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

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Wit and today we have a

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Speaker 1: very special guest actor, you like, the actor Mike Merrill's

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Speaker 1: in the building.

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Speaker 2: What what up?

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Speaker 1: Though, He's going all the way down to his roots

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Speaker 1: forget that. What do they call it when you have

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Speaker 1: the voice training again?

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Speaker 2: Vocal vocal? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I thought it was like, what do they call it

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Speaker 1: when you have to speak? Not etiquette? That's not it.

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Speaker 2: That's not the word I'm looking No, no at all

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Speaker 2: that you actually is, right?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Etiquette etquette? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Right, So we got Mike Merrill in the building. What

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Speaker 1: are you going to have me eating today?

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Speaker 2: So we're going to be eating a omelet with spinach,

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Speaker 2: ox corella, cheese and ions, and then on the side

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have some turkey bacon.

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Speaker 1: All right. So right now, guys, it is noon, so

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Speaker 1: we can call this AKA brunch. This is a broke bunch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so you was when you was broke? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because back then you gotta think eggs one as much

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Speaker 2: as it is. You know what I'm saying. Spinach, you

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Speaker 2: can get that great value bag about two three dollars

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Speaker 2: back there. Then the turkey bacon I got it was

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Speaker 2: it wasn't as much back then as well onions, you know,

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Speaker 2: that's like, yeah, that's not a dollar.

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Speaker 1: Before we started shooting, you shared some other dishes that

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Speaker 1: you used to really eat when you was broke. I'm

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Speaker 1: definitely curious. Can you give me a fast snippet into

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Speaker 1: that light.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think the broken meal that I've had,

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Speaker 2: it's broke as a word.

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Speaker 1: It is, yeah, broke word brokes. It's not brocus.

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Speaker 2: It's a word today, the broken meal. That's the Detroit

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Speaker 2: of me. You always make a word. So yeah. The

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Speaker 2: most struggling meal that I've had was it's too peanut

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Speaker 2: butter and jelly crackers. Okay you never heard of that.

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Speaker 1: No, but I say it is that the white crackers,

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Speaker 1: you know, the white you gotta do the yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the other one was bob Evans biscuits sandwiches, the

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Speaker 2: breakfast sanwiches. Yeah, so it come in the box at Walmart.

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Speaker 2: You know. Now, you I was standing in Atlanta at

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Speaker 2: this point, and I was trying my best not to

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Speaker 2: go back to Detroit, you know, so that it put

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Speaker 2: me in a position where I had to live on

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Speaker 2: my car, you know. But I'm like, I can't start over.

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Speaker 2: I gotta keep pushing.

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Speaker 1: And what city were you in? L A? You were

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta and you were damn that ain't even that.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't even the struggle, you know what I mean, like

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Speaker 2: come here and okay, I get it here.

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Speaker 1: Here, you're out here.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Affordable, Yeah, yeah, and you were struggling eating, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: so what you go in a one where you were like,

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Speaker 1: I got three dollars. What's the best I could do

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Speaker 1: to manage just three dollars?

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Speaker 2: So I used to get those breakfast sandwiches they already

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Speaker 2: pre made and everything, and I knew it wasn't healthy,

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Speaker 2: but I had to do what I had to do.

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Speaker 2: I would get those sandwiches, go to sevent eleven, heat

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Speaker 2: it up in the morning, and then go up to

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Speaker 2: La Fitness and work out. That's why I take my

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Speaker 2: showers and stuff like that. Yeah, I had it all

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Speaker 2: planned out. What's crazy is when I.

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Speaker 1: Was I love hearing this and then watching you on straw.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, I love Straw.

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Speaker 1: You was over there relating to the whole script.

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Speaker 2: I was on my last straw. I'm for real, man,

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Speaker 2: it was, it was, it was. It was a time, man.

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Speaker 2: I got to say, I was most mentally free at

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Speaker 2: that time that I've ever been in my life because

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Speaker 2: I ain't have to worry about no bills or nothing

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Speaker 2: like that. All I had to worry about was my

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Speaker 2: car note at that time. And then you had a car,

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Speaker 2: not I had a car, And it's crazy how I

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Speaker 2: ended up getting that car. I had a car before that,

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Speaker 2: and it didn't it didn't pass the mission. Since I'm like,

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Speaker 2: come on, lord, you know I ain't got no money

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Speaker 2: for another car. And I can't ground around here dirty

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, yo, I gotta do what I gotta do.

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Speaker 2: I call my granny. I'm like, Granny, I need some help,

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Speaker 2: and she just helped me with that car, and she like,

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Speaker 2: what you need by mine? Need you to pray for me?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm about to take my car in

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Speaker 2: to get a note. And I hate notes. Like now

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Speaker 2: I had a car. Not I had to get a

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Speaker 2: car note, okay, but the car I had I didn't

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Speaker 2: have a car. Note, my granny helped me with that car.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so did you call her the second time?

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Speaker 2: Call her again? I needed my granny again. My granny

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Speaker 2: is my angel.

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Speaker 1: Clearly was like super Granny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she did them super prayers too, and they were.

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Speaker 1: Calling her for prayers or were you calling her for

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah, hell yeah, okay okay. So yeah, well every

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Speaker 1: time you had to make a movie, he was like yes.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because I didn't. So the thing was, I didn't

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Speaker 2: know how to pray. I didn't know how to pray.

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Speaker 2: Even when she would tell me certain things to say,

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Speaker 2: I still couldn't put my words together to just pray. Like,

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Speaker 2: I didn't know how to talk to God. So I

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Speaker 2: had to figure out a way to get in connection

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Speaker 2: with God like I felt him. I just didn't know

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Speaker 2: how to talk to him. I talked to him through

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Speaker 2: my actions and I listened to him.

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Speaker 1: How would you talk to him through your actions?

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Speaker 2: I would just do what he says, or I would

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Speaker 2: do something and then he was like uh uh. I

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Speaker 2: was like all right, you know what I'm saying, Like

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Speaker 2: you would do something and he'll send a sign like yeah,

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Speaker 2: don't do that. Yeah, So we would speak. I had

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Speaker 2: a connection. I always had a connection with God, and

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Speaker 2: I would speak to him through actions, and I learned

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Speaker 2: how to actually hear his voice through my granny. Man.

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Speaker 2: My granny would tell me like certain things like he

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Speaker 2: would do or not let happen for you to bide

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Speaker 2: to you know, what he wants you to do, because

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Speaker 2: he already have the steps ordered for you. Okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: So I had to follow in that path. And this

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Speaker 2: feeling that I get this gut feeling in this God.

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Speaker 2: And you know, he'll tell me, Hey, so none of that,

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Speaker 2: that's good, that's good, that's that's just sick. That's just nervousness.

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Speaker 2: But that's good. They'll go ahead. You can do that.

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Speaker 2: You can do that. But yeah, man, car situation right

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Speaker 2: back to that. So yeah, the car situation. I had

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Speaker 2: to end up getting a car note. Man, So I

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Speaker 2: only had to worry at that time when I was

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Speaker 2: letting on my car, I only had to worry about

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Speaker 2: my car note. In my phone bill.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how much was it?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Like three hundred was it the least?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Did you have good credit?

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Speaker 2: I did it to buy Damn? My credit was messed up.

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Speaker 1: Your credit was hope, hopefully you refinanced after a year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how good your financial Oh.

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Speaker 2: You own it.

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Speaker 1: You do the seven year payment plan. I love Awes

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Speaker 1: bought a car and I was like, so you bought it,

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Speaker 1: how how long was the payment? She gets She gets

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Speaker 1: really mad because I'm all about financial literacy and like

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Speaker 1: you better not have gone over four years. She'd be like,

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Speaker 1: I did the longest plan.

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Speaker 2: I think I got that car in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, was it brand new?

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Speaker 2: Now? I had like twenty three thousand miles on.

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Speaker 1: That's basically Brandon, that's basically yeah.

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Speaker 2: So they had like twenty three thousand miles on it,

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Speaker 2: and I wish, I guess I could put it up

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Speaker 2: here on Yeah, it had like twenty three thousand miles

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Speaker 1: And.

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Speaker 2: I just knew that I needed it, so I had

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Speaker 2: to do it. Yeah, you know, Carvana. Shout out to Carvana.

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Speaker 2: They made it so easy, like, hey, you can pay

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Speaker 2: what you want type of thing you want almost almost

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Speaker 2: almost like they made it affordable. Ok. Yeah, they go

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Speaker 2: based off of your and they get your prow and

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Speaker 2: stuff like that. Yeah, and they helped me out at

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Speaker 2: that time I was very great. Take good. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna need another, like three more eggs.

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Speaker 1: For you, three more eggs for me? You do it

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Speaker 1: that much?

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Speaker 2: I got, I got muscles to feed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, hold up, I got this. We got eggs in here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got muscles to feed. This is recovery right here.

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Speaker 1: Just just notice though these eggs are.

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Speaker 2: White eggs, Guys, white brown eggs costs more, right, And

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Speaker 2: that's what I eat. Now, by the grace of God,

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Speaker 2: you said, yeah, two more for you? Do you do

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Speaker 2: you eat? How? How do you? How do you eat? How?

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Speaker 1: Full sized person? Like a full sized person that's like

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you probably want three?

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Speaker 1: No? Two?

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Speaker 2: All right too?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I don't have muscles to feed.

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Speaker 2: Everybody got muscles to feed.

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Speaker 1: I got. I'm working on it though. Like after I

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Speaker 1: have I'm gonna I'm gonna get into the gem and

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Speaker 1: and start saying no to sugar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to Sugar is the worst for the body.

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Speaker 2: The worst, I'm telling you right now is the worst.

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Speaker 2: It's the worst. It's that's that's what whole cancer and

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Speaker 2: the body and stuff like that, that's what causes cancer,

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Speaker 2: causes mucus. You know I eat accord it to my

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Speaker 2: blood type.

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Speaker 1: How'd you get that test done? Did you get it done?

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Speaker 2: The Vitamin Lady in Atlanta, she is a herbalist. And

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Speaker 2: that's my camera right all right, bet because I keep

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Speaker 2: put that she's the Vitamin Lady in Atlanta. She will

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Speaker 2: do a blood test. She will prick your finger and

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Speaker 2: then put it on this chart. And you know, it

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Speaker 2: got like four circles and it's like a b a

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Speaker 2: b oh, and it'll it'll tell like whatever blood clocks like,

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Speaker 2: it'll like whatever one showed up for the blood clocks.

