WEBVTT - KJ Live - J.Marques Johnson 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:10.320 This is kJ Live with Chris john Sali and Chris 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.680 is having conversations with influencers in the sports world and 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:21.000 entertainment industry. Now here's Chris Johnson. You're now tuned in 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.079 to kJ Live. Today's guest on the show is an actor, model, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.520 and renaissance man. He recently was named to a role 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.720 on Tyler Perry's All the Queen's Men, starring on BT. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.360 Welcome into the show. My little brother, Ja Marcus Johnson 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.519 is in the building. What's up, man, appreciate it's kind 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.200 of cool. That's something cool to talk about. Now, well, 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.400 now you always had something cool to talk about. I 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.320 think schedules permitting. You've been a busy man lately, so 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.559 I appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.080 your shooting schedule too, to join the show. Man. Look, 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.440 it's as somebody that you growing up in a family 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.840 with older brothers and brothers and siblings and dads and 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.319 people that have always, you know, been sort of in 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.040 the limelight or achieved what sort of pressure did you 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.959 feel in carving out your own niche when you decided 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.480 to chase this acting thing. You know, it's funny you 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.680 say that because just thinking about it, you know, Like, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.960 so it's either you kind of fold under the pressure, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.160 which I did as a kid growing up, you know, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.360 just kind of folded blah blah blah, like this is 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.840 for me, or then like you rise to it. And 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.560 then so I got to a point where I was like, yeah, 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.480 that's it. I'm gonna rise to it, man, like whatever, Like, 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.039 you know, I got one life to live and like, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.920 this is my life, this is what I want to do. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.360 I'm gonna go for it. And so the pressure, you know, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.880 it kind of just it's just it's I changed in myself, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.000 you know, and I was just like, yeah, like let's 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.560 do it. I'm gonna go for it. The pressures on. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.040 I got something to live up to, I got something 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.760 to live for, and I'm gonna keep this name going. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.760 How long did it take, as far as like for 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.080 that light bulb to click in for you to have 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.120 that confident when you say fold or kind of rise? 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.800 What made you like when you were folding? Why why 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.000 were you folding? Why were you shrinking away from whatever 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:15.959 pressure in your mind? Just growing up? You know, like 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.800 just so I mean not to put the blame on basketball, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.360 but you know, our father was NBA legend, you know, 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.840 and like so he was like extreme, like athletically, like 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.840 he was just supreme and all that and I that 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.320 didn't hit from me until later on, and like and 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.480 so like I just never thought it would happen, you know, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.880 like I had went through things in my childhood which 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.720 it cost my my my process of groing to to 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.800 slow down a bit. And I remember one time I 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.200 went to the doctor for a check up and you know, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.240 he told he told me and my mother that I'd 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.480 be lucky if I made it to six ft and 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.920 so like things like that just kind of like destroyed 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.760 me and blah blah, and like you know, just that 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.080 whole process, me being the fourteen year old kid and 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.400 just like dangn just like seeing your dreams kind of 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.680 just shattered, you know, like you're taking it from a 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.720 medical professional, and then you know, then you just keep 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.880 getting older and then you realize like, oh snap, six one, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.080 now he was wrong, you know. So it just it 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.799 was just like constant progression of me just realizing things 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.200 like you know, I'm in control, and I just you know, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.840 use it to my advantage and just kept pushing and 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.200 kept kid persistent and kept persevering and here and you 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:25.480 went through Lookemia. Tell tell us about just with all 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.399 that entailed, what the disease did to you and how 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.680 you had to deal with it on a daily basis. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:37.280 Oh man, So you know it started the summer of nineties, six, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.440 I believe or seven. I remember just being just like 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.960 just crazy pain, like daily, like couldn't sleep at night, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.560 like nice sweats, just headaches. I feel it in my 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.640 lefe right now, like they just burning and all that, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.680 and just not being able to keep up. You know, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.120 I got a brother who's two a year and a 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.360 half younger than me, so he's five at the time, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.200 and like you know, I couldn't keep up with him them, 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.560 and just like extreme me, thethargic and lazy until one 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.040 night I just I just couldn't sleep and then like 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.400 my mom was just like no, we gotta go to 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.280 the hospital. And then we found out then. So I 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.480 just remember that whole process, you know, all the shots 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.160 and all the tests had to go through, and then 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.719 you know the chemotherapy for four years, gone to remission 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:26.159 when I was eleven, so two thousand, Um, yeah, dude, Jesus, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.040 you know the different medications, the hunger, craves and all that. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.920 And like, so the k is a cancer of the 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.359 blood and bones. If I'm not mistaken, oh seven, so 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.040 forgive me now. But if I'm not mistakeing to cancer 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.960 the blood and bones. So like you know, you feel it. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.760 It's you know, you feel it all throughout your body. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.560 Your whole body is much on fire. Yeah. And with that, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.800 so sports for you, And I do remember this time. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.479 It was tough. I was at U c l A 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:58.440 and just just hearing about the spinal taps and those 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.359 those shots. That still remember that vividly, just what you 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.240 had to go through every time they did that. Uh, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.479 not to really bring up that memory, but the fact 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.880 that you were able two go through that, do you 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.880 feel and then you grew and then you were able 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:21.039 to play sports. Talk about just the what that did 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.600 for you your life, Just that the beating that disease, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.560 be getting out of that that cloud, that rut. What 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.880 did that do for you your confidence? So first and foremost, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.200 you know, a lot of credit to my village, like 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.880 you know you Joe Mo, like you know Dad, Mom, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.679 Just I just remember, you know, one of my most 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.280 vivid memories through all that is you know, I mean, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.839 I would sleep at the time in the hospital just 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.080 waking up and like somebody always being there, you know, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.640 and like especially what y'all haven't been through, you know 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.039 what I mean, and like seeing me like that and 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.080 like y'all still being there every day, you know. So 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.080 that gave me so much strength as a child that 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.679 I never realized that it gave me until I got older, 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.440 and just how much I appreciate and love y'all for 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.440 that and just kind of you know, so my my, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.120 my value of family is just so much bigger and 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.240 more important than pretty much anything in the world. And 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.120 like so I'm so grateful and blessed that were just 