WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Lil Rel Howery On Getting Healthy, Being His Best Self, New Projects + More 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.480 Wake that ass up in the morning. 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.720 Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's Steen j n V Jes Hilarius 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:08.559 Charlamage the guy. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.639 We are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:11.200 in the building. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.960 He's the dream killer. Ladies and gentlemen, bigger than big 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:21.400 backs ladies gentlemen. First of all, that's not true. Look, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.120 I'm just saying like because people, you know, everybody when 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.040 they see me, like, man, you know you lost Wait, 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.440 you look good what you're doing. And then I started 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.040 listening things off, like yo, I stopped drinking, I did this, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.199 I did that, and then they just be staring at me. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.560 So now I'm just really honest. So a big dude 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.760 just asked me the hallway, you know what I'm doing. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.520 I told him. They just still looked at me because 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.040 I can see the grease staying on the jack SyES, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:43.879 and I was like, well, you ain't gonna do it 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.040 what you said? He just let Man, I could tell 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.000 it hurt, but it was. I mean literally, I was 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.960 like therapy. I stopped drinking. This is a lifestyle I 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.920 started five years ago. Consistently, Dude. I literally get up 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.680 every morning, no matter what time, I gotta get up 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.600 at least go to the gym for hour. I got 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.880 stuff set up in my house. I go boxing three 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.039 times a week. It's like when you tell them, they 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:06.760 be like, oh, you really doing it? Doing it? So 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.520 you work work yeah, because they want you to say 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.679 that you got the shot. That's true, that's what that's 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.600 that's it. Are you doing the ozempic. It's like, no, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.840 I can't, and it's no distant nobody you know what 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.520 I'm saying. But it's funny because people roast you with 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.360 the ozimpic thing, even though it's commercials for like people 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.280 will go to my page like and say, I do 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.600 workouts in like ozmpic. That's all they're saying, Like, oh 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.479 I didn't do it, but okay, brother, I gotta hurt. 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.440 Though, because you actually did it, like you talk about 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.200 your process and now they throw ozipic on you like 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.280 I just told you, you know, three times a week, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.720 and it used to hurt, but it don't anymore because 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.880 I don't understand how that's a roast and they have 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.520 commercials for it that say that is what it's supposed 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.120 to do. It's just like if I ship, it's like, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.760 oh you go penicillin or pep the bismo, what the fuck? 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.160 You know what I mean? 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.920 And I've seen you over time and you didn't just 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.720 wake up like you have gradually. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.400 You've seen it. It was a process. It wasn't like overnight, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.200 I guess, like and then I don't know, it was 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.960 funny that didn't happen in the hallway. But just I'm 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.360 proud of myself. It's the most proud of, like happiest 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:07.800 I think I've ever been. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.560 Like, be proud of black people. Because back in the day, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:10.840 you say, damn, reroll on crack. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.639 They still say stuff like that. Damn they still go say, 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.360 you know, crack. But then I don't even understand what 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.799 this like, you know, after the chat, would think you 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.040 would just think people would just leave people to funk 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.760 along life for real, Like you don't know. But if 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.760 I look happy, damn, but people are so sad, so 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:27.840 they be like and it. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.359 Does a lot of happy crackheads. So like if the crackheads. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.240 Crackheads was always skinny, Like it was a dude named 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.200 Johnny Cash on the West Side of Chicago who had 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.919 the biggest cap. He was just athletic, the most athletic 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.400 crackhead because he walked every fucking day. Most crackheads in 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.600 my era were in shape. Yeah, yeah, they really were. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.400 They was picking up ship, they were shoveling, they were 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.240 doing all the type of ship to get the crack money. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.079 So they was in shape. I never see the fat 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.880 crackhead though. You ain't never see the fat one. And 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.840 then the skinny ones was the ones, you know, I 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.280 think they had to be kind of all ready a 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.359 little skinny and then it was out. I don't know 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.200 what we tell you. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.200 I have never seen a dead one. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.800 All the crackcads that I knew growing up still right 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.240 now to this day, still to this day. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.519 Because crack, well crack and cocaine, right, so it's the 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:12.080 cheap ship. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.720 Well crack is fried cocaine. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.960 Yeah, but it's like the cheap it's the cheap version 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.440 of it. I mean, that's what snowfalls are we talking about? 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:21.680 How do we get. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:22.560 Crack is what we need? 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.400 I mean, honestly, I think some of this ship is cracked. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.040 Like I don't, like, nobody know what zip because for 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.079 diabetes and then people do it to lose well, it's 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.440 fucking weird. You're a weird ass time. But people comfortable 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.000 talking about it. Yeah, so I'm like, y'all got people 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.800 that's saying they're doing it like I still picking on me. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.000 I won't say this though I met you a long 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.520 long time ago. I had to talk to on m TV. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.040 Came on there. You never looked fund up to me. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.200 Like the way people acting they act. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.880 Like I was like I was Lavell Crawford and Bruce 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:08.880 fucking Don, Dela Weed, I was out shopped Damns weight 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:16.880 to break this said, that's what I need. I need 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.200 to show up and do more ship for people. We 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:32.640 got no movie man. Now, this children's movie the Kids 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:39.760 dog Man Man about dog Man is amazing, cartoon based, amazing, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.960 but it is kind of dog Man ain't dark, but 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.080 it's because you know, they put their head together with 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.440 the man and but it's a really funny and fun movie. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.600 I got a chance to do a Pete Davidson and 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.520 kids are loving this movie and it looks like it's 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.320 tracking to do really well. So I'm excited to be 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.760 in that space where we do those cartoon movies that 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.200 that really killed the box office, and I think it's 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:00.880 gonna be one of them. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:01.960 Is the box office back? 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.960 Yeah, for certain stuff, I think family stuff is doing 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.360 well one of them days. I'm proud of what that's doing. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.120 I'm in that too, and that's good for comedy to 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.600 comedy movies. And they did a good job of that too, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.120 cause they did a good job of casting and just 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.520 making it funny because a lot of stuff just hasn't 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.040 been really funny funny for real again. I mean, that's 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.440 what I'm doing about. Like when I leave here, I 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.600 start directing my first movie that I'm starting in and 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.080 Tiffany's in it, and uh, I guess what I could 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.039 do them? Yeah, I mean, I mean, we ain't got 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.920 o pr budget, so I might. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.040 As well just say to start now. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.159 So Carlos Miller got Carlos King Batch, Tony Baker. Okay, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.200 so this is gonna be it's gonna be fun, Like 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.280 I believe, like it's time to start casting comedians for 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.000 real in these comedies again it's comedy horror. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.119 There's one comedian you ain't named that be getting busy 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.680 who wreksa. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.560 Just yeah. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.119 Before I ain't going I'm not doing that. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:58.800 Don't do that. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:04.120 Just chances. Also, just like if it was something I love, Jess, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.479 So I know we're gonna work again. So yeah, absolutely, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.600 I love all the time over this and you are 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.520 like great, Like I'm surprised, like people not begging you 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.320 to do more sitcoms that your timing and everything was 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:19.400 just natural and perfect. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.080 But it's not a loot of sitcoms of black people nowadays, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.920 I mean, not always what you call a two camera 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:25.600 what they call it. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.600 Uh multi cam yeh, yeah, no it's not. It's I mean, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:34.320 but you still got like the Miss Pat Show, the Upshells. Yeah, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.000 so I think I just think we just got to 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.080 like we just gotta do it. I mean, Bounce got 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:38.720 a bunch of but. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:46.239 Yeah, you say, nobody watching Bounce, but you can create 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:47.920 something that maybe somebody will watch on it. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.599 No, I think it's time to like start downplaying those 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.960 places like the Bounces and all these different places, like 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.880 let's go there, let's bring out material that we're trying 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.680 to get to these other spots. Go to the place 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.120 it's gonna accept your material. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.320 But it's the money thing too. I agree with you, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.000 But you know, we can't just go to these places 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.520 and do charity. They got to have the budget. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.559 Well, the budgets ain't that great for the other stuff, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.720 the big stuff neither they cut everything, so you might 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:08.960 as well go to a place that's gonna let you 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.240 creatively do what you're supposed to do, do what you 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.160 want to do. That's why, like two Bees a Lick, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.560 I love to know. I'm oh, no, no, don't proudly 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.200 say you got a. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:24.480 Joke about Yeah right, it's smart. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.520 I don't think there's no better comedy on the planet 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.080 than to be but the unintention So. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.239 Could you imagine if they had a really good meeting 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.960 with them, And that's one of the things I approached 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.200 them about. Like it's like because I don't want to 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.640 just give them content. I'm like, yo, I want to 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.040 be let me be an executive over here. Let me 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.000 help with your literally let me be let me run 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.000 your comedy, help bring the stuff in there. But I'm 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.760 trying to give them my special. I just shot you know, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.080 I did a comedy festival last year and I shot 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.720 my special there. So I feel like two Bees a 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:52.520 Lick Man. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.040 We got ninety four million, ninety million monthly viewers or 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.120 something crazy number, like. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.800 They got the viewer Like that's why it's trying to 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.280 really like, if they're smart, just you literally could do 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.840 what Netflix did just start taking in really good content 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:05.559 like w B it ship. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.520 I want to do a breakfast club murder mystery on 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:08.680 to be one of my favorite shows on. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.280 I want to do a breakfast club murder mystery. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.000 Yeah, because I like this show called just what was 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.520 on it called I Got a Story to Tell an 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.280 ology series? Yeah, man, that ships so good. You seen 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:20.720 the Gastation Pill episode. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:21.120 With young Jockeys? 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.080 That was that was? That was good. Ronnie Jordan was 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.360 really good and hilarious. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.160 Jock to have asked you to play an ugly person 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.400 like Broll, we needed to play what the in the 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.160 show had to be a he was his character was 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.280 supposed to be ugly. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.000 But start with that. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.120 Never said was that the character description? 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.000 Like, seriously, have you seen. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:47.000 I mean just that he they called him. I ain't 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.120 never been asked to play an ugly person. Well, maybe 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.240 I had asked Kat Williams. He said I'm ugly, so 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.480 maybe I have say that call me ugly? He called 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.960 me the ugliest nigga. He's like, man, you go to 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.720 the mall in Atlanta, ain't nobody gonna talk to you. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:04.600 I'm like, that's weird. Like I did well in Atlanta. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.160 When I was single with with what you know what 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:07.520 I'm saying. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.960 I was in the streets. What I'm saying with men 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:16.240 women in Atlanta, Jesus, charm no real nowadays identify arlam. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:18.080 You I'm not talking about. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.720 I'm talking about specifically asked me, yes, the internet, because 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.120 I don't want them to take this out of context. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.480 He wanted to know what you forever. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.559 Take it out of context? Did you make it context? Man? 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.160 Like you made a context? What did you do? Man? 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:33.320 He just called you ugly? 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.880 Want to know what you call you? Identifying everything? Use 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.000 those and Jesus surprised. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.479 You just trying up and down? 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.400 You can jump? You didn't go that far? I mean 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.760 you you you took it. I mean, come on. Some 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.560 of the stuff was a conversation were about the crack era. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.040 He said, I was on crack. You see what I'm saying. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.160 But I've never seen you with the man. I would 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.920 never ask, hey, when you was Atlanta that you did 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.400 the man a woman I was. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.840 It was only the ladies Atlanta. Atlanta is full of 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.920 gorgeous black women. When I was in my single days, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.600 it was I used to have good times out there. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.600 How much did how has being engaged changed you. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.679 I'm cool, I'm chilling, you know. You just I'm not 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.320 in no thirsty place, you know what I'm saying. But 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.280 I was like that before I even proposed her. I 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:22.640 just got to a point where I was just like, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.400 I just want to chill. I'm grown, I'm not you 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.959 know what I mean. I like, literally just love being 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.640 around my girl. That's it. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.880 And it's your second time I getting married both of us. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.360 Yeah, it's both our second time around. So and we 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.480 you know, we ain't diddy everybody when you're gonna do it. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.400 We possibly may have a reality show, and so we 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.600 may wait to do it and shot it on the show. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.000 Yeah, do you want to do that? 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.640 Yeah? Because what I want to do is actually people 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.840 to see the real conversation about because I don't necessarily 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.960 want to win, so she does. So we've actually stopped 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.320 talking about it so we could save it for the show, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.640 so people could really see what this real conversation is. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.880 Why don't you want to wedd I think it's overrated. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.439 I think I talked about that at one time. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.880 By the way, that started a real conversation. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:03.560 I just don't lie. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.440 But just in everyday life, people was talking to me 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:05.760 about it. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.400 I think you said the wedding of the marriage was Yeah, you. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.720 Gotta prepare what you gotta prepare for marriage. I think 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.880 you should be focused on the marriage, but also we 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.240 should be I think we should treat out of visaries 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.600 like weddings, but how we gonna celebrations. It's like it's 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.920 like for kids start school right here, freshman, we give 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.760 them the graduation this freshman year. You don't know if 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.280 this nigga gonna stay in school the whole four years. Yeah, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:28.920 so that's what I said. I think we should take 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.920 out of virtuaries, make those the big celebrations are not 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:32.440 the weddings. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:33.840 Now, when you say it like that, it's like you 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.240 spend all this money on the wedding and you don't 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:36.360 know how long it's gonna last. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.240 Y'all, I ain't been through nothing. It ain't nothing to 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.800 really celebrate. I think anniversaries deserved that energy. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.880 I like it when you said it last time, like 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.920 put put the nobody puts the thought and the emphasis 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:49.640 into the marriage. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:50.480 What is this marriage? 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.760 What does marriage gonna be like? And then like, especially 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.520 if y'all got through a tough year. Yes, I want 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.440 you motherfuckers to celebrate me, right, we went through a 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.199 tough time, like celebrate make anniversaries bigger, spending all this 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.200 money on these ways because now everybody break up so 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.800 quick too. It looks just crazy. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.000 But how would that affect you? I guess the times 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.439 are so different now you could do whatever you want. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:11.840 I was about to say, how would that affect you 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.360 doing reality TV and still doing film? 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.920 But I guess it don't even matter, I. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.280 Think nowadays because it's not just it wouldn't just be 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.240 more or less the folks to be on her because 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.000 I think she's amazing and on like blending our families 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.880 and things like that. So like also too, it's some 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.880 fun to watch the way I'm moving in my career too. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.720 So you know, it's a lot of things people don't know, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.640 Like I really, man, I really been on my business 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.840 this season for me, this is the season of business 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.600 for me. So and that's why I did a festival, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.760 That's why I'm directing, That's why I'm producing and doing 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.400 all this stuff. I'm in boss mode now. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:43.320 In Hollywood. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.880 You know what's fun? I don't I think everything is Hollywood. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.280 Something I wish somebody would say, because I always hear like, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.880 like I shout out to my homeboy Country Wayne, but 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.400 he always kind of talking about like going against Hollywood. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.840 But I'm like, bro, you in Hollywood, Like you're you're filming, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.720 making movies. That is Hollywood. I think we keep thinking 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.320 Hollywood is a place and it's an industry. I don't 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.040 care if you put stuff on content on Instagram. You're 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.719 part of Hollywood. You know what I'm saying, That's that's Hollywood. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.559 So like I just I just think we I think 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.120 people love to just say I'm not a part of 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.520 this thing, but damn, Hollywood is Hollywood. As long as 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.440 you're making movies and TV even skits and all that stuff, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.040 episodic stuff, that's Hollywood. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:25.440 Yeah. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.800 Yeah, I actually feel like the traditional Hollywood is kind 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.640 of behind the eight ball because you got these people 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.120 like the Country and Drew Skies whoever. They just like 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.120 they doing all of these kids and sketches every single day. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.400 It's like watching the TV show every day. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.120 Well, it don't exist. I mean it don't exist in 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.040 a good way. It's actually embracing more people. That's why, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.400 like you know, we're talking about too b I do 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.160 love that we are embracing these other filmmakers, you know 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.559 what I'm saying. Like it's just it's coming from everywhere. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.160 It's not like I think we just be so full. 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.160 It's just feel good. I guess to say, Hollywood, it's like, Okay, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.320 they don't even shooting a La for real, no more. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.000 Yeah about you about to be out here in Jersey 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.880 your life? You said what you're gonna be out in Jersey? 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.240 Lot? They got the Lions. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.079 Shoot, we're shooting at Detroit, you know what I'm saying, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.679 But we're shooting that, so like it's it's I mean, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.760 hopefully La honestly work on his tax credit because especially 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.120 with the fires and everything, you want to see that 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.600 community get built back up, and so hopefully work on 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.920 these tax and centives because there's nothing being shot in La, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.560 which is yep. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:27.920 Were you affected by the fires at all? 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.680 Yeah? No, we only had to evacuate one time, and 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.640 that's because of the kind of fires which was really 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.280 close to us, like we can see it, and but 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.640 it was only going for one day. But I couldn't 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.920 sleep that whole first week because you didn't you know, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.960 the phones was going off. I was watching the news 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.960 the whole time, making sure the fan was good because 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.400 you didn't know when you had to pick up and leave, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.040 and you had to have the mindset of all, it's 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.800 a chance all this stuff is gonna be gone. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.680 Did you pack up what you wanted just in case, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.080 Like I'm gonna put this right here in the car, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:55.840 just in case we gotta go. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.640 Yeah, I just took Honestly, I was okay with losing 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.440 a lot of the stuff. I was more, let's just 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.600 all the papers and stuff there reporting papers. Yeah, but 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.720 I didn't even think I was like all these Jordan's 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.680 is gone. Yeah. I was like, yeah, that is, it 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.800 is what it is, but it's it's That was one 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.680 of the craziest things I've been and I'm, you know, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.600 from Chicago, but like this that fire thing and the 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.000 ambers was flying everywhere. I ain't never seen them because 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.600 it was so windy. It was like two days where 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.200 it felt like like Hurricane Wins. It was. It was 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.160 frightening and they couldn't stop the fires because of that, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.960 Like the fire departments and and shout out to like man, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.200 the firefighters, like they got all those young people that 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.240 you know that's in jail that came out as they 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.240 did most of work. It was crazy. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.200 So what's the point of being in La now if 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.280 you're not from La? Like with everybody who's from LA, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.680 because they're people who like, really love La. That's they 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.120 wrap it in a real way. They don't even think 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.200 what y'all do, what we're doing. We go out there and. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.840 Really law like, yeah, y'all transplants exactly. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.520 Yeah, So what's the reason for you to be out 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:53.760 did that? 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.720 I mean, I don't know how long we're going to 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.920 stay out there, to be honest with you, but I 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.040 love La, you know, and you just talk because wife 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.800 people was talking. We had it was a real conversation 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.520 about it because I don't know. I'm just I'm not 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.320 in a rush to leave, you know what i mean? 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.280 Because I like La and I'm from Chicago. I think 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.440 you should live outside of where you grew up at. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.680 You know, if we moved, probably gonna to Mississippi though, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.520 Missippi that's where she's from. You know, people got a 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.960 bunch of land out there, So I'm like, dude, we 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.400 might as well go down there and build something. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.840 If I'm not mistaken, there's always been a connected like 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.240 a lot of people who who came to Mississippi back 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.240 in the day migrated to Chicago. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.040 Yeah, it's a whole. I think that's why me and 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.520 her hit it off, to be quite honest with you, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.320 because it's I love a country, country, southern black girl 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.520 and she's a black girl because people love to call 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:40.200 her not black. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:41.600 Man. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.440 I be let me tell you this is what I catch. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.480 I catch it for losing weight, and I catch it 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.520 for like, yeah, cat said, you got them light skin, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.240