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Speaker 1: This is kJ Live with Chris john Sali and Chris

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Speaker 1: is having conversations with influencers in the sports world and

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Speaker 1: entertainment industry. Now here's Chris Johnson. You're now tuned in

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Speaker 1: to kJ Live. Today's guest on the show is an actor, model,

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Speaker 1: and renaissance man. He recently was named to a role

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Speaker 1: on Tyler Perry's All the Queen's Men, starring on BT.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into the show. My little brother, Ja Marcus Johnson

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Speaker 1: is in the building. What's up, man, appreciate it's kind

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Speaker 1: of cool. That's something cool to talk about. Now, well,

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Speaker 1: now you always had something cool to talk about. I

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Speaker 1: think schedules permitting. You've been a busy man lately, so

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule,

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Speaker 1: your shooting schedule too, to join the show. Man. Look,

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Speaker 1: it's as somebody that you growing up in a family

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Speaker 1: with older brothers and brothers and siblings and dads and

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Speaker 1: people that have always, you know, been sort of in

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Speaker 1: the limelight or achieved what sort of pressure did you

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Speaker 1: feel in carving out your own niche when you decided

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Speaker 1: to chase this acting thing. You know, it's funny you

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Speaker 1: say that because just thinking about it, you know, Like,

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Speaker 1: so it's either you kind of fold under the pressure,

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Speaker 1: which I did as a kid growing up, you know,

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Speaker 1: just kind of folded blah blah blah, like this is

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Speaker 1: for me, or then like you rise to it. And

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Speaker 1: then so I got to a point where I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. I'm gonna rise to it, man, like whatever, Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I got one life to live and like,

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Speaker 1: this is my life, this is what I want to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for it. And so the pressure, you know,

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Speaker 1: it kind of just it's just it's I changed in myself,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I was just like, yeah, like let's

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Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna go for it. The pressures on.

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Speaker 1: I got something to live up to, I got something

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Speaker 1: to live for, and I'm gonna keep this name going.

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Speaker 1: How long did it take, as far as like for

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Speaker 1: that light bulb to click in for you to have

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Speaker 1: that confident when you say fold or kind of rise?

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Speaker 1: What made you like when you were folding? Why why

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Speaker 1: were you folding? Why were you shrinking away from whatever

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Speaker 1: pressure in your mind? Just growing up? You know, like

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Speaker 1: just so I mean not to put the blame on basketball,

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Speaker 1: but you know, our father was NBA legend, you know,

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Speaker 1: and like so he was like extreme, like athletically, like

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Speaker 1: he was just supreme and all that and I that

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Speaker 1: so like I just never thought it would happen, you know,

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Speaker 1: like I had went through things in my childhood which

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Speaker 1: he told he told me and my mother that I'd

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Speaker 1: be lucky if I made it to six ft and

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Speaker 1: so like things like that just kind of like destroyed

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Speaker 1: me and blah blah, and like you know, just that

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Speaker 1: whole process, me being the fourteen year old kid and

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Speaker 1: just like dangn just like seeing your dreams kind of

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Speaker 1: getting older and then you realize like, oh snap, six one,

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Speaker 1: was just like constant progression of me just realizing things

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Speaker 1: kept kid persistent and kept persevering and here and you

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Speaker 1: went through Lookemia. Tell tell us about just with all

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Speaker 1: that entailed, what the disease did to you and how

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Speaker 1: you had to deal with it on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, So you know it started the summer of nineties, six,

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Speaker 1: you know the different medications, the hunger, craves and all that.

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Speaker 1: so sports for you, And I do remember this time.

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Speaker 1: It was tough. I was at U c l A

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Speaker 1: for you your life, Just that the beating that disease,

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Speaker 1: did that do for you your confidence? So first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of credit to my village, like

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Speaker 1: Just I just remember, you know, one of my most

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Speaker 1: and like especially what y'all haven't been through, you know

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Speaker 1: like y'all still being there every day, you know. So

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Speaker 1: that gave me so much strength as a child that

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Speaker 1: I never realized that it gave me until I got older,

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Speaker 1: that and just kind of you know, so my my,

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Speaker 1: my value of family is just so much bigger and

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Speaker 1: you know, and like just to have faith and just

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Speaker 1: in constant gratitude every day and just you know, constantly

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Speaker 1: just really put that perspective in my world of just realizing,

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Speaker 1: And so I'm just appreciative to have gone through that

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Speaker 1: antency life through that leans. Yeah, you do live your

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Speaker 1: or stories and follow them, you'll you'll get a sense

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Speaker 1: of what this young man's talking about. Um, when you

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Speaker 1: I mean, you have you walk around with a sense

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Speaker 1: it happens the way it's supposed to happen. Now. When

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Speaker 1: I just kind of just like live and go, just

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Speaker 1: like okay, you just kind of just throttle, which you know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, absolutely whatever, you know, it's good. I

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Speaker 1: a gamble, it's it's life as a whole as a gamble. Dog.

