WEBVTT - MIKE MERRILL - Cracking Through Adversity

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host, Coleen Wit and today we have a

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<v Speaker 1>very special guest actor, you like, the actor Mike Merrill's

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<v Speaker 1>in the building.

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<v Speaker 2>What what up?

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<v Speaker 1>Though, He's going all the way down to his roots

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<v Speaker 1>forget that. What do they call it when you have

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<v Speaker 1>the voice training again?

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<v Speaker 2>Vocal vocal? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was like, what do they call it

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>that you actually is, right?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it?

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<v Speaker 2>Like?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Etiquette etquette? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Right, So we got Mike Merrill in the building. What

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<v Speaker 1>are you going to have me eating today?

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<v Speaker 2>So we're going to be eating a omelet with spinach,

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<v Speaker 2>ox corella, cheese and ions, and then on the side

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<v Speaker 2>we're gonna have some turkey bacon.

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<v Speaker 1>All right. So right now, guys, it is noon, so

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<v Speaker 1>we can call this AKA brunch. This is a broke bunch.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, so you was when you was broke? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>because back then you gotta think eggs one as much

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

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<v Speaker 2>can get that great value bag about two three dollars

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<v Speaker 2>back there. Then the turkey bacon I got it was

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't as much back then as well onions, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>that's like, yeah, that's not a dollar.

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<v Speaker 1>Before we started shooting, you shared some other dishes that

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<v Speaker 1>you used to really eat when you was broke. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>definitely curious. Can you give me a fast snippet into

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<v Speaker 1>that light.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So I think the broken meal that I've had,

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<v Speaker 2>it's broke as a word.

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<v Speaker 1>It is, yeah, broke word brokes. It's not brocus.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a word today, the broken meal. That's the Detroit

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<v Speaker 2>of me. You always make a word. So yeah. The

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<v Speaker 2>most struggling meal that I've had was it's too peanut

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<v Speaker 2>butter and jelly crackers. Okay you never heard of that.

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<v Speaker 1>No, but I say it is that the white crackers,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the white you gotta do the yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you know yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And the other one was bob Evans biscuits sandwiches, the

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<v Speaker 2>breakfast sanwiches. Yeah, so it come in the box at Walmart.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. Now, you I was standing in Atlanta at

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<v Speaker 2>this point, and I was trying my best not to

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<v Speaker 2>go back to Detroit, you know, so that it put

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<v Speaker 2>me in a position where I had to live on

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

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<v Speaker 2>I gotta keep pushing.

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<v Speaker 1>And what city were you in? L A? You were

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<v Speaker 1>in Atlanta and you were damn that ain't even that.

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<v Speaker 2>Wasn't even the struggle, you know what I mean, like

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<v Speaker 2>come here and okay, I get it here.

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<v Speaker 1>Here, you're out here.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>Affordable, Yeah, yeah, and you were struggling eating, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so what you go in a one where you were like,

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<v Speaker 1>I got three dollars. What's the best I could do

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<v Speaker 1>to manage just three dollars?

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<v Speaker 2>So I used to get those breakfast sandwiches they already

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<v Speaker 2>pre made and everything, and I knew it wasn't healthy,

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<v Speaker 2>but I had to do what I had to do.

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<v Speaker 2>I would get those sandwiches, go to sevent eleven, heat

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<v Speaker 2>it up in the morning, and then go up to

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<v Speaker 2>La Fitness and work out. That's why I take my

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<v Speaker 2>showers and stuff like that. Yeah, I had it all

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<v Speaker 2>planned out. What's crazy is when I.

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<v Speaker 1>Was I love hearing this and then watching you on straw.

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

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<v Speaker 1>You was over there relating to the whole script.

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<v Speaker 2>I was on my last straw. I'm for real, man,

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<v Speaker 2>it was, it was, it was. It was a time, man.

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<v Speaker 2>I got to say, I was most mentally free at

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<v Speaker 2>that time that I've ever been in my life because

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't have to worry about no bills or nothing

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<v Speaker 2>like that. All I had to worry about was my

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<v Speaker 2>car note at that time. And then you had a car,

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<v Speaker 2>not I had a car, And it's crazy how I

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<v Speaker 2>ended up getting that car. I had a car before that,

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

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<v Speaker 2>come on, lord, you know I ain't got no money

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<v Speaker 2>for another car. And I can't ground around here dirty

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<v Speaker 2>because then they're gonna take it, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, yo, I gotta do what I gotta do.

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<v Speaker 2>I call my granny. I'm like, Granny, I need some help,

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<v Speaker 2>and she just helped me with that car, and she like,

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<v Speaker 2>what you need by mine? Need you to pray for me?

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, I'm about to take my car in

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<v Speaker 2>to get a note. And I hate notes. Like now

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<v Speaker 2>I had a car. Not I had to get a

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<v Speaker 2>car note, okay, but the car I had I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have a car. Note, my granny helped me with that car.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so did you call her the second time?

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<v Speaker 2>Call her again? I needed my granny again. My granny

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<v Speaker 2>is my angel.

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<v Speaker 1>Clearly was like super Granny.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, she did them super prayers too, and they were.

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<v Speaker 1>Calling her for prayers or were you calling her for

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<v Speaker 1>yeah yeah, hell yeah, okay okay. So yeah, well every

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<v Speaker 1>time you had to make a movie, he was like yes.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, because I didn't. So the thing was, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>know how to pray. I didn't know how to pray.

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<v Speaker 2>Even when she would tell me certain things to say,

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

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know how to talk to God. So I

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<v Speaker 2>had to figure out a way to get in connection

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<v Speaker 2>with God like I felt him. I just didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>how to talk to him. I talked to him through

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<v Speaker 2>my actions and I listened to him.

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<v Speaker 1>How would you talk to him through your actions?

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<v Speaker 2>I would just do what he says, or I would

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<v Speaker 2>do something and then he was like uh uh. I

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<v Speaker 2>was like all right, you know what I'm saying, Like

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>a connection. I always had a connection with God, and

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<v Speaker 2>I would speak to him through actions, and I learned

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<v Speaker 2>how to actually hear his voice through my granny. Man.

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<v Speaker 2>My granny would tell me like certain things like he

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<v Speaker 2>would do or not let happen for you to bide

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<v Speaker 2>to you know, what he wants you to do, because

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<v Speaker 2>he already have the steps ordered for you. Okay, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>So I had to follow in that path. And this

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<v Speaker 2>is conscious feeling. I always tell people this is conscious

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<v Speaker 2>feeling that I get this gut feeling in this God.

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

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<v Speaker 2>that's good, that's good, that's that's just sick. That's just nervousness.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's good. They'll go ahead. You can do that.

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<v Speaker 2>You can do that. But yeah, man, car situation right

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<v Speaker 2>back to that. So yeah, the car situation. I had

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<v Speaker 2>to end up getting a car note. Man, So I

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<v Speaker 2>only had to worry at that time when I was

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<v Speaker 2>letting on my car, I only had to worry about

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<v Speaker 2>my car note. In my phone bill.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, how much was it?

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<v Speaker 2>No?

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<v Speaker 1>Like three hundred was it the least?

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<v Speaker 2>No?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you have good credit?

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<v Speaker 2>I did it to buy Damn? My credit was messed up.

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<v Speaker 1>Your credit was hope, hopefully you refinanced after a year.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how good your financial Oh.

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<v Speaker 2>You own it.

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<v Speaker 1>You do the seven year payment plan. I love Awes

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<v Speaker 1>bought a car and I was like, so you bought it,

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<v Speaker 1>how how long was the payment? She gets She gets

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<v Speaker 1>really mad because I'm all about financial literacy and like

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

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<v Speaker 1>I did the longest plan.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I got that car in twenty nineteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, was it brand new?

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<v Speaker 2>Now? I had like twenty three thousand miles on.

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<v Speaker 1>That's basically Brandon, that's basically yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So they had like twenty three thousand miles on it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I wish, I guess I could put it up

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<v Speaker 2>here on Yeah, it had like twenty three thousand miles

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<v Speaker 2>on it.

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<v Speaker 1>And.

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<v Speaker 2>I just knew that I needed it, so I had

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<v Speaker 2>to do it. Yeah, you know, Carvana. Shout out to Carvana.

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<v Speaker 2>They made it so easy, like, hey, you can pay

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<v Speaker 2>what you want type of thing you want almost almost

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<v Speaker 2>almost like they made it affordable. Ok. Yeah, they go

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<v Speaker 2>based off of your and they get your prow and

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<v Speaker 2>stuff like that. Yeah, and they helped me out at

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<v Speaker 2>that time I was very great. Take good. Yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna need another, like three more eggs.

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<v Speaker 1>For you, three more eggs for me? You do it

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<v Speaker 1>that much?

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<v Speaker 2>I got, I got muscles to feed.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, hold up, I got this. We got eggs in here.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I got muscles to feed. This is recovery right here.

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<v Speaker 1>Just just notice though these eggs are.

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<v Speaker 2>White eggs, Guys, white brown eggs costs more, right, And

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

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<v Speaker 2>you said, yeah, two more for you? Do you do

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<v Speaker 2>you eat? How? How do you? How do you eat? How?

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<v Speaker 1>Full sized person? Like a full sized person that's like

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<v Speaker 1>from New York, not l A.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so you probably want three?

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<v Speaker 1>No? Two?

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<v Speaker 2>All right too?

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry, I don't have muscles to feed.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody got muscles to feed.

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<v Speaker 1>I got. I'm working on it though. Like after I

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<v Speaker 1>have I'm gonna I'm gonna get into the gem and

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<v Speaker 1>and start saying no to sugar.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I got to Sugar is the worst for the body.

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<v Speaker 2>The worst, I'm telling you right now is the worst.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the worst. It's that's that's what whole cancer and

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<v Speaker 2>the body and stuff like that, that's what causes cancer,

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<v Speaker 2>causes mucus. You know I eat accord it to my

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<v Speaker 2>blood type.

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<v Speaker 1>How'd you get that test done? Did you get it done?

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<v Speaker 2>The Vitamin Lady in Atlanta, she is a herbalist. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's my camera right all right, bet because I keep

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<v Speaker 2>put that she's the Vitamin Lady in Atlanta. She will

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<v Speaker 2>do a blood test. She will prick your finger and

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<v Speaker 2>then put it on this chart. And you know, it

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<v Speaker 2>got like four circles and it's like a b a

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<v Speaker 2>b oh, and it'll it'll tell like whatever blood clocks like,

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<v Speaker 2>it'll like whatever one showed up for the blood clocks.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the one that you know what you can't eat,

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<v Speaker 2>what your blood type is. And then she'll test. She'll

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<v Speaker 2>give you this chart, this food chart. No, she'll give

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<v Speaker 2>you a food chart to show you everything to stay

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<v Speaker 2>away from, like to avoid and everything that benefits your body.

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<v Speaker 2>And I need that lady, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And anything can we get it? Can we get?

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

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<v Speaker 2>worth a trip. It's worth the trip.

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<v Speaker 1>So after you listen to what you can and can't eat,

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<v Speaker 1>did you feel the difference immediately?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? So, so what she do is she'll give you

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<v Speaker 2>the rundown about your body, certain things that you would

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<v Speaker 2>feel like, you know, like she would tell me, like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm a positive so you would feel these like

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<v Speaker 2>like little prickly things at the at the tip of

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<v Speaker 2>my fingers. She said that anxiety and me being like

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<v Speaker 2>nervous to things and stuff like that. I'm so a

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<v Speaker 2>we operate as an artist. Oh yeah, so we have

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<v Speaker 2>to look at things from an artist perspective and not

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<v Speaker 2>as something that is a challenge, you know, because we

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<v Speaker 2>look at it as a challenge that new emotions start

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<v Speaker 2>going and you're like, oh, you can get in our

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<v Speaker 2>own way. Yeah. So now I've learned to turn it

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<v Speaker 2>into excitement and bring it down.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So if you get if you get the little

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<v Speaker 1>spidy senses.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and it's it's so crazy. My mom is apositans

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<v Speaker 2>she would feel the same. It's like, oh, that's where

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<v Speaker 2>that comes from.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So now what calms me is Luther is one

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<v Speaker 2>of my favorite Okay, Oh yeah, Luther Boy, I love you,

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<v Speaker 2>Luth the boy tell you I'm a nineties baby Detroit, Detroit.

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<v Speaker 2>Say you're gonna be in love with me? He was,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, go ahead and singing still in love,

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<v Speaker 2>Still in love?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, you want to sing a little bit that got that? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So go ahead and just take me back to what

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<v Speaker 1>exactly was going on. At least during the Spinach Omelet season.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is when I had got my first got

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<v Speaker 2>my apartment. So I was living in my car, like

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<v Speaker 2>I told you, and I was doing than uber, right,

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<v Speaker 2>And I would wake up in my car every day

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<v Speaker 2>and do lifting Uber and cash out immediately to do

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<v Speaker 2>my you know, because you have to pay application fees

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that. So I was I was danging

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<v Speaker 2>my credit.

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<v Speaker 1>To you had to pay application fees for what the

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<v Speaker 1>apartments for apartments, yeah, so I was going to apartment, apartment, apartment,

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<v Speaker 1>you know credit.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So I was just trying everywhere. Yeah. So it

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<v Speaker 2>was just like dang in me, man, And I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>I had to pay these application fees to do the

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<v Speaker 2>application possibly for them just to tell me no and.

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<v Speaker 1>Stuff like that to get a roommate situation, you know what.

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<v Speaker 2>They weren't doing that like that in Atlanta at least

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know. Yeah, And yeah, I just didn't really

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<v Speaker 2>know anybody that was really doing that like now here

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<v Speaker 2>for sure, Just so you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, I've never seen someone make an omeline like this before.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I don't want you to a little wait.

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<v Speaker 1>Look, I don't want I don't want you to question yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>You can tell. He was like, wait, am I doing

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<v Speaker 1>this wrong? It's been a while.

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<v Speaker 2>I was tripping a little bit. But also I haven't

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<v Speaker 2>clicked on that electric still in a while. So I

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<v Speaker 2>turned it down.

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<v Speaker 1>Lois, do you want me to tell you why? I

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<v Speaker 1>thought maybe it was different, because I think, yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>think usually people make the egg part and then they

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<v Speaker 1>add the stuff later.

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<v Speaker 2>So see, that's crazy. I took it back to the back.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I used to put the cheese in here already

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<v Speaker 2>because I'm like, I don't want to just in the inside.

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<v Speaker 2>I went all around.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, I've never seen it. I'm excited.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's that's where I went with it. That's wow, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I usually wait.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you know what, dang, I forgot to record this part. Boom, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we lie. I don't remember where we left off, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>so you just for your listeners. He sees in the

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<v Speaker 1>egg and a bowl, whipped it up with some monster

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<v Speaker 1>added to it, a little thrown off because usually I

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<v Speaker 1>see people do the egg directly into the pan and

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<v Speaker 1>then add the ingredients. I'm not a huge omelet person,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm hoping I learned something here and I like

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<v Speaker 1>it and I love spinach, so I need.

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<v Speaker 2>That on deck. Okay, I'm gonna take this too. Okay, boom.

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<v Speaker 1>But we were at part You got really excited because

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<v Speaker 1>I guess you're making an old school classic omelet.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because that's the way I used to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>So it kind of took me back. See I'm still

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<v Speaker 2>connected to.

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<v Speaker 1>Exactly. That's good. So you're your apartment hunting, you're uber

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<v Speaker 1>and lifting. Yeah, I'm guessing at some point someone accepts

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<v Speaker 1>this application.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So yeah, it was Riverside. It was a Riverside

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<v Speaker 2>Parkway apartments.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Yeah, you're really giving all these brands all is love? Okay, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess they looked out for you.

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<v Speaker 2>They did. It got me off the street, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>They were like, where do you currently live? You're like

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<v Speaker 1>in my car.

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't tell them none of that.

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<v Speaker 1>What'd you tell them?

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't telling them. No, I'm just trying to get

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<v Speaker 2>an apartment.

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<v Speaker 1>Because don't you have to put like your address and

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<v Speaker 1>stuff for them to respond?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they looked out my mom put put her name

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<v Speaker 2>down for me, so I have my ways, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>but yeah, they approved me. I was paying like seven

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<v Speaker 2>something a month. You hear that. That's good, great, seven

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<v Speaker 2>something a month. Come on, now, okay, where are you

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<v Speaker 2>paying that at?

