WEBVTT - Fields to Film Sets - Terry Crews's Unexpected Journey 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:05.360 How you doing? 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.560 This is Freddie Rodriguez and I'm Wilmer Valderrama. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.520 And the Dos a Egos podcast. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:11.800 We're here with Terry Crews and we just started the 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:13.200 story about a puppet show. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.560 I want to hear the story about the puppet shows. Man, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:16.560 what's the show? 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.400 It was wild because Wilmen was doing this puppy show, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:20.440 Hollywood puppet show. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:20.960 Yeah. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.079 And first of all, I love animation. I love puppets. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.200 I love the whole thing. And I said, oh my god, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.640 like I have to do this. I get the invite 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:33.320 to tell a story, right, and they basically animate this 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.760 story using puppets, and it was genius. And they're like 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:42.559 Mary like, they were like real detailed, amazing. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.160 The heads really look like the people. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.520 Yeah, picture with it and suit on an old thing. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.880 And it was like, oh my god, we gotta find 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.080 out where those puppets are. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.800 By the way, because those puppets are around. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.040 You know. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.760 We said, did you ever take your puppets? 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.279 I didn't take No, I didn't take out. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.800 Okay, I'll find it my personal shrine of humans. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:11.119 But the speakeasy basically that that we built, we built 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.200 this show. I thought, oh, man, you know be really 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.880 fun if like all of us have this crazy story 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.039 that we've never told before, and the idea was that 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.720 we use marionettes to to bring. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.399 That story to life. 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.840 Right, So we would basically design all these marionettes and 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:31.280 every every notable friend who came to to tell the story, 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.360 we would do a replica of their of their face 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:35.960 into a into a puppet. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:41.040 So it was called the Hollywood puppet Ship Show. And 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:42.480 it was so fucking funny. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.959 Like and I had so many friends, like our boys, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.040 Steve Oki, like Joe Jonas and Gina Rodriguez, and like 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.680 we had everybody come and tell the story. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.279 It was so it was so funny. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.680 It's a random genius. Thank you, Thank you. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.160 It's a cool idea, man, because you could whatever you 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.720 can't say in real life, you can get away with puppets. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.040 You know what I mean. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.200 You're forgiven. You're forgiven. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.240 Wow, man, this is how even you know, when you 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.080 look at the South Park guys, they got away with 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.519 the hand put it in puppetry and like all stuff, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.360 you could never ever say so. But even though it 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:16.239 was like VH one. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 Wasn't it, Yeah, it was it was like sitting again 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:20.919 on all of them maybe they're really good. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:22.560 People love this show. It's very cool. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.760 And the story, what story did you told you? 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.160 The story was so it was one of the most 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.120 horrendous periods of my life. Like I just moved to 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.520 la And what was crazy is that I was, you know, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.920 I retired from the NFL, and I wasn't a superstar. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.640 See a lot of people think you were in an NFL, 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.639 but I was on the end of the roster. There's 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.519 like the last ten fifteen guys on the roster. They're 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.119 just they're holding on. Man. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.800 We got the NFL minimum. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.720 And what happened is I would play one year and 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.840 then get cut and then set out so that money 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.839 had to last for two years and then get picked 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:02.480 up us and I play again and then get cut again. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.640 And so it was a really really again Me and 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.960 my wife were going through all of it. But this 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.520 was a wonderful part of the story is that when 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.239 I when I met my I'm gonna give you a 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.240 little background. When I met my wife in college back 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.919 and it was nineteen oh it had to be eighties, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.600 probably eighty nine, no, no eighty eight, and I looked 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.200 at her and we were dating and we were trying 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.040 to getting interested in I say, look, I said, first 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.960 of all, one thing I'm gonna do. I'm gonna play 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.440 in the NFL, and then I'm gonna move to LA 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:34.680 and we're gonna make movies. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:36.120 Oh Eve. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.200 Even back then, I. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.520 Told this is I listen. I called it and we 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.200 were outside of a Windy's. Wendy I'll never forget. She 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.440 was like, that's what I'm down, babe, let's go, and 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.520 I was like cool. After my there was a point 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.800 when I had come back from a tryout with the 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.000 forty nine ers and I broke my finger and I 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.800 was so like done. Like there was a moment I 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:02.120 was like, no more like football, It's not in me anymore, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:07.080 the energy. But I love entertainment. And then you have 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.240 to understand I didn't. I didn't want to come out 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:09.840 here to act. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.240 She's crazy. I was trying to get behind. See. I 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.680 had a movie that I shot with my boys in 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.279 Detroit that was terrible, like and we were getting kicked 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.640 out of locations, we broke lost all our money, and. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.640 I said, this is the best thing in my life. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:31.080 Like I'm energized by this. This horrible experience is energizing me. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.080 I was this working and I knew that's what I 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.760 needed to do, but so football was was leaving me. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.400 And then my wife looked at me. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.480 She said, remember when we said you said we were 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.159 going to move to La make movies. Yeah, she said, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:47.680 let's go, let's go. And when she gave me that 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.560 green light. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.000 Bru do it? 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.920 You understand, was like she said, babe, yeah, we're wrong, 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:54.279 let's go. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.360 Hey did you say that? 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:08.040 And I said, wake up, let's go, let's get it. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.680 We loaded everything we have into our Nissan Pathfinder. At 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.280 the time, nan. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.320 It was hot until it wasn't you know about the 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:21.920 wheels were falling off that thing. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.320 But we loaded our two daughters at the time they 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.440 were little baby girls. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.400 We have five kids now, moved out to LA and 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:30.919 didn't know a soul. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.159 But the whole thing was like, I'm gonna take this 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.560 little edit that I had still piece of stuff, and 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.880 I'm gonna get investors and I just want to do 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.520 that whole you know, Spike Lee, you know Robert Townsend, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.520 work it from the bottom. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:44.040 Up, you know what I mean. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.039 Independent, You know this that energy man went out here 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.520 and went broke, like broke, broke past broke, and what 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.640 was happening. We got this duplex in Burbank and this 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.880 lady who we rented it from, she was crazy and 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.400 we caught her coming out of our apartment. We just 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.440 rented it, and we got her coming out of our apartment. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:08.840 After you were living there. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:09.320 Yeah. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.000 Wait, we already moved in, like we've been there for 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.720 like a couple of months. And she was she comes out, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.960 she heard our car pulling up, and she jumped run 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.640 out of the place. It's a terrible little spot and 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.000 I'm like, what are you doing? I do I'm checking 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:28.320 on something. Oh my god. And then she's just behaving erratic, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.880 she's going nuts. And then my daughter is drawing on 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:32.600 the sidewalk. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:33.240 We cut her. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.200 Next day, my daughter's d drawing on the sidewalk with 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.200 chalk and she comes over and you don't do that 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.120 to my chalk woak on the mace sidewalk, and she's 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.400 going nuts. Man, I don't know where she's from. It 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.400 was the weirdest accent of all time. Like it was like, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.680 I don't know if it's Oh, she's yelling at my 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.160 little baby man, and I'm going, okay, okay, And now 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.240 I'm doing security now because it's not working out. I'm 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.040 just doing security on movie sets. And I did security 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.679 on Friday next Friday before I ended up in Friday 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.040 after next, right, I. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.280 Was doing security on the original Friday. Well, no, the 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:17.240 second Friday. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.960 We shot that all the way up and that was 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.040 up in Santa Clarita where they were in the cul 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.280 de Sac and the whole thing. And I was standing 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.880 out there and Cuba Parkings car. Now I wasn't real like, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.560 I wasn't like a bodyguard. I was like security, Like 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.120 the cars are there, you watch that thing and don't move, 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.360 you know, twelve hours. And I was just like, but 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.840 I want to be writing my little ideas. I have 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.640 my little stuff. And I was all, sometimes I do 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.480 all these you know. It was Cast Security, which was 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.480 these cats that you know, they kind of had a 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:52.080 stranglehold on the industry, and I became one of their 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.880 main guys because they were like. People started to request me. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.720 And so I'm going coming back from the security gig 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.720 and I'm finding out there yelling and I don't think 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.800 so she's yelling at my daughter. I decided to go 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.920 over to the lady's house and I said, look, because 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.920 I already called her in a couple of minutes. I said, look, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.560 don't come over the house anymore, like I knocked on 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.240 the door, and I just that was my job to 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.840 just tell her that. I say, ma'am, please just don't 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.040 come over the house anymore because I can't afford to 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:20.520 get out. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.880 We have no money. So she says, what the hell 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.560 get out of my place, and then she. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:35.000 Gonna do what no man, come on, spits in my face. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:35.680 Get out of here. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.040 Oh it's crazy. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.840 And I'm like, first of all, like what you understand 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.679 the type of individual that you have to be for 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.240 that to be an instinct, like an instinct in you 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.640 to be like, oh, this is how I'm going to 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:50.600 handle this block. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.720 It's like you have to be. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.280 I mean, I'm going to spare the names, but you 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:03.000 gotta be something so like just ugly inside. So go 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.760 to that the most Like that's just like the craziest 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.160 sound of disrespect, Like it doesn't get more disrespectful than that. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.000 Like it doesn't like I'd rather you kick me, yes, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.680 But the spin is like you spit on the ground, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.920 you spent on someone you hate, you spent on someone's grave, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.800 you know, like thee but to spit in someone's face. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.360 You're telling them that you're worse than nothing. Wow, And dude, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.360 I'm a And this is another thing because what I 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.040 was going through at the time, I didn't know what 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:40.800 we were going to make it. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.480 I didn't know what was It's the most vulnerable time 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:45.000 of your life. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.240 Bro. I had the NFL. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:53.079 It's over and I'm going, oh, you know, I saw 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.760 all the big things in bright lights, and all of 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.280 a sudden, I'm down in a little duplex in Burbank 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.000 with my wife and two kids. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.200 I'm struggling, and I'm going by the hour like, oh 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.880 my God, like wull I ever see something again? Like 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.040 you know, you don't get to you don't even want to, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:10.560 you don't. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.640 Don't want to stay it out loud to you, lady. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.400 You know stress, I was having an acid reflux and 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.040 you're just wondering, like in LA it's hard and cold 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.560 because they don't know you, and you got to go 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.800 through at least three four years of bullshit like no, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.320 like people talking junk and yeah yeah yeah and no 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.240 meaning no no no. So I'm just in all this 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.960 and then they get this and I know I can't move. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.720 I know I can't afford it. And I'm like, now 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.920 if I if I beat this woman. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:47.320 To be like. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.720 Like, well, now I'm in Burbank, which is a whole 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.360 nother animal. Everybody know in La Burbank believes is different 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:56.240 than the other police. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:57.120 You know what I mean. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.199 But that old white guy with that coming in there, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.080 with that whole fifties attitude, the fifties haircut. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.480 The Portos community reached for them. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:05.760 You know. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.000 You see, Porthos is how they get the community out 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.479 of Porthos. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.359 It is with the potato balls. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:16.280 They think they hang. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:22.280 Yeah, I know you can't hand because you have you 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:27.960 think you can handles you Porthos is in Yeah, but 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:28.840 you know what I'm saying. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.760 And do they I knew they would put me under 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.240 the jail, like there's nothing I could do, so do 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:40.800 I wiped my face and you're talking about having to think, think, think, think, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.040 like what am I going to do? And I went, okay, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.160 I remember wiping my face. I didn't say anything, and 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:48.680 I just got back in the car and I went 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.520 home and I said, Babe, I came home and told 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.240 my wife, I said, and we called the police. I said, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.920 call the police, honey, I said, this woman spit in 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.120 my face. This is crazy, dude. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.480 Wait. The police were there in five minutes and I went, whoa. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.120 I said, wow, I said, we just called you. I 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.920 said no, no, no, no, no, she called us on you. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.160 What she said you attacked her? 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:16.920 Now, man, I. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.720 Got just three levels, so I mean four octaves even 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.600 more intense. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:25.640 Rah. Now I'm a big black man in bird Bank. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.880 They came in with their hands on their guns because 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.040 I'm thinking, hey, you're here already, and they're like. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.680 Hey, yeah, we're here because she called on you. And 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:40.480 I went, whoa, what she said you attacked him? I said, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:41.960 we're here to arrest you. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:43.360 Oh my what? 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:44.840 Huh? 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.520 Wait? I said no no, I said, oh okay. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:54.800 And man, something just downloaded from I don't know, from heaven, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:13:00.240 like God just saw it downloaded, I said. I said, okay, okay, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.439 I said, you can arrest me, but you have to 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.360 arrest her too, I said, because I have a complaint 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.640 against her, So let's both go to jail. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.400 Are we okay with that? 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.400 And the cops were looking at each other like, damn, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.560 he's got a point, right, I said, okay, we're not 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.200 going to arrest your dude. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:23.200 This is what I'm saying. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.160 Like if I'd have been like no, no, no, no, 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:31.240 but somehow I thought it's just like I said, It 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.480 wasn't me being smart, it was just God saying, listen. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:34.880 Tell them this. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.439 You know what I mean, like, because you got family, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.040 you got people to take care of. This is over 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.120 like you got and I see what this woman is doing. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.800 So they said, no, we don't have to do that 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.920 because they want They didn't want to arrest it. And said, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.760 but she says you got to get out of here, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:56.559 and you're being evicted, right, my god, worst story ever man. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.199 And so but then I went to one of those 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:04.080 family law places and they said, okay, since she is 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:05.920 trying to evict you the whole thing, you don't have 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.800 to pay rent anymore. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:10.160 Protected. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.880 I went, what California. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.360 It's California law and said, so you gotta wait till 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.880 they can figure it all out, and the whole thing. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.760 And we went four months trying to figure this all out. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.360 I said, don't pay the rent, said don't do it, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:27.600 and now I had it saved up. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.760 Wait wait because if you would have paid it, then. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:35.360 What well, it's it's literally because of her complaint against 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.560 me and the attempt to evict has now kicked in 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.240 this and I didn't want to go. And it wasn't 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.680 for lack of finances. It was some of the order thing. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.280 You had to let the court settle it out and 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.840 you had to wait for the court, so don't move, 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.480 and nobody could literally move. But it was our advantage. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.960 I was like, oh my god, like, okay, okay, what's next. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.800 And then while we were doing that, my wife was 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.280 working and all these things out and there we need 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.120 to find another place to live. Okay, we need to 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.160 find So we had like three four months to find 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.120 another place too. We ended up moving across the street 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.040 and this man who just knew this lady was crazy. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.840 He was like, hey, I'm moving out. I saw what 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.560 you're going through with her. Hey, I got a new place. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.400 It was beautiful, it was gorgeous, and I said he 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:24.920 Then he said how much it was? 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.080 And I said, I can't afford that. I can't afford it. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.360 Damn it, I said, I can't afford it. He said, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:33.760 what can you afford? 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.160 Come on, man, dude, I'm getting choked up. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.120 I'm sorry, I'm getting choked up there. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:51.080 We opened him. That's the way you gotta look at me. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:16:05.640 Oh, man, dude, he said, what can you afford? I said, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.440 I can afford this and he said, I'll take it. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.160 And man, me and my little girl, my wife, my 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.840 little girl. She's in the little wagon. We moveing our 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.600 stuff across the street. And that was. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.840 That was. But the story I told was Devil White Puppets. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.880 That we told that story with puppets. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.400 Oh they told that story with puppets. But you know, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.680 but we ended up. And now I look back at 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.800 those those times, man, because moving out here, man, it 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.560 was so hard because I, like I said, I. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:41.760 Didn't know what was going on. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:43.400 I didn't know what was gonna happen, but I knew 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.200 we were after this dream. Me and my wife was 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.080 just like, we gotta we gotta make it work. So 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.680 we were so broke. There were times we would have 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.480 pizza night, like me and my family loved Friday night, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:53.080 Pizza night. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.960 And this is back with Blockbuster and the herd thing. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.840 And I used to park outside of the Blockbuster to 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.120 wait for people to bring the movie back. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:09.719 Yeah, yeah, a new release. You know, you know, you 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.240 see somebody bringing in the box. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.720 Some of you don't know what blockbusters and plays where 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.119 you're going. Rented a VHS movie, but sometimes the new 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.720 releases they only would have two copies, so you gotta 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.720 get there, you know, to actually get the movie. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.399 You know, my baby girls want to see the newest 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.840 thing and the new Disney thing that just kept. So 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.960 I used to approach people in the cars when they 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.359 be pulling up, like, hey man, you got it, you 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.679 got ye hey man, leave me alone, leave them alone. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.399 But what what what happened is the guy would come 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.399 out and you see it in his hand, Hey man, 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.840 is that you're intersecting? And as soon as he put 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.160 it in, like I want that one. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.680 Yeah, I would be parked out for like an hour 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.159 or two hours to get the hot movie then and 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:56.679 then I would take we literally would take flower yeast, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.560 the whole thing, and I would make joke. Yeah listen, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.320 sure Little Caesars was like we couldn't afford that, so 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.960 big flour dough and I would make a freaking dough. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:15.000 Yeah. Then we would put spaghetti sauce and we we 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.560 had we knew we had some cheese. Yeah, that was it. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.160 You're speaking so hard to my heart. First of all, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.600 I just want to say thank you for telling us 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.800 that story again. It's uh, it's it's not just humbling, 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.359 but it's also kind of reassuring of all of our stories, right, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.959 I mean, we we all have a tiny little bit 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.320 of a version of your story. And when we first 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.879 came to the United States, same thing. We were to 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.879 the ninety nine and store for the groceries, you know, 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.199 you know, and like, even even though I didn't I've 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.920 told this this joke before. It's like, we couldn't get 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.959 Coca cola, so we get cola, you know what I mean. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.119 We couldn't get Captain Crunch. We just get crunched. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:51.880 Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:52.800 You know. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:57.040 But but the point is, like somebody was watching this 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.200 whole time, you know, and somebody was watching and knowing 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.000 that the blessing was going to. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:03.640 Change your life. 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:05.159 It was going to give you the run where you 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.520 needed to continue to dream on the level you were, 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.560 you know, and nothink you know anything from there will 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:12.280 be coming up. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.240 But this is so strange. This is what's so strange. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:23.040 And it's strange, dude. I've been in the most opulate 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.440 places in the entire world, the biggest hotel, the best 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:28.120 of everything. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:36.560 It wasn't as good as that pizza. Oh my god, I'm. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.119 Trying to tell you the movie and the pizza and 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.080 me and my little girls, all of us, Me and 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.240 my wife, my little girl. We all just sitting there 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.120 and I'm like, we're doing it. We're doing it. We're 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:51.600 gonna make it. Yeah, dude, again, we've had everything, you know. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.040 Now it's like, oh, you get a car, you get this. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.920 They're like, but man, when you go back, those times 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.720 are so precious and. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.120