WEBVTT - O’Shea Jackson Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>Kids. That's okay because no one here.

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<v Speaker 2>Is Hello, and welcome to another episode of Team Beat,

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<v Speaker 2>the weekly podcast that revives our awkward teenage years the

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<v Speaker 2>same way doctor John Hammond resurrected dinosaurs for a theme

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<v Speaker 2>park and with similar results. And this week I'm recording

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<v Speaker 2>a special episode live from Las Vegas for WrestleMania forty

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<v Speaker 2>two weekend, an epicenter for headlocks and r KOs, but

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<v Speaker 2>more than anything else, a place where we can all

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<v Speaker 2>feel like kids again. So where better to sit with

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<v Speaker 2>an interesting person who does interesting things to talk about

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<v Speaker 2>their upbringing, tapping into the glorious and awkward journey of

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<v Speaker 2>being a teenager years that were chronicled for me in

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<v Speaker 2>front of a live studio audience, then on DVD, now

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<v Speaker 2>on a worldwide streaming service. I look at it this way.

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<v Speaker 2>I gave you my childhood. It's time we hear yours.

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<v Speaker 2>And this week I'm excited to chat with someone whose

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<v Speaker 2>childhood may have existed outside the spotlight, but the glow

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<v Speaker 2>around him was bright enough to light a thousand caves.

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<v Speaker 2>He burst onto the scene in twenty fifteen, starring in

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<v Speaker 2>the NWA biopicks Straight out of Compton, portraying ice Cube,

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<v Speaker 2>a role he intensely studied for twenty four years, not

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<v Speaker 2>only working to mimic the subject's likeness and mannerisms, but

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<v Speaker 2>he even went as far as living with him for

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<v Speaker 2>at least eighteen years to perfect everything about him. He

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<v Speaker 2>then showed his range in the underrated twenty seventeen dark

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<v Speaker 2>comedy Ingrid Grows West opposite Aubrey Plaza and if you

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<v Speaker 2>ask me, he was a scene stealing highlight, and it

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<v Speaker 2>appears many industry heavyweights agreed because he would go on

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<v Speaker 2>to share the screen with Charlie's Theron and Seth Rogan

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<v Speaker 2>in Long Shot, then Michael B. Jordan and Brie Larsen

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<v Speaker 2>and Just Mercy, all while starring in the Den of

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<v Speaker 2>Thieves franchise as an action star alongside Gerard Butler. But

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<v Speaker 2>you'll see him next in the comedy Idiots with Dave

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<v Speaker 2>Franco and Killer Mike. And where you'll see him most

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<v Speaker 2>is at WWE Live events, turning his fandom into a

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<v Speaker 2>job with the podcast No Contest Wrestling, becoming one of

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<v Speaker 2>sports entertainment's go to and most opinionated experts.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't believe me check his Twitter.

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<v Speaker 2>Also, his dad is ice Cube Welcome to teen Beat

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<v Speaker 2>my favorite mark Osha Jackson Junior.

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<v Speaker 1>Amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's nice to put together

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<v Speaker 2>all of your accomplishments in one place and then hear

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<v Speaker 2>someone read them out loud. Right, you're dope. I think

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<v Speaker 2>that's what happens.

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<v Speaker 1>That's true. Yeah, I like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much for joining me today on this

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<v Speaker 2>glorious holiday of WrestleMania weekend. I know it is a

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<v Speaker 2>very busy time for you. How has it been so far?

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<v Speaker 1>Uh?

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<v Speaker 2>Awesome and busy?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I've had I've had a really good time. But

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<v Speaker 3>like whenever I get really busy, I just think like

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<v Speaker 3>I could be doing nothing and that drives me crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>Same, it's like the worst.

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<v Speaker 3>Even when I film, all I can think about is

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<v Speaker 3>getting home. And then after those first two weeks, I'm like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>what am I doing with my life? Everything's going to

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<v Speaker 3>go to hell. The bank account's getting low, my daughter's

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<v Speaker 3>going to starve.

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<v Speaker 1>Like.

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<v Speaker 2>You go from zero to one hundred real fast, like something.

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<v Speaker 1>I know.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how to relax anymore. It's like if

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<v Speaker 2>I do have a day off, I try I find

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<v Speaker 2>that I just make myself busy. Work, Like, oh, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what I should do because I have a free afternoon,

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<v Speaker 2>clean out the closet. It's like, well, now I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>even have any downtime, but so I do get that.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk to you about how and when

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<v Speaker 2>a young Osha Jackson Junior discovered pro wrestling.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh man, I had my big brother Daryl. My big

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<v Speaker 3>brother Daryl, me and him would play video games together

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<v Speaker 3>and we played a game called WWF Raw Sega Genesis

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<v Speaker 3>and this game taught me like Raizor Ramon, Shawn Michael's Bamman, Bigelow,

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<v Speaker 3>Doink the Clown, and that really was my first introduction.

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<v Speaker 1>Taker.

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<v Speaker 3>That was my first introduction. And then he was like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know we can watch these people. I was like,

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<v Speaker 3>what are you talk Yeah, like what the video game

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<v Speaker 3>is real?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>And then yeah, we watched Raw and I was like

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<v Speaker 3>this is crazy, Like you know, this is nuts.

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<v Speaker 1>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>Later on I was probably like five. I'm not controlling

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<v Speaker 3>the TV at that time, so maybe about third grade,

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<v Speaker 3>so like ninety nine two thousand is when I started

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<v Speaker 3>watching you know, weekly and I got lot Dan and

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I fell in love with the rock and

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<v Speaker 3>just like that whole era, like when when Shane and

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<v Speaker 3>Stephanie bought w CW and ECW, this was the.

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<v Speaker 1>Biggest news of my life.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I was like and then stone cold like

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<v Speaker 3>crosses over to them.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, wwf is gonna lose? Like everything I

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<v Speaker 1>know is just terrible.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but yeah, those were the stressful times, greatest soap

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<v Speaker 3>op Rocket asked for as a kid.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely. It's so funny that you also got into it

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<v Speaker 2>from video games. That's actually how my kids got into it.

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<v Speaker 2>I was I was delaying putting it on the TV,

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<v Speaker 2>and then we got WWE two K twenty five and

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<v Speaker 2>they started playing the video games and it was very similar.

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<v Speaker 2>It was like, you know, these are real people, It's

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<v Speaker 2>like what and then they just got very into it.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you remember your first live event?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, first live of it had to be m probably

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<v Speaker 3>a random raw smack down. You know, couldn't tell you

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<v Speaker 3>like what happened, but like, I just remember I remember

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<v Speaker 3>going to Staple Center one year and not knowing because

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a kid, I'm not knowing the difference between a

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<v Speaker 3>live show and ron SmackDown, and I remember going and

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<v Speaker 3>being like there's no Titan tronk, Like there's no Pyro,

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<v Speaker 3>there's no like, what is this? And like I remember

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<v Speaker 3>Kane having a match, but I remember like taking friends

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<v Speaker 3>and being like, I'm sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what this is embarrassing, I'm not the

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<v Speaker 1>same thing that I went to.

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<v Speaker 3>And of course later on I got that, but I

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<v Speaker 3>think the one of the biggest moments because as a kid, no, no,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm probably not the type of kids who should think

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<v Speaker 3>this way, but I'm a kid, so I think this way.

