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Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. I'm your host, Christopher,

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Speaker 1: and this is the keep It Positive, Sweetish Show. Little

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Speaker 1: Real Howrie has built a career that blends humor and honesty.

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Speaker 1: He's an actor, producer, and writer who always stays rooted

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Speaker 1: in purpose, and he continues that legacy with his latest film,

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Speaker 1: Unexpected Christmas, a story about love, family, and finding laughter

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Speaker 1: in the chaos kids. Family. Please give a very warm

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Speaker 1: welcome to Lil Rel Howri Real. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for coming to that. I know you got a busy schedule.

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Speaker 1: You are promoting your new film, Unexpected Christmas. We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that, but first I want to get

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Speaker 1: into Lil Rel Howri.

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Speaker 2: You're from the West Side of Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows you from your breakout role get Out, which

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Speaker 1: you stole the You stole the movie.

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Speaker 2: I'll the show. You stole the movie.

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Speaker 1: Like everybody really took to you in that movie. And

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Speaker 1: it's crazy because you were like in small parts, but

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Speaker 1: you were you very intentional about how you delivered because

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Speaker 1: you really like were memorable in that movie.

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Speaker 2: I mean a lot of credit goes to Jordan Peel.

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Speaker 2: He knew where the slice in comedy in the very

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Speaker 2: intense moments. But it's also one of those things, like

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Speaker 2: you know from like the Bernie mac school of performing,

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Speaker 2: where whether there's one line or two lines, you're just

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Speaker 2: gonna bring it. Yeah, you want to be memorable.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you were in the rest is history.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. When did you know that you were funny?

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Speaker 2: I knew I was funny early, but I knew I

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Speaker 2: could be performative funny. It was really my senior year

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Speaker 2: in high school. I did a play my senior year

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Speaker 2: and the teacher let me like write.

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Speaker 3: My the lines, my comedic lines.

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Speaker 2: And so I went to a hood school on the

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Speaker 2: West side, Craning High School, and I throw that out

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Speaker 2: there because them kids don't laugh at nothing, like they

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Speaker 2: mostly heckle you. It's like the toughest like they like

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Speaker 2: people coming to give like a speech to tell us

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Speaker 2: that we're gonna be somebody.

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Speaker 3: But man should have no I'm not like theydn't heck

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Speaker 2: So like to impress them was a big deal. So

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Speaker 2: my first big laugh came from my peers, and I

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Speaker 2: remember being like, Okay, I can actually do this if

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Speaker 2: I'm making these groups of.

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Speaker 1: Stupid Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, I hear that Chicago is

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Speaker 1: a tough crowd.

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Speaker 2: It's not. It's not a tough it's a real crowd.

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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily tough. You just you just because it's

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Speaker 2: a lot of funny people there. Don't do comedy, just funny.

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Speaker 2: It's just funny people. So imagine if it's already funny people,

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Speaker 2: you got to make those people last, right, you know

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: That's true?

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Speaker 2: Ye?

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Speaker 1: Yes, So what was that journey like getting from the

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Speaker 1: high school when you realize in high school you were

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Speaker 1: funny to getting the get out roll?

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Speaker 2: What was that journey like for you? I mean stand

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Speaker 2: up stand up is where I started right after high school.

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Speaker 2: Really yep. And I wasn't doing it all the time

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Speaker 2: to junior college at the time. But yeah, I stand

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Speaker 2: up stand up created the life for everything. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm a big stand up comedy fan, like for real,

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Speaker 2: real like Richard and Eddie was literally who I looked

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Speaker 2: up to, and then like you know, watching Depth Gym

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Speaker 2: and Comic View. I'm in this very beautiful place now

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Speaker 2: where I kind of like been reminiscent in a way

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Speaker 2: and I'm like, wow, I was influenced by so many

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Speaker 2: great comics, you know what I mean, watching Comic View,

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Speaker 2: watching Ricky Smiley, watching Earthquake, watching RNFJ, watching Tony Roberts,

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Speaker 2: watching Rob Stapleton, and it's like very specific bits of

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Speaker 2: even watching Kevin Hart on Comic View, and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: Right, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, No, I love that.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I just had Funny Marco on and

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Speaker 1: and reflecting on how far you come. How do you

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Speaker 2: It feels great, you know what I mean, Because it's

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Speaker 2: it's I was just telling somebody that because I've never

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Speaker 2: me having a sitcom called Real on Network TV that

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Speaker 2: the movies that that God surprised me. I mean it

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Speaker 2: remember sitting in that theater like, oh, I'm close, come on,

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Speaker 2: this is my friends. Yes, oh this is about to happen.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that is so important. That's so important. Now you

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Speaker 1: on your checklist. What was that process like, Because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand getting a show greenlit and

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Speaker 2: this conversations very interesting because I've been replaying everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because I'm like, how did this happen? Because even with that,

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Speaker 2: which I'm still with, but it was I've done them

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Speaker 2: watching Keenan hand pick me. It's one of my heroes. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Like you gotta stand some of the way, like the

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Speaker 2: way God maneuvered. A lot of this stuff was thoughts

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Speaker 1: I love that you speak about certain things were prophesied

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Speaker 2: Did you grow up in the church one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: But it's funny, I grew up in the traditional Baptist church,

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Speaker 3: Want old lady you know, mother Johnson, she said.

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Speaker 2: And that happened after my mother passed. Really wow, And

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Speaker 2: But it wasn't until like I was on those crutches

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Speaker 2: God want you to just she was speaking speaking a

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Speaker 2: to come to my church. It's not a real church,

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Speaker 2: why I met Pastor Qatar, who to this day is

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Speaker 2: I think everybody should have a profit.

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Speaker 3: In they you know, in their life that they trust

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Speaker 3: if you can, if you can know for sure.

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Speaker 2: But she everything she prophesied to me that first service

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Speaker 2: get Out was in that prophecy. Wow, Carmichael show was

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Speaker 1: And how does it feel when you start to see

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Speaker 2: It's just I was happy that it didn't go one

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Speaker 2: get a word spoken to you, but like you know,

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Speaker 2: how people keep running to get a prophecy. It's because

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Speaker 2: now they want one every week. Right, Yeah, I need

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Speaker 2: a word. I need a word like you even like.

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Speaker 3: Especially when you first get the first word, it's loan.

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Speaker 1: It's who you telling I had to do?

