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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests, actor philanthropists. I can't believe I said it

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Speaker 1: without messing up that words good actor philanthropists. Kareem Grimes

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Speaker 1: is in the building. You may know him from the

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Speaker 1: Vince Stables show All American. He goes all the way

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Speaker 1: back the Boys in the Hood. But we currently watch

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Speaker 1: you all television right now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, thank you for having me. And this is exciting.

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Speaker 2: We got all the things here. It's taking me back

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, what are.

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Speaker 4: You gonna have? What are you gonna be cooking us

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Speaker 4: for lunch?

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Speaker 3: Oh? So one of my bugle males.

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Speaker 2: Is we have a salad cutons, tomatoes, avocado, and I

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Speaker 2: would usually do handseer salmon and you know, chop some

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Speaker 2: board eggs in there and have a nice little salmon salad.

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Speaker 3: Then I like that with a little bossamic vinagarette.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good. You guys got like you what I get?

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Speaker 2: What I usually get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know what, I tried to ridicule Michael

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Speaker 1: back there because I.

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Speaker 4: Was like, you got iceberg, We should have got spring mix.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I usually do spring mix. Yeah, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: so you.

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Speaker 4: Know, maybe maybe he ate Iceberg.

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Speaker 3: Nah, Nah, I did spring mix.

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Speaker 1: You're hilarious. And guys, just so you know, I did

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Speaker 1: give Kareem a hard time. We went back and forth out.

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Speaker 1: I was like, are you sure this is what you

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Speaker 1: ate when you was broke? Do you understand the concept?

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Speaker 1: He was like, yes, I do, and this is what

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Speaker 1: I did. So why don't you go ahead and get

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Speaker 1: started cooking up our meal?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure.

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Speaker 2: The most important thing is, you know, because we're black,

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Speaker 2: because we got a season, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Fish, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So I usually do a little Larry's and I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: good with this, so I'm you know, I eyeball it.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, not too much.

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Speaker 4: That's how I am.

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Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm doing. Four is really like seasoning,

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Speaker 2: is that, you know what I mean. I'm not I

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Speaker 2: don't go too overboard on the seasoning.

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Speaker 3: So that's good.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is actually the first time that I'm actually

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Speaker 2: doing an interview and I'm actually cooking, So.

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Speaker 1: Tell me how easy it is. And when it's over,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like doing it. Well, they

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Speaker 1: get excited and they'll pick like a complicated dish and

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, that's a lot harder.

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Speaker 4: Than I thought.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, for me, it

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Speaker 2: was just like I had to once you know, I

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Speaker 2: got on my own and I had my own spot.

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Speaker 2: That was just like the main thing, Like you had

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Speaker 2: to you know, I couldn't survive off of just cereal,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. For me, it was just

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Speaker 2: like yo, and I was on my health journey, health kick,

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Speaker 2: so it was just like koreem, you gotta be able.

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Speaker 3: To cook something, yeah, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 3: for me, a.

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Speaker 2: Salad is simple, you know what I mean, and then

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Speaker 2: you can add the chicken or the fish. And I

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Speaker 2: love creutons and avocas and tomatoes.

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Speaker 3: I was like, goodness, I love Crewtons because when I.

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Speaker 1: Order a salad, I'm always like.

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Speaker 4: Remove the croutons.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Crewtons are like that's that's that that adds on to

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Speaker 2: to the salad, like for real, for real, Like that

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Speaker 2: gives it that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. So that's what it

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Speaker 3: was for me, Like it's so hard and crunching, that's

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Speaker 3: what you want, big, It's good.

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Speaker 1: It's good to eat it the way you made it.

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Speaker 4: And what are you seasoning your salmon.

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Speaker 3: With a little garlic powder?

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Speaker 1: And of course laryes gotta have that, Larry.

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Speaker 4: You see we got less sodium on it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Are you gonna add onion powder?

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Speaker 2: No? Yeah, I'm gonna add a little bit of onion

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Speaker 2: powder in there. And the reason why is because I

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Speaker 2: saw my mom do it. So I was just like,

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Speaker 2: you know, they had that onion powder in there to

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Speaker 2: make it all good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel like garlic powder and onion powder their kind

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Speaker 1: of husband and wife Joe, Like.

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Speaker 4: I can't do one with the other.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like, but I do cut onions in the pan,

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Speaker 1: I have to do garlic, and now as I get older,

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Speaker 1: I have to add lemon.

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Speaker 3: Zest to it. Yeah that's good.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's.

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Speaker 1: Nothing better than garlic, onion and lemons zest.

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Speaker 3: Sure for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, So you're gonna pants here it with some

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Speaker 1: what's that olive oil?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Olive oil.

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Speaker 2: That's what I usually have, you know, just to kind

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Speaker 2: of stay away from the butter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a butter fiend, but I'm learning then. I

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Speaker 1: think that's where my belly fats coming from like I

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Speaker 1: have a nice little layer of belly fat, and I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure it's because I go through like a stick

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Speaker 1: of butter meal, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So once again, like I said, this is a part

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Speaker 2: of you know, really me being on my health kick

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Speaker 2: and really just being conscious of, you know, what I'm eating.

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Speaker 3: And also something that was affordable. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: It's not expensive. I mean, now, salmon is hell expensive,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So for me, it was

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Speaker 2: just like, all right, let's get something that can stretch too, a.

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Speaker 3: Salad and stretch a salad. Get a bag of salad.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta eat it, guys, because I'm one of

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Speaker 1: those people I go on a salad streak and then

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Speaker 1: I'll be throwing out a bunch of salad.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, noa, noa, NOA. Let me tell you something.

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Speaker 3: A salad can stretch if you, if you make it,

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Speaker 3: do what it do.

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Speaker 2: If you have a protein, whether it's fish, chicken, or

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Speaker 2: whatever it is, you can always throw a salad and

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Speaker 2: then boom, put your protein in there and you're good

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Speaker 2: to go. So now you got your green, your leafy greens,

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Speaker 2: your cruciferous cruciferous.

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Speaker 3: No, the cruciferous.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know that new words.

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Speaker 2: You have your protein, so you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So that's how you do that there, all right.