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Speaker 1: And then um, I did another commercial, Magan the Stallion

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00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 1: for cash app where I was like her assistant, her

427
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 1: sexy mail assistant. Remember that. Yeah, I was pretty fun.

428
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 1: She's great. She was like Cleopatra, and you're like the

429
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,880
Speaker 1: Egyptian slave or whatever. I wouldn't call it a slave, man.

430
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,399
Speaker 1: I was just like, you're acting like a slave in

431
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 1: that one, bro, No man, act like a maid. You know.

432
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,199
Speaker 1: It's okay to be making the Stallion slave for for

433
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 1: a few minutes, Bros. A few hours. Shout out to

434
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,239
Speaker 1: Magan Stallion, shout out to the party. He's a great right,

435
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,959
Speaker 1: that's your boyfriend. But yeah, so I did that. That

436
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: was cool, you know, And then um, yeah, then we

437
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 1: started auditioning for like the big stuff, and then getting

438
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 1: closer and closer, I noticed that Mr Perry kept having

439
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,160
Speaker 1: me audition for more and more things. You just felt

440
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 1: like you was trying to find something for me. I mean,

441
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 1: I may be wrong, but it just felt like that.

442
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 1: Let's back up. Let's back up to Tyler Perry and

443
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 1: in the auditions and and the whole your introduction into Hollywood,

444
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 1: Black Hollywood, if you will. Yeah, what was the first

445
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 1: audition that you went on? And and you said you

446
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: had to do audition for a lot of stuff, So

447
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: did you feel like you nailed some other things that

448
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: you might have been in or did you did you

449
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: feel like your best work was the audition for All

450
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 1: the Queens meant backtrack? Be right. Two weeks before we

451
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,439
Speaker 1: got here with the pandemic audition to be on the

452
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: oval callback everything cast and director told my manager to

453
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: pin me, pin him meeting like we want them, so like, yeah,

454
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: everything's all good, and then pandemic happened and then everything

455
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: shut down and so I guess things kind of backtrack then.

456
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: But so then you know, like audition for like all

457
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: his like he has sisters, bro um, you know, he

458
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: got everything, bro he got like nineteen million shows, but

459
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 1: a lot. And then finally I had one audition. It

460
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: was two different two different roles for All the Queens Man,

461
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: So I didh you for both? And then like yeah,

462
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: then got the roller ray Sean and let's talk about

463
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: ray Sean and All the Queens man. When I was

464
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: reading the press release and it just trying to learn

465
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: a little bit about it. Um, it's a In the

466
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: first season, established Maryland, Madame Deville was a fierce businesswoman

467
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 1: ruling over her empire and delucrative male exotic nightclub industry.

468
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 1: Now hell bent on expanding her queendom. In season two,

469
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: Madam will have to navigate the sexy yet dangerous world

470
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: and she wants to stay alive in ahead of the game.

471
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: And so you're so ray Sean is a character who

472
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: was an amateur amateur that's basically not cut out for

473
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: the life of an exotic dancer, but he's hell bent

474
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,959
Speaker 1: on becoming one. Okay, talk talk about this. What type

475
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: of inspirations did you draw upon when you acted out

476
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 1: this character of ray Sean? So honestly, you just I

477
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: just drew upon my own, you know, inspiration of of

478
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: wanting to be in this, wanting to be an actor,

479
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: wanted to be somebody, wanted to be as cool as

480
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: my brothers, wanted to be like as cool as my dad,

481
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,199
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of just like that kind of

482
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: thirst and like desperation and all that, and wanted to

483
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: live up to something and just be somebody. And so

484
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: just you know, you know, and I wouldn't say willing

485
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 1: to do anything, but god damn willing to go far,

486
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and just willing to push

487
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: myself and do whatever it takes. And so with that,

488
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: it's just it was just applying that and too maybe

489
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: a little different kind of situations. So it wasn't too hard.