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<v Speaker 1>Nowhere? And you're and you're still ubering and lifting, but

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you know one hundred percent you're going into

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<v Speaker 1>acting at this time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, So I hadn't booked my first one yet.

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<v Speaker 2>When I got the apartment, the light's on it. I

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<v Speaker 2>ain't have enough to have the lights on yet, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. So I had to thug it

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<v Speaker 2>out a little bit. The air mattress.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, but how are you light an apartment at night?

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<v Speaker 1>Were you like, it doesn't matter I'm ubering at night

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<v Speaker 1>or something?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, yeah, you know I was working, so.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh but I'm saying, what did you use in place

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<v Speaker 1>of light? Flashlights?

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<v Speaker 2>Wells and stuff like that. So then my mom helped me.

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<v Speaker 2>She didn't even know she helped me, but she helped

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<v Speaker 2>me with some bread, and on top of that, I

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<v Speaker 2>had the money from lifting ruber.

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<v Speaker 1>So how does she not know she helped you?

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

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<v Speaker 2>because my mama is like or protective mom, and she'll

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<v Speaker 2>come in, well, Mike, how are you gonna how are

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<v Speaker 2>you gonna do? You know what I'm saying? So what

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<v Speaker 2>about your builds and this and that? And I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want her to panic and have to you know,

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<v Speaker 2>think that she I'm good, Ma.

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<v Speaker 1>So how did she end up lending you money without

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<v Speaker 1>knowing that something was going on?

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<v Speaker 3>I wasn't telling her I need some money. I just

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<v Speaker 3>needed to look out for me, okay, because she can

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<v Speaker 3>get nosed. My mom can get nosy. Okay, yeah, she

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<v Speaker 3>can get nosy. So I didn't want her to know everything.

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<v Speaker 1>She was like, Mom, can you shoot me two hundred today?

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<v Speaker 2>That right was near that Friday? And I'm like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>if you can tell me something, then you know, look

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<v Speaker 2>out for me.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. But he and she did it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Okay, my mama could do She would do anything

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<v Speaker 2>she can for me. Are you no. I'm a middle child,

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<v Speaker 2>so my mom actually on my mom's side, it is

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<v Speaker 2>me and my brother. I'm the oldest, and then my

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<v Speaker 2>dad's side is my sister. We had I had two sisters,

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<v Speaker 2>one passed away and then she's older than us. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so that makes me the middle okay, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and then your parents still married.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, well, my my dad is currently still in prison.

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<v Speaker 2>He's been in prison since ninety nine, you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's like one of my my missions to get him

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<v Speaker 2>out or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>And was it like a wrong full conviction type thing, KNDA,

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<v Speaker 1>cause you said your mission to get him out. So

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<v Speaker 1>it just makes me feel like, you know, the justice

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<v Speaker 1>system could have possibly did something wrong or am.

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<v Speaker 2>I Well no, he he you know, he did his crime.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, it's been twenty five years now, jeez,

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<v Speaker 2>that's a long time. It's ninety nine nine, twenty years.

0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it is longer than that. It's like twenty six years.

0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.159
<v Speaker 2>Twenty six years. So it's you know, it's time. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>I want to get my dad out. I want to

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<v Speaker 2>spend my life with him. Now I'm feeling like I'm

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<v Speaker 2>getting to a point where you know, I can get

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<v Speaker 2>that have that type of leverage to get him out. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, possibly. Yeah, I'll just pray on it.

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<v Speaker 1>But do you do you visit him? Like how often

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<v Speaker 1>are you talking to him? Like how active is he

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<v Speaker 1>in your lifetime? Yesterday Okay, so you talk like on

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<v Speaker 1>the regular every day.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we talk in the regular. We talk almost every

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<v Speaker 2>week now. Sometimes we take you know, free breaks and

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<v Speaker 2>stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Is your mom still committed to that?

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<v Speaker 2>No? Okay, no, so yeah, no, no.

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<v Speaker 1>No, but she encourages the relationship.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Sure they're like best budd still.

0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:08.600
<v Speaker 1>You know there's still best budds.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, they have a good relationship, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>So but basically you're brought up with single parent household.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, single mom. Okay, like straw.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, you know when you read the script from the movie,

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<v Speaker 1>were you did you see relatability in it?

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<v Speaker 2>You want to know what's crazy? I wasn't even thinking

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<v Speaker 2>like that. I didn't even think like that until actually

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<v Speaker 2>seen it. Like yeah, because I was thinking for work

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<v Speaker 2>purposes at that time when I was reading the script

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff, because I'm on the law enforcement side, So

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't thinking like that. But when I actually watched

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<v Speaker 2>the movie, I'm like, oh, it's gonna touch a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>Of I couldn't wait for it. I ain't gonna lie.

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<v Speaker 1>I was count on the days for that movie to drop.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, single mom, Yes, how was the hardest

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<v Speaker 1>job in the world. I don't think I would they

0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.960
<v Speaker 1>did more you know stuff around it. But yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>thought that movie was incredible and for everyone that hasn't

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<v Speaker 1>seen at the ending on that movie was literally like

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<v Speaker 1>what the freak? There was one part though, I was

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<v Speaker 1>thinking in the shower. Yes, I do all my thinking

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<v Speaker 1>in the shower. It's really weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah no, no, no, wait did you hear No?

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<v Speaker 1>No, I swear to God that.

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<v Speaker 2>Every look I decompressed in the shower, I let it

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<v Speaker 2>run on my neck and I just I just sit there,

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<v Speaker 2>just like this, bro, and I let I let I

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<v Speaker 2>think through the day. I pray in the shower. I

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<v Speaker 2>think about my sister in the shower. Why, you know,

0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.840
<v Speaker 2>loved ones and stuff. I don't know why my most

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<v Speaker 2>vulnerable space in the shower. Yes, I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I've never met anyone that didn't. I don't. Usually don't

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<v Speaker 1>even tell people because I think they probably kind of weird.

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<v Speaker 1>I do all my thinking, processing thoughts, everything goes through

0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.720
<v Speaker 1>the shower. No other place gets my mind going in

0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.320
<v Speaker 1>the shower. But I was thinking about this one scene

0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.399
<v Speaker 1>in straw There was a scene we'll circle back, but

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<v Speaker 1>there was one scene that didn't fit in the movie

0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.879
<v Speaker 1>where I was like, hm, why did they leave that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to think I'll circle back to it, but

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<v Speaker 1>I remember, I'll probably later take a show like this

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<v Speaker 1>is the scene I was talking about. But there was

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<v Speaker 1>one scene in the movie where I remember going, wait

0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.200
<v Speaker 1>a minute, that scene didn't make it. Oh the scene

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<v Speaker 1>where Taraji is in the school and some of they

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<v Speaker 1>take the kid, which I kind of got like, you know, kid,

0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.400
<v Speaker 1>where her head was at in the end, not trying

0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.000
<v Speaker 1>to destroy the movie because I'm not going to destroy

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<v Speaker 1>it for y'all, but the lady hands are a card.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember she stressed out in the school. Lady hands are

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<v Speaker 1>a card and says call me and they take the kid.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, there was parts that I thought later like,

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<v Speaker 1>of course the kid. They must have known the kid

0:21:55.160 --> 0:22:00.679
<v Speaker 1>had passed. I don't want to destroy it. I'm destroying it.

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<v Speaker 1>There was that one seam where I was like, okay,

0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.440
<v Speaker 1>but then I thought later like there was no one

0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.000
<v Speaker 1>contacted said where is the kid during the whole thing,

0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.280
<v Speaker 1>And I was like, oh that you all must have

0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:14.840
<v Speaker 1>known in the police department from jump that the.

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<v Speaker 2>Baby had passed, right They all, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So, but when did the bank teller know the bank

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<v Speaker 1>the bank manager. No, I'm ruining, poor Katie, Katie, ignore

0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.280
<v Speaker 1>your ignore essus sitting here recording the whole thing. Check

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<v Speaker 1>it sound. I'm not going to spoil it for her.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, there was that one scene that I was

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<v Speaker 1>a little confused about because in the school they gave

0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:44.359
<v Speaker 1>her the card and I was like, hmm, mental health.

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<v Speaker 1>But then when they did the playback, they didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>the lady in the hallway.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no they didn't.

0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.680
<v Speaker 1>They had the school principal in the hallway. I got

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<v Speaker 1>photographics and my photographics. Maybe are you are you messing

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<v Speaker 1>with me right now?

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<v Speaker 2>I can't tell that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you should know, you tell me, Okay, okay, okay,

0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:09.600
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I thought that movie was incredible. I think

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<v Speaker 1>everybody y'all did your thing. Y'all did y'all thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, that thing. I'm so I am on cloud now

0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.960
<v Speaker 2>with this thing right now. I want to.

0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:22.960
<v Speaker 1>I want to, I want to. I want to, so

0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:25.200
<v Speaker 1>just so you know, I know we're getting all over

0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.359
<v Speaker 1>the place. You're very fun to hang out with. I

0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.440
<v Speaker 1>don't know if it's like the destroying you. You're very

0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:30.679
<v Speaker 1>very fun.

0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.120
<v Speaker 2>Is genuine and authentic energy.

0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.000
<v Speaker 1>Exactly the thing I wanted to. I want to end

0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.439
<v Speaker 1>at Tyler, at Tyler Perry, So I need to I

0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.520
<v Speaker 1>want to. I don't. I don't at Straw, I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to get all the in between without skipping

0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.040
<v Speaker 1>to it. But I want to spend some time on Straw.

0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:50.280
<v Speaker 1>But I want to know. Okay, your mom lends you

0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.760
<v Speaker 1>this money, you're thugging it out, you're acting, what are

0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:54.120
<v Speaker 1>you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>Like?

0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:54.639
<v Speaker 1>So?

0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.760
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, so we was there before that moment. Actually

0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:01.520
<v Speaker 2>I have So I have booked my first TV.

0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:07.240
<v Speaker 1>Regular, first TV appearance, TV Parents are Regular, Okay.

0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:09.840
<v Speaker 2>From my first booking. Yeah yeah, so I had booked

0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:14.159
<v Speaker 2>the Bobby Brown Story, Okay, Okay, And man, when I

0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.040
<v Speaker 2>tell you, I was going to set every day even

0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:17.359
<v Speaker 2>if I didn't have to work, going to say every

0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:24.080
<v Speaker 2>day and eat hilarious. That's that's that's during it yep. Okay, yeah, okay.

0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.080
<v Speaker 2>I was still because I'm like, now I can get ahead.

0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:29.440
<v Speaker 2>You see what I'm saying, because I booked it. So

0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:31.960
<v Speaker 2>now I'm gonna have that money coming in. I'm doing

0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:32.640
<v Speaker 2>this to get this.

0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:34.520
<v Speaker 1>All for that money to get to you.

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<v Speaker 2>It was like three weeks I think, like three weeks

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<v Speaker 2>and then from then on I was like, yo, I

0:24:40.840 --> 0:24:41.760
<v Speaker 2>got to stay on top of it.

0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:44.120
<v Speaker 1>Now, did you? You saved you? You at that point

0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:47.960
<v Speaker 1>you're financially literate, kind of like right a little.

0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:50.000
<v Speaker 2>Bit, yeah, I want I want.

0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:51.720
<v Speaker 1>Too bad yourself.

0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:54.080
<v Speaker 2>I was pacing myself. Yeah. One thing I know how

0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:56.320
<v Speaker 2>to do is budget. My mama taught me very well

0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:57.040
<v Speaker 2>out to budget.

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<v Speaker 1>Good. I like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that coming from a place of poverty. Who

0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:04.720
<v Speaker 2>you know how the budget?

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe what part of Detroit are you from? Can you

0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:08.520
<v Speaker 1>wrap your Detroit?

0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:10.560
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, Frank Fred the East line on the east

0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:17.359
<v Speaker 2>side of Detroit. Okay, but yes, And for the people

0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:20.280
<v Speaker 2>that don't know exactly where that is is like like

0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:22.639
<v Speaker 2>by warning charmers. So when I say warming and charmers

0:25:22.680 --> 0:25:24.960
<v Speaker 2>and they're aware of Detroit, then they know what I'm

0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:25.480
<v Speaker 2>talking about.

0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.560
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay? And then at what at what point we're

0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:30.159
<v Speaker 1>gonna backcheck a little bit. At what point did you

0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.360
<v Speaker 1>realize that you had to do acting to the point

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<v Speaker 1>where you're gonna be homeless in Atlanta?

0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:34.160
<v Speaker 3>Oh?

0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:36.560
<v Speaker 2>Man, this is this is is great? This is great?

0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:40.119
<v Speaker 2>What's crazy? Ist? So the first time I wanted to

0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:45.400
<v Speaker 2>try to act was So I seen Freshmans Bell there.

0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:49.160
<v Speaker 2>That was one of my favorite TV shows back then, right,

0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:53.520
<v Speaker 2>So huh, who didn't love that show? Oh, that was

0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:56.480
<v Speaker 2>one of my favorite shows. So I was watching the

0:25:56.520 --> 0:26:02.760
<v Speaker 2>episode where his dad didn't want him right and and

0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:06.159
<v Speaker 2>you know, I just told you about my dad. So

0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:09.720
<v Speaker 2>that was the first time I had cried from TV.

0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:14.560
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, that was my first time. Look at that.

0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:17.040
<v Speaker 1>That looks great. That looks magical.

0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:20.080
<v Speaker 2>Come on, now, get your man that can cook exactly.

0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:23.159
<v Speaker 1>Let me tell you something. Men out there that is

0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:27.240
<v Speaker 1>a man that can cook or like do his own laundry,

0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:29.600
<v Speaker 1>And I like when a man was raised with a

0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:31.440
<v Speaker 1>mom that was like, you still got to learn these

0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:34.119
<v Speaker 1>like traits because if you have a family, you're gonna

0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:34.720
<v Speaker 1>need to fill in.

0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:36.480
<v Speaker 2>You still need to know how to cook. Now, yeah,

0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:37.359
<v Speaker 2>that's just like.

0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.159
<v Speaker 1>You got silent on the laundry part. Though I do

0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:42.119
<v Speaker 1>my own laundry too, Okay.

0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:44.399
<v Speaker 2>I'm good with that. I actually don't even use dragon sheets.

0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:54.200
<v Speaker 2>I used wool wool balls. Wool balls. Put wool balls

0:26:54.480 --> 0:27:00.560
<v Speaker 2>and you can get on Amazon. You gotta so you

0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:02.919
<v Speaker 2>get this on Amazon and you can put like essential

0:27:02.960 --> 0:27:05.800
<v Speaker 2>oils in it. Do it in there. With your clothes, clothes.

0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:07.840
<v Speaker 2>You never have to buy dry sheets again. Boom, it's

0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:09.800
<v Speaker 2>gonna take all the static and everything out your clothes,

0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.200
<v Speaker 2>and your clothes can be found like peppermint oil or

0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:12.960
<v Speaker 2>something like that.

0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:17.439
<v Speaker 1>No way, yeah here first heard it.

0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:21.600
<v Speaker 2>Here heard your mama. No, I want to thank me

0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:23.280
<v Speaker 2>like like.

0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:27.879
<v Speaker 1>That's like my favorite speech of all time. Yeah, okay,

0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.560
<v Speaker 1>all right, all right, yeah I want mine made exactly

0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:34.200
<v Speaker 1>like yours, though, like with a little monzarella and everything.

0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:35.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I wanna do it. We're gonna do it.

0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:40.880
<v Speaker 1>The struggle with way okay, So sorry to derail. When

0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.000
<v Speaker 1>did you so you're you're crying during the Fresh principal

0:27:44.040 --> 0:27:44.760
<v Speaker 1>air episode.

0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:48.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so it touched me, you know, because I'm not

0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:50.760
<v Speaker 2>going through exactly what he's going through.

0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:52.720
<v Speaker 1>But you missed your dad.

0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:55.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, made me think about my dad.

0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:58.639
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you don't. You're gonna pad it dry or whatever.

0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:01.200
<v Speaker 2>Avocado oil.

0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:06.040
<v Speaker 1>So that's okay, Okay, why didn't test my blood type?

0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:10.240
<v Speaker 2>You know? Yeah it's okay, you cat that smells good.

0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:11.800
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:28:11.880 --> 0:28:14.480
<v Speaker 1>I forgot to stop the camera, but it's okay. The

0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:15.600
<v Speaker 1>little overhead.

0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:17.800
<v Speaker 2>Can Yeah, we're good. We gotta make yours too.

