteen wake up,

852
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 1: five am. We in the gym, and we're training, and

853
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: we're working for at least two hours, um every day,

854
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday. And I did that with that man

855
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: for nine months, and I learned what it takes to

856
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: be an elite athlete, the approached, the mental side of it, all,

857
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: the physical, the importance of recovery. Like I've learned so

858
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: much from from him and um so like it was

859
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: life changing to be able to have nine months to

860
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: train with such an elite athlete and kind of just

861
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, mimic and being inspired by his routine and

862
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: and learn, like you know, as an actor, you you you,

863
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: you you portray and you portray these type of characters.

864
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: But to actually be next to one and befriend one

865
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: and kind of pick his brain on how it all

866
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: comes together was just another blessing. Now we were talking,

867
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about we're talking about We're talking with

868
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: Ala Malton Aldo. We're gonna talk about another project, but

869
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 1: right now we're talking about the stars action drama called Heels.

870
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: What's your rolling in? And uh, how do you interact

871
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: with the other characters? Rooster Robbins is the name. It's

872
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: Rooster time. He is the high flying act of the

873
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: show and of the rest of the league. Um. We're

874
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: part of this independent wrestling league and Duffy called d

875
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: w l UM. I'm one of several wrestlers on the show. Uh,

876
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: and you kind of see me go through my growing pains.

877
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a VET, but I started off as

878
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: a young prodigy, so you kind of see the frustration

879
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: of uh in the eagerness to get to the next

880
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: level in this series. It's a drama, So I know

881
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 1: people used to me being in comedies as of late.

882
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to be able to flex that and

883
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: just remind people, Like, you know, the last five years,

884
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: people have known me for my comedy, but you know,

885
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time and like the

886
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: first ten years in my career, I did nothing but

887
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: dramatic work. So I'm excited to kind of flex that

888
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 1: muscle and and remind people that I can. You know,

889
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm all around. Well. The special thing about that when

890
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: I watched Kevin Hart, you know, and can flex his

891
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: his his drama muscle, and I watch you. But like

892
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: I said, because you do so many different projects, that

893
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: lets me know you can do this too, because you're

894
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: not to me pigeonholes. As far as any of the

895
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: roles that you play, because they all are different, they

896
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: all involved some research, like this involved some research. But

897
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: more importantly, I gotta ask you the physicality of this

898
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: particular role because of the fact that you know, you

899
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: see you know, the Friday Night Wrastling or the USA

900
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: Wrastling on fridayn Fox. These guys coming off that turn vocal,

901
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: hitting that hitting that floor. Talk about that training and

902
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,479
Speaker 1: how you were able to recover because you talk about

903
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: recovering from things like that, and then when you were

904
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: doing the training process, that meant when you had to

905
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: have the confidence that you will be all right when

906
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: you finally hit the mat right. Well, you know that's

907
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: what the importance of the weight training and like stretching

908
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: was something that I really grew to love while shooting

909
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 1: the show and again working with James, like the importance

910
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: of it. I never really stretched before like an idiot,

911
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: but now it's it's a part of my routine where

912
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: I got like thirty minutes uh before and after every

913
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: workout that I'm I'm stretching in the importance of that.

914
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: So with that being said, training and all of the

915
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: wrestling routines that we would learn, and we had a

916
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: fantastic group of stunt doubles. Um. You know, I was

917
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: blessed to be able to do most of my stunts. Uh,

918
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 1: I was excited. I was that six year old kid

919
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: jumping off a outes, you know. So anytime they would

920
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: have asked me to do this ridiculous stunt and I

921
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: always took a beat because the grown Maldonado was like

922
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: many on this like come on, chill, chick, six year

923
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: old maldon I was like, what are you talking about?

924
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: This is what we dreamed. Uh, Jumpy got a a

925
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: rig front flipping back rope, back flipping off the top ropes,

926
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:30,720
Speaker 1: backflipping on, James Harrison, jumping on, jumping out of the ring, flipping.

927
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I want to do it

928
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: all and I want to experience what it feels like

929
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: to be a real wrestler. And wrestling is real. It's predetermined,

930
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: but it's real. Those those those um hitting, that hitting

931
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: that canvas is real. And it gets even really after

932
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: you get close lines seven times in a row by

933
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: James Harrison. So definitely by nine. By the ninth month

934
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: of us filming this thing, Uh, my body was It's

935
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: a it's a toll on my body. I was definitely needed.