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Speaker 2: You have recorders so you can go back and listen

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Speaker 2: to it. No, because because the time I didn't know

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Speaker 2: what's happening. Yeah, okay, yeah, it just stuck. It's stuck. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it literally stuck. And and so because I believed it.

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Speaker 3: God, that was just me and you talking.

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Speaker 2: So fun I heard her say, I know this gotta.

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Speaker 2: Like when I think about it now, it's interested like

437
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 2: a lot of our stars, I feel I wish I

438
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,199
Speaker 2: could have been their friends. Yeah, you know what I mean.

439
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 2: I wish they had a friend like me and the

440
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 2: Indian type of thing, like people I looked up to,

441
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 2: just to have conversations with them, you know what I'm saying.

442
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,399
Speaker 2: And understand you, nobody's judging you. You've been through this,

443
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:16,200
Speaker 2: this is what it is.

444
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:16,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

445
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 2: I think about that a lot with you know, I

446
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 2: think about Whitney Houston all the time. Yeah. And you know,

447
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 2: once again, and this is this is a faith question

448
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,440
Speaker 2: part too. I tell people all the time, I thank God.

449
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 3: I'm not God. And when you have that mindset, it's like,

450
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 3: because I'm not, I can't.

451
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:38,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to.

452
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 3: I don't want to make those decisions.

453
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 2: Yes, And so because I don't want to make those decisions,

454
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 2: my only job here is to just love the people

455
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 2: for who they are, because I don't ultimately make the

456
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 2: decision about whatever their consequences Indian, that's not on me. Yeah.

457
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 2: So you know it's that faith, you know plays a

458
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 2: big part in that, you know, for me, and you know,

459
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 2: I even just think about like you know, met meeting

460
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 2: my wife and just shut out your wife.

461
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: She is beautiful inside and out, just stunning.

462
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 2: She's amazing. Yeah, and I enjoy our journey together. We

463
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,680
Speaker 2: have some really deep conversations.

464
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: Man.

465
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting, like we've got to this beautiful place

466
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 2: of like I remember, it was a time, you know,

467
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 2: especially like you know, to think of things in a

468
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 2: relationship where you just irritate each other, right, I don't

469
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 2: want to hear your voice, and.

470
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: I like it.

471
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 2: Now we can disagree and have those moments and it

472
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 2: doesn't change anything. Yes, yeah, so that's that's that's growth though.

473
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 2: But that's why it's important too to bring God in

474
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 2: the middle. You know, we joke about it all the

475
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 2: time because sometimes we've literally had arguments. Like God, you

476
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 2: heard she said, this is what I was talking about earlier.

477
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 2: You know, so you got it in the middle and

478
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,360
Speaker 2: keep it one different, you know. I mean I love

479
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 2: that keep them in the center always, that's key. As

480
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 2: a major key.

481
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: You've said that God's timing often shows up in unexpected ways.

482
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: Can you think of a moment in your career where

483
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: you felt like things are off, but then God revealed

484
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 1: something you were like, it was in his divine timing.

485
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 3: Man, it ain't even just timing, it's like growth.

486
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 2: It's times I felt like I was I remember for

487
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 2: one of the movies, I felt like, you know, I

488
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 2: didn't like I ain't like the way they was moving.

489
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 3: Look, I'm big on standing up for myself and I.

490
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: Do it all the time. Good, but it's sometimes it's

491
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 2: deeper than that. Well, it ain't just about you. Yeah,

492
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: And I had a moment where like it was all

493
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: about me at once. You know, I kind of made

494
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 2: it about me. I'll never get I did this movie

495
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 2: and we was doing reshoots and I was mad at

496
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 2: them because they didn't send me the music that you know.

497
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, I just shot another film. I don't remember

498
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 2: any of this stuff. I told you to send me

499
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 2: this stuff ahead of time. You want me to do

500
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 2: it again, And they didn't do any of that.

501
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 3: So I was like, I ain't performing.

502
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 2: So they was like action. I was just standing there.

503
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show them, and you know, you know, it

504
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: put a bad taste in their mouth, and you know

505
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 2: they tell other people that it's difficult to work.

506
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 3: With and all that stuff, which is fine.

507
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 2: I was like, I own that, but I know the truth.

508
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. But here we go. This

509
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: is the deep part about that fast forward. I'm on

510
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 2: this journey of just rediscovering everything myself, reading my word,

511
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 2: and I'm at the premiere of that director's movie for

512
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 2: the newer movie. This is recently, maybe like a couple

513
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 2: months ago, and I asked a question. I didn't ask

514
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 2: God it all. I said, God was out wrong. I

515
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 2: felt like I was wrong, but I said, but God.

516
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 2: I had a moment. I was sitting there quiet, like

517
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 2: What's I wrong? And God was like, yeah, you didn't

518
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 2: think about all those other people that was there. Wow,

519
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 2: that showed up that day, that was excited to be

520
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: in this film. I know he was taking a stand. Yeah,

521
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 2: and it's another way you could have did it, but

522
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 2: you were wrong.

523
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:21,120
Speaker 1: Wow.

524
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 2: I was like, damn, I guess I ain't never asked.

525
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 2: I ain't want to know that. Yes, I wanted to

526
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:30,479
Speaker 2: do right.

527
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 3: I wanted to be on my side guy.

528
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: Because they were wrong.

529
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 3: Right, But it's a bigger you know what I mean?

530
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 2: And I was like, wow. I remember telling wife he right,

531
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 2: were sitting there. I'm like, Hey, I just asked God

532
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: this question. She's like, wow, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna

533
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 2: apologize to him screen. He don't even know why I

534
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 2: was saying I'm sorry. Wow, It's it's funny. He don't

535
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 2: know a lot of things. He don't even know that

536
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: I know what he's what he said to other people

537
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: about me, you know what I mean. But I can

538
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 2: understand side of that. Yeah, you got to think about

539
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 2: everybody's Yeah, and you know, sometimes we can be really selfish.

540
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: Like this is about me.

541
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm taking a stand for me. But it was

542
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 2: deeper than that, and I just wasn't in a mature

543
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 2: place to understand that. Yeah, but now I get it.

544
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 2: So it's things I'm replaying now that I'm owning and

545
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I could have did that different.

546
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's good, especially for the position you're in

547
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: now as a director working on the other side. So

548
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: these are the lessons that you learned now you can

549
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: walk into that.