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Speaker 1: So while you go ahead and sear this salmon, take

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Speaker 1: me back to what was going on if you can,

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Speaker 1: during the time where this was a staple more consistently

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Speaker 1: in your life.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: Man, I was.

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Speaker 2: Working as a brand ambassador, and I was auditioning, and

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Speaker 2: I think at that time I probably had a couple

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Speaker 2: that would, you know, send you jobs to go through,

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Speaker 2: whether it may be for a day, a week, a

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Speaker 2: couple of months, or a year. So for me, that

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Speaker 2: kind of really kept me busy and I always had

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Speaker 2: money coming in. That was the one thing is that

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to be a struggling, broke actor, if

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Speaker 2: that's the thing, you know what I mean. So I

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Speaker 2: think that's why for me, I always had a job,

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Speaker 2: even if I was on TV. You know, I took

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Speaker 2: got to get the job. Bills don't take vacations.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. So for me, that's

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Speaker 3: what it was.

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Speaker 2: That's why I worked so much, because it was just like,

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Speaker 2: you gotta have income coming in because being an actor,

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Speaker 2: you know, you do a job, you may not get

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Speaker 2: paid for two and a half weeks, three weeks, so

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Speaker 2: in between that time, what you're gonna do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: For me, that's how important it was for me to

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Speaker 2: just always have a job, to always have some type

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Speaker 4: Coming And it sounds like you had multiple jobs.

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Speaker 3: Oh I had. I had a lot of jobs.

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Speaker 1: Now did you come from. I'm going to backtrack with you,

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Speaker 1: because this sounds like this was while you were hustling

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Speaker 1: as an adult right or after?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I started in a game in nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 3: Boys in the Hill was my first film.

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Speaker 4: You know, So how old were you done?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Twelve, twelve, thirteen years old? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: So you know, little kid, I'm living with my mom,

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Speaker 2: So that part, but as I got older and you know,

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Speaker 2: went away to college and you know, still pursuing my

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Speaker 2: career was just like, all right, you gotta be able

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Speaker 2: to feel for yourself. Yeah, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: and that's what it was. Just seeing my mom cook,

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Speaker 2: seeing my grandmother cook. My dad was a cook as well.

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Speaker 1: Did you come from two parent household? Single parent house?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I came from two.

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Speaker 2: My dad and my mom split when I was younger,

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Speaker 2: then got back together, had my sister, and then they

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Speaker 2: split up again. But yeah, for the most part, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, I had a relationship. My

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Speaker 2: relationship with my dad was on and off.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: He was on and off drugs, and you know, when

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Speaker 2: he got hisself together, he had a store, I think

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Speaker 2: fifty fourth and Broadway, So in between time, you know,

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Speaker 2: I would go and harass him, always asking for money

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Speaker 2: because he wasn't around as much. But yeah, that's but

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Speaker 2: just him being in the household with me as a

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Speaker 2: young man, as a kid, I saw my dad cook.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: My dad was a bus driver. He worked for RTD.

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Speaker 2: For those that don't know, that's what the metro bus is.

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Speaker 2: That's an LA thing.

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Speaker 3: The Richard T. Davis, the rough, tough and dirty, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: And then I remember my dad worked at Church's Chicken.

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Speaker 2: I think he worked off, but he worked at Church's Chicken.

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Speaker 2: Which was on Librea going towards the end Wood because

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Speaker 2: I remember my mom dropping them off at work and

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Speaker 2: he was like, hold on and bought a whole big

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Speaker 2: box chicken Church is Chicken for us to take back home.

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Speaker 2: I'm so, you know, definitely seeing my dad cook, my

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Speaker 2: dad for me, I always love breakfast food, you know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, and that that was one of the

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Speaker 2: meals that you know I cooked as well. But this

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Speaker 2: right here, salmon salad was just it was it for me?

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Speaker 1: Predominantly Did your parents cook healthy in your house?

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Speaker 3: Not not necessarily, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: It was the fried chicken, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: the poor chops.

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Speaker 3: When I was younger, my mom.

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Speaker 3: In acting class. And our first acting class.

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Speaker 3: She had the acting class.

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Speaker 1: Do you know why could he ever tell you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I know because I know in your in

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Speaker 3: Nah? It was just one of those things of man,

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Speaker 2: I just kind of figured, you know, it was just

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Speaker 3: Let me go in and bless you. Yeah you know

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Speaker 2: And that was through John Singleton. So I owe a

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Speaker 1: And yeah, sure, now you're cooking the heck out of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the only thing with cooking on a studio,

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Speaker 2: Look, we don't need Look, we don't eat nothing light

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Speaker 1: No, but that looks that looks like it's gonna be

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're almost done.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be a great lunch.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you're doing Boys in the Hood. How does

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Speaker 2: You know, we he lived in the area, you know

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Speaker 4: And how old was he then?

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Speaker 3: John was probably late.

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Speaker 2: I think his next one was a Poetic Justice, which

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Speaker 3: So I would always go and see and be like, yo,

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Speaker 3: He was like, Nah, you gotta finish school. You gotta

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Speaker 4: So he was like, real deal, Holy Field.

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Speaker 3: Ye like yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, you know

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Speaker 4: Did you finish college?

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Speaker 3: Yes, went to cal State LA.

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Speaker 3: And it's funny.

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Speaker 2: Once I finished, my mom ran into John and she

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Speaker 3: And I go to his office which was in Lamert Park.

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Speaker 1: Boy No way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, John is like, I'm gonna show

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Speaker 3: So it was like boom casting, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: You see, if you see an audition, if you see

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Speaker 1: When you see their on set chemistry, worry, like, what

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Speaker 3: But here's the deal. Me and Taraji worked together.

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Speaker 2: Taraji played Taraji played my girlfriend in an episode of

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Speaker 3: When he gave her the role.

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Speaker 1: I was in the room when he gave her for sure.

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Speaker 3: For sure, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So for me, it was just like super dope because

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: So I was there and you know, I was happy,

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Speaker 2: it was super dope. And you know, that was the

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Speaker 2: good friends during that process. And you know, John paired

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Speaker 3: So it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a dope moment. It was a great experience.

