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Speaker 5: Clicks up the Breakfast Club finish the y'all done, morning everybody,

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Speaker 5: It's the j n V.

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Speaker 3: Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the God.

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Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: Law La Rosa is here as well, and we got

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Speaker 3: some special guests in the building.

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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, you got the brother t Diggs. Is this

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Speaker 1: your first time here? None, I've been here, haven't been

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Speaker 1: in a minute. It's long. I've been a long time.

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Speaker 1: I've been here before. I'm a black man, Okay, couple time, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: after you.

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Speaker 3: It was a long time ago, all right, Jay Carter

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Speaker 3: and Troy Brookings welcome fellas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, feeling good, feeling good, happy to be here.

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Speaker 5: What what do we owes threesome.

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Speaker 1: We're promoting this new lou chocolate.

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Speaker 6: Chocolate, some new loub But that's right, goes in, easy,

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Speaker 6: comes out, smooth my work.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're a producer team.

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Speaker 6: Newly formed and you know, kind of happened organically where

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Speaker 6: we started to produce content as we cast a Troy

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Speaker 6: and I and uh, you know the natural kind of

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Speaker 6: progression of it. You know what, Let's let's let's three

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Speaker 6: black men. Let's let's go and own this ourselves. Let's

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Speaker 6: build a table, let's build a couple of seats. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: that's what we on this occasion, also to promote the

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Speaker 6: new movie Nice that.

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Speaker 5: I feel like that's the that's not that's the only

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Speaker 5: way in Hollywood now, like to form your own production

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Speaker 5: company and shoot your own stuff. I mean tell you

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Speaker 5: probably know better than most of them.

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Speaker 7: I mean it's like, I mean, obviously there's the way

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Speaker 7: things have been done. But if you want to guarantee

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Speaker 7: anything at this point, you you've got to do it yourself.

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Speaker 1: Because there's no shame these days.

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Speaker 7: People will lie right to your face and there's no

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Speaker 7: code and for someone like me. I just got frustrated

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Speaker 7: because I like to play by the rules, but when

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Speaker 7: the people on my own team are not playing by

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Speaker 7: the rules but then breaking and I'm watching them break them.

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Speaker 1: But let's do this ourselves.

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Speaker 7: And right now, with social media and everything, it's proof that,

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Speaker 7: like people are taking control absolutely and.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 8: How did you three come together?

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Speaker 5: How did this happen?

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Speaker 2: I can I can take that if you want, sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So, uh we had a movie. Uh so, I'm a

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Speaker 6: part of Freely Films. It's me Tonya right, my wife Lashawn,

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Speaker 6: she's a partner in business and in life. We have

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Speaker 6: a production company and so we were producing this movie

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Speaker 6: called The Comeback a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of years ago, and actually we cast the lead.

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Speaker 6: Female in the role. And this this is how you know,

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Speaker 6: things just happen and you got to embrace that opportunity,

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Speaker 6: right right, Yeah, the universe just happened. So the agent

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Speaker 6: for the female called me. The female lead called me

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Speaker 6: and said, hey, have you cast the male lead yet?

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Speaker 6: And I'm just bopping around. I'm like, nah, we haven't

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Speaker 6: cast it. We've got a few people we're talking to you, right,

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Speaker 6: And she was like, well, Tate Diggs is seeing the script?

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Speaker 6: Would you be interested in Tate Diggs? Now that was

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Speaker 6: the most obvious, you know, But but here's the thing

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Speaker 6: about it, like and this is this is how you

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Speaker 6: can block your blessings. I tried to talk her out

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Speaker 6: of it because I wasn't ready.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think I was ready.

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Speaker 7: And we think we're doing the right thing because we

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Speaker 7: think it's humility.

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Speaker 2: But we're getting in our own wedding in our own way.

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Speaker 6: And so she talked me into it. She was like, Jay, no,

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Speaker 6: this is happening, Embrace it, run with it. And so

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Speaker 6: that was a couple of years ago. He came into Atlanta,

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Speaker 6: where I'm based, shot it. I'm hugely successful on Peacock

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Speaker 6: as well, and uh Rest is history. So we've been

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Speaker 5: I'm interested in that because if you write a script,

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Speaker 5: you know it's great.

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Speaker 4: At least I would think you would know it's great.

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Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you expect anybody to read it and want

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Speaker 5: to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's that's the crazy thing about the business.

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Speaker 7: Like what you said makes sense, Yeah, as it is

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Speaker 7: now makes no sense.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense.

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Speaker 7: Like if you knew the movies that got turned down,

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Speaker 7: and if you saw the stars that were in those

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Speaker 7: movies and what you'd be like, what, there's no rhyme

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Speaker 7: or read like egos. I mean, it's it's really frustrating

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Speaker 7: because you're you're you're raised to think that everything happens

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Speaker 7: for a reason. Like I knew I was talented. I

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Speaker 7: knew I would I got into school. When I got

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Speaker 7: into school, I was like, Okay, black people, the business

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Speaker 7: is going to need black people. I'm gonna move to

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Speaker 7: New York. I can do stage or screen. That happened,

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Speaker 7: and then I got movie after movie, and then all

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Speaker 7: of a sudden, the rules changed. Wait, who are the influencers?