936
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 1: Uh it must need a vacation. Hi everyone, I'll roker

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942
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953
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Speaker 1: Welcome out the You know, I really I'm happy you're

954
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: saying about wrestling is real because you know, when you do,

955
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: you do action scenes and moving. When you're fighting, you

956
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: can throw a punch, you know, when you they shooting

957
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: it there certainly looks like it made contact. But wrestling

958
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: plays itself in front of a live audience, so there

959
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: has to be some degree of physical contact. Alum, that's

960
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, you know, So when when that

961
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: um hits you, it actually is gonna make contact with

962
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: your body if you know it's gonna make contact, So

963
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: you have to react to it so you won't make

964
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: full contact and knock yourself out. So when you were

965
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: going through that process, like you said that, the the

966
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: older version you said, whoa, whoa, I got another project

967
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: coming up. I want to get up from this math.

968
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: The younger versions of Hey, brother, you know we've been

969
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: waiting on this. We gotta do it now. So when

970
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: did you get confident that this is something you can do?

971
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: I know you wanted to do it. Was it just

972
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: talking to the stock doubles just are just sitting down

973
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: and looking at the whole step step process of walking

974
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: it through that you were Okay, I'm cool with this now.

975
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: It's it's simple. Man. I wouldn't let James out do

976
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: like like for real, man, Like you know, James is ridiculous. Man,

977
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: I love that dude. Like he's a premier athlete. He's

978
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: in there doing backflips and all this other stuff, and

979
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:30,919
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there like, man, I can't, I can't

980
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: go out like that. Let me go ahead and do

981
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: this back flip. He definitely inspired me to take a

982
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: lot of risk and challenges I probably wouldn't have done

983
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: if he weren't there to be honest, just because we

984
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 1: have this healthy competition. Um, we're not even that competition.

985
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: Like I said, he inspires me to train it harder,

986
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: uh and do things better and you know, incorrectly because

987
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: that was what a lot of things that he was

988
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: doing and fixing with the things I was training. Um.

989
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: But now, to be totally honest, I'll keep it a buck.

990
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 1: It was I didn't wanna let James out do me

991
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: by back clipping in the MEI me not back clipping

992
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: myself as well. So it was it was one of

993
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: those things we kept pushing each other. I love it. Now,

994
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: you know the whole problem, Like the whole good thing

995
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: about this whole show is that it's on Stars. You

996
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: wanted the stars of the series. It's called Heels that's

997
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: premiered on the Stars Network. Now, the great thing about

998
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: whenever I talked to Ala Malda, although it's never stops

999
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: at one conversation, y'all, it's always what the great thing

1000
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: about you? You hear people hype stuff, Well, you know

1001
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: when you deadline dot com, that's the variety. You know,

1002
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: he's on Deadline dot Com. That's like the ultimate online

1003
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: digital shout out for something big in Hollywood. Now he's

1004
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: been in deadline so much because I get the alerts,

1005
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: so I'll be knowing about Alabauta dollar, Alibata dollar. So,

1006
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: my man, you got the Wonder Years reboot, that's a

1007
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: Don Cheer project from for ABC. You got the House

1008
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: Party movie, Move Movie, Reboat Rebirth. That's through Lebron James's

1009
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: company here, and that's the Lebron James we all know.

1010
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: Just wrapped up Space JF two number one Moving in

1011
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: the country. Do you have side three? This is Gus.

1012
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: That's a three quoal for the Peacock Network. Let's start

1013
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: with the Wonder Years reboot. Your role, how you got

1014
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:26,959
Speaker 1: involved in that? And that's on ABC? Uh that will

1015
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: I played coach Long. Um. I'm also the father to um,

1016
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:38,359
Speaker 1: the best friend of the show. Uh so Um how

1017
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: Wonder Years came about Saladeine Patterson as the show runners

1018
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: shout out to Saladein, Um incredible writer, incredible person overall.

1019
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: Uh the honor of working with him, uh at the

1020
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: writer's room because he show ran lass o. G So

1021
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: when the opportunity came where there was a role, Uh

1022
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: that I suit I was suited for. Um he just

1023
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: reached out and Um, you know, made the phone call

1024
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: and we worked it all out. Uh. We had our

1025
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: prior you know, working working relationship with the last o

1026
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: G and we worked so well together. It was you know,

1027
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: it was a no brainer, UM going in and just

1028
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: shout out to do le Um who we also started

1029
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:26,399
Speaker 1: the Psyche movie, which spawned from how well we worked

1030
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: together on Wonder Years and a Wonder Years pilot. So

1031
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a I'm a big believer in work

1032
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: gets you more work, and that's how I've built my

1033
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: career of just being consistent, being on time, being professional, UM,

1034
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: trying my best to supersede anyone's expectations of what they

1035
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: what they want out of whatever character I deliver on screen.

1036
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: And that's how all of this stuff continues to happen. Man.

1037
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: So I'm blessed, and I look forward to just continuing

1038
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: the consistent work ethic and just giving him all as

1039
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: an artist. Man, I really, I really, really really love

1040
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: this acting thing. I don't want to short change you know, actor, writer, director, entrepreneur.

1041
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: You know, in the writer's room in Blackish, you know,

1042
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: we all talked about this. So you know, sometimes I'm

1043
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: jealous of you because I was in the writer's room,

1044
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: but I couldn't act. So you know, so you got

1045
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: me that, you know what I'm saying, I could tell

1046
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: a joke, but I couldn't that. So you still got

1047
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: me that I could direct but I couldn't that. So

1048
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, you always go top. Regan McDonald, is that

1049
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: what you talked about was relationships and a lot of

1050
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: people that don't understand that really is the value. And

1051
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 1: black actors now are starting to get relationships with people

1052
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: that look like us. They are making phone calls. You know,

1053
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: used to be Spike Lee was the only black person

1054
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: that can make phone calls, you know, but now there

1055
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: are other black people in this business starting to make

1056
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: phone calls and becoming decision makers. And you create these

1057
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: relationships and into making you feel comfortable about the future

1058
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: and what you can do not only as an actor

1059
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: but as a writer and a director, because you want

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Speaker 1: to bring your own projects to the screen, whether it's

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00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: small or large. Correct, Yeah, I mean that's I mean

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00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: life has built off relationships, not just you know, entertainment.

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00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: I think people lose sight that the real value on

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00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: this uh this other world is pet the people um

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00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: in your relationships. If everything went the dirt. We will

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00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: be relying on each other's relationship to survive, whether it

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00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: like if this person hunting and this person caught fish,

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00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: or this person was good as a blacksmith. For all

1069
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: these things, um, we had to depend more on what

1070
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,479
Speaker 1: technology in the way society has built. You're not really

1071
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: um measured by your talents, your natural talents rather um,

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00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: so people try to diminish your worth. Um So overall, man,

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00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 1: I think relationships and being a good person and respecting

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00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: one another will get you a very very very long way. Um.

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00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: And I'm happy to uh have built a you know,

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00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: reputation of being a stand up person and uh professional

1077
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. And really just I'm

1078
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: just a cool dude man, Like I do my work

1079
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: and go home. Man, we do a lot of good

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00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: works and I respect that. Now you went back now

1081
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: you're doing a movie and went back to my era,

1082
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: you know House Party reboot. You know that brought back

1083
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: some memories and the fact that you're inbroughved with it.

1084
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, I thleeve Jacob Latimer from The Shy

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00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: is uh starting in the movie with you, Uh talk

1086
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: about that reboot? I know you know back then, Uh

1087
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of comedians were involved in a

1088
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: lot of great comedy actors were involved in it. When

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00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: that was approached to you put on your docket, talk

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00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: about that experience. Like you said, you have a past

1091
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: relationship working relationship with Lebron James on Survivor's Remorse, And

1092
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: that's what I love about you whenever we talk, you

1093
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: have a clear understanding that, like we've talked about a

1094
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: few minutes ago, relationships build opportunity, and on that opportunity,

1095
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: you still have to deliver the work, and you don't.

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01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: You don't fall back on I just that's my boy.

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01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna take care of you. Going there with the

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01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: mindset that I still have to deliver in order to

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01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: get the next opportunity from my board or from my girl.

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01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: Correct that it's correct, man um, I think people uh.

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Speaker 1: And that's the respect aspect of it all. Just because

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01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: you're you know, friends are you're closer to one person

1103
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: versus the next, doesn't mean you lose respect for your

1104
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: craft or your job or what they have hired you for.

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01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: And a lot of times we do do that, and

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01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful to whoever your friend is. Because it's like, man,

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01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: that's something separate, like I hired you to do something,

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01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: but House Party it is one of those I p

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01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: s are you know, classics that to be a part

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01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: of this new version and this new creation of it.

1111
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: As you know, you know, people tend to think of

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01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: reboots as sequels, and that's not really what it is.

1113
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 1: The reboot. It's a different version of this similar world,

1114
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: this coming of age story that we got to experience

1115
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: that impacted the culture in such a way in the

1116
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: early nineties that you know has transferred to to now

1117
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: which is almost thirty years UM. Shout out to Reggie

1118
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: who directed the first one, who's um, you know, the

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01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 1: mind and the creation, the brilliance behind the first one.

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01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: He's a part of the reboot as well as an

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01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: executive producer. So we're in good hands with Lebron. Uh.