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.960 so connected like that first and foremost, and then just 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.479 being able to survive that just kind of taught me, like, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.840 you know, I'm built to survive anything in a way, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.960 you know, and like just to have faith and just 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.600 to attack it. So that's why I have such a 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.560 lust for life and such an attack for life and 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.320 just such a I try to be charismatic and everything 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.480 I do, I try to be appreciative and everything I do, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.560 like every time, you know, I'm always trying to think, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.039 who if I see a city worker, like I'm rolling 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.000 down my window, I'm beeping. I'm thanking them for their 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.719 role work. I don't care about the traffic. I'm living 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.760 in constant gratitude every day and just you know, constantly 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.279 trying to put a smile of somebody else's face. So 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.480 this is why I'm glad I'm an entertainment because I'm 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.960 able to entertain and like bring joy or show overcoming 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.120 or show triumph in in in situations. And so it's 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.320 just really put that perspective in my world of just realizing, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.960 you know, things could suck and at the end of 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.880 the day, you know, the good always altweighs the bad. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.400 And so I'm just appreciative to have gone through that 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.280 antency life through that leans. Yeah, you do live your 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:35.080 life with assessed. To put it mildly, I mean, if 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.120 you if you go to Josh's Twitter or i g 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.200 or stories and follow them, you'll you'll get a sense 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:45.480 of what this young man's talking about. Um, when you 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.080 decided to go on the basketball journey and you took 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.880 it serious. Um, We'll talk about basketball journeys a lot 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.520 here on this show. When you went on your basketball 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.640 journey and it was one in the family of people 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.200 that came before you that all bald and you were 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.160 involved heavily, deeply rooted in the city of l a 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.320 and you went to Crenshaw and you know, so it 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.080 was a similar type of path, and so you're going 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.880 down the similar path. Is your people before you? How 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:19.200 is your experience? So little backstory, so chemotherapy and all 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.200 that that, all that kind of slowed down my my 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.120 puberty process and all that. So I really I didn't 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.760 hear my Grosberg til I was like eighteen nineteen and 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.319 then so I was probably about I probably graduate high 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.439 schoolbout six too. Uh, just like barely tapping the surface. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.040 Like I remember I started working out with you like 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.360 after my highs my senior season, like I like like 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.560 I wasn't able to dunk like that, and then like 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.240 I just started being able to. Just I was getting 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.439 Oh my god, I was so athletic it was crazy. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.680 And then like you know, now I'm six five six. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.040 It's just like so it's just it's kind of annoying 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.600 in hindsight. Just I just I do wonder what if 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.400 at points, but you know, everything happens for a reason, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.959 and so I just you know, live be gratitude with that. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.439 But so yeah, I mean I went to prep school 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.280 for a year, still worked on my game, you know, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.320 went to a D to an Oregon Western ok University, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.200 did pretty well there, and you know, I thought, you know, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.520 I could probably do better. So I went to Pastadena 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.400 City College. I bounced back to the junior college year, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.680 did pretty well, average like fifteen and teen. But then 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.520 you know, I just kind of kind of got over it. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.240 Why what what what happened? I was I've always been 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.680 I think school. I just kind of like, it's like 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.640 I need a new simula. So I went to school 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:35.880 and it was just like I fel like I was 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.439 learning the same thing in high school and I was 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:38.920 just like, man, this is a waste of my time. Bro, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.559 Like let me figure this out, and I mean, let 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.000 me let me go out another path. It was really 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.080 stupid to me. But whatever, that's just not that's not 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.400 it's not stupid because you have to go with how 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.960 you're feeling. When you're at that age and you're doing 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.640 things and you're traveling around and you beat what you beat. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.240 I mean, you have you walk around with a sense 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.360 of self confidence, in a sense of you know, hey, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.320 I know my just decisions. I can stand on my 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.079 decisions basically, like you know, so I don't think it 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.640 was stupid. I think we live and we learned and 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.360 it happens the way it's supposed to happen. Now. When 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.679 you quit basketball, it was a little like, come on, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.640 you're balling. It was like, what's why? I mean, it 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.120 was just a confusing thing for me that I just 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.200 kind of like Jesus Christ, I don't know what the 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.640 hell is going on. Yeah, he's probably starting to make 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.959 sense that you do this now, come on, but I 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.640 don't know. I just you know, I don't huh. I 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.520 don't really have a strategy and calculation with my decisions though. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.280 I just kind of just like live and go, just 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.960 like okay, you just kind of just throttle, which you know, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.280 it looks like work in my benefit a little bit, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:43.120 but you know, absolutely whatever, you know, it's good. I 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.079 was still alive, still living, you know, out here it's 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.079 a gamble, it's it's life as a whole as a gamble. Dog. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.280 You never know, especially with all the recent situations we've 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.520 had recently, Dog, you know, just you never know, somebody 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.240 just gonna snap it. Just want to go crazy, and 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.760 you know, you just never know, so you just kind 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.400 of gotta stand on your gut and just go for 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.440 what you want, almost man like, and it's unfortunate, but 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.600 it's the real world and that's it. That's the reality 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.240 of it all. And after you made that decision from Pasadena, 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.880 you decided to hang it up. What did you do next? Oh? Man, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.440 So my oldest brother you it's kind of you kind 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:22.800 of put me aside over day, like, man, what you 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.920 want to do with your life? I don't know. I'm 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.520 to figure it out. And you know, you said you 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.120 ever thought about modeling, and then I was like, kind of, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.360 but I don't know how to get into it. And 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:33.880 then you made a call next to you know, I 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.360 was in Miami and then TIGN with the ABC and 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.360 all that, and then my first ever job was with Ever, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.640 probably a fitch. So I was in my I living 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.439 in Miami. Then came back home Santa Barbara. That's where 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.160 I had my first shoot at for a week Ever 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.679 probably a Fish, And that was just crazy because you know, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.520 I don't think Aver probably and Fish be looking for 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.160 people to look like me, but you know, they booked me. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:55.720 It was fun. It was a great experience, and I 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.440 was like, dang, I think we're on the right path here. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.920 So that was cool Miami for about a year and 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:04.000 the have Molin work with like ever coming, Fitch, Periellis, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:10.560 kopa Veda, um, who else? Nike? Yeah, I did a 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:15.640 lot bro Man with Eagle outfit or what was what 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.880 was the scene like in Miami? I mean you hear 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.600 about it a lot, and I've been New York. I 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.280 know the scene in Cold I've been in Mammie for 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.400 a little bit. But what was the scene when you 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.360 were down there working in monom Oh my god, Miami. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.760 It's crazy pig never ending party dog. It is like 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.319 the weather like so it'll rain a lot, but it's 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.360 still be warm, so it'll be like it'd be like 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.959 sexy raining. So you like you just like f and 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.760 I'm gonna go out with my shirt off, you know. Ever, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.800 Like every Thursday is Sunday, it's cracking on the b 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.800 I living on South Beat, so you'll be cracking on 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.720 Ocean Avenue. Man, So I'm whatever, I'm shirtless, I'm pulling up, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.680 I'm going to the Clevelander. It's a new batch every weekend. Man. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.640 I was out there whiling out. Man, I living my 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.719 best life. And then I just got to the point, like, 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.160 dagn this is not sustainable. I can't be doing this 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.720 much longer. Man. So but shouts out to Miami beach. Man, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.720 it was fun. It was fun for what it was. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.440 I learned a lot. It was a weird place, but 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.200 it's all good. Yeah. I'm sure, I'm sure you you 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.480 did learn a lot. I mean, god, bro, yeah, I'm 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.720 sure you did. Um. I remember when my you know, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.160 when you leave home and the first time anywhere kind 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.760 of overseas or whatever. It's sort of a culture shock 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.880 at first, but once you figure figure out the culture 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.319 and and the network, man, it becomes really live. Um. Now, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.320 you did modeling, You're so you're heavy with the modeling. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.240 This is a career you're trying to chase. It was 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.880 modeling something that you actually liked or did you want 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.080 to expand on that or were you kind of just 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.800 locked into being a model. Um? I liked it. But 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.800 me as a person, I'm always looking to to to 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.280 what's next and how I can expand on something. And 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:56.000 of course, I mean acting was the next foray and so, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.800 but I did really enjoy modeling. I mean, I mean 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.800 you get, like you said, money to take pictures and 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.160 like three food on the set and like, but you 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.680 can't because you gotta watch your weight, right. I mean 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.680 I'm a hog though, so I'll be working out like 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.560 four or five times a day. I was going crazy, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.600 so I mean, you know, I was doing like wake 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.040 up in the morning, do my hour cardio, just four 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.760 situations like that, you know, lifting my weights. You know, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.320 I was doing probably like four or five thousand like 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.880 crunches or legled like that whole app combination to day. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.040 I was very serious, you know. And in the South Beach. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.520 I was in New York too, so both of those 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.520 places you're doing a lot of walking, so you probably 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.520 walked like six seven miles a day easy. And I was, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.760 you know, I was mama talized, was kind of fast 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.400 and all that. So me, I would need that. I 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.400 would need to eat to sustain to look otherwise, you know, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.680 you get skinny fat and look ugly. Skinny fat fat, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.240 Oh man, it's when you look. It's like when you're skinny, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.320 but like you look sloppy. And I don't down skinny 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.040 fat phobic, but like it didn't work for me. I 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.000 wasn't happy with the look, and so you know, you 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.840 just gotta figure out what's work with, what works for 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.640 you as far as your fitness goes. But yeah, I 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.000 mean as far as you say about the eating, Like 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.720 there were certain things you couldn't eat, so I had 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.440 to be really like I had to be super on 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.640 top of it. Even it just got so crazy though, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.760 like man, because you just be overthinking everything you eat, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.040 so you end up stressing yourself out, and then that 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.960 affects you negatively because when you stress, you build cortisol, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.640 and cortisol builds fat. And it's just it's just all 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.080 just a weird, messed up chemical biological situation that goes 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.560 on in your body. And I had to a lot 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.920 of you to figure it out, but I figured it 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.360 out clearly. I mean, you see this to see hello. Yeah. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.440 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.440 the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.640 Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.920 search f s are to listen live. How many hours 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.280 a day you work out? He's too much. I'm probably 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:59.320 like there four. Yeah, it's not too bad. What about you? 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.040 Was you? I don't work out at all? You know 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.400 work at at all. I don't work out. I woke 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.520 up like this. No, but Josh, seriously, listen, you know 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.000 we're gonna get on more fitness tips later on. Um, 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.560 I just I really want to get to this kind 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.880 of thing because because you're very talented in the acting space, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.840 and I'm just trying to figure out the evolution of 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.040 the modeling journey into you know, that day or that 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:35.000 moment when I don't remember this story, but when was 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.760 the moment that you said I want to make the 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.920 transition from acting from modeling the actor. Um, I've always 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.080 wanted to be an actor of I've always being so 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.520 just boisterous in my character and so just like, um, 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.120 you know, I wear my heart on the sleeve, wear 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.280 my heart on my face, I wear my emotions on 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.120 my face. And like, I think it was a point 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.960 of me being afraid to learn how to challenge that 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.320 and use it to my advantage in the acting space. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:10.359 But I think it finally happened when we think. So, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.800 I did this this short film called The Other Side, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.640 and you know, I didn't have very many lines whatever, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.920 It's like five six minutes, but I remember showing Dad 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.960 and he showed his acting coach. And you know the 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.359 acting coach, his acting coach. He's such a hard as 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:33.520 sorry for cursion and like you know, he's tough. But Rick, Yeah, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.840 and he said, he told that I didn't really told 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.600 that I did really good work. And I knew he 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.520 meant it because he didn't know which character I was. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.240 So he told, he said that the bad guy with 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.640 the white shirt, he did, he did really really, really 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.560 good work. And you can tell he really took all 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.880 so Rick didn't even know which character. He just picked 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.920 out the best performance. Yeah. So there was like a 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.600 cop and then there was me, and there was like 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.960 I had there was another character who was like my my, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.240 my Robert partner, and he he said he did really 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.520 good work and I was like, oh, snap, okay tight. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.239 And then so I started taking classes and all that, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.080 doing more short films, and then I did another short 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.919 film called Behind Greatness, which you know, one of my 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.160 favorite's one of my favorite pieces that I've done so far. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.440 And uh that the basketball one, that's the basketball one. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.480 that's pretty powerful. I mean you you show a lot 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.600 of range and that I didn't know I had that 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.840 inem me bro. So I was just like wow, Okay, like, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.439 let's take this serious. So then I just started the 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.199 grind of it all, you know. So I was just 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.399 constantly or trying to be around set. So I was 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.879 working as a p a just to be around you know, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.080 you know, then you know, doing extra word body double work. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.360 And then things started progressing until I got uh so 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.800 I went from doing background work. Now the director noticed 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.800 me in the in the background, He's like, yo, you 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.440 come here, puts me in the front of the camera. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.080 So now I'm getting those those bumps and those upgrades 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.000 and all that stuff. And then so it just kind 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.119 of just kept progressing and kept progressing, and I just 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.640 kept on working and staying on it and just being 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.960 cognizant of of of real life situations and applying that, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.399 you know, and just kind of shedding that what I 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.840 think actors should be and just me being comfortable in 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.640 myself to to portray whatever I could, whatever I want 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.160 to portray, and in touch on that point for a minute, 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.240 when you say what an act or what you think 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.760 and actors should be versus being comfortable with yourself, what 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.080 does that mean? So a lot of people get it 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.720 mess So a lot of people when they look at acting. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.320 They look at it as you being a character and 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.600 all this, when you know that's not real being. You know, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.320 they don't want to see real. So real is this 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:40.520 really your everyday situations, on everyday interactions, And so you 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.600 you apply that and you be you be cognizant of 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.080 that how you move in real life, and then you 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.360 apply that to acting. So now it looks real. Now, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.640 you know, now it looks like you're watching a real 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.399 conversation as opposed to you watching two people trying to 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.720 be characters and not trying to be anything. You're being you're, you're, 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.360 you're you you know, and like you know, they put 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.960 on the accent and all that, but you're you're you're 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:05.879 not even know the word I'll be trying to use, 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:11.919 but you're. It's you're, you're, you're, you're using your you 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.479 miss it for lack of better terms, you know what 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.480 I mean, As opposed to trying to be this whole 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.199 other thing, and that that's not it. That's fake and 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.800 that's super dramatic. It's not super dramatic because that's not 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.920 how life is all the time. Like sometimes just a 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.639 simple conversation like that when you're mad, it's not you 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.960 just cursing to be sometimes your maddest, you're trying to 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:32.880 hold back a tear or something like that. So you've 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.760 got to be able to recognize all those things and 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:36.800 all your triggers and all your inabilities and all what 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.400 makes you happy your vulnerabilities and just don't know, throw 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.880 them out there though. M hm. So you feel like 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.440 you turned the corner once you figured that out? What 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.600 you said behind Greatness was the performance that you felt 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.720 like you turned the acting corner or was it something 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:58.000 else behind? And then so after so on the heels 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:02.360 of or after beyond greatness? What was your next role 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:10.760 that she had that was notable? Um? So I didn't 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.119 do any short films after that, but I did a 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.320 couple of commercials, so I was you know, I had 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.080 a small role in a commercial Magana Stallion for Coach. 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.080 It was it was background, but my face wasn't it 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.520 quite a bit? And that because like I wore a 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:28.919 very provocative outfit, you know, I showed the muscles and 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:30.640 all that and they said, oh, yeah, we need that. 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.439 And then um, I did another commercial, Magan the Stallion 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.359 for cash app where I was like her assistant, her 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.800 sexy mail assistant. Remember that. Yeah, I was pretty fun. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.520 She's great. She was like Cleopatra, and you're like the 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.880 Egyptian slave or whatever. I wouldn't call it a slave, man. 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.399 I was just like, you're acting like a slave in 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:51.720 that one, bro, No man, act like a maid. You know. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.199 It's okay to be making the Stallion slave for for 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.879 a few minutes, Bros. A few hours. Shout out to 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.239 Magan Stallion, shout out to the party. He's a great right, 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.959 that's your boyfriend. But yeah, so I did that. That 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:07.280 was cool, you know, And then um, yeah, then we 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:13.359 started auditioning for like the big stuff, and then getting 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.440 closer and closer, I noticed that Mr Perry kept having 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:21.160 me audition for more and more things. You just felt 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.920 like you was trying to find something for me. I mean, 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.560 I may be wrong, but it just felt like that. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.040 Let's back up. Let's back up to Tyler Perry and 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:34.960 in the auditions and and the whole your introduction into Hollywood, 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.680 Black Hollywood, if you will. Yeah, what was the first 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:41.320 audition that you went on? And and you said you 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.000 had to do audition for a lot of stuff, So 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.000 did you feel like you nailed some other things that 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.359 you might have been in or did you did you 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:50.560 feel like your best work was the audition for All 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:54.919 the Queens meant backtrack? Be right. Two weeks before we 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.439 got here with the pandemic audition to be on the 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:02.280 oval callback everything cast and director told my manager to 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:06.639 pin me, pin him meeting like we want them, so like, yeah, 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.600 everything's all good, and then pandemic happened and then everything 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.960 shut down and so I guess things kind of backtrack then. 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:17.080 But so then you know, like audition for like all 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:21.960 his like he has sisters, bro um, you know, he 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.840 got everything, bro he got like nineteen million shows, but 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.679 a lot. And then finally I had one audition. It 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.520 was two different two different roles for All the Queens Man, 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:35.160 So I didh you for both? And then like yeah, 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.240 then got the roller ray Sean and let's talk about 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.159 ray Sean and All the Queens man. When I was 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.320 reading the press release and it just trying to learn 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.399 a little bit about it. Um, it's a In the 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:51.320 first season, established Maryland, Madame Deville was a fierce businesswoman 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:54.720 ruling over her empire and delucrative male exotic nightclub industry. 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.160 Now hell bent on expanding her queendom. In season two, 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:01.760 Madam will have to navigate the sexy yet dangerous world 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:04.840 and she wants to stay alive in ahead of the game. 