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Speaker 2: Who is it?

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Speaker 1: I don't know who that is.

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Speaker 7: Wait, he got the part over but he doesn't have

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Speaker 7: any experience, doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: He's got followers. What are followers?

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Speaker 7: It's his videos videos? Who is anybody paint? No, he

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Speaker 7: just put on videos and because he got all so

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Speaker 7: it's like, you gotta adjust, Then let me do.

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Speaker 1: I can't swear. Let's do this ourselves.

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Speaker 7: And we'll play by their rules. But at least will

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Speaker 7: I won't have the excuse.

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Speaker 1: I can't complain. Now I'm gonna play it by your rules,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna do it our way.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't bother you when somebody doesn't put in an amount

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Speaker 3: of time that you did, doesn't go to the school,

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Speaker 3: doesn't do the things that you did, and then because

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Speaker 3: of followers, because of social media, because of a funny

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Speaker 3: skit might get the part over you.

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Speaker 1: Does that bother you at all?

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Speaker 7: I mean, if there's talent there, then it's cool, you

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Speaker 7: know what I mean? For me, I just didn't. It

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Speaker 7: didn't make sense. I didn't care who was doing what,

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Speaker 7: but good for you. Whatever they were doing was working,

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Speaker 7: and I was like, good for you. But I don't

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Speaker 7: know what to do right now?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Andy would come in here and show me that video.

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Speaker 7: I'm not That's why it's this worked for me? All right, Well,

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Speaker 7: I'll just be funny and not even I don't even.

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Speaker 7: I don't even realize that people are watching. I would

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Speaker 7: just like express myself and if it worked, okay, I

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Speaker 7: don't know what's happening, but they say post, I still

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Speaker 7: have to ask him.

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Speaker 1: I don't like, how do I double the well? How

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Speaker 1: do I take this and copy? You know? Well?

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Speaker 9: We love t Diggs on Instagram and I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I apologize because that's you never.

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Speaker 4: Saw you like the post?

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: I never saw when he liked the post.

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Speaker 1: He loves your post. I don't even know.

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Speaker 7: I don't even know he put know how to read

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Speaker 7: this response.

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Speaker 4: Just about today, it's like, yeah, but you do realize.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's interesting to see to hear somebody like

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Speaker 5: Tate Diggs feel like they had to do that.

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Speaker 1: How do you think I feel? How do you think

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Speaker 1: I feel? Right? That's totally good. You you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean?

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Speaker 7: In this movie, you want Joe who's never acted in

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Speaker 7: his life, and I can't. It's not even I can't

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Speaker 7: get an audition. I'm not even a part of the conversation.

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Speaker 1: That crazy.

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Speaker 7: So I was like, I don't I don't hate that dude,

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Speaker 7: but somebody tell me what's going on with these rules?

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Speaker 1: Because I've worked really hard and I like to buy

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Speaker 1: a lot of nice Really, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: how are we going to do this? Somebody just explained

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Speaker 1: it to me, But for a minute, I was.

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Speaker 7: Like I was I It was pushed back and people

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Speaker 7: like to argue, well I did this, Well.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Nobody cares it.

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Speaker 9: Seems like the formula is now that a lot of

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Speaker 9: influencers are being casted because they can push the movie easier.

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Speaker 1: Right, But what.

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Speaker 9: But what happened because at first we didn't need that,

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Speaker 9: nobody needed that.

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Speaker 2: So budgets are smaller.

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Speaker 6: Budgets are smaller, and so when you have an influencer

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Speaker 6: as five million followers, that is free marketing. And so

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Speaker 6: the studio doesn't have to come up with a you know,

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Speaker 6: one million dollar marketing budget because they have just right now,

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Speaker 6: we'll use just as a case study, right, because I

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Speaker 6: cast just in the.

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Speaker 2: Movie that I Hate I Love You, I Love You.

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Speaker 6: Super super successful and now it's on to be the

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Speaker 6: number one drama on too be Love That excellent. But

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Speaker 6: you know, we we we we saw obviously just as followers,

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Speaker 6: and we said, you know, built in marketing, right, she

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Speaker 6: could posed, it's going to be great.

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Speaker 2: But then I watched her actual acting work.

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Speaker 1: She was great.

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Speaker 2: That that was the That was the clincher, you know,

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Speaker 2: seeing her and I got a story to tell it.

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Speaker 1: Every morning for us.

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Speaker 2: It worked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it worked like okay, cool, well let me get

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Speaker 6: So INA's example, if you can marry the social media

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Speaker 6: prowess and the following with the talent, like Jess is

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Speaker 6: married to those two things.

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Speaker 2: You got the winner. You have today today.

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Speaker 1: To figure out how to make it worse cut.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I never knew that.

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Speaker 5: So Hollywood have an evolved in in terms of the

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Speaker 5: opportunities available to black actors since you, since you first started.

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Speaker 5: It feels like at first I was thinking the barriers

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Speaker 5: are just dressed differently, But now it feels like they

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Speaker 5: don't even want you.

