1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm a real, real celebrity, joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomane the guy. We are 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We have a special guest in the 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,159 Speaker 1: building this morning. That's right, mister Will Packer, Yo, a 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: lot of money looking like money. Okay, success generated about 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: a half a billy for Hollywood the past decade. He 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: has great teeth. Get me robbed outside, Gotta get back. 8 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that that was a comfortable 9 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: environ You know New York. You know what, I don't 10 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: have a lot of business in New York. First of all, 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: thank you for saying that about my teeth at twice 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: a day. Kids, Absolutely, thank you. Doctor King in Atlanta, 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: you know, uh, New York. I love New York man. 14 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: It's just, you know what in my side of the business. 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: You know, I'm producing film and TV, and I'm I'm 16 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, I'm in the A and I'm in Hollywood. 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: You know, I'm my office is in LA and I 18 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: live in Atlanta, and I go back and forth, and 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: but I'm up here now because it's like the network 20 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: up fronts as this is where like all the shows, 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: you know how you're looking. You say, oh, why they 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: pick up that show? Why they cancel that show? This 23 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: is where that's all determined and announced. All the big 24 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: networks are here and they're selling their shows to the advertise. 25 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: So this is like a little behind the scenes of 26 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: how the business really works. So I'm up here because 27 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: I got two new shows, one on ABC, one on NBC. 28 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: Up front? Did you attend, sir? Both of them? ABC? 29 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 1: I go to I gotta see what everybody else is doing. 30 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: I went to Fox. I snuck in CBS. I gotta 31 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: see what it is. You know, So you got two shows? 32 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: Come into show? Yeah, man, um, I see the one 33 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: on NBC and ABC. Ye. People are talking by the way, 34 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: that looks hilarious. Oh, it goes there, it goes there. 35 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: It's it's a funny show. It's it's like it's this 36 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: white dude, just like like really neurotic jewish white dude. 37 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: His best friend is black. His wife is like mix, 38 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: you don't really know what she is. She's ethnically ambiguous. 39 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: And the black dude does stand up and the white 40 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: dudes are as a professor and all they talk talk 41 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: about his race and sex and politics and stuff that 42 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: like everybody else would consider awkward conversations like they go there, 43 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's crazy like in 44 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: the opening episode, like, uh, they're about to hire this babysitter, 45 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: but then the babysity it turns out to be hot, 46 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: so it's like, can we hire her? And then the 47 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: black dudees like I think I saw on huts porn 48 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: star Exactly what would you do if your babysitter was 49 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 1: a porn star, Because then it's weird, like Okay, she's hot, 50 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: but then you see her holding the baby that was 51 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: the thing, but they needed babysit. It's so bad and 52 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: wife was like, well she ain't doing it no more. 53 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: I mean it's really bad. And it was like debating it. 54 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It wanted to go. My 55 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: wife just asking that the other day. So about this 56 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: old pair, do you wanted to be young and old? 57 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: I said, old, old, nold temptation. You know, you know 58 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: we we disliked you, me and you disliked you for 59 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: a while. What happened Charlemagne came back and had a 60 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: big head after being in a movie. Yeah, yeah, right 61 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: along in a big movie. Bill. I don't know that 62 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: we would say star. I don't know if that's exactly accurate, 63 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: but but we're going to keep going. Starting came back 64 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: and he's had a big head ever since. Okay, there's 65 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: people are recognizing him when he goes out. Is a 66 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: resume for the movie? I have an It was all method. 67 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: Actually was about the face to walk, you know, the 68 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,119 Speaker 1: way I held the fold. If you if you love 69 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: his line and ride along, wait till you see his 70 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: line and ride along too. Wait I'm saying, and um, 71 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: you know every starting power. So you guys both ride 72 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: along too. That's my I was like, dain't got it? 73 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: Right along? He does? He does the same line, but 74 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: even better. Where do you get the inspiration for these movies? 75 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: You know why? It comes from everywhere? Like So, as 76 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: a producer, a lot of people don't even know what 77 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: like a movie producer does. So my job is to 78 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: bring together all the people that actually make the movie. 79 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: So I'm like the general man jo on the football team. Right. 