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<v Speaker 3>But I never thought I'd go to WrestleMania. It was

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<v Speaker 3>just like it was always on TV. It was just like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, like, man, I wish I could go one

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<v Speaker 3>day and WrestleMania twenty one sad Staple Center, So I

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<v Speaker 3>know I'm going And it was the best. It was

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<v Speaker 3>the best ever, and like it to this day. I

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<v Speaker 3>can't believe I went. And then I was like, I

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<v Speaker 3>have to try to go to as many as I can,

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<v Speaker 3>and the next one I would go to would be

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<v Speaker 3>thirty two. But had some time and yeah, I've gone

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<v Speaker 3>to I think five in a row.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, Oh my gosh, the.

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<v Speaker 1>Streak is in danger.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we're just talking about them.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe I was back in Vegas no reason when I

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<v Speaker 3>found I was coming to Vegas again. I was like,

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<v Speaker 3>oh no, like not like I survived the first one.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, like, so the it's been good. It's because

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<v Speaker 1>now I got work exactly, is.

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<v Speaker 2>Getting replenished and instead of going one direction, it's at

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<v Speaker 2>least going both ways now exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>And my little brother and my little sister, who I

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<v Speaker 3>love to death, they were too WrestleMania out after last.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, I was like, go ahead, yeah, take it off.

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<v Speaker 1>Who cares? Yeah, it's been pretty good.

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<v Speaker 2>Who were your favorite wrestlers when you were a kid?

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<v Speaker 3>Loved Rock, Always loved Taker. Taker was really my first

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<v Speaker 3>favorite because my brother always made me play as him

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<v Speaker 3>in the game, like we're going to beat people, Love

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<v Speaker 3>you have to be Taker because like Taker's the he's

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<v Speaker 3>the big bass, Like it's hard to take him down.

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<v Speaker 1>So give the little brother that one.

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<v Speaker 3>So I always loved Taker, And then, you know, just

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<v Speaker 3>the older I got watching the Rock.

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<v Speaker 1>On the mic, I was like, oh, this is my guy.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was a very shy kid growing up, and

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<v Speaker 3>The Rock kind of helped me find my voice because

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<v Speaker 3>no one could back him into a corner.

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<v Speaker 1>He's quick as a whip and he's always going to get.

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<v Speaker 3>The upper hand in a conversation, and I love that

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<v Speaker 3>he was funny but still tough, and I never thought

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<v Speaker 3>he'd lose, Like, you know, it took a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>l's and you know, I know the business now, but

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<v Speaker 3>I never thought he'd lose because of the confidence that

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<v Speaker 3>was just like oozing out of him. And that has

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<v Speaker 3>always been my guy.

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<v Speaker 1>I really like Roman. Oh you know, I'm a big

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<v Speaker 1>hunk Phil. Phil. Phil was my first guest. That's my bullet.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, Phil is my god.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I'm so angry at both of them.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, they were putting you in this situation. It's

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<v Speaker 2>like personal.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was different last year because it was like.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly, who care? But now it's like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it is tough for our family because Phil is very

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<v Speaker 2>important to our family, and my youngest son is a

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<v Speaker 2>huge Roman Reigns fan. Has has the buddy. Yeah we

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<v Speaker 2>we we took him to Survivor series and my four

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<v Speaker 2>year old stood up on it chair and held his

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<v Speaker 2>little wrestling buddy over his head while singing the song.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, you know, house divided.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's rough.

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<v Speaker 2>When you start watching wrestling, your brothers are watching wrestling.

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<v Speaker 1>What did your dad think of it all.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like there's always a moment when parents have

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<v Speaker 2>to ask why you're watching this fake stuff?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean yeah, somebody in my dad's childhood ruined

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<v Speaker 3>it for him. Yeah, And so like he never came

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<v Speaker 3>back and like stuck with it. And when it comes

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<v Speaker 3>to that conversation, I'm like, I also know that, like

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<v Speaker 3>Jeff Goldblum didn't run from a t rex exactly, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>like Robert Downey Jr.

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<v Speaker 1>Didn't send a nuke into space. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I still enjoy The Avengers. It's Broadway with violence. I

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<v Speaker 3>sit and I watched storylines play out with characters that

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<v Speaker 3>I like and now with so much behind the scenes.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually like the people. I'm actually rooting for them.

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<v Speaker 3>And so then I'm watching hoping that the company will

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<v Speaker 3>see what I see and give them their shot. And

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<v Speaker 3>it's just like it's a great way to exercise your

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<v Speaker 3>empathy because you start caring for people that you ain't

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<v Speaker 3>got nothing to do with you, and when they lose,

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<v Speaker 3>it really hurts, and when they win, it really feels good.

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<v Speaker 3>And so you know, when we started to figure out like, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>what we're seeing is a bit of an illusion. It's

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<v Speaker 3>a bit of Harlem Globe Trotters. That's when you know,

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<v Speaker 3>you start to question.

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<v Speaker 1>What you're look at.

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<v Speaker 3>But then I'm like, I'm entertained totally, and I started

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<v Speaker 3>to like the punches and kicks which might connect every

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<v Speaker 3>now and then. That's what you really got to try

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<v Speaker 3>to movie magic and some holes.

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<v Speaker 1>Other than that, they're really falling from that.

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<v Speaker 3>They really got to jump off that, they really got

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<v Speaker 3>to get hit with this. And I've seen their bodies afterwards,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's just like, dude, I know what I'm looking at,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's it's broad Away with vines, the best play

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<v Speaker 3>I've ever seen.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have never met a wrestler who's been like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I've never had any injuries.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm fine.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm totally fine. My body works great.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for asking exactly. We actually grew.

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<v Speaker 2>Up very close to each other, I think a couple

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<v Speaker 2>decades apart. But I am a Calabasas high school graduate

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<v Speaker 2>and you went to taff Tea house.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a f T.

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<v Speaker 2>First, I'd like to get regional for a second. Are

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<v Speaker 2>you a fan of Dan super Subs?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh? No, I don't know these people have they spoke

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<v Speaker 1>about me? Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>Goodness, Dan Subs the best sandwiches made.

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<v Speaker 3>They'll listen. In my fatherhood, a sandwich will save your life.

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<v Speaker 2>I know. So I need to know what good Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I will tell you. You have to go to dance

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<v Speaker 2>super sucks. What are some of your favorite local eateies?

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously in and out? Okay, yeah, come on out, like ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 1>My dad puts us on round table pizza.

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<v Speaker 2>For like ever love round table pizza. There's something about

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<v Speaker 2>that burnt edge.

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<v Speaker 1>It is so good. So let's chill out. Yeah okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so are you hungry? I'm starving so.

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<v Speaker 3>Because I just went on on camera and you never

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<v Speaker 3>eat before.

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<v Speaker 1>Camera, No, I know you, So we'll eat after absolutely,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, round table pizza fire. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Just because I grew up in the valley, I hop

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<v Speaker 3>with such a mainstaple. But like I've been to the South,

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<v Speaker 3>a waffle house is killing.

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<v Speaker 2>I hop kills I hop. I just went to an

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<v Speaker 2>waffle house, one of my favorite places in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>And so I was just in Texas for a show

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<v Speaker 2>and I was there like twenty four hours, and I

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<v Speaker 2>made sure I stopped at a waffle house and got

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<v Speaker 2>some cheesey eggs and grits.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, the cheesy eggs is some of the raisins plastic cheese.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly, that plastic cheese. And there's something about that sweet

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<v Speaker 2>raisin bread mixed with the savory cheesy, and I.

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<v Speaker 1>Need the guy cooking it to have a cigarette falling

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<v Speaker 1>out of his mouth. These are the rules that I

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<v Speaker 1>was taught by the Southerners and my family.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, with that out of the way, what was

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<v Speaker 2>high school like for you?

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<v Speaker 3>High school was, oh, okay, so let me break this down.