0:28:18.119 --> 0:28:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, did Stoppers is still.

0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:22.400
<v Speaker 2>Still yes, you're still going, We're good.

0:28:22.800 --> 0:28:23.119
<v Speaker 1>Okay.

0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:27.440
<v Speaker 2>So, yeah, I seen that episode and it touched me,

0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:30.399
<v Speaker 2>you know. So I'm like I was crying or whatnot.

0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.879
<v Speaker 2>And it's so crazy. My mama sometimes don't even remembering that.

0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:36.480
<v Speaker 2>She she and she was talking. She was like, you know,

0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:39.240
<v Speaker 2>it's not real. They acting, Mike. It was so crazy.

0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:41.280
<v Speaker 2>It's certain things that like.

0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.240
<v Speaker 1>Why are you going so far away? Why are you going?

0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:50.000
<v Speaker 2>The season right here? So like, yeah, where are you going?

0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:51.440
<v Speaker 1>Did I say something about the person?

0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:53.840
<v Speaker 2>Nah? Good?

0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:56.800
<v Speaker 1>So so she's trying to convince you, like baby, it's okay.

0:28:56.880 --> 0:28:58.680
<v Speaker 2>She's like, well no, she was just letting me know, like,

0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:01.280
<v Speaker 2>you know, it's not real and it's you know, it's

0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:04.120
<v Speaker 2>just acting or whatever. And to me, like me, I'm

0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:08.960
<v Speaker 2>crying alone. I'm crying in my room about it. You know.

0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:11.000
<v Speaker 2>It just made me think about my dad and I'm

0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:13.560
<v Speaker 2>just like, yeah, I miss my dad and I feel

0:29:13.600 --> 0:29:15.479
<v Speaker 2>you will you know what I'm saying. Because he hit

0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:20.600
<v Speaker 2>he hit that one moment. He's like yeah, man, oh.

0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:24.520
<v Speaker 1>That was terrible. Oh I love that you you just

0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:27.440
<v Speaker 1>acted it out though, just now too.

0:29:29.280 --> 0:29:29.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:30.080
<v Speaker 1>Man.

0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:32.600
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, all right, I want to take a

0:29:32.600 --> 0:29:33.080
<v Speaker 2>shot at.

0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:35.600
<v Speaker 1>Acting from that point on. How old were you?

0:29:35.920 --> 0:29:43.640
<v Speaker 2>I was, I was twenty two, twenty three.

0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:45.720
<v Speaker 1>Why did I think you were like twelve doing this?

0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:47.600
<v Speaker 1>You were twenty you were okay, okay.

0:29:47.400 --> 0:29:50.000
<v Speaker 2>Twenty two to twenty three, And I'm like, all right,

0:29:50.240 --> 0:29:51.800
<v Speaker 2>let's try to take a shot at this. You know,

0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:54.520
<v Speaker 2>everybody always say, hey, you have a great smile, You're

0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:57.120
<v Speaker 2>going to be a model one day or guys, And

0:29:57.160 --> 0:29:59.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, all right, well, it's fine, thank you.

0:29:59.160 --> 0:30:01.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm very ship that I love me instead of teens. Know,

0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:03.560
<v Speaker 1>if people are like, yo, I met this guy like

0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:04.560
<v Speaker 1>I was his teeth.

0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:10.360
<v Speaker 2>Like, so yeah, I'm like, well, and that's something I

0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:12.000
<v Speaker 2>always was in the back of my mind too, Like,

0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:14.640
<v Speaker 2>you know, people tell me all the time I have

0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:17.680
<v Speaker 2>a great smile and stuff. I'm and I have nothing

0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:21.080
<v Speaker 2>to use it for, but just the smiler people make

0:30:21.120 --> 0:30:24.240
<v Speaker 2>their day. That's a good thing, right. But yeah, I mean, yeah,

0:30:24.280 --> 0:30:26.360
<v Speaker 2>of course. But I was just to be thinking about

0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:29.680
<v Speaker 2>how going to capitalize off this? Yeah, So then.

0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:31.720
<v Speaker 1>Were you toying with any other ideas in the back

0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 1>of your head where you starting to wonder, like, hey,

0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.120
<v Speaker 1>what it is? What am I going to be? Is

0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:38.320
<v Speaker 1>that kind of what also sprought it up.

0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:41.240
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I definitely went through that realm trying to see

0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:44.520
<v Speaker 2>what I want to do with my life. But yeah,

0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:45.720
<v Speaker 2>and you told people?

0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:47.840
<v Speaker 1>Did you tell people right away? Did you tell your mom?

0:30:47.920 --> 0:30:49.920
<v Speaker 1>Who did you tell about? Like, Hey, I think this

0:30:50.000 --> 0:30:50.800
<v Speaker 1>is what I want to do.

0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:53.560
<v Speaker 2>Oh well no, I just hit the ground right. I'm

0:30:53.600 --> 0:30:54.720
<v Speaker 2>just trying to do it by myself.

0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:58.040
<v Speaker 1>You know, ye're twenty three. But now you're in Detroit

0:30:58.080 --> 0:31:00.400
<v Speaker 1>trying to do it right. You know, you had to leave.

0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:03.360
<v Speaker 2>So that's the thing. Detroit have a lot of scams.

0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:07.640
<v Speaker 2>Detroit have a lot of scams out there. It's no

0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:12.000
<v Speaker 2>real agency in Detroit. It's no real agency in Detroit.

0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:16.440
<v Speaker 2>They will, boy, they will take your money. You don't

0:31:17.160 --> 0:31:20.000
<v Speaker 2>supposed to pay an agent to get your jobs. You're

0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:22.640
<v Speaker 2>supposed to get jobs. I mean, they supposed to work

0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:23.040
<v Speaker 2>for you.

0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:26.720
<v Speaker 1>And then they take a commission. Yeah, so you was

0:31:26.760 --> 0:31:27.520
<v Speaker 1>paying them up front.

0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:32.479
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we was paying them up front for extra extra work. Bro.

0:31:32.680 --> 0:31:35.200
<v Speaker 2>It was so crazy. It was so crazy.

0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:37.240
<v Speaker 1>Every time you showed up, they was like, look at him.

0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:38.760
<v Speaker 1>Here he go handing us his money.

0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:40.960
<v Speaker 2>You know what I'm saying. We're doing monologues and stuff

0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:42.200
<v Speaker 2>in front of them for no reason.

0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:44.040
<v Speaker 1>That's funny.

0:31:44.120 --> 0:31:46.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So I got discouraged because it was like costing

0:31:46.560 --> 0:31:50.200
<v Speaker 2>too much, hundreds of dollars. I ain't got.

0:31:50.440 --> 0:31:52.200
<v Speaker 1>Stuff like that, and you're doing the extra work.

0:31:52.960 --> 0:31:54.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they were just like sign up for eestion work

0:31:54.760 --> 0:31:58.240
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, Yo, this ain't ain't it you know,

0:31:58.360 --> 0:32:00.440
<v Speaker 2>so I'll just forget it. I got discouraged and stop.

0:32:00.880 --> 0:32:06.000
<v Speaker 2>So then my mom she used to look out for

0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:08.960
<v Speaker 2>a friend, you know, her friend Jay McClain and Detroit

0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:11.480
<v Speaker 2>used to tell her, Hey, to keep you this play

0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:14.440
<v Speaker 2>for me, and my mom would do a favor, just

0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:16.520
<v Speaker 2>do it out of the love, you know. She didn't

0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:18.400
<v Speaker 2>want to take it serious and nothing. She's like, yeah,

0:32:18.440 --> 0:32:21.160
<v Speaker 2>I do it? Why not? So then I was studying

0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:21.600
<v Speaker 2>with her.

0:32:21.480 --> 0:32:23.840
<v Speaker 1>Every night, right with your mom?

0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:26.239
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I was studying with her every night.

0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:30.600
<v Speaker 1>Before we get into how great your mom's performances, we

0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:31.240
<v Speaker 1>gotta eat.

0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:33.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, so this is great.

0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:35.600
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna pray. I like that.

0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:38.400
<v Speaker 2>Okay, God, thank you for this fool we'd rather receive.

0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:40.320
<v Speaker 2>Let it be nurishment to her body and images as

0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:44.240
<v Speaker 2>we pray. Amen, there we go. Now you don't touch that.

0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:44.640
<v Speaker 1>I want to.

0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:46.280
<v Speaker 2>I want to try it that prayer.

0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:53.160
<v Speaker 1>I want to see the middle. Okay, looks good. You know,

0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:57.360
<v Speaker 1>look at that, guys, I feel bad for yours because

0:32:57.400 --> 0:33:01.280
<v Speaker 1>mine has like the beautiful stretchy cheek, and I feel

0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:02.200
<v Speaker 1>like yours was sitting.

0:33:02.960 --> 0:33:05.240
<v Speaker 2>No, we're good. It's gonna be good regardless.

0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:08.120
<v Speaker 1>Okay, look at his confidence. Are you hungry? That's the question.

0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:11.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, so I do minds like this sometimes too.

0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:12.800
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why. It's like, you know, you come

0:33:12.840 --> 0:33:15.479
<v Speaker 2>in and you just you able to just you know,

0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.720
<v Speaker 2>take a piece and bite into it. I don't know.

0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:21.840
<v Speaker 2>So I'm wanted them people. I have to have my

0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:23.880
<v Speaker 2>food prepared before I actually eat.

0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:25.320
<v Speaker 1>What do you mean prepared?

0:33:25.440 --> 0:33:27.959
<v Speaker 2>Like ad you little my stuff and all of that.

0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:30.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but you didn't even try to see what if

0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:31.600
<v Speaker 1>your seasoning was perfect?

0:33:31.960 --> 0:33:34.200
<v Speaker 2>Well, I already know it is. I've been I've been

0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:34.800
<v Speaker 2>down and through that.

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<v Speaker 1>Alright, I'm gonna rate this just so you know, a

0:33:40.120 --> 0:33:42.120
<v Speaker 1>part of me feels like because you add the mansa

0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:45.000
<v Speaker 1>like like a feta or some different type of cheese.

0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:46.400
<v Speaker 1>But I don't know why you chose man.

0:33:46.720 --> 0:33:48.560
<v Speaker 2>Then I used to do my mozarella.

0:33:49.000 --> 0:33:51.000
<v Speaker 1>Oh back then, So what's upgraded. Since then, what do

0:33:51.080 --> 0:33:51.680
<v Speaker 1>you usually put?

0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:54.160
<v Speaker 2>I do vegan cheese. I don't even do cheese at all.

0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:57.080
<v Speaker 1>Oh, oh, so you're really cheating today, I'm really cheating.

0:33:57.120 --> 0:33:58.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm doing it for you.

0:33:58.920 --> 0:34:02.600
<v Speaker 1>Okay, them, you put it on your whole thing? Wait?

0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:04.040
<v Speaker 1>How does yours look so perfect?

0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:06.560
<v Speaker 2>And mine looks like a five year old prepit prep it?

0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:09.080
<v Speaker 2>But I have a perfection.

0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:12.960
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to watch my Wait, y'all don't because

0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:14.680
<v Speaker 1>mine looks like a little.

0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:18.360
<v Speaker 2>Kyd first bite. You see how that looks?

0:34:18.960 --> 0:34:19.160
<v Speaker 1>Oh?

0:34:19.239 --> 0:34:20.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you see what I'm saying.

0:34:20.440 --> 0:34:23.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you cut your it's perfectly Okay, I'm trying to

0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:25.839
<v Speaker 1>get a good piece right here middle mm.

0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:33.520
<v Speaker 2>Hmmm mm hmm mm hmmm mm hmmm mmm mm hmm.

0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:35.640
<v Speaker 1>I get the onions.

0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:37.080
<v Speaker 2>Now you see the onions.

0:34:37.080 --> 0:34:37.800
<v Speaker 1>I got the onions.

0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:38.959
<v Speaker 2>Now you see what I'm talking about?

0:34:38.960 --> 0:34:39.759
<v Speaker 1>All right, I see it.

0:34:40.360 --> 0:34:42.200
<v Speaker 2>You know you don't cook the you don't burn them.

0:34:42.239 --> 0:34:44.319
<v Speaker 1>You want to know something that I did not get

0:34:44.320 --> 0:34:47.520
<v Speaker 1>the onions before. I totally get it in the mozzarella.

0:34:49.760 --> 0:34:50.279
<v Speaker 1>Really great.

0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:55.160
<v Speaker 2>Really, hey, let them know, let them know I'm like

0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:55.799
<v Speaker 2>that for real.

0:34:58.160 --> 0:34:59.440
<v Speaker 1>You don't even need the sauce on this.

0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:04.000
<v Speaker 2>Really it's just an addition.

0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:08.160
<v Speaker 1>Let me tell you something. You killed this omelet. I

0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:12.560
<v Speaker 1>absolutely love it. Great job you're feeling yourself right now.

0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:16.120
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate it.

0:35:20.920 --> 0:35:23.640
<v Speaker 1>I would buy this.

0:35:27.160 --> 0:35:29.080
<v Speaker 2>Now, that's what I'm talking about. Yo. You know what.

0:35:29.320 --> 0:35:32.000
<v Speaker 2>I hate taking bacon on my hands. Hmmm, I hate

0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:33.120
<v Speaker 2>taking bacon on my hands.

0:35:34.120 --> 0:35:38.520
<v Speaker 1>You should, you know what. I'm thoroughly impressed with this omelet.

0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:41.759
<v Speaker 1>Like I think I'm gonna start making omelets after this.

0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:47.399
<v Speaker 1>So you know what, you gotta do it the way

0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:50.000
<v Speaker 1>he did it, with the mozarella cheese mixed into the

0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:53.759
<v Speaker 1>act and he's take the spinach on.

0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:57.640
<v Speaker 2>The side because it's not a whole. It's not like

0:35:57.719 --> 0:36:01.720
<v Speaker 2>a whole glob that just hit you. You know, it's

0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:04.240
<v Speaker 2>mixed in there already, so you know it's the taste

0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:06.319
<v Speaker 2>and flavor is already marinated in it.

0:36:06.440 --> 0:36:07.600
<v Speaker 1>Do you usually use a white onion?

0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:10.120
<v Speaker 2>Red onion? Now?

0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:14.799
<v Speaker 1>Why is thatson? I just like red onions, you know

0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:17.719
<v Speaker 1>this white onion? Yeah, it tastes great though.

0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:21.319
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're more sweeter the white white well not the

0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:21.960
<v Speaker 2>yellow onions.

0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:25.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, but why did you choose in the red one? Now?

0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:30.600
<v Speaker 2>It's a it's a better it has more benefits. I

0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:31.480
<v Speaker 2>can't think of it right now.

0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:33.120
<v Speaker 1>You in this health conscious man.

0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:37.200
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, it has more benefits eating the red onon.

0:36:38.000 --> 0:36:43.520
<v Speaker 2>I can't remember right now, but at the time out

0:36:43.560 --> 0:36:46.319
<v Speaker 2>of can't recommend ten out of ten.

0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:51.920
<v Speaker 1>If you call me tomorrow for this week, you'll be like,

0:36:51.920 --> 0:36:53.560
<v Speaker 1>how many times did you have a much? Would be

0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:56.680
<v Speaker 1>like probably four different times. You know, when a dish

0:36:56.760 --> 0:37:00.000
<v Speaker 1>is this good, I will go home and totally emulate it.

0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:02.399
<v Speaker 1>And you don't need the sauce on this one. That's

0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:03.400
<v Speaker 1>how good you did seasoning.

0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:04.759
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate that.

0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:08.960
<v Speaker 1>Have y'all heard that everything texture, from the onions to

0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:13.360
<v Speaker 1>the spinach, to the mozarella to the seasoning. You killed it.

0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:16.520
<v Speaker 1>Don't need sauce some so also it was good, but

0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:17.400
<v Speaker 1>you didn't need it.

0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:19.520
<v Speaker 2>I know this nice edition.

0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:24.799
<v Speaker 1>You know you did a really great job. Okay, so

0:37:25.040 --> 0:37:27.160
<v Speaker 1>take your last bite because I'm gonna start asking you

0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:28.320
<v Speaker 1>about this. Mama's acting.

0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:32.279
<v Speaker 2>All right, it was good, bro, I.

0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:35.120
<v Speaker 1>Did not know you cooked like that, you know, but

0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:38.000
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go home emulate, take all credit like you

0:37:38.160 --> 0:37:40.880
<v Speaker 1>never existed. That's the way you gotta do it.