550
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 2: For when I tell you directing this feature, I've done

551
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 2: a bunch of movies. I'm actually almost I think I'm

552
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: in like fifty movies since twenty eighteen, which is crazy.

553
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: No, every time I turn around, you're in another movie.

554
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 3: And it's not just because I'm saying, yesterday, this is

555
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 3: stuff I want to.

556
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 2: Do, right, but man directing this movie and I got

557
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 2: a chance to talk to everybody at every different part

558
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 2: of the crew. Yeah, and it was such a great experience.

559
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 2: And that's when I realized, like, oh, wow, I'm helping

560
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 2: all these other people dreams come true. That's helping me. Yes.

561
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: And so when you're having these conversations where you're having it,

562
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 2: you're asking them how the day is acting on some collapse.

563
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 3: So what would you do if you were shooting this?

564
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know what I mean. It just was a

565
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: great one of the greatest experiences in my career. Yeah,

566
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 2: and this is the Haunted heist that talking about your

567
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: directory and it was beautiful and it was so much

568
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: fun and I'm like wow, and I'm like wow, I

569
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: guess I didn't look at it.

570
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 3: I'm in this different place where you. I'm not in this.

571
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 3: I'm not letting the persona.

572
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: Run anymore, right, And you can't. It's tough because it

573
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: gets you, Ay, it gets you far. You create this

574
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 2: thing so nobody won't hurt you or whatever the case

575
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 2: may be. But once I let that go and just

576
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: started truly experiencing everything for.

577
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: What it is no, that's so good, and that takes

578
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: into protecting your peace. You know, on the costs are

579
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: protecting your peace? What does piece actually cause when you're

580
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: juggling family, faith, and fame all at the same time.

581
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: And have you been able to manage that? Man? I am,

582
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 2: I'm in such a great place.

583
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: You know.

584
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: Why we hear people say, oh, you know, God want

585
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 2: you to rest. I sitting to rest so well and

586
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: to think about it is I get where like people

587
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 2: hear rest and they think all that means I'm being

588
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: lazy and I'm not being active. Especially if you're an

589
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 2: active person. You want to make things happen. You want

590
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 2: to strike the iron wires, hot stuff. But God make

591
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 2: moments for you when you're supposed to just chill. And

592
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean you don't do anything. It's just you

593
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 2: just do everything and a chill a chill version of it, right,

594
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 2: you know. So if I'm writing instead of like sitting

595
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: in the office and sitting at home being intense, it's like, no,

596
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go get a blanket and sit on some

597
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 2: grass and pull up my laptop and happily write. And

598
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: I'm not forcing anything. Yeah, because what I started noticing

599
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: was I was getting tired in my blessing.

600
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: Sometimes talk about that real my goodness.

601
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 2: Because I was like, because of the hustle part of everything,

602
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: I'm over grinding and I'm trying to do as much

603
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: as i can before God show up for me instead

604
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: of doing things on God's time. And sometimes I was

605
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: tired when I was being blessed, and so I got

606
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 2: tired of that, right, And so now I feel like

607
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: I've been experienced. I'm still really busy, but I'm not

608
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 2: tired in it. Yeah, that's good, you know what I'm saying,

609
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: because I've learned the rest and that you know that's

610
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 2: comes with peace. It does, and so I do whatever

611
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 2: I like to do peacefully for myself. I love sports,

612
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, I truly love sports.

613
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: I love watching tennis. I'm taking tennis lessons. I'm doing

614
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: the most peaceful.

615
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 3: Stuff right that I like to do.

616
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: Right, you know what I'm saying. I put on my

617
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: mic Digger sweater to watch the Bears play. That is

618
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: just what it is. That is what I like to do.

619
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 2: Like if I missed the Bulls game, guess what, I

620
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: find time to watch the replay. Like I'm a scout.

621
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: I do all the things that I like to do.

622
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I've put stuff in my house.

623
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 2: I love working now, so I have all the equipment there.

624
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: I get up in the morning and I get it in.

625
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: You know, I make my playlist even if I want

626
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 2: to sit and just praise God, like it's just I'm

627
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: just I'm in such a chill, yeah, chill.

628
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: I feel it. Your energy is so it was just

629
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 1: like calm, you know, like you can feel energy when

630
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: people in our room. It was like complete peace and

631
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: calmness about you. I feel that you live in brother.

632
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 2: Wisdom, like you know how you start to become that

633
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 2: person in your family. I had to own that too,

634
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: like I'm that I'm the wise. So when everybody like

635
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 2: you're done, Okay, this is what we're gonna do, right,

636
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: I could sit in there and it doesn't change my energy,

637
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 2: right yeah, because some people just got to get whatever

638
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 2: it got to get out.

639
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 3: But when you become that person in your family, now you.

640
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 2: Just you know, yeah, yeah you figure it out. I

641
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 2: love that.

642
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: Now, speaking of family, you have a blended family. Yes,

643
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: seven children total between you and your Is it Danella

644
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: or Daniel Adams.

645
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: That's perfect, Danella, I got it right, Danella.

646
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: How what has fatherhood taught you about patients.

647
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: A lot man especially like and that's it's interesting to

648
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 2: say we're just talking about the rest, like when you

649
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 2: and we still it's still happening now. But like you know,

650
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: especially with the girls, I know what I can offer

651
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 2: them as far as you know my dad energy and

652
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: dad or but you gotta wait on them to want

653
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 2: to receive it. I can't force it.

654
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 3: I don't want to. But I'm in my let go

655
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 3: and let God lifestyle.

656
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 2: I truly let go and let God like God, whenever

657
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: you're ready for me to say, like, it's been good too,

658
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: because it's like it's moments when I want to say

659
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 2: stuff and God's like, no, it's not time. All right, cool,

660
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And so you just you

661
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 2: just move a little more peaceful like that, you know

662
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And so it's really interesting, like and

663
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: I'm enjoying the relationships getting better and just growing. But

664
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: it's not forcing anything, right, you have things, Let things

665
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: naturally be what it is. No, that's true, that's true.

666
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: You look amazing. You just talked about you have a

667
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: gym in your home. Now, what really made you fall

668
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: in love with working out and just really taking on

669
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: as a lifestyle.

670
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: Man, First, I needed energy. I was actually inspired by

671
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart, right because it works a lot he does.