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Speaker 2: That's the one that you know what you can't eat,

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Speaker 2: what your blood type is. And then she'll test. She'll

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Speaker 2: give you this chart, this food chart. No, she'll give

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Speaker 2: you a food chart to show you everything to stay

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Speaker 2: away from, like to avoid and everything that benefits your body.

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Speaker 2: And I need that lady, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And anything can we get it? Can we get?

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Speaker 2: Well? I would say it's a worth the trip. It's

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Speaker 2: worth a trip. It's worth the trip.

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Speaker 1: So after you listen to what you can and can't eat,

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Speaker 1: did you feel the difference immediately?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So, so what she do is she'll give you

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Speaker 2: the rundown about your body, certain things that you would

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Speaker 2: Because I didn't want her to know everything that's going on,

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know when you read the script from the movie,

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Speaker 1: where I was like, hm, why did they leave that.

439
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think I'll circle back to it, but

440
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,399
Speaker 1: I remember, I'll probably later take a show like this

441
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 1: is the scene I was talking about. But there was

442
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 1: one scene in the movie where I remember going, wait

443
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 1: a minute, that scene didn't make it. Oh the scene

444
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,120
Speaker 1: where Taraji is in the school and some of they

445
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: take the kid, which I kind of got like, you know, kid,

446
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 1: where her head was at in the end, not trying

447
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 1: to destroy the movie because I'm not going to destroy

448
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,119
Speaker 1: it for y'all, but the lady hands are a card.

449
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,919
Speaker 1: Remember she stressed out in the school. Lady hands are

450
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,679
Speaker 1: a card and says call me and they take the kid.

451
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 1: I mean, there was parts that I thought later like,

452
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,160
Speaker 1: of course the kid. They must have known the kid

453
00:21:55,160 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 1: had passed. I don't want to destroy it. I'm destroying it.

454
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: There was that one seam where I was like, okay,

455
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 1: but then I thought later like there was no one

456
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: contacted said where is the kid during the whole thing,

457
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh that you all must have

458
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: known in the police department from jump that the.

459
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 2: Baby had passed, right They all, yeah.

460
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 1: So, but when did the bank teller know the bank

461
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 1: the bank manager. No, I'm ruining, poor Katie, Katie, ignore

462
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: your ignore essus sitting here recording the whole thing. Check

463
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: it sound. I'm not going to spoil it for her.

464
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, there was that one scene that I was

465
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,880
Speaker 1: a little confused about because in the school they gave

466
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 1: her the card and I was like, hmm, mental health.

467
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: But then when they did the playback, they didn't have

468
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 1: the lady in the hallway.

469
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, no they didn't.

470
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: They had the school principal in the hallway. I got

471
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 1: photographics and my photographics. Maybe are you are you messing

472
00:22:58,920 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: with me right now?

473
00:22:59,359 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 2: I can't tell that.

474
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, you should know, you tell me, Okay, okay, okay,

475
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought that movie was incredible. I think

476
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: everybody y'all did your thing. Y'all did y'all thing.

477
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 2: Man, that thing. I'm so I am on cloud now

478
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 2: with this thing right now. I want to.

479
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: I want to, I want to. I want to, so

480
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: just so you know, I know we're getting all over

481
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 1: the place. You're very fun to hang out with. I

482
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: don't know if it's like the destroying you. You're very

483
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 1: very fun.

484
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 2: Is genuine and authentic energy.

485
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: Exactly the thing I wanted to. I want to end

486
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 1: at Tyler, at Tyler Perry, So I need to I

487
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: want to. I don't. I don't at Straw, I don't.

488
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: I want to get all the in between without skipping

489
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: to it. But I want to spend some time on Straw.

490
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: But I want to know. Okay, your mom lends you

491
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: this money, you're thugging it out, you're acting, what are

492
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: you doing?

493
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 2: Like?

494
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: So?

495
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so we was there before that moment. Actually

496
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: I have So I have booked my first TV.

497
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: Regular, first TV appearance, TV Parents are Regular, Okay.

498
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 2: From my first booking. Yeah yeah, so I had booked

499
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 2: the Bobby Brown Story, Okay, Okay, And man, when I

500
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 2: tell you, I was going to set every day even

501
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 2: if I didn't have to work, going to say every

502
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: day and eat hilarious. That's that's that's during it yep. Okay, yeah, okay.

503
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 2: I was still because I'm like, now I can get ahead.

504
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying, because I booked it. So

505
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna have that money coming in. I'm doing

506
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 2: this to get this.

507
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: All for that money to get to you.

508
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 2: It was like three weeks I think, like three weeks

509
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 2: and then from then on I was like, yo, I

510
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 2: got to stay on top of it.

511
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 1: Now, did you? You saved you? You at that point

512
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: you're financially literate, kind of like right a little.

513
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 2: Bit, yeah, I want I want.

514
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: Too bad yourself.

515
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 2: I was pacing myself. Yeah. One thing I know how

516
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 2: to do is budget. My mama taught me very well

517
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 2: out to budget.

518
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 1: Good. I like that.

519
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 2: I love that coming from a place of poverty. Who

520
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 2: you know how the budget?

521
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: Maybe what part of Detroit are you from? Can you

522
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: wrap your Detroit?

523
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Frank Fred the East line on the east

524
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 2: side of Detroit. Okay, but yes, And for the people

525
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 2: that don't know exactly where that is is like like

526
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 2: by warning charmers. So when I say warming and charmers

527
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 2: and they're aware of Detroit, then they know what I'm

528
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 2: talking about.

529
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: Okay, okay? And then at what at what point we're

530
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 1: gonna backcheck a little bit. At what point did you

531
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 1: realize that you had to do acting to the point

532
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be homeless in Atlanta?

533
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 3: Oh?

534
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 2: Man, this is this is is great? This is great?

535
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 2: What's crazy? Ist? So the first time I wanted to

536
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 2: try to act was So I seen Freshmans Bell there.

537
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 2: That was one of my favorite TV shows back then, right,

538
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: So huh, who didn't love that show? Oh, that was

539
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 2: one of my favorite shows. So I was watching the

540
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 2: episode where his dad didn't want him right and and

541
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 2: you know, I just told you about my dad. So

542
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: that was the first time I had cried from TV.

543
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that was my first time. Look at that.

544
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: That looks great. That looks magical.

545
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: Come on, now, get your man that can cook exactly.

546
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Men out there that is

547
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: a man that can cook or like do his own laundry,

548
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: And I like when a man was raised with a

549
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: mom that was like, you still got to learn these

550
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 1: like traits because if you have a family, you're gonna

551
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: need to fill in.

552
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 2: You still need to know how to cook. Now, yeah,

553
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 2: that's just like.

554
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 1: You got silent on the laundry part. Though I do

555
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: my own laundry too, Okay.

556
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 2: I'm good with that. I actually don't even use dragon sheets.

557
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 2: I used wool wool balls. Wool balls. Put wool balls

558
00:26:54,480 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 2: and you can get on Amazon. You gotta so you

559
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 2: get this on Amazon and you can put like essential

560
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 2: oils in it. Do it in there. With your clothes, clothes.

561
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: You never have to buy dry sheets again. Boom, it's

562
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 2: gonna take all the static and everything out your clothes,

563
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 2: and your clothes can be found like peppermint oil or

564
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: something like that.

565
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: No way, yeah here first heard it.

566
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: Here heard your mama. No, I want to thank me

567
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: like like.

568
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: That's like my favorite speech of all time. Yeah, okay,

569
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: all right, all right, yeah I want mine made exactly

570
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: like yours, though, like with a little monzarella and everything.

571
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanna do it. We're gonna do it.

572
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: The struggle with way okay, So sorry to derail. When

573
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: did you so you're you're crying during the Fresh principal

574
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: air episode.

575
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it touched me, you know, because I'm not

576
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: going through exactly what he's going through.

577
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: But you missed your dad.

578
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, made me think about my dad.

579
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't. You're gonna pad it dry or whatever.

580
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 2: Avocado oil.

581
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: So that's okay, Okay, why didn't test my blood type?

582
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: You know? Yeah it's okay, you cat that smells good.

583
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 2: You know.

584
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: I forgot to stop the camera, but it's okay. The

585
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: little overhead.

586
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: Can Yeah, we're good. We gotta make yours too.

587
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, did Stoppers is still.

588
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 2: Still yes, you're still going, We're good.

589
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: Okay.

590
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I seen that episode and it touched me,

591
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 2: you know. So I'm like I was crying or whatnot.

592
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 2: And it's so crazy. My mama sometimes don't even remembering that.

593
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: She she and she was talking. She was like, you know,

594
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 2: it's not real. They acting, Mike. It was so crazy.

595
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: It's certain things that like.

596
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: Why are you going so far away? Why are you going?

597
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 2: The season right here? So like, yeah, where are you going?

598
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: Did I say something about the person?

599
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 2: Nah? Good?

600
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: So so she's trying to convince you, like baby, it's okay.

601
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: She's like, well no, she was just letting me know, like,

602
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: you know, it's not real and it's you know, it's

603
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 2: just acting or whatever. And to me, like me, I'm

604
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: crying alone. I'm crying in my room about it. You know.

605
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 2: It just made me think about my dad and I'm

606
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, I miss my dad and I feel

607
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,479
Speaker 2: you will you know what I'm saying. Because he hit

608
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 2: he hit that one moment. He's like yeah, man, oh.

609
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: That was terrible. Oh I love that you you just

610
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: acted it out though, just now too.

611
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

612
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: Man.

613
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: So I'm like, all right, I want to take a

614
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: shot at.

615
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: Acting from that point on. How old were you?

616
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: I was, I was twenty two, twenty three.

617
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: Why did I think you were like twelve doing this?

618
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: You were twenty you were okay, okay.

619
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 2: Twenty two to twenty three, And I'm like, all right,

620
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 2: let's try to take a shot at this. You know,

621
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 2: everybody always say, hey, you have a great smile, You're

622
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 2: going to be a model one day or guys, And

623
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, well, it's fine, thank you.