490
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,119
Speaker 1: It wasn't too hard to transition for me, you know,

491
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: to to to to plug all that in and be

492
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: fully brought in and fully committed to it. Yeah, because

493
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: there are things that you can you said, you relate

494
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: to with too, Ray sean Um, what's the most difficult

495
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: part of playing a character like that or being on

496
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: set in in a situation like that? Like for me,

497
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: I would imagine, you know, Tyler Perry working on that

498
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: production is sort of like you know, you're you're at

499
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: a tryout or you're on you know, at a game

500
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: with a high level coach, and you know it's kind

501
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: of like this guy is you know your coach isn't

502
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: this do you have the same type of correlationship? That

503
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: was like one of the factors. But like so like

504
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: my first day down there, we got dance rehearsals and

505
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: all that, and in the in the in the four

506
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 1: main dudes like them dudes is like crazy ass dances. Bro,

507
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: They're so good, Like they got food on, like like

508
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: choreography and like they're going crazy and I'm just like,

509
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: oh man, dog, I'm just sexy. Bro. I can't dance

510
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: like that they like, but they got they do it.

511
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 1: They hit all that like that, like the hit swivels

512
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: and all like, so I'm just there intimidated. Man, I'm

513
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,479
Speaker 1: just like, damn, these dude is like really because they

514
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: actually like they this this is their lane, you know

515
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: what I mean lane, and like they're so good at it.

516
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: But you know, they all took me in and like

517
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: helped me in. So I got a better understanding of

518
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: how to feel music as opposed to dance to music,

519
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: and so that helped a lot. And so like now

520
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: I just find myself like if I'm in the gym,

521
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 1: like I just I'm actudentally hitting my moves, you know,

522
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: in the middle of doing bench presser like a role,

523
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 1: I'm just hitting a little swivel and like, you know,

524
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: I might get an eyre two looking at me, you know,

525
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,719
Speaker 1: do my little gyrations and all that, but I mean

526
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: I'm just that. So I'm just always constantly feeling music now,

527
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: and I think that helped a lot. And then as

528
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: far as working with Mr Perry, I mean, dog man,

529
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: it's just just to be down there on that on that.

530
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: So they housed us at the studios. Yeah, what's the studio,

531
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 1: Like how big is it? I've heard about it, I've

532
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: seen a tour of it, but is it really that huge? Bro?

533
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: So from our housing to like the main building where

534
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: the gym is, it's a mile and a half walk. Wow,

535
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: Like so that's a straight walk. And so he's yeah,

536
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: like dog, it's like five different like residential sense, like

537
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: he's building like a New York skyline dog like dog.

538
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: But you know it's just it's just so it's like

539
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: you almost like almost so proud of him because you know,

540
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: like I grew up watching mcdea, bro, Like you know,

541
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: just see from from that to those stage plays and

542
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,959
Speaker 1: productions to like all this is him, Like this is

543
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: all this is all his name on it. This is

544
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: like it's like almost seeing like like your uncle or

545
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: like your big brother just make it, you know what

546
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: I mean. And so it's just like it's just humbling

547
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: but so inspiring to be there, just like I used

548
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: to take walks every day like whenever we had like

549
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: an off there or anything, and just like walk around

550
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: and just like appreciate everything, just see just see it all.

551
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: Just like damn dog, this is really like this is

552
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: really him, bro, Like this is it's almost like it's

553
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: somebody you known for twenty years, you know, from watching

554
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: all his stuff and just to look like this is

555
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: all this all you dog, like wow, and then to

556
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: work with him, like dude is cool man, you know,

557
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: you mean, he's tough, but like you know, it's a lot.

558
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: He put a lot of pressure on himself. You want

559
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: to put out a good product. He want to really

560
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: communicate with his audience and his supporters and put out

561
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: a good product that people are gonna watch it, people

562
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: are gonna enjoy. And so he puts a lot of

563
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: pressure on himself and he puts it on us. But

564
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: he's also like a really guy. He's like a great teacher,

565
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: like almost like a great coach, acting wized, you know,

566
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: like he's you know, he be on you. I got

567
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: a problem where I when I'm on camera kind of

568
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: do a little like rock and like he like cussing.

569
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: He just like, hey, man, you guys stop doing that.

570
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: You guys are doing that's that's a bad thing to happen. Man,

571
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: gonna work with you. Man, I'm trying to help you.

572
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: And so like he keep it so real with you.

573
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: But like you know, he talked to you like like

574
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: he talked to you like it ain't condescend it, but

575
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: like he just really like he really want to help

576
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: you keep one get these careers off. Man. So it's

577
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: just amazing, bro. Like he pray over the set every day.

