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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 2: I am Kate Hudson and my name is Oliver Hudson.

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Speaker 3: We wanted to do something that highlighted our.

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Speaker 2: Relationship and what it's like to be siblings. We are

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Speaker 2: a sibling.

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Speaker 4: Railvalry, No, no, sibling, don't do that with your mouth, revelry.

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Speaker 5: That's good.

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Speaker 6: How was last night?

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Speaker 3: It was amazing. It was really great. It was a

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Speaker 3: great night. It was just like so many amazing women

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Speaker 3: and I was it was the Power of Women Variety honors,

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Speaker 3: you know, we were like five of us were honored

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Speaker 3: for the work we do outside of like, you know, acting,

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Speaker 3: and it was great. It was so it was great,

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Speaker 3: It was it was It was I had all my

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Speaker 3: girlfriends there and all I wanted to do is hang

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Speaker 3: with my girlfriends, but there was no time. We were

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Speaker 3: just listening to a bunch of speeches. So we were

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Speaker 3: all like, I wanted to hang and then we couldn't.

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Speaker 6: I know, I heard the speech was good. Scotty said

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Speaker 6: that you helped you write it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the speech was great. The speech was really great.

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Speaker 3: And uh yeah, he's he's a good editor. Scotty's a

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Speaker 3: good editor. Scotty is my brother on on running point.

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Speaker 6: King over like the real brother role. The lines are getting.

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Speaker 3: Blurred, but uh yeah, he's uh he helped, he helped

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Speaker 3: me kind of edit, you know, I overwrote it. I

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Speaker 3: but it's such an interesting concept, like to be powerful,

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Speaker 3: Like what is it? What does that mean? You know?

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Speaker 3: Because that's such it's such a polarizing actually concept, Like

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Speaker 3: it's amazing, you need it, it's vital for your life

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Speaker 3: and for your life force. But then it's also so

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Speaker 3: destructive and can be so destructive. Yeah, you know, so

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Speaker 3: like when I started thinking about it, I was like,

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Speaker 3: what a crazy word to you know, the power of women,

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Speaker 3: and like, because the power can be amazing and used

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Speaker 3: in these amazing ways, or it could be like really destructive.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 6: So there's different degrees of power in different contexts of power,

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Speaker 6: you know. I mean you're a powerful woman in your

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Speaker 6: own home, when you're raising your children, you know, you're

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Speaker 6: a powerful.

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Speaker 3: Well it is, that's right, but but also like, but

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Speaker 3: there's also so many aspects to it, like to what

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Speaker 3: does it mean? To like where does it come from?

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Speaker 3: Someone on the carpet was like, you know, where do

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Speaker 3: you get your power from? I was like, am I

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Speaker 3: Vagina say that? I was like, I think my vagina.

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Speaker 3: But you know there's something that go with it because

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Speaker 3: like powerful, like they're it's not like a destination, do

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like to be powerful isn't

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Speaker 3: a destination. It's actually something you have to Like it's

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Speaker 3: used in everyday life, like you know, literally, like how

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Speaker 3: people harness their own power is so specific to them.

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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, some people they're waking up in the

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Speaker 3: morning and getting up and having a positive day means

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Speaker 3: they've harnessed like a great powerful day.

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Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. Like it can be minuscule or

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Speaker 6: it can be big, h you know, and sometimes being

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Speaker 6: powerful can be relinquishing your power because you're not in it,

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Speaker 6: that's right.

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Speaker 3: Or like what I say, it's like the power of

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Speaker 3: women is, which is the ability to be able to

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Speaker 3: connect the head and the heart at the same time,

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Speaker 3: you know, because we're so in two women are so

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Speaker 3: into live and we're you know, we were empisthetic. We're

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Speaker 3: nurtures by biologically, you know, by nature, where we lean

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Speaker 6: When they introduced you, did you walk out to the

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Speaker 6: power of love?

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Speaker 3: I forgot the Rolling Stone song. I was like, this

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Speaker 3: is the best Lewis don't take money, don't don't credit.

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Speaker 3: That's the best. Oh my god, the power. I was

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Speaker 3: listening to another Huey Lewis song the other day, which

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Speaker 3: was it came up, It's the best. Someone said something

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Speaker 3: and you know, our family, this.

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Speaker 7: Is it love, it is this.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 3: And we had this whole moment with you know, because

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Speaker 3: we're wrapping up our second season, and we were laughing

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Speaker 3: because every time someone says something, I can think of

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Speaker 3: a song, because that's like our family superpower for some reason,

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Speaker 3: and I broke into because I think I or someone said, well,

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Speaker 3: this is it, and I was like, this is it.

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Speaker 3: He is a.

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Speaker 1: Song.