624
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: I'm very ship that I love me instead of teens. Know,

625
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: if people are like, yo, I met this guy like

626
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: I was his teeth.

627
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: Like, so yeah, I'm like, well, and that's something I

628
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: always was in the back of my mind too, Like,

629
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: you know, people tell me all the time I have

630
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: a great smile and stuff. I'm and I have nothing

631
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 2: to use it for, but just the smiler people make

632
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: their day. That's a good thing, right. But yeah, I mean, yeah,

633
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: of course. But I was just to be thinking about

634
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: how going to capitalize off this? Yeah, So then.

635
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: Were you toying with any other ideas in the back

636
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: of your head where you starting to wonder, like, hey,

637
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: what it is? What am I going to be? Is

638
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: that kind of what also sprought it up.

639
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely went through that realm trying to see

640
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 2: what I want to do with my life. But yeah,

641
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: and you told people?

642
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: Did you tell people right away? Did you tell your mom?

643
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: Who did you tell about? Like, Hey, I think this

644
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: is what I want to do.

645
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 2: Oh well no, I just hit the ground right. I'm

646
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 2: just trying to do it by myself.

647
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: You know, ye're twenty three. But now you're in Detroit

648
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: trying to do it right. You know, you had to leave.

649
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 2: So that's the thing. Detroit have a lot of scams.

650
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: Detroit have a lot of scams out there. It's no

651
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: real agency in Detroit. It's no real agency in Detroit.

652
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 2: They will, boy, they will take your money. You don't

653
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: supposed to pay an agent to get your jobs. You're

654
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: supposed to get jobs. I mean, they supposed to work

655
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 2: for you.

656
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: And then they take a commission. Yeah, so you was

657
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: paying them up front.

658
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, we was paying them up front for extra extra work. Bro.

659
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: It was so crazy. It was so crazy.

660
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: Every time you showed up, they was like, look at him.

661
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: Here he go handing us his money.

662
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. We're doing monologues and stuff

663
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 2: in front of them for no reason.

664
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: That's funny.

665
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I got discouraged because it was like costing

666
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: too much, hundreds of dollars. I ain't got.

667
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: Stuff like that, and you're doing the extra work.

668
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were just like sign up for eestion work

669
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: and I'm like, Yo, this ain't ain't it you know,

670
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 2: so I'll just forget it. I got discouraged and stop.

671
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 2: So then my mom she used to look out for

672
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 2: a friend, you know, her friend Jay McClain and Detroit

673
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 2: used to tell her, Hey, to keep you this play

674
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 2: for me, and my mom would do a favor, just

675
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 2: do it out of the love, you know. She didn't

676
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 2: want to take it serious and nothing. She's like, yeah,

677
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 2: I do it? Why not? So then I was studying

678
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 2: with her.

679
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: Every night, right with your mom?

680
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,239
Speaker 2: Okay, I was studying with her every night.

681
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: Before we get into how great your mom's performances, we

682
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: gotta eat.

683
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so this is great.

684
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna pray. I like that.

685
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: Okay, God, thank you for this fool we'd rather receive.

686
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 2: Let it be nurishment to her body and images as

687
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 2: we pray. Amen, there we go. Now you don't touch that.

688
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: I want to.

689
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 2: I want to try it that prayer.

690
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: I want to see the middle. Okay, looks good. You know,

691
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: look at that, guys, I feel bad for yours because

692
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: mine has like the beautiful stretchy cheek, and I feel

693
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: like yours was sitting.

694
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: No, we're good. It's gonna be good regardless.

695
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: Okay, look at his confidence. Are you hungry? That's the question.

696
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I do minds like this sometimes too.

697
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 2: I don't know why. It's like, you know, you come

698
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 2: in and you just you able to just you know,

699
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 2: take a piece and bite into it. I don't know.

700
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: So I'm wanted them people. I have to have my

701
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: food prepared before I actually eat.

702
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: What do you mean prepared?

703
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,959
Speaker 2: Like ad you little my stuff and all of that.

704
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you didn't even try to see what if

705
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: your seasoning was perfect?

706
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 2: Well, I already know it is. I've been I've been

707
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 2: down and through that.

708
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: Alright, I'm gonna rate this just so you know, a

709
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: part of me feels like because you add the mansa

710
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: like like a feta or some different type of cheese.

711
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: But I don't know why you chose man.

712
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 2: Then I used to do my mozarella.

713
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: Oh back then, So what's upgraded. Since then, what do

714
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: you usually put?

715
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 2: I do vegan cheese. I don't even do cheese at all.

716
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, so you're really cheating today, I'm really cheating.

717
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing it for you.

718
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: Okay, them, you put it on your whole thing? Wait?

719
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: How does yours look so perfect?

720
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: And mine looks like a five year old prepit prep it?

721
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 2: But I have a perfection.

722
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch my Wait, y'all don't because

723
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: mine looks like a little.

724
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 2: Kyd first bite. You see how that looks?

725
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: Oh?

726
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see what I'm saying.

727
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you cut your it's perfectly Okay, I'm trying to

728
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: get a good piece right here middle mm.

729
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 2: Hmmm mm hmm mm hmmm mm hmmm mmm mm hmm.

730
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: I get the onions.

731
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: Now you see the onions.

732
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: I got the onions.

733
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:38,959
Speaker 2: Now you see what I'm talking about?

734
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: All right, I see it.

735
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: You know you don't cook the you don't burn them.

736
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: You want to know something that I did not get

737
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: the onions before. I totally get it in the mozzarella.

738
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: Really great.

739
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 2: Really, hey, let them know, let them know I'm like

740
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 2: that for real.

741
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: You don't even need the sauce on this.

742
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 2: Really it's just an addition.

743
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You killed this omelet. I

744
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. Great job you're feeling yourself right now.

745
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

746
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: I would buy this.

747
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 2: Now, that's what I'm talking about. Yo. You know what.

748
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: I hate taking bacon on my hands. Hmmm, I hate

749
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 2: taking bacon on my hands.

750
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: You should, you know what. I'm thoroughly impressed with this omelet.

751
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: Like I think I'm gonna start making omelets after this.

752
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: So you know what, you gotta do it the way

753
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: he did it, with the mozarella cheese mixed into the

754
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: act and he's take the spinach on.

755
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 2: The side because it's not a whole. It's not like

756
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 2: a whole glob that just hit you. You know, it's

757
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 2: mixed in there already, so you know it's the taste

758
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 2: and flavor is already marinated in it.

759
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: Do you usually use a white onion?

760
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: Red onion? Now?

761
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: Why is thatson? I just like red onions, you know

762
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: this white onion? Yeah, it tastes great though.

763
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're more sweeter the white white well not the

764
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 2: yellow onions.

765
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but why did you choose in the red one? Now?

766
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: It's a it's a better it has more benefits. I

767
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: can't think of it right now.

768
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: You in this health conscious man.

769
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: Oh no, it has more benefits eating the red onon.

770
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 2: I can't remember right now, but at the time out

771
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 2: of can't recommend ten out of ten.

772
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: If you call me tomorrow for this week, you'll be like,

773
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: how many times did you have a much? Would be

774
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: like probably four different times. You know, when a dish

775
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: is this good, I will go home and totally emulate it.

776
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: And you don't need the sauce on this one. That's

777
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: how good you did seasoning.

778
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

779
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: Have y'all heard that everything texture, from the onions to

780
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: the spinach, to the mozarella to the seasoning. You killed it.

781
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: Don't need sauce some so also it was good, but

782
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: you didn't need it.

783
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 2: I know this nice edition.

784
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: You know you did a really great job. Okay, so

785
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: take your last bite because I'm gonna start asking you

786
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: about this. Mama's acting.

787
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 2: All right, it was good, bro, I.

788
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: Did not know you cooked like that, you know, but

789
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go home emulate, take all credit like you

790
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: never existed. That's the way you gotta do it.

791
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 2: This is actually my first meal, so that's why I'm like,

792
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: you was.

793
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: Like, let's get there. I'm hungry.

794
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:47,919
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm gonna eat there.

795
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: What were you thinking when they were like, hey you

796
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: need to you know, do you want to do this

797
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: show eating while broke where you come in and cook

798
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: where you're like, oh, I'm about to be the shift.

799
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: I'm open I'm open book. I'm open book.

800
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: But were you excited cooking?

801
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: I thought you was gonna cook with me? Oh? Yeah,

802
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: you know how they usually like cook with him?

803
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: What don't mean like you'd be like showing on the show.

804
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you showed me or something like that.

805
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: You know what. Yeah? No, you know, I'm not good

806
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: at multitasking. Like if you sent me a text and

807
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: you were having a conversation, if someone was having a conversation,

808
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: I'd be like, hold on, I can't do both. I'm

809
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: like one focus. That's it.

810
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 2: Let's see. I got you.

811
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: Okay, So go ahead down this turkey baking. He's hungry, guys,

812
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna give him a second.

813
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: Katie will edit this part last.

814
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm only saving mine for pictures because I know he's

815
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: starving and he's gonna need to take some pictures later. Okay,

816
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: So going to your mommy's monologue. She kills it as

817
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: an actress.

818
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: I was so inspired she she killed that monologue and

819
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 2: she did it totally different than when we rehearsed.

820
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: So I was just like, I haven't memorized too.

821
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was listening to her, so it was like,

822
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: you know, I knew the monologue too, but.

823
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: I love that you guys had this moment together too.

824
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and this is.

825
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: This is while you're pursuing acting, she.

826
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: Gets this No, no, I remember I quit.

827
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: Oh no, I didn't have that part. You quit after

828
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: all the run around.

829
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had got discouraged and I'm like, yeah,

830
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 2: I'm not doing this no more. It's just too much.

831
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 2: I've seen her in the stage play. I asked her

832
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 2: her director right after, I mean, you know, the person

833
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 2: over it. Right after the stage play was over, I said,

834
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 2: can I be in your next stage play? And she

835
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: was like yeah, And from there on I just didn't stop.

836
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: Do you look at how God worked though that kind

837
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: of and your mom steps up for this role that

838
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: she doesn't even really want.

839
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: She's just like, yeah, she's just doing it for fun.

840
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: You know.

841
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: Now, did that also spark anything in her to be

842
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: like I kind of want to do this or no.