672
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 2: And so I started doing. Like for me to be

673
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 2: at fifty movies, that means I'm doing like four or

674
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 2: five films a year, yes, and I was doing them

675
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: back to back, and we do. We've got great at

676
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: negotiating stuff I could do at the same time and

677
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 2: und of the day. But I was so tired, and honestly,

678
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: it helped, you know, fast up. One of it was

679
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 2: a clear fast that helped a lot. But then just

680
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 2: being active again and most men, honestly, it's a lot

681
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: easier for us to lose wait if we truly put

682
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 2: the work in.

683
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: For sure.

684
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 2: I know it may seem crazy to say, but it

685
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: is a lot harder for y'all. It is, oh, I know,

686
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: because y'all got so much more going on, right, But man, boxing,

687
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 2: you know, I like God's due to divine connects him.

688
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 2: Like I go to Mayweather's gym, and I remember the

689
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 2: first time I started going my trainer Sloan before he

690
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: was my trainer He was just some random dude. I

691
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: was like at the class one day, He's like, come on,

692
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 2: come on, what brother, I'm god, come on, we ain't

693
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: done yet. He was like, I'm done, but I appreciate it.

694
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: He became my trainer and so we you know, when

695
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 2: a shutdown happened, he was and I didn't even know

696
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 2: I was inspired of the people like my cousin Rashida,

697
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 2: I didn't know she had. She was going through some

698
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 2: health things too, and she started seeing me meet up

699
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 2: with him and him come to the house. So when

700
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: a shutdown happened, we could all just only meet at

701
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: the park. So we would meet him at the park.

702
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,959
Speaker 2: And so it turned it into work out Sunday now

703
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: my gospel playlist, and we'll be working out to every

704
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 2: We did that for like a year and a half.

705
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: That's fire and just watching where she's at and just everything,

706
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: Like I didn't even know she needed that. And that's

707
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 2: one of those things when you started learning that it's

708
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 2: bigger than you. It became my own thing. But honestly,

709
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 2: and then I have to tell people this all the time.

710
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: It wasn't just physical weight that was on me.

711
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 3: Once I started going to therapy, and.

712
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 2: Re channeling my journey in my faith and building my

713
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 2: relationship it like I'll never forget. And then when I

714
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: stopped drinking, that's when the six pack popped up. Come

715
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: on now, like seriously, it was. It was crazy because

716
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: I you know, I dropped weight and and started toning

717
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 2: and all that stuff. But then the six pack showed

718
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: up when I stopped drinking, which was crazy. I ain't

719
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 2: think I was like I just got his dad by

720
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 2: day forever whatever, but no, it was. It was crazy.

721
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 2: And so like now where I'm mad. And it's interesting

722
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: because you have people that are like, you know, especially

723
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: people that work out like you could be swollen. Brother,

724
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a y'all can have the swoolness, right.

725
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 2: I don't want swool right. I like being tone. I

726
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: like being lean. I don't want to be swooen. I

727
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 2: don't want to drink all the swool juice. I don't

728
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: want to take the swool piece. Leave me alone.

729
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 3: I'm not going bigger than twenty five, right. I like tone.

730
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm good. That's why I put everything in my

731
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 2: house because I know you'd be at the everybody like

732
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: you can go oh, y'all not listen to me.

733
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 3: You don't want to participate in this. I love where

734
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 3: I'm at, right, leave me alone.

735
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 2: That is so true.

736
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: My trainer is an ex NFL player, and this man

737
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: trains like we're getting ready for the combine. You can

738
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: go heavier and I have a really good poker face,

739
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,439
Speaker 1: so a lot of times it's hard, but I'll push

740
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: through with a straight face and he's like, oh, that's

741
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: not heavy enough.

742
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, it is.

743
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: Don't add anything else onto this.

744
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 2: But that's why I don't. My boxing guy is my

745
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 2: only guy that I like, you you know mine, because

746
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: he's participating in it with me. I don't necessarily anybody

747
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 2: to do this. Do that, I mean, which is while

748
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: I got the peloton. Peloton was such a shout.

749
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: Out, especially during COVID man, is that when you really got.

750
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 2: It to me too? Same?

751
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 4: Yeah?

752
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: And it's crazy because you know what's funny people don't notice,

753
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: but your body has to catch up with how committed

754
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 2: you are to this.

755
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 3: You ain't gonna lose no weight till your body believe you.

756
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: That's real. Your body be like you just doing this

757
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 2: for a week. We're gonna stay chunking, right if you're

758
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: committed to it, then it's just start, you know what

759
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 2: I'm saying. And but it was interesting. It was like

760
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 2: it was things attached to me. It was trauma attached

761
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: to me that I didn't realize that was a whole weight,

762
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And once all that stuff

763
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 2: started shedding, Yeah, I could feel it in a fast

764
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: one day. What kind of fast did you do? Well?

765
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 2: I forget which one we did. I did it with

766
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 2: Cali Worship, which is where I go to, Yes.

767
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 3: And when it was when I first started going back

768
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 3: there regularly.

769
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 2: It's literally the fast was happening right out there, like damn,

770
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: I just got here right right. And so you know,

771
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: we didn't do any sweets, any treats, any meats, and

772
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: and man, those conversations with God so clear, crazy clear.

773
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 2: And I've done fast before, but it was a different

774
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: commitment because once again I'm looking at things different, right, Yeah,

775
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: And you know it just it made me even like

776
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 2: see Daniella in a lot of and a lot of

777
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: different ways too, Like I love the way I see

778
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 2: her now and more understanding of her, yes, and having

779
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 2: real conversations with God about her. That's powerful, Yes, And

780
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: so it's it's it's I'm lucky in that aspect of it,

781
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 2: Like I really feel like I think about that all

782
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 2: the time. I guess now like once again, it feels

783
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 2: different now that we're a husband and wife and we

784
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 2: can say that, yes, we both talked about this because

785
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: we've both been married before, but this time feel like

786
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 2: it was really our choice. Wow, you know what I'm saying.

787
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the first time it wasn't that, but

788
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 2: it was other factors in that right. This one was

789
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 2: like I mean, I ain't gotta do this, but I.

790
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: Want to do this.

791
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 2: I want to do That's good.

792
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:20,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's so good because I think any every couple,

793
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: you want to be with somebody that wants to be

794
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: with you, not like I have to be with this person,

795
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: like I want.

796
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: To be here. Yeah.

797
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 3: I mean it's interesting how like.