0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:42.840
<v Speaker 2>This is actually my first meal, so that's why I'm like,

0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 2>you was.

0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:46.440
<v Speaker 1>Like, let's get there. I'm hungry.

0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:47.919
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm gonna eat there.

0:37:48.440 --> 0:37:49.960
<v Speaker 1>What were you thinking when they were like, hey you

0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:51.360
<v Speaker 1>need to you know, do you want to do this

0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:53.399
<v Speaker 1>show eating while broke where you come in and cook

0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:55.760
<v Speaker 1>where you're like, oh, I'm about to be the shift.

0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:59.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm open I'm open book. I'm open book.

0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:00.480
<v Speaker 1>But were you excited cooking?

0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:05.520
<v Speaker 2>I thought you was gonna cook with me? Oh? Yeah,

0:38:05.840 --> 0:38:07.600
<v Speaker 2>you know how they usually like cook with him?

0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:10.799
<v Speaker 1>What don't mean like you'd be like showing on the show.

0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:12.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like you showed me or something like that.

0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:16.600
<v Speaker 1>You know what. Yeah? No, you know, I'm not good

0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:19.799
<v Speaker 1>at multitasking. Like if you sent me a text and

0:38:19.840 --> 0:38:22.120
<v Speaker 1>you were having a conversation, if someone was having a conversation,

0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:26.839
<v Speaker 1>I'd be like, hold on, I can't do both. I'm

0:38:26.960 --> 0:38:28.319
<v Speaker 1>like one focus. That's it.

0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:29.320
<v Speaker 2>Let's see. I got you.

0:38:30.360 --> 0:38:33.640
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So go ahead down this turkey baking. He's hungry, guys,

0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:34.760
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna give him a second.

0:38:34.880 --> 0:38:36.480
<v Speaker 2>Katie will edit this part last.

0:38:39.120 --> 0:38:42.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm only saving mine for pictures because I know he's

0:38:42.040 --> 0:38:46.080
<v Speaker 1>starving and he's gonna need to take some pictures later. Okay,

0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:49.960
<v Speaker 1>So going to your mommy's monologue. She kills it as

0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:50.560
<v Speaker 1>an actress.

0:38:52.200 --> 0:38:56.080
<v Speaker 2>I was so inspired she she killed that monologue and

0:38:56.239 --> 0:38:58.840
<v Speaker 2>she did it totally different than when we rehearsed.

0:39:00.960 --> 0:39:03.160
<v Speaker 1>So I was just like, I haven't memorized too.

0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:08.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I was listening to her, so it was like,

0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:15.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, I knew the monologue too, but.

0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:17.359
<v Speaker 1>I love that you guys had this moment together too.

0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:19.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, and this is.

0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:22.680
<v Speaker 1>This is while you're pursuing acting, she.

0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:24.960
<v Speaker 2>Gets this No, no, I remember I quit.

0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:28.400
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, I didn't have that part. You quit after

0:39:28.440 --> 0:39:29.400
<v Speaker 1>all the run around.

0:39:29.680 --> 0:39:33.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I had got discouraged and I'm like, yeah,

0:39:33.160 --> 0:39:35.399
<v Speaker 2>I'm not doing this no more. It's just too much.

0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:39.879
<v Speaker 2>I've seen her in the stage play. I asked her

0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:42.640
<v Speaker 2>her director right after, I mean, you know, the person

0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.200
<v Speaker 2>over it. Right after the stage play was over, I said,

0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:46.600
<v Speaker 2>can I be in your next stage play? And she

0:39:46.680 --> 0:39:50.960
<v Speaker 2>was like yeah, And from there on I just didn't stop.

0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:53.640
<v Speaker 1>Do you look at how God worked though that kind

0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:58.160
<v Speaker 1>of and your mom steps up for this role that

0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:00.359
<v Speaker 1>she doesn't even really want.

0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:02.680
<v Speaker 2>She's just like, yeah, she's just doing it for fun.

0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:02.920
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:40:04.080 --> 0:40:06.520
<v Speaker 1>Now, did that also spark anything in her to be

0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:08.239
<v Speaker 1>like I kind of want to do this or no.

0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:12.200
<v Speaker 2>She was like, hell, she got her corporate job, you know,

0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:16.400
<v Speaker 2>working for the other state. It's like, I'm good with that, okay. Yeah,

0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:18.799
<v Speaker 2>but me, I kind of I took a liking to

0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:21.200
<v Speaker 2>it after that first one. I'm like, I see how

0:40:21.920 --> 0:40:23.319
<v Speaker 2>the crowd respond, and I'm like.

0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.080
<v Speaker 1>I love this type of energy.

0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:30.000
<v Speaker 2>Like this, then you can open up to the crowd

0:40:30.280 --> 0:40:32.680
<v Speaker 2>while you're doing your you know, if you like know

0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.680
<v Speaker 2>your lines and stuff, you can like talk to the

0:40:35.680 --> 0:40:38.080
<v Speaker 2>crowd a little bit, you know, with you know, in

0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:41.160
<v Speaker 2>the midst of the story. But yeah, I had book

0:40:41.280 --> 0:40:44.040
<v Speaker 2>my first le role in the stage play.

0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:47.320
<v Speaker 1>Right after that, okay, and.

0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:49.440
<v Speaker 2>It was the love that I received. I'm like, I

0:40:49.440 --> 0:40:50.120
<v Speaker 2>gotta keep going.

0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:50.920
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:57.000
<v Speaker 2>So and Detroit, you know, everybody box themselves in Detroit?

0:40:57.640 --> 0:40:58.239
<v Speaker 1>What does that mean?

0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:00.840
<v Speaker 2>So, like now it's a it's a lot of actors

0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:04.799
<v Speaker 2>and Detroit that are two B stars and they do

0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:06.560
<v Speaker 2>a lot of two B movies and stuff like that.

0:41:06.640 --> 0:41:08.400
<v Speaker 2>But they don't have agents.

0:41:08.880 --> 0:41:11.399
<v Speaker 1>They don't have so there's really no agents over there. No,

0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:13.000
<v Speaker 1>Because when you said that, I was like, that's a

0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:16.160
<v Speaker 1>bold statement. Okay, So there's no agents.

0:41:16.160 --> 0:41:20.839
<v Speaker 2>There's no agents nothing like that over there, and they

0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:23.879
<v Speaker 2>all do two B movies and stuff. So the thing

0:41:24.080 --> 0:41:26.560
<v Speaker 2>is that they wanted to really take it serious. You

0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:29.960
<v Speaker 2>have to go outside of Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, LA.

0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:33.440
<v Speaker 2>You this, and yeah. I peeked it early, very early,

0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:35.719
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, I feel like I'm starting to get

0:41:35.719 --> 0:41:40.240
<v Speaker 2>boxed in and I don't want most in the stage plays.

0:41:40.640 --> 0:41:43.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, Okay, this is a pattern, this is a cycle.

0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:45.319
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to get called in the cycle. Let

0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:48.960
<v Speaker 2>me do a networking trip Atlanta networking?

0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:53.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what is the what? How? What is that even encompassed?

0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:55.960
<v Speaker 2>I visited these cities to see how you know.

0:41:57.400 --> 0:42:00.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you you labeled it a networking trip.

0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:04.560
<v Speaker 2>Yep, okay, Atlanta, New York, Chicago.

0:42:04.480 --> 0:42:08.440
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you went to all these cities. Yeah, how are

0:42:08.440 --> 0:42:09.160
<v Speaker 1>you paying for it?

0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:12.640
<v Speaker 2>I was just paying for whatever I had at the time.

0:42:12.920 --> 0:42:13.439
<v Speaker 2>What the jobs?

0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:13.960
<v Speaker 1>Are you working?

0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Jobs? Or I was actually going with this modeling group. Okay, yeah, yeah,

0:42:19.520 --> 0:42:21.399
<v Speaker 2>I was going with the modeling group, and I would

0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:23.080
<v Speaker 2>just branch off and do my own thing when we're

0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:26.480
<v Speaker 2>not doing like shows and stuff. Atlanta was the most responsive,

0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:28.200
<v Speaker 2>so I'm like, I'm moving to Atlanta.

0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:31.320
<v Speaker 1>Okay, after you did, yeah.

0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:34.160
<v Speaker 2>The networking trip. So I'm like, yeah, I'm moving to Atlanta.

0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:38.239
<v Speaker 1>Atlanta feels you told your mom you were doing you

0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:40.120
<v Speaker 1>were going to these cities to like check them out.

0:42:41.000 --> 0:42:43.040
<v Speaker 2>Well, like I said, I was with modeling.

0:42:43.120 --> 0:42:44.799
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so that's how you were able. So you were

0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:46.880
<v Speaker 1>leveraging it. So I got it, got it.

0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:48.000
<v Speaker 2>Ye.

0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:52.120
<v Speaker 1>So you're you're doing this and then you call back

0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:53.560
<v Speaker 1>home and you say or you go back home and

0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:54.920
<v Speaker 1>you're like, okay, Atlanta is it?

0:42:55.080 --> 0:42:57.560
<v Speaker 2>Yep? That's just like how I did move in here.

0:42:57.880 --> 0:42:59.200
<v Speaker 1>Okay, uh huh.

0:42:59.239 --> 0:43:03.799
<v Speaker 2>So I had moved to Atlanta, and I know I

0:43:03.840 --> 0:43:06.759
<v Speaker 2>needed some money to you know, because I ain't gonna

0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.200
<v Speaker 2>get a job right away. So I did this show

0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:12.920
<v Speaker 2>called Last Squad Standing on Oxygen Network and as a

0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:16.719
<v Speaker 2>game show, you know, three cities that comes and you know,

0:43:16.760 --> 0:43:20.040
<v Speaker 2>they do mental and physical challenges for one hundred thousand dollars.

0:43:20.880 --> 0:43:23.759
<v Speaker 2>And while I was there, I was getting paid, you know,

0:43:24.680 --> 0:43:26.279
<v Speaker 2>and I was there for like two months, made it

0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:28.520
<v Speaker 2>all the way to the end. I actually won. I

0:43:28.560 --> 0:43:29.879
<v Speaker 2>don't care. I actually won.

0:43:30.120 --> 0:43:30.480
<v Speaker 1>You won?

0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:32.799
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And they didn't it ain't they didn't give it

0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:36.080
<v Speaker 2>to me. Wait, yeah, they didn't They didn't give me

0:43:36.239 --> 0:43:37.320
<v Speaker 2>one hundred thousand dollars.

0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:39.440
<v Speaker 1>Was it a pilot? Well, how did they not give

0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:40.360
<v Speaker 1>you one hundred thousand?

0:43:40.480 --> 0:43:44.120
<v Speaker 2>Well, you sign things that say if yes, it's not fair.

0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:48.080
<v Speaker 1>If you you signed, yeah, you signed something you.

0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:51.040
<v Speaker 2>Say if this is not fair, you can't do anything.

0:43:52.520 --> 0:43:54.320
<v Speaker 1>That's like in the that's.

0:43:54.200 --> 0:43:56.680
<v Speaker 2>In the contract. Yeah, I mean the game show and

0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.600
<v Speaker 2>all that stuff is done. Now Oxygen is all about

0:43:58.640 --> 0:44:00.640
<v Speaker 2>reenacting shows and stuff now matter.

0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:05.640
<v Speaker 1>So, but you you won. They didn't get the money.

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.880
<v Speaker 2>And they gave it to the other team. Yeah, they

0:44:08.880 --> 0:44:12.120
<v Speaker 2>made the other team seem like they won, but everybody

0:44:12.160 --> 0:44:13.440
<v Speaker 2>on the show knew that I won.

0:44:14.280 --> 0:44:16.960
<v Speaker 1>Wait, what like re edited and everything?

0:44:17.080 --> 0:44:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they re edited. It's just like certain parts of

0:44:19.800 --> 0:44:23.160
<v Speaker 2>certain times you will be talking and you're saying one thing,

0:44:23.520 --> 0:44:27.359
<v Speaker 2>they'll take another part of another moment that you had

0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:30.399
<v Speaker 2>and and piece it together. Damn, Like that was that's

0:44:30.440 --> 0:44:33.440
<v Speaker 2>what you were saying. Ain't it crazy? That's how the

0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:37.719
<v Speaker 2>reality shows and stuff goes after that, say that like, yeah,

0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:40.600
<v Speaker 2>it's just crazy. I want I want to look my

0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:44.920
<v Speaker 2>last quad. Then la standing Okay, yeah, so I did

0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:47.560
<v Speaker 2>that to generate money so I was able to Sorry,

0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:49.840
<v Speaker 2>about that. I was able to you know, maneuver and

0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:52.319
<v Speaker 2>network and stuff like that. After I was done with that,

0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:54.880
<v Speaker 2>I had booked my first web series, which was a

0:44:54.960 --> 0:45:01.719
<v Speaker 2>Sidekick side Chick web series and Who's that as macarthy

0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:06.680
<v Speaker 2>McCarthy Yeah, and ended up being popular. So that was

0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:09.799
<v Speaker 2>my first booking. And then I'm like, all right, I

0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:10.760
<v Speaker 2>need to give me an agent.

0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:12.120
<v Speaker 1>I was about to ask, so when do you start

0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:12.759
<v Speaker 1>getting an age?

0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:14.480
<v Speaker 2>I started searching around for an agent as soon as

0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:15.040
<v Speaker 2>I got back.

0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:18.879
<v Speaker 1>And what does that entail? You're cold calling or sit again?

0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:21.360
<v Speaker 1>What does it entail when you're searching for an agent?

0:45:21.880 --> 0:45:25.239
<v Speaker 2>So you go to like networking events and stuff like that,

0:45:25.600 --> 0:45:28.000
<v Speaker 2>and you kind of like, you know, workshops, and you

0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:31.360
<v Speaker 2>kind of get the logist of how everything goes because

0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:35.160
<v Speaker 2>sometimes you'll see like casting directors, agents and stuff that

0:45:35.200 --> 0:45:38.080
<v Speaker 2>shows up and I'm like, okay. So I had started

0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:40.640
<v Speaker 2>going to those type of events to reach out. And

0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:44.880
<v Speaker 2>then also I was just googling agents agencies and I

0:45:45.000 --> 0:45:47.759
<v Speaker 2>had got my first agency, so not with that one,

0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:51.160
<v Speaker 2>but I got with another agency after that, and that's

0:45:51.200 --> 0:45:54.680
<v Speaker 2>how I got my first booking, which was Bobby Brown's story.

0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:57.960
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's a huge deal. Yeah, and you're telling your

0:45:57.960 --> 0:46:00.000
<v Speaker 1>mom you keep who's this person that you're keeping updates

0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:01.120
<v Speaker 1>and on the regular with all.

0:46:01.000 --> 0:46:07.640
<v Speaker 2>These god my mom? Well god yeah?

0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:14.560
<v Speaker 1>Is it only in case emergency?

0:46:15.000 --> 0:46:17.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? My granny, my mom? Those are my two hearts.

0:46:17.280 --> 0:46:21.239
<v Speaker 1>They're like on your text religious Okay, got it. Yeah,

0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:24.440
<v Speaker 1>So you're booking this, you end up booking a serious regular.

0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:25.840
<v Speaker 1>Is everything consistent?

0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:28.600
<v Speaker 2>Well, it wasn't serious regular, No, but later.

0:46:28.400 --> 0:46:30.839
<v Speaker 1>On you do book a serious regular, don't you.

0:46:30.960 --> 0:46:31.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:35.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, while you're booking. Now, I'm going to fast track

0:46:35.200 --> 0:46:37.879
<v Speaker 1>you during this period where you're booking. Is there any

0:46:37.920 --> 0:46:40.399
<v Speaker 1>gaps or is there any bit of an anxiety of

0:46:40.560 --> 0:46:41.840
<v Speaker 1>whether you will book another?

0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:47.320
<v Speaker 2>I never had the more. I used to watch people

0:46:47.560 --> 0:46:52.359
<v Speaker 2>and what they go through, and I was just I

0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:57.080
<v Speaker 2>never made myself worried. I told myself that, well, God

0:46:57.160 --> 0:46:59.400
<v Speaker 2>told me this, when you do it, when you go

0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:03.560
<v Speaker 2>on this journey, don't worry, just do it, take risks,

0:47:04.480 --> 0:47:07.319
<v Speaker 2>have that faith and just take that step, you know.

0:47:08.000 --> 0:47:10.880
<v Speaker 2>So I tried my best not to worry about anything.