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<v Speaker 3>So my parents, at a random time in my life,

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<v Speaker 3>decided they wanted to declare war on LAUSD. Yeah, Los

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<v Speaker 3>Angeles Unified School District. And I was like okay, and

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<v Speaker 3>they I was a great, great student, great student, always

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<v Speaker 3>got good grades, always made sure I did my work,

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<v Speaker 3>even was the student that was helping other students in class.

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<v Speaker 1>This was always me.

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<v Speaker 3>And then sixth grade happened and I had a problem

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<v Speaker 3>adjusting from you know, an elementary you got one teacher,

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<v Speaker 3>one teacher, teacher all everything. Sixth grade, sixth grade you

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<v Speaker 3>have now you get six different teachers that have six

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<v Speaker 3>different attitudes, that have six differ diferent ways of doing things,

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<v Speaker 3>and so it's like it's an adjustment period. And that

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<v Speaker 3>on top of one new problem kind of messed me

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<v Speaker 3>up academic, and the one major problem, when I know

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of people deal with, is girls. And that

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<v Speaker 3>was way more interesting than sedimentary rocks.

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<v Speaker 1>Who who cares.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm never gonna remember this, uh huh and uh yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>And then so for the first time I got summer school. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>summer school. And then but in summer school, both of

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<v Speaker 3>classes that I was there for, I ate some both.

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<v Speaker 3>I even had a teacher pulled me to the front

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<v Speaker 3>of the class and go, what are you doing here?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're so smart, you don't need this.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen.

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<v Speaker 3>I just don't like having six teachers. I'm sorry, I

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<v Speaker 3>just don't like I don't like learning like that.

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<v Speaker 1>And uh yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>That scared my parents enough where all my older brother Darrol,

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<v Speaker 3>me and my little sister Kareema we all had to

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<v Speaker 3>go to homeschool. And so from seventh through eleventh grade,

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<v Speaker 3>I was homeschooled. And at first I was like, this

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<v Speaker 3>sucks running away, I'm joining the circus.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and it was the best thing ever happened to me, really, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>because I had I had at most two teachers, but

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<v Speaker 4>in the beginning it was just one teacher taught me everything.

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<v Speaker 3>No classroom is just like me and him. So I'm

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<v Speaker 3>really learning things because I like, that's just the best

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<v Speaker 3>way for me to learn.

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<v Speaker 1>Shout out to her nod.

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<v Speaker 3>He changed my life because you know, while we're doing homeschool,

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<v Speaker 3>which is by the way, in the poolhouse, it's not

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<v Speaker 3>like a class. And he would make these deals with

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<v Speaker 3>me and my older brother that like, if we finished

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<v Speaker 3>our work early, we could watch a movie. And it

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't just like, you know, pick any movie. He was

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<v Speaker 3>showing us stuff like Doctor Strangelove, Patton Rus.

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<v Speaker 2>He was giving you an education without you knowing it.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, He's showing us these films, and I'm like, there's

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<v Speaker 3>a side of me tapping in that I didn't know

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<v Speaker 3>that I.

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<v Speaker 1>Cared about, right, And then so from there.

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<v Speaker 3>They had to add in a second teacher. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>it's that way my brother and I can be taught

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<v Speaker 3>at one time, and my sister can be taught. And

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<v Speaker 3>so that was a lady by the name of Rachelle Nondorf.

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<v Speaker 3>I love you to death. And you know, while all

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<v Speaker 3>this is happening, I'm developing a love.

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<v Speaker 1>For film through what her non is teaching me.

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<v Speaker 3>And then so I started to like daydream like, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>a real big day dreamer. And then one day he

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<v Speaker 3>sat a notebook in front of me and he was like, listen,

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<v Speaker 3>you're not here right now. Whatever's in your head, just

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<v Speaker 3>write it down for me. When you get it down,

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<v Speaker 3>can you come back. I was like, all right, for sure.

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<v Speaker 3>I just started writing, started writing, started writing. And then

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<v Speaker 3>he saw that I was starting to write a story.

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<v Speaker 3>So he was like, every day, I'm gonna give you

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<v Speaker 3>thirty minutes to write in your story.

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<v Speaker 1>Just get it out of your head.

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<v Speaker 3>And so next thing I know, I have like one

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<v Speaker 3>hundred and twenty pages of a handwritten story. He then

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<v Speaker 3>asked me, have you ever thought about writing scripts?

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<v Speaker 1>I was like no.

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<v Speaker 3>He's like, you have your dad, and you never thought it.

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<v Speaker 3>Never crossed No, I'm gonna play for the Lakers. So

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<v Speaker 3>from there he got me my scriptwriting teacher, Bill Rubinstein,

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<v Speaker 3>who taught me how to break my story down into

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<v Speaker 3>a script. And then you know, by then, I'm in

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<v Speaker 3>eleventh grade and it's time to start thinking about like

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<v Speaker 3>colleges and stuff, and.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was like, I guess USC and did you go? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>I went over to I ended up going to SC

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<v Speaker 3>and but before then I got a notebook from Rachelle

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<v Speaker 3>and on that notebook it said, go confidently in the

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<v Speaker 3>direction of your dreams and live the life you've imagined.

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<v Speaker 3>It's by Henry David Thorreaux, and I've held that quote

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<v Speaker 3>on forever.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 3>The reason why he was seventh to eleventh grade is

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<v Speaker 3>because I begged my parents, like, come on my senior year,

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<v Speaker 3>can I please go to Taft? Can I please go

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<v Speaker 3>to Tap? And the reason why because my brother Daryl

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<v Speaker 3>and I love But this is how Daryl graduated. You're

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<v Speaker 3>in the kitchen, Mom's going through the mail, and she goes.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, Daryl, you graduated, Like we like go to dinner.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, all the movies I've ever seen, it never's

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<v Speaker 3>like that.

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<v Speaker 4>No tasso, no slow motion.

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<v Speaker 3>So I was like, I do not want that, Like

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<v Speaker 3>can we please? Can I please go to TAP?

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<v Speaker 2>I need something?

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<v Speaker 3>And then so my sister who's like, while I'm a senior,

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<v Speaker 3>she'd be a freshman, so she was like, can I

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<v Speaker 3>go to Taft too? So then we they convinced him

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<v Speaker 3>we go to the like as soon as we see

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<v Speaker 3>you guys slip up, we're taking you back out her

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<v Speaker 3>genius whatever, And so we go to Taft and now

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<v Speaker 3>that first day they didn't enroll us into any classes,

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<v Speaker 3>so like we just had to sit in the library.

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<v Speaker 2>What.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was crazy.

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<v Speaker 3>And then like we're looking at the clock in the

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<v Speaker 3>library right after lunch and it's about one thirty.

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<v Speaker 1>And now I remember looking at my sister and going

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<v Speaker 1>what did we do?

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<v Speaker 2>Why do we do this?

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<v Speaker 1>We we had school from nine to one. Now we

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<v Speaker 1>got eight to three? Right do we think? We throw

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<v Speaker 1>at the air? Like who cares?

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<v Speaker 3>And so like now I'm at Taft and like it

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<v Speaker 3>was it was crazy because like there was always I'd

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<v Speaker 3>always been going to like valley parties and stuff like that,

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<v Speaker 3>because I still have my friends.

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<v Speaker 1>From middle school.

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<v Speaker 3>So there was only like really like whispers of my

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<v Speaker 3>existence until like people finally.

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<v Speaker 1>Started to go to school with me. It was like

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<v Speaker 1>a religion exist. Yeah, like what they said, they saw you.