798
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: When you want to be there and want to experience

799
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 2: and want to talk and want to.

800
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: And it was.

801
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 2: It's been a beautiful journey with that because I mean

802
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: even like just even my journey where her was big

803
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 2: for me even just to change my ideal of like

804
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 2: just even just colorism in a way because for a

805
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 2: long time with even data light skin really because I

806
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 2: didn't want nobody think because I made it, that's what

807
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: I did all this other stuff and it wasn't and

808
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 2: that wasn't just yeah, yeah, it was mostly that. And

809
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 2: I had to stop all that and just let love

810
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 2: be loved, yeah, and owned it. I'm like, dude, but

811
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 2: you ain't. These dudes that you don't want to look

812
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 2: like that ain't who you are. Yeah. Yeah, And so

813
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 2: just loving on her in every way I can. And

814
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 2: just this is this beautiful dope black woman who's a

815
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: great mom and a great partner. You know, watching her

816
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 2: just you know, open her salon and just the way

817
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 2: she's just thriving right now. Yeah, you know, it's just

818
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: she's just amazing. And I look forward to whatever our

819
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 2: future is together. Yeah, how we continue to build well

820
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 2: for our children and children's children. Our children's children.

821
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:51,479
Speaker 1: Come on generations, yes, and that's important. We talked about

822
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: you being a direction now, but you've literally said in

823
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: every single seat, what does it feel like being a leader.

824
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 2: You're a leader in your household.

825
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: But what does it feel like when you walk on

826
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: set and you're the leader of all those people that

827
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: how you said you're making their dreams come true and

828
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: helping them create their own dreams.

829
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: Man, it's next level. I had to graduate to that,

830
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 2: you know. When I have my show, I was so

831
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: comfortable with the persona leading the way, you know what

832
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So it was me acting like I knew

833
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: I was doing. I didn't wow. I would be in

834
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 2: a writer's room giving out notes and instructures and then

835
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 2: go in my office. I don't know what the hell

836
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, but I rather, you know how crazy

837
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 2: it is, just I rather front instead of asking questions

838
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 2: about things and stuff like that, and that sometimes I

839
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 2: believe that's part of our culture, you know, because you know,

840
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 2: you get certain opportunities you don't you don't want to

841
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 2: look like you don't belong. That's so true. And I

842
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 2: heard Seanda Rome was talking about this the other day.

843
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 2: She said one of the greatest things she did was

844
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: just ask question.

845
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: Yes, I saw that too, Yeah.

846
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: And that's so I'm like, dang, I wish I'd have

847
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 2: thought about that early. But you know, sometimes hip hop

848
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 2: is a part of that too, right. The people I

849
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 2: looked up to, you know that time, looking at the

850
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,959
Speaker 2: Dane Dash snapping at everybody like that's a boss. That's

851
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 2: not leadership and no dis to him, but you know,

852
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 2: how is he supposed to know too? A lot of

853
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: us are first generation to whatever we're doing.

854
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: Say it, that's so true, you know what I'm saying,

855
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: So like, how do you know.

856
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 3: What to do if nobody's really telling you?

857
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 2: And then sometimes you know, especially being black, especially being

858
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 2: black men in our business, we tend to want to

859
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: act like we know everything and just act like, you know,

860
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 2: just just provido, which is crazy that I'm even talking

861
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 2: to you, like I had to own and this is

862
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 2: just real talk. And I've said this a couple of times.

863
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: It's what you hear.

864
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 3: It's great, Like I had to own.

865
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: Like how how like how I was wrong about anything

866
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: I've ever said about Tyler Perry, Like I was like

867
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 2: wrong And a lot of that came from, I guess,

868
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 2: the locker room version of our industry, right, like we're

869
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: just like, well, that's not how you do stuff, and

870
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: da dah da da, and you start to learn like

871
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 2: with art, with art, it's whatever that person's voice is,

872
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 2: whatever it's art. I don't think we're supposed to be

873
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 2: judging art the way we judge right, be quite honest

874
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 2: with you, like even just critics.

875
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't, why do that exist?

876
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 2: Right?

877
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, And so like I

878
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 3: had to own that.

879
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: And he became actually one of my newer, bigger inspirations

880
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 2: because I had to. But that's God stepping in and

881
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: hearing God. God is like, I'm giving y'all a prime

882
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 2: example of somebody doing something through faith. And I want

883
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: to talk crazy because everybody else is doing it, you

884
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Right to be your own people,

885
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 2: your own people.

886
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 3: So it's like no, like, and so I had to

887
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 3: own it, and I'm so.

888
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 2: I see it. I see him now in this bigger

889
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 2: light that I it's kind of crazy. I'm like, damn,

890
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 2: I guess I never paid attention like that. You know

891
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 2: how smorrow of a businessman his brother is man.

892
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: You know.

893
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 2: I like literally right now, like my top people, I'm

894
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 2: like really inspiring to, Like people don't really inspired by

895
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: as Tyler Perry, George Lucas, m h Ava Duverne, Ray,

896
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: Shonda Rhimes. Ah. So it's so many though, I mean, yeah, Quintin,

897
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: Quinton Brunson, Jerakar, Like, it's so many people I look

898
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: up to.

899
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 3: Donald Glover questlove.

900
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: The way he's getting these documentaries, He's figured out a

901
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 2: great way to get people their flowers. And I think

902
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 2: we got to do such a better job at this,

903
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 2: you know, losing di'angelo was like and watching a video

904
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 2: of him kind of like, you know, I think he

905
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: was mad about why somebody probably posts some on social

906
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 2: media for one of his performances. They're like, man, they

907
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 2: know what's coming. And you felt like he felt like

908
00:43:58,480 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: I almost felt like he didn't know he was getting love,

909
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 2: but to his manager showed them like people she want

910
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 2: to love.

911
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that made me sad because that means

912
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 3: so many people don't know how love they are.

913
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 2: And artists we be in our head, yes, but I

914
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 2: think we just got to do a better job as

915
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: black entertainers giving our flowers to our legends. Absolutely, they don't.

916
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 2: They don't know it. That's no way we you know,

917
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 2: we haven't honored Loretta Divine yet. We haven't even honored

918
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 2: Marla Gibbs, not for real, you see what I'm saying.

919
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah, she's in her nineties now, she is.