0:47:11.360 --> 0:47:15.759
<v Speaker 2>I didn't connect. No, I didn't marry, like auditions and

0:47:15.800 --> 0:47:18.640
<v Speaker 2>stuff like that, because when you do that, you put

0:47:18.680 --> 0:47:22.799
<v Speaker 2>your your mind fuck yourself, you know what I'm saying,

0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:25.799
<v Speaker 2>and that you can you can fall in a rabbit hole, okay.

0:47:25.800 --> 0:47:28.000
<v Speaker 2>And I didn't want to do that because that's how

0:47:28.000 --> 0:47:31.960
<v Speaker 2>you get depressed. And you know, I just didn't want

0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:33.879
<v Speaker 2>to do that to myself because I used to watch

0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:35.600
<v Speaker 2>other actors that used to do that and used to

0:47:35.640 --> 0:47:41.440
<v Speaker 2>get pissed off and really yeah, very irritated and intimidated

0:47:41.480 --> 0:47:44.279
<v Speaker 2>of other people and comparing themselves to it's like a

0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:47.240
<v Speaker 2>rabbit hole and it's like, you know, it's a tornado

0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:50.480
<v Speaker 2>full of this discouragement. And I didn't want to do

0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:52.439
<v Speaker 2>that to myself. I don't want to chew myself better

0:47:52.480 --> 0:47:56.480
<v Speaker 2>than that. So I'm like, God, got me, you know

0:47:56.480 --> 0:47:58.319
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. If I don't get something, that just

0:47:58.360 --> 0:47:59.279
<v Speaker 2>means that it ain't for me.

0:47:59.560 --> 0:47:59.960
<v Speaker 1>Got it?

0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:03.480
<v Speaker 2>And I literally every every time I do an audition

0:48:03.600 --> 0:48:05.759
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that, if I didn't book it, it

0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:09.000
<v Speaker 2>wasn't for me, oh okay, Or if things doesn't happen

0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:11.719
<v Speaker 2>a way that I want them to. It's just like

0:48:11.760 --> 0:48:14.680
<v Speaker 2>when my team, my managers, my team will tell y'all,

0:48:15.360 --> 0:48:18.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't worry about nothing, or if something work, they

0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:21.640
<v Speaker 2>no but else inacceptable. It could that shouldn't have been

0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:24.719
<v Speaker 2>that way. I'm super school, you know, so you know

0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:25.400
<v Speaker 2>that's how I am.

0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:27.200
<v Speaker 1>I would be the person on the other end of

0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:30.200
<v Speaker 1>the call like what they did? What we gotta address this?

0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:33.879
<v Speaker 2>Right? Yeah? No, I'll be like, you know, oh yeah

0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:36.040
<v Speaker 2>that was crazy. Yeah, that was crazy. I mean, but

0:48:36.120 --> 0:48:37.920
<v Speaker 2>you know it's whatever, Okay.

0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:40.279
<v Speaker 1>I like that. I like that attitude though. Yeah, but

0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:44.160
<v Speaker 1>now what period was a gap that was like most

0:48:44.200 --> 0:48:46.239
<v Speaker 1>notable to you? In between bookings?

0:48:46.600 --> 0:48:50.040
<v Speaker 2>So I get a gap every year, really all actors do.

0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:51.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure.

0:48:51.200 --> 0:48:52.080
<v Speaker 1>How long is the gap?

0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:53.520
<v Speaker 2>It buries?

0:48:53.760 --> 0:48:55.399
<v Speaker 1>Okay, but what was the longest one?

0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:57.680
<v Speaker 2>That? Ten months?

0:48:58.200 --> 0:49:03.920
<v Speaker 1>Ten months? And then at this point your financial literacy budget? Ye,

0:49:04.200 --> 0:49:07.399
<v Speaker 1>you're mad? Now, like this is your budget? You don't

0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:07.920
<v Speaker 1>go over it?

0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:12.319
<v Speaker 2>Now, I know how to you know cap? I have

0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:15.319
<v Speaker 2>a cap and I'm like, no, I know, this is

0:49:15.400 --> 0:49:17.120
<v Speaker 2>everything that I have to This is the amount I

0:49:17.120 --> 0:49:18.920
<v Speaker 2>have to pay for the whole year for rent, This

0:49:18.960 --> 0:49:20.239
<v Speaker 2>is the amount I have to pay the whole year

0:49:20.280 --> 0:49:23.160
<v Speaker 2>for my phone bill, you know, so forth, So I

0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:25.520
<v Speaker 2>know how much I have to have to be able

0:49:25.520 --> 0:49:26.040
<v Speaker 2>to survive.

0:49:26.880 --> 0:49:29.160
<v Speaker 1>You know, Now, do you put yourself on payroll or

0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:30.960
<v Speaker 1>like do you have a corporation and you put yourself

0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:35.800
<v Speaker 1>on payroll. I tell everybody to do that. By the way,

0:49:36.280 --> 0:49:37.600
<v Speaker 1>you can leverage more that way.

0:49:37.560 --> 0:49:41.440
<v Speaker 2>Especially because her taxes come. Oh boy, we'll win, win

0:49:41.480 --> 0:49:46.399
<v Speaker 2>and win a chicken dinner. So you're like an escort escort.

0:49:45.640 --> 0:49:48.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, you know your stuff.

0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:53.000
<v Speaker 2>And that's the thing too. I learned that the business

0:49:53.160 --> 0:49:59.360
<v Speaker 2>behind acting before actually wanted to book and how because no,

0:50:00.320 --> 0:50:01.040
<v Speaker 2>how did I do it?

0:50:01.160 --> 0:50:01.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:50:01.680 --> 0:50:04.200
<v Speaker 2>So I would just literally be asking people like how

0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:04.799
<v Speaker 2>does this work?

0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:05.680
<v Speaker 1>How does that work?

0:50:05.840 --> 0:50:10.080
<v Speaker 2>You know, and and and you know, going through this journey,

0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:15.400
<v Speaker 2>I always wanted I was focusing on the money. So

0:50:15.560 --> 0:50:17.680
<v Speaker 2>I was wanting to make sure I'm not getting played

0:50:18.320 --> 0:50:22.080
<v Speaker 2>because you know.

0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:22.400
<v Speaker 1>Well you also went through a little bit of trauma

0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:25.640
<v Speaker 1>with Detroit, right because you got played. Oh yeah, so

0:50:25.680 --> 0:50:26.840
<v Speaker 1>do you think that kind.

0:50:26.640 --> 0:50:31.799
<v Speaker 2>Of Yeah, we just don't play about money any trait. Yeah, hey,

0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:34.480
<v Speaker 2>they know, we just don't play about our money in

0:50:34.520 --> 0:50:36.839
<v Speaker 2>the tray. So that's that. And I think the trait

0:50:36.920 --> 0:50:39.560
<v Speaker 2>for that, because I think the trait, I think de

0:50:39.600 --> 0:50:41.600
<v Speaker 2>trait for a lot of a lot of how I

0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:44.799
<v Speaker 2>am it built the tough skin that I needed for

0:50:44.840 --> 0:50:48.600
<v Speaker 2>this industry and built the I don't give a you

0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:52.799
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying mentality, It built the the like

0:50:52.880 --> 0:50:56.000
<v Speaker 2>if we don't know anything, we know numbers. That's that's

0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:58.120
<v Speaker 2>us in the trade. If we don't know anything, we

0:50:58.200 --> 0:51:00.719
<v Speaker 2>know numbers and we know what so much playing with us.

0:51:01.480 --> 0:51:04.160
<v Speaker 2>Don't play with us, don't play with our money. You

0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:04.839
<v Speaker 2>see what I'm saying.

0:51:04.880 --> 0:51:08.319
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be so you know, yeah, don't with us.

0:51:08.360 --> 0:51:10.520
<v Speaker 2>Don't play with our money. We don't play about that,

0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:13.759
<v Speaker 2>and we don't play about our loved ones. So yeah,

0:51:13.840 --> 0:51:16.520
<v Speaker 2>so I wanted to know how how is my coins

0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:19.319
<v Speaker 2>going to go? You know? So even like how I

0:51:19.400 --> 0:51:24.160
<v Speaker 2>learned the system in Atlanta. Oh, y'all give the crumbs

0:51:24.160 --> 0:51:27.480
<v Speaker 2>to Atlanta actors? Okay, cool? What they going? They got

0:51:27.480 --> 0:51:29.840
<v Speaker 2>going over there in LA. But they got going to

0:51:29.840 --> 0:51:31.920
<v Speaker 2>New York. Okay, that was where the big bucks are.

0:51:32.400 --> 0:51:34.480
<v Speaker 1>It's crazy that you say that they give the crumbs

0:51:34.520 --> 0:51:39.319
<v Speaker 1>to the Atlanta actors for sure, when now see we're

0:51:39.360 --> 0:51:42.279
<v Speaker 1>Incent closer. Tyler Perry's there, and Tyler Perry's known for

0:51:42.440 --> 0:51:43.520
<v Speaker 1>paying He came in.

0:51:43.480 --> 0:51:48.480
<v Speaker 2>And changed the game when I was there, he he.

0:51:47.800 --> 0:51:48.759
<v Speaker 1>He was he there yet?

0:51:48.840 --> 0:51:54.920
<v Speaker 2>Or no, what's Tyler there? Yet. Yeah. Absolutely, but I

0:51:54.920 --> 0:51:57.000
<v Speaker 2>didn't know about it at that time, you know what

0:51:57.040 --> 0:51:59.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying, And it's now more than noticeable than any

0:52:00.080 --> 0:52:02.799
<v Speaker 2>thing now because he built like he got. He made

0:52:02.880 --> 0:52:07.759
<v Speaker 2>so many millionaires. Yeah damn yeah, he made people millionaires

0:52:07.840 --> 0:52:10.360
<v Speaker 2>and I know I'm next.

0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:12.200
<v Speaker 1>I would love to be in that squad. I was

0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:15.160
<v Speaker 1>telling my crew, go to be to get in that circle.

0:52:15.719 --> 0:52:16.920
<v Speaker 1>Good for life almost right.

0:52:17.719 --> 0:52:22.440
<v Speaker 2>Honestly, that's the man that if he give you his word, okay,

0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:24.920
<v Speaker 2>I like that, he's gonna stand on it ten tolls

0:52:25.160 --> 0:52:29.360
<v Speaker 2>down and you're probably gonna get more than what you expected.

0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:34.279
<v Speaker 2>That's how he is. That man is a very genuine

0:52:34.280 --> 0:52:38.799
<v Speaker 2>and authentic guy like everybody. It's some people that be

0:52:38.960 --> 0:52:42.640
<v Speaker 2>like scared of him or intimidated because he's a billionaire

0:52:42.640 --> 0:52:46.760
<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that. Yeah, that man is a huge

0:52:46.800 --> 0:52:49.840
<v Speaker 2>teddy bear. You heard I said, Tyler, He's a huge

0:52:49.880 --> 0:52:54.080
<v Speaker 2>teddy bear. But he wanted to be treated like a human, like,

0:52:54.239 --> 0:52:57.319
<v Speaker 2>you know, forget my money and what all this this

0:52:57.440 --> 0:52:59.040
<v Speaker 2>power and the stuff that you think I have and

0:52:59.080 --> 0:53:02.279
<v Speaker 2>all of that. That man is still humble. Okay, I

0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:04.640
<v Speaker 2>like that, Like he'll be like, man, do you see this,

0:53:04.760 --> 0:53:06.360
<v Speaker 2>Like look at this bro, like, I don't take this

0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:09.480
<v Speaker 2>for granted, Like this, I just thank God so much

0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:14.520
<v Speaker 2>because just years ago I was homeless. That's how he talked, like, look,

0:53:14.520 --> 0:53:15.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm bro like shout.

0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:20.680
<v Speaker 1>Out by the way, email Tyler, Hey, we shout our shot.

0:53:20.719 --> 0:53:22.560
<v Speaker 1>But I think his team sent me back an email

0:53:22.640 --> 0:53:25.919
<v Speaker 1>like not, I think this scheduling. We should try again.

0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:26.720
<v Speaker 1>We should try again.

0:53:26.880 --> 0:53:28.480
<v Speaker 2>He got a lot going one billionaire.

0:53:28.719 --> 0:53:30.480
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, we'd probably have to go to Atlanta to

0:53:30.520 --> 0:53:30.759
<v Speaker 1>do that.

0:53:31.120 --> 0:53:32.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, facts, yeah.

0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:34.600
<v Speaker 1>But okay, but at the time, you decide to leave

0:53:34.640 --> 0:53:38.919
<v Speaker 1>Atlanta because you're starting to realize Atlanta actors actresses aren't

0:53:38.920 --> 0:53:41.200
<v Speaker 1>getting their respect as far as dollars. So you go

0:53:41.280 --> 0:53:41.960
<v Speaker 1>to LA.

0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:44.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because I didn't like the cycle of what I

0:53:44.480 --> 0:53:48.640
<v Speaker 2>was getting paid. I'm like, yo, first of all these

0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:53.640
<v Speaker 2>roles and enough, I need you more and the money

0:53:53.640 --> 0:53:56.520
<v Speaker 2>and enough anymore. And then I was asking out the

0:53:56.520 --> 0:53:58.880
<v Speaker 2>actress that was coming from Lace. You get paid, bro,

0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:05.520
<v Speaker 2>or you're learning this from LA they put you up. Okay,

0:54:04.560 --> 0:54:06.920
<v Speaker 2>oh yeah, I'm like, you get a per diem? What

0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:09.719
<v Speaker 2>is a per diem? I see what I'm saying. Oh yeah,

0:54:09.760 --> 0:54:11.480
<v Speaker 2>per diemers. You know, while you're here, you get an

0:54:11.840 --> 0:54:16.120
<v Speaker 2>allowance basically to eat and stuff like that. Besides set.

0:54:16.280 --> 0:54:19.879
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh, they put you up, they fly you out,

0:54:19.960 --> 0:54:22.960
<v Speaker 2>they give you a per diem. I like that. You know,

0:54:23.560 --> 0:54:27.160
<v Speaker 2>I'm out how much you're getting paid? Oh wait, your

0:54:27.320 --> 0:54:30.959
<v Speaker 2>your role is called a guest star. Oh and I'm

0:54:31.000 --> 0:54:35.680
<v Speaker 2>doing a co star. But we same thing. You know

0:54:35.719 --> 0:54:41.000
<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying, same amoundel lines and stuff. I'm like, okay,

0:54:41.200 --> 0:54:43.360
<v Speaker 2>so I'm the last crab in a barrel.

0:54:43.920 --> 0:54:46.120
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I see how your mind's thinking.

0:54:46.560 --> 0:54:50.000
<v Speaker 2>You see what I'm saying. I'm like, okay, I'm already

0:54:50.040 --> 0:54:54.000
<v Speaker 2>doing it. So why not get the treatment that they getting?

0:54:55.040 --> 0:54:56.719
<v Speaker 2>Sound like I need to make that move to LA.

0:54:57.000 --> 0:55:00.239
<v Speaker 2>So instead of making that move to l A, I'm like,

0:55:00.280 --> 0:55:05.200
<v Speaker 2>let me get l A representation while I'm in Atlanta.

0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:10.440
<v Speaker 1>Now does that cause a conflict the people?

0:55:10.480 --> 0:55:15.160
<v Speaker 2>I don't care. I would say this Atlanta agents and stuff.

0:55:15.680 --> 0:55:18.560
<v Speaker 2>This is not all of them, This is not all

0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:23.560
<v Speaker 2>of them. But they get intimidated with l A representation. Okay,

0:55:23.800 --> 0:55:28.040
<v Speaker 2>because LA representation knows a whole lot more. They have

0:55:28.080 --> 0:55:31.160
<v Speaker 2>a whole lot more access and they're able to do

0:55:31.239 --> 0:55:34.120
<v Speaker 2>things that people. And I mean, you know, Atlanta agents

0:55:34.120 --> 0:55:39.080
<v Speaker 2>and stuff can't do. So even with like joining SAG,

0:55:39.960 --> 0:55:43.080
<v Speaker 2>some agencies don't want you to join SAG because you're

0:55:43.080 --> 0:55:45.640
<v Speaker 2>not going to be able to do non union projects.