578
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: You lead us on like a big prayer, man. Like,

579
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: it's just it's just amazing, like you do. I still

580
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: can't believe, like it's me, you know, I can't believe

581
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: it's I get to work with this man. It's just like, Bro,

582
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: it's amazing, man, man, dog, it's crazy. You know, it

583
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: sounds dope. Man, it sounds like a heck of an

584
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: experience from what I've seen, dude, and from just the

585
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: reputation Tyler PERRYO. I don't know him personally, but for

586
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: you to having worked with him, man, it's it's it's

587
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: it's like I feel honored as well because my brother

588
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: is with you know, talking to Tyler Perry. He's on there.

589
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: You know, he's hey, you know, getting getting yil that

590
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: by Tyler Perry. It's all good. Like any other time,

591
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm sensitive, bro, so I'll be like one of this,

592
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: like know, maybe lash out of crying or something. But na, Rob, Yes,

593
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry absolutely, I call it Mr Tyler Perry, absolutly

594
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: give you the whole name Tyler Perry, please absolutely. How

595
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: does someone that lands a show on like BT continue

596
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: to to stay sharp, not be complacent? They continue to

597
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: work on their craft, like what is your strategy or

598
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: approach to to like when you get it? When now

599
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: you've landed your first big role, how are you going

600
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,239
Speaker 1: to continue to land other roles? I mean, first of all,

601
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: just staying grateful for it all and maintaining the same

602
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: hunger and maintain the same recognition of of life going

603
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: on around me. So I'm always observing and people watching

604
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: and just trying to take in what I can and

605
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: being on top of my thoughts and like my feelings

606
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: when I see on top of my thoughts just so

607
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: thoughts are like what I was taughting, acting thoughts will

608
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: help drive your emotion, like your eyes and all that,

609
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: and show people like DA he got a lot going on.

610
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: So it's always being on top of those and on

611
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: top of my feelings and you know, recognizing how feeling

612
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: certain situations, and you know, being aware of my vulnerabilities

613
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: and my irritabilities and all that, and you know, sick

614
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: as it sounds like remembering my reactions to things, you know,

615
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: So it's always constantly real, so it's always true to myself.

616
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: And then that's on top of that, staying true to

617
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: myself and me and my truth. So like that's why

618
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: I like my stories on Instagram or just how they

619
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: are so chaotic or whatever, because like it's honestly what

620
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: comes to mind. It makes me laughing, entertains me. So

621
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: you're about to get it too, whether you like it

622
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: or not. It's always trying to stay on top of

623
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: it like that. And that's that's that's my practice. You know,

624
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: that's my that's my work. You know, that's my That's

625
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: how I get my reps in. So I'm constantly getting

626
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 1: reps in. Are you in class? I'm not in class?

627
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: And you know I'll get back into it. I mean

628
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: I have I have, I have a coach that I

629
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: work with. Shout out to pat Uh. I mean he

630
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: just he's he's really good. He's really good at breaking

631
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: scripts down. He's really good at talking to me like

632
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: how I need to be talked to. He's good at

633
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: talking my language, and he's good at you know, of

634
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: helping me of of of breaking it down to a

635
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: philosophical and almost like it's so organic is teaching, and

636
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: it's just it's so real and it's like so so

637
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Speaker 1: cutic in a way. You know, he just knows how

638
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Speaker 1: to talk, and he knows how to just I don't know,

639
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: just communicated to me. So it's just every time, every time,

640
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: it's always like get an epiphany every time I talked

641
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: with him. Man. And so I don't not in the

642
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Speaker 1: classes right now, but you know, I got a coach

643
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: that I work with weekly. You know, he's also worked

644
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Speaker 1: out with me at the gym, So it's always giving

645
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Speaker 1: vice and tips. He always sending me tips, so and

646
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Speaker 1: I'm just always open to receiving them and just applying them.