80 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: I gotta bring in my director, got to bring in 81 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: my actors. I gotta find a financing now, I gotta 82 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: find the writers who will go. So a lot of 83 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: times I'll have an idea for a movie, and then 84 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: I'll go get the right writer to go and actually 85 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: execute it and put it together. It sound so simple. 86 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: I have an idea for a movie, let me get 87 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: someone to write it. Because we all have ideas. Everybody 88 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: thinks they can produce and direct a movie until you 89 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: know it's crazy though, you actually you can. And I 90 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: say that to people like these days, like there's nothing's time. 91 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: You can go take your smartphone and you could actually shoot, 92 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: and you can edit on your laptop or your or 93 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: your tablet, and you could actually make a movie. But 94 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: people don't have to. People don't have to. That's right. 95 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: Your first one's gonna be garbage, that's what. And I 96 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: tell people who want to get in this game, I'm like, 97 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: you know, just go out and start shooting stuff because 98 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: the first is gonna be hot garbage. The second we 99 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: will be a little less hot garbage. But then you know, 100 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: you get better and better east time. A lot of 101 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: people don't have the drive to really do that. That's 102 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: the truth. You have millions of dollars, you gotta make this, 103 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: you know, fifty million dollars, you know, ride a long 104 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: type move. I'm like na make a like ten thousand 105 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: or make a hundred dollars movie. Just make a movie 106 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: for nothing, you know, and just see what if people 107 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: watch it, if it's good. A lot of people don't 108 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: know you've been doing it since the nineties. I've been 109 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: in it, man, Yeah, I've been in it. Yeah. Man. 110 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: I went to family down to tylahas she graduated from there. 111 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: I made my first little movie there, and then I 112 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: made a movie called TWA That was the first one 113 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: that went in there. I actually saw that movie, remember 114 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: that yet that was the hustle. I made that little 115 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: movie and literally like it was like a three time 116 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: they had a couple had a three you know who 117 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: was in Gary Doordan. Yeah, I just saw him imagine 118 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: Palmer and Kenya More, Kenya More. That's right, that's when 119 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: she was in. Yeah. Would you put her in anything now? Um, 120 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: if it was right role. You know, I don't work 121 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: with a lot of reality stars, um, just because there's 122 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: so many And that's nothing against him at all, but 123 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: there's so many like like actors that are out there 124 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: and like getting in the game, and like that's interesting 125 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: because La, You've worked with Lila and she came up 126 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: parents said she stopped doing her show because she feels 127 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: like there's a stigma attached to being a reality star, 128 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 1: and it was hard for her to get wrong. A 129 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: lot of people in the industry view that as what 130 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: you do and your talent, and they say, you know what, 131 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: we'd rather have somebody that can separate themselves because as 132 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: reality you're known for like playing yourself as an actor. 133 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: You want people who can become other characters. It's not 134 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: to say they're not talented people out there, but like 135 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: Lie is talented, a Lie works hard. Like Lie is 136 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: somebody that's like taking acting classes and has a coach, 137 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: and she's very very serious about it. So it's not like, 138 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: you know, the reality thing was something she did. It's 139 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: not who she is. No, let me running the resume 140 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: down for people who may not know you produced Takers Did, 141 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: which was a big movie like a Man one and 142 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: two ride along about Last Night, No Good Deed, the 143 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: Wedding Ringer. Yeah, they see your executive producer spreared out 144 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: of content that man coming out August. Yeah. How did 145 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: you go from you know, just being the guy that 146 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: did twar in the nineties or early two thousands to 147 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: being the go to guy in Hollywood achieve grime? Man, 148 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: that grind just not stopping. You know. The first the 149 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: first like big movie was Stomped the Yard. That was 150 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: my first one. Yeah, and it was like, you know, 151 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: I went to a black college. I was in a fraternity, 152 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: So I made a movie about something that we knew 153 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: college family, Florida and dam University. Uh. And you know what, 154 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: that was the first one that like made Hollywood take note. 155 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: But to even get to that point was because we 156 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: made that little movie TWI and we made money outside 157 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: of Hollywood, spake money without them. You see them be 158 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: absolutely Are they doing a Stump the Yard TV show 159 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: now or something not serious about that? I wonder what 160 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: makes you pick your talent? Because you put Terrence Jay 161 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: in Stump the Yard early, you put them in think 162 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: like a mane one in two. Yeah, Like what made 163 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: you see something in Terrence Jay? You know what? Terence 164 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: is a hustler? Man. I tell you true story with Terrace. 