843
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 2: She was like, hell, she got her corporate job, you know,

844
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 2: working for the other state. It's like, I'm good with that, okay. Yeah,

845
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 2: but me, I kind of I took a liking to

846
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 2: it after that first one. I'm like, I see how

847
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 2: the crowd respond, and I'm like.

848
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: I love this type of energy.

849
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: Like this, then you can open up to the crowd

850
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 2: while you're doing your you know, if you like know

851
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 2: your lines and stuff, you can like talk to the

852
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: crowd a little bit, you know, with you know, in

853
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: the midst of the story. But yeah, I had book

854
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: my first le role in the stage play.

855
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 1: Right after that, okay, and.

856
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: It was the love that I received. I'm like, I

857
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 2: gotta keep going.

858
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: Wow.

859
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: So and Detroit, you know, everybody box themselves in Detroit?

860
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: What does that mean?

861
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 2: So, like now it's a it's a lot of actors

862
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: and Detroit that are two B stars and they do

863
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 2: a lot of two B movies and stuff like that.

864
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 2: But they don't have agents.

865
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: They don't have so there's really no agents over there. No,

866
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: Because when you said that, I was like, that's a

867
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: bold statement. Okay, So there's no agents.

868
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 2: There's no agents nothing like that over there, and they

869
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 2: all do two B movies and stuff. So the thing

870
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 2: is that they wanted to really take it serious. You

871
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 2: have to go outside of Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, LA.

872
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 2: You this, and yeah. I peeked it early, very early,

873
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I feel like I'm starting to get

874
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 2: boxed in and I don't want most in the stage plays.

875
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, this is a pattern, this is a cycle.

876
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 2: I don't want to get called in the cycle. Let

877
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 2: me do a networking trip Atlanta networking?

878
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is the what? How? What is that even encompassed?

879
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: I visited these cities to see how you know.

880
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you you labeled it a networking trip.

881
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 2: Yep, okay, Atlanta, New York, Chicago.

882
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: Okay, you went to all these cities. Yeah, how are

883
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: you paying for it?

884
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 2: I was just paying for whatever I had at the time.

885
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 2: What the jobs?

886
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: Are you working?

887
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 2: Jobs? Or I was actually going with this modeling group. Okay, yeah, yeah,

888
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 2: I was going with the modeling group, and I would

889
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 2: just branch off and do my own thing when we're

890
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 2: not doing like shows and stuff. Atlanta was the most responsive,

891
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 2: so I'm like, I'm moving to Atlanta.

892
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: Okay, after you did, yeah.

893
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: The networking trip. So I'm like, yeah, I'm moving to Atlanta.

894
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: Atlanta feels you told your mom you were doing you

895
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: were going to these cities to like check them out.

896
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 2: Well, like I said, I was with modeling.

897
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's how you were able. So you were

898
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: leveraging it. So I got it, got it.

899
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: Ye.

900
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: So you're you're doing this and then you call back

901
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: home and you say or you go back home and

902
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, Atlanta is it?

903
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 2: Yep? That's just like how I did move in here.

904
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: Okay, uh huh.

905
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 2: So I had moved to Atlanta, and I know I

906
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 2: needed some money to you know, because I ain't gonna

907
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 2: get a job right away. So I did this show

908
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 2: called Last Squad Standing on Oxygen Network and as a

909
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 2: game show, you know, three cities that comes and you know,

910
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: they do mental and physical challenges for one hundred thousand dollars.

911
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 2: And while I was there, I was getting paid, you know,

912
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 2: and I was there for like two months, made it

913
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: all the way to the end. I actually won. I

914
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 2: don't care. I actually won.

915
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: You won?

916
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they didn't it ain't they didn't give it

917
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: to me. Wait, yeah, they didn't They didn't give me

918
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars.

919
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: Was it a pilot? Well, how did they not give

920
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: you one hundred thousand?

921
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: Well, you sign things that say if yes, it's not fair.

922
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: If you you signed, yeah, you signed something you.

923
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: Say if this is not fair, you can't do anything.

924
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: That's like in the that's.

925
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 2: In the contract. Yeah, I mean the game show and

926
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: all that stuff is done. Now Oxygen is all about

927
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: reenacting shows and stuff now matter.

928
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: So, but you you won. They didn't get the money.

929
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 2: And they gave it to the other team. Yeah, they

930
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 2: made the other team seem like they won, but everybody

931
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 2: on the show knew that I won.

932
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: Wait, what like re edited and everything?

933
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, they re edited. It's just like certain parts of

934
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: certain times you will be talking and you're saying one thing,

935
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 2: they'll take another part of another moment that you had

936
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 2: and and piece it together. Damn, Like that was that's

937
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: what you were saying. Ain't it crazy? That's how the

938
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 2: reality shows and stuff goes after that, say that like, yeah,

939
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: it's just crazy. I want I want to look my

940
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 2: last quad. Then la standing Okay, yeah, so I did

941
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: that to generate money so I was able to Sorry,

942
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 2: about that. I was able to you know, maneuver and

943
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 2: network and stuff like that. After I was done with that,

944
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 2: I had booked my first web series, which was a

945
00:44:54,960 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 2: Sidekick side Chick web series and Who's that as macarthy

946
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: McCarthy Yeah, and ended up being popular. So that was

947
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 2: my first booking. And then I'm like, all right, I

948
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 2: need to give me an agent.

949
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: I was about to ask, so when do you start

950
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: getting an age?

951
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 2: I started searching around for an agent as soon as

952
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 2: I got back.

953
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: And what does that entail? You're cold calling or sit again?

954
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: What does it entail when you're searching for an agent?

955
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 2: So you go to like networking events and stuff like that,

956
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: and you kind of like, you know, workshops, and you

957
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 2: kind of get the logist of how everything goes because

958
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 2: sometimes you'll see like casting directors, agents and stuff that

959
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: shows up and I'm like, okay. So I had started

960
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: going to those type of events to reach out. And

961
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: then also I was just googling agents agencies and I

962
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 2: had got my first agency, so not with that one,

963
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: but I got with another agency after that, and that's

964
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 2: how I got my first booking, which was Bobby Brown's story.

965
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a huge deal. Yeah, and you're telling your

966
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: mom you keep who's this person that you're keeping updates

967
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: and on the regular with all.

968
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 2: These god my mom? Well god yeah?

969
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: Is it only in case emergency?

970
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? My granny, my mom? Those are my two hearts.

971
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: They're like on your text religious Okay, got it. Yeah,

972
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: So you're booking this, you end up booking a serious regular.

973
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: Is everything consistent?

974
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't serious regular, No, but later.

975
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: On you do book a serious regular, don't you.

976
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

977
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, while you're booking. Now, I'm going to fast track

978
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: you during this period where you're booking. Is there any

979
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: gaps or is there any bit of an anxiety of

980
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: whether you will book another?

981
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: I never had the more. I used to watch people

982
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 2: and what they go through, and I was just I

983
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 2: never made myself worried. I told myself that, well, God

984
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 2: told me this, when you do it, when you go

985
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: on this journey, don't worry, just do it, take risks,

986
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 2: have that faith and just take that step, you know.

987
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 2: So I tried my best not to worry about anything.

988
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 2: I didn't connect. No, I didn't marry, like auditions and

989
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 2: stuff like that, because when you do that, you put

990
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 2: your your mind fuck yourself, you know what I'm saying,

991
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 2: and that you can you can fall in a rabbit hole, okay.

992
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 2: And I didn't want to do that because that's how

993
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 2: you get depressed. And you know, I just didn't want

994
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 2: to do that to myself because I used to watch

995
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 2: other actors that used to do that and used to

996
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 2: get pissed off and really yeah, very irritated and intimidated

997
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 2: of other people and comparing themselves to it's like a

998
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 2: rabbit hole and it's like, you know, it's a tornado

999
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 2: full of this discouragement. And I didn't want to do

1000
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,439
Speaker 2: that to myself. I don't want to chew myself better

1001
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 2: than that. So I'm like, God, got me, you know

1002
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. If I don't get something, that just

1003
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 2: means that it ain't for me.

1004
00:47:59,560 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: Got it?

1005
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 2: And I literally every every time I do an audition

1006
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 2: or anything like that, if I didn't book it, it

1007
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: wasn't for me, oh okay, Or if things doesn't happen

1008
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: a way that I want them to. It's just like

1009
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 2: when my team, my managers, my team will tell y'all,

1010
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 2: I don't worry about nothing, or if something work, they

1011
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 2: no but else inacceptable. It could that shouldn't have been

1012
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 2: that way. I'm super school, you know, so you know

1013
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 2: that's how I am.

1014
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: I would be the person on the other end of

1015
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: the call like what they did? What we gotta address this?

1016
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? No, I'll be like, you know, oh yeah

1017
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: that was crazy. Yeah, that was crazy. I mean, but

1018
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 2: you know it's whatever, Okay.

1019
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that attitude though. Yeah, but

1020
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: now what period was a gap that was like most

1021
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: notable to you? In between bookings?

1022
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 2: So I get a gap every year, really all actors do.

1023
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.

1024
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: How long is the gap?

1025
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 2: It buries?

1026
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: Okay, but what was the longest one?

1027
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: That? Ten months?

1028
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: Ten months? And then at this point your financial literacy budget? Ye,

1029
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: you're mad? Now, like this is your budget? You don't

1030
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: go over it?

1031
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 2: Now, I know how to you know cap? I have

1032
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 2: a cap and I'm like, no, I know, this is

1033
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 2: everything that I have to This is the amount I

1034
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 2: have to pay for the whole year for rent, This

1035
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 2: is the amount I have to pay the whole year

1036
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 2: for my phone bill, you know, so forth, So I

1037
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 2: know how much I have to have to be able

1038
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 2: to survive.

1039
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: You know, Now, do you put yourself on payroll or

1040
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: like do you have a corporation and you put yourself

1041
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: on payroll. I tell everybody to do that. By the way,

1042
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: you can leverage more that way.

1043
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 2: Especially because her taxes come. Oh boy, we'll win, win

1044
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 2: and win a chicken dinner. So you're like an escort escort.

1045
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you know your stuff.

1046
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 2: And that's the thing too. I learned that the business

1047
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 2: behind acting before actually wanted to book and how because no,

1048
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 2: how did I do it?