647
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651
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Speaker 1: As far as the physical fitness side, you've been You've

652
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Speaker 1: mentioned and alluded to yourself being sexy numerous times. You

653
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: have a tremendous you have a tremendous physique. I understand

654
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: it's not your fault, but when when we're going in

655
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Speaker 1: the summer and I had somebody on the show, Dr

656
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Speaker 1: Courtney Watson. She gave some great health tips from the

657
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Speaker 1: medical side of course. Corner. Yes, absolutely, I want to

658
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Speaker 1: I want to Joshua John Marcus Johnson to give us

659
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Speaker 1: Josh's tips on how to either maintain a nice summer

660
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Speaker 1: beach bod, get a beach bock, or just healthy tips

661
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Speaker 1: for living that will enhance our lifestyle because obviously you

662
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Speaker 1: have done a tremendous job at that. And it's so crazy, man,

663
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: because like people will tell you like all this difficult

664
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Speaker 1: heart advice, and in my opinion, it's really like because

665
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: people if you people literally do nothing. So like my

666
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: biggest thing is to do something like get out and

667
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: walk outside of your team twenty minutes. Like if you

668
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Speaker 1: got a gym membership, set the time for forty five

669
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: to an hour, pick three workout, pick three exercise to do,

670
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: so it could be like like a row, a push up,

671
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Speaker 1: and a squat do those forty five minutes straight, ten

672
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: sets of each. You gotta take a break, take a break,

673
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: but you gotta do something, you know, And that's that's

674
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people's problems, like they're going from doing

675
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: nothing and just expecting things to be easy. I mean,

676
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be easy, but you just gotta do

677
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: something like you know, it takes an hour a day.

678
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you spend an hour a day

679
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Speaker 1: dog like, and then you'll find like as you as

680
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: you exercise more and more, your your exercise vocabulary experience.

681
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: And so now you're doing this, you're doing that, You're

682
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: doing this, you're doing that, and then you start actually

683
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Speaker 1: liking it. After three or four weeks or maybe a month,

684
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Speaker 1: you love it, and then it becomes something that you

685
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Speaker 1: need to do. It's it's it's just you take a

686
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: day off and you feel gross, and so it's just

687
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Speaker 1: something that you need to do. It almost becomes like

688
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: a positive addiction, you know. And so I just encourage

689
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: people to just do something anything, and then you'll find

690
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: it so good for your mental health. It's a good

691
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: way to transmute like different energies that you may have,

692
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Speaker 1: whether it be sadness, anger, you know, even happiness. You know,

693
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: it's just a good way to just just to get

694
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Speaker 1: that out, you know, just put it to use it

695
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: on something, to get it out, and then you find

696
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: that you sleep better, you start caring about what you

697
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: put in your body as far as eating goes, you know,

698
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: and that so it just starts with doing something. I mean,

699
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: I'm even even if it's just twenty minutes straight of

700
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Speaker 1: three exercises in the circuit and just go ten ten

701
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: ten reps each, like you just go, like you just

702
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: gotta do something. Yeah, what about eating stuff? Um, you know,

703
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: I felt I've always felt like the eating part is

704
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: more important than the physical part to a certain level,

705
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Speaker 1: because I've lost weight and gotten into shape and I

706
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: didn't work out before, but I was I was on

707
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Speaker 1: a vegetarian diet, so without having to go to the

708
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Speaker 1: extremes of like vegetarian, what's something like a normal person

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Speaker 1: you know, my age or younger and my around my

710
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Speaker 1: age because this is my audience. My audience is people

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00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, thirty five to like fifty or so somewhere

712
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: around there, hopefully younger. But I think it's around that

713
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Speaker 1: what type of foods should we absolutely stay away from

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Speaker 1: and what should we gravitate towards. So I like to

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Speaker 1: live by like an eight percent percent things, So twenty

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Speaker 1: percent of the time you do something bad if you

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Speaker 1: have to, like not saying you have to, but but

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Speaker 1: people know not to eat fry foods, like you know

719
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: that that goes without saying, now you know, and and

720
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Speaker 1: so you get so I just encourage to get to

721
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Speaker 1: a point ahead. But no, there's also but there's also

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Speaker 1: these foods that for for the longest time, because I'm

723
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Speaker 1: asking you, because you're younger, you're you're plugged into the fitness.

724
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Speaker 1: But for the longest time, we used to think certain

725
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Speaker 1: foods were all good, and then later on they're like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, those that acts actually isn't all good. That's

727
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: not that's not a good. Kind of fact, I was

728
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Speaker 1: wonder if there's anything new out like that we should

729
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: know about. I don't even follow recommendations no more because

730
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: because like they they tell you, they change it up.

731
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: When your mess with people's minds. Now it's just, you know,

732
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: it's just dumb. So you just kinda gotta go. You

733
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: gotta be on top of what makes you feel good.

734
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: And so like the fry food is never gonna be good,

735
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: but if you have to have it, you know, planting

736
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: out to where you work out, you eat good for

737
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: like the three days before that and make you feel

738
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: like it's a reward or something like that. And so

739
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: I mean, but like a simple kind of die for

740
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: me is like you know, like grill saltae, shrimp, real salta,

741
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: chicken fish, steak um, you know, brown rice, white rice,

742
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: sweep potato, but starch in greens. You know, I just

743
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: keep it simple like that. And what do you do

744
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: with brown rice? How can you eat brown rice? This

745
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: is my question? How do you how do you actually

746
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: swallow brown rice and like eat it? How do you

747
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: do that? A little bit of grass their butter and

748
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: some of that juice from the fish or the chicken

749
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Speaker 1: grass that butter, different dog that grass, said, brother are different. Man.

750
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: It's good for you too. It's really good. Where you've

751
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Speaker 1: got that conjugated lino leg acid that c l A

752
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: and it you know, it helps with your belly fat,

753
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yeah? So they say where you get it from?

754
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Speaker 1: Getting from rouse? It's it's the carry gold carry carry

755
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: gold butter. Hm, it's grass fad butter, you know it's

756
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,439
Speaker 1: it's so you got your regular butter the American eyes,

757
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: I guess whatever, and then you got your grass fed.

758
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: Grass fed is like super it's almost like golden color.

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00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: So it's this is rich and like and like vitamin

760
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: a invada, carrooteen and stuff like that. Got the good

761
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: fast for you? And whereas this not as what not

762
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Speaker 1: as much interesting? Okay, okay? What about like liquids are

763
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: the liquids that like? For the longest I used to

764
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: think juice was cool, But juice apparently it's not. It's

765
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: not all good. There's a lot of fat. Even diet

766
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: sodas are kind of shaky. So do you what do

767
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: you suggest water all the time or what is your

768
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: juice daily liquid intake? Look like? Like I try to

769
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: drink like a don't have two gallons of water a day,

770
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: damn And lots of coffee. I like coffee a lot.

771
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: How much coffee do you drink? I'm probably like fi

772
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: cups coffee a day. It's gonna stain your teeth. You

773
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: better get that teeth white. And the thing, boy, it's

774
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: all good. You know what you got, what you got.

775
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: So it's just it's one of them Instagram has got me.

776
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: It's this purple stuff and then you spray and then purple.

777
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Speaker 1: It helped bleach out a bunch of it, bleach out

778
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: yellow things and stuff like that. It's really cool. I

779
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: forget what it's called. I'll texted to you it's working,

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Speaker 1: as he smiles and shows the pearly whites. Yes, it's working, Yes,

781
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: it's working. But so yeah, but water coffee is cool

782
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: because caffeine helps, you know, get your metabolism up, and

783
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: you know, it burns fat while you're at rest. Um,

784
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,439
Speaker 1: I'll drink juice, but so you gotta do it strategically.

785
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: So if you have like a nice hard workout, your

786
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: muscles and all that are like craving cards. So if

787
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: you drink the juice after you work out, your muscle

788
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: is gonna know what to do with them, whereas he's

789
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: gonna know to do with the cars, whereas before it's

790
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: just kind of just chilling and hanging out. You know,

791
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: it has no use in application, but if you use

792
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: it as like a recovery drink, then you're gonna be like, oh,

793
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: this is kind of nice. It's just kind of good.

794
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: It's feeding my muscles, it's feeling my muscles. Okay, okay,

795
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: lots of water. So like simple cars, like simple cars,

796
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: like don't even be thinking you can go get like

797
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: a twelve pack of doughnuts from the Crispy Cream even

798
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: though the sign hot now on I couldn't blame you

799
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: if you did, but you know you gotta be careful. Man.

800
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: It's just full of oils and just bad fast and

801
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: or make it sixtens. It causes information on that you

802
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: don't want to be get. So so what is someone's

803
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: supposed to do if they have a sweep too? Uh?

804
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: Pick a day, pick a day and go crazy just

805
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: one day? So what's crazy to you? Because I feel

806
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: like crazy? Like me, my my disciplines got to the

807
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 1: point where crazy to me is like eating like four

808
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: doughnuts and and that's it, and that's it. That's my

809
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: crazy zy day. Or a piece of pie and ice

810
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: cream two in two scoops ice cream, Like that's crazy

811
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: for me. So what's crazy? So I don't know. So,

812
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: like my biology is kind of different. So I feel

813
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: like I'll be having like these cheat days where I

814
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: want to just go crazy, and so I start to

815
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: day off for like choking chip pancakes, and then I'll

816
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: be done, Like it'll be it'll be satisfied. And so

817
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: I just think you pick a day and maybe just

818
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: planning to go all out, and then you'll find like, oh,

819
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: like I'm done this. You know, I got what I needed,

820
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 1: you know, and like, so it ends of not being crazy.

821
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: But just pick a day, make sure you on your stuff,

822
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: make sure you on you're working out, make sure you're

823
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: on eating appropriately for your diet and for your goals.

824
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: And then just if you need to have a day

825
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,439
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, I'm I'm planning it for two days

826
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: from now, I'm gonna go crazy. I'm just gonna just

827
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: eat whatever I want. Blah blah blah. But make sure

828
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: you're following your plan and doing it right and earn it.

829
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: You know, what's your thoughts on alcohol? And this will

830
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: be the last question on the diet. Um, So I'm

831
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: not gonna love the man. When the pandemic first hit, Dog,

832
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: I'll probably taking down a bottle of day I had, Like, man,

833
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: I had so much unemployment money. Dog, Like, what so tequila?

834
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: If they say tequila is the best one to drink,

835
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: is that true? Supposedly? But it's all nasty, it's all gross.

836
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: He's yeah, gross, it's all nasty. So yeah, I mean,

837
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: you know, But so if you're gonna drink alcohol, you know,

838
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: don't make it an everyday thing, because I mean what

839
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: you mean, Like, I'm like, I don't know I don't

840
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: know because for my like, I'll call it nasty. Man,

841
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: it don't taste good, bro, it don't taste good. So

842
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: I don't see how people do it every day. But

843
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: if you got if you want to get turned up,

844
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 1: I mean, just pick a day. I guess, pick a day.

845
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: There you go with your pick a day. So every

846
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: so everything is moderation pretty much for you, everything excumely moderation,

847
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: Like you don't need to be drinking every day and

848
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: like eating all this unhealthy stuff every day, especially when

849
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: you know it's not good for you. If you're feeling

850
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: like slow, sluggish and lethargic, it's like, why would you

851
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 1: want to feel that? But you know, I can't speak

852
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: for everybody because I wouldn't want to feel that. Don't

853
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: mean that everybody else will want to feel that. So okay,

854
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: but the best alcohol to drink for somebody that's trying

855
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: to watch way would be would be like what like

856
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: give me an exact like for me, okay, I'll tell

857
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: you red wine, all right, I do reds. I also

858
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: do like Michaelo Ultra one hundreds, which are very light. Uh.

859
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: If if you have Taihen, it really makes it. Uh

860
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: easier to go down a little bit. Yeah, but then

861
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 1: you know, but then that's pretty much it. You know,

862
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 1: I don't really subscribe, like I know, dark is bad,

863
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: which I understand, but it's important when you get around

864
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: my age, because you like to eat good, you like

865
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: to drink good, and you like to have these these

866
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: consistent you should enjoy yourself and like the main point

867
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 1: I want to say, it's like, don't stress yourself out

868
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: about it too much. So even if my picket day

869
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: concept don't work for you, don't, you know, don't stress

870
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: out about it. If you've got to have that little drink,

871
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: take you that little drink, you know, sip it slow,

872
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: take a little drink, you know. If you gotta have

873
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: that cookie, yeah, yeah, cookie, don't you know, don't play

874
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: don't mind too much about it because it's going into

875
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: backfind on your regardless, So don't do that. You know,

876
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: don't restrict yourself because restricting causes a being. So yes,

877
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: it's no, that's a great formula, josh Uh. I like

878
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: your approach to it. It's not really it's it's a

879
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: good balance of like tough but also giving the person

880
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: a lot of leeway to make his own decisions and

881
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: holding his own self accountable. That's dope. Um man, man, man,

882
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: it's been this. This I enjoyed speaking to you in

883
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: this type of form um, in this format, you know,

884
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: just hearing you kind of talk about your stuff through

885
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: your through how you've experienced it. You know, we you know,

886
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: we're brothers. We don't talk as much. We talk all

887
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: the time, but we don't talk about this type of

888
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: stuff like this in depth. So this was this was

889
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: really good. Um Yeah, we hold a lot of things

890
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: in and uh, we gotta talk about that. We gotta

891
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: talk about that one day. About the toxic masculinity in

892
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: like in the sense of of having to be hard

893
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: all the time and not you know, you know, spill

894
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: out your feelings sometimes and maybe like share a cry bro, Like,

895
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta have a discussion about that. I

896
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: think we should have like a big form me to

897
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: talk about that. You know, it's just showed it. It's okay, man,

898
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: because like, like the male suicide rate is crazy right now. Dog, Yeah,

899
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: we're killing ourselves because we can't we feel like we

900
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: can't share it. So like we think that's the next

901
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: mess option. Man, we gotta, we gotta clean that up, man.