0:55:45.760 --> 0:55:47.520
<v Speaker 2>But who said I wanted to stay there? This is

0:55:47.560 --> 0:55:53.239
<v Speaker 2>my career. I want to grow, Yeah, elevate. You know

0:55:53.400 --> 0:55:55.520
<v Speaker 2>this is not to stay stuck in one lane or

0:55:55.600 --> 0:55:58.240
<v Speaker 2>you know smart. Yeah, it's starting to feel like Detroit.

0:55:58.640 --> 0:56:01.200
<v Speaker 2>So anytime it started to feel like Detroit, I got

0:56:01.239 --> 0:56:05.160
<v Speaker 2>to know, not Detroit, but the system. Yeah. Box. Then

0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:07.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, no, I like that.

0:56:07.280 --> 0:56:10.320
<v Speaker 1>You focused on growth, like you about treading water or anything.

0:56:10.719 --> 0:56:12.239
<v Speaker 1>So you come to help LA.

0:56:13.560 --> 0:56:15.400
<v Speaker 2>So I booked. So I ended up getting a l

0:56:15.400 --> 0:56:19.480
<v Speaker 2>A representation while I was in Atlanta. I booked all American.

0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:23.160
<v Speaker 2>That's all American I was. I was in LA for

0:56:23.239 --> 0:56:26.480
<v Speaker 2>like three months and then I'm like, I gotta come

0:56:26.480 --> 0:56:28.719
<v Speaker 2>back here. This is it, this is it, and I'm

0:56:28.760 --> 0:56:32.000
<v Speaker 2>seeing that paycheck. I said, oh, this is definitely, this

0:56:32.160 --> 0:56:35.640
<v Speaker 2>is definitely it. I ain't got a taste. That's all

0:56:35.680 --> 0:56:38.240
<v Speaker 2>I need is to taste. You give me a taste.

0:56:39.400 --> 0:56:41.319
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna take that and I'm gonna run with it.

0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:44.879
<v Speaker 1>But now the LA taxes and the LA overhead did

0:56:44.920 --> 0:56:45.600
<v Speaker 1>you also.

0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:49.279
<v Speaker 2>Now that was the difference. I said, Oh, but they

0:56:49.320 --> 0:56:52.640
<v Speaker 2>get hit over the head. I said, okay, I gotta

0:56:52.640 --> 0:56:55.160
<v Speaker 2>paid this much, but I only got this much. Okay,

0:56:55.239 --> 0:56:59.440
<v Speaker 2>that's for five thousand dollars gone. Yeah, you know. And

0:56:59.480 --> 0:57:01.680
<v Speaker 2>then I'm like, okay, I need to see what I

0:57:01.719 --> 0:57:04.840
<v Speaker 2>can do to get all my money.

0:57:05.080 --> 0:57:07.320
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's when you corporate.

0:57:08.680 --> 0:57:14.400
<v Speaker 2>So then I started asking around. I said, escort, huh yeah, escort. Okay, boom,

0:57:14.480 --> 0:57:16.880
<v Speaker 2>let's get that. So I got my escort and I

0:57:16.880 --> 0:57:19.160
<v Speaker 2>started seeing how much I can get paid. I mean,

0:57:19.280 --> 0:57:21.120
<v Speaker 2>I get all my money and stuff like that. And then,

0:57:21.400 --> 0:57:24.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, write everything. You can't write every.

0:57:24.200 --> 0:57:26.120
<v Speaker 1>You sound like me. I be every time I'm on

0:57:26.160 --> 0:57:27.920
<v Speaker 1>the phone with some I'm like you to realize what

0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:30.160
<v Speaker 1>you busher teeth today? We're writing that off too.

0:57:30.720 --> 0:57:33.720
<v Speaker 2>You can write everything.

0:57:32.880 --> 0:57:35.960
<v Speaker 1>Off, makeups, haircuts.

0:57:35.440 --> 0:57:36.960
<v Speaker 2>The fact that I'm talking to you right now, I'm

0:57:36.960 --> 0:57:37.440
<v Speaker 2>writing this.

0:57:37.480 --> 0:57:40.600
<v Speaker 1>Off really.

0:57:40.760 --> 0:57:41.040
<v Speaker 2>Meeting.

0:57:41.320 --> 0:57:44.320
<v Speaker 1>Oh you're hilarious, but this is a business meeting. But

0:57:44.400 --> 0:57:45.640
<v Speaker 1>what are you writing off the time?

0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:51.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're lying. I was like with the gas, the

0:57:51.880 --> 0:57:54.400
<v Speaker 2>gas though, that is I could write the gas, but.

0:57:54.360 --> 0:57:56.480
<v Speaker 1>That was hilarious because I swear to God for a

0:57:56.520 --> 0:58:01.280
<v Speaker 1>second there, I was like, wait a minute, come on account.

0:58:02.400 --> 0:58:04.400
<v Speaker 2>Some hours, but you know, have to pay money here

0:58:04.480 --> 0:58:05.840
<v Speaker 2>then yes, yeah, if.

0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:08.840
<v Speaker 1>You if you bought the ingredients. Someone asked me that thing,

0:58:09.080 --> 0:58:11.760
<v Speaker 1>like they're like eating up broke supplies ingredients Like yeah,

0:58:11.800 --> 0:58:14.439
<v Speaker 1>cause you imagine telling someone, hey, by the way, don't

0:58:14.480 --> 0:58:17.880
<v Speaker 1>forget your tomatoes or whatever, Like it's so rude, Like now,

0:58:18.040 --> 0:58:20.320
<v Speaker 1>you appreciate your time here. It's an honor to sit

0:58:20.360 --> 0:58:23.120
<v Speaker 1>down in here, your story and all that. You so

0:58:23.680 --> 0:58:26.080
<v Speaker 1>all right, So we're gonna so now you're in l A.

0:58:26.440 --> 0:58:26.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:58:27.360 --> 0:58:30.200
<v Speaker 1>Now now you're a gangster in LA. You're learning how

0:58:30.200 --> 0:58:32.800
<v Speaker 1>to manage your money differently. You're moving like a businessman

0:58:32.880 --> 0:58:35.920
<v Speaker 1>even though you're an actor, which I absolutely love. Yes,

0:58:36.080 --> 0:58:38.440
<v Speaker 1>I think it makes you even bigger of a threat.

0:58:38.200 --> 0:58:42.280
<v Speaker 2>Because people be surprised how much I know you know that?

0:58:44.400 --> 0:58:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like I'm asking yeah, yeah, like make the money

0:58:48.040 --> 0:58:48.520
<v Speaker 1>make sense?

0:58:48.600 --> 0:58:51.600
<v Speaker 2>Right? Yeah? Yeah, now you book Straw.

0:58:52.960 --> 0:58:55.720
<v Speaker 1>Well, we're gonna talk about Taraji for one second here.

0:58:55.800 --> 0:58:59.040
<v Speaker 1>Taraji also talks about like I think I had seen

0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:02.360
<v Speaker 1>a clip where she has something like she had wished

0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:05.520
<v Speaker 1>that she had given someone I want to say she

0:59:05.600 --> 0:59:08.120
<v Speaker 1>said Tyler and a clip the commissions for all the

0:59:08.160 --> 0:59:12.200
<v Speaker 1>money that you know, these agents, oh Sherry, that they

0:59:12.400 --> 0:59:16.080
<v Speaker 1>hadn't oh sorry misquotes, you know, all the money that

0:59:16.120 --> 0:59:18.880
<v Speaker 1>these agents weren't really fighting for them and stuff like that.

0:59:18.960 --> 0:59:21.480
<v Speaker 1>Now are you kind of like, are are you pushing

0:59:21.560 --> 0:59:26.040
<v Speaker 1>back on agency managers or after hearing that because these

0:59:26.080 --> 0:59:27.840
<v Speaker 1>guys have been in the game for a long time.

0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:34.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So, like I said, I always I always watch

0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:38.160
<v Speaker 2>people and how they move. I'm a very spiritual guy,

0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:41.840
<v Speaker 2>so I feel out things very well. I'm an EmPATH,

0:59:42.600 --> 0:59:46.200
<v Speaker 2>so I know when something is not right, and when

0:59:46.200 --> 0:59:46.920
<v Speaker 2>it's not right, I.

0:59:46.840 --> 0:59:49.760
<v Speaker 1>Gotta go, Okay, what's an impath and.

0:59:49.880 --> 0:59:53.120
<v Speaker 2>Path as a person that this can we take on

0:59:53.240 --> 0:59:56.440
<v Speaker 2>things without even you know, yeah, like if you are

0:59:56.480 --> 0:59:58.440
<v Speaker 2>sad right now, I'm going to feel your energy and

0:59:58.480 --> 1:00:02.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to feel like how you feel without trying. Yeah,

1:00:02.440 --> 1:00:04.200
<v Speaker 2>so it's we take.

1:00:04.080 --> 1:00:06.680
<v Speaker 1>On energies so you'd be feeling out there.

1:00:06.720 --> 1:00:10.280
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, so I watch people, movies and stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I said, my conscious feeling, which is God. They

1:00:14.000 --> 1:00:17.600
<v Speaker 2>don't never steal me wrong, never ever since twenty sixteen

1:00:17.640 --> 1:00:18.280
<v Speaker 2>when I started this.

1:00:18.800 --> 1:00:22.640
<v Speaker 1>So just so you know, guys, you started in twenty sixteen.

1:00:22.680 --> 1:00:24.800
<v Speaker 1>Like I think a lot of people when they see people,

1:00:24.800 --> 1:00:26.680
<v Speaker 1>they're like, oh man, they just got it overnight, and

1:00:26.680 --> 1:00:31.040
<v Speaker 1>it's like, no, Nope, not at all, ten years, not

1:00:31.160 --> 1:00:33.120
<v Speaker 1>at all ten years. And then it's straw one of

1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:38.160
<v Speaker 1>your biggest it's the biggest. This is the biggest, the biggest,

1:00:38.520 --> 1:00:39.160
<v Speaker 1>the largest.

1:00:39.760 --> 1:00:39.960
<v Speaker 2>At that.

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<v Speaker 1>You got that call? Where was you at? Where were

1:00:44.960 --> 1:00:45.840
<v Speaker 1>you at when you got the call?

1:00:46.000 --> 1:00:47.920
<v Speaker 2>That's crazy. I was met up with a friend for

1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:53.320
<v Speaker 2>lunch and they called me. My team called me and

1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:55.880
<v Speaker 2>told me that I got the role. But I'm gonna

1:00:55.880 --> 1:00:57.520
<v Speaker 2>tell you out that that's a problem. That's that's that's

1:00:57.560 --> 1:01:01.040
<v Speaker 2>a testimony. Okay, let me finish what you was asking

1:01:01.040 --> 1:01:04.760
<v Speaker 2>me real quick. So the agents thing I have not

1:01:05.200 --> 1:01:07.960
<v Speaker 2>I haven't got to the point where Sherry is because

1:01:10.880 --> 1:01:12.760
<v Speaker 2>I would just fill it out. I would, I wouldn't

1:01:12.760 --> 1:01:15.400
<v Speaker 2>know before it gets to that point. And when you're

1:01:15.400 --> 1:01:17.040
<v Speaker 2>not doing if you can't do what I can do,

1:01:17.480 --> 1:01:19.520
<v Speaker 2>you gotta go. You see what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's some people out there that like they're like,

1:01:22.720 --> 1:01:26.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying no names, but I know some people

1:01:27.000 --> 1:01:30.480
<v Speaker 1>that are huge celebrities and they have management and I

1:01:30.600 --> 1:01:34.280
<v Speaker 1>know for sure that they are whooping asked in the

1:01:34.360 --> 1:01:38.840
<v Speaker 1>negotiations more than their managers are. Their allegiance to their

1:01:38.880 --> 1:01:42.360
<v Speaker 1>managers is to me seems more important than the fact

1:01:42.400 --> 1:01:45.080
<v Speaker 1>that they're actually doing the work and the better negotiators.

1:01:45.320 --> 1:01:48.000
<v Speaker 2>Right. So see, this is why I love my team.

1:01:48.280 --> 1:01:49.800
<v Speaker 2>My team come back and say, hey, this is what

1:01:49.840 --> 1:01:52.120
<v Speaker 2>we got for you. What you want to do, you

1:01:52.160 --> 1:01:54.439
<v Speaker 2>want to go back for more, let's do it. That's

1:01:54.480 --> 1:01:59.040
<v Speaker 2>a team. We're actually a team and a family, you know.

1:01:59.520 --> 1:02:01.600
<v Speaker 1>And that's how they'll ever talk off the ledge like

1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:04.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you can do that, he'll know, Okay.

1:02:04.920 --> 1:02:07.640
<v Speaker 2>I like that. My managers are actually and Rag and

1:02:07.680 --> 1:02:11.000
<v Speaker 2>that's who I have right now. And Shannon that's my publicist.

1:02:11.600 --> 1:02:17.360
<v Speaker 2>And oh and my lawyer that's like my right hand man, Josh.

1:02:17.680 --> 1:02:20.200
<v Speaker 2>He a Fox Rush child and we're all like a

1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:23.840
<v Speaker 2>family honestly. Yeah, they like my road dogs. It don't

1:02:24.160 --> 1:02:28.240
<v Speaker 2>you know. It don't feel like business, but it is,

1:02:29.080 --> 1:02:30.480
<v Speaker 2>and that's how it should be. That's how I want

1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:32.240
<v Speaker 2>my home to be because this is this is my home,

1:02:32.920 --> 1:02:35.840
<v Speaker 2>you know. So yeah, I'm I actually let go of

1:02:35.880 --> 1:02:41.720
<v Speaker 2>my agents before no no, no, no, here before this came out.

1:02:42.840 --> 1:02:46.120
<v Speaker 2>Why the feeling came over me. You got a feeling

1:02:46.120 --> 1:02:50.160
<v Speaker 2>and they are so there are beautiful spirits. It was

1:02:50.240 --> 1:02:54.160
<v Speaker 2>nothing against them at all, but I told that feeling

1:02:54.280 --> 1:03:00.640
<v Speaker 2>told me you gotta go, damn, and I did it.

1:03:00.800 --> 1:03:05.920
<v Speaker 2>Right now I'm agency free, so I'm waiting right now

1:03:06.000 --> 1:03:06.800
<v Speaker 2>to see what God do.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh and that was before before.

1:03:08.920 --> 1:03:09.880
<v Speaker 2>Four Star launched.

1:03:09.960 --> 1:03:11.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, wow, before it launched.

1:03:11.680 --> 1:03:15.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, before it had came out. Yeah. So yeah. I

1:03:15.480 --> 1:03:17.680
<v Speaker 2>just always follow my conscience if it tells me to

1:03:17.720 --> 1:03:21.280
<v Speaker 2>do it. If I'm feeling, if it, keep hey, do it.

1:03:22.560 --> 1:03:24.800
<v Speaker 2>What are you waiting on? And do it? And it's like,

1:03:24.880 --> 1:03:27.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, because I have a big heart, and when

1:03:28.000 --> 1:03:30.640
<v Speaker 2>nobody has done me wrong, it's like, dag, how do

1:03:30.720 --> 1:03:31.520
<v Speaker 2>I bring this to him?

1:03:32.080 --> 1:03:33.920
<v Speaker 1>If I got that's it sounds like the.

1:03:35.880 --> 1:03:38.120
<v Speaker 2>Because I had nothing against them, they had nothing against we,

1:03:38.360 --> 1:03:41.240
<v Speaker 2>you know, to see them and it's hug them so

1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:42.280
<v Speaker 2>tight to this day.

1:03:42.680 --> 1:03:44.720
<v Speaker 1>But how do you explain it? Though I had this feeling,

1:03:44.760 --> 1:03:46.880
<v Speaker 1>by the way, guys.

1:03:45.640 --> 1:03:48.200
<v Speaker 2>I had no I just I just want to see

1:03:48.240 --> 1:03:51.040
<v Speaker 2>what else is out there? Okay, okay, because I do,

1:03:51.720 --> 1:03:54.160
<v Speaker 2>and the feeling that came over me, I just had

1:03:54.200 --> 1:03:54.440
<v Speaker 2>to go.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So that's a tough that's a tough End Bowl movie.

1:03:58.600 --> 1:04:01.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, I'm mean you know that. That's what God

1:04:02.160 --> 1:04:05.720
<v Speaker 2>just just like I got this whole team. I had

1:04:06.160 --> 1:04:09.200
<v Speaker 2>let all of my people go at a point and

1:04:09.360 --> 1:04:11.360
<v Speaker 2>that's the feeling that came over me. And I'll look

1:04:11.400 --> 1:04:14.280
<v Speaker 2>at what I have now, I'm like, let me rebuild.