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Speaker 7: General until we prove it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: Like right now, we're at a time where they don't

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Speaker 7: have control.

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Speaker 1: Like all that stuff that you said. Soon everybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: be talking like that, and that's not a student. Studio

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Speaker 1: can't take credit.

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Speaker 7: And that's what I love. We're doing it ourselves and

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Speaker 7: no one can stop.

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Speaker 1: Us, and it's succeeding.

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Speaker 7: I still don't get it. Yeah, it was too good

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Speaker 7: to be true because I was raised.

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Speaker 1: You got to be let in.

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Speaker 7: You can apologize, you know, be really grateful and talk

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Speaker 7: A bunch of non people that I've never heard of

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Speaker 9: Hey, so it's the positives and the negatives of it.

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Speaker 5: That's gonna be the most interesting thing when you as

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Speaker 1: And what we were talking about, there's no risk.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of money.

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Speaker 7: You got to get somebody with a huge mansion, get

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Speaker 1: That's what It's almost too good to be.

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Speaker 7: True if it's a story that people like people are

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Speaker 1: Know, we made up our own story.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, our own people that you don't know. But our

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, so let's hear it for black people. But let

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Speaker 4: Know?

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Speaker 3: You have major releases that instead of the major releases

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Speaker 1: It's national, it's this. Does that bother you at all?

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Speaker 1: Because you like to stay positive, don't challenging questions.

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Speaker 4: Right mm hmm.

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Speaker 6: Humility speaking humbly speaking, international super walks in the door

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Speaker 6: we're gonna listen, right, Absolutely, I've got the funding, I've got.

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Speaker 2: The distribution on projects.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard who Clarence Avon is.

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Speaker 2: This is the young clars He is the grand connected.

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Speaker 6: If he showed you who he has in his content,

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: And so if we ever got a home of whoever set.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so so we we we make this this combination

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I'm.

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Speaker 7: Like, I need to meet with subject. Had nobody told me?

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Speaker 7: Nobody sees me nobody hmmm. Cut to a few years

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Speaker 1: So now he is like working for us. Who would

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Speaker 7: Like I can't, I can't move without him. But they're

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Speaker 7: not that, they're not a part of that business plan.

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Speaker 7: He's the assistant Watts give him two years.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, what's that experience been like for you now? Because

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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's been It's been a ride for real. I

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Speaker 4: Play football together.

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Speaker 13: No, no, right away, pretend.

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Speaker 12: I love it, but yeah, no, we met. We met

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Speaker 12: these emails is crazy. I can't just to days like

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Speaker 12: I'm like, I can't do two days. We got to

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Speaker 7: And it was always Troy is great, like from the

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Speaker 7: hearing that. Now we're making business deals with those people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with him, and the people that didn't see.

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Speaker 1: We're good.

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Speaker 2: I love that too.

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Speaker 5: You know I've heard you speak to you about issues

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Speaker 5: like you maybe questioning who did you.

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Speaker 4: Have a question who you were?

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Speaker 7: Well, they want you to like I never, That's what

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Speaker 1: You can't let anybody else dictate that.

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Speaker 7: I know who I am. You know who I am.

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Speaker 7: And now we're all in business. Why because we know

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Speaker 12: Like, somebody can't come to me and be like, yo,

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Speaker 8: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 12: But people will try that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: So in Hollywood, what is it is?

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Speaker 4: Is it ability? Is it your box office?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 4: But like what is it?

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Speaker 7: Oh right now? Nobody like we're about to make what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why it's a great time. Yeah, nobody knows.

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Speaker 1: This is a sure thing and we're on it, you

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Speaker 9: Another man's wife, that is the name of him? Okay,

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Speaker 4: Another man's wife?

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Speaker 5: Who who wrote that?

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Speaker 9: Whose idea was it?

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Speaker 5: What's happening?

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Speaker 6: Yes, So shout out to Maverick Entertainment, and you gotta

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Speaker 2: We we we can do what we can do.

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Speaker 6: But you know, we know who's still run in Hollywood, right,

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Speaker 2: You know, they finance our work, they distribute our work.

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Speaker 2: So Tay's character.

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Speaker 6: Comes along and he throws them a life raft and

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Speaker 2: But he looks at the wife.

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Speaker 6: And he says, the only thing I want to return

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Speaker 2: But at what costs? So the question that we always

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Speaker 6: Two million dollars to save your mom, to save your house,

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Speaker 7: Jesus, all you got to give up one weekend your wife.

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Speaker 3: I ain't giving up my wife though, But chance happened.

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Speaker 1: There's a chance that nothing happens.

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Speaker 4: They can.

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Speaker 1: They can watch your wife. She all she has to

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Speaker 3: I know, looking at my wife, I know nothing will happen.

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Speaker 3: But it's just the fact of pain from the guy.

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Speaker 5: I won't say nothing happened. What if it's Maxwell. Don't

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Speaker 1: Definitely? Not definitely, But it's the premise of pain.

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Speaker 11: You never know, doesn't go though, and all this stuff

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Speaker 1: You don't.