902
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: And that's a side of that toxicity that we need

903
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: to clean up. Man. We like we gotta we gotta

904
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: save the world, we gotta save ourselves. Yeah, Man, it's

905
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: a lot of it is pride, a lot of it

906
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: is you know. It's like it takes a lot of

907
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: undoing to because you grow up in the culture that

908
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: we encouraged it, allowed it. Everything you've seen is pretty

909
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: much about it. So unless you were really you know,

910
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: taught early, you know, and a lot of us in

911
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: our family you were. But there's still tendencies that happen

912
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 1: as you grow, man, and your you you move outside

913
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: to different units. People go to school, you know, you

914
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: pick up habits and these are bad habits. That and

915
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: and something I enjoyed talking about because there are no

916
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: real well I won't say no, but it's nice to

917
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: have a safe space where you know, men can talk

918
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: and share real feelings and things like that. But we'll

919
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: definitely um touch on that. We have a whole episode's

920
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: worth of stuff like that. But man, your journey has

921
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: been an amazing one to hear about. Dude. Although I

922
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: knew the story, it's just it resonates more to hear

923
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: it through your words and your voice. Uh. Proud of

924
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: you and everything that you're accomplishing uh in in life.

925
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to know this and then this would be

926
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:52,959
Speaker 1: my last question. When you ultimately you're gonna have a platform. Um,

927
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: you gotta be someone that has gonna be able to

928
00:46:55,600 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: affect others. What's sort of your message or what do

929
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: you live what words or do you live your life

930
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: by that you would want others to know about you? Um,

931
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: there's I forget the version of Bible. With this version

932
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: of Bible where in saying faith, hope, and most important love.

933
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: So I try to live my life loving everybody of

934
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: different creeds, different orientations, different whatever. Like I always want

935
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: to be somebody that we'll listen and try my best

936
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: to understand it. If I can't understand, I will sympathize

937
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: with you. Want to be somebody know with empathy and

938
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,359
Speaker 1: I just want people to know. Like like you said

939
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: about safe spaces, like I would you know, I want

940
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: to be I want to be a safe space you know,

941
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: where people can talk to me about any and everything honestly,

942
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: and like you know, I pray that nothing ever gets

943
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: too much for me to bear or here you know,

944
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: and so like that's it. Man. I just want to

945
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: live a life and just love and be a best

946
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: of love and to everybody and to anybody. You know,

947
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: I don't want, you know, I want people to be

948
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: able to walk up to me, you know, and ask

949
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: me questions, ask me if I's on working out or

950
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: anything like, you know, and not feel, you know, not

951
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: not be not be intimidated about me. I don't want

952
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: to be intimidating. I want I want to be somebody

953
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: who's an open book, somebody who people can just come

954
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: and talk to about anything like. And so I try

955
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: to live my life like that now. Like you know,

956
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: I try to help a lot of people, man, try

957
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: to help a lot of people. Man. It's just important

958
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: to me to be that voice because a lot of

959
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: people don't have that even within their own families. And

960
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: I recognized that I was fortunate enough to get that

961
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: with mine and so if I could be an extension

962
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: of our family to other people, man, like, you know,

963
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: that's a life well lived. Dog, you know. Yeah, man,

964
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 1: good stuff. Uh, You're blessed, you're touched, and you've you've

965
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: always been destined to do what you're doing. Appreciate you, man,

966
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: you know. I I reverbed back to one of my

967
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: favorite pictures of us. You have me on your shoulders

968
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: at Drake Stadium. Man. You know, you know, I'm just

969
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: I'm on my big brother shoulders. Man, you and so

970
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just grateful to have y'all to man

971
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: like two the best neig brothers in the world. Ah.

972
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: So that's why I try to be the big brother

973
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: I am to countless people. Man. So that's direct from you. Man,

974
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: So you give yourself around of applause for that. I

975
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Man. You're the first born and you did

976
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: the hell of a job, you know, leading us. You know,

977
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: so I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you, my brother,

978
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: and I love you. Thank lad man, ladies and gentlemen.

979
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: Ja Marcus Johnson