165 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: Terrace was on one oh six right, and I was 166 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: doing a table read that's where you get the whole 167 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: cast together for the movie. We had like basically most 168 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: of the cast out in LA and I said, yo, 169 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: t I have a couple roles that haven't been cash. 170 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: Yet I'm doing a table read in LA. I know 171 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: you're shooting in New York. If you can make it 172 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: and just read this role alongside the actors, you probably 173 00:07:55,280 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: not gonna get the role. But the studio was that 174 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: there was littlely no chance team was gonna get this role, 175 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: you know, because I mean, you know, I had Kevin Harder, 176 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: had Taji, I had Michael Eally, you know, and he 177 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: was so he came in just for the table read 178 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: and he took off work like Stephen Hill knows the 179 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: story now, but he liked lied and said he was sick, 180 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: flew to LA for this table read, got in the 181 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: room with the actors and killed it. Like while everybody 182 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 1: else was just reading the lines. You know what I'm saying. 183 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: Terrence had memorized that I was acting it out and 184 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: he did so good, Like he had that little small 185 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: window of opportunity and he just ran with it. Yeah, 186 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: and that's direct, Like, Yo, Who's who's that guy that 187 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: was reading the role of Michael? Who is he? I 188 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: was like, you know what, we should consider him, and 189 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: he gave me the ammunition I needed. He got that wrong. Wow, 190 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: that's interesting. Kevin hard too, like it's like you two 191 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: have a chemistry like dream snoopad in the nineties. Yeah, 192 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 1: I got to keV become like I guess you're mused, 193 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: so to speak, dude, work ethic because keV keV like 194 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: worked so hard and go so hard and like I'm 195 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: the same way. So we just we just connect on 196 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: that level, you know what I mean, Like just like 197 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: on some real professional stuff, like we both are like, yo, 198 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: let's go get it. Like I'll never forget the day 199 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: Ride Along opened, we were everybody was like, yo, we 200 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: opened number one. We made like forty plus million dollars kicking, 201 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: and me and keV had to get up like six 202 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: am the next one to do promo shoots for about 203 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: last night with our next movie that was opening, and 204 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: we was like, yo, we'll celebrate later. We gotta get 205 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: it like we did one, Let's get two, Let's get three. 206 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: Like he's he's always thinking four or five steps ahead. 207 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: And with keV, people don't know it, but keV was 208 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: in the game for a minute and was losing. Was like, 209 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: that's the worst people we have ever made. Like people 210 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: wrote Kevin Hart off for dead like true story. I 211 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: went to Hollywood like would think like a man. I 212 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: was like, yo, Kevin Hart, I want to put him 213 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: in it. He would be great as this central role. 214 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: It was like it was like, we know Kevin Hart. 215 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: He's not a star, Like he's not a leading man. 216 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: We're not hiring Kevin Hart. Like literally they told me that. 217 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: And now all those people call me like you think 218 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: you'll you think you dotely? Absolutely, did you know you 219 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: could be a superstar? I did. I did, because the 220 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: reality is that, and you guys noticed, like the streets 221 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: know it before Hollywood does. Hollywood doesn't have their finger 222 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: on any particular post. They're trying, you know, But my 223 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: job is connect with real people, and real people were 224 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: feeling keV way before Hollywood was taking notice. And that's 225 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: what I brought. And I said, Yo, I'm telling you, 226 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: this guy is building a fan base that is monstrous 227 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: and will not stop. Now they're aware of it. But 228 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: he went out there and he made his own just 229 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: like we were talking about making a movie. He made 230 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 1: his own through his whole digital stuff and through a 231 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: stand up and you know all the movies that was 232 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 1: on bootleg, Like I joke about it, but that got 233 