1:04:14.960 --> 1:04:18.160
<v Speaker 2>I like the same feeling. Right. Boom. Got my manager.

1:04:18.240 --> 1:04:22.760
<v Speaker 2>She is a fan of my work. What Vanessa Bell

1:04:22.880 --> 1:04:27.920
<v Speaker 2>callaway daughter? Okay, you know what I'm saying. And then

1:04:28.000 --> 1:04:31.439
<v Speaker 2>she's working. She was working with me on Vness. She's

1:04:31.600 --> 1:04:34.240
<v Speaker 2>my mom on Black Hampton's. So I was like, oh,

1:04:34.280 --> 1:04:39.880
<v Speaker 2>that's connection. That's Boom. Then I met my lawyer. He

1:04:40.040 --> 1:04:43.600
<v Speaker 2>was at sundance and I think, what is the sundance?

1:04:43.640 --> 1:04:47.600
<v Speaker 2>First someone introduced me to him, but he was so

1:04:47.800 --> 1:04:50.600
<v Speaker 2>cool and you know, you're a New York nigga, So

1:04:50.840 --> 1:04:59.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm like okay, so yeah, man, I met him and

1:04:59.480 --> 1:05:01.920
<v Speaker 2>he's like like the homie. So I'm like, yo, you're

1:05:01.920 --> 1:05:05.400
<v Speaker 2>taking the clients. He's like yeah, He's like yeah, let's talk.

1:05:05.440 --> 1:05:08.520
<v Speaker 2>Let's talk. So now that's how I have my team now.

1:05:08.680 --> 1:05:12.000
<v Speaker 2>So now I'm looking for agency that feel like home

1:05:12.520 --> 1:05:14.160
<v Speaker 2>that we can invite into our home.

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<v Speaker 1>I like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I like that because this this is a we we got,

1:05:18.600 --> 1:05:21.280
<v Speaker 2>we got a solid, a solid team. I like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's why you say you you'll definitely stop it

1:05:24.160 --> 1:05:26.320
<v Speaker 1>before it gets to the level that Taraji and Cherry

1:05:26.360 --> 1:05:26.640
<v Speaker 1>had to go.

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<v Speaker 2>For sure, Okay, for sure?

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<v Speaker 1>Good good. Now let's get into the day he was

1:05:33.360 --> 1:05:35.919
<v Speaker 1>at lunch with your homie and you got the phone call.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh so I got the phone call. So let me

1:05:39.200 --> 1:05:46.800
<v Speaker 2>tell you this first, I had got the audition, and

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<v Speaker 2>you remember the damn I don't want to give it

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<v Speaker 2>a well, no, this ain't gonna give it away because they've.

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<v Speaker 1>Seen it's back there, like I got it's in the trailer.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the trailer. The guy that was in the bank

1:05:57.160 --> 1:06:00.440
<v Speaker 2>that was waiting to cash his check. Yeah, he ended

1:06:00.520 --> 1:06:03.920
<v Speaker 2>up you know, charging that her and stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 1>That was original.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I auditioned for.

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<v Speaker 1>No way, Yeah, oh heck yeah, I'm so glad, glad

1:06:09.680 --> 1:06:10.800
<v Speaker 1>you got So.

1:06:12.360 --> 1:06:16.400
<v Speaker 2>What happened was, I'm like, yo, I have an audition

1:06:16.520 --> 1:06:21.280
<v Speaker 2>for a co star role or supporting role this small

1:06:21.320 --> 1:06:25.080
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know how long. I'm like, I don't

1:06:25.120 --> 1:06:26.880
<v Speaker 2>do this ship, you know what? I mean. So then

1:06:26.960 --> 1:06:30.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, yeah, I'm like, you know what, it's Tyler.

1:06:31.920 --> 1:06:32.160
<v Speaker 1>Perry.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I'm like, I'm missus Tyler Netflix. I'm gonna do it.

1:06:35.760 --> 1:06:37.200
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, I like that, especially for that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I'm like, forget it. So then I did it,

1:06:43.080 --> 1:06:45.360
<v Speaker 2>sent it in and I don't after I sent in

1:06:45.360 --> 1:06:50.439
<v Speaker 2>an audition. That's it. I'm not it up. It's we're done. Yeah, yep,

1:06:50.560 --> 1:06:52.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm not. I'm not thinking about it. Nothing like that

1:06:52.840 --> 1:06:56.919
<v Speaker 2>one is the next one? Okay, yep, yep. So got

1:06:56.960 --> 1:06:59.680
<v Speaker 2>the call. You're like, hey, I want to book Mike

1:07:00.400 --> 1:07:03.320
<v Speaker 2>Tyler wanted to give him another role. Though this role

1:07:03.360 --> 1:07:07.240
<v Speaker 2>have not been sent out of anybody or anything, right, Okay,

1:07:08.040 --> 1:07:12.200
<v Speaker 2>Like it's an officer role. So I'm like okay, They're like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>like you know, it's it's a leading role throughout the

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<v Speaker 2>whole movie. You know, your assignment is the Janaiah, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>which is the leader of the movie. You're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be alongside another officer at this time. Officer right, all right, bet,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean that makes me feel a little.

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<v Speaker 1>Bit better, right, That's definitely great call.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So I'm like, yeah, I'll do it right. So

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<v Speaker 2>then I went back in. I told her, I'm like, yo,

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<v Speaker 2>I got that, I got the I got the job.

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<v Speaker 2>So we celebrated right then and there.

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<v Speaker 1>That was crazy, you found out in that moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, to office to officer Grimes went back in to

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<v Speaker 2>my friend. We celebrated right then and there. So then

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<v Speaker 2>I get to Atlanta.

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<v Speaker 1>And they don't tell you how much or nothing. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't know that.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, they told me at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>So at the phone call. At the phone call, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you was really celebrating that day the dark.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what do you? I mean, I ain't like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Was it like that? Were you like that happy?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I wasn't like you gotta think like this.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm happy I got the row.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, I got it.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was. I was excited. I was excited. But

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<v Speaker 2>they still hill, we still have to pay him this.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm like, all right, it was a very

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<v Speaker 2>low rate.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay the tyler Okay, yeah, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>It was. I ain't gonna lie, I'm gonna say it.

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<v Speaker 2>It was five thousand the whole movie. I did a

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<v Speaker 2>movie for five thousand dollars. That is so low. So

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<v Speaker 2>then I get to Atlanta and they're like congratulations. I'm like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you. You already know I was coming away. You

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<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying. You already not get thank you,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you, thank you. They're like no, they're like, do

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<v Speaker 2>you know what he's saying, gratulations. I'm like no, They're like,

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<v Speaker 2>they bumped you up again. They promoted you. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>to what detective grimes now? So instead of officer, I

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<v Speaker 2>am detective. So they promoted me again. So now this

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<v Speaker 2>is my assignment. The officer attended to me before they

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<v Speaker 2>go to the chief. Oh what I'm saying, It's like up. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So I didn't even know what the cast was at

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<v Speaker 2>that time and they told me, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Whoa, that's hilarious. So you didn't know, you didn't know.

1:09:52.560 --> 1:09:55.080
<v Speaker 2>You didn't know. Guy Eric Majett, he's taking me on

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<v Speaker 2>the tour around the campus and he's just saying, so

1:10:00.000 --> 1:10:03.160
<v Speaker 2>he's been working with for Tyler for years, like since

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning, and he was just saying how proud he was.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, he started telling me the cast and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh my god. He's like, yeah, you're about to blow.

1:10:11.439 --> 1:10:12.800
<v Speaker 2>He's like, that's about to be the one for you.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like you ready. He's like you ready, I'm proud

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<v Speaker 2>of you. And I'm like, dag.

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<v Speaker 1>So the whole time you had no idea.

1:10:24.040 --> 1:10:25.080
<v Speaker 2>I had no idea.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my goodness.

1:10:27.439 --> 1:10:30.960
<v Speaker 2>It was possible that they was going to get certain people.

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<v Speaker 1>But they didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>But you didn't know confirmed cast. I ain't know that.

1:10:36.280 --> 1:10:38.760
<v Speaker 1>But wait, they told you who the possibility was.

1:10:39.680 --> 1:10:46.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, I ain't gonna get that information, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>the confirmed cast.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, dog, this is it that it's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be nice. Right. So then, oh man, my

1:10:57.320 --> 1:11:00.400
<v Speaker 2>first day on set, I had to do this what

1:11:00.800 --> 1:11:03.320
<v Speaker 2>outside the outside the bank. That's the first scene when

1:11:03.400 --> 1:11:06.960
<v Speaker 2>she walked up, and you know, I seen Tyler like

1:11:07.840 --> 1:11:10.639
<v Speaker 2>welcome back, you know, because also everybody in the office

1:11:10.640 --> 1:11:13.080
<v Speaker 2>when I did, I came to do my fitting and everything.

1:11:14.200 --> 1:11:15.840
<v Speaker 2>It was like a family reunion because I did have

1:11:15.920 --> 1:11:19.559
<v Speaker 2>and have nots with Tyler years ago right before that.

1:11:19.760 --> 1:11:24.000
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, man, Tyler's seen me do the rehearsal and

1:11:24.040 --> 1:11:27.200
<v Speaker 2>he like his monitors right here, he looked. He said,

1:11:31.520 --> 1:11:34.680
<v Speaker 2>remind me of we need to talk before before I leave.

1:11:35.640 --> 1:11:39.080
<v Speaker 2>All right, bet, you know we already have a relationship

1:11:39.120 --> 1:11:40.200
<v Speaker 2>and anything from having.

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<v Speaker 1>Were you nervous a little bit when he said that

1:11:42.520 --> 1:11:44.840
<v Speaker 1>this is before you voked No, this is on set.

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<v Speaker 2>So and then my boy Eric, they get the work

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<v Speaker 2>for him. He was looking. He was like, he's like, Eric,

1:11:55.040 --> 1:11:58.200
<v Speaker 2>yeah out there. He's like, I told you right. He's like,

1:11:58.680 --> 1:12:01.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna just say that that's not a bad thing.

1:12:01.640 --> 1:12:04.040
<v Speaker 2>That's not a bad thing. I've been I've been here

1:12:04.080 --> 1:12:05.920
<v Speaker 2>for a long time and I know what that means.

1:12:06.360 --> 1:12:06.479
<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So then just to fast forward through a little bit,

1:12:11.720 --> 1:12:14.840
<v Speaker 2>he's like, how much you're paying you? I was like

1:12:15.280 --> 1:12:20.479
<v Speaker 2>five K he said, excuse me. He's like, I'm sorry

1:12:20.720 --> 1:12:25.400
<v Speaker 2>a day. I was like nah, He's like, oh okay, Mike.

1:12:25.560 --> 1:12:28.439
<v Speaker 2>He's like, first of all, I want to apologize. He's like,

1:12:28.600 --> 1:12:31.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm not in charge of the department. I'm sorry. I

1:12:31.680 --> 1:12:33.760
<v Speaker 2>will never pay you that. That's not what you're worth.

1:12:34.280 --> 1:12:36.760
<v Speaker 2>He's like, you did amazing today. He started giving me

1:12:36.800 --> 1:12:39.000
<v Speaker 2>my flowers and everything. He's like, I've been seeing this

1:12:39.560 --> 1:12:42.240
<v Speaker 2>in you years ago when we did have some hap

1:12:42.240 --> 1:12:43.240
<v Speaker 2>and I said I know he was going to be

1:12:43.280 --> 1:12:46.360
<v Speaker 2>something special. He's like, you're a star. He's like, so

1:12:46.400 --> 1:12:48.920
<v Speaker 2>I want to pay you like you're a star and

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<v Speaker 2>he's like, you can let your team know that I'm

1:12:50.280 --> 1:12:55.200
<v Speaker 2>going to pay this. And I say, oh shit, I

1:12:55.200 --> 1:12:56.679
<v Speaker 2>ain't never seen that type of money.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, what did you say that in front of him?

1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:00.320
<v Speaker 2>No?

1:13:01.080 --> 1:13:02.080
<v Speaker 1>Oh, you have it together.

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<v Speaker 2>I had, man, I really appreciate it.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait wait is it on the phone.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes. I'm like, I'm holding it in. I'm holding it in.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, god, man, I appreciate you so much. Bro.

1:13:16.040 --> 1:13:19.680
<v Speaker 2>He's like yeah, He's like, happy birthday, so boom. So

1:13:20.080 --> 1:13:23.439
<v Speaker 2>I called my mom birthday. Hell yeah, Mom. I called

1:13:23.439 --> 1:13:26.679
<v Speaker 2>my mama instantly after that car She said what Mike.

1:13:27.080 --> 1:13:30.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, yes, Mom, he said, gonna pay this. Why

1:13:30.920 --> 1:13:33.880
<v Speaker 2>I'm on the phone with my mom. He texts me

1:13:34.240 --> 1:13:36.920
<v Speaker 2>and say, actually, let him know that I'm going to

1:13:37.000 --> 1:13:40.600
<v Speaker 2>give you this much. It was more made me a

1:13:40.640 --> 1:13:42.160
<v Speaker 2>six figure man, nigga.

1:13:42.240 --> 1:13:46.800
<v Speaker 1>No, I'm sorry over it.

1:13:50.320 --> 1:13:53.760
<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh my god, bro. At this time,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, Yo, that's a beautiful story. That is what

1:13:56.960 --> 1:13:59.280
<v Speaker 2>we do it for right here, this is what you've

1:13:59.280 --> 1:14:03.920
<v Speaker 2>been looking for. My Wow, look so much encourage me.

1:14:04.400 --> 1:14:06.920
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, i can't wait to go to set tomorrow.

1:14:07.280 --> 1:14:10.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm about to kill this ship. Like you know what

1:14:10.240 --> 1:14:13.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying that, Oh I hyped me up, and I'm like, oh,

1:14:13.240 --> 1:14:16.479
<v Speaker 2>thank god for this man. Bro. This man had like

1:14:16.520 --> 1:14:18.880
<v Speaker 2>when I'm telling you, man, when he said got your back,

1:14:18.880 --> 1:14:22.320
<v Speaker 2>he got your back, bro. And he don't forget like

1:14:22.360 --> 1:14:25.400
<v Speaker 2>he if he say, if you come to him, Hey,

1:14:26.240 --> 1:14:29.400
<v Speaker 2>this happening. I needed this, all right, don't worry about it.

1:14:31.680 --> 1:14:35.040
<v Speaker 2>Boom while I he makes it happen whatever it is,

1:14:35.120 --> 1:14:35.760
<v Speaker 2>he makes it happen.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll give an example on that story because you said

1:14:37.680 --> 1:14:39.960
<v Speaker 1>this happened. I needed this, like an example.

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<v Speaker 2>So basically, by the way, that story is incredible.

1:14:44.520 --> 1:14:45.800
<v Speaker 1>I love the fact that he said, by the way,

1:14:45.800 --> 1:14:48.559
<v Speaker 1>happy birthday too, he said, because.

1:14:48.680 --> 1:14:51.400
<v Speaker 2>I see your birthday coming up. Happy birthday. It's like

1:14:51.439 --> 1:14:55.120
<v Speaker 2>that's the pay bomb happy birthday here, that's on top

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<v Speaker 2>of what you're worth.

1:14:56.720 --> 1:14:59.479
<v Speaker 1>Wow. I love it all right, go on, don't get distracted.

1:15:00.080 --> 1:15:06.240
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So an example is like, hey, my overcost too

1:15:06.320 --> 1:15:10.400
<v Speaker 2>much to get I'm just giving my overcost too much

1:15:10.439 --> 1:15:12.960
<v Speaker 2>to get here, and they were supposed to give me

1:15:13.000 --> 1:15:16.160
<v Speaker 2>a voucher. Are you able to handle this for me?

1:15:16.720 --> 1:15:21.519
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna get your car service instead of ober and

1:15:21.640 --> 1:15:25.360
<v Speaker 2>you make it happen. Just like that. Wow. So that's

1:15:25.400 --> 1:15:28.519
<v Speaker 2>that's a that's an example. The way what I'm talking

1:15:28.520 --> 1:15:31.080
<v Speaker 2>about I can't really say because it's you know what

1:15:31.120 --> 1:15:33.719
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. But that's the example.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, damn, I want to go work for time. Yeah, yeah,

1:15:38.439 --> 1:15:40.520
<v Speaker 1>go online and Tyler Perry opening.