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.600 And so you're so ray Sean is a character who 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:11.240 was an amateur amateur that's basically not cut out for 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.800 the life of an exotic dancer, but he's hell bent 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:18.959 on becoming one. Okay, talk talk about this. What type 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:24.000 of inspirations did you draw upon when you acted out 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:27.359 this character of ray Sean? So honestly, you just I 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:33.080 just drew upon my own, you know, inspiration of of 0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:36.760 wanting to be in this, wanting to be an actor, 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:39.880 wanted to be somebody, wanted to be as cool as 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.280 my brothers, wanted to be like as cool as my dad, 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:44.199 you know, just kind of just like that kind of 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:47.199 thirst and like desperation and all that, and wanted to 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.639 live up to something and just be somebody. And so 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.160 just you know, you know, and I wouldn't say willing 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:54.400 to do anything, but god damn willing to go far, 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:56.600 you know what I mean, and just willing to push 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:59.320 myself and do whatever it takes. And so with that, 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.320 it's just it was just applying that and too maybe 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:08.280 a little different kind of situations. So it wasn't too hard. 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:10.119 It wasn't too hard to transition for me, you know, 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:12.240 to to to to plug all that in and be 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:15.840 fully brought in and fully committed to it. Yeah, because 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:18.679 there are things that you can you said, you relate 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:23.480 to with too, Ray sean Um, what's the most difficult 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:25.919 part of playing a character like that or being on 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:28.159 set in in a situation like that? Like for me, 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:31.800 I would imagine, you know, Tyler Perry working on that 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:33.720 production is sort of like you know, you're you're at 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:36.200 a tryout or you're on you know, at a game 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:38.400 with a high level coach, and you know it's kind 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:40.840 of like this guy is you know your coach isn't 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:44.080 this do you have the same type of correlationship? That 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:46.760 was like one of the factors. But like so like 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:49.960 my first day down there, we got dance rehearsals and 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:51.800 all that, and in the in the in the four 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:54.919 main dudes like them dudes is like crazy ass dances. Bro, 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:57.359 They're so good, Like they got food on, like like 0:25:57.480 --> 0:26:00.199 choreography and like they're going crazy and I'm just like, 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:02.920 oh man, dog, I'm just sexy. Bro. I can't dance 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.320 like that they like, but they got they do it. 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:08.199 They hit all that like that, like the hit swivels 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.480 and all like, so I'm just there intimidated. Man, I'm 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:13.479 just like, damn, these dude is like really because they 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:16.720 actually like they this this is their lane, you know 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:19.800 what I mean lane, and like they're so good at it. 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:21.600 But you know, they all took me in and like 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:24.400 helped me in. So I got a better understanding of 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:26.920 how to feel music as opposed to dance to music, 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:29.399 and so that helped a lot. And so like now 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:31.280 I just find myself like if I'm in the gym, 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:34.199 like I just I'm actudentally hitting my moves, you know, 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:36.400 in the middle of doing bench presser like a role, 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:38.399 I'm just hitting a little swivel and like, you know, 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:40.280 I might get an eyre two looking at me, you know, 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:42.719 do my little gyrations and all that, but I mean 0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:45.720 I'm just that. So I'm just always constantly feeling music now, 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:48.120 and I think that helped a lot. And then as 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:52.640 far as working with Mr Perry, I mean, dog man, 0:26:52.760 --> 0:26:55.800 it's just just to be down there on that on that. 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:59.199 So they housed us at the studios. Yeah, what's the studio, 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.719 Like how big is it? I've heard about it, I've 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:05.600 seen a tour of it, but is it really that huge? Bro? 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:09.120 So from our housing to like the main building where 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:13.000 the gym is, it's a mile and a half walk. Wow, 0:27:13.840 --> 0:27:18.480 Like so that's a straight walk. And so he's yeah, 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:24.520 like dog, it's like five different like residential sense, like 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:29.639 he's building like a New York skyline dog like dog. 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:33.520 But you know it's just it's just so it's like 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:35.800 you almost like almost so proud of him because you know, 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:38.159 like I grew up watching mcdea, bro, Like you know, 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:41.639 just see from from that to those stage plays and 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.959 productions to like all this is him, Like this is 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:47.000 all this is all his name on it. This is 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:50.920 like it's like almost seeing like like your uncle or 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:52.879 like your big brother just make it, you know what 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:55.360 I mean. And so it's just like it's just humbling 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:58.120 but so inspiring to be there, just like I used 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:01.080 to take walks every day like whenever we had like 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:04.400 an off there or anything, and just like walk around 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:07.800 and just like appreciate everything, just see just see it all. 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.760 Just like damn dog, this is really like this is 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.240 really him, bro, Like this is it's almost like it's 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:15.520 somebody you known for twenty years, you know, from watching 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:18.199 all his stuff and just to look like this is 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:22.240 all this all you dog, like wow, and then to 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:25.080 work with him, like dude is cool man, you know, 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.600 you mean, he's tough, but like you know, it's a lot. 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:29.120 He put a lot of pressure on himself. You want 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:31.080 to put out a good product. He want to really 0:28:31.080 --> 0:28:34.280 communicate with his audience and his supporters and put out 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:36.160 a good product that people are gonna watch it, people 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:37.760 are gonna enjoy. And so he puts a lot of 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:39.760 pressure on himself and he puts it on us. But 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.920 he's also like a really guy. He's like a great teacher, 0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:45.920 like almost like a great coach, acting wized, you know, 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:51.160 like he's you know, he be on you. I got 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:53.360 a problem where I when I'm on camera kind of 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:56.360 do a little like rock and like he like cussing. 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:58.600 He just like, hey, man, you guys stop doing that. 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:00.880 You guys are doing that's that's a bad thing to happen. Man, 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:02.600 gonna work with you. Man, I'm trying to help you. 0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:04.560 And so like he keep it so real with you. 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:06.520 But like you know, he talked to you like like 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:09.720 he talked to you like it ain't condescend it, but 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.960 like he just really like he really want to help 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:16.960 you keep one get these careers off. Man. So it's 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:19.600 just amazing, bro. Like he pray over the set every day. 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:22.080 You lead us on like a big prayer, man. Like, 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:24.640 it's just it's just amazing, like you do. I still 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:27.040 can't believe, like it's me, you know, I can't believe 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:29.360 it's I get to work with this man. It's just like, Bro, 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:33.920 it's amazing, man, man, dog, it's crazy. You know, it 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:36.440 sounds dope. Man, it sounds like a heck of an 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:39.960 experience from what I've seen, dude, and from just the 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:43.280 reputation Tyler PERRYO. I don't know him personally, but for 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:45.160 you to having worked with him, man, it's it's it's 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:48.920 it's like I feel honored as well because my brother 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:51.680 is with you know, talking to Tyler Perry. He's on there. 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:54.440 You know, he's hey, you know, getting getting yil that 0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:57.600 by Tyler Perry. It's all good. Like any other time, 0:29:57.640 --> 0:29:59.360 I'm sensitive, bro, so I'll be like one of this, 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:05.080 like know, maybe lash out of crying or something. But na, Rob, Yes, 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:09.600 Tyler Perry absolutely, I call it Mr Tyler Perry, absolutly 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:13.880 give you the whole name Tyler Perry, please absolutely. How 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:19.680 does someone that lands a show on like BT continue 0:30:19.760 --> 0:30:24.120 to to stay sharp, not be complacent? They continue to 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.440 work on their craft, like what is your strategy or 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:29.120 approach to to like when you get it? When now 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:31.520 you've landed your first big role, how are you going 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:36.239 to continue to land other roles? I mean, first of all, 0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:38.880 just staying grateful for it all and maintaining the same 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:43.680 hunger and maintain the same recognition of of life going 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:47.680 on around me. So I'm always observing and people watching 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:49.520 and just trying to take in what I can and 0:30:49.560 --> 0:30:52.640 being on top of my thoughts and like my feelings 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:54.400 when I see on top of my thoughts just so 0:30:54.480 --> 0:30:57.840 thoughts are like what I was taughting, acting thoughts will 0:30:57.880 --> 0:31:00.320 help drive your emotion, like your eyes and all that, 0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:03.160 and show people like DA he got a lot going on. 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:05.840 So it's always being on top of those and on 0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:08.520 top of my feelings and you know, recognizing how feeling 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:12.280 certain situations, and you know, being aware of my vulnerabilities 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:16.080 and my irritabilities and all that, and you know, sick 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:19.600 as it sounds like remembering my reactions to things, you know, 0:31:19.720 --> 0:31:22.520 So it's always constantly real, so it's always true to myself. 0:31:22.920 --> 0:31:25.400 And then that's on top of that, staying true to 0:31:25.440 --> 0:31:28.080 myself and me and my truth. So like that's why 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:30.400 I like my stories on Instagram or just how they 0:31:30.400 --> 0:31:33.600 are so chaotic or whatever, because like it's honestly what 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:36.000 comes to mind. It makes me laughing, entertains me. So 0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:37.880 you're about to get it too, whether you like it 0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:41.760 or not. It's always trying to stay on top of 0:31:41.800 --> 0:31:44.200 it like that. And that's that's that's my practice. You know, 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:46.760 that's my that's my work. You know, that's my That's 0:31:46.760 --> 0:31:49.120 how I get my reps in. So I'm constantly getting 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:53.719 reps in. Are you in class? I'm not in class? 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:56.600 And you know I'll get back into it. I mean 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:58.320 I have I have, I have a coach that I 0:31:58.360 --> 0:32:01.160 work with. Shout out to pat Uh. I mean he 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.280 just he's he's really good. He's really good at breaking 0:32:03.320 --> 0:32:04.880 scripts down. He's really good at talking to me like 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:06.360 how I need to be talked to. He's good at 0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:09.760 talking my language, and he's good at you know, of 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:12.560 helping me of of of breaking it down to a 0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:18.840 philosophical and almost like it's so organic is teaching, and 0:32:19.080 --> 0:32:21.680 it's just it's so real and it's like so so 0:32:23.400 --> 0:32:25.400 cutic in a way. You know, he just knows how 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:27.600 to talk, and he knows how to just I don't know, 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.200 just communicated to me. So it's just every time, every time, 0:32:30.240 --> 0:32:32.280 it's always like get an epiphany every time I talked 0:32:32.320 --> 0:32:34.240 with him. Man. And so I don't not in the 0:32:34.280 --> 0:32:37.080 classes right now, but you know, I got a coach 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:39.280 that I work with weekly. You know, he's also worked 0:32:39.320 --> 0:32:41.320 out with me at the gym, So it's always giving 0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:43.240 vice and tips. He always sending me tips, so and 0:32:43.280 --> 0:32:45.600 I'm just always open to receiving them and just applying them. 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:50.320 Let's go, man, Yeah. Fox Sports Radio has the best 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:53.160 sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:56.680 shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:59.800 I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. 0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:03.000 As far as the physical fitness side, you've been You've 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:06.760 mentioned and alluded to yourself being sexy numerous times. You 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:09.720 have a tremendous you have a tremendous physique. I understand 0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:13.160 it's not your fault, but when when we're going in 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:16.560 the summer and I had somebody on the show, Dr 0:33:16.640 --> 0:33:18.840 Courtney Watson. She gave some great health tips from the 0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:24.080 medical side of course. Corner. Yes, absolutely, I want to 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:27.360 I want to Joshua John Marcus Johnson to give us 0:33:27.440 --> 0:33:33.160 Josh's tips on how to either maintain a nice summer 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:36.560 beach bod, get a beach bock, or just healthy tips 0:33:36.600 --> 0:33:40.560 for living that will enhance our lifestyle because obviously you 0:33:40.600 --> 0:33:44.120 have done a tremendous job at that. And it's so crazy, man, 0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:46.400 because like people will tell you like all this difficult 0:33:46.440 --> 0:33:50.360 heart advice, and in my opinion, it's really like because 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:54.560 people if you people literally do nothing. So like my 0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:56.760 biggest thing is to do something like get out and 0:33:56.800 --> 0:33:58.960 walk outside of your team twenty minutes. Like if you 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.480 got a gym membership, set the time for forty five 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:06.080 to an hour, pick three workout, pick three exercise to do, 0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:10.040 so it could be like like a row, a push up, 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:13.160 and a squat do those forty five minutes straight, ten 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:15.360 sets of each. You gotta take a break, take a break, 0:34:15.520 --> 0:34:17.520 but you gotta do something, you know, And that's that's 0:34:17.520 --> 0:34:20.920 a lot of people's problems, like they're going from doing 0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:24.120 nothing and just expecting things to be easy. I mean, 0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:26.360 it's not gonna be easy, but you just gotta do 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.319 something like you know, it takes an hour a day. 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:30.040 I'm telling you, if you spend an hour a day 0:34:30.040 --> 0:34:32.680 dog like, and then you'll find like as you as 0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:36.960 you exercise more and more, your your exercise vocabulary experience. 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:38.960 And so now you're doing this, you're doing that, You're 0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:41.200 doing this, you're doing that, and then you start actually 0:34:41.239 --> 0:34:43.319 liking it. After three or four weeks or maybe a month, 0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:45.600 you love it, and then it becomes something that you 0:34:45.680 --> 0:34:48.040 need to do. It's it's it's just you take a 0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:50.440 day off and you feel gross, and so it's just 0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:52.200 something that you need to do. It almost becomes like 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:54.960 a positive addiction, you know. And so I just encourage 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:58.839 people to just do something anything, and then you'll find 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:00.440 it so good for your mental health. It's a good 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:04.279 way to transmute like different energies that you may have, 0:35:04.360 --> 0:35:07.640 whether it be sadness, anger, you know, even happiness. You know, 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:09.839 it's just a good way to just just to get 0:35:09.840 --> 0:35:12.080 that out, you know, just put it to use it 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:13.479 on something, to get it out, and then you find 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:16.000 that you sleep better, you start caring about what you 0:35:16.040 --> 0:35:18.080 put in your body as far as eating goes, you know, 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.279 and that so it just starts with doing something. I mean, 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:24.759 I'm even even if it's just twenty minutes straight of 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:28.359 three exercises in the circuit and just go ten ten 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:30.400 ten reps each, like you just go, like you just 0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:34.600 gotta do something. Yeah, what about eating stuff? Um, you know, 0:35:34.640 --> 0:35:37.120 I felt I've always felt like the eating part is 0:35:37.480 --> 0:35:41.359 more important than the physical part to a certain level, 0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:43.279 because I've lost weight and gotten into shape and I 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:45.440 didn't work out before, but I was I was on 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:48.759 a vegetarian diet, so without having to go to the 0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:52.680 extremes of like vegetarian, what's something like a normal person 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:57.200 you know, my age or younger and my around my 0:35:57.280 --> 0:36:00.000 age because this is my audience. My audience is people 0:36:00.320 --> 0:36:03.040 you know, thirty five to like fifty or so somewhere 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:05.719 around there, hopefully younger. But I think it's around that 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:10.759 what type of foods should we absolutely stay away from 0:36:10.800 --> 0:36:14.880 and what should we gravitate towards. So I like to 0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:17.520 live by like an eight percent percent things, So twenty 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:19.360 percent of the time you do something bad if you 0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.160 have to, like not saying you have to, but but 0:36:22.960 --> 0:36:25.319 people know not to eat fry foods, like you know 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:29.680 that that goes without saying, now you know, and and 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:31.880 so you get so I just encourage to get to 0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:34.680 a point ahead. But no, there's also but there's also 0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:37.680 these foods that for for the longest time, because I'm 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.160 asking you, because you're younger, you're you're plugged into the fitness. 0:36:40.200 --> 0:36:41.840 But for the longest time, we used to think certain 0:36:41.880 --> 0:36:44.680 foods were all good, and then later on they're like, 0:36:44.680 --> 0:36:47.440 oh no, those that acts actually isn't all good. That's 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.319 not that's not a good. Kind of fact, I was 0:36:49.320 --> 0:36:52.120 wonder if there's anything new out like that we should 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:55.920 know about. I don't even follow recommendations no more because 0:36:57.400 --> 0:37:00.640 because like they they tell you, they change it up. 0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:05.520 When your mess with people's minds. Now it's just, you know, 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:07.920 it's just dumb. So you just kinda gotta go. You 0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:11.240 gotta be on top of what makes you feel good. 0:37:11.400 --> 0:37:15.080 And so like the fry food is never gonna be good, 0:37:15.280 --> 0:37:17.120 but if you have to have it, you know, planting 0:37:17.200 --> 0:37:19.600 out to where you work out, you eat good for 0:37:19.640 --> 0:37:21.480 like the three days before that and make you feel 0:37:21.480 --> 0:37:23.680 like it's a reward or something like that. And so 0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:26.400 I mean, but like a simple kind of die for 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:29.800 me is like you know, like grill saltae, shrimp, real salta, 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:34.879 chicken fish, steak um, you know, brown rice, white rice, 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:38.160 sweep potato, but starch in greens. You know, I just 0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:39.880 keep it simple like that. And what do you do 0:37:39.920 --> 0:37:42.320 with brown rice? How can you eat brown rice? This 0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:44.360 is my question? How do you how do you actually 0:37:44.480 --> 0:37:47.640 swallow brown rice and like eat it? How do you 0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:50.160 do that? A little bit of grass their butter and 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:51.880 some of that juice from the fish or the chicken 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:57.680 grass that butter, different dog that grass, said, brother are different. Man. 0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:00.359 It's good for you too. It's really good. Where you've 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:02.840 got that conjugated lino leg acid that c l A 0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:05.359 and it you know, it helps with your belly fat, 0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:10.040 doesn't it. Yeah? So they say where you get it from? 0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:13.800 Getting from rouse? It's it's the carry gold carry carry 0:38:13.800 --> 0:38:18.879 gold butter. Hm, it's grass fad butter, you know it's 0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:22.439 it's so you got your regular butter the American eyes, 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:24.040 I guess whatever, and then you got your grass fed. 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:27.160 Grass fed is like super it's almost like golden color. 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.600 So it's this is rich and like and like vitamin 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:32.359 a invada, carrooteen and stuff like that. Got the good 0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:36.080 fast for you? And whereas this not as what not 0:38:36.160 --> 0:38:42.279 as much interesting? Okay, okay? What about like liquids are 0:38:42.320 --> 0:38:45.239 the liquids that like? For the longest I used to 0:38:45.280 --> 0:38:48.120 think juice was cool, But juice apparently it's not. It's 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:50.400 not all good. There's a lot of fat. Even diet 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:53.680 sodas are kind of shaky. So do you what do 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:56.399 you suggest water all the time or what is your 0:38:56.480 --> 0:38:59.320 juice daily liquid intake? Look like? Like I try to 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:02.080 drink like a don't have two gallons of water a day, 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:06.120 damn And lots of coffee. I like coffee a lot. 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:09.320 How much coffee do you drink? I'm probably like fi 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:12.400 cups coffee a day. It's gonna stain your teeth. You 0:39:12.480 --> 0:39:15.680 better get that teeth white. And the thing, boy, it's 0:39:15.680 --> 0:39:17.759 all good. You know what you got, what you got. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:20.320 So it's just it's one of them Instagram has got me. 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:23.400 It's this purple stuff and then you spray and then purple. 0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:27.080 It helped bleach out a bunch of it, bleach out 0:39:27.200 --> 0:39:29.040 yellow things and stuff like that. It's really cool. I 0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:31.000 forget what it's called. I'll texted to you it's working, 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:38.160 as he smiles and shows the pearly whites. Yes, it's working, Yes, 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:44.080 it's working. But so yeah, but water coffee is cool 0:39:44.160 --> 0:39:47.400 because caffeine helps, you know, get your metabolism up, and 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:50.120 you know, it burns fat while you're at rest. Um, 0:39:50.600 --> 0:39:53.439 I'll drink juice, but so you gotta do it strategically. 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:57.080 So if you have like a nice hard workout, your 0:39:57.120 --> 0:39:59.400 muscles and all that are like craving cards. So if 0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:02.520 you drink the juice after you work out, your muscle 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.080 is gonna know what to do with them, whereas he's 0:40:05.080 --> 0:40:07.799 gonna know to do with the cars, whereas before it's 0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:09.520 just kind of just chilling and hanging out. You know, 0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:11.759 it has no use in application, but if you use 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:14.399 it as like a recovery drink, then you're gonna be like, oh, 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:15.799 this is kind of nice. It's just kind of good. 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:20.279 It's feeding my muscles, it's feeling my muscles. Okay, okay, 0:40:20.920 --> 0:40:23.880 lots of water. So like simple cars, like simple cars, 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:25.759 like don't even be thinking you can go get like 0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:29.319 a twelve pack of doughnuts from the Crispy Cream even 0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:32.400 though the sign hot now on I couldn't blame you 0:40:32.440 --> 0:40:34.359 if you did, but you know you gotta be careful. Man. 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:37.120 It's just full of oils and just bad fast and 0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:39.120 or make it sixtens. It causes information on that you 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:41.200 don't want to be get. So so what is someone's 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:45.120 supposed to do if they have a sweep too? Uh? 0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:49.000 Pick a day, pick a day and go crazy just 0:40:49.040 --> 0:40:51.000 one day? So what's crazy to you? Because I feel 0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:54.040 like crazy? Like me, my my disciplines got to the 0:40:54.040 --> 0:40:56.720 point where crazy to me is like eating like four 0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:59.640 doughnuts and and that's it, and that's it. That's my 0:40:59.719 --> 0:41:01.879 crazy zy day. Or a piece of pie and ice 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:05.240 cream two in two scoops ice cream, Like that's crazy 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:09.160 for me. So what's crazy? So I don't know. So, 0:41:09.239 --> 0:41:11.160 like my biology is kind of different. So I feel 0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:13.239 like I'll be having like these cheat days where I 0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:15.480 want to just go crazy, and so I start to 0:41:15.520 --> 0:41:17.440 day off for like choking chip pancakes, and then I'll 0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:20.400 be done, Like it'll be it'll be satisfied. And so 0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:23.560 I just think you pick a day and maybe just 0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:25.359 planning to go all out, and then you'll find like, oh, 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:28.040 like I'm done this. You know, I got what I needed, 0:41:28.120 --> 0:41:30.280 you know, and like, so it ends of not being crazy. 0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:32.680 But just pick a day, make sure you on your stuff, 0:41:32.719 --> 0:41:34.279 make sure you on you're working out, make sure you're 0:41:34.280 --> 0:41:37.400 on eating appropriately for your diet and for your goals. 0:41:38.080 --> 0:41:39.799 And then just if you need to have a day 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:43.439 just like, Okay, I'm I'm planning it for two days 0:41:43.440 --> 0:41:46.319 from now, I'm gonna go crazy. I'm just gonna just 0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:49.080 eat whatever I want. Blah blah blah. But make sure 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:51.160 you're following your plan and doing it right and earn it. 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:53.920 You know, what's your thoughts on alcohol? And this will 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:59.080 be the last question on the diet. Um, So I'm 0:41:59.080 --> 0:42:01.200 not gonna love the man. When the pandemic first hit, Dog, 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:06.040 I'll probably taking down a bottle of day I had, Like, man, 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:12.920 I had so much unemployment money. Dog, Like, what so tequila? 0:42:12.960 --> 0:42:14.799 If they say tequila is the best one to drink, 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:18.120 is that true? Supposedly? But it's all nasty, it's all gross. 