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: him in like a bunch of living rooms. People was 234 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: watching the stand up way before Hollywood to know they're 235 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: straight out of Compton. Yeah, man, I was filming that 236 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: movie because I mean, it seems like there would be 237 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: so much controversy about that movie and people wanting to 238 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: be in and wanting to put their parts in their 239 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: two cents in that movie, and then people being mad 240 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: about what you say about them and how they portrayed 241 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: in that movie. Biopics are are challenging, I will tell 242 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: you that because you know it's a it's a true 243 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: life story. But if there is an ever a biopic, 244 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: man that the timing was right and the story needed 245 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: to be told, it was this one. And I gotta 246 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: give major props to f Gary Gray, the director, because 247 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, he's from that world. He knows it like 248 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: that was his life. And this movie had been around 249 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: a long long time and a lot of challenges were 250 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: in the way of getting made, and it finally got made. 251 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: And it's funny because it's um you know, obviously Cube's 252 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: son plays him. And we were actually shooting right along too, 253 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: in like Miami and Atlanta, and they were at the 254 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: same time straight out of convers shooting in la and 255 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: so in between takes, like Cube would have the tablet 256 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: ie we got the technology now where we can actually 257 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: watch what's going on on another set. Then between him 258 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: and acting right along too, he'd be trying to see 259 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: what the son was doing, you know what I mean. 260 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, how are you doing this? This 261 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: must be nerve racking, Like you got your you got 262 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: the movie about you. First of all, this is your movie, 263 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: your life, and then your son and it's playing you 264 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: in the movie. You want him to do good, you 265 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: want the movie to be good. You're trying to act 266 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: in this other big action movie we're doing like, how 267 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: are you doing it? And it was just crazy trying 268 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 1: to balance all that, but it came together. Manum, it's 269 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: it's good. I gotta give props to Gary and Dre 270 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: and Cube, And you know, I can't wait for y'all 271 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:17,439 Speaker 1: to see that. You're working with a lot of old 272 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: g's lately. I see I see you and LeVar Burton. 273 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: They say, y'all remaking roots roots man actual And so 274 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: that's gonna play on like I read Lifetime ay and 275 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: in History Chat. Yeah, it's gonna be simulcast at the 276 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: same time, it's gonna be really really big. I gotta 277 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: tell y'all, like more than anything. I'm proud of everything 278 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: I'm doing, but this is special to me. It's special 279 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: because it's such an iconic film and there's a whole 280 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: generation out there. They don't know roots, right, you know, 281 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: like some people like our roots. It's like you're retelling 282 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: the story. And I'm like, when you say retelling, that 283 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: implies that you told it. But there's a whole generation 284 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: that don't know it. They haven't seen it. Like all 285 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: they know I saw a django, you know, that's this 286 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: is the ultimate or Virgin's story, Like this is it. 287 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: This is like coming from Africa, kings and queens and 288 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: warriors and how you end up from that into how 289 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: we all sit in the studio today, you know. So 290 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's it's a hell of an undertake 291 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: and I'm proud. We got some dope directors that were 292 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: lining up that I'll be able to announce soon. And yeah, 293 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: LeVar Burton from the original, you know, he's down with it. 294 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 1: But yeah, that's something brought to them or they were 295 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: going to do it and they were trying to find somebody. 296 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: They brought it to me. Yeah, That's the thing, like 297 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: how Charlotmagne was saying, when you get to kind of 298 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: be in that position where Hollywood will come to you. 299 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: So I'm very blessed that I was in a position 300 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: they came to me. They were doing it, and they 301 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: came to me to help, you know, bring my flavor. Now. 302 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: You tweeted one time you said, how can we expect 303 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: you have to behave? Behave? If they were descended from kings, 304 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: queens and noble warriors, if they're unaware it's in their DNA. 305 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: So I always wonder, why does Hollywood keep showing us 306 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: the slave stories? Then why not show us when we 307 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: were kings and queens and noble war Not a lot 308 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: of stories about that, not a lot of stories about that. 309 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. That's one of the reasons I want 310 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: to do this. I mean, I'm gonna show the whole journey, 311 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: and obviously slaver is an important part of it. But 312 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: this is going to go where it begins. It's just 313 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: going to start, you know, like the original in Africa. 