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01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 1: Shout out to Chuck, our director. Um, you know, and

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01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: we we we were looking in and we're determined to

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01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: put some very very funny on screen. Now. Yeah, that

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01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: you know people would enjoy at the end of the day,

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01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: and that's all that matters. You know. Before I go,

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01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: I I'll be remissed. I kind of mentioned their names

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01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: a little bit. We talked a lot about James co

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01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: starring with you and the Stars series he years. But

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01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: you have two leads in there, because I mentioned started

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01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: in this series, Viking series and also starting the Arrow series.

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01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that their talents and working with

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01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: their talents and how how they just incredibly gifted young

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01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: men and nice people as well. Oh Man, Stephen the

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01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: Mill uh and Alexander. Um, They're they're pure professionals. Man.

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Speaker 1: I love sharing the screen with them. Some of some

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01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: of my favorite scenes in the series are with them. Um,

1138
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: some some really good dramatic work uh and just lions

1139
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: man like we gotta we gotta den for the lions.

1140
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: And Stephen the Mill is the captain of the ship

1141
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 1: man uh. And second up Xander and they set the tone. Um.

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01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: You know there's scenes I've seen with scenes with Xander's

1143
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: throwing chairs and all types of crazy stuff. I love it.

1144
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a beautiful, you know, sort of

1145
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 1: dance that you get the witness close and personal. When

1146
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: you when you get to work with phenomenal actors such

1147
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: as such as them and and along with the entire

1148
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: got Chris Boo like shout out to Chris he plays

1149
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: wild Bill on the show Everybody's Gonna be in Love

1150
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: with wild Bill on this show. Um, Chris is hands

1151
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: down one of my favorite actors to watch work this witness. Uh.

1152
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 1: He's such a pure artist. Uh. And every time, every second, uh,

1153
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: and every frame that you see him in, it's something

1154
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: special when you go get something unique. So I'm telling

1155
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: you it's the whole cast is incredible and oh my god,

1156
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: I just can't wait. Well before I want to end

1157
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: on a personal note, well, well, I'm recording this interview

1158
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: via zoom and in the background I see some tributes

1159
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 1: to Kobe Bryant in order to see the images that

1160
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm seeing. Obviously, he had an impact on you of users,

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01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:02,040
Speaker 1: and it is death. Unfortunately the allowed me to see

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01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: only do Kobe Bryant the basketball star. You know, I

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01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: kind of knew about him as Kobe Bryant the Father,

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01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 1: but afterwards I realized how he took the time to

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01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: impact so many people. And I see images of him

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01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:18,040
Speaker 1: on your back wall there. Talk about why that's important

1167
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: that you have that on your back wall and Kobe

1168
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: Bryant and why he has an impact in your life. Uh.

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01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: He you know, Mama mentality is the gospel. It's the uh,

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01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: you know away of life over here for me, man,

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01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: just that type of dedication and that obsession to what

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01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: you love and to your craft, you know, just the phrases,

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01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, different animals, same beasts, like these are things

1174
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: that ringing my head daily when whenever I'm in pursuit

1175
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: or whatever go, whether it be fitness, mental, personal, spiritually,

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01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: like there is no nos, only yes uh. And and

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Speaker 1: it's a lot inspired by you know, Kobe, watching him work,

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Speaker 1: watching watching his um in his rise, his struggles, his wins,

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01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: his losses, um and just his perseverance and his legendary

1180
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: work ethic is what uh you hear about. And only

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01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 1: this is gonna the legend is only gonna grow as

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01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: the stories continue to go. Even in his past and

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01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: so uh, Kobe personally means a lot of an l

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01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 1: a kid as well. So um, we we watched him

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01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:39,000
Speaker 1: grow and you know, to see him pass in the

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01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: manner that he did was just so traumatic and um

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01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: it's impacted everyone, you know, definitely condolescence to his wife

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01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: and the kids, like we can only imagine how they

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01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: feel it being that we felt so heartbroken even though

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Speaker 1: we and me personally. I didn't know him personally at all,

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01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 1: so uh uh. Just an incredible human being, incredible inspiration.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, he's definitely at the top of

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Speaker 1: my mouth. Rushmore. As far as the inspiration, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: as I always I appreciate that Ali. We are. We

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Speaker 1: would definitely be seeing you again. It's always about to

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Speaker 1: in Spain. You kind of threw out that other movie

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Speaker 1: project that's coming out next year, so we'll be talking

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Speaker 1: next year. It's always appreciated. Always appreciate you man again.

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Speaker 1: I'll be watching TV with your face only a lot

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