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 3: You're in the car, by the way, do yourself a

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Speaker 3: favor and blast some Huey Lewis in the car.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so good.

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Speaker 3: It's the best. Huey Lewis is the best. And when

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Speaker 3: you saw that documentary about what Quincy when he did.

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Speaker 6: The that the show, you know, when you did the song.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so great to see Huey Lewis was

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Speaker 3: so he was the coolest guy in there.

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Speaker 5: Love.

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Speaker 3: I loved his vibe.

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Speaker 6: You know. Of course with all these like Whitney Houston

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Speaker 6: and what am I doing.

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Speaker 3: He was so cool, he was so humble.

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Speaker 6: We have ants and here who's been a friend of

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Speaker 6: mine for a long long time. Yes, to see if

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Speaker 6: he feels that he is powerful, perful?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? You know what?

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Speaker 5: I always have to watch my back. Okay, okay, I

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Speaker 5: have a quick question, Kate, where the hell are you?

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Speaker 5: Because Ala looks like he's in his cloppet. I mean

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Speaker 5: I can see his dirty frog.

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Speaker 2: Kate's like an English countryside.

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Speaker 1: He look like he's in a dark English manner.

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Speaker 6: She's actually a universal city of the Harry Potter exhibit.

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Speaker 6: I'm in my son's room, man like, I don't have

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Speaker 6: my own space in this house, so I just have

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Speaker 6: to find any place that I can settle down in.

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Speaker 6: And yes, okay it is open. We get to see

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Speaker 6: what this little bastards were here. Look at this. Look

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Speaker 6: at this ship. Oh no, oh.

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Speaker 3: No, but you know what you're responsible for this me he's.

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Speaker 6: Just seen he no, no, no live if he wants

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Speaker 6: to live in ship, he can live in ship.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 6: And I've known you for a million years, but I

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Speaker 6: know nothing about your background, Like where did you grow up?

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Speaker 6: Do you have siblings? Like where how did this all

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Speaker 6: start first of what kind.

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Speaker 1: Of researchers do you have on you your podcast? You

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Speaker 1: can have this information, dude, we do.

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Speaker 6: We do it.

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Speaker 3: It's right here. But but the but we do it

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Speaker 3: so that you answer the question.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I can I.

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Speaker 3: Can't read it. I can't read I can't read everything

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Speaker 3: about you that way.

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Speaker 1: So listen. Border raised in Compton, California.

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Speaker 6: I knew that.

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Speaker 5: That's that you knew three siblings. I'm the oldest of four,

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Speaker 5: three boys and a girl. My sister is the youngest. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 5: I lost my younger brother fifty five.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three, twenty four years ago.

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Speaker 5: Damn Yeah, car accident while he was a student in

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Speaker 5: playing football at West Texas A and M. So it's

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Speaker 5: two brothers and a sister. Now me, my my younger

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Speaker 5: brother under me and my baby sister. What's crazy? My

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Speaker 5: father before he passed, had plus size women clothing stores, right,

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Speaker 5: and they were called three d's in an angel named

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Speaker 5: after our children, and the D stand for devils but

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Speaker 5: to put up.

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Speaker 1: So there's basically three devils in an angel of clothing store.

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Speaker 6: Genius.

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Speaker 1: So that was that.

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Speaker 2: That's so cute. Yeah, and your mom, I know, Mom,

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Speaker 2: I know mom.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know if mom. Mom is

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Speaker 5: doing well. She's in Carson, California. She is, she's an

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Speaker 5: actress now, but before then was a telephone operator for

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Speaker 5: one of one of the hospitals here and we actually

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Speaker 5: for the County of Los Angeles. But always wanted to

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Speaker 5: be an actress and it never worked out for her

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Speaker 5: because she's horrible.

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Speaker 1: And I made it to.

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Speaker 5: A position where I could actually give her her chance

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Speaker 5: just to live out her wildest.

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Speaker 2: Dream, which you did. I mean, she's in everything that

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Speaker 2: you touch now.

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Speaker 6: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I'm making a point to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but she's doing well.

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Speaker 5: It's a little too early for her to be in

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Speaker 5: the Bengal Hall, but it's it's Thursday to be at

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Speaker 5: a Bengal hall at six o'clock to day.

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Speaker 3: How old is your mom?

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Speaker 1: She's seventy three. She's eighteen years my senior.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, seventeen seventeen, so she's seventy teen.

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Speaker 1: She's only seventeen years, so she's seventy.

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Speaker 3: She had you when she was seventeen. Yeah, her on

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Speaker 3: your and your siblings, what are the age differences?

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. Do you know how your your sibling? Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. My whole mind is my brother

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Speaker 1: told me how old he was. I was like, fuck

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Speaker 3: I don't know how old my siblings are. What do

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Speaker 3: you mean? No, I with the age differences, like, are

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Speaker 3: you close in are you all close in age? Oh?

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Speaker 1: My brothers and I are? I am. I'm fifty five.

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Speaker 5: I think my brother is turrently fifty this year or no,

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Speaker 5: no's I'm four years older than my brother. He's turning fifty.

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Speaker 5: He's twenty fifty one this year. My deceased brother would

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Speaker 5: be forty nine. But crazy about them. I just tell

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Speaker 5: you about my parents. They like to make the love

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Speaker 5: around the same same time every year. My brother's birthday

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Speaker 5: are November fifteenth and November sixteenth, two years apart. My god, yeah,

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Speaker 5: November fifteen, sixteen, two years apart.

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Speaker 6: They literally it's a it's mating season, the mating season exactly.

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Speaker 5: And my sister, my brother is forty one. My sister

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Speaker 5: my brother brother would have been forty nine. I think

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Speaker 5: my sister is forty six.

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Speaker 6: Oh, like you're pretty close yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah? And growing up, where do you do? Where'd

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Speaker 3: you go to school.

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Speaker 5: I went to Roosevelt Elementary and Compton Wayley Junior High Compton,

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Speaker 5: and then I went to the Los Angeles County High

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Speaker 5: School for the Performing Arts for.

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Speaker 6: For high Did you know that, I mean early on,

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Speaker 6: did you know what you wanted to do? I mean

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Speaker 6: it was probably obviously, you know, nine.

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Speaker 5: Years old, I knew I wanted to play football for

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Speaker 5: the Dallas Cowboys. You know, that was my dad's team,

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Speaker 5: America's team at the time. I wanted to be a lawyer,

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Speaker 5: and I wanted to be an actor. And at the

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Speaker 5: age of nine, I realized that if I became an actor,

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Speaker 5: I could be all three of those things and whatever

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Speaker 5: else I wanted to become in life.

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Speaker 1: And so I decided to be an actor. And it

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Speaker 1: happened this way.

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Speaker 5: My mother was in a production of A Raisin in

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Speaker 5: the Sun at Compton Community College, and I was in

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Speaker 1: The theater with my two brothers.

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Speaker 5: We were just playing as my mother was on stage

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Speaker 5: and rehearsing rehearsing, and I just happened to look up

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Speaker 6: You still have those pieces?

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Speaker 3: When did you what was your first like job job?

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Speaker 5: thought as a as as an entertainer's honor. I was

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Speaker 5: Captain Cravings. That was my name, Cravings.

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Speaker 1: Fortunately there's no pictures to cooperation.

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Speaker 5: I had some bedazzled Chuck Taylors. I had on a

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Speaker 1: Nine seven Crave. And I had to fucking that was

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Speaker 3: Did you all just show up delivering things in the outfit?

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Speaker 1: That was the only way I could deliver the things.

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Speaker 2: You must have gotten so laid in the outs, I said,

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Speaker 5: Ever I said, if anybody ever orders this from Howard University,

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Speaker 3: That's a good that's a good person.

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Speaker 1: That was my That was my first act gate now

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Speaker 3: What like what you got your sade card?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? On my resume? Was I wanted? It was a

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Speaker 1: And I was in it with George Wynn And I'll

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Speaker 1: We had these double bangers. He was sitting on the

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: What was the gig though? That really made you believe

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Speaker 5: My second gig it was a half hour comedy with

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Speaker 2: That was your second gig.

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Speaker 1: That was that was that was That was my second gig.

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Speaker 1: And that was what year was that?

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Speaker 3: Nineties?

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Speaker 5: And and here's the thing. I was the first person

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Speaker 1: And we and we affectionately called it the cave. So

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Speaker 5: And it was just crazy. I was like, I got

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Speaker 5: My daughter was born February sixth, nineteen ninety six, and

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Speaker 5: the day, the morning of February seventh, I'm laying with

448
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Speaker 5: my daughter on my chest and I'm in a refiner

449
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 5: in the room, and my whole thing was is you

450
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Speaker 5: lived to with your mother's heartbeat for the last nine months.

451
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Speaker 5: The first heartbeat you're going to live with outside of

452
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Speaker 5: your mother is mine. Though I had her sleeping on

453
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Speaker 5: my chest and I don't think I slept that entire night.

454
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Speaker 1: I just stared at her. And at six point thirty

455
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Speaker 1: that morning, my cellphone. It's my mom. She said, where

456
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Speaker 1: are you at. I was like, me where I met?

457
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm at the house. You know, I just

458
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Speaker 1: had a baby. She said, what NBC is looking for you?

459
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: I was like, for what? To go to work on?

460
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Speaker 6: What?

461
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Speaker 5: And usually back on that show you did, But with

462
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Speaker 5: the rapper, I was like, in the house. He said yeah,

463
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Speaker 5: I said when she said eight third and I was like,

464
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Speaker 5: how do you know this?

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Speaker 3: Well?

466
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Speaker 5: They dropped this back in the day when they used

467
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Speaker 5: to drop off scripts at your crib. They dropped off

468
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Speaker 5: a script last night and it says you have to

469
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Speaker 5: be there at eight thirty to day and I was like, okay.

470
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Speaker 5: So hung the phone, kiss my kiss my daughter, kissed

471
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Speaker 5: my lady and said, Daddy gotta go to work. And

472
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Speaker 5: I drove into work with pictures. I had Polaroid pad,

473
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Speaker 5: a POLLOI camera so and I had another camera.

474
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Speaker 1: So on the way to work, I went to one

475
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Speaker 1: of those one.

476
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Speaker 5: Hour photo map places and I had the pictures delivered

477
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Speaker 5: and I showed them at the table, reading with pictures

478
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Speaker 5: of my newborn baby and thanking them for this because

479
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 5: my baby was born the last night, not even twelve hours.

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Speaker 3: I mean, but fatherhood must have shaped so much of

481
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Speaker 3: your career because you had her young, So it must

482
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Speaker 3: have been I mean, I would assume driving like definitely

483
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Speaker 3: a motivate, a driving force.

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Speaker 5: No, it was it was it got me focused, you know,

485
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Speaker 5: because at that time I was I was twenty five

486
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Speaker 5: at the time.

487
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Speaker 1: Young. It's like, you know, I can, I can, I can.

488
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Speaker 1: I can survive on my own, I can, I can,

489
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Speaker 1: I can make it on my own. But the moment

490
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Speaker 1: my lady.

491
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Speaker 5: Came home and told me she was pregnant with our kid,

492
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Speaker 5: that that changed it everything for me because now I'm

493
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Speaker 5: responsible for people.

494
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Speaker 6: You know, I can't go.

495
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 5: Through life it's like you're just figuring it out on

496
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Speaker 5: the fly and as I go along, because I'm no

497
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Speaker 5: longer a solo passenger.

498
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Speaker 1: You know.

499
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Speaker 5: I people with me now that you know, are depending

500
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Speaker 5: on me, and I'm responsible for uh and and and.

501
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: Having my daughter.

502
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Speaker 5: Got me focused on what it was that I needed

503
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Speaker 5: to do as an artist. And once I got focused,

504
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 5: it was just crazy. I realized that everything was always

505
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 5: right before me, you know. I was just focused on

506
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 5: other ship and becoming a father, open my eyes, so

507
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 5: all the things that I needed to be doing in

508
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 5: order to be successful at This is my dream.

509
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Speaker 1: This is all I ever wanted to do with life.

510
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: This is all I ever wanted.

511
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Speaker 2: Did you?

512
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 3: Did you always want to do comedy or did you

513
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: it was that your focus?

514
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 2: Or was it just to do what is an amazing

515
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: dramatic actor?

516
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Speaker 6: No?

517
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Speaker 3: I know, but but but but you've really made millions

518
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 3: and millions of people laugh, you know.

519
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: Which is.

520
00:28:59,480 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 5: So?

521
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Speaker 3: I wonder like, what was your Did you come into

522
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 3: it wanting to do more of one thing?

523
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 6: No?

524
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 5: I just wanted to come into it and be the

525
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 5: hardest and offer what I had. Comedy was was a

526
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 5: way in. You know, I'm funny by nature. I you know,

527
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 5: I get it from you know, it came from inside

528
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 5: my home.

529
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 6: I get it.

530
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 5: I got it from my mother. You know, I got

531
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 5: it from my friends growing up and realized that I'm

532
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good at this. Now.

533
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: If you were to talk to my friends, they're like,

534
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Anthony was never funny. He was never funny.

535
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 5: They're like, but I will tell you this, he did

536
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 5: always give you that one that would drop you to

537
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 5: your knee. We never knew when we were going to

538
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 5: get that one, but he would always hit you with one.

539
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 5: They were like, oh shit, he's funny. But up until

540
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 5: then I was nothing, and they take pride and.

541
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Speaker 1: Funny. It just happened.

542
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Speaker 6: I'm me go back for a second, because when you

543
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 6: had the kid or your wife was pregnant, you're on

544
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 6: the breezeway and you said, all right, I got to

545
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 6: get a job, and then two weeks later you're getting

546
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Speaker 6: a job. Where do you stand with your sort of spirituality,

547
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 6: with your idea, with this idea of sort of the

548
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 6: universe of working hard to get lucky. I mean, where

549
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 6: are you with that generally great question?

550
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 5: I believe it's uh And I'm going to be all

551
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 5: over the place with this answer, but it's going to

552
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 5: make sense. It's all about a manifestation, you know, and

553
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 5: and seeing those things for me. For seeing those things,

554
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 5: I never I stopped wanting for things in life a

555
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 5: long time ago because I realized I would always want

556
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 5: that girl, I would always want that car, will always

557
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 5: want to take that trip. I would always want I

558
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 5: would want something and I would never obtain it. It

559
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 5: was always just outside of my grasp. And I realized

560
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 5: a long time ago that in wanting for something, all

561
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 5: I did was create a want for it. I never

562
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 5: said that it was mine. I never claimed it as

563
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 5: my own. I never saw myself having it. I just

564
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 5: saw myself wanting those things. And I started to change

565
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 5: the way that I thought of things. And you know,

566
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 5: for meetings and auditions, I have my own little personal

567
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 5: mantra that I would say that I claimed this as

568
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Speaker 5: my own.

569
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Speaker 1: If it's meant for me to have, and if it's

570
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: meant for me, it's meant for me. And if it's not,

571
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: it's going to go to Kate.

572
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 5: If it's not, I can't be mad. And I get

573
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 5: that because it wasn't mine. So if I don't get

574
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 5: the gig, if I don't get that it wasn't mine

575
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 5: to get that, that's that I learned that there's a

576
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 5: higher power that we are connected to. And I realized

577
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 5: this at a barely early age. I realized this when

578
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 5: I was nine years old. I realized the power that

579
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 5: we have, but in particular the power that I had.

580
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 5: And I tell people all this all the time. I

581
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 5: was like, it's so simple that it's difficult because you

582
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 5: can't believe that it's this simple.

583
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: To tap into that, into the universe and claim and ask.

584
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 5: In all of that, I would always be up in

585
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 5: Canada making these movies Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton.

586
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: All these entre y'all.

587
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 5: And then one thing I just said, you know, I

588
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 5: said to myself, I said I want to be out

589
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 5: of the country and make a movie.

590
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,239
Speaker 1: And I kept going back up to Canada. And then

591
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: I was like, oh shit, hold.

592
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 6: On, it's not that we're going to go further.

593
00:32:59,000 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

594
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm not be specific in my ask

595
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 5: and it goes into specificity, right, And so I was like, well,

596
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 5: you know what, let me change how I asked for

597
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 5: these things. And I specifically, specifically said the next movie

598
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 5: I make, I will need a passport to enter the

599
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 5: country and it will be overseas.

600
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Speaker 1: And I say all that because.

601
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 5: At that time, all you needed was a birth certificate

602
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 5: to get into Canada and you just drive right up

603
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 5: and you can be there. And and I really, I said,

604
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 5: I was like, I keep asking for uh, you know,

605
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 5: to make this, make movies out of the country, and

606
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 5: I keep ending up in Canada. I got what I

607
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 5: was asking for, but it was coming to me in

608
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 5: its most general form, so it wasn't how I needed.

609
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: It, how I wanted it.

610
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 3: Smash cut to you in like Greenland.

611
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 5: So if I specifically made my ass the next movie

612
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 5: I make will be overseas, and I will need a

613
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 5: passport to into the country. In the next move I

614
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 5: make will be out of the country. I will need

615
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 5: a passport you into the country, and it will be overseas.

616
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 5: Three days later, after saying that, my manager calls and says, hey, am,

617
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 5: Jerry Bruckheimer is doing this movie in Australia, shoots for

618
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 5: six months. You're in a very short list. It's called

619
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,479
Speaker 5: down Under. He wants to meet with you down Under

620
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 5: then becomes Kangaroo Jack. So I go into my meeting

621
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 5: with Jerry O'Connell, who's already been cast in the movie.

622
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 5: We go meet and we do a few scenes. Before

623
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Speaker 5: I go into my scene.

624
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: What do I do?

625
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 5: I say my mantra, I claim this as my own.

626
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 5: If it's meant for me to have, I go in

627
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 5: there have one of the best auditions I have in

628
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 5: my life. A day or two later, I get a

629
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Speaker 5: call Anthony Jerry Brock Jerry Bruckhember loves you. The job

630
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 5: is yours now I also have to I also want

631
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 5: to back up when I when I made the claim

632
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 5: I never won the passport. I made the claim, uh

633
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 5: that the next movie I make will be shot over seas.

634
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 5: The very next day, I went to the passport office

635
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 5: and I got a passport to application. I filled it

636
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 5: up and I went through the process of getting my

637
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 5: very first passport, and then I get the call that

638
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 5: Jerry Bruckhammer wants to meet me to shoot this movie.

639
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 6: Wow, you're a manifestor well, I was about I was

640
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 6: about to say that, So we we've actually had people

641
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 6: on science, scientists who believe in manifestation. But it's not like, oh,

642
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 6: I want two feet of snow so my skiing is good.

643
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 6: It's deeper, and there's more physiological, actual science based and

644
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 6: backed sort of information on why manifesting can actually work,

645
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 6: you know, and for you. And I think this is

646
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 6: really important because I was always skeptical about it. But

647
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 6: I'm wondering for you, how did that? How does that

648
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 6: work itself out? Do you just speak it out loud

649
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 6: to the universe? Is that kind of how you do it?

650
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 6: Or do you get quiet or do you write it down?

651
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 6: Or what is your process with that?

652
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: My process is.

653
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 5: All three album Okay, I speak it out loud because

654
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 5: words are powerful. Yeah, you know, so that's why I

655
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 5: watched what I started to watch what I say with

656
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 5: regards to negative things, not even about myself, but just

657
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 5: putting negative energy out.

658
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 6: I got to work on that ship. Yeah.

659
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: I speak it out loud, I speak it in silence.

660
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 5: I write it down and in my other room over here, man,

661
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 5: I have a bag of magazines and.

662
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: I'm putting together a vision board. So I do that

663
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: as well.

664
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Speaker 3: You know you do vision boards. I love that they

665
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 3: did this thing that if you have a vision board

666
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 3: or or just the very thing you look at or

667
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 3: you read or you focused on right before you go

668
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 3: to sleep as one of like the best tools of

669
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 3: manifesting because your brain, that's what your brain starts, that's

670
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 3: what it basically like rests with that thought.

671
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: But you know what, kid, I need I need to

672
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: start doing it.

673
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 5: I you know, sometimes I would think about those things

674
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 5: and all that, but I've never really just looked at things.

675
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: Like that before I went to sleep.

676
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll take something and I'll be like, okay, right

677
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 3: before I go to bed, you know, because the phone

678
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: is just such a fucker, Like it's so awful for us,

679
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 3: you know, So I sleep out. I've gotten very ritualistic

680
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 3: about my night because I believe in the power of

681
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 3: words as well. I believe in the power of what

682
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 3: you're putting out and all of the positive output, you know.

683
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 3: Like I'm the kind of person probably like you or

684
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 3: if my friends are talking shit, they turn to me

685
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 3: and they're like, and I'm like, what do you I

686
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 3: don't do that. I don't know how to do that.

687
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm someone someone could be awful to me

688
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 3: and I could be like, they're probably having a bad day,

689
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 3: you know. But but yeah, so I started doing that

690
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 3: sort of visual thing, like what do I want to

691
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 3: be putting out?

692
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: Like what what?

693
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 6: What? What do I What am I looking for or

694
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 6: what am I Yeah, it's important, it's work. You have

695
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 6: to work with that because I'm not. I'm just kind

696
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 6: of speaking for myself. But it feels like default is

697
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 6: negativity in a way. You know. Our default is fear

698
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 6: from a primal place. Yes, we had, it's our condition

699
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 6: because we that's how we survived as humanity survived essentially

700
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 6: was fear, because that's how we you know, succeeded or

701
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 6: were able to save ourselves.

702
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 3: For anyone who's able to work in this business as

703
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 3: an actor or as an artist and actually make some

704
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 3: kind of living doing it. It might not be their

705
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 3: full living, but some kind of living doing it is

706
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 3: a privilege. It's an honor because it's so rare. And

707
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 3: for every one great artist, everyone, great musician, everyone, great actor,

708
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: there's a thousand of them just as good that have

709
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 3: never had the opportunity.

710
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 6: Mm hmm. This is what Brewer said. The director Kae

711
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 6: just in a movie called Song Sung Blue. By the way,

712
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 6: it's fucking amazing. She's going to be nominated for all

713
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 6: the awards. She is. She's incredible. It's really amazing. But

714
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 6: Craig Brewer, you know, do you.

715
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: Know Craig Craig wrote and directed Hustle, Hustle and Flow.

716
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course that's right, Yeah, of course.

717
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. You wait till you see the movie.

718
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay, he's in his pocket. He gave a speech

719
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 6: at at the premiere, and that's kind of what he

720
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 6: was saying, just you know about all of the other

721
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,280
Speaker 6: artists out there who have not hit who are equally

722
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 6: as good, if not better than some of the major

723
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 6: players in our business.

724
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly how it has been.