314 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: And here's the thing about Hollywood. Hollywood is a business. 315 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, if people want 316 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: to see that, and they'll pay to see that. You know, 317 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: that's what they'll make. You know, you think it's like 318 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: I don't think people will pay to see black people 319 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: will be great and not a lot of stories. I 320 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: think that a lot of the stories that are in 321 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: a historical context about the black journey, the African American 322 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: journey is um you know, based around slavery or civil rights, 323 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: and those are important stories. There are a ton of 324 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: those stories that haven't been told, but a lot of 325 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: them have. And so this is one that is going 326 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: to take it from a totally different direction. It's going 327 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: to the original. Like my kids like, they don't want 328 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: to see the original rules you know, it was made 329 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: a long time ago. It feels like it's an old movie. 330 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: It feels like it was made in the style of 331 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: how movies were made and then they don't move as 332 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: fast and not as interesting and not as exciting. I 333 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: want to do a retelling and this for this to 334 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: be that movie, like that definitive origin story. Like I say, 335 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: you know that people can go, you can watch it, 336 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: you know, watching in schools. Why and it's gonna be entertained. 337 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: It's not like a history lesson and the foot getting 338 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: cut off can look even more realistic. It's also remaking 339 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: the whiz. Is that true? That's me. They're doing it, 340 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: NBC is doing it. But everything, everybody wants to be 341 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: in everything. What motivates you now, because obviously it's not 342 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: bunny you know what it's it's um, it's the grime. Man. 343 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: Here's the thing when you and I tell people this 344 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: all the time, like if you if you hustle, you 345 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: want to work hard, you want to like get to 346 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: a certain level, you gotta start now, Like I don't 347 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: care if you listen to me right now you're watching 348 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: this on revote. Then you in a job that you hate, 349 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: do that to the best your ability, because it's not 350 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: like just when the opportunity pops all of a sudden, 351 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna know how to be great, and you're gonna 352 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: know how to hustle. You're gonna know how to grind. 353 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: Like no, you start that wherever you are, whatever you're doing, like, 354 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: be the best, you know, janitor, be the best you know, consultant, telemarket, 355 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: whatever it is like that grind and and to ask 356 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: your question, you don't just turn it off, you know. 357 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: So I'm driven because I want to make great stories. 358 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: Because I want to hire new actors, you know, because 359 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: I want to leave a legacy. You know, my kids 360 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: push me. I just for me. That's who I am. 361 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: You know, do you feel like more doors are open 362 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: for people of color? Now? They've been talking about network 363 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: television obviously, now you have two shows, you know, simultaneously, 364 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: and they say Empire was a big part of it. Man, Yeah, 365 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: Lee and Taragi and Terrence all the fam that was 366 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: a big, big part of it. The reality is that 367 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: diversity is business now, it's real business. Like, if you're 368 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: a networking you're only I don't care what you are. 369 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: If you're only selling the white people, you're losing. That's 370 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: what it is. You know. If you don't have Hispanic autist, 371 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: if you don't have black artis, if you don't have 372 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: Asian audiences, then you're losing. Advertisers want everybody. So diversity 373 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: is winning. Did you try to go to network television previously? 374 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: But and it was a lot more difficult, And now 375 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: you went and they're like, come on, we need stuff. 376 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: You know what I didn't. This is my first year 377 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: in television, so it's crazy because even in my first year, 378 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: I sold two shows. So that's like that's huge, Like 379 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: my team is amazing. Okay, but no, but just ask 380 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: your question. It was like that though. Definitely there are 381 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: people this is my first foray into television, but there 382 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 1: are people that tell you they've been banging on that 383 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: TV door for years with people of color that have 384 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: been trying to get a network TV. And the reality 385 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: is that there weren't not a lot of shows. You 386 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: had like an air in the eighties, um late eighties, 387 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: early nights where you had a lot of black shows 388 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: and you had CW and up and that at first 389 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: came out, but for a while it was a drought. 