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Speaker 6: Think about fifteen years of Runway's sixty's young six.

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Speaker 4: Is not what you do?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, two million?

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Speaker 1: There you're going, we're talking about.

448
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Speaker 4: What happened with them?

449
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:35,400
Speaker 1: You heard?

450
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 9: I'm going, what do we lose that we lose our mom.

451
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 11: Mom, your house?

452
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:43,040
Speaker 1: What else?

453
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,679
Speaker 2: Your marriage? Everything crumbles?

454
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 1: Not necessarily it depends on you if you lose the marriage.

455
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 5: I need to see the nuance, Like do I know

456
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 5: who the guy is? We have a background on him

457
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:54,160
Speaker 5: that we know.

458
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 7: You know he's meant to me? Well, you know what

459
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 7: I mean, he's all above levels, Like this is me,

460
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,639
Speaker 7: this is what's going on. I want you to meet me,

461
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,920
Speaker 7: and there's no manipulation. Everything, there's a contract.

462
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: More's chestnuts. Why can't I the sequel.

463
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 4: The way, I'm just saying, I'm going what you doing?

464
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 1: I'm just trying do nothing.

465
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Speaker 5: I'm just saying, why can't I Why can't I go?

466
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 4: Why did they have to be on?

467
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 1: The guy not gay? Like this?

468
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 8: Right?

469
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Speaker 4: It's not.

470
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Speaker 1: That it's not that say I was gay?

471
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Speaker 4: I just said why can't I go? But that's what

472
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Speaker 4: a man does, right when you when you when it's

473
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Speaker 4: a job that.

474
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Speaker 1: You don't want your woman to do it.

475
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 5: But the guy is like, I don't know, I don't

476
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 5: like dudes. I don't want your wife.

477
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Speaker 2: I'm asking for your wife type of arrange.

478
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: He said, why can't I go? Let me do what

479
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 1: you want to do. You said, the guy's not Diddy,

480
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: I don't.

481
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Speaker 5: Even like Jay looked at me and said, I want

482
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,360
Speaker 5: your wife, magga one.

483
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 6: But but you see the conversation that it sparks, right,

484
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,199
Speaker 6: and so that's what we're that, that's what we're banking

485
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 6: on is you know people sitting on their couch, you know,

486
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 6: the wife cutting her eyes at her husband, the husband

487
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 6: cutting his eyes and his wife like you know, damn,

488
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 6: what would you do?

489
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 2: What would you do? It is a million? What's your number?

490
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 2: Two million, three million, four million? You know what?

491
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: What?

492
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 6: What will it cost you in the short term and

493
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 6: what's going to cost you in the long term once

494
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 6: there's a ripple effect in the fallout. So it just

495
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 6: sparks up this really cool dialogue.

496
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Speaker 9: And then all of the relatable issues like that they're

497
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 9: going through even before they get to the point of

498
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 9: you know Tay's character, right, Like a lot of people are.

499
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:44,439
Speaker 4: Going through it.

500
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Speaker 9: The economy that you know, they we're in people's moms

501
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 9: or you know, people's parents period, are getting sick. Insurance

502
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 9: is not covering things that they need. Some people don't

503
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 9: even have insurance because of you know, government issues and

504
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 9: all that type of things. So it's like it's very

505
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 9: relatable until you get to the saving great.

506
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 6: Here because literally insurance and insurance company they are.

507
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 2: They are here to make money.

508
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 6: They're not nonprofit, they are a for profit companies. So

509
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 6: they will say this procedure, this treatment cost too much.

510
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 11: You had this fire script and you were surprised or

511
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 11: I felt like you weren't ready. When is like I

512
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 11: want to be a part of it.

513
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 2: Like I'm listening to the Congress.

514
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Speaker 6: No, that was that was the comeback. This one I knew, yeah,

515
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:24,479
Speaker 6: this one, this one.

516
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 12: I was like, hey, he called me and was like, Yo,

517
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 12: let's availability we just go around.

518
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,640
Speaker 1: He was definitely with it because he I.

519
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 6: Mean, he fits that mysterious brooding. You can look at

520
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 6: him and tell he he fits it.

521
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: So I'm tremendously talented.

522
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 5: And we as actors, we we forget.

523
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 7: Like I'm doing a show with Wayne Brady and he

524
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 7: was like, hey, man, would you We were thinking about you?

525
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 7: And I was like, oh, I was on your mond.

526
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 7: Like you get caught up in your own world and

527
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 7: if you're in any way grounded, you forget that other

528
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 7: people see you in a certain way.

529
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

530
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 4: Did you ever forget who you were?

531
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: Constantly? Constantly? And I gotta be reminded, Like that's something

532
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: I gotta work on because sometimes I'll be ashamed too

533
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: and people.

534
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Speaker 4: You cold, they know who you are?

535
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 5: Ye wound, No, because I know that's the thing.

536
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 7: It's it's it has to do with like being raised

537
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 7: in the church and you know, being taught you need

538
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 7: to be humble, you know, think about others like It's

539
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 7: like what they teach you. If you really want to succeed,

540
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 7: you have to do the exact opposite. You got to

541
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 7: be like a Kanye West. I'm not gonna apologize. I

542
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 7: belong here, Boom, don't don't knock open the door. Those

543
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 7: are the people that really and that's not.

544
00:25:59,040 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: How I was raised.

545
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 7: And I took a lot of pride in like following

546
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 7: the rules, and I still made it through. But I'm like, oh,

547
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 7: I could have been so much more if I like

548
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 7: I remember going on auditions and being like, you know

549
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 7: what this isn't I think I know somebody else who's

550
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 7: better for this part literally, and then feeling proud giving

551
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 7: a part away, like if it was a hood thing Lauren.

552
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: Told me about what was it?

553
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 12: Uh, I was the one that was was you were

554
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 12: going to do? He did and Matrix was a matrix or.

555
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is really great for radio though,

556
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: really great.

557
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 11: About the movies we would have recognized that were like

558
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 11: big successes and you.

559
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 7: I don't know if it went, but I just remember thinking,

560
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 7: you know, I wanted to like do the right thing

561
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 7: instead of like promote myself and then and then and

562
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 7: and sometimes you know that that can be.

563
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: It can lead in the wrong direction. And I'm still learning.

564
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 5: I don't think you can have an act to Kanye West,

565
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 5: because in order to promote yourself, people got to be.

566
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 4: Giving you work, because your work is your calling card.

567
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 5: Like we we we rate Denzel because all of the

568
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 5: times we've seen Denzel and these fantastic girls. You rate

569
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 5: Tom Hanks because all the times you've seen him in

570
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 5: these fantastic growths.

571
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the same reason we ran you.

572
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 5: But that would be the only thing you could actually

573
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 5: use to stick your chest out.

574
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: But I forget you got classics though, I forget.

575
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 4: Oh man, I've still got a groove bag best man

576
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 4: Brown shut.

577
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: You don't forget when you did them. But I don't know.

578
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 7: I don't know until somebody comes up to me, and

579
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 7: then the industry like, oh that's it's a fan like

580
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 7: the whole all this time, everyone's telling you to stay grounded,

581
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, And then you take a

582
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 7: person that's like raised in the in the church, and

583
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 7: I'm trying to be humble, and don't you know what

584
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 7: I'm saying.

585
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to be like this actor.

586
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 7: I don't want to be like that actor, this person

587
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 7: stepped too far over the line.

588
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: And they so then you just like all of a sudden.

589
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 7: You kind of forget who what you're worth, trying to

590
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 7: like follow the rules. I'm being a good person, I'm

591
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 7: being humble. Don't you know make sure you look after

592
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 7: the other person. No, that doesn't work. But it took

593
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 7: a minute, and it took a bunch of people, but

594
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 7: to be like, don't you know who you are? And

595
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 7: at first I'm like, oh, this person, he doesn't get it.

596
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 7: And then you're like, wait, Will Smith, and you look

597
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 7: at all the people that are doing it Kevin Harp

598
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 7: where I was like, oh, these guys are too they're

599
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 7: they're too full of themselves. Look at where they are,

600
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 7: and it's like you have to be in order.

601
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Speaker 6: To I believe that he aumility though, like you save

602
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 6: it for the people who deserve it.

603
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, you save that humility and that approach for

604
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 2: the people who deserve it, who keep it works for you?

605
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: You know, thirty years later I thought it was humility.

606
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't that.

607
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 9: What about other people that that you had, like like

608
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 9: you got closer that you did projects with like a

609
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 9: Morse Chestnut or like friends like do you have like

610
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 9: do they do you have these conversations with them?

611
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: Do they like like what's wrong? Like I know more so, well, yes,

612
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I started seeing him like I

613
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: look at him on Instagram.

614
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 11: That's not it's funny her Instagram up.

615
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 7: He took charge and I'm like, well, if Mars is

616
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 7: doing because we're both capricorns, yeah, we both play by

617
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 7: the rules.

618
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: We like to work hard. I was like, oh, I said, okay.

619
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Speaker 4: Is doing its ain't showing ass.

620
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Speaker 2: Now, just be dancing.

621
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 9: He never shows online his old mask.

622
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: Remember about ring I did. I did not say nothing

623
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: about that man's as he said, you should be on

624
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: while you're talking about.

625
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Speaker 14: Right now, But no, I tell you, I'm serious man.

626
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 5: Brown Sugar is one of my favorite movies ever. Like

627
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 5: that was the first and last hip hop brom com.

628
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Speaker 5: I don't know why that didn't open up a whole

629
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 5: new genre, and I always wanted how I did working

630
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 5: on that film change the way you think about like

631
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 5: the connection between music and relationships and just coachure period.

632
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: Oh it taught me.

633
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 7: It taught me, you know what I mean. I didn't

634
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 7: know that, and I was very proud because that was

635
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 7: like something new and innovative and it worked, and I

636
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 7: was like, oh we wow, we are good.

637
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: This is with the music in this okay? All right

638
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: black people?

639
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 7: Like that's when it started to really connect, like we

640
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 7: can do anything we can't. We can do more than

641
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 7: just catch up. We can create this thing with music

642
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 7: that we created and take all the elements of some

643
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 7: of the white movies. But then this it's our story

644
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 7: and awesome.

645
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: What was it about you.

646
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 5: That made that love story feel so authentic?

647
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 7: Oh, that's just some kind of I don't know, it's

648
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 7: a chemistry. Like I've been in this business long enough

649
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 7: to know I have I have no idea, but it

650
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,959
Speaker 7: just worked. It just worked, and some things you just

651
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 7: I'm very I feel very blessed because for a while

652
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 7: I would hear stories of other just horror stories of

653
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 7: people that were playing couples and they hated each other, and.

654
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Speaker 1: I did not I had no idea what that was like,

655
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I didn't know how lucky. I

656
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: didn't know how lucky I was.

657
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 9: You know, did you hatting me along when she slept chasst.

658
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: Man at that moment?

659
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 9: But it was the right choice and it was a

660
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 9: good acting yo, you did not break, though it was

661
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 9: the right choice.

662
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: You didn't know it was coming, but that's phenomenal. He

663
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: did not break. It was written in the script.

664
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 7: But in a situation like that, you need to have

665
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 7: a stuntman come, and it's supposed to be a fake slapper.

666
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: It's the whole thing. And the stumm man didn't come,

667
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: and she just slapped and she she should have.

668
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 7: But I had just come out of you know, drama school,

669
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Speaker 7: and I was like, why didn't rebhears?

670
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 2: And how dare you?

671
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: The director didn't have my back? How many takes that?

672
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Speaker 11: Do you feel like The Best Man Unfinished Business? The

673
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 11: book that Malcolm Delee just did, do you feel like

674
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 11: that should be on TV or like a series versus

675
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 11: the book?

676
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: So you know what, the book that.

677
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 11: He the recent book he just did, that's supposed to

678
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 11: continue the conversation.

679
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Speaker 7: As an actor, I'll say yes, just because I want

680
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 7: to be in it, but as as I love what

681
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 7: he's doing and that makes perfect sense, and and I

682
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 7: love that it's happening because I love that you can

683
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 7: take the idea that a book about a book, you

684
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Speaker 7: know what I mean?

685
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm very impressed with him.

686
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 5: We had him up here to think that don't make

687
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 5: no sense to me about the best Man, and I

688
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 5: guess it goes into what we're talking about today. It

689
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 5: broke records on Peacock, right, it was like the most

690
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 5: view series ever on Peacock. Wouldn't common sense say hey,

691
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 5: let's do more of this?

692
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: You said, common sense?

693
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 4: Yes, that's the key, exactly.

694
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 6: That's the key because you think about who's at the

695
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 6: table making these decisions. Allow those folks at the table,

696
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 6: they don't care about us, They don't you know, we

697
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 6: can do numbers, but we constantly have to prove ourselves over.

698
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Speaker 1: We have to get out. It doesn't make sense.

699
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 7: You have agents that are turning down jobs that will

700
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 7: make them money.

701
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, but because of their ego. Yep. So it's like, well,

702
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: what this you know?

703
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't get it, and I'm spending too much

704
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 7: time trying to figure it out. So let's just thank

705
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 7: god there are other people that I can look at.

706
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: Oh it's working, well, then let's go.

707
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 5: It feels very dre leaving Millennium Records. Man, that's how

708
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 5: I feel what I feel like.

709
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 11: It's literally one of my questions here is like your

710
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 11: character and from Sugar is so you in real life,

711
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 11: everything you're going through now, and then what the music

712
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 11: industry is going through right now.

713
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: Too, Except this is like a surefire thing.

714
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 7: Like I'm not I don't feel like I'm taking the risk.

715
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 7: The only reason I'm doing it is because it works.

716
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is our third film with Say.

717
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 6: We had to come back huge hit on Peacock Both

718
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 6: Eyes Open went out to theaters and it was the

719
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 6: number one movie on Stars for four weeks in a row.

720
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 6: And then coming up with another Man's Wife. It's it's

721
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 6: they always slept on the performance.

722
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: They're not waking up now. I'm gonna be a part

723
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Speaker 1: of it.

724
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 4: They can see you camera.

725
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Speaker 11: I would watch it for all of you guys, because

726
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 11: there's so much content out there now, people that are

727
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 11: looking to do it their own way. How do they

728
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 11: get like out of the noise and like actually get

729
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 11: people to respect what they're doing, get people to want

730
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Speaker 11: to finance it and not just stay on social forever

731
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Speaker 11: or you know what I mean, Like build it where

732
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Speaker 11: it's like a business is elevated.

733
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Speaker 7: Honestly, nobody knows. I would say content and quality. That's

734
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 7: not necessarily the case. It's like you got to look

735
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 7: and see what's what's hitting now and jump on that, or.

736
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Speaker 1: Take a risk and try something new.

737
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 6: And you know, the content may vary, right, I mean,

738
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, quality of content may vary. And obviously the

739
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 6: better the quality, the better opportunity you have for it

740
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 6: to get seen and the people to take you seriously.

741
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 6: But the end of the day, it's about a compelling story,

742
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 6: and you have to have a great story. Everything starts

743
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 6: with a great story, and then you have to have

744
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 6: great actors who can deliver that story. If he have

745
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 6: that formula, nothing still guaranteed. I mean, it's I mean,

746
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 6: to your point, Charlotte, it's it's it's mind boggling how

747
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 6: Malcolm cannot get a season two of It's like mind boggling, right,

748
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 6: But that's what happens, you know, And it's he was

749
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 6: very politically correct, you know, he was very you know, diplomatic, right,

750
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 6: but let me say it was some bullshit that he

751
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 6: that he is not. I mean, he is one of

752
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 6: the greatest writers of our time, one of the greatest

753
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 6: directors of our time. So so that's the lesson learned

754
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 6: is we're gonna tell our compelling stories, but we're gonna

755
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 6: we're gonna control the vehicle, and we're gonna build our

756
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 6: own seats, build our own tables, because if nobody else

757
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 6: is willing to tell our stories, well darn it, will

758
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 6: tell it.

759
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Speaker 5: And if I remember correctly, and I could be wrong, Malcolm,

760
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 5: so forgive me. I thought he kind of you kind

761
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 5: of put the onus on the actors a little bit

762
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 5: because he said, it's just all of y'all are so busy.

763
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 5: You knows so many big stars on that it's hard

764
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Speaker 5: to get you all together.

765
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Speaker 7: I mean, that was true. We were all you know,

766
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 7: everybody was blessed to be working. That was a part

767
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 7: of it.

768
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: But I mean how long.

769
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Speaker 2: I mean Sanx in the city, they figured out how

770
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Speaker 2: to do their business. Friends they figure gets.

771
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: Tiring waiting for them to let us in, you know

772
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: what I mean?

773
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 4: Because money makes people figure it out.

774
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: So not even money sometimes because we were making money.

775
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: That's what I didn't get. Why do this with this black.

776
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 7: Movie and then they don't have and they don't have

777
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 7: any explanation and they're fine with it. Why do black

778
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 7: movies disappear every once in a while. When was the

779
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 7: last black romantic comedy you saw?

780
00:37:59,200 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 5: Jesus?

781
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 4: Oh no, not a comedy.

782
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 7: Another when they were like there was one after another,

783
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 7: they were all making money.

784
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: I guess somebody decided to not do them.

785
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 5: I guess the last one I saw was was it

786
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 5: a comedy?

787
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 4: Though forever?

788
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 5: It's not a comedy? The joint with Keith that wasn't

789
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 5: a comedy, wasn't.

790
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 6: No photograph now that wasn't wow. I mean you'd have

791
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 6: to go back to like you can play that game, like, yeah.

792
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 7: One after another and it was like fun.

793
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 11: You bring that up a lot, because I feel like

794
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 11: that time movies and television, it just it was you

795
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 11: didn't have to think about it so hard, even so much,

796
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 11: right like, and they gave you a feeling and it

797
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 11: was different.

798
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 5: It's something happened, and I don't know what happened. And

799
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 5: I like to talk to people like you t because

800
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 5: y'all wore those superstars in the nineties and early two thousands.

801
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 4: Black.

802
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 5: Everything that we talk about wanting in black cinema and

803
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 5: black film, it was there already, you know.

804
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 4: And it's not like it wasn't doing numbers. The movies

805
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 4: was doing numbers.

806
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 5: Copedy show a different world, the number one, number two

807
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 5: show in the world.

808
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 4: It's just like what happened?

809
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 5: That means Hollywood just be like, you know what, we

810
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 5: don't want to make no money with niggas.

811
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: Mmm.

812
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 6: You think about the guy and his name escapes me.

813
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 6: But Love Jones iconic, right, I mean it brings out

814
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 6: in the motion.

815
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: When you hear it.

816
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 6: That director never had an opportunity to direct another feature again.

817
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 5: After Love Jones.

818
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: Jones?

819
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 4: Why or did or Witcher?

820
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: Yeah?

821
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: Yeah never?

822
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 6: You know, but other other directors can fail two, three,

823
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 6: four times and still get a budget. You know, they

824
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 6: they felt Love Jones didn't make enough money, so he

825
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 6: never got an opportunity. But look at the look at

826
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 6: the social impact it had on our culture. Matter never

827
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 6: directed another feature? So what projects allow y'all to scratch

828
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 6: versus just what feels safe?

829
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: Well for me, this this one didn't, You know what

830
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: I mean?

831
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 7: I love playing like the quote unquote bad bad guy.

832
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean.

833
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 7: As an actor, it's it's it's fun playing outside of

834
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 7: what you know people know you as, and and how

835
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 7: you're perceived. So so you know, situations which I might

836
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 7: not have been you know, given that opportunity.

837
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: Word not for us, You know what I mean? Yeah?

838
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 2: That was cool?

839
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 6: I mean as as a part of the casting process.

840
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 6: You know, not to name names, but that was that

841
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 6: was a conversation around today. Could he play this role?

842
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 6: Could he play a bad guy?

843
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 2: Why not?

844
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 6: Like, why can't he have different versions of who he

845
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 6: is to show that diversity within himself?

846
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 4: Why not?

847
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: Right? So?

848
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 6: But I mean what I would say, what what would

849
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 6: stretch me is a biopic. Yeah, I would love to

850
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 6: do a biopick on Fred Hammon. I would love it.

851
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 6: Like if Fred, if you're watching and listened, call us, Yeah,

852
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 6: I would He's just I mean, he's just iconic, and

853
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 6: it would say it was an uphill clon. So there's

854
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 6: a lot of stories within that story, you know that

855
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 6: that that that will bold well for you.

856
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 2: Know, consumer consumption.

857
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean he's right up there, right So,

858
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 6: but a bio pick would actually you know, how do

859
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 6: you make it factual but then also entertaining at the

860
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 6: same time, but not but not straying away to make

861
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 6: it too you know, fictional?

862
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: Right?

863
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

864
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 5: My last question to tell you, how do you hope

865
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 5: your career will be remembered, not just in terms of roles,

866
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 5: but in terms of like your impact on culture and

867
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 5: like your the next generation of acting.

868
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: I don't.

869
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,479
Speaker 7: I'm trying to get to the point where I don't

870
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 7: care because that's the easiest for me. And if I

871
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 7: come from that standpoint, I don't have to worry about

872
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 7: controlling anything. So that's what works for me. I used

873
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 7: to hate the idea of getting old, and then people

874
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 7: used to say words like oh, legacy, and then that

875
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 7: started to make me feel good. But then I was realizing, Okay,

876
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 7: I'm still attached to what happens when those movies are out,

877
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 7: and then people stopped talking No, so let me just

878
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 7: try to be in the moment, do good work, be grateful,

879
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 7: and remember what I did. But just stay in the moment,

880
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 7: because that's all that I can really deal with.

881
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

882
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I just want to say this. You don't

883
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 9: have any movies that you are casting for.

884
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 4: I am you have a job a job.

885
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 8: I do have a job, but I want another one.

886
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 2: When I tell you, you know.

887
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 6: That's actors come on and they'll say line, you know,

888
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 6: every every third line, line you never said, came.

889
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 2: On set on time?

890
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 4: Yes on.

891
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 6: I don't know if she's on time here, but she's

892
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Speaker 6: she's so consistently on tim knew her lines. You know,

893
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Speaker 6: people they take their cues from the names on set.

894
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 6: So if she's coming in with a cloud overhead, the

895
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Speaker 6: whole set will have a cloud sun constantly shining.

896
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Speaker 2: And she was pregnant. I know she was going that

897
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Speaker 2: first trimester. We didn't know it. She didn't show it.

898
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 2: M constantly professional. Yeah, I don't have to worry about that.

899
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Speaker 2: You know, you stay on speech, you know, jes get busy.

900
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: Man.

901
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Speaker 4: Why does your tattoos say chocolate?

902
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Speaker 7: Me?

903
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: M looking at the question, not about my booty has

904
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: no because you're talking. I know. It's a book. I

905
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: wrote a book.

906
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 7: Self self esteem and young people being proud of how

907
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 7: they look at their chocolate.

908
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: Dope.

909
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, I love that it's available now, not his chocolate.

910
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Speaker 8: Questions about.

911
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Speaker 1: Children's book, the children's book I need, Yeah, order.

912
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Speaker 11: It makes sense. I remember you having no conversations about

913
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 11: your son and people like that.

914
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Speaker 1: Whole another book. Yeah for him? Yeah, I love that alright.

915
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: It embracing ourselves.

916
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Speaker 9: When are we releasing I'm sorry, we like, I'm for

917
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Speaker 9: your team.

918
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Speaker 5: When are you'll released in Another Man's Wife?

919
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Speaker 2: Yes?

920
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Speaker 1: Another.

921
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Speaker 6: It will either be late Q four so December, or

922
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Speaker 6: or early key one six, so over the next four months.

923
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Speaker 3: Look out for absolutely, Thank you, brothers, for you, thank

924
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 3: you with the day, with the production teams.

925
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 4: So we don't forget.

926
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Speaker 6: That's a good question. So it's freely films. That that's

927
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Speaker 6: that's that's what I bring to the table.

928
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Speaker 12: And then and it's down deep right now, down deep productions. Yeah,

929
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 12: so we partner together and we'll figure it out.

930
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: You have, let's figure out.

931
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: His ass productions, y'all.

932
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Speaker 4: Man, None of this matters if you know people don't

933
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 4: go out there.

934
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 2: And support staying for the people in the back.

935
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: But also you.

936
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 3: Gotta make your way back up here when the movie

937
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 3: comes out, come back up talking about people understanding and

938
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 3: see it.

939
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: Thank y'all, thank you, absolutely appreciate you.

940
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: Troy J called Digs. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning

941
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: every day.

942
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 2: I wait, click your ass up, the breakfast Club.

943
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: You don't finish for y'all.

944
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 4: Done,