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Speaker 2: I never forget it. It was just so much that

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Speaker 1: After experiencing that, what made you want to stick with

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Speaker 2: No, because that was my whole thing. My whole thing

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Speaker 2: I was just like, yo, this is what I want

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Speaker 1: Do you think seeing how John formulated that whole set

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Speaker 3: For sure?

449
00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,399
Speaker 2: You know, what I mean, John employed, you know his people,

450
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:00,240
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

451
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:02,600
Speaker 3: For me doing extra work.

452
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 2: Up until I got to Boys in the Hood, there

453
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,400
Speaker 2: were maybe one or two black people on set. When

454
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,320
Speaker 2: I got to Boys in the Hood, it was it

455
00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,880
Speaker 2: was Chocolate City. It was everybody from here to the drove,

456
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:20,280
Speaker 2: to the grips, to transportation, it was. It was diverse,

457
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So for me, it was

458
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,800
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, this is and then learning. You know

459
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,679
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, I'm seeing a young Angela Bassett, a

460
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,440
Speaker 2: Lawrence Fishburn, you know what I mean. So as a kid,

461
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,840
Speaker 2: I'm just a student of the game. I'm just watching

462
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 2: as they go through these takes and things that nature. So,

463
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,879
Speaker 2: you know, as a young kid being in this business

464
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 2: coming up in the eighties, I had a lot of

465
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,199
Speaker 2: examples of the dudes and don'ts Yeah.

466
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,400
Speaker 1: Now where do you get the dudes in don't suf

467
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep a job even if I'm a successful actor.

468
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 2: Oh, that's just that's just r That's just reality. That's

469
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 2: just life, you know what I mean. And I think

470
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 2: you know, really the the the the strike kind of

471
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,800
Speaker 2: showed us a little bit about that, you know what I.

472
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 3: Mean, you know what I mean.

473
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: It really it really peeled the layers back to say, hey,

474
00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:07,879
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.

475
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,320
Speaker 3: Listen, everybody is what's who you think is not? You

476
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 3: know what I mean.

477
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 2: So for me, it was always instilled in me to

478
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,240
Speaker 2: have some type of income coming in period. And I

479
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 2: just I found out at a very early age, just

480
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,719
Speaker 2: from seeing my mom and dad work my grandfather, that

481
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 2: you have to have a.

482
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:30,560
Speaker 3: Job, you know what I mean.

483
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 2: And as an actor, you know, yeah, you may do good,

484
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,360
Speaker 2: you know, for a couple of weeks, a month or whatever,

485
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,480
Speaker 2: and then it may taper off.

486
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 3: So what are you gonna do? Yeah, you know what

487
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 3: I mean.

488
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 2: So for me, it was always work until acting is

489
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 2: your full time job, meaning that it's paying the bills

490
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 2: and you don't have to work your job.

491
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you have to budget in order.

492
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 3: Got a budget. You got a budget, you know what

493
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

494
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 2: Now, For me, because I started off young doing this,

495
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 2: you know, I have residuals.

496
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 1: Yeah I was gonna say, you did you have a

497
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 1: Coogan account or yeah?

498
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had all that.

499
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: So for me, it was residuals coming in and you know,

500
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 2: but still it was still how I was bought up.

501
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 2: Is that you know, just because you got money don't

502
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,120
Speaker 2: mean you gotta go out there and spend it all,

503
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So it was it was

504
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 2: instilled in me to save your money for a rainy day.

505
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, uh, that's that's what it was

506
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 3: for me.

507
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,400
Speaker 2: So part of the budgeting and you know what I'm saying,

508
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 2: making sure I wasn't living above my means.

509
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 4: Yes, Now, how do you not? How do you not

510
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 4: to get smoke a cloud?

511
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 3: You smell the aroma. It's the aroma. It's gonna be good.

512
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 4: Guys, it's so smoky. If you can see this charcoal.

513
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you see it.

514
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,640
Speaker 1: Charcoal salmon, Look at that, that's a charcoal. It looked

515
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 1: like he was on a barbecue grill. It's so smoky

516
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 1: up in here. I want to get this question out though.

517
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Speaker 1: How you not? I remember when I first moved to

518
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 1: LA I had seen Gary Coleman. He was like a

519
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: security guard well over there. But I also saw him

520
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: in Van Eys And you know, people, it's the smoke man.

521
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: People can be so cruel, especially to actors and people

522
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 1: that are in the public eye. I think there's just

523
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: it's one thing to struggle with something personally in your

524
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: own circle.

525
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 4: It's another thing to do with publicly.

526
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 1: And I think once you take on that actor hat

527
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: and you're well known and you're famous and people, people

528
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: literally can be cruel, like you know and talk smack.

529
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 1: How do you deal with either a possibility of that

530
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 1: reaction or your core friend group going like damn, you

531
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: know and talking smack.

532
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 3: You know what? I never that never really played a factor,

533
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?

534
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 2: Like, like I said, I took my ego out a

535
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 2: long time ago, so it was never a point of like,

536
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I'm afraid to work

537
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 2: like I've been on TV, you know what I mean,

538
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 2: Like I just haven't had that. And I think a

539
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 2: lot of it is because I just show up as myself,

540
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I'm not just because I'm

541
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 2: on TV. I didn't have this other personality of like,

542
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 2: oh I'm bigger than you now.

543
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean. You know I've listened.

544
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: My first job, besides acting, my first first job, I

545
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 2: worked at Bowling Hills Theater. It was the first black

546
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 2: owned theater which was on Lebrea in Coliseum. You know

547
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 2: what I mean, so I learned the value of a dollar,

548
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, work wise, like yeah, nine

549
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 2: to five. Then from there I worked at Hot Dog

550
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 2: on a Stick, and then from hot Dog on a Stick,

551
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 2: I worked at Lady foot Locker. Notice I said hot

552
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 2: Dog on a Stick and Lady full Locker, two places

553
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 2: that had beautiful women. Listen, if anybody knows that's from La.

554
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 2: You can go to a Hot Dog on a Stick.

555
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 2: They had some of the finest girls that worked there

556
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 2: because they either went to Westchester, Saint Mary's Burners.

557
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 3: Or whatever it is.

558
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 2: They were there. And then Lady full Locker. What more

559
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 2: can I say?

560
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

561
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 2: So I worked at those two places, and then I

562
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 2: worked at Wells Fargo Bank. What did you I was

563
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 2: a bank teller? Oh what Yeah, I was a bank teller.

564
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 2: I worked at Wells Fargo Bank, which was in the

565
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: Ladera Center.

566
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: Now I'm just curious, did you Was there any takeaways

567
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: from working at a bank that you learned about people

568
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: just people watching.

569
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 4: Me like a couple.

570
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 3: I mean, there were.

571
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 2: People there that were rude, that had a lot of money, Okay,

572
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And it was just like

573
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: for what you know, what I mean, Like entitled, Yeah.

574
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

575
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 2: And for me, that was a lesson that I learned,

576
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 2: you know, to like listen just because you have a

577
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 2: lot of money, you don't have to be entitled, and

578
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 2: you know, boss people around you know what I mean.

579
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: So it was a lot of lessons that I learned

580
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 2: from each job. Just being on time, being a team player,

581
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 2: you know, committing to a schedule and saying, yes, this

582
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 2: is my schedule and I'm gonna commit to it, and.

583
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 3: Just showing up you know what I'm saying.

584
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 2: All these things helped me through my development as a

585
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 2: young man, but also carried on into my professional career

586
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: as an actor. So each job that I had, even

587
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: though I didn't want to be there, I've learned a

588
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: valuable lesson out of all of it.

589
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 4: Yeah.

590
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been around this industry on and off throughout.

591
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: I always tell people that, and this is like something

592
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: I told myself a long time ago. I felt like

593
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: a list celebrities were the nicest, and I used to

594
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: always feel like they were the nicest and that's why

595
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: they got so far was because they were really nice. Yeah,

596
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: some pretty terrible circumstances and not so great circumstances, whether

597
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: they're tired or you're not. And that was like my

598
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: observation working with an array of people, and I always

599
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: felt like, man, I really think that the A list

600
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: ones technically have a little bit more.

601
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 2: Of that A listeners that were jackasses that were saying

602
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: but you know, from me coming up, there were young

603
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 2: kid kids, you know what I'm saying, who were just

604
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: a terror, you know what I mean.

605
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 3: And you know those were things that I was able

606
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 3: to see visually and be like, Nope, I don't want

607
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 3: to do that. Yeah, you know what I mean, And.

608
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 2: That carried on to me, Like I said, these are

609
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 2: lessons that I've learned, and for me, you know, that's

610
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 2: I think a loss forgotten art is just simply being nice,

611
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, and why you're on set

612
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 2: for me just you know, whether I'm number one on

613
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: the call sheet or not, you know what I'm saying,

614
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: but really just setting the tone of just being nice

615
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 2: to people. You know, I've always said whether they're below

616
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 2: the line or above the line, you know, from the

617
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 2: from the PA to the caterer to craft services, you know,

618
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,479
Speaker 2: just be nice, you know. And I think when you

619
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: set that tone. You know, it just makes everything a

620
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 2: little bit easier.

621
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 3: And you never know who, you know.

622
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 4: Who's watching, who's related to right.

623
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: Who's related to who? You know what I mean.

624
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen people go from PA to you know,

625
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 2: a writer, a PA to a producer, you know what

626
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: I'm saying, director, So you just never know, you know

627
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 2: what I mean. So I've seen it happen many of times.

628
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, what's the next step in this dish? Oh?

629
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: So right now, we're gonna take the fish out and

630
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 2: then we're gonna cut it and then start you know, plating.

631
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 2: We gotta also crack these eggs, so we can go

632
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 2: on and cut those eggs.

633
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 4: I'll start cracking, yeah.

634
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 3: For sure, for sure, for sure. So yeah we do that.

635
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: I'll just okay boom, and then we'll cut the eggs up.

636
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 4: Okay, have an extra knife out here.

637
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 2: You're gonna look, you're gonna get that hit hit hit

638
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: hit it with that ford Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, okay, and.

639
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 3: Then we'll put the salmon on here.

640
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 2: Cut that up, so then we can just start putting

641
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: the salad on there in our crewtons tomatoes and avocado,

642
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: and then we'll top it off with the balsamic viniagarette.

643
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call because I feel like I need a

644
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: cold little thing of water to soak these.

645
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was about to say, I'm gonna cut

646
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, boom.

647
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 3: So we'll do this while lie and we'll cut it.

648
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:17,479
Speaker 3: Where's the night has?

649
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 4: Right here?

650
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: Right here? Cool?

651
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: I'm gonna use it when you're done.

652
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, way.

653
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 4: Do you see the way I'm I'm peeling these?

654
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 3: Come on? You know?

655
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: So after the Baby Boy movement, what happens next?

656
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 3: After Baby Boy?

657
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: I ended up booking. I ended up booking. When I

658
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 2: book I ended up booking the mc hammer story. Okay,

659
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 2: so it's my Romney malcom as mc Hammer and I

660
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: go to I go to Houston. I didn't even go

661
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 2: to the Baby Boy premiere because I was in Houston

662
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: shooting the mc hammer story. So I literally went from

663
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 2: one job to the next, which was amazing. Now, on

664
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 2: Baby Boy, I was John Cton's assistant.

665
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 4: At first, That's what I was about to ask.

666
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was John Singleton's assistant at first, and then

667
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: you know, from that point on, you know, he gave

668
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: me a role.

669
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 3: So I was do dirty, dirty on in Baby boy.

670
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: So I was getting a check as an assistant and

671
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: a check as an actor.

672
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: That looks delicious.

673
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yeah, it's on now, Yeah, it's on.

674
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 3: It's on.

675
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: Look at he's like diced it up where it looks

676
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be Are you gonna blend it into

677
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: the salad?

678
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 3: Like?

679
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 4: Maybe special?

680
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

681
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 4: Let me see your knife. I want I want to

682
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 4: do something.

683
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to be legit? Yeah, So I'm gonna

684
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,719
Speaker 3: take these off, so I think we go ahead? Yeah yeah,

685
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 3: so yeah, so.

686
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 2: You know I was getting two checks as an assistant

687
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: and as Yeah, as an assistant and as an actor.

688
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 2: I yeah, It's always been in me. It's always been

689
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 2: in me. And I think, like I said before, is

690
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: that you know, with my jobs, I've always taken my

691
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 2: ego out of it. So and I've actually used being

692
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 2: on TV and film to my advantage because when I

693
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: go in for the for the interview, they're looking at

694
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: me like, man, you look familiar. And then somebody be like, oh, yeah,

695
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: he's the guy on such and such, and they'd be like, man,

696
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 2: what are you doing. I'm like, listen, I need a job,

697
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

698
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: So it actually helped me as well.

699
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: And you know I always told them sometimes I had to,

700
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 2: you know, use my acting skills when I had auditions.

701
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 3: I had to leave on my lunch break.

702
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: And you know, but I say, hey, listen, if you

703
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 2: let me leave, I'll stay a little bit of extra,

704
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, to make up for the

705
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: time that I had to leave from auditions. So you know,

706
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: like I said, I've you know, I've used it to

707
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 2: my advantage and it has it has gotten me several jobs.

708
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: Yes, so we'll be hey, you know what, just so

709
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: you know, I've never done this before.

710
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 2: Really, Okay, you did again with the So this is

711
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: what we'll do. So we'll do we'll do the sell

712
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 2: it here, right, and this will be your plate, right, okay,

713
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 2: this will be your plate. And we'll put a couple

714
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: of dice.

715
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 4: Eggs on here, right, okay, So.

716
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 3: You can just put a couple up in there.

717
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, Okay, and there, okay, there you good, yep,

718
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: you sure, yep, alright, I wanna leave some.

719
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 3: For you there it is there, it is. So then now.

720
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: Put the avocados.

721
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 3: Avocado in there here.

722
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: I could do this, I could yeah, yeah, put the

723
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 2: avocado and your tomatoes and I'll do mine.

724
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is perfect. Yeah.

725
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: I I was told some of the other day my

726
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: daughter got shot. Okay, I don't want to be that

727
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: mom that always tells the mom stories about have to

728
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: tell you this. And so the doctors are like, yeah,

729
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: she's gonna take you for ice cream, and my daughter

730
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: is like, I don't want ice cream.

731
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 3: I want cor cor okay.

732
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: And the next day I had offered her cereal and

733
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: I was like, you want, you know, catching crunch or whatever,

734
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: and she goes, no, I want.

735
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 4: Something right.

736
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: She wants the finder things in life.

737
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 4: I want to do crew toons just like you.

738
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: All right, there we go.

739
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 4: Is there anything you look for in these creutons?

740
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 3: Uh? You know what?

741
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 2: I usually just get the regular regular regular crewtons butter

742
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 2: or garlic or whatever.

743
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 3: You know what I mean's just bread, right, Yeah, that's

744
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 3: all it is, just a little bread. I'm telling you.

745
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 3: It's gonna add that to it. Right.

746
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 4: So now now look at that samon. That thing look amazing.

747
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 3: I'm on now he bring that plate over, okay, hook

748
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: it up. Boom.

749
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: This looks legit. And you know what, I can see

750
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: where the value would be with the crunch. Oh yeah,

751
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: you mad.

752
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying.

753
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good, come on now, crunch you outside just enough.

754
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: You know, I'm really so excited to eat healthy you

755
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean.

756
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 3: I'm real big on that. I don't like salty stuff.

757
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: So and it's affordable, guys, This is like under probably

758
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: under fifteen bucks. Yeah, and it's really healthy.

759
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 3: Yeah. And you can look and you can and you

760
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 3: can go ahead. And you know what I'm saying.

761
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: They don't add cheese to it, though I don't need to.

762
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: Looks beautiful.

763
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: It looks Come on now, look all right.

764
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let me hook you up. Let me just

765
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: make sure the mic is hooked up.

766
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 3: All right?

767
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: Here?

768
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 4: Fix your chair? Is your chair comfortable?

769
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, we did good.

770
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 4: Here we go.

771
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 3: All right, hold on, let me do a little prayer.

772
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: Thank you for the food, but you see for the

773
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: national Rabbi bodies blessing hands, prepare food and we.

774
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 3: Pray, Amen, thank you Jesus.

775
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 4: Letting him make it short pray.

776
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 3: Indeed, a man short prayer.

777
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 4: Mhm, career right, I'm not gonna lie.

778
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: I was concerned because the crust on the salmon was

779
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: like so like barbecuous.

780
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 4: It is perfect.

781
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 3: Yeah mm hmm season not too salty. The skin sets

782
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: it off too.

783
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: I gotta show you, right, yeah, cooreem Yeah, Okay, who

784
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: you cooking for at home?

785
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 3: You know? Listen who you cooking for at home? And

786
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: here's the crazy thing. I'm not really a cook like

787
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 3: that cause I'm so much on the go.

788
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: I would not give up this dish ever, Right, this

789
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: is amazing, right, I really like the way you cook

790
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: the salmon.

791
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 4: I never cooked the salmon.

792
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 3: Like this, got too man pan ser.

793
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 4: What you did really high heat?

794
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 3: Don't take that long either.

795
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: It didn't take that long. But the way you did

796
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: the outside of the salmon.

797
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 4: Nailed it.

798
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, stop avoiding the question who you cooking for at home? Hilarious,

799
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm cooking for the women.

800
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 3: Listen, I cook. No, I'm not, I'm not.

801
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 2: The thing is that I'm not really a cook, like

802
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying. You got me on here cooking.

803
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me when was the last

804
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: time you cook for yourself?

805
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 3: Did they?

806
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 4: What'd you make?

807
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 3: I sam a salad?

808
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 4: I mean, besides its meal? This is delicious. You gotta

809
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 4: met you don't you want to eat this?

810
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: You? Ever?

811
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: Sometimes I do the interview and the food's really good,

812
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: but like we needn't take a food break to just

813
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: eat it's good.

814
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 3: Right.

815
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something, man, this is it's very

816
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 2: humbling that you are enjoying this salad as much as

817
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 2: I am.

818
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: I really is.

819
00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: Thank you and I And this is the thing you

820
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: gotta remember, guys about trying new things, like sometimes you

821
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: can have a bias like I was like, oh I

822
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: hate kutons. I hate kutons, But trying it like this

823
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: it makes sense.

824
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 3: Absolutely. You knowee what I'm saying.

825
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 2: Because you said it's smoky, I'm like, don't worry about it.

826
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 3: It's gonna be all. It's gonna be right.

827
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, I love that you added avocado and tomatoes

828
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: and you made sure to add all these special ingredients

829
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: because it makes it go from an affordable dish to

830
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: like affordable but like fancy.

831
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: Right man.

832
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 2: You know this is like I said, if you are

833
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 2: cooking for somebody, you give them a little bit of

834
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 2: just not a plain salad, but it you know, it

835
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: definitely elevates the experience.

836
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 4: See this, You know that.

837
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be like all rape, you ain't never cooked for me.

838
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 3: Some people are gonna be like, yep, I've had that

839
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 3: salad before. I love it.

840
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: That's all I wanted. I had to try like ten

841
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: different ways.

842
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 3: It's good, Okay, it's good.

843
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 1: All right, career, Now let's get back into your story. Yeah,

844
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: it'll be fully true. And during this whole story, I'm sorry.

845
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: Good alright, after baby boy, yeah you do? What was

846
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: the done imc hammer story?

847
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 3: Yeah?

848
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 4: Then from there what happens.

849
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 2: Mc hammer story. That's when I made a lot of

850
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: money and I blew it.

851
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 3: I blew it. What just buying stuff? You know what

852
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 3: I mean? Really didn't have nothing to show for it.

853
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 3: Afterwards that happens.

854
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was a lesson that I learned. And

855
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 2: from that point on, I was just like, I'll never

856
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: I'll never be in this situation again. But after the

857
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 2: mc hammer story, you know, of course, you know, you

858
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 2: work in those jobs, you know, until you get the

859
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: next gig.

860
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 4: Oh you went back to work.

861
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I started doing a brand ambassador work.

862
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: And what does that entail.

863
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 3: Brand ambassador work?

864
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 2: Is there's a product or yeah, there's a product, and

865
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 2: you know you are hired to promote and talk about

866
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 2: that product.

867
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 3: You know, whether you're at a convention, whether you're at

868
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: a like a store, a store, a grocery store.

869
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 2: I wanna say, my first brand ambassador job was with

870
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: Cisco UNI. And when I say, it was one of

871
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 2: those jobs to where it was like, I can't believe

872
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 2: I'm getting paid this much.

873
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 4: So I was about to ask you, was it a

874
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 4: l a little bit of bang?

875
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 3: Listen? I was getting paid twenty five dollars an hour. Okay,

876
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 3: this is maybe.

877
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 2: Two thousand, two thousand, one, two thousand, yeah, two thousand

878
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 2: and two three for one of those twenty five bucks

879
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: an hour to sit in a room.

880
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 3: Right.

881
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 2: At that time, Cisco had a TV, a big T

882
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: big screen TV with a camera, so you were able

883
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 2: it was FaceTime before FaceTime, okay, so you were able

884
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 2: to contact people with your UH with this camera on

885
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 2: top of your TV and talk to 'em. So they

886
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: had these set up in uh like four different malls Dallas,

887
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 2: I think, a Minneapolis, the Mall of America, where else

888
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 2: I think Atlanta or somewhere. And we were in a

889
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: room they had I think it was four or five

890
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: of us in each room, a couch and a TV.

891
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 2: As just as I'm looking at this camera right, and

892
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 2: people were in the mall and they had ambassadors over

893
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 2: there to say, hey, try this out, and they would

894
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: sit and see me and we would play games Tic

895
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 2: Tac toe, hang man.

896
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 4: And you were getting paid to do this.

897
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 3: Listen.

898
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: We were working eight hours a day and sometimes, you know,

899
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 2: you may see four or five people within those eight hours.

900
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 2: So I'm on a computer, I'm you know, I'm studying lines, auditions,

901
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,959
Speaker 2: the whole nine And it was just one of those

902
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 2: jobs to where it was just like, I can't believe

903
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 2: that I'm getting paid this much to sit down and

904
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,240
Speaker 2: talk to people randomly in in the malls.

905
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: Now this is after MC hammer though, right, Yeah, So

906
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: how long did the mc hammer money?

907
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 4: The big check last year?

908
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 3: It didn't last that long. It didn't last that long.

909
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: Cause I was I was up at the galleria balling,

910
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Gucci, Gucci glasses, you.

911
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 3: Know what I mean, just buying stuff.

912
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 2: And like I said, when I got back, it was

913
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 2: like I didn't really have anything to show for it, yeah,

914
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And it was just like, alright,

915
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 2: can't l can't let this happen again.

916
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 4: So when's your next big break?

917
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: After that?

918
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 3: Oh? Man?

919
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 2: I think it was like a couple of maybe a

920
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 2: couple of months to a year. You know, I book

921
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 2: a TV show here and there, commercial here and there,

922
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 2: and then you know, it was always back to work

923
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 2: because it was my career was a slow grind.

924
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 3: It was nothing consistent. Yeah, you know what I mean.

925
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 2: So it was just like book a job, all right,

926
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 2: back to work, book a job, back to work.

927
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: And you start looking at that money is like bonus

928
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: money instead of like like your acting money. Did you

929
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: start looking at.

930
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 4: It as like.

931
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: The acting money was yes, like extra money. The acting

932
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 2: money was big lump sum. Let me put that in

933
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 2: the bank. Okay, let me work these nine.

934
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 3: To fives to pay the bills.

935
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and then whatever I have left, let me

936
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 2: stack that on top of the acting money, you know

937
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 2: what I mean. Yeah, so you know, helping helping my

938
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 2: mom out, you know, getting a car, paying insurance, you know,

939
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 2: all that, all the grown up stuf, you know what

940
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: I mean. But it was always the acting money sits

941
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 2: in the bank.

942
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 3: There's nine to five money is.

943
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: To pay the bills, but also add on to what

944
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 2: I stacked up from the acting exactly.

945
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: Okay, so what's your next big gig that's more stable.

946
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:19,879
Speaker 3: From there?

947
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: I think it was, Oh, it was either Shield and

948
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 2: The Shield. I audition for that show seventeen times, audition

949
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: for the Shield seventeen times, the seventeenth time, I end

950
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: up getting it, and I end up doing three seasons.

951
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 3: Now it's not consistent. I'm just a reoccurring Yeah, you

952
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 3: know what I mean. You know, I'm able to.

953
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 4: I don't get it. You're saying it's not consistent, but reoccurring.

954
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I wasn't a series regular.

955
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: So out of they maybe had thirteen or twenty episodes,

956
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 2: I maybe did you know, maybe two or three in

957
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 2: that season, you know what I mean. So it wasn't,

958
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 2: like I said, it wasn't consistent.

959
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. So once it and I'm back on

960
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 3: my grind, it really.

961
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 2: Wasn't the the the big the big show that really

962
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: did it for me was All American.

963
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 4: All American was freaking huge, you.

964
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying.

965
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 2: And All American I ended up booking that and I

966
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 2: was only supposed to do two episodes on All American?

967
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: How did that evolve?

968
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 4: They loved?

969
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 2: So here's here here's a fun fact. The showrunner for

970
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 2: All American NK and catch I did her first uh

971
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: script that she wrote for television, which was a show called.

972
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: Bones okay, and I remember that sh yeah okay.

973
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 2: And that was her first script, and I played a

974
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 2: young man from Sierra Leon who was a amputee who

975
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 2: was accused.

976
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 3: Of murdering his best friend.

977
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 2: And on that show probably the most money I made

978
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 2: as a guest star, okay, because the actors, the main actors, Brandon,

979
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 2: they kept getting sick.

980
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 4: Okay, it was flu season, Okay.

981
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 2: So I think I that particular episode took almost like

982
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: a month to make, when usually episodes take seven to

983
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: eight days.

984
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's probably the most money I made.

985
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 2: But we were able to have a great relationship from

986
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 2: there showing up doing the work and then you know, boom.

987
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 2: And then also the show The Shield that auditioned for

988
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 2: seventeen times. The Cold showrunner Jamie Turner was a story

989
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 2: editor on that show, Okay, And we connected cause it

990
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 2: wasn't like I said, it wasn't any wasn't I mean

991
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 2: melenated people in those rooms got it. So me and

992
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 2: him connected, and here you have those two individuals now

993
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 2: on all American.

994
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 3: Geez, you know what I mean?

995
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 2: And I you know, I'm only supposed to do two episodes,

996
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 2: and you know, n K the showrunner, which never happens,

997
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: but because of the relationship, calls me. It is like, hey,

998
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 2: I don't know if you got the season finale script,

999
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 2: but you get shot, you know, and as an actor,

1000
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,919
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, thank you for thank you for the opportunity.

1001
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 2: But she was like, hey, you don't die. We planning

1002
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: on keeping you around for a while.

1003
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 4: Holy cow.

1004
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: And did you smile?

1005
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it was just like, you know, hey,

1006
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 2: I have you know, I have another opportunity for work. Yeah,

1007
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 2: and you know, those words rang true. And I've been

1008
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: on that show for seven seasons incredible, and we just

1009
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 2: got a renewed for eighth, so we start back for

1010
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 2: season eight, uh pretty soon. So you know that by

1011
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 2: far consistent. And it wasn't until season three that I

1012
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: was able to let my jobs go. So working on

1013
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,479
Speaker 2: All American, I was working three jobs. I was working

1014
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 2: with Google, I was working with this company called test Loop,

1015
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: and Samsung, which is crazy, all doing brand ambassador, doing

1016
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 2: brand ambassador work while on All American and and I

1017
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 2: was also moonlighting as a talent wrangler.

1018
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 3: For a Master Chef.

1019
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 4: Oh I love that show.

1020
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, And so we shot it around here. So

1021
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 2: when I wasn't working on set. I was a talent

1022
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: wrangler for a master chef. So big shout out to

1023
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 2: Desi because she always gave me a job.

1024
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: And then did did your co stars also know that

1025
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 1: you were also hustling other jobs?

1026
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 3: Oh for sure?

1027
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 2: For sure, Like I wasn't afraid to talk about it,

1028
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But also tools me just

1029
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 2: in stealing wisdom on you know, instelling wisdom to them

1030
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, to let them know my journey. Yeah,

1031
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And so really I had

1032
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 2: four jobs. So I was working as a talent wrangler,

1033
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 2: and I was working graveyard, so I did overnights. So

1034
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 2: what it was is I would go to the hotel, yeah,

1035
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 2: where the contestants were six o'clock at night, and I

1036
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 2: would stay until six seven in the morning geez.

1037
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 3: So therefore I can.

1038
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 2: Be able to have the rest of my day to

1039
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 2: be able to audition or if I had.

1040
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 3: To do Brandon bassa work.

1041
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 4: I was able to do that in addition to shooting

1042
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 4: aditional shooting.

1043
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: Now, when you decide to pull the trigger on going

1044
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: one hundred percent acting season three, how does that feel

1045
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: and what makes you finally pull the trigger?

1046
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 3: Well, I it was always one hundred percent.

1047
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 2: It was just now, I mean they were they were saying, hey,

1048
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 2: we wanna be able to take your storyline and this

1049
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 2: is what we're going with.

1050
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:27,439
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1051
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 2: So then it was just like, oh, okay, well now

1052
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 2: we're giving you a guaranteed six seven episodes.

1053
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1054
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 3: So it was just like okay and more money. Cool.

1055
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: So now I was able to leave those jobs. But

1056
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 2: knowing me, because the hustle was always in me, so

1057
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 2: the shooting schedule, if I wasn't on the episode, I'd

1058
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 2: be like, yo, I'm available for X amount of days.

1059
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1060
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 2: So it was always I always was working. Let's just

1061
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 2: put it like that. If it wasn't in front of

1062
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 2: the camera, I was working a regular nine to five

1063
00:48:58,840 --> 00:48:59,359
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.