725
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 5: You know. We all have our own individual journeys, you know,

726
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 5: and I can't when we can't our journey to the

727
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 5: next person, we have no idea what it is that

728
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 5: they've gone through, you know, or what they're going through

729
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 5: in the moment. All I can be concerned about is

730
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 5: what I'm going through and what it means to me.

731
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 5: Because if everything that I see that's out there, if

732
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 5: I've claimed it as my own and I've been told

733
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 5: that it is mine, I am going to get all

734
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 5: that has been told is mine. And it has nothing

735
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 5: to do with greed or anything. It's just like, no,

736
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 5: I was told that that is mine right there, that

737
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,439
Speaker 5: is mine, right there, that is mine.

738
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to get it all. Now.

739
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 5: The other pieces that I leave behind, I'm leaving behind

740
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 5: because those aren't meant for me. I was told to

741
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 5: just because I have the ability to take it all.

742
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: I'm not taking it all.

743
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 5: I'm taking what was told was mine because that is

744
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 5: for somebody else, Just like somebody came into this room

745
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 5: and into this world and took everything that was supposed

746
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 5: to be meant for them. They left these things behind

747
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 5: because they were meant for me. And that's how it is.

748
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 6: It's cool.

749
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, best believe all the ship that I see that

750
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 5: has my name tag on coming, it's coming with me,

751
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to leave it behind.

752
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: It's coming with me.

753
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: I love it.

754
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, that's my favorite piece. Yeah, that's your

755
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 5: favorite piece, but my piece.

756
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 6: I love it.

757
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: That's inspiring.

758
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: Man, this has been my piece.

759
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, I love it.

760
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: You can come with me and admire it all that

761
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: you want, and I don't mind sharing it with you

762
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: and know, but best believe that's.

763
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 6: My barbecue I have. I have two triggers. I have

764
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 6: a green egg, I have Santa Maria grill. Like I

765
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 6: fucking love smoking and barbecuing, okay, and I'm decently good

766
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 6: at it.

767
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: He is he wanted to get really yeah, I wanted to.

768
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 6: I was more of the old school, you know, with

769
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 6: what you're doing your building, you know, queues out of

770
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 6: barrels and and really doing those like two stoves what

771
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 6: it called the the offsets, you know. Yeah, and then

772
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 6: I found the trigger. And I know it seems like cheating,

773
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 6: but it is so easy I can. I can set

774
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 6: it and forget it and it's fucking amazing.

775
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 5: Okay, you know, things are made to help people move

776
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 5: along what they gotta do, man, and I love it. Look,

777
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 5: I got into barbecuing because my dad was the youngest

778
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 5: of sixteen born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

779
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: Born on them.

780
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 3: That's where our feeling's from. Yeah, my mom's did and

781
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: my grandpa is aroundpa that's that's where.

782
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 5: That's where my dad's from, Little Rock, Arkansas, youngest of

783
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 5: sixteen on the farm.

784
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 6: Wow.

785
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 5: So you know, fucking his brother was an Irish twin.

786
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 5: He was he's eleven months younger than my uncle a dad.

787
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 5: So they were fifty sees and joined them to hit.

788
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 5: So my uncle moved out to La my father followed

789
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 5: him and uh and so my my dad would make

790
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 5: his own uh barbecue pits out of fifty five gallon drums,

791
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 5: welled them himself.

792
00:42:58,560 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: And so that's what I grew up in.

793
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 5: And so have this opportunity to uh to do this

794
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 5: this barbecue brand with with with Cedric the entertainer, you know,

795
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 5: my good friend, and we're both chefs. We both love

796
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 5: to eat, we both loved to cook. And every time

797
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 5: we take the Fellas golf trip, Sat and I are

798
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 5: the ones in the kitchen cooking for the group. Yes, yeah, yeah,

799
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 5: that's that's best best best best best friend you could

800
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 5: have in your life. Uh to best business partner, uh

801
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 5: and three just an all around great guy. And so

802
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 5: we had the opportunity to, uh you know, start this

803
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 5: barbecue lifestyle.

804
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: Brand and and we did. We have you know, we

805
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: have three seasonings. We have a midnight smoke, we have

806
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: something we call the m v P.

807
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 5: And we have a lemon our take on lemon pepper

808
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 5: we called the lemon Stepper and uh and we and

809
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 5: we have two sauces.

810
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: All day and our caroline line, our mustard bade son.

811
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 3: Well you said, can I can I send you both?

812
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: You both can get a package of everything.

813
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: You have to.

814
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 6: Uh you know, when did you start barbecuing? I mean

815
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 6: when did you start cooking?

816
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: You know, man barbecue as a kid. Yeah, my dad.

817
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: So my dad did. Every weekend. My dad would he

818
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: would go fishing down along Bach. He would come home.