390 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: There a lot of studies and people complaining about it 391 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: because it was just so just white, just white, primarily 392 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: white men. And that's what you saw came along. Yeah, 393 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: it came in, and that's the day they the ratchetness 394 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: to get it. That's you know, that's part of it too. 395 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: We gotta show it off. Go back to the beginning. 396 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: How did you start in the game and getting into 397 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: everything that you do, because there's a lot of kids 398 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: out there that was going to college, going to community college, 399 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: going to whatever college, and how did they get their start? 400 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: How did you get your start? I was in college 401 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: right and I was majoring in engineering. I did not 402 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: want to be an engineer. And a lot of people 403 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: can feel me on this right now, I was in 404 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,440 Speaker 1: a major I didn't want to do. It wasn't my passion. 405 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: But like I said, I was going hard. I have 406 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: an engineering degree. I graduated magna coom law. Like I 407 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: did my put the time in, put the work in. 408 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: And while I was there, I met a cat from Philly, 409 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: Rob Hardy, and he wanted to be the next John 410 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: Singleton of Spike Lee was like, I want to be 411 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: a director, and I helped him to make his first 412 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: movie while we were still college students. We didn't know 413 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: what we didn't know. We thought, oh, you make a movie, 414 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: you send in the Hollywood, and that's it. When we 415 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: send in Hollywood, and Hollywood was like, um, don't send 416 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 1: us trash, no more right so um, but that was 417 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: what started to hustle. And from that little movie we 418 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: went out and we independently distributed it, and we hustled 419 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: our way in the theaters and said, please show our 420 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: little movie. And so the first one was called Chocolate City, 421 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: and the next one was called TWI and after that, 422 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: you know, the money is right now, not just kidding, mom, 423 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: but you know what from the twis, I actually did 424 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: a movie called a Gospel, which was a faith based movie, 425 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: just to show we could have a little range, and 426 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: then stomped y'arvis wanted took it over to I feel 427 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: like your films are more diverse than see like a 428 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: Tyler Perry. Is that by design? Definitely? I mean, you know, look, 429 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: I love Tyler does what he does. We're different filmmakers. 430 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: I think that what I've always tried to do is 431 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: tell stories that aren't necessarily black, aren't necessarily about any 432 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: particular ethnicity of culture, but then put black people in them, 433 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: right like Uncle Buck, you know, or even like things 434 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: like a man if you look that could be like 435 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: a white cat white cast, you know what I mean, 436 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: Like really like any of my movie, I mean, Takers, 437 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: you know, originally was like all white. We like put 438 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, drifts and tip in it, 439 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: you know. So for me, I love the idea of 440 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: a universal story and then putting flavor in it. Because 441 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: people with the NBC Show, it seems like you're trying 442 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: to show that black and white people have more in 443 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 1: common and we may think, yeah, the NBC show, you 444 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: know what, it goes there, because I think that right now, 445 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: on like social media, people are having like real conversations 446 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: that they would never have before. You know, you can 447 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: go on and you can tweet somebody that lives in 448 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: Iowa that you wouldn't even never meet and give me 449 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: your perspective on something, and they can give you theirs, 450 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: and y'all having an interaction. And sometimes it's really raw, right, 451 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, you know, just real going there, and 452 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: other times it's you know, more polite whatever it is. Though, 453 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: they are conversations that are being had out there in 454 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: the world. You can go look on your timeline right 455 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: now as people saying all kinds of crazy stuff and 456 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: all kinds of intelligent stuff and everything in between. So 457 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: there's nothing like that on TV. There's nothing like that 458 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: on TV that's having the real conversation, you know. Like 459 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: in one scene in that new show, people are talking. 