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<v Speaker 3>And then so from there, like, yeah, I the biggest

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<v Speaker 3>thing for me is at lunch, I remember finding a

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<v Speaker 3>group of my friends that I knew and they were like,

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<v Speaker 3>who are you hanging out with? I was like, what

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<v Speaker 3>do you mean? Whoever the hell I want? I'm an

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<v Speaker 3>American citizen, how dare you?

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<v Speaker 1>But it was just like they all clicked up.

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<v Speaker 3>I wasn't there for the click up stage that happens

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<v Speaker 3>during middle school high school.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you weren't even aware. You're like, oh, were we friends?

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<v Speaker 1>We're all in clicks.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and so like there was a divide and I

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<v Speaker 3>never had that well hear mean. Other than that, I

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<v Speaker 3>ended up going to three proms.

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<v Speaker 1>That was awesome.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, went to TAFs prom of course, went to Birmingham's

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<v Speaker 3>prom in taft colors.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, straight, you were trying to start something, yeah, and.

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<v Speaker 1>Then Lab because that was random the girl was dating

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<v Speaker 1>went to La B.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow were you dating the other two girls? Because that

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<v Speaker 2>seems like quick breakups? To have three proms? All save

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<v Speaker 2>it for the book, Okay, no problem. Being ice cube

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<v Speaker 2>son is probably a big shadow to live in. How

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<v Speaker 2>did you navigate that or did it not feel like

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<v Speaker 2>that to you?

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<v Speaker 3>I mean at first it doesn't because it's like your dad, like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, they always ask me like, what's it like

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<v Speaker 3>being an ice cube son?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, it's boring. It's like it's the same thing

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<v Speaker 1>your dad be doing.

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<v Speaker 3>He probably does, except every now and then he'll disappear

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<v Speaker 3>for some months and then have to go on tour

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<v Speaker 3>or he'll be on TV. And yeah, I didn't really

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<v Speaker 3>get who my dad was fully until I was eighteen,

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<v Speaker 3>Like I didn't. It didn't really hit me what he

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<v Speaker 3>means for other people or anything like that.

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<v Speaker 1>So I was eighteen, I really didn't. I didn't hear

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't.

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<v Speaker 3>Listen to uh Straight out of Compton like the NWA

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<v Speaker 3>until I was like thirteen fourteen. It was like my

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<v Speaker 3>older brother Dyel showed me because like, you know, you expect,

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<v Speaker 3>but I'm biased. I only like one guy, so I

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<v Speaker 3>really like, I just didn't see it, and then once

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<v Speaker 3>it hit me, it was like, oh, man.

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of hit the baby lottery. Pretty cool guy.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's just he's just always been my dude, Like

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<v Speaker 3>you know, he he just likes regular guy stuff is

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<v Speaker 3>just on TV.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that. I feel like that's my goal for

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<v Speaker 2>me with my kids. My kids just recently started asking me,

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<v Speaker 2>why do people want to take pictures with you? And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, whoa, you know, remember he told you I

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<v Speaker 2>was on TV.

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<v Speaker 1>What is the mall named after you?

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly exactly right by the way we get stopped at

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<v Speaker 2>that mall, that's still our mall. So every time we're stopped.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, wait, why do people think it's weird that

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<v Speaker 2>you're here. I'm like, it's hard.

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<v Speaker 1>To explain exactly awesome. I wish I had that moment.

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<v Speaker 2>It literally just happened last week. I was walking through

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<v Speaker 2>the mall and the guy said, excuse me, I have

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<v Speaker 2>to just say hi and tell you I've been such

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<v Speaker 2>a fan. I said, oh, thank you so much. As

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<v Speaker 2>he's walking away, goes stop. The fact that you're here,

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<v Speaker 2>like it all hit him as he was walking away.

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<v Speaker 2>It was so funny.

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<v Speaker 1>In the Coca Cola fashion Low No way, that's insane.

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<v Speaker 3>You saw Pango insane lottery.

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<v Speaker 2>I want, to, of course, jump into your acting career,

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<v Speaker 2>but before I jump into that, you there was a

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<v Speaker 2>time where you were rapping and you went by the

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<v Speaker 2>name OMG.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, which was my father's fault.

0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:38.000
<v Speaker 3>Really, I would have never named myself that, never so

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<v Speaker 3>my father Bless him, love him to death. Was on

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<v Speaker 3>the Ellen Show, Yes, and you know when Ellen starts

0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.240
<v Speaker 3>looking at you in your eyes, you just spewed whatever

0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.040
<v Speaker 3>nonsense you can think of about your life. And he

0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:58.800
<v Speaker 3>tells Ellen that my rap name is OMG. Now the

0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:01.639
<v Speaker 3>reason why he says, oh, imagy is because he can't

0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:05.280
<v Speaker 3>remember that the full thing that I told him my

0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:07.959
<v Speaker 3>name was. He just remembers that it was, Oh, it's

0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:10.719
<v Speaker 3>kind of like, oh my god, but it's not like that.

0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:13.639
<v Speaker 3>So at the time, this is a really gonna date

0:25:13.720 --> 0:25:17.080
<v Speaker 3>myself at the time. And one mixtape, which was like

0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:22.160
<v Speaker 3>a streetball league, and anybody who was playing basketball had

0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:25.159
<v Speaker 3>a basketball nickname. You know, you make up your own nickname,

0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.560
<v Speaker 3>that's what your people call you when you play. My

0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:32.400
<v Speaker 3>nickname was oh my goodness, because every time whatever I did,

0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:35.200
<v Speaker 3>my best friend Kyle was on the side.

0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:37.879
<v Speaker 2>Oh my good It was like a whole.

0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:43.119
<v Speaker 3>Thing, right, And so he hears this and the mouse

0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:46.159
<v Speaker 3>goes the different a different way in the maze and

0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:48.680
<v Speaker 3>he heard, Yeah, that's his rap name. It's oen J

0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:52.040
<v Speaker 3>And he says this on television. So I got a

0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:56.720
<v Speaker 3>ride with it. I can't a liar, so I have

0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.399
<v Speaker 3>to roll with this and make this cool. And then

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<v Speaker 3>the litl Wayne and t I's daughters came out with

0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:07.320
<v Speaker 3>the OMG girls and I was like, thanks guys. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>it was just a debacle. It was a mess. I'm

0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:11.359
<v Speaker 3>a survivor.

0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Forgive me if this is out of line, but did

0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.440
<v Speaker 2>you ever think about going by crushed ice?

0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:24.760
<v Speaker 1>But you're just little ice cubes, crushed ice, snow water. Okay,

0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:27.200
<v Speaker 1>all of these things they called my whole lot.

0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.800
<v Speaker 2>You were raised around w C and Snoop and doctor Dre.

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<v Speaker 2>The list goes on and on. I'm nervous. Have you

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever had an embarrassing moment in your life?

0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:41.320
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, yes, oh god, I remember.

0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:43.879
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, I was on a date one time at

0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:47.400
<v Speaker 3>the at the City Walk Universal and I tripped up

0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:53.000
<v Speaker 3>the steps had pepsi all over my white sea, and

0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:54.800
<v Speaker 3>like when you have a new white sea, it.

0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:56.480
<v Speaker 1>Is like a mad exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>But the girl, like I'm thinking she's in the theater,

0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:03.560
<v Speaker 3>so I'm thinking, like she didn't see, but she helped

0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:07.080
<v Speaker 3>me up, and so I'm like, this is really awesome.

0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:10.639
<v Speaker 1>But I hate that you're here. And we ended up

0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:11.040
<v Speaker 1>breaking up.

0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:15.080
<v Speaker 3>She sucks, but it was like she was helpful, she

0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:19.840
<v Speaker 3>had my back, But like, yeah, that's terrible. I'm definitely like,

0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:23.680
<v Speaker 3>oh yeah, embarrassing yourself is just it's just natural.

0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:26.000
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can't help it when you're young, especially,

0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:27.040
<v Speaker 2>it just happens.

0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:30.800
<v Speaker 3>And like when you're young, it is the biggest scar

0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:33.639
<v Speaker 3>on your life. But then you realize when you're older

0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:35.359
<v Speaker 3>that no one cares.

0:27:35.200 --> 0:27:38.760
<v Speaker 2>No one, no one, no one's thinking about they're thinking

0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:42.200
<v Speaker 2>about themselves. We're all just thinking about ourselves.

0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:45.159
<v Speaker 3>Exactly like It's like they do not you might remember

0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:46.159
<v Speaker 3>it the rest of your life.

0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:47.440
<v Speaker 1>I promise you. They don't.

0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:48.040
<v Speaker 2>They do not.

0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:49.160
<v Speaker 1>They don't. I know it.

0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:51.600
<v Speaker 2>Maybe your best friend does. My best friend remembers things

0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:53.840
<v Speaker 2>about my life that I'm like, I'm so glad I

0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:56.440
<v Speaker 2>have you because I don't remember these moments of my life.

0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:58.440
<v Speaker 2>How do you remember these moments?

0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:02.440
<v Speaker 1>Your little stenographer? Keep anything online?

0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:06.639
<v Speaker 2>So acting wise, I mean, you have more than proven

0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:07.879
<v Speaker 2>your chops at this point.

0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Was that something?

0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:10.960
<v Speaker 2>I mean you said it kind of clicked for you

0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:14.200
<v Speaker 2>when your teacher started playing you films. Yeah, what did

0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:16.680
<v Speaker 2>you start thinking right away when watching movies and realizing

0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.399
<v Speaker 2>you loved film that acting was something you wanted to do?

0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:23.000
<v Speaker 3>Uh No, And even with you know, when it came

0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:27.399
<v Speaker 3>to you know, rapping, I realized that like if you

0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:29.439
<v Speaker 3>put a beat on and tell me to just like

0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:32.040
<v Speaker 3>write some bars to it, I could do that easy.

0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:35.760
<v Speaker 3>When it comes to like a song, like writing a

0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:38.520
<v Speaker 3>song a catchy hook, I like and all that. That's

0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:40.520
<v Speaker 3>when I was pulling my hair out because then now

0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:41.560
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, do.

0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:44.120
<v Speaker 1>I like this? Like is this cool? Is everybody else

0:28:44.160 --> 0:28:46.200
<v Speaker 1>gonna like this? Do I sound stupid? And it just

0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:47.240
<v Speaker 1>wasn't fun.

0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:52.440
<v Speaker 3>What I was realizing is I love writing something that

0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:54.680
<v Speaker 3>people think, Oh man, why didn't I think of that?

0:28:54.800 --> 0:28:57.040
<v Speaker 3>And you can get that off in a rap verse easy.

0:28:57.400 --> 0:28:59.840
<v Speaker 3>So what I didn't realize at the time was that

0:28:59.880 --> 0:29:02.720
<v Speaker 3>you just love writing. You love being able to create

0:29:02.720 --> 0:29:05.000
<v Speaker 3>a world real quick and take people on a journey.

0:29:05.280 --> 0:29:09.800
<v Speaker 3>And so I just transported that to film. Yeah, it

0:29:09.880 --> 0:29:12.360
<v Speaker 3>was just like, all right, let's let's you know, film,

0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:14.760
<v Speaker 3>that's where we can really make our mark. My dad

0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:17.600
<v Speaker 3>and music he's got. That's a mountain that I'll never

0:29:17.640 --> 0:29:19.680
<v Speaker 3>be able to climb. It's just and he's still building it.

0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.040
<v Speaker 3>But in movies there's there's lanes that I can take

0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.680
<v Speaker 3>our family name that, you know, just I just feel

0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:29.320
<v Speaker 3>like I feel like Hollywood type cast rappers. There's just

0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:32.320
<v Speaker 3>certain people, once they have ice Cube in their head,

0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:34.920
<v Speaker 3>they're not going to see him as a doctor for

0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:36.240
<v Speaker 3>some reason because they're just.

0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:39.400
<v Speaker 1>Scared of it. So it just it is what it is.

0:29:39.480 --> 0:29:41.400
<v Speaker 3>And so I just felt like I could take our

0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:45.840
<v Speaker 3>family name to New Heights in that direction with film,

0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:49.600
<v Speaker 3>and so it was. It was never in my cards

0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:52.680
<v Speaker 3>to act when I went to USC. In my mind

0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:56.120
<v Speaker 3>at that time my freshman year was O nine, I

0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.360
<v Speaker 3>was going to write.

0:29:58.040 --> 0:30:01.080
<v Speaker 1>Scripts for video games. Oh, that's what I was gonna

0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:01.320
<v Speaker 1>go do.

0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:03.920
<v Speaker 3>Grand Theft thought on Call of Duty had just made

0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:06.320
<v Speaker 3>a billion dollars in a weekend. I was like, I

0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:09.000
<v Speaker 3>can make you pay sixteen dollars a movie ticket, or

0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:09.880
<v Speaker 3>I can make you pay.

0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:10.760
<v Speaker 1>Sixty dollars a game.

0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.120
<v Speaker 3>So I was like, I'm going to go here to

0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:16.760
<v Speaker 3>learn the structure of storytelling, but I want to write

0:30:16.800 --> 0:30:19.280
<v Speaker 3>scripts for games. And then in the middle of my

0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:22.320
<v Speaker 3>second year, I was in the kitchen eating cereal as

0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:22.800
<v Speaker 3>one does.

0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:26.280
<v Speaker 1>My dad comes to the kitchen. It's like, hey, they're

0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.320
<v Speaker 1>taking this NWA movie serious. I'm like, dope, Yeah, that's sick.

0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:35.040
<v Speaker 3>Congratulations Like no, no, no, in a perfect world, I

0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:36.040
<v Speaker 3>want you to play me.

0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:40.960
<v Speaker 2>I was like, OK, wow, so cool.

0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:43.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'll do it. He was like you sure, yeah,

0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:46.760
<v Speaker 1>no problem, I'm not concerned. Yeah, But in my mind

0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:51.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking this is terrible. Why why? Like at the time,

0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:54.400
<v Speaker 1>no disrespect, there's not a lot of good rap movies.

0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.760
<v Speaker 1>You know. It was eight mile yep, and there it is,

0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.440
<v Speaker 1>you know. So it was like.

0:31:01.600 --> 0:31:03.440
<v Speaker 3>This is either going to be bad, but if I

0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:08.160
<v Speaker 3>don't try, I'm gonna end up like kicking my ass

0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:11.080
<v Speaker 3>later because it's like, my dad's never asked me for anything,

0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:12.760
<v Speaker 3>for anything.

0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.640
<v Speaker 2>Imagine the alternative that you go, you know, I don't

0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:16.680
<v Speaker 2>want to do it, and then you.

0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:19.840
<v Speaker 1>Have someone else, your dad, and I'm like I want

0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:21.240
<v Speaker 1>to do that. Yeah.

0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:23.880
<v Speaker 3>So I was really in a position where it was

0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:28.400
<v Speaker 3>just like in a and two seconds, I answered just

0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:31.440
<v Speaker 3>like involuntarily and it was like this is what we're doing.

0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:34.320
<v Speaker 1>And convinced him to let me leave school like that.

0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:36.719
<v Speaker 3>If I'm going to take this actually thing serious, I

0:31:36.720 --> 0:31:40.040
<v Speaker 3>can't be worried about these books, sedimentary rocks and stuff,

0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:42.200
<v Speaker 3>because you can tell like hate sedimentary.

0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:46.720
<v Speaker 2>Hate sedimentary rocks, and especially at that time, I was

0:31:46.760 --> 0:31:49.880
<v Speaker 2>in my rebellious like twenties some of the second year

0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:50.360
<v Speaker 2>of college.

0:31:50.640 --> 0:31:53.000
<v Speaker 1>You guys only care about our numbers being better than

0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:56.200
<v Speaker 1>U c LA. You just I'm here for my major.

0:31:56.240 --> 0:31:59.000
<v Speaker 3>Why do I have to take these ge So now

0:31:59.000 --> 0:32:02.280
<v Speaker 3>I had an excuse, and it was scary. It was

0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:06.320
<v Speaker 3>scary because it took me two years to get the part.

0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:09.760
<v Speaker 3>And I'm left in the second year of college that

0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:11.560
<v Speaker 3>it takes me two years to get the part.

0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:12.080
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:15.040
<v Speaker 3>So I'm on Instagram and I'm watching my friends graduate

0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:15.680
<v Speaker 3>without me.

0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:21.240
<v Speaker 2>Hold on your dad, who is aware from the beginning

0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:23.640
<v Speaker 2>about this movie. They're taking it seriously and he wants

0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:27.560
<v Speaker 2>you to play him. Yeah, and you still had to

0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:29.040
<v Speaker 2>work for two years.

0:32:29.720 --> 0:32:31.719
<v Speaker 3>I told him. I was like, He was like, You're

0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:33.600
<v Speaker 3>gonna have to audition. I was like, please let me

0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:37.040
<v Speaker 3>audition because I heard all the nightmares about Francis Coplea's

0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:40.000
<v Speaker 3>daughter and I was like, please, like, make me go

0:32:40.080 --> 0:32:41.840
<v Speaker 3>through it, because if I go through it and I'm

0:32:41.840 --> 0:32:42.920
<v Speaker 3>not good, I'm just not good.

0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:46.200
<v Speaker 1>But I tried. And Yeah, when he.

0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:49.280
<v Speaker 3>First told the studio and Gary Gray, the director, that

0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:52.200
<v Speaker 3>he wanted me to play him, they said, cube, is

0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:52.880
<v Speaker 3>this a joke?

0:32:53.800 --> 0:33:00.880
<v Speaker 1>Really? Oh my god, I'm a survivor. So you know,

0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.680
<v Speaker 1>that was great, you know, for the for the confidence.

0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:08.320
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and you know, after the first audition, Gary saw

0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:13.400
<v Speaker 3>something and that something made him get me. A coach

0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:15.480
<v Speaker 3>by the name of Aaron Spizer, who I loves his.

0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:18.920
<v Speaker 1>Day and I work with Aaron like every week, and.

0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:21.120
<v Speaker 3>Then I flew to New York to work with Susan

0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:23.600
<v Speaker 3>Batson and like for two.

0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:26.200
<v Speaker 1>Years, I was just giving it all my time of day.

0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:29.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, until finally it was like, yeah, they we have

0:33:29.960 --> 0:33:30.560
<v Speaker 3>we're gonna do.

0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.720
<v Speaker 1>It, not a chemistry, a screen test.

0:33:33.880 --> 0:33:37.160
<v Speaker 3>You know they're gonna have you know, a cube, an

0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:40.200
<v Speaker 3>Easy and a Dre and everybody mix maatch you guys

0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:42.840
<v Speaker 3>see who fits. So I'm thinking like, all right, I'm

0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:44.680
<v Speaker 3>gonna pull up and it's gonna be one Dre and

0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:46.640
<v Speaker 3>one Easy there and then you know, I'm gonna switch

0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:48.560
<v Speaker 3>it out. I get there, I see a Jerry Crow

0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:51.280
<v Speaker 3>as you do, and I walk over to him. I

0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:54.160
<v Speaker 3>was like, hey, what's going on? Are you going for Easy?

0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:57.120
<v Speaker 3>He looked at me and he goes, no, I'm going

0:33:57.160 --> 0:34:01.160
<v Speaker 3>for Cube. Put the eyebrow on. I was like, okay,

0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:02.880
<v Speaker 3>how you doing. I'm Oshae Jackson Junior.

0:34:03.200 --> 0:34:04.000
<v Speaker 1>Good to meet you, man.

0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:07.600
<v Speaker 3>So now I'm punking everybody. Everybody has to feel me.

0:34:07.800 --> 0:34:09.960
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, I was frowning the whole day. There was

0:34:09.960 --> 0:34:10.760
<v Speaker 3>only one Easy.

0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:11.720
<v Speaker 1>E was with Jason.

0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:15.080
<v Speaker 3>Obviously he got the part, but yeah, from there the

0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:17.560
<v Speaker 3>rest is history. But yeah, I was scared to death

0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:20.239
<v Speaker 3>those two years because I got friends like, yeah, so

0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:20.880
<v Speaker 3>what's going on.

0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:22.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I don't know.

0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:23.960
<v Speaker 2>You're not even gonna get a Hey, guess what. You

0:34:24.040 --> 0:34:25.080
<v Speaker 2>graduated in the kitchen.

0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:30.160
<v Speaker 1>And they're all like inviting me to their parties and

0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:32.440
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to go. Yeah, this is embarrassed.

0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:35.279
<v Speaker 3>So I can answer nothing. And it was like I

0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:38.440
<v Speaker 3>felt like I've ruined my life. I'm pretty chill man.

0:34:38.600 --> 0:34:40.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah it worked out.

0:34:40.000 --> 0:34:40.480
<v Speaker 1>It worked out.

0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:43.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, wow, okay, I had no idea that was uh,

0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:44.840
<v Speaker 2>that was the journey.

0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:46.960
<v Speaker 1>Good for you, Thank goodness.

0:34:47.680 --> 0:34:50.239
<v Speaker 2>Ingrid Goes West with Aubrey Plaza was your follow up,

0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:54.160
<v Speaker 2>and you play a quirky comic book nerd best friend,

0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:57.600
<v Speaker 2>and that's where I think people realized like, oh, he's

0:34:57.640 --> 0:34:59.160
<v Speaker 2>good and the best.

0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:01.439
<v Speaker 1>Thing about that that role I'm not acting at all

0:35:04.080 --> 0:35:04.680
<v Speaker 1>the best.

0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:07.920
<v Speaker 3>And then everybody's like, oh man, this performance is phenomenal.

0:35:07.960 --> 0:35:10.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I love that you spent two years really

0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:15.399
<v Speaker 2>getting into a character to play ice Cube. And then

0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:17.240
<v Speaker 2>the one that everyone's.

0:35:16.840 --> 0:35:19.719
<v Speaker 1>Like, oh, look at these acting chops like to.

0:35:19.640 --> 0:35:22.880
<v Speaker 3>Be me right, Like they just see my first one

0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:24.759
<v Speaker 3>is so different than the second one. He must be

0:35:24.840 --> 0:35:27.440
<v Speaker 3>good yeah, but I got it on kind of accident.

0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:30.360
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, like I wasn't. I'm not gonna say I

0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:35.200
<v Speaker 3>wasn't supposed to get it. But so I'm at an

0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:38.440
<v Speaker 3>award show that I'm presenting and I see Aubrey Plaza

0:35:38.440 --> 0:35:39.040
<v Speaker 3>in the green room.

0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:40.240
<v Speaker 1>Big Aubrey Plaza.

0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:44.040
<v Speaker 3>Guy going to go see Yes, So I'm going to

0:35:44.080 --> 0:35:45.359
<v Speaker 3>go see Aubrey Plaza.

0:35:45.719 --> 0:35:48.680
<v Speaker 1>These nice old ass ladies.

0:35:48.960 --> 0:35:51.239
<v Speaker 2>I love it. Nice old ass ladies. That's what people

0:35:51.239 --> 0:35:52.320
<v Speaker 2>have nickname in high school.

0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:56.880
<v Speaker 3>They stop me and they tell me how their grandson

0:35:57.000 --> 0:35:59.759
<v Speaker 3>little straight on the comfin and ya, y'all this that

0:35:59.840 --> 0:36:00.640
<v Speaker 3>the third I'm like.

0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:03.800
<v Speaker 1>Trying to get in the picture. So we take the picture.

0:36:04.200 --> 0:36:06.200
<v Speaker 1>Get to see y'all. Get to beat y'all. Turn around.

0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:10.520
<v Speaker 3>All Replas is gone in natural o Shae Jackson Junior fashion.

0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:11.719
<v Speaker 1>I run to Twitter.

0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:17.920
<v Speaker 2>And I expressed my it always goes well transgressions.

0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:21.160
<v Speaker 3>And uh yeah, all Replasa saw my hate tweet and

0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:23.600
<v Speaker 3>she was she DM me. She was like, listen, I

0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:26.240
<v Speaker 3>got this movie. You play my love interest. Just say yes.

0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:28.719
<v Speaker 3>I was like, this is my second movie ever, but

0:36:28.800 --> 0:36:31.120
<v Speaker 3>I know this isn't exactly how things are supposed to go.

0:36:31.360 --> 0:36:33.040
<v Speaker 3>I was like, uh, let's set up a meeting.

0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:33.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm all right.

0:36:34.160 --> 0:36:36.839
<v Speaker 3>She gives me a number text her. I said, hey,

0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:40.360
<v Speaker 3>it's Batman. She goes, great exclamation exclamation. I was like,

0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:43.560
<v Speaker 3>all right, dope. Set up a meeting and it's at

0:36:43.640 --> 0:36:47.000
<v Speaker 3>some random speakeasy in La that we've both never been to.

0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:49.520
<v Speaker 3>I was like, all right, So we go there and

0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:51.399
<v Speaker 3>she was like, so, how do you like the script?

0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:53.160
<v Speaker 1>What script?

0:36:53.480 --> 0:36:55.160
<v Speaker 3>She's like, what do you mean? I was like, whoa,

0:36:55.200 --> 0:36:57.959
<v Speaker 3>if you send me a script, what's my email? She goes,

0:36:58.560 --> 0:36:59.960
<v Speaker 3>why did you say you were Batman?

0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:05.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It's trying to be cool. I don't know.

0:37:06.040 --> 0:37:06.440
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:10.120
<v Speaker 3>I'm Batman. I love Batman. She goes, your guy in

0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:13.920
<v Speaker 3>the movie is obsessed with Batman. And I thought you

0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:17.480
<v Speaker 3>were saying yes, and I've already told the directors and producers.

0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:21.520
<v Speaker 1>You said yeah. Oh it's always like I mean, I

0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:22.279
<v Speaker 1>gotta do it now.

0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:27.520
<v Speaker 3>And then I became Dan Pinto and you know, once

0:37:27.640 --> 0:37:29.400
<v Speaker 3>we told the director of the story, he was like,

0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:30.279
<v Speaker 3>oh wow.

0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:32.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, just feels right.

0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:32.919
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:34.719
<v Speaker 3>He was like, well, whatever you feel, you know, let's

0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:36.480
<v Speaker 3>just go over and we'll let you do your thing

0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:37.600
<v Speaker 3>and then let me do a thing.

0:37:38.160 --> 0:37:38.680
<v Speaker 1>That's great.

0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:41.000
<v Speaker 2>So I just got to be shy that is great,

0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:43.839
<v Speaker 2>and den of thieves. I know a third one is

0:37:44.080 --> 0:37:47.279
<v Speaker 2>just around the corner. How fun is it to be

0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:49.120
<v Speaker 2>an action star with Gerard Butler?

0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:52.719
<v Speaker 3>Oh it's terrible, is it? It's because you get beat

0:37:52.800 --> 0:37:57.560
<v Speaker 3>up so much. It's so much like physic non Shaye activities.

0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:05.080
<v Speaker 3>You know, car chases, car our flips, going down rope,

0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:05.920
<v Speaker 3>down an elevator.

0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:08.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't do that. That's not me. I'm out of

0:38:08.600 --> 0:38:10.080
<v Speaker 1>my element and we want to go to I hop

0:38:11.080 --> 0:38:13.040
<v Speaker 1>super chill to kick me in the middle of the ocean.

0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:15.720
<v Speaker 3>In real life, I thought, I was like, does Universe

0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:17.120
<v Speaker 3>will not have a tank we could borrow?

0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:20.040
<v Speaker 2>I mean seriously, they also not have stunt people.

0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:22.719
<v Speaker 3>They had like six divers in the water and the

0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:28.359
<v Speaker 3>dude was under there like yeah, but like, yeah, kick

0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:30.279
<v Speaker 3>me in the water on my clothes on I don't

0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:31.040
<v Speaker 3>do stuff.

0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:33.919
<v Speaker 4>Like well, apparently you do and do it well, yeah,

0:38:33.960 --> 0:38:35.560
<v Speaker 4>which is I guess it's good.

0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:38.960
<v Speaker 1>It's my first franchise. Gerard is awesome. Yeah, yeah, that's

0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:39.480
<v Speaker 1>my dude.

0:38:39.880 --> 0:38:42.640
<v Speaker 3>And then, uh, you know, if you say the word

0:38:42.719 --> 0:38:45.680
<v Speaker 3>madness around Gerard, he breaks into the three hundred speech.

0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:47.279
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so like just.

0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:50.200
<v Speaker 3>If anybody sees him on the street, just say madness

0:38:50.239 --> 0:38:51.759
<v Speaker 3>and just watch his eyes light up.

0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:52.200
<v Speaker 1>Sick.

0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:54.799
<v Speaker 3>And now he's in How to Train Your Dragon, just

0:38:55.600 --> 0:38:59.759
<v Speaker 3>stunting on me, big jerk. But yeah, Dinner Thieves has

0:39:00.440 --> 0:39:02.960
<v Speaker 3>It's been a pleasant surprise. Like a lot of people

0:39:03.000 --> 0:39:05.719
<v Speaker 3>come up to me calling me Donnie Wilson, and I

0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:08.760
<v Speaker 3>just didn't expect it. I really love that film because

0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:11.160
<v Speaker 3>you get to be the mastermind. Yeah, you know, I

0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:13.560
<v Speaker 3>get to be the twist. And for this third one,

0:39:13.600 --> 0:39:17.840
<v Speaker 3>I'm really going crazy. From the premiere of the last

0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:22.400
<v Speaker 3>one to today, I'm down sixty pounds, going for another

0:39:22.600 --> 0:39:25.799
<v Speaker 3>fifty and then I'm an bulk up and I'm gonna

0:39:25.800 --> 0:39:28.359
<v Speaker 3>make triple Age give me a match. Yeah, but then

0:39:28.360 --> 0:39:30.719
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna do the movie, okay, because I can't sign

0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:32.680
<v Speaker 3>up for the movie and then do the match of

0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.359
<v Speaker 3>like this contract stuff and they'll be like, don't let

0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:35.920
<v Speaker 3>them get hurt.