1049
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1050
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 2: So I would just literally be asking people like how

1051
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 2: does this work?

1052
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: How does that work?

1053
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: You know, and and and you know, going through this journey,

1054
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 2: I always wanted I was focusing on the money. So

1055
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 2: I was wanting to make sure I'm not getting played

1056
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 2: because you know.

1057
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: Well you also went through a little bit of trauma

1058
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: with Detroit, right because you got played. Oh yeah, so

1059
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: do you think that kind.

1060
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 2: Of Yeah, we just don't play about money any trait. Yeah, hey,

1061
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 2: they know, we just don't play about our money in

1062
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 2: the tray. So that's that. And I think the trait

1063
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 2: for that, because I think the trait, I think de

1064
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 2: trait for a lot of a lot of how I

1065
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 2: am it built the tough skin that I needed for

1066
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 2: this industry and built the I don't give a you

1067
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying mentality, It built the the like

1068
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 2: if we don't know anything, we know numbers. That's that's

1069
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: us in the trade. If we don't know anything, we

1070
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 2: know numbers and we know what so much playing with us.

1071
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 2: Don't play with us, don't play with our money. You

1072
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 2: see what I'm saying.

1073
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so you know, yeah, don't with us.

1074
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 2: Don't play with our money. We don't play about that,

1075
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 2: and we don't play about our loved ones. So yeah,

1076
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 2: so I wanted to know how how is my coins

1077
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 2: going to go? You know? So even like how I

1078
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 2: learned the system in Atlanta. Oh, y'all give the crumbs

1079
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: to Atlanta actors? Okay, cool? What they going? They got

1080
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 2: going over there in LA. But they got going to

1081
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: New York. Okay, that was where the big bucks are.

1082
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: It's crazy that you say that they give the crumbs

1083
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta actors for sure, when now see we're

1084
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: Incent closer. Tyler Perry's there, and Tyler Perry's known for

1085
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: paying He came in.

1086
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 2: And changed the game when I was there, he he.

1087
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: He was he there yet?

1088
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 2: Or no, what's Tyler there? Yet. Yeah. Absolutely, but I

1089
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: didn't know about it at that time, you know what

1090
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 2: I'm saying, And it's now more than noticeable than any

1091
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 2: thing now because he built like he got. He made

1092
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 2: so many millionaires. Yeah damn yeah, he made people millionaires

1093
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 2: and I know I'm next.

1094
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: I would love to be in that squad. I was

1095
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: telling my crew, go to be to get in that circle.

1096
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: Good for life almost right.

1097
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's the man that if he give you his word, okay,

1098
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 2: I like that, he's gonna stand on it ten tolls

1099
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 2: down and you're probably gonna get more than what you expected.

1100
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 2: That's how he is. That man is a very genuine

1101
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 2: and authentic guy like everybody. It's some people that be

1102
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 2: like scared of him or intimidated because he's a billionaire

1103
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:46,760
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. Yeah, that man is a huge

1104
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 2: teddy bear. You heard I said, Tyler, He's a huge

1105
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 2: teddy bear. But he wanted to be treated like a human, like,

1106
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 2: you know, forget my money and what all this this

1107
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 2: power and the stuff that you think I have and

1108
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 2: all of that. That man is still humble. Okay, I

1109
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: like that, Like he'll be like, man, do you see this,

1110
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 2: Like look at this bro, like, I don't take this

1111
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 2: for granted, Like this, I just thank God so much

1112
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 2: because just years ago I was homeless. That's how he talked, like, look,

1113
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 2: I'm bro like shout.

1114
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: Out by the way, email Tyler, Hey, we shout our shot.

1115
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: But I think his team sent me back an email

1116
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: like not, I think this scheduling. We should try again.

1117
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 1: We should try again.

1118
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 2: He got a lot going one billionaire.

1119
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'd probably have to go to Atlanta to

1120
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 1: do that.

1121
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, facts, yeah.

1122
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: But okay, but at the time, you decide to leave

1123
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,919
Speaker 1: Atlanta because you're starting to realize Atlanta actors actresses aren't

1124
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: getting their respect as far as dollars. So you go

1125
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: to LA.

1126
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I didn't like the cycle of what I

1127
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 2: was getting paid. I'm like, yo, first of all these

1128
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: roles and enough, I need you more and the money

1129
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 2: and enough anymore. And then I was asking out the

1130
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 2: actress that was coming from Lace. You get paid, bro,

1131
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 2: or you're learning this from LA they put you up. Okay,

1132
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I'm like, you get a per diem? What

1133
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 2: is a per diem? I see what I'm saying. Oh yeah,

1134
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 2: per diemers. You know, while you're here, you get an

1135
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 2: allowance basically to eat and stuff like that. Besides set.

1136
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, they put you up, they fly you out,

1137
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 2: they give you a per diem. I like that. You know,

1138
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 2: I'm out how much you're getting paid? Oh wait, your

1139
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,959
Speaker 2: your role is called a guest star. Oh and I'm

1140
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 2: doing a co star. But we same thing. You know

1141
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, same amoundel lines and stuff. I'm like, okay,

1142
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 2: so I'm the last crab in a barrel.

1143
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: Okay, I see how your mind's thinking.

1144
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. I'm like, okay, I'm already

1145
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 2: doing it. So why not get the treatment that they getting?

1146
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 2: Sound like I need to make that move to LA.

1147
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 2: So instead of making that move to l A, I'm like,

1148
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 2: let me get l A representation while I'm in Atlanta.

1149
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: Now does that cause a conflict the people?

1150
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: I don't care. I would say this Atlanta agents and stuff.

1151
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 2: This is not all of them, This is not all

1152
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 2: of them. But they get intimidated with l A representation. Okay,

1153
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 2: because LA representation knows a whole lot more. They have

1154
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 2: a whole lot more access and they're able to do

1155
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 2: things that people. And I mean, you know, Atlanta agents

1156
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 2: and stuff can't do. So even with like joining SAG,

1157
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 2: some agencies don't want you to join SAG because you're

1158
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 2: not going to be able to do non union projects.

1159
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 2: But who said I wanted to stay there? This is

1160
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 2: my career. I want to grow, Yeah, elevate. You know

1161
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: this is not to stay stuck in one lane or

1162
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,240
Speaker 2: you know smart. Yeah, it's starting to feel like Detroit.

1163
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 2: So anytime it started to feel like Detroit, I got

1164
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 2: to know, not Detroit, but the system. Yeah. Box. Then

1165
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I like that.

1166
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 1: You focused on growth, like you about treading water or anything.

1167
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: So you come to help LA.

1168
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 2: So I booked. So I ended up getting a l

1169
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 2: A representation while I was in Atlanta. I booked all American.

1170
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 2: That's all American I was. I was in LA for

1171
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 2: like three months and then I'm like, I gotta come

1172
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 2: back here. This is it, this is it, and I'm

1173
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 2: seeing that paycheck. I said, oh, this is definitely, this

1174
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 2: is definitely it. I ain't got a taste. That's all

1175
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,240
Speaker 2: I need is to taste. You give me a taste.

1176
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that and I'm gonna run with it.

1177
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 1: But now the LA taxes and the LA overhead did

1178
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: you also.

1179
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 2: Now that was the difference. I said, Oh, but they

1180
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 2: get hit over the head. I said, okay, I gotta

1181
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: paid this much, but I only got this much. Okay,

1182
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 2: that's for five thousand dollars gone. Yeah, you know. And

1183
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 2: then I'm like, okay, I need to see what I

1184
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 2: can do to get all my money.

1185
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: Okay, that's when you corporate.

1186
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 2: So then I started asking around. I said, escort, huh yeah, escort. Okay, boom,

1187
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 2: let's get that. So I got my escort and I

1188
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 2: started seeing how much I can get paid. I mean,

1189
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 2: I get all my money and stuff like that. And then,

1190
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: you know, write everything. You can't write every.

1191
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: You sound like me. I be every time I'm on

1192
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: the phone with some I'm like you to realize what

1193
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: you busher teeth today? We're writing that off too.

1194
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 2: You can write everything.

1195
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: Off, makeups, haircuts.

1196
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 2: The fact that I'm talking to you right now, I'm

1197
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 2: writing this.

1198
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: Off really.

1199
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 2: Meeting.

1200
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: Oh you're hilarious, but this is a business meeting. But

1201
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: what are you writing off the time?

1202
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're lying. I was like with the gas, the

1203
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 2: gas though, that is I could write the gas, but.

1204
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: That was hilarious because I swear to God for a

1205
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: second there, I was like, wait a minute, come on account.

1206
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 2: Some hours, but you know, have to pay money here

1207
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 2: then yes, yeah, if.

1208
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: You if you bought the ingredients. Someone asked me that thing,

1209
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: like they're like eating up broke supplies ingredients Like yeah,

1210
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,439
Speaker 1: cause you imagine telling someone, hey, by the way, don't

1211
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: forget your tomatoes or whatever, Like it's so rude, Like now,

1212
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: you appreciate your time here. It's an honor to sit

1213
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: down in here, your story and all that. You so

1214
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: all right, So we're gonna so now you're in l A.

1215
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1216
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: Now now you're a gangster in LA. You're learning how

1217
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: to manage your money differently. You're moving like a businessman

1218
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: even though you're an actor, which I absolutely love. Yes,

1219
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: I think it makes you even bigger of a threat.

1220
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 2: Because people be surprised how much I know you know that?

1221
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm asking yeah, yeah, like make the money

1222
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: make sense?

1223
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? Yeah, now you book Straw.

1224
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna talk about Taraji for one second here.

1225
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: Taraji also talks about like I think I had seen

1226
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: a clip where she has something like she had wished

1227
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: that she had given someone I want to say she

1228
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: said Tyler and a clip the commissions for all the

1229
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: money that you know, these agents, oh Sherry, that they

1230
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: hadn't oh sorry misquotes, you know, all the money that

1231
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: these agents weren't really fighting for them and stuff like that.

1232
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: Now are you kind of like, are are you pushing

1233
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: back on agency managers or after hearing that because these

1234
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: guys have been in the game for a long time.

1235
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, like I said, I always I always watch

1236
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 2: people and how they move. I'm a very spiritual guy,

1237
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 2: so I feel out things very well. I'm an EmPATH,

1238
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 2: so I know when something is not right, and when

1239
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 2: it's not right, I.