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:21.319 He's yeah, gross, it's all nasty. So yeah, I mean, 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:27.440 you know, But so if you're gonna drink alcohol, you know, 0:42:27.520 --> 0:42:30.719 don't make it an everyday thing, because I mean what 0:42:30.760 --> 0:42:32.759 you mean, Like, I'm like, I don't know I don't 0:42:32.760 --> 0:42:35.279 know because for my like, I'll call it nasty. Man, 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:37.440 it don't taste good, bro, it don't taste good. So 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:39.440 I don't see how people do it every day. But 0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:40.960 if you got if you want to get turned up, 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:42.919 I mean, just pick a day. I guess, pick a day. 0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:44.759 There you go with your pick a day. So every 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:48.759 so everything is moderation pretty much for you, everything excumely moderation, 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:50.759 Like you don't need to be drinking every day and 0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:54.080 like eating all this unhealthy stuff every day, especially when 0:42:54.120 --> 0:42:55.400 you know it's not good for you. If you're feeling 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:58.719 like slow, sluggish and lethargic, it's like, why would you 0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:00.919 want to feel that? But you know, I can't speak 0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:02.799 for everybody because I wouldn't want to feel that. Don't 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:05.720 mean that everybody else will want to feel that. So okay, 0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:08.719 but the best alcohol to drink for somebody that's trying 0:43:08.760 --> 0:43:10.840 to watch way would be would be like what like 0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:13.040 give me an exact like for me, okay, I'll tell 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:16.880 you red wine, all right, I do reds. I also 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:22.200 do like Michaelo Ultra one hundreds, which are very light. Uh. 0:43:22.280 --> 0:43:26.120 If if you have Taihen, it really makes it. Uh 0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:28.759 easier to go down a little bit. Yeah, but then 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:30.839 you know, but then that's pretty much it. You know, 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:33.919 I don't really subscribe, like I know, dark is bad, 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:37.080 which I understand, but it's important when you get around 0:43:37.080 --> 0:43:38.719 my age, because you like to eat good, you like 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:40.840 to drink good, and you like to have these these 0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:44.040 consistent you should enjoy yourself and like the main point 0:43:44.080 --> 0:43:46.359 I want to say, it's like, don't stress yourself out 0:43:46.360 --> 0:43:48.560 about it too much. So even if my picket day 0:43:48.600 --> 0:43:51.120 concept don't work for you, don't, you know, don't stress 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:52.759 out about it. If you've got to have that little drink, 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:55.279 take you that little drink, you know, sip it slow, 0:43:55.560 --> 0:43:57.160 take a little drink, you know. If you gotta have 0:43:57.200 --> 0:44:01.160 that cookie, yeah, yeah, cookie, don't you know, don't play 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:02.920 don't mind too much about it because it's going into 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:04.960 backfind on your regardless, So don't do that. You know, 0:44:05.000 --> 0:44:09.279 don't restrict yourself because restricting causes a being. So yes, 0:44:09.440 --> 0:44:12.680 it's no, that's a great formula, josh Uh. I like 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:16.640 your approach to it. It's not really it's it's a 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:20.040 good balance of like tough but also giving the person 0:44:20.640 --> 0:44:22.920 a lot of leeway to make his own decisions and 0:44:22.960 --> 0:44:29.520 holding his own self accountable. That's dope. Um man, man, man, 0:44:29.560 --> 0:44:32.880 it's been this. This I enjoyed speaking to you in 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:35.799 this type of form um, in this format, you know, 0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:38.759 just hearing you kind of talk about your stuff through 0:44:38.800 --> 0:44:41.880 your through how you've experienced it. You know, we you know, 0:44:41.920 --> 0:44:44.560 we're brothers. We don't talk as much. We talk all 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:45.960 the time, but we don't talk about this type of 0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:48.719 stuff like this in depth. So this was this was 0:44:48.840 --> 0:44:53.560 really good. Um Yeah, we hold a lot of things 0:44:53.560 --> 0:44:56.319 in and uh, we gotta talk about that. We gotta 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:59.319 talk about that one day. About the toxic masculinity in 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:01.879 like in the sense of of having to be hard 0:45:01.880 --> 0:45:04.600 all the time and not you know, you know, spill 0:45:04.600 --> 0:45:07.279 out your feelings sometimes and maybe like share a cry bro, Like, 0:45:07.440 --> 0:45:09.360 we gotta we gotta have a discussion about that. I 0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:12.640 think we should have like a big form me to 0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:16.160 talk about that. You know, it's just showed it. It's okay, man, 0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:21.879 because like, like the male suicide rate is crazy right now. Dog, Yeah, 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:25.040 we're killing ourselves because we can't we feel like we 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:26.640 can't share it. So like we think that's the next 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:29.799 mess option. Man, we gotta, we gotta clean that up, man. 0:45:29.960 --> 0:45:31.719 And that's a side of that toxicity that we need 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:33.879 to clean up. Man. We like we gotta we gotta 0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:37.080 save the world, we gotta save ourselves. Yeah, Man, it's 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:39.600 a lot of it is pride, a lot of it 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:42.920 is you know. It's like it takes a lot of 0:45:43.000 --> 0:45:47.200 undoing to because you grow up in the culture that 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:51.680 we encouraged it, allowed it. Everything you've seen is pretty 0:45:51.719 --> 0:45:54.840 much about it. So unless you were really you know, 0:45:56.040 --> 0:45:59.520 taught early, you know, and a lot of us in 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:02.719 our family you were. But there's still tendencies that happen 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:05.280 as you grow, man, and your you you move outside 0:46:05.280 --> 0:46:07.200 to different units. People go to school, you know, you 0:46:07.239 --> 0:46:10.120 pick up habits and these are bad habits. That and 0:46:10.120 --> 0:46:13.960 and something I enjoyed talking about because there are no 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:16.120 real well I won't say no, but it's nice to 0:46:16.160 --> 0:46:18.840 have a safe space where you know, men can talk 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:22.319 and share real feelings and things like that. But we'll 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:25.640 definitely um touch on that. We have a whole episode's 0:46:25.640 --> 0:46:29.160 worth of stuff like that. But man, your journey has 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:32.040 been an amazing one to hear about. Dude. Although I 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:35.319 knew the story, it's just it resonates more to hear 0:46:35.360 --> 0:46:38.799 it through your words and your voice. Uh. Proud of 0:46:38.840 --> 0:46:43.880 you and everything that you're accomplishing uh in in life. 0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:46.520 I wanted to know this and then this would be 0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:52.959 my last question. When you ultimately you're gonna have a platform. Um, 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:55.560 you gotta be someone that has gonna be able to 0:46:55.600 --> 0:47:01.560 affect others. What's sort of your message or what do 0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:05.640 you live what words or do you live your life 0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:13.440 by that you would want others to know about you? Um, 0:47:13.480 --> 0:47:15.399 there's I forget the version of Bible. With this version 0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:19.520 of Bible where in saying faith, hope, and most important love. 0:47:19.680 --> 0:47:23.600 So I try to live my life loving everybody of 0:47:23.640 --> 0:47:27.160 different creeds, different orientations, different whatever. Like I always want 0:47:27.160 --> 0:47:30.839 to be somebody that we'll listen and try my best 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:33.279 to understand it. If I can't understand, I will sympathize 0:47:33.280 --> 0:47:36.200 with you. Want to be somebody know with empathy and 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:39.359 I just want people to know. Like like you said 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:41.960 about safe spaces, like I would you know, I want 0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:44.279 to be I want to be a safe space you know, 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:48.400 where people can talk to me about any and everything honestly, 0:47:48.520 --> 0:47:52.319 and like you know, I pray that nothing ever gets 0:47:52.400 --> 0:47:56.440 too much for me to bear or here you know, 0:47:56.719 --> 0:47:58.520 and so like that's it. Man. I just want to 0:47:58.520 --> 0:48:00.000 live a life and just love and be a best 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:03.840 of love and to everybody and to anybody. You know, 0:48:03.880 --> 0:48:05.880 I don't want, you know, I want people to be 0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:07.719 able to walk up to me, you know, and ask 0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:10.120 me questions, ask me if I's on working out or 0:48:10.160 --> 0:48:14.600 anything like, you know, and not feel, you know, not 0:48:14.800 --> 0:48:16.600 not be not be intimidated about me. I don't want 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:18.399 to be intimidating. I want I want to be somebody 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:20.359 who's an open book, somebody who people can just come 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:23.160 and talk to about anything like. And so I try 0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:24.920 to live my life like that now. Like you know, 0:48:25.800 --> 0:48:27.520 I try to help a lot of people, man, try 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:29.840 to help a lot of people. Man. It's just important 0:48:29.880 --> 0:48:31.160 to me to be that voice because a lot of 0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:33.759 people don't have that even within their own families. And 0:48:33.840 --> 0:48:36.719 I recognized that I was fortunate enough to get that 0:48:36.760 --> 0:48:39.040 with mine and so if I could be an extension 0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:41.560 of our family to other people, man, like, you know, 0:48:42.160 --> 0:48:46.600 that's a life well lived. Dog, you know. Yeah, man, 0:48:46.640 --> 0:48:51.359 good stuff. Uh, You're blessed, you're touched, and you've you've 0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:55.759 always been destined to do what you're doing. Appreciate you, man, 0:48:55.840 --> 0:48:58.279 you know. I I reverbed back to one of my 0:48:58.280 --> 0:49:00.720 favorite pictures of us. You have me on your shoulders 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:02.759 at Drake Stadium. Man. You know, you know, I'm just 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:05.880 I'm on my big brother shoulders. Man, you and so 0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:07.839 you know, I'm just grateful to have y'all to man 0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:10.200 like two the best neig brothers in the world. Ah. 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:11.759 So that's why I try to be the big brother 0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:15.600 I am to countless people. Man. So that's direct from you. Man, 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:17.640 So you give yourself around of applause for that. I 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:20.160 appreciate you. Man. You're the first born and you did 0:49:20.160 --> 0:49:23.160 the hell of a job, you know, leading us. You know, 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:25.960 so I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you, my brother, 0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:29.480 and I love you. Thank lad man, ladies and gentlemen. 0:49:29.719 --> 0:49:31.360 Ja Marcus Johnson