0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:36.799
<v Speaker 1>But I'm trying to go hard.

0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:37.560
<v Speaker 2>You're trying to go hard.

0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:39.279
<v Speaker 1>You know. I have a dream of going through.

0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.080
<v Speaker 3>A table, right, I need to like go hard because

0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:45.840
<v Speaker 3>like wrestling fans, they got to like feel like you know,

0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:48.359
<v Speaker 3>they gotta feel like one of us, and I like

0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:51.040
<v Speaker 3>that means I gotta go through it where they're like, yeah,

0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:54.080
<v Speaker 3>they're yi, yeah exactly, they feel like nervous.

0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:57.520
<v Speaker 2>Nervous for you, Yeah exact. Your mom's gonna hate it,

0:39:57.560 --> 0:39:59.759
<v Speaker 2>for sure. I'm gonna hate it too, but I'm also

0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:00.719
<v Speaker 2>gonna I love it as a fan.

0:40:01.480 --> 0:40:02.320
<v Speaker 1>He's in his element.

0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:06.720
<v Speaker 2>Yes, well, you are a fellow podcaster with co host TJ,

0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:10.319
<v Speaker 2>who I met actually at last WrestleMania. Do you love

0:40:10.440 --> 0:40:13.560
<v Speaker 2>being able to get out all your wrestling opinions whenever

0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:14.000
<v Speaker 2>you want?

0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:17.239
<v Speaker 1>Yes? And I still have to hold back.

0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:21.520
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, man, because listen when we were when we

0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:24.399
<v Speaker 3>were just two young bucks, which is only a year ago,

0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:27.719
<v Speaker 3>uh huh we and you know we were with Rich

0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:31.160
<v Speaker 3>Eyes and and you know, other companies and things like that.

0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:33.120
<v Speaker 3>It just seemed like I could be a little bit

0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:36.160
<v Speaker 3>more guns blazing. But like now I'm a product of

0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:41.000
<v Speaker 3>the Walt Disney Company and Mickey Mouse will have SUVs

0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:45.040
<v Speaker 3>outside the house. So like I just I've been cool. Yeah,

0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:47.080
<v Speaker 3>I mean TJ will tell you I have. I have

0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.799
<v Speaker 3>calmed down quite the bit. Every now and then I

0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:52.120
<v Speaker 3>have to ask for the bleak button to be ready yep,

0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:53.440
<v Speaker 3>because like you need that.

0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:55.560
<v Speaker 2>It's sometimes totally exactly.

0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:57.879
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've slowed down quite the bit.

0:40:58.200 --> 0:41:00.680
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Yeah, I'm a father.

0:41:01.160 --> 0:41:01.960
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm a mother.

0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:06.960
<v Speaker 2>And it just changes us a little bit. Do you

0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:10.120
<v Speaker 2>have a dream guest? You two haven't interviewed yet.

0:41:10.520 --> 0:41:16.080
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely the White Whale. Got to get the Rock. I

0:41:16.160 --> 0:41:18.800
<v Speaker 3>have to get him in studio. By the way, John

0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:20.560
<v Speaker 3>Cena gave us two and a half hours.

0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:24.279
<v Speaker 4>Dwayne, Wow, I'm just saying.

0:41:23.800 --> 0:41:27.239
<v Speaker 3>Don't want him to be topped, just saying, got the

0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:31.200
<v Speaker 3>same agent. But I got it to talk to Rock.

0:41:31.239 --> 0:41:33.600
<v Speaker 3>He's my hero. I have to talk to him. We

0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:34.640
<v Speaker 3>got to talk to Roman.

0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:35.359
<v Speaker 2>Uh.

0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:38.560
<v Speaker 1>Look, thank god for Phil Brooks.

0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:42.320
<v Speaker 3>Thank god for him because he was our first episode

0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:45.480
<v Speaker 3>and I knew, like, we have to hit it out

0:41:46.120 --> 0:41:49.000
<v Speaker 3>park first episode, and you know, we're two guys like

0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:52.359
<v Speaker 3>we love wrestling, never wrestled, and it's quick for an

0:41:52.400 --> 0:41:55.120
<v Speaker 3>audience to be like, what do you know he don't

0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:58.200
<v Speaker 3>want to listen to all for so Phil, you know,

0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:00.440
<v Speaker 3>our first two episodes were Phil because we you know,

0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:03.960
<v Speaker 3>we broke it down into two episodes. But he was

0:42:03.960 --> 0:42:06.520
<v Speaker 3>such a major part in putting us on the map

0:42:06.640 --> 0:42:10.400
<v Speaker 3>so early, getting us up to number four podcasts on Apple,

0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:14.040
<v Speaker 3>like that's crazy in your first episode, and they kind

0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:16.920
<v Speaker 3>of put everybody on notice about us.

0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:19.920
<v Speaker 1>We've had some bumps in a row, but they've been

0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:21.200
<v Speaker 1>pretty smooth. Yeah.

0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:24.560
<v Speaker 3>Now, and now we work for the Entertainment Sports Network,

0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:26.160
<v Speaker 3>which they say has its perks.

0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:30.000
<v Speaker 1>We're still trying to figure them out. But yeah, TJ

0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:31.200
<v Speaker 1>hates that. I said that.

0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:37.600
<v Speaker 2>You have very strong opinions hot takes even could you

0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:39.440
<v Speaker 2>tell me the one that you think got you the

0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:40.680
<v Speaker 2>most in Trouble Online?

0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:46.320
<v Speaker 1>Ooh, number one. I know everybody loves.

0:42:46.360 --> 0:42:50.000
<v Speaker 3>The ending of WrestleMania forty doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

0:42:50.280 --> 0:42:52.359
<v Speaker 1>You don't like it. How did the Undertaker come out here.

0:42:52.320 --> 0:42:56.440
<v Speaker 3>For I don't know, like Davian Interact a week prior

0:42:56.520 --> 0:42:57.040
<v Speaker 3>or anything.

0:42:57.680 --> 0:43:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Why does the Undertaker just like Cody? What was that?

0:43:01.719 --> 0:43:04.360
<v Speaker 3>And he just saves them and I'm supposed to be happy,

0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:07.399
<v Speaker 3>my cold ass freezing Philadelphia.

0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:08.399
<v Speaker 1>One far in the air.

0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:11.759
<v Speaker 3>By the way, Philly, you should never get another WrestleMania.

0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:15.960
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, I'm so uncomfortable and I gotta watch

0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:20.320
<v Speaker 3>my favorite lose for no reason because the Undertaker decided

0:43:20.320 --> 0:43:23.080
<v Speaker 3>to come out like Spider Man, everybody gets.

0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:25.400
<v Speaker 1>What everybody saves everyone.

0:43:25.880 --> 0:43:29.640
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, Undertaker and Cody have no I haven't seen

0:43:29.719 --> 0:43:30.360
<v Speaker 3>him talk since.

0:43:30.520 --> 0:43:34.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know. Thanks.

0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:38.200
<v Speaker 3>That's the greatest ending of all time, my ass. So

0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:40.960
<v Speaker 3>that's that's that one. Sorry, Cody, you know I get it.

0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:46.680
<v Speaker 1>Babies up by a billion. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.

0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:50.719
<v Speaker 2>Listen, guys, there are two nights of WrestleMania, so there

0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:54.239
<v Speaker 2>are two episodes with Osha. This Friday, I'll continue my

0:43:54.360 --> 0:43:57.680
<v Speaker 2>chat with the rapper, actor and podcaster. Plus we will

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