920
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: We thatsen swommen of Hollywood honor her this year at

921
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: our luncheon, but like it needs a high level definitely

922
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: to be no luncheon, No for sure, Like that's like the.

923
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 2: Network. Yeah, Marla GiB Yes.

924
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: Literally yeah, Life a half hours, right, not seriously. Yeah,

925
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: that's the only time I've really seen her get any flowers.

926
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's like I was thinking about that now

927
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 2: to the point where I'm like, all right, let me

928
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 2: figure this out because it has to happen, right, you know.

929
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 2: And she's such a blessing. I mean, she did my show,

930
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 2: she did Carmichael show, we did a movie together, and

931
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 2: I threw a birthday party.

932
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 3: Were yet my best birthday party?

933
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 2: Really best birthday party ever. First person at that party,

934
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 2: guess who was Marla?

935
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 3: Marla g are you serious?

936
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: Came in there, we got a dance song, she got

937
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 2: a drinking and she left. She ain't stay right, she

938
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 2: showed up.

939
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: I know that's right.

940
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: Was like then she was gone, And I respect that

941
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,919
Speaker 2: first person at the point my favorite party ever, Marlin

942
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 2: Gibbs kicked that party up. I love that she showed up.

943
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: I love that you recently launched or not reason, but

944
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: you launched What's Funny Comedy Festival in Chicago? Was this

945
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: about legacy, frustration or just a love for home.

946
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: Oh wow, well it was versus a love of comedy. Yeah,

947
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 2: it was kind of birth from somebody else approaching me

948
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 2: wanting me to help them with their festivals, but they

949
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 2: didn't seem as serious as I was about and so

950
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 2: I kind of declined it.

951
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 3: Which I think that's probably why.

952
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 2: I mean, this person ain't talking because they like, you're

953
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: gonna do a festival with like, yeah, because I want

954
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 2: to do it the way I want to do it.

955
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 2: And what it really represents, too, is that as an artist,

956
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 2: as a stand up comic, that we need to be

957
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 2: more in more boss positions. I noticed.

958
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 3: I love it, So why wouldn't.

959
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 2: I start a festival? Why I'm gonna keep letting all

960
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 2: these other people do these festivals and they're not a comedian.

961
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 2: I know exactly what we need, I know exactly what

962
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 2: the opportunity to I know what the shows to look like.

963
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: And when I tell you, it's been one of the

964
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: biggest blessings of my career. Wow, you know, we just

965
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 2: finished year two and we're already plenty year three, But

966
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 2: like watching how and the first year we did it

967
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 2: was when Like the Beast was happening. You have the

968
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 2: cat say what he said, and so it was a

969
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 2: lot of ten yeah. And so to have like everybody

970
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: loving on each other every single day, God blew my

971
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 2: mind because I was nervous, you know what I mean, Like, God,

972
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 2: I ain't ever did this before. It shows it well.

973
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 2: And when I tell you, every night was crazy. It

974
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 2: was sell out.

975
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 3: But the comics was so happy.

976
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sure, but it was crazy because I was like, God,

977
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 2: how can I be the one to lead this? You

978
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? Like at first, I was like,

979
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 2: shouldn't it be people who have more money than me?

980
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: And this?

981
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 2: And that it's like you you.

982
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: Yes.

983
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 2: And year two is even crazier, even better. It's getting

984
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 2: better and better, and it's it's not necessarily about legacy,

985
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 2: it's about what's right, but it's kicking off everything else.

986
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 3: All of this is a part of my random workout.

987
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: Session I had while fasting, and God started listing things.

988
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 2: This is what's interesting. You know I talked about it

989
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: was prophesies to me, but now things prophetically happen for

990
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 2: myself that nobody tell because God going to tell you

991
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 2: right here clearly. Yes. And so it's been a list

992
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 2: of things, and God just been having me walk into

993
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 2: my boss season a lot differently, and so I've been like,

994
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 2: everything's been about business, Like when we was on strike,

995
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 2: that was my prayer. I was like, God, can I

996
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: understand why the CEOs don't want to give us this?

997
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

998
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 2: I don't want to keep begging for stuff like because

999
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: it can't be just because they all evil, right, right,

1000
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 2: some of this got to just be business. And so

1001
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: I asked, and God started putting me around some very

1002
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 2: powerful and wealthy people and they were saying, really, you know,

1003
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 2: rich people love to talk about how they got rich.

1004
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 2: They do, you know what I mean?

1005
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 3: And so like listening to a lot of the stuff

1006
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 3: was just business.

1007
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: Then you start to learn too, even in our business,

1008
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 2: that a lot of these executives are not necessarily about entertainment.

1009
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 2: These are corporations and so all these people that are

1010
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: investors that they only care about that ottom line. They

1011
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 2: hired these people to make sure their bottom line is good.

1012
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 2: So with us learning the business two of it, they

1013
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 2: do need some of us in there though. That a

1014
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 2: our creators that can do both that understand both, right,

1015
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 2: you know, which is why I like, you know, even

1016
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 2: just you know, with the What's Funny Comedy Festival. I

1017
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 2: learned how to raise money with the movie. I learned

1018
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 2: how to raise money with my special Real Talk. You know,

1019
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 2: I did that independently and became two BEA's first original special.

1020
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 2: But we did it on hand, our code directed and

1021
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: so but what I learned was more than anything, is

1022
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 2: I can't ask for money and can't tell people how

1023
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 2: they gonna get their return listen artists money for my movie.

1024
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 2: And then they'll be like, yeah, maybe it's gonna go

1025
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 2: on Netflix, and you don't even know nobody over there.

1026
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 3: Come up with a real business plan when you ask

1027
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 3: for this money. Yes, at the least you.

1028
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 2: Should get people the money back they invested into you, literally.

1029
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: And so once you understand all that stuff, you know

1030
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like I've been like I've been learning

1031
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 2: a lot of business stuff and sharing this much as

1032
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: I can. Yeah, when I tell you that festival, it

1033
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 2: is what kicked it out, because it was like God

1034
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 2: was like, just do it, and what it did was

1035
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 2: it literally kicked out. That's when I ended up directing

1036
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 2: the movie's extreme of thing.

1037
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, like pop pop pop, like, well, just do it.

1038
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 2: Not crazy Yep. Take this stuff, these divine connections, this information. Yeah,

1039
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 2: just do it. Sometimes we overthink. Sometimes we just need

1040
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: to do it. That is so true. I'm an overthinker.