1064
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 4: Now that you're stable, and what about the Vince Staple Show.

1065
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Vince Staple Show comes around season six six,

1066
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 2: season five or season six, Yeah, I get that, and

1067
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 2: you know, auditioned for it and I didn't get the apart,

1068
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 2: but they offered me a role.

1069
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 3: They said, hey, you mind playing the uncle, and I.

1070
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 2: Was just like absolutely yeah, And you know, find myself

1071
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 2: on set and you know the relationship I have with

1072
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 2: Vince goes back to a good friend of mine by

1073
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: the name of cal Mattick, a director who was directing

1074
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 2: a lot of Vince Staples videos. So that's how I

1075
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 2: was able to meet Vince Staples prior to being on

1076
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 2: the Vince Staple Show. Okay, so you know, we do

1077
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 2: The Vin Staple Show, and you know, I have some

1078
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 2: memorable lines cause they let me do my thing, and

1079
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 2: you know, that show does very well, and we get

1080
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 2: a second season, you know what I mean. So now

1081
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: I have two shows. Yeah, you know, so we just

1082
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 2: finished season two, So Vince Staples Show will be out soon,

1083
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 2: hopefully by fall. Yeah, and then I'll be shooting season

1084
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 2: eight of All American.

1085
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1086
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: One of the things that I like is when I

1087
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 1: approached you, you're very approachable, you know, and I think

1088
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: as a woman, I think when you approach guys, you

1089
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: never know how it's gonna.

1090
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,280
Speaker 4: Go, especially in this game hilarious.

1091
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: But one of the things that sticks out to me

1092
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: in this whole interview, which I personally struggle with, is ego.

1093
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: And I just don't know how you're able to it

1094
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: just seems like the entire your entire life, w ego

1095
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: was always checked absolutely.

1096
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 4: Do you know where that is rooted from.

1097
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 3: I think just.

1098
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 2: Like I said, I've had examples, you know, of just

1099
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 2: being in this business and how people are treated, you know,

1100
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 2: because you're on TV and you know things that nature

1101
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 2: and and just my regular jobs is just like you know,

1102
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: I put on my pants just like you. It's just

1103
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: so I just happen to be on TV, yeah, you know,

1104
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: and just raised and brought up to just treat people

1105
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 2: with respect and just simply being nice. Yeah, And I

1106
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 2: think that's just what carried me through, you know, my

1107
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: younger years and to my adult years and then you know,

1108
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 2: I think that helps career wise.

1109
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to work with a asshole. Nope, you know

1110
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 3: what I mean. So for me, it's just it doesn't

1111
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 3: cost anything to be nice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So that's just how it is. Man.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm blessed. I'm doing what I love. So when

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00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 2: you are living in your purpose, why you gotta be angry,

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00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 2: Why you gotta be a jackass? Why you gotta be

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00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 2: uh you know, stuck up? Yeah, you're I I literally

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00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,720
Speaker 2: asked for this. I literally wrote on my vision board

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00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 2: in two thousand thirteen that I wanted to be on

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00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 2: a hit TV show. I wasn't specific, but I literally

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00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: said I wanted to be on a hit TV show

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00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 2: and it happened.

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00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 3: It happened.

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00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 2: So what do I need to be, you know, angry for?

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Speaker 2: And I've went through the I've went through the process.

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00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 2: I went through the grind.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So when you're when you worked jobs that you really

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00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 2: didn't wanna be at. Yah, And and I'm visualizing being

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00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 2: on set and doing what I love, and then once

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00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 2: you get that opportunity, why God be angry. I'm grateful.

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00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 2: I'm blessed, you know what I mean. So I'm excited,

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00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, just to be able to

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Speaker 2: be in a place, in a space to do what

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00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 2: I love, you know what I mean. So that's what

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Speaker 2: it's always been for me. So that's one of my

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00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 2: happiest places is really just you know, being on set

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Speaker 2: doing what I love.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: You cook amazingly.

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you.

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00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 2: My family, my family and friends will be like, yeah right, dude,

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Speaker 2: don't cook.

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00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 4: No, you cooked really good.

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00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: And he told me a lesson about searing salmon in

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Speaker 1: a pan high heat, not that long, not that long.

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Speaker 4: Definitely have a smoke or mask on.

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00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 3: Ye look usually have a stove with a fan.

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00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it wouldn't be as bad. But we're on

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Speaker 1: a set, So thank you so much for coming by.

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00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: Where can everybody keep up with everything Korean?

1152
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 5: You can say Korean grimes on all platforms Instagram, tik top, Facebook, Snapchat,

1153
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 5: spiel whatever it is all all Korean grimes.

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Speaker 3: Talk to me.

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00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: I talked back A A R E E M j

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Speaker 2: R I M k R E E M g R

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00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:23,439
Speaker 2: I M E S.

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00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 3: You're ready for season eight of All American?

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00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1160
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 3: Also season two of the Van Staples Show.

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00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,399
Speaker 2: Uncle Mike is back and this season two is funnier

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00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 2: than season one. And yeah, just also have a short

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00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 2: film called Soul of the City a Joy Brunson, amazing actress,

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00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 2: Mark Prince, myself rector, a bio, Roger uh Roger Melvin.

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00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 3: So that's it, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: And then before we sign out, is there any piece

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00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 1: of advice you give to anybody else out there in

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00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: the game coming up?

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00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 3: Yeah?

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00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 2: For sure, I think you know, you gotta make daily deposits,

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00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 2: you know, daily deposits and whatever that you whatever it

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00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 2: is that you want to do in life. Once you

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00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 2: make those daily deposits, you know your return will be

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00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 2: great because each and every day you're doing something towards

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00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 2: your goal of whatever it is in life. And you know,

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00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 2: just being in the business, you know, enjoy the process,

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00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 2: don't cheat it, treat it with respect, and just simply

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00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: be nice.

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00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, it simply be nice.

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Speaker 1: And guys, don't forget you can eat healthy while being broke.

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00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 3: Absolutely no, there's no excuses.

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00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 4: All right, guys, Thanks for tuning in. Peace out

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