1:15:40.920 --> 1:15:41.360
<v Speaker 2>Man, he.

1:15:43.320 --> 1:15:46.559
<v Speaker 1>That's my nig yo. I love I love I love

1:15:46.600 --> 1:15:49.080
<v Speaker 1>this for you though. I love this for you genuine

1:15:49.080 --> 1:15:50.800
<v Speaker 1>like just hanging out with you for the last hour,

1:15:52.320 --> 1:15:55.400
<v Speaker 1>maybe a little bit longer. Sorry, I love it. I

1:15:55.400 --> 1:15:59.559
<v Speaker 1>love it for you where you're from, Detroit, where you represent, Like,

1:15:59.600 --> 1:16:03.120
<v Speaker 1>I love this whole whole story for you. Thank you

1:16:03.200 --> 1:16:06.439
<v Speaker 1>well deserved And just imagine if you would have been like, nah,

1:16:06.520 --> 1:16:07.439
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to do that.

1:16:07.439 --> 1:16:08.519
<v Speaker 2>That one was crazy.

1:16:08.640 --> 1:16:08.920
<v Speaker 1>That one.

1:16:09.560 --> 1:16:12.800
<v Speaker 2>It's crazy you say that. We watched six Triple A.

1:16:14.640 --> 1:16:17.479
<v Speaker 2>He told me he's pray, you know, because he prayed

1:16:17.520 --> 1:16:23.320
<v Speaker 2>for me, me to me, Tiana Sherry. He prayed for

1:16:23.400 --> 1:16:25.880
<v Speaker 2>all of us, you know, and you know we had

1:16:25.960 --> 1:16:30.280
<v Speaker 2>lunch and everything with him at his crib. So he

1:16:30.520 --> 1:16:32.599
<v Speaker 2>he told me face to face. He was like, I'm

1:16:32.600 --> 1:16:35.880
<v Speaker 2>proud of you, Mike. He's like, and I'm glad you

1:16:35.920 --> 1:16:39.519
<v Speaker 2>didn't leave with ego because if you would alleged yourself

1:16:39.520 --> 1:16:43.040
<v Speaker 2>with ego, you wouldn't even be here. Wow. He's like,

1:16:43.280 --> 1:16:46.280
<v Speaker 2>don't ever leave with ego. He's like, because you see

1:16:46.320 --> 1:16:49.800
<v Speaker 2>where your faith got you. Yeah, he said, now you're here,

1:16:50.360 --> 1:16:53.320
<v Speaker 2>it's time. He's like, and I appreciate you. He's like,

1:16:53.360 --> 1:16:55.760
<v Speaker 2>that says a lot of how much love you have

1:16:55.840 --> 1:16:59.519
<v Speaker 2>for my work and our connection because you didn't have

1:16:59.560 --> 1:17:03.240
<v Speaker 2>to do that, you know. And he's like, keep leading

1:17:03.320 --> 1:17:07.280
<v Speaker 2>with faith. He's like, your time. He's like, you, this

1:17:07.439 --> 1:17:10.080
<v Speaker 2>is it. He's like, so get ready. He's like, watch

1:17:10.080 --> 1:17:13.200
<v Speaker 2>the people you have around you. Oh, he said, keep

1:17:13.240 --> 1:17:18.760
<v Speaker 2>your head up, stay focused, grind, stay sharp. So stay ready.

1:17:18.760 --> 1:17:21.719
<v Speaker 2>You don't have to get ready, and just just just

1:17:21.720 --> 1:17:24.760
<v Speaker 2>to stay to stay in the moment, you know. And

1:17:24.800 --> 1:17:27.879
<v Speaker 2>he gave me those gems man, and I broke.

1:17:28.760 --> 1:17:29.400
<v Speaker 1>Did you really?

1:17:30.160 --> 1:17:34.519
<v Speaker 2>I was crying, dog. I was crying dog because it's like,

1:17:34.600 --> 1:17:36.360
<v Speaker 2>you know this man. I'm like, man, this man is

1:17:36.400 --> 1:17:41.559
<v Speaker 2>a billionaire and he's so he just got a big heart.

1:17:42.560 --> 1:17:44.840
<v Speaker 2>You have a big heart, man. And he showed me

1:17:44.920 --> 1:17:47.400
<v Speaker 2>like how I'm gonna be when I become a billionaire.

1:17:48.760 --> 1:17:53.240
<v Speaker 2>You gotta treat people good. He treat people damn good man. Yeah,

1:17:53.560 --> 1:18:00.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm getting more real though, man, he solid.

1:18:00.560 --> 1:18:03.000
<v Speaker 1>I love this whole story. By the way, Straw was

1:18:03.280 --> 1:18:09.479
<v Speaker 1>absolutely incredible. The whole casted amazing. And I was telling

1:18:09.479 --> 1:18:13.680
<v Speaker 1>you earlier how Ashley versa shout outs to her. Let

1:18:13.720 --> 1:18:17.200
<v Speaker 1>me just tell you something. She's so lovable, like, and

1:18:17.240 --> 1:18:19.479
<v Speaker 1>I think she's naturally funny. I was like, low key,

1:18:19.520 --> 1:18:21.200
<v Speaker 1>like you should be a comedian too, and she was

1:18:21.520 --> 1:18:24.160
<v Speaker 1>like a girl shut up. Like she was just so

1:18:24.280 --> 1:18:25.960
<v Speaker 1>quick with it and I'd be like, yo, say it again,

1:18:26.000 --> 1:18:28.760
<v Speaker 1>and she'd be like, no, it's just rolled and it's

1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:30.559
<v Speaker 1>out there and I can't remember it, like you know.

1:18:30.720 --> 1:18:33.879
<v Speaker 1>But she was just really funny and like her personality

1:18:33.960 --> 1:18:37.000
<v Speaker 1>was just so just like she got a different personality

1:18:37.080 --> 1:18:39.720
<v Speaker 1>like I was, and her like, oh for you, like

1:18:39.760 --> 1:18:41.720
<v Speaker 1>I love you, Like he was just so cool. Like

1:18:41.960 --> 1:18:45.840
<v Speaker 1>just her personality was the definitely like you like love her.

1:18:45.880 --> 1:18:48.200
<v Speaker 1>But her sense of humor was just crazy.

1:18:48.640 --> 1:18:49.640
<v Speaker 2>And she's vulnerable.

1:18:49.840 --> 1:18:54.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she's vulnerable. She's vulnerable, but that sense of humor

1:18:54.760 --> 1:18:58.040
<v Speaker 1>on her is so natural that it was like you

1:18:58.040 --> 1:19:00.320
<v Speaker 1>could tell it was effortless. It was just like her

1:19:00.439 --> 1:19:04.559
<v Speaker 1>her clap backs were like Yo, did you notice that

1:19:04.600 --> 1:19:07.759
<v Speaker 1>she's funny though, Yes she's hilarious, right, I'm not tripping

1:19:08.320 --> 1:19:12.520
<v Speaker 1>interfused together. I was like, yo, yo, she's ship, and

1:19:12.600 --> 1:19:18.160
<v Speaker 1>I was, I have to better really really yo she

1:19:18.360 --> 1:19:20.240
<v Speaker 1>I thought she was funny. But I love how people

1:19:20.240 --> 1:19:23.639
<v Speaker 1>are going in on Tesla on the straw like they really,

1:19:24.600 --> 1:19:29.519
<v Speaker 1>like they really really Yeah, she's trended like I could.

1:19:31.040 --> 1:19:34.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, yeah, I hate Tesla. I went on right

1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:36.320
<v Speaker 1>before you showed up here because I had to approve

1:19:36.400 --> 1:19:39.600
<v Speaker 1>all these like evil comments to her. And it was

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<v Speaker 1>funny because I was like, why are they saying, like

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<v Speaker 1>I have to prove all these comments? I never had

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<v Speaker 1>this so many, and it's like they're just going in

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<v Speaker 1>like just hating poor Tesla, you know, And I'm like, yo,

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<v Speaker 1>she gonna be at an airport or grocery store and

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<v Speaker 1>they'd be like, should check testa.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's probably going through it everywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, if I was her mate, I'd be like

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<v Speaker 1>you got the check, like you know, with her all day.

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<v Speaker 1>But she's funny. But I'm glad you got to experience

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<v Speaker 1>that another person's her. You know, I'm watching her for

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<v Speaker 1>a long time. I've always thought she was able. Never

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<v Speaker 1>there was never us movie.

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<v Speaker 2>Never I think that I would be sharing a set

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<v Speaker 2>with her. Yeah, like what, I didn't have a desire

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<v Speaker 2>for acting. Wow, until you know the moments, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>this is not something I just wanted to do. It

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<v Speaker 2>was because of disconnected. It's because I wanted to make

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<v Speaker 2>people feel how Will made me feel. I do this

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<v Speaker 2>to do give people a positive impact.

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<v Speaker 1>And I thought you were about to cry a little bit.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying not to because yeah, so's mm hmm. I

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<v Speaker 2>love to affect people a positive I mean positively, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>and make a positive impact on people people's lives. You

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<v Speaker 2>notice some of the story and stuff that we do

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<v Speaker 2>on screen, it fulfills people's hearts. And that's what I

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<v Speaker 2>want to do, is like, if you have a problem

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<v Speaker 2>in real life, on the screen, we're solving that problem.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. We're giving people that courage that you know,

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<v Speaker 2>that motivation and inspiration to just keep going with life.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's what this movie is about, you know, just

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<v Speaker 2>to you're not alone.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, and you saw that. I mean everything when

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<v Speaker 1>I say the premise of the movie, I like, never

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<v Speaker 1>retain anything when it comes to like the days of

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<v Speaker 1>movie drops, Like I'm one of those people like surprising

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<v Speaker 1>know my middle name still, you know. But when I

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<v Speaker 1>saw and heard about the movie and the premise like oh,

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<v Speaker 1>single mom whatever, I was.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Literally, I don't know why. I was just I was

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<v Speaker 1>just so excited to see a role where this mom

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<v Speaker 1>is just going through hell.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah you know what I'm saying, Yeah, because I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>think about everybody go through that. But it's very good

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<v Speaker 2>to just hit on black women, particularly, you know, because

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<v Speaker 2>when do we get enough? You know? And it just

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<v Speaker 2>shows like how trauma is just real. Some people go

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<v Speaker 2>blind of trauma, don't notice trauma, you know, but it

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<v Speaker 2>shows that. For me, I'll say, you need to come

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<v Speaker 2>to peace with trauma before it takes over you.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's that you don't watch that movie, that's that's

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<v Speaker 1>what you see. And you know when you look back,

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<v Speaker 1>like I said, I have my moments, but I think

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<v Speaker 1>back movie was so great by the way, you know

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm thinking about. But you saw the little pieces

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<v Speaker 1>where you saw there was trauma. Like the way she

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<v Speaker 1>was acting, You're.

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<v Speaker 2>Like, yeah, you know why she acting like she was

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<v Speaker 2>in the trauma last straw. She's tired, Yeah, she's tired.

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, when you're a good person and used

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<v Speaker 2>to trying to be study, trying to be positive and positive,

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<v Speaker 2>and you're just trying to push, You're trying to do

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<v Speaker 2>all that you can, and people just keep poking the bear,

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<v Speaker 2>keep poking the bear. Why you keep poking me? It's

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<v Speaker 2>just like Janiyah said, what would.

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<v Speaker 1>You do that? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Why would you do that?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Like I'm a good person. I'm not I'm not robbing

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<v Speaker 2>the bank yet, I'm not sure. I'm not like she said, like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, she's not doing nothing wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>So Robby just five and twenty one dollars?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, why is this happening?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I thought that was incredible. Loved it on every level.

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<v Speaker 1>All the acting, Yeah, it was just incredible. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a hard fleet body of work though complete even how

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<v Speaker 1>like all the roles were tied together, the just everything

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<v Speaker 1>about the whole movie.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, perfect. Yeah, honestly, man.

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<v Speaker 1>I hated that the last part where it ended. I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, you guys could have given us two more

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<v Speaker 1>minutes though.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you know, I mean I don't know. I

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<v Speaker 2>love how ending.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but now did you when you watch the movie,

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<v Speaker 1>like how do you watch from like objective? And this

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<v Speaker 1>is my last question. We were completely over Braden's probably mad.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't know who's mad back there.

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<v Speaker 1>But when you watch, you watch from objective, I could

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<v Speaker 1>have done it better? Or do you watch from enjoyment?

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<v Speaker 2>So an actor always watch from an objective?

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<v Speaker 1>Damn that okay?

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<v Speaker 2>First, because we're trying to see how to get better

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<v Speaker 2>where we need to improve. I can actually say I

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<v Speaker 2>body this character.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah you did, Yeah you did.

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<v Speaker 2>I bodied this character. Man, I'm like, yo, I did

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<v Speaker 2>my thing. And I always focus on the small things,

1:24:29.439 --> 1:24:34.559
<v Speaker 2>which is listening? Did he actually listen in that scene?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you actually listen to the whole movie? Did? What

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<v Speaker 2>were you doing while they were talking? What would you

1:24:40.200 --> 1:24:41.920
<v Speaker 2>do in real life? Would you shake your head? Would

1:24:41.960 --> 1:24:44.679
<v Speaker 2>you hey? Would you cut them off for a real quill?

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<v Speaker 2>It's certain things were doing that wasn't in the script.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's the thing, like you have to live in

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<v Speaker 2>the moment, you know. I don't prep much because I

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<v Speaker 2>want to see what happens when I'm in the moment,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. So I have my things like beforehand, but

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<v Speaker 2>I don't like the I don't like the study too

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<v Speaker 2>much because I don't want to be married to anything,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, because that's how you get your head in

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<v Speaker 2>the clusterfucked.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, is Tyler strict with that.

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<v Speaker 2>He wants you to bring your own creativity.

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<v Speaker 1>That just so you know, I don't I'm not huge,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know anything like about acting. But I started

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<v Speaker 1>to notice over time the more movies I watched comparative

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<v Speaker 1>to like say, people that are just starting out, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you see, like the my first film, I always say, like,

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<v Speaker 1>the real acting is in the silence, not the you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, I have silence in this movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but that's that's what I've noticed. Like it's like

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<v Speaker 1>if they can act in the silence, Like if I

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<v Speaker 1>can feel what you're feeling in the silence, that's how

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<v Speaker 1>I know. But if you got to tell me I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sad today in this way and I'm like, yo, you did, no.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly, its silence. I thank God for my silence

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<v Speaker 2>in this movie too, because it shows how season I

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<v Speaker 2>am as an actor. And that's what I want agents

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<v Speaker 2>to see that you knowing that I'm an agency free,

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<v Speaker 2>agency free. So yeah, yeah, because nuances is very important

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<v Speaker 2>as an actor. Okay, because you know everybody focus on

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<v Speaker 2>their their dialogue. What are you doing besides that?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm telling you, I noticed it, and I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know anything about acting, but I literally was like, Yo,

1:26:25.120 --> 1:26:27.400
<v Speaker 1>it's it's how they are in their silence, like the

1:26:27.479 --> 1:26:30.760
<v Speaker 1>looks of the breathing or something. It's like you could

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<v Speaker 1>feel it. And I just recently like thought about it,

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<v Speaker 1>like I don't know recently, but I started to go,

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<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, it's not what they're saying. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>just even the slightest movement or.

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<v Speaker 2>Like yeah, you know, like yeah, whatever, it all matters. Yeah,

1:26:45.600 --> 1:26:46.280
<v Speaker 2>it all matters.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, where can everybody keep up with everything?

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Merrill?

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all can find me on social media platforms at m

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<v Speaker 2>I K E, M E R R I L L

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<v Speaker 2>Underscore Mike Merrill.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, and if y'all want to have the best breakfast,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the best breakfasts you'll ever eat and healthy, healthy, right,

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<v Speaker 2>One more thing too. I have another movie that is

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<v Speaker 2>premiering at a BFF American Black Film Festival, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>called Love Offside. It's a love romance. Yeah. Okay, So

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<v Speaker 2>if y'all going to be in Miami from the eleventh

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<v Speaker 2>to the fifteenth, my movie premiere is on the thirteenth

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<v Speaker 2>or four o'clock in Miami at ABFF Wow Night. And

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<v Speaker 2>I shot that in Jamaica. Ooh, it's a Jamaica movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, did you learn any Jamaican recipes?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes? Well, Kanda, Kanda.

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