1041
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: We just gotta do it. I love that.

1042
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: For young comics coming up, what is some advice you

1043
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: would give them? Because you talk about doing things independently

1044
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: and when you're starting off, it's just you.

1045
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 2: What advice would you give them? You know something, truly,

1046
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 2: I do believe, learn the business of the business, but

1047
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 2: don't forget that this is a fun job. I think

1048
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 2: things can get really serious at times and we forget

1049
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 2: how fun it is. Why, Like collaboration is so important,

1050
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: collaborating with your fellow comics. You know what I'm saying.

1051
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 2: I'm hoping in this next season that it's more collaborations.

1052
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 2: Like I did something maybe like a month ago, for

1053
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 2: no reason at all, but I went and decided to

1054
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 2: you know, let me tell you what happened. This is

1055
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 2: this is real tough. I was thanking God, right, I

1056
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 2: was thinking God, and God challenged me to thank some

1057
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 2: people that helped me alone the way Wow, whether directly

1058
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 2: or indirectly. So I went through my phone, leaving voice

1059
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 2: notes and texting messages to just some of my comedy ogs.

1060
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 2: Some of them called back, like in tears. I didn't

1061
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 2: know they needed to hear what I was saying. Yeah,

1062
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 2: which is about giving flowers. You know what I'm saying.

1063
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 2: Where once again what it was directly indirectly? Yeah, I

1064
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 2: mean I squashed a beef like you know, shout out

1065
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 2: to Corey Hoko, you know what I mean. Like, man,

1066
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: it was kind of you know, at odds, but I

1067
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: hit them up. I said, look, let me say this

1068
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 2: to you. Man.

1069
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily like anything you said.

1070
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 2: I don't agree with it, but man, thank you for

1071
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 2: opening doors. Though. Bro, I know whatever got murky and

1072
00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 2: it's a part of the grind. And we all got

1073
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: same dream, which is that's the honors God truth. A

1074
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 2: lot of the crab in a barrel comes from we

1075
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,439
Speaker 2: all have the same dream. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

1076
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 2: And it can come with animosity if you see somebody,

1077
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 2: and then that's when you love to.

1078
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 3: Make up something like well they only got it because

1079
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 3: they did, like because everybody else.

1080
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 2: Every time you do well, you gotta sell yourself. Nobody

1081
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 2: ever just say so.

1082
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: I just can't be blessed, right, I had to sell

1083
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: off a whole song.

1084
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 2: It was really hard and I'm blessed.

1085
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 3: Right.

1086
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 2: We was at the same showcase, same festival, same audition, right,

1087
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 2: same everything.

1088
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 3: You know, baby, it's a mindset, right. Also, what's own?

1089
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 3: It was yours is yours.

1090
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 2: You're not gonna get everything, yeah, and owning your success.

1091
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 2: We're all successfully different, right, yeah, all of us are. Yeah,

1092
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 2: as long as you don't you know, you don't have

1093
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 2: this bitter thing about you because you're watching everything like

1094
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 2: I should be. No, don't do that, right, But that's

1095
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 2: the one thing I can. I hate the fact that

1096
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 2: we got all these rich black committies.

1097
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 3: And people bumping ahead, and.

1098
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 2: It's like, why right, you made the will in different

1099
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 2: versions of it, We're not going to do the same

1100
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 2: exact thing. No, And it's okay, Yeah, that's good.

1101
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: I love that your new movie Unexpected Christmas. I watched

1102
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: the screen of the other day. I had a red

1103
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: eye from LA to from LA to Atlanta. I told

1104
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: you about it, and I was literally in the airport cackling,

1105
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: and I kept looking at my man. I said, this

1106
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 1: is so funny.

1107
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 2: I was like, this is so funny.

1108
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: She's like, I gotta watch. I was like, no, you

1109
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: have to watch this because you see Christmas movies and

1110
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 1: a lot of them kind of have like the same storyline.

1111
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 2: I love this one. It was so funny and a

1112
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 2: lot of stuff I didn't know.

1113
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: It was unexpected.

1114
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 2: I was like, I didn't expect her.

1115
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: So tell me what brought this together and what made

1116
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: you want to say I want to do this?

1117
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 2: Well? Was the script first?

1118
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 4: Right?

1119
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 2: Great script? Yes, it was funny. They offered for me

1120
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 2: to play the uncle, to offer really the uncle's but

1121
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 2: I was like, but who's playing the leade? Yeah? Yeah,

1122
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 2: so I saw the tabit that was producing, and so

1123
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 2: I called it playing the league, right because if they

1124
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 2: ain't get her them mone, why they ain't offer that

1125
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 2: to me for right? Yeah? And we end up, you know,

1126
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 2: calling Trail the producer, and we talked, and you know,

1127
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 2: it was more or less like they wasn't sure if

1128
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 2: I would want to do anything, like because they didn't

1129
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 2: have the money.

1130
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 3: Wasn't But this is what I learned, and this is

1131
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 3: such a.

1132
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: Beautiful lesson in this stop pisionholding yourself black producers. Just

1133
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 2: ask my producers canna have twenty dollars? And they asked

1134
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy if you do them for twenty dollars.

1135
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: It just took the note, right, what's the worst that

1136
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 1: can happen? All it is just hey man, no, yeah,

1137
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: all right, cool?

1138
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 2: What about can we play up? But see, that's the problem.

1139
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 2: I think sometimes we like to look like we don't

1140
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 2: like to look like we're less, you know what I mean?

1141
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 3: Like whatever that mindset is is ridiculous.

1142
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. And so one of the biggest things with what

1143
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 2: you know, when I saw I jumped on for real,

1144
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, we can make this a bigger movie.

1145
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: Wow mm hmmm, because you know what value you bring

1146
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: to the projects.

1147
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,919
Speaker 2: I know what Tabatha brain, I know who and guess

1148
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 2: what you know? Making these calls it was a collapse.

1149
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: It was with Phil and treil is doing it something

1150
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 2: very special. Even just where we're at now, even with

1151
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 2: this movie going to theaters and the way it is

1152
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 2: when I tell you this is real talk and maybe I.

1153
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 3: Will did you tell me that's the camera?

1154
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 2: Honestly, y'all, don't look at things just on the surface,

1155
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 2: like God is like literally cleaning the house. In so

1156
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 2: many places, evil people be thinking they're doing evil stuff,

1157
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 2: and a lot of time they don't even know they

1158
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 2: working for God. Come on, it is some things happening

1159
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: where like this is a wealth season. A lot of

1160
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 2: us can sneakingly get wealthy really fast if we pay

1161
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 2: attention and don't fall into the group of complaining and

1162
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 2: like this is so hard. No, it's some doors open.

1163
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:57,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1164
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of these movies ain't doing well. I

1165
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 2: can't wait for this movie to go in theaters and

1166
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 2: surprise people. Yes, it's all about giving an audience what

1167
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 2: they want. Yep. Cool. If you don't want to give

1168
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 2: me distribution, let's build our own relationship with these theaters.

1169
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, let me shut up.

1170
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 2: But it's good now for the secret Black meeting right right,

1171
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 2: We're gonna hold the media know that we know stuff. Listen.

1172
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 2: I love that. That is so good.

1173
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,720
Speaker 1: So the film drops November seventh, right before the holidays,

1174
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: and the soundtrack dropped this week. You got songs like

1175
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: Tony Braxton October London, like look, look, let me create

1176
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,720
Speaker 1: Tamark Tamar Braxon.

1177
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't want to marguing episode of Tony wore

1178
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 2: all my shot, but no, that's what makes this movie

1179
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 2: unique too. Like this, it has been a long time

1180
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 2: since we had an original soundtrack. Serious crazy. The soundtrack

1181
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 2: is so good and that is the movie.

1182
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 3: I like when you can listen to a song you're like, oh,

1183
00:56:58,680 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 3: I know what seen that is?

1184
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 2: You know that's what this is.

1185
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 3: I love like, you know October London and then take

1186
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 3: my Braxton and I mean.

1187
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: Look, this is gonna sound crazy because I listened to

1188
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 2: sound track Baby Boy than both you know, Casey's on it,

1189
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 2: Casey one really from Casey and Josey. Yeah, I think

1190
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 2: that's here. It's one song that sounds so old school.

1191
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 2: It's hysterical. I mean it's a good song.

1192
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's a nineties movie.

1193
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 2: It's so funny cause you can hit the rasping voice

1194
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 2: come on Christmas time. It is hysterical, but it's good.

1195
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: But I'm mady to check this out.

1196
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:34,439
Speaker 2: It's number nine.

1197
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: I think, do you have a favorite song on the soundtrack.

1198
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 2: I love Ooh, it's a good unexpected Christmas and things.

1199
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,680
Speaker 2: So October London is amazing. But it's a song called

1200
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 2: I Believe. It's I'm not I'm gonna I don't want

1201
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 2: to be alone or I'm not Alone. It's it's it's

1202
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 2: still alone song and I think it's by Hey. It's't

1203
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 2: start with a tea. But it's so good. Okay, I'm

1204
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 2: gonna check it out. It's so soulful. But all the

1205
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 2: songs are good. My two favorites.

1206
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: Okay, it's being called the New Black Friday. How important

1207
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: is representation, especially with holiday movies.

1208
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,919
Speaker 2: I mean it's so important, especially like with also seeing

1209
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 2: a new group of actors. Yeah. Yeah, for a long time,

1210
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 2: we've seen the same group all these Christmas movies. Yeah,

1211
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 2: but you almost don't know the difference sometimes. Yeah, and

1212
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 2: so us being a new, fresh group, Tabitha with me,

1213
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 2: with Dominique Perry, Dominique Goldmez.

1214
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 3: I mean, like Rico Ross, it's so, it's so how

1215
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 3: we bail. It's such a great group.

1216
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so like just having all this all shout

1217
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 2: out to c C. So it's a lot of it's

1218
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 2: a lot of great.

1219
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 3: It's just a good, uh ensemble group, it is what

1220
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

1221
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 2: And it's a theater laugh. I've enjoyed watching and hearing

1222
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 2: people laugh in the theater together.

1223
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: That's always great.

1224
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,919
Speaker 2: That's a good thing. Yeah, no, for sure.

1225
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: What is the message that you hope families take home

1226
00:58:58,400 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: after watching this?

1227
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 2: Is there at the end of the day. Let love Lee.

1228
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 2: We're gonna have problems, we have disagreements, but if you

1229
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 2: let love lead and faith lead, Yeah, promise you everything

1230
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 2: to work itself out.

1231
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: For sure.

1232
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 2: Will. I love that, lo Rel.

1233
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:14,439
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sitting down me today.

1234
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 2: Thank you for having this is literally one of my

1235
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 2: favorite podcasts. Thank you. Yes, that means a lot, it

1236
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 2: really is. Thank you.

1237
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: No. I was honored when we got the call and

1238
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I literally just wrapped a film

1239
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: last Thursday, and I had planned on taking the week off,

1240
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: just the rest because I've been filming for a month.

1241
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: When they said you were coming, I was like, light

1242
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: it up, let's go.

1243
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 2: Oh wow. I appreciate you.

1244
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: No, for sure, anytime you want to come back by.

1245
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: You got another project, please come by and talk to us,

1246
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: tell us about it. If there's anything you want to

1247
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: let us know that. We can stay tapped in for

1248
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: you on Yeah.

1249
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 2: Man, make sure y'all watch Real Talk on to B.

1250
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 2: It's one of my best specials. And I'm proud of

1251
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,920
Speaker 2: myself so many things about this special. It's amazing outside

1252
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 2: of co directing it and financing it with like two

1253
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 2: people from my church. Wow, Today's son And that's how

1254
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 2: that happened. But just being so comfortable in my own

1255
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:06,439
Speaker 2: skin in so many places, even with me just wearing

1256
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 2: that vest I got their arms out because I'm proud

1257
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 2: of it, my work I put in, you know. So

1258
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 2: just just just go watch Real Talk if you need

1259
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,439
Speaker 2: a good laugh. It's a perfect, perfect, perfect special on TV.

1260
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 2: I love that, all right.

1261
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you absolutely, that was such

1262
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: an amazing conversation A little real I remind you that

1263
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 1: laughter isn't the opposite of faith, it's proof of it.

1264
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the

1265
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: Keep It Positive Sweetish Show. Don't forget to subscribe, leave

1266
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: a review, and share this episode with someone who could

1267
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: use a little encouragement today. As always, stay blessed, stay encouraged,

1268
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: and remember to keep it positive. Sweets.

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Speaker 2: I'll see y'all next time.