WEBVTT - OMAR GOODING - Eggcellent Noodles 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.480 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.320 I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.520 special guest actor Omar Gooding in the building. I'm very 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:11.920 excited to have you, Thank. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:12.520 You, happy to be here. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.000 I'm not as excited about the dish you're gonna make 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:16.439 me eat. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:17.239 Copy that come. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.400 Traditionally I ban rahmen across the board unless you're doing 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.680 something crazy with it, but go ahead. You could tell 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.600 our listeners what you're gonna have me eating today. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.480 Yeah, yeah, no, no, I mean it's it's funny because 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.440 we were talking about the old fashioned cup of noodles, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.440 how it's in a styrofoam cup, and we weren't even 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.320 supposed to put that in microwave as they say now, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:01:02.440 but we didn't care. We didn't care. You know, back 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.200 in my I used to call it my college years 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.040 when I had a lot of roommates. I never went 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.000 to college, never went to college, but you know, cause 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.680 I was an actor since I was nine years old. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:11.760 So when I was like in my twenties, I just 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.680 did a movie called baby Boy. So I had a 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.120 lot of roommates, you know, house full of house full 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.360 of house full of fellas. And I remember I was 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:20.679 eating a couple of noodles one day and my guy 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.800 was like, yoh man, you don't put the egg in 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.680 the noodles. And I said, what you what you on bumper? 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.560 He said, yeah, man, the cup of noodles. All you 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.600 do is you crack an egg right over the top 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.640 of the cup of noodles after you pour the water in. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.600 But don't pull the water all the way up to 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:33.520 where that line is. Just pull it up. Pour it 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.920 up to the top of the noodles right right, can 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.800 you Right when you can see the water, you crack 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.720 a raw egg, set it right on top, throw that 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.520 bad boy in there for three minutes, and watch it cook. Now. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:43.760 We did this before we got on air, so I 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.440 remember you were looking at all. Is it gonna be running? 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.280 Is it gonna be cooked? Bro? 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.680 I was watching you like a kid that has never 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.040 seen this project. I literally was like, oh, war like, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.880 You're gonna have to come over and do this because 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.280 I'm gonna mess this up. But I watched you do 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.640 this and I'm terrified. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.040 Yeah, yeah, we're taking a look inside. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.200 So we did it. Omar did it. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.240 He taught me how to put an egg in a 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.200 cup of noodles. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.480 I okay, now this egg. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.440 My biggest concern, and I was kind of annoying you 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.200 with this, was what the texture of this egg is? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.560 But a cook But look at that. Look at that 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.320 that may got mine is a little running. Now, if 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:27.840 it's a little running, you just dip it into that 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.000 hot water and then you just steer it up and 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.919 it'll cook. It'll all cook. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:35.960 Oh yeah, this looks. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.200 See the more the more you stir it up, the 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.919 more it'll cook. Now the key ingredient, because you really 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.359 got to let it sit. I think we did. We 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:45.200 let it sit long enough. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.000 Yes, yours sat mindset a little bit longer. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.919 But yeah, usually once you take it out of the microwave, 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.520 you got to start chopping it up and stearing it 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:53.480 and making that thing happen. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.800 Okay, so it's supposed to be thoroughly mixed in there. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.400 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't just like eat the 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.160 raw egg off the top of the thing, like what 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.079 does that? No? No, no, no, do you have to make 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:02.959 sure that the egg After. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.640 You learn this with the noodle, do you make all 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:05.680 your eggs with a microwave? 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.880 No, not a chance, No, no, no, this is just this 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.200 was this was the back end the day thing. You know, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.080 when we was lazy, We wasn't cheffing it up, you know, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.840 and having women cook for us and then figuring out 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.440 how to do it ourselves and so forth and so on. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.200 We was like, okay, look, we need to eat. We're 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.920 gonna be drinking tonight. Grab me that cup of noodles. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.520 You know what I'm saying. Get you a get you 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.839 an egg, set it on top. And then the key 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.560 ingredient is the hot to the sizzauce. You gotta have 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:31.519 hot to the siss ace. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.120 You're originally from La. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.440 I'm from La. Yes, born and raised. My parents were 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.120 born in Harlem. My, uh, you ain't gonna do that. Oh, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.920 you're really risking it down because hot sauce is the 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.560 only reason I said yes to this. You can't do 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:45.120 hot sauce. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.200 Well, that's why I said you're from LA, because I 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.720 feel like La is all about the hot. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.600 It's all about the hot to the sissauce. Yeah, you can. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.680 I put a drop in there, a drop. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.760 Okay, all right, don't drop the noodle the egg when 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.360 you can get down right? All right, here we go, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:58.400 we go break the diet on. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.240 He's on a diet guy. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.320 Yeah, it's a you know, you do the interimnute fast 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.280 and you know that's how it is nowadays. You gotta 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.600 stay right. You never know what that phone call is 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.240 gonna be for the next project. Shirt off. Wait a minute, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.160 I've been eating a couple of noodles for the last week. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.240 Now you can do that. You want to booge it up, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.240 put it in, put it in there. Oh yeah, let's 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:22.800 make it fancy. Hunh Yeah, noodle, gourmet egg noodle. What's 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.640 a cup of noodle? Now it's bowler noodle? Okay, man, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.040 you know you mix it up a little bit and 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.520 depending on how many noodles you want. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.240 I'm trying to try it with the egg peace. 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.480 Yeah, you gotta get a little pee, get adventurous. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.000 Here we go. I'm gonna try it. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.360 You're I'm gonna watch you when you dry. You just 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.080 kept straight faced. Okay. We don't know if she's wincing 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.360 because it's hot, or she's horrified. Look at the face. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.160 Look at the face. You ain't got no chase around 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:46.680 or you see you got the UHU just in case, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.919 gonna get you some uh You can't do it. I 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.640 haven't done this in about ten years, so I'm a 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.040 little nervous myself. Let me try it. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.760 Oh that's what I remember. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.240 So you didn't put enough hot sauce on it. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.320 I was sucked on a cough drop before. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.800 Are you just trying to sabotage my whole meal? 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.520 I do it because all our listeners complain if I 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.120 have a little bit of a cough, They're like, oh. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.960 But we're close to that pandemic still. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.320 So it's I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, the egg is 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:14.960 not is. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.520 Not doing it for You're not an egg person. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.160 Not in my noodles. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.880 Oh man, this is taking me back. I'm about to 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.000 call the homies up and started start a dice game. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.119 Look, this is a terrible way to come off a diet. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.240 Yeah no, this is right. This is shocking to here. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.800 I jog home. I ain't even gonna drive. This is it. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:36.520 Let me get one. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.120 Moment, right, So, yeah, your dish, I wouldn't. I would 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.760 probably never do this in my free time. Again, So broke, I'm. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.360 You can afford a little bit more than the noodle. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.599 But see the color in the texture of mind. The 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.760 more you mix it, the better it gets you know what, 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.919 just just look like regular little noodles with without no 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:56.480 hot talk. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.240 But it has like an egg flavor to it because 0:05:59.279 --> 0:05:59.839 you just took. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.560 A straight by to the egg, right into the egg. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:02.840 I don't know why you've bit the egg like that. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.080 Let's all mixed together like you have fried rice. Do 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.680 you fish out the egg or you don't really eat 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:07.600 fried rice? I love? 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.400 I think it's just me mentally knowing that the egg 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.159 was a little runny is messing with my brain. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.400 Yeah. See, but if you know, the more you mixed 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.920 that jone up, so you gotta constantly have your hands 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.520 moving at all times because the hand moving keeps mixing 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.839 the flavor. Because there's flavor in there that you have 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:24.720 to get to see that. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.320 See how look, Yeah, you can barely see your egg. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.800 You can't see the egg it's got you know, it's 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.600 in there in the broth. See your broth looks a 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.160 little pale too. I don't know why your broth looks 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.240 so pale. Well, let's seit my broth. Look at that thig. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.120 That's because you have hot sauce. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.920 Get your hot sauce in there. That is the point 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.240 for the message hot to the sissauce is the bisaus. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:46.279 You understand me. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.240 Take me back to what was going on in your 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.919 life during this time when you're so. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.160 This time, you know, it's it's like it's bachelor life. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.760 It's bachelor life. It's it's quick meals and push ups. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.520 And you in your twenties, so you ain't got to 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.200 worry about your weight. You know, you don't do none 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.040 of this in your forties with two young kids. This 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.320 is nah, this is two bites and that's about it. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.400 I can feel my stomach saying what are we doing already, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:07.720 I can feel it saying what are we doing? So 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.160 I'm just I think I'm eating enough for the program. Yeah, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.640 but yeah, it was it's about twenty years ago. Twenty 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.520 years ago. Like I said, I was explaining to you 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.120 now behind my wife makes noodles. When we say, hey, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.880 you know, let's have some some noodles. With the way 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.760 she does it is we take the ramen, we take 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.440 two packets and no, but yeah, you're two packets of noodles. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.440 You take the spices out of each one, so you 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.200 have two packets one cup of noodles. Throw it in there, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.320 you know, boil the water, put the noodles in It's funny. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:35.600 I made this the other day. It's crazy you say 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.000 this and then while it's cooking, you only cook it 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.680 for like, I think, two minutes. Same thing like it 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.720 in here. Then you crack the egg, throw it right 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.480 on top, and then you just keep stirring it, keep 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.520 stirring it, and the egg cooks right there in the broth. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.520 But it's in that chili broth, so I don't have 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.960 to add hot sauce to it, because. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.720 The chili flavor, the chili. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.000 Yeah, it's the chili, not just oh any old rama. No, No, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.480 the chili. That's the only one we use. We use 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.280 two chili packets. And that that that's goodness. That's it, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.240 doesn't It tastes way better than this I had, And 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.120 the egg is more Cooked're right. It doesn't look like 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.280 the white. You don't see the white fleshy parts of it. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.080 It looks more like a scrambled egg. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.640 I think when Tim Chantarrong suit taped with us, I 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.280 want to say he put egg in it, but he 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.280 put peanut butter in it, damn well, And it was 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.640 it was Tim Chantarong suit bless. And the one thing 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.160 that I did like about his was that he chose 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.160 a Thai flavored ramen, which I never think they had, 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.320 and they put like corn and onion. And let me 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.240 tell you something, I went home and try to remake 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.800 it a couple of mons, and I never saw peanut. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:35.720 He was eating broke. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.840 Yeah, but it was like a tie. They got different 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.760 flavored ramins. I never noticed that, but it literally changed 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:43.000 the game. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.840 Peanut Butter. I was like, peanut butter, Peanut butter. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.719 I won't even pretend to act like I'm gonna try 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.520 that ship. I don't really like peanut butter that much, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.600 for one, and my kid has a slight allergy to it, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.160 so I think that's probably just in my brain now 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.760 Reese's maybe, But then Halloween try to mess up here 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.280 about all that with the Reese's cups and if I'm. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.560 Alright, no, no, no, it's sad. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.080 It was it was recalling all type of candy, finding 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.360 stuff in and poison and little bugs and that, and 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.400 oh yeah, they said, dude, the recism. It's too like. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.720 Now when you're watching this, hopefully you ain't still eating 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.240 that candy from Halloween. Throw it out, throw it out. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:15.520 It gets worse. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:17.400 So in your twenties. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.520 You're with all these roommates, but you were acting, yes, ma'am, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:21.880 But you didn't have a day job. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.880 No that what what do you mean a day job 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.600 with acting? Yeah, that's not a successful actor. I've been 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.080 working since I was nine. Yeah. So yeah, No, when 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.600 you get paid, you ain't have to do shit on 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.400 the day. During the day, you sleep in, you know 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.400 what I mean. Acting pays well enough to where, uh 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.760 you can eat noodles and go to Vegas and then 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.079 uh be back to work on Monday. You know what 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:42.560 I'm saying. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.400 But at the time you said you had roommates. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.600 Yes, I did have roommates, but I they they some 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:49.240 of them were broke. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.680 So you were like the wealthy roomate. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.880 Yeah, exactly exactly. I was. There was just come live 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.719 with me. I got it. The house is big enough. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.680 There's plenty of rooms. I don't need all these extra rooms. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.160 You know. We had animals, pets, and you know, women 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.760 walking in and out of the doors every five minutes. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.400 You know. It was single fun life. That's what it 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.720 was felt like my college years. But I was paying all. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.760 The bills, but you were paying all the bills, yes, ma'am. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.560 All right, well, kind of tell me your story starting 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.079 from I guess we'll take it all the way back 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.120 to when you're nine. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.360 Yeah, so when I was nine years old, then we 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.600 were actually broke. That was, you know, because it actually 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.560 my story starts back a little further. So my father 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.080 was a singer with a group called the main Ingredient. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.360 He's singing hits like everybody plays the food. Just don't 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.080 want to be like everybody plays the food. Yeah. So 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.000 that was my father and my mother was also a 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.600 singer and they were from Harlem, raised in the Bronx. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.520 They had two kids, my oldest sister and then my brother, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.320 Cuba Gooding Junior, one year apart to the day, so 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.560 they shared a birthday. Then they moved to La I 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.080 was born five years later, and that makes my brother 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.160 and I our gap is nine years, my sister ten years. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.640 And then a funny thing happened, not that funny. My 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:58.240 father went to Africa during apartheid and it was a 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.720 big no no for the act in the US to 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.400 perform out there for them. They were telling him, don't 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.160 go out there, don't support this and that whatnot. My 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.720 father was like, shit, I'm gonna go wherever I want. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.920 So when he came back, he got blacklisted. They pulled 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.920 his records off the Yeah, he pulled pulled his records down. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.760 He had to start pretty much start over from scratch. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.680 So be it that we were in Los Angeles. He 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.719 went on the road, you know, touring, and basically he's 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.360 from New York. He he basically was in New York 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:23.960 for most time, and he would we would see him 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:25.320 when would see him type of thing. So I wouldn't 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.280 really see my father. A whole lot going up, and 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.920 you know, we parents they were still together. They actually 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.800 did divorce when I was around twelve years old, and 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.360 then they remarried when I was eighteen years old. My 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.240 father's deceased, so but yeah, no, but they did. They 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:42.920 did remarry. Like I said, they remarried and they were 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.320 together until till he passed. But yeah, so that time 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.200 in between, my brother had an idea. He said, I 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.360 want to become an actor. So we were living. We 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.920 actually lost the houses that we were in and moved 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.960 back in with my my mother's parents, my grandparents that 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.040 lived in Victorville, So we stayed with them for a 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.839 couple of years until my grandfather said, nah, you got 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.840 to find a way, all right. So we loaded up 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.320 in a Bobcat station wagon, the four of us and 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.719 a great name. It was a great name by the 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.400 side of you, yes exactly. So we had one of 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.920 them in the car with us, and we sat out 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.000 on the road and we traveled from the High Desert 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.840 through Orange County and finally settled in to Luca Lake, California. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.760 We had our first apartment, and that's when it got 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.400 a little better. You know. My brother kept booking small 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.640 stuff and whatnot. And then when I was nine years old, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.680 I actually went in to pick up a script for 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.280 him from his agent. She saw me and said, wow, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.960 you speak very clearly for a nine year old, and 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.400 you got a nice bright smile, no braces. Let me 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.040 send you out on some auditions and see how you do. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.800 I begged my mom. She said, all right, fine, we 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.079 can try it. Why not, what's to lose? And I 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.680 went on on two auditions and my first try and 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.880 I booked the second one. Wow. Yeah, So and it 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.960 was for a McGruff. The Crime Dog was an industrial 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.840 film that gets played in the schools, right, so I 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.680 kind of stayed at it. Stayed at it. I booked 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.480 a movie called gold Dad. About a year later, with 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.640 starring Bill Cosby, I was on a show called Webster, 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.920 which was like my first speaking robe prior to the 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.360 Cosby And then when I turned twelve years old, I 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.560 landed a regular series role on a show called Wild 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.800 and Crazy Kids for Nickelodeon. And at that time, my 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.960 mother was able to quit her job and become my manager. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.360 Right at the same time, my brother's still doing his thing, 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.480 and he's you know, he's getting parts like saying elsewhere 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.560 and two to seven, and you know he's doing this. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.040 Did this bring your guys relationship really close? Because you 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.439 were both in acting? You and your brother? 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.920 Uh No, not at all. And I said, like that 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.679 kind of to be funny, but that's the thing. You know, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.880 a lot of people that realized that we're actors saying 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.480 why I didn't I I mean, when they realize that 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.360 we're brothers, say, man, I didn't know you guys were brothers. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.680 It's not that we're not close, but it's really more 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.000 like a father son relationship. As far as the gap, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.079 you know that nine years, that's like, you know, it's 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.600 ten years, a whole decade, you know what I mean. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.280 He's breakdancing and I'm rapping like it's it's just two 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.480 different almost cultures in a way, you know. But his 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.439 friends weren't my friends. Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.000 It was more like, you know, go get your own friends, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.040 big brother type of thing. He was real, you know. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.240 So it's like when he he left the house at eighteen, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.480 you know, so he moved out and to pursue his career. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.920 Now I'm just ten years old, eleven years old, and 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.600 I'm like the man at the house because my father's 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.559 out on the road, so he's never there type of thing, 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.240 you know. So I just kind of grew into my 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.800 own at a young age. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.280 So when you're booking these young acting roles, did it 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.720 they have the things where like when you're young, your money. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:22.400 Gets put in a trust. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.560 Absolutely, So how was your mom able to quit her 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.480 job and manage you if your money was in a trust? 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:27.520 Not all of it, just half? 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:28.280 Oh only hah. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:29.960 Yeah. Yeah, they don't put the entire money and there 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.800 you got to you gotta live off something. So you know, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.880 it paid well enough. That's how good acting pace, you 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.600 know what I mean. So at half of it, I didn't. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.760 I wasn't able to touch until I was eighteen. The 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.480 first half I was able to, you know, have bills 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.600 in my name, you know what I mean. So you know, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.200 so it was you know, it was fun life, you know, 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.800 and I just it just went NonStop for me. You know. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.600 So when I booked this series Wild and Crazy Kids, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.000 it ran for three years. Right when it ended, now 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.160 I'm around fifteen years old. I booked a show called 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.600 Hang with Mister Cooper that was on Channel seven that 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.800 ran five years, took me through high school, and then 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.280 right when that ended, I booked a series called hang 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.680 with I mean I'm sorry, called smart Guy. Smart Guy 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.480 ran for another three years. Now I'm twenty four years old. Yeah, right, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.800 so it's oh, you didn't go to college and then 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:12.960 went in high school. I was like, I got a 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.480 full time job, you know what I mean. It pays well, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:15.640 I got and I'm good, you know what I mean. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.560 So then when I was twenty four, I got a 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.920 call from the late great John Singleton who called my 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.160 mother because she was my manager, and he specifically told her, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.840 I made one of your sons a movie star. I'd 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.640 like to make your other son a movie star as well. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.160 I have this script called Baby Boy that I want 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.000 you to read. And then I read that, and it, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.880 you know, blew my mind because you know, my friends 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.800 at the time, which are still my close friends that 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.640 I that I kick it was still you know, we 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.440 stay as touch as much as we can. We're real cats, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.640 you know what I mean. And I say that like 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.760 people say, hell, you grow up in the industry, So 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.760 did you hang out? Do you know this? And you 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.720 know this person? You know that person? I'm like, not really, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.640 I work with them and then that's that. But I 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:54.880 don't know, I don't want them to have my back 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.440 and we're out in the streets. I don't know if 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.480 beon Ardo DiCaprio can fight, and I don't want to 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.760 find out if he got hands. And I you know, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.200 I got got real cats behind me that you know 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.080