1240
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: Gotta go, Okay, what's an impath and.

1241
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 2: Path as a person that this can we take on

1242
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 2: things without even you know, yeah, like if you are

1243
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,440
Speaker 2: sad right now, I'm going to feel your energy and

1244
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 2: I'm going to feel like how you feel without trying. Yeah,

1245
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 2: so it's we take.

1246
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: On energies so you'd be feeling out there.

1247
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I watch people, movies and stuff like that.

1248
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 2: Like I said, my conscious feeling, which is God. They

1249
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 2: don't never steal me wrong, never ever since twenty sixteen

1250
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 2: when I started this.

1251
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: So just so you know, guys, you started in twenty sixteen.

1252
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: Like I think a lot of people when they see people,

1253
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: they're like, oh man, they just got it overnight, and

1254
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 1: it's like, no, Nope, not at all, ten years, not

1255
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: at all ten years. And then it's straw one of

1256
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: your biggest it's the biggest. This is the biggest, the biggest,

1257
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: the largest.

1258
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 2: At that.

1259
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: You got that call? Where was you at? Where were

1260
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: you at when you got the call?

1261
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 2: That's crazy. I was met up with a friend for

1262
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 2: lunch and they called me. My team called me and

1263
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 2: told me that I got the role. But I'm gonna

1264
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 2: tell you out that that's a problem. That's that's that's

1265
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 2: a testimony. Okay, let me finish what you was asking

1266
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 2: me real quick. So the agents thing I have not

1267
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 2: I haven't got to the point where Sherry is because

1268
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 2: I would just fill it out. I would, I wouldn't

1269
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 2: know before it gets to that point. And when you're

1270
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 2: not doing if you can't do what I can do,

1271
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 2: you gotta go. You see what I'm saying.

1272
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: But there's some people out there that like they're like,

1273
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying no names, but I know some people

1274
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: that are huge celebrities and they have management and I

1275
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 1: know for sure that they are whooping asked in the

1276
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: negotiations more than their managers are. Their allegiance to their

1277
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: managers is to me seems more important than the fact

1278
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 1: that they're actually doing the work and the better negotiators.

1279
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 2: Right. So see, this is why I love my team.

1280
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 2: My team come back and say, hey, this is what

1281
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 2: we got for you. What you want to do, you

1282
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,439
Speaker 2: want to go back for more, let's do it. That's

1283
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: a team. We're actually a team and a family, you know.

1284
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: And that's how they'll ever talk off the ledge like

1285
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can do that, he'll know, Okay.

1286
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 2: I like that. My managers are actually and Rag and

1287
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 2: that's who I have right now. And Shannon that's my publicist.

1288
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 2: And oh and my lawyer that's like my right hand man, Josh.

1289
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 2: He a Fox Rush child and we're all like a

1290
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 2: family honestly. Yeah, they like my road dogs. It don't

1291
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 2: you know. It don't feel like business, but it is,

1292
01:02:29,080 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 2: and that's how it should be. That's how I want

1293
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 2: my home to be because this is this is my home,

1294
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 2: you know. So yeah, I'm I actually let go of

1295
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 2: my agents before no no, no, no, here before this came out.

1296
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 2: Why the feeling came over me. You got a feeling

1297
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 2: and they are so there are beautiful spirits. It was

1298
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 2: nothing against them at all, but I told that feeling

1299
01:02:54,280 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 2: told me you gotta go, damn, and I did it.

1300
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 2: Right now I'm agency free, so I'm waiting right now

1301
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 2: to see what God do.

1302
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: Oh and that was before before.

1303
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 2: Four Star launched.

1304
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, before it launched.

1305
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, before it had came out. Yeah. So yeah. I

1306
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:17,680
Speaker 2: just always follow my conscience if it tells me to

1307
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 2: do it. If I'm feeling, if it, keep hey, do it.

1308
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 2: What are you waiting on? And do it? And it's like,

1309
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 2: you know, because I have a big heart, and when

1310
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 2: nobody has done me wrong, it's like, dag, how do

1311
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 2: I bring this to him?

1312
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: If I got that's it sounds like the.

1313
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 2: Because I had nothing against them, they had nothing against we,

1314
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 2: you know, to see them and it's hug them so

1315
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 2: tight to this day.

1316
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: But how do you explain it? Though I had this feeling,

1317
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: by the way, guys.

1318
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 2: I had no I just I just want to see

1319
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 2: what else is out there? Okay, okay, because I do,

1320
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 2: and the feeling that came over me, I just had

1321
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 2: to go.

1322
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's a tough that's a tough End Bowl movie.

1323
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm mean you know that. That's what God

1324
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 2: just just like I got this whole team. I had

1325
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 2: let all of my people go at a point and

1326
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 2: that's the feeling that came over me. And I'll look

1327
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 2: at what I have now, I'm like, let me rebuild.

1328
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 2: I like the same feeling. Right. Boom. Got my manager.

1329
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 2: She is a fan of my work. What Vanessa Bell

1330
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 2: callaway daughter? Okay, you know what I'm saying. And then

1331
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,439
Speaker 2: she's working. She was working with me on Vness. She's

1332
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 2: my mom on Black Hampton's. So I was like, oh,

1333
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 2: that's connection. That's Boom. Then I met my lawyer. He

1334
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 2: was at sundance and I think, what is the sundance?

1335
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 2: First someone introduced me to him, but he was so

1336
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 2: cool and you know, you're a New York nigga, So

1337
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 2: I'm like okay, so yeah, man, I met him and

1338
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 2: he's like like the homie. So I'm like, yo, you're

1339
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 2: taking the clients. He's like yeah, He's like yeah, let's talk.

1340
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 2: Let's talk. So now that's how I have my team now.

1341
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 2: So now I'm looking for agency that feel like home

1342
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 2: that we can invite into our home.

1343
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 1: I like that.

1344
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 2: I like that because this this is a we we got,

1345
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 2: we got a solid, a solid team. I like that.

1346
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why you say you you'll definitely stop it

1347
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: before it gets to the level that Taraji and Cherry

1348
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 1: had to go.

1349
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 2: For sure, Okay, for sure?

1350
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: Good good. Now let's get into the day he was

1351
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,919
Speaker 1: at lunch with your homie and you got the phone call.

1352
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 2: Oh so I got the phone call. So let me

1353
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 2: tell you this first, I had got the audition, and

1354
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 2: you remember the damn I don't want to give it

1355
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 2: a well, no, this ain't gonna give it away because they've.

1356
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: Seen it's back there, like I got it's in the trailer.

1357
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 2: It's the trailer. The guy that was in the bank

1358
01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 2: that was waiting to cash his check. Yeah, he ended

1359
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 2: up you know, charging that her and stuff like that.

1360
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 1: That was original.

1361
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 2: That's what I auditioned for.

1362
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: No way, Yeah, oh heck yeah, I'm so glad, glad

1363
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: you got So.

1364
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 2: What happened was, I'm like, yo, I have an audition

1365
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 2: for a co star role or supporting role this small

1366
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 2: and I don't know how long. I'm like, I don't

1367
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 2: do this ship, you know what? I mean. So then

1368
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I'm like, you know what, it's Tyler.

1369
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: Perry.

1370
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm like, I'm missus Tyler Netflix. I'm gonna do it.

1371
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

1372
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: Yes, I like that, especially for that.

1373
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm like, forget it. So then I did it,

1374
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 2: sent it in and I don't after I sent in

1375
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:50,439
Speaker 2: an audition. That's it. I'm not it up. It's we're done. Yeah, yep,

1376
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not thinking about it. Nothing like that

1377
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:56,919
Speaker 2: one is the next one? Okay, yep, yep. So got

1378
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 2: the call. You're like, hey, I want to book Mike

1379
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 2: Tyler wanted to give him another role. Though this role

1380
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 2: have not been sent out of anybody or anything, right, Okay,

1381
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 2: Like it's an officer role. So I'm like okay, They're like, yeah,

1382
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 2: like you know, it's it's a leading role throughout the

1383
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 2: whole movie. You know, your assignment is the Janaiah, you know,

1384
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 2: which is the leader of the movie. You're going to

1385
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 2: be alongside another officer at this time. Officer right, all right, bet,

1386
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 2: I mean that makes me feel a little.

1387
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: Bit better, right, That's definitely great call.

1388
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm like, yeah, I'll do it right. So

1389
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 2: then I went back in. I told her, I'm like, yo,

1390
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 2: I got that, I got the I got the job.

1391
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 2: So we celebrated right then and there.

1392
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:47,640
Speaker 1: That was crazy, you found out in that moment.

1393
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, to office to officer Grimes went back in to

1394
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 2: my friend. We celebrated right then and there. So then

1395
01:07:58,400 --> 01:07:59,840
Speaker 2: I get to Atlanta.

1396
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 1: And they don't tell you how much or nothing. You

1397
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: don't know that.

1398
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they told me at the time.

1399
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 1: So at the phone call. At the phone call, yeah,

1400
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: you was really celebrating that day the dark.

1401
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you? I mean, I ain't like that.

1402
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 1: Was it like that? Were you like that happy?

1403
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I wasn't like you gotta think like this.

1404
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm happy I got the row.

1405
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I got it.

1406
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 2: So I was. I was excited. I was excited. But

1407
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 2: they still hill, we still have to pay him this.

1408
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like, all right, it was a very

1409
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 2: low rate.

1410
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 1: Okay the tyler Okay, yeah, okay.

1411
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,839
Speaker 2: It was. I ain't gonna lie, I'm gonna say it.

1412
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 2: It was five thousand the whole movie. I did a

1413
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:54,880
Speaker 2: movie for five thousand dollars. That is so low. So

1414
01:08:55,080 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 2: then I get to Atlanta and they're like congratulations. I'm like, well,

1415
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 2: thank you. You already know I was coming away. You

1416
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. You already not get thank you,

1417
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. They're like no, they're like, do

1418
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 2: you know what he's saying, gratulations. I'm like no, They're like,

1419
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 2: they bumped you up again. They promoted you. I'm like,

1420
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:21,640
Speaker 2: to what detective grimes now? So instead of officer, I

1421
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 2: am detective. So they promoted me again. So now this

1422
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 2: is my assignment. The officer attended to me before they

1423
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:36,599
Speaker 2: go to the chief. Oh what I'm saying, It's like up. Yeah.

1424
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:40,639
Speaker 2: So I didn't even know what the cast was at

1425
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 2: that time and they told me, and.

1426
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: Whoa, that's hilarious. So you didn't know, you didn't know.

1427
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 2: You didn't know. Guy Eric Majett, he's taking me on

1428
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 2: the tour around the campus and he's just saying, so

1429
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 2: he's been working with for Tyler for years, like since

1430
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 2: the beginning, and he was just saying how proud he was.

1431
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 2: I mean, he started telling me the cast and I'm like,

1432
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 2: oh my god. He's like, yeah, you're about to blow.

1433
01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 2: He's like, that's about to be the one for you.

1434
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 2: He's like you ready. He's like you ready, I'm proud

1435
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 2: of you. And I'm like, dag.

1436
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: So the whole time you had no idea.

1437
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 2: I had no idea.

1438
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:27,320
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

1439
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 2: It was possible that they was going to get certain people.

1440
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: But they didn't.

1441
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 2: But you didn't know confirmed cast. I ain't know that.

1442
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: But wait, they told you who the possibility was.

1443
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I ain't gonna get that information, but yeah,

1444
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 2: the confirmed cast.

1445
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: I was like, dog, this is it that it's gonna

1446
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 1: be Yeah.

1447
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 2: It's gonna be nice. Right. So then, oh man, my

1448
01:10:57,320 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 2: first day on set, I had to do this what

1449
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 2: outside the outside the bank. That's the first scene when

1450
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 2: she walked up, and you know, I seen Tyler like

1451
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 2: welcome back, you know, because also everybody in the office

1452
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 2: when I did, I came to do my fitting and everything.

1453
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 2: It was like a family reunion because I did have

1454
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 2: and have nots with Tyler years ago right before that.

1455
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:24,000
Speaker 2: And yeah, man, Tyler's seen me do the rehearsal and

1456
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 2: he like his monitors right here, he looked. He said,

1457
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,680
Speaker 2: remind me of we need to talk before before I leave.

1458
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 2: All right, bet, you know we already have a relationship

1459
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 2: and anything from having.

1460
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: Were you nervous a little bit when he said that

1461
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: this is before you voked No, this is on set.

1462
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 2: So and then my boy Eric, they get the work

1463
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 2: for him. He was looking. He was like, he's like, Eric,

1464
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 2: yeah out there. He's like, I told you right. He's like,

1465
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just say that that's not a bad thing.

1466
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 2: That's not a bad thing. I've been I've been here

1467
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 2: for a long time and I know what that means.

1468
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: Right.

1469
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:11,519
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then just to fast forward through a little bit,

1470
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:14,840
Speaker 2: he's like, how much you're paying you? I was like

1471
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:20,479
Speaker 2: five K he said, excuse me. He's like, I'm sorry

1472
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 2: a day. I was like nah, He's like, oh okay, Mike.

1473
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 2: He's like, first of all, I want to apologize. He's like,

1474
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:31,640
Speaker 2: I'm not in charge of the department. I'm sorry. I

1475
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 2: will never pay you that. That's not what you're worth.

1476
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 2: He's like, you did amazing today. He started giving me

1477
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 2: my flowers and everything. He's like, I've been seeing this

1478
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 2: in you years ago when we did have some hap

1479
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 2: and I said I know he was going to be

1480
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 2: something special. He's like, you're a star. He's like, so

1481
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 2: I want to pay you like you're a star and

1482
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 2: he's like, you can let your team know that I'm

1483
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 2: going to pay this. And I say, oh shit, I

1484
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:56,679
Speaker 2: ain't never seen that type of money.

1485
01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:59,639
Speaker 1: I said, what did you say that in front of him?

1486
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 2: No?

1487
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: Oh, you have it together.

1488
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 2: I had, man, I really appreciate it.

1489
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 1: Wait wait is it on the phone.

1490
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 2: Yes. I'm like, I'm holding it in. I'm holding it in.

1491
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 2: I'm like, god, man, I appreciate you so much. Bro.

1492
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 2: He's like yeah, He's like, happy birthday, so boom. So

1493
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 2: I called my mom birthday. Hell yeah, Mom. I called

1494
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 2: my mama instantly after that car She said what Mike.

1495
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, Mom, he said, gonna pay this. Why

1496
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 2: I'm on the phone with my mom. He texts me

1497
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 2: and say, actually, let him know that I'm going to

1498
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,600
Speaker 2: give you this much. It was more made me a

1499
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:42,160
Speaker 2: six figure man, nigga.

1500
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry over it.

1501
01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:53,760
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, bro. At this time,

1502
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, Yo, that's a beautiful story. That is what

1503
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 2: we do it for right here, this is what you've

1504
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 2: been looking for. My Wow, look so much encourage me.

1505
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,920
Speaker 2: So I'm like, i can't wait to go to set tomorrow.

1506
01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 2: I'm about to kill this ship. Like you know what

1507
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 2: I'm saying that, Oh I hyped me up, and I'm like, oh,

1508
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 2: thank god for this man. Bro. This man had like

1509
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 2: when I'm telling you, man, when he said got your back,

1510
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 2: he got your back, bro. And he don't forget like

1511
01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 2: he if he say, if you come to him, Hey,

1512
01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 2: this happening. I needed this, all right, don't worry about it.

1513
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 2: Boom while I he makes it happen whatever it is,

1514
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 2: he makes it happen.

1515
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,639
Speaker 1: We'll give an example on that story because you said

1516
01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 1: this happened. I needed this, like an example.

1517
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 2: So basically, by the way, that story is incredible.

1518
01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he said, by the way,

1519
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 1: happy birthday too, he said, because.

1520
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 2: I see your birthday coming up. Happy birthday. It's like

1521
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 2: that's the pay bomb happy birthday here, that's on top

1522
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 2: of what you're worth.

1523
01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: Wow. I love it all right, go on, don't get distracted.

1524
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. So an example is like, hey, my overcost too

1525
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 2: much to get I'm just giving my overcost too much

1526
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 2: to get here, and they were supposed to give me

1527
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 2: a voucher. Are you able to handle this for me?

1528
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get your car service instead of ober and

1529
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 2: you make it happen. Just like that. Wow. So that's

1530
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 2: that's a that's an example. The way what I'm talking

1531
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 2: about I can't really say because it's you know what

1532
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,719
Speaker 2: I'm saying. But that's the example.

1533
01:15:34,680 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, damn, I want to go work for time. Yeah, yeah,

1534
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,520
Speaker 1: go online and Tyler Perry opening.

1535
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 2: Man, he.

1536
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 1: That's my nig yo. I love I love I love

1537
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: this for you though. I love this for you genuine

1538
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 1: like just hanging out with you for the last hour,

1539
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit longer. Sorry, I love it. I

1540
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:59,559
Speaker 1: love it for you where you're from, Detroit, where you represent, Like,

1541
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 1: I love this whole whole story for you. Thank you

1542
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: well deserved And just imagine if you would have been like, nah,

1543
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that.

1544
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 2: That one was crazy.

1545
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 1: That one.

1546
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 2: It's crazy you say that. We watched six Triple A.

1547
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 2: He told me he's pray, you know, because he prayed

1548
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 2: for me, me to me, Tiana Sherry. He prayed for

1549
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 2: all of us, you know, and you know we had

1550
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 2: lunch and everything with him at his crib. So he

1551
01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 2: he told me face to face. He was like, I'm

1552
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 2: proud of you, Mike. He's like, and I'm glad you

1553
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 2: didn't leave with ego because if you would alleged yourself

1554
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 2: with ego, you wouldn't even be here. Wow. He's like,

1555
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 2: don't ever leave with ego. He's like, because you see

1556
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 2: where your faith got you. Yeah, he said, now you're here,

1557
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 2: it's time. He's like, and I appreciate you. He's like,

1558
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 2: that says a lot of how much love you have

1559
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 2: for my work and our connection because you didn't have

1560
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 2: to do that, you know. And he's like, keep leading

1561
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 2: with faith. He's like, your time. He's like, you, this

1562
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 2: is it. He's like, so get ready. He's like, watch

1563
01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 2: the people you have around you. Oh, he said, keep

1564
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 2: your head up, stay focused, grind, stay sharp. So stay ready.

1565
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,719
Speaker 2: You don't have to get ready, and just just just

1566
01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:24,760
Speaker 2: to stay to stay in the moment, you know. And

1567
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:27,879
Speaker 2: he gave me those gems man, and I broke.

1568
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 1: Did you really?

1569
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 2: I was crying, dog. I was crying dog because it's like,

1570
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 2: you know this man. I'm like, man, this man is

1571
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 2: a billionaire and he's so he just got a big heart.

1572
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 2: You have a big heart, man. And he showed me

1573
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 2: like how I'm gonna be when I become a billionaire.

1574
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 2: You gotta treat people good. He treat people damn good man. Yeah,

1575
01:17:53,560 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 2: I'm getting more real though, man, he solid.

1576
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: I love this whole story. By the way, Straw was

1577
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. The whole casted amazing. And I was telling

1578
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:13,680
Speaker 1: you earlier how Ashley versa shout outs to her. Let

1579
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 1: me just tell you something. She's so lovable, like, and

1580
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:19,479
Speaker 1: I think she's naturally funny. I was like, low key,

1581
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: like you should be a comedian too, and she was

1582
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: like a girl shut up. Like she was just so

1583
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: quick with it and I'd be like, yo, say it again,

1584
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: and she'd be like, no, it's just rolled and it's

1585
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: out there and I can't remember it, like you know.

1586
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:33,879
Speaker 1: But she was just really funny and like her personality

1587
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:37,000
Speaker 1: was just so just like she got a different personality

1588
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,720
Speaker 1: like I was, and her like, oh for you, like

1589
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: I love you, Like he was just so cool. Like

1590
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: just her personality was the definitely like you like love her.

1591
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: But her sense of humor was just crazy.

1592
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:49,640
Speaker 2: And she's vulnerable.

1593
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:54,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's vulnerable. She's vulnerable, but that sense of humor

1594
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: on her is so natural that it was like you

1595
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: could tell it was effortless. It was just like her

1596
01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:04,559
Speaker 1: her clap backs were like Yo, did you notice that

1597
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:07,759
Speaker 1: she's funny though, Yes she's hilarious, right, I'm not tripping

1598
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:12,520
Speaker 1: interfused together. I was like, yo, yo, she's ship, and

1599
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: I was, I have to better really really yo she

1600
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: I thought she was funny. But I love how people

1601
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 1: are going in on Tesla on the straw like they really,

1602
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 1: like they really really Yeah, she's trended like I could.

1603
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I hate Tesla. I went on right

1604
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 1: before you showed up here because I had to approve

1605
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,600
Speaker 1: all these like evil comments to her. And it was

1606
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:41,479
Speaker 1: funny because I was like, why are they saying, like

1607
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: I have to prove all these comments? I never had

1608
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 1: this so many, and it's like they're just going in

1609
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: like just hating poor Tesla, you know, And I'm like, yo,

1610
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: she gonna be at an airport or grocery store and

1611
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:54,719
Speaker 1: they'd be like, should check testa.

1612
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:59,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's probably going through it everywhere.

1613
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:01,840
Speaker 1: I mean, if I was her mate, I'd be like

1614
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 1: you got the check, like you know, with her all day.

1615
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 1: But she's funny. But I'm glad you got to experience

1616
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: that another person's her. You know, I'm watching her for

1617
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 1: a long time. I've always thought she was able. Never

1618
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: there was never us movie.

1619
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 2: Never I think that I would be sharing a set

1620
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 2: with her. Yeah, like what, I didn't have a desire

1621
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:25,920
Speaker 2: for acting. Wow, until you know the moments, I'm like,

1622
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 2: this is not something I just wanted to do. It

1623
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 2: was because of disconnected. It's because I wanted to make

1624
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:37,600
Speaker 2: people feel how Will made me feel. I do this

1625
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 2: to do give people a positive impact.

1626
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 1: And I thought you were about to cry a little bit.

1627
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 2: I'm trying not to because yeah, so's mm hmm. I

1628
01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 2: love to affect people a positive I mean positively, you know,

1629
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 2: and make a positive impact on people people's lives. You

1630
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 2: notice some of the story and stuff that we do

1631
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 2: on screen, it fulfills people's hearts. And that's what I

1632
01:21:04,439 --> 01:21:06,040
Speaker 2: want to do, is like, if you have a problem

1633
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 2: in real life, on the screen, we're solving that problem.

1634
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 2: You know. We're giving people that courage that you know,

1635
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 2: that motivation and inspiration to just keep going with life.

1636
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 2: And that's what this movie is about, you know, just

1637
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:20,799
Speaker 2: to you're not alone.

1638
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:24,760
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and you saw that. I mean everything when

1639
01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:28,719
Speaker 1: I say the premise of the movie, I like, never

1640
01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: retain anything when it comes to like the days of

1641
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: movie drops, Like I'm one of those people like surprising

1642
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:35,599
Speaker 1: know my middle name still, you know. But when I

1643
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: saw and heard about the movie and the premise like oh,

1644
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 1: single mom whatever, I was.

1645
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:42,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1646
01:21:42,840 --> 01:21:44,519
Speaker 1: Literally, I don't know why. I was just I was

1647
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 1: just so excited to see a role where this mom

1648
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:47,760
Speaker 1: is just going through hell.

1649
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I'm saying, Yeah, because I mean,

1650
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 2: think about everybody go through that. But it's very good

1651
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:59,040
Speaker 2: to just hit on black women, particularly, you know, because

1652
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 2: when do we get enough? You know? And it just

1653
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 2: shows like how trauma is just real. Some people go

1654
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 2: blind of trauma, don't notice trauma, you know, but it

1655
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:16,639
Speaker 2: shows that. For me, I'll say, you need to come

1656
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 2: to peace with trauma before it takes over you.

1657
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:22,800
Speaker 1: And that's that you don't watch that movie, that's that's

1658
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 1: what you see. And you know when you look back,

1659
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: like I said, I have my moments, but I think

1660
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 1: back movie was so great by the way, you know

1661
01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking about. But you saw the little pieces

1662
01:22:31,960 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: where you saw there was trauma. Like the way she

1663
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:34,759
Speaker 1: was acting, You're.

1664
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, you know why she acting like she was

1665
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 2: in the trauma last straw. She's tired, Yeah, she's tired.

1666
01:22:44,840 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 2: And you know, when you're a good person and used

1667
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 2: to trying to be study, trying to be positive and positive,

1668
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 2: and you're just trying to push, You're trying to do

1669
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 2: all that you can, and people just keep poking the bear,

1670
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 2: keep poking the bear. Why you keep poking me? It's

1671
01:22:57,680 --> 01:22:59,640
Speaker 2: just like Janiyah said, what would.

1672
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:00,799
Speaker 1: You do that? Yeah?

1673
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:01,680
Speaker 2: Why would you do that?

1674
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1675
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:05,799
Speaker 2: Like I'm a good person. I'm not I'm not robbing

1676
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 2: the bank yet, I'm not sure. I'm not like she said, like,

1677
01:23:12,600 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 2: you know, she's not doing nothing wrong.

1678
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:17,160
Speaker 1: So Robby just five and twenty one dollars?

1679
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:18,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, why is this happening?

1680
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah? I thought that was incredible. Loved it on every level.

1681
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: All the acting, Yeah, it was just incredible. It was

1682
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 1: a hard fleet body of work though complete even how

1683
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 1: like all the roles were tied together, the just everything

1684
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 1: about the whole movie.

1685
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:36,799
Speaker 2: But yeah, perfect. Yeah, honestly, man.

1686
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 1: I hated that the last part where it ended. I

1687
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 1: was like, you guys could have given us two more

1688
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:40,679
Speaker 1: minutes though.

1689
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, I mean I don't know. I

1690
01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 2: love how ending.

1691
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:48,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, but now did you when you watch the movie,

1692
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: like how do you watch from like objective? And this

1693
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: is my last question. We were completely over Braden's probably mad.

1694
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who's mad back there.

1695
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: But when you watch, you watch from objective, I could

1696
01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: have done it better? Or do you watch from enjoyment?

1697
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 2: So an actor always watch from an objective?

1698
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 1: Damn that okay?

1699
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:13,679
Speaker 2: First, because we're trying to see how to get better

1700
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 2: where we need to improve. I can actually say I

1701
01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 2: body this character.

1702
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:23,040
Speaker 1: Yeah you did, Yeah you did.

1703
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:25,760
Speaker 2: I bodied this character. Man, I'm like, yo, I did

1704
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 2: my thing. And I always focus on the small things,

1705
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 2: which is listening? Did he actually listen in that scene?

1706
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 2: Did you actually listen to the whole movie? Did? What

1707
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:40,120
Speaker 2: were you doing while they were talking? What would you

1708
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 2: do in real life? Would you shake your head? Would

1709
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:44,679
Speaker 2: you hey? Would you cut them off for a real quill?

1710
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:47,560
Speaker 2: It's certain things were doing that wasn't in the script.

1711
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 2: And that's the thing, like you have to live in

1712
01:24:50,439 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 2: the moment, you know. I don't prep much because I

1713
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,519
Speaker 2: want to see what happens when I'm in the moment,

1714
01:24:58,120 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 2: you know. So I have my things like beforehand, but

1715
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 2: I don't like the I don't like the study too

1716
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 2: much because I don't want to be married to anything,

1717
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 2: you know, because that's how you get your head in

1718
01:25:06,920 --> 01:25:07,640
Speaker 2: the clusterfucked.

1719
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,400
Speaker 1: And you know, is Tyler strict with that.

1720
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:14,000
Speaker 2: He wants you to bring your own creativity.

1721
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:17,719
Speaker 1: That just so you know, I don't I'm not huge,

1722
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: I don't know anything like about acting. But I started

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Speaker 1: to notice over time the more movies I watched comparative

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Speaker 1: to like say, people that are just starting out, you know,

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Speaker 1: you see, like the my first film, I always say, like,

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Speaker 1: the real acting is in the silence, not the you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I have silence in this movie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's that's what I've noticed. Like it's like

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Speaker 1: if they can act in the silence, Like if I

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Speaker 1: can feel what you're feeling in the silence, that's how

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Speaker 1: I know. But if you got to tell me I'm

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Speaker 1: sad today in this way and I'm like, yo, you did, no.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, its silence. I thank God for my silence

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Speaker 2: in this movie too, because it shows how season I

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Speaker 2: am as an actor. And that's what I want agents

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Speaker 2: to see that you knowing that I'm an agency free,

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Speaker 2: agency free. So yeah, yeah, because nuances is very important

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Speaker 2: as an actor. Okay, because you know everybody focus on

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Speaker 2: their their dialogue. What are you doing besides that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you, I noticed it, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know anything about acting, but I literally was like, Yo,

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Speaker 1: it's it's how they are in their silence, like the

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Speaker 1: looks of the breathing or something. It's like you could

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Speaker 1: feel it. And I just recently like thought about it,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know recently, but I started to go,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's not what they're saying. It's like

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Speaker 1: just even the slightest movement or.

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Speaker 2: Like yeah, you know, like yeah, whatever, it all matters. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it all matters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, where can everybody keep up with everything?

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Speaker 1: Mike Merrill?

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Speaker 2: Y'all can find me on social media platforms at m

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Speaker 2: I K E, M E R R I L L

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Speaker 2: Underscore Mike Merrill.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and if y'all want to have the best breakfast,

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Speaker 1: one of the best breakfasts you'll ever eat and healthy, healthy, right,

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Speaker 1: it's healthy.

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Speaker 2: One more thing too. I have another movie that is

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Speaker 2: premiering at a BFF American Black Film Festival, and it's

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Speaker 2: called Love Offside. It's a love romance. Yeah. Okay, So

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Speaker 2: if y'all going to be in Miami from the eleventh

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Speaker 2: to the fifteenth, my movie premiere is on the thirteenth

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Speaker 2: or four o'clock in Miami at ABFF Wow Night. And

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Speaker 2: I shot that in Jamaica. Ooh, it's a Jamaica movie.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, did you learn any Jamaican recipes?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Well, Kanda, Kanda.

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