819
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 5: He would barbecue fish, smoke fish, barbecue rings. I mean

820
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 5: he's the bigger as country boy.

821
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 6: That's what I do.

822
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: You know, I have a boat. I catched fish like

823
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 2: my face off. That's my passion.

824
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: You know, those were thats how I grew up so

825
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: young teenager.

826
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 5: Father taught me how to smoke, how to smoke, how

827
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 5: to cook with wood charcoal. Uh, and so it started

828
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 5: at an early age.

829
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: And I love it. I love it.

830
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 3: Oh that's so fun. I want to do a barbecue party.

831
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 3: Can we have a barbecue party?

832
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: We have a barbecue budding.

833
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 5: Come on, I'm sure we all between the three of us,

834
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 5: we have some of the best backyards.

835
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 3: Barbecue's barbecue party ever?

836
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 6: Don't you have?

837
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 2: Do you have a show about barbieq?

838
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 5: We we started great, said, and I created a show

839
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 5: called The Kings of Barbecue basically to bring attention to

840
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 5: us starting and building a business.

841
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 6: Got it.

842
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 5: So we were on an a four year while we

843
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 5: did that, and we're about to go back into production

844
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 5: and put it on YouTube and shoot these things that

845
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 5: the air workings of you know, two best friends in

846
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 5: Hollywood starting a business.

847
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.

848
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: We we we were able to open a restaurant at

849
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: the at the Westfield Ciphy City Mall called Ac Barbecue.

850
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 6: That's right up in the food court there.

851
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: We opened up in May. Uh do it pretty well?

852
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: Uh?

853
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: And just having a great time doing and traveling the world.

854
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 6: Fun.

855
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny. Because I have a deck.

856
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 6: I created a deck for I wanted to do a

857
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 6: sort of a low budget backyard barbecue show in my

858
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 6: actual home and so so it's almost like this reality

859
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 6: unscript of me cooking, but people come out. I had

860
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 6: it sort of formulated where you get these other chefs

861
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 6: coming in, but it's just very sort of off the cuff.

862
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 6: You're in my house and I am not a professional.

863
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 6: So it's definitely about the experience of getting.

864
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: There for an album.

865
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, dude, I love I love it. There's so much

866
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,360
Speaker 6: joy in cooking and when people eat your food, and

867
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 6: like it's in lives that do that for me, you know,

868
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 6: like fishing and there's certain things in your kids. But

869
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 6: when you cook something amazing and your family is eating

870
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 6: it and they're like, holy shit, this is unreal. There's

871
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 6: a pride. There's something that happens, some locksy toes, some

872
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 6: dopamine that comes out where you're just like, oh my god.

873
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 6: There's an addiction to it. You love that fucking feeling.

874
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 6: That's what I love about it.

875
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: I love it.

876
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 5: It's crazy. At the end of at the end of

877
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 5: the day, I don't find myself eating anything. I don't

878
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 5: either do I just find myself feeding people and just enjoying.

879
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: Yes, I've been enjoying what I was able to prepare

880
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: for them. That, yeah, that's my thing.

881
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 6: Because they're like, you want to gonna make it, You're

882
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 6: gonna make a play, And I'm like, no, I mean

883
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 6: I'll pick a little bit, like you know, yeah, well

884
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 6: we got to cook together, dude, looking forward to it.

885
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's play some golf too.

886
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 6: By the way, my kids, my boys became obsessed with golf,

887
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 6: which is got back into the game. So I'm playing

888
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 6: all of our kids.

889
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Speaker 3: It's like crazy, Hey, Oliver, bring them to the tournament, man,

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Speaker 3: if you always yeah, go over sometimes.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm working around with the kids. Now that

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Speaker 1: I know the kids play, bring them to the tournament.

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Speaker 6: Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Wait, wasn't wasn't such in the desert? He was in

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Speaker 3: the desert.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, third week of make This would be my uh

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Speaker 1: seventh or eighth year.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I gotta I gotta make it this year.

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Speaker 1: You gotta do it, allie fun all right, it was

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Speaker 1: a great conversation.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we'll see you, Sam, you got it all right, right.

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Speaker 6: I love that man.

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Speaker 2: He's the best, the best, always has been the most wonderful.

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Speaker 6: Energy I know.

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Speaker 3: Every time I see him just always brings that incredible.

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Speaker 2: Energy, killing it.

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Speaker 6: He's just he's just always doing cool ship and he's

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Speaker 6: so great. Yeah, Hustler works hard. All Right, I gotta go.

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Speaker 6: I have a pitch that I'm gonna be late for now.

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Speaker 2: I love you.

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Speaker 6: I know it's fun talking to you.