460 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: The white dude is so proud because he finally learned 461 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,479 Speaker 1: all the lyrics to Empire State of Mind. And all 462 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: he wants to do is I press his black friend 463 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: because they got tickets to the jay Z concert, right, 464 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: And so the only way and he's playing it and 465 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: he's rapping. He's so proud of it. And he gets 466 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: to the part where Jay says the N word and 467 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: back he's like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. What you're doing? Man? 468 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: He's like, nanah, I can't. I was just gonna wrap it. 469 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't going You should hear me saying like, I 470 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: don't say the er. I can do the A like 471 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: I've been practicing. Mind flag. He's like, dude, you can't. 472 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: He's like, well, I can. I humm it can I 473 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 1: He's like, nah, dude, you gotta seeing Alicia Keys part. 474 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: You can't say any And he's like, what this rapper 475 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: is a song? Why can't I? Like? It goes there, 476 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: it does that in the conversation, why not you say? 477 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: White guy like, that's not Zach from Saved by the 478 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: Belt's Zach bell y'all, Mark, Paul Gosselin, I got Zach. 479 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 1: You believe that I got classic cats in my joints. Man, 480 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: you got to Uncle Buck coming with me a long 481 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: and Mike Mike do it movies? How do you convince 482 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: them to do TV? You know what it's it's good 483 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: content and TV now is like because there's such good 484 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: content on TV. You can't get movie stars, which is 485 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: what they are. That's look, Taranti is a movie star, 486 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: me along as a movie star apps movie star, but 487 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: there's good content on TV and it's giving them opportunity. 488 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: So for me, who wants to do both, it's a 489 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: great time because I can work with some of these 490 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: like a list top actors and bring them to my 491 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: content where whether it's big street or small screen. I 492 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: was how important is it for you to use your 493 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: your platform to teach? It's really important. It's interesting because 494 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,919 Speaker 1: you know, I try to do it or not let 495 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: people know. Because if you walk in the door, all right, 496 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach you. Everybody sit down and you know, 497 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: nobody playing attention. Nobody want to hear that you're on 498 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: the panel coming up, right, aren't you? You do all 499 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: these panels and stuff that I do. I do public 500 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: speaking panels. I just did the commencement at my alma mater, 501 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: fam you. I'm proud of that. I do a lot 502 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: of that. Absolutely, um. But to your point, Charlotte Man, 503 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: I tried to within the content, within the entertainment. You know, 504 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: I try to have stuff in there that can elevate us, 505 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it can take us and 506 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: push us to the next level, because that's who I 507 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: am at the end of the day. You know, like 508 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: I'm I'm a smart black dude and I'm proud of yeah, 509 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: and I do. Yes, that's like I think it's like 510 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: Chatted get to the Sea. I think it sounds bigger 511 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: than it respect to chat Town, like Barrock or nothing. 512 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a slow day, chat I think. Yeah, 513 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: you're the only booking Deer fan I know in the 514 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: serious business. It's me. That's yeah, we had jamis. Now 515 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: what say something? I can't. I gotta wait. Tampa fans, 516 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: we cautiously you don't have the draft. Everybody's a super 517 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: Bowl winner. Every team has got a chance. Every like 518 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: it's Cleveland Brown fans like all this year, you know 519 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I can't say nothing. But we 520 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: do have a super Bowl though, we got ours, wet 521 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: I got four five Dallas Cowboy fan, Yeah, I know, 522 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,719 Speaker 1: I live with a Dallas Cowboy fan, my fiance. Let 523 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: me here's the thing about y'all, Like history is so 524 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: far back, like I'm at least mine is current. You're 525 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: going back to like the paleo if the era I 526 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: just made up a word. Y'all was back, man, y'all 527 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: was way way back. How does that work? A Tampa 528 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: fan and the Dallas fan get U. It's a house divided, 529 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: and she's serious about you got on my Instagram. You 530 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: see like I got a little little like sports thing 531 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: in my in my career. I got a Dallas Cowboy corner. 532 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: I have to I gotta give. Let's be some fun bets. Yeah, 533 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: she swears if if, if, if the Cowboys win the 534 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, she's getting the star tattooed. I'm like, not 535 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: with me. If they win, that's I'll be back on 536 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: this show. Y'all got what happened to? I don't know. 537 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: I think she's Yeah, she's good. I appreciate you joining 538 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: yoh fam, This is awesome. I appreciate y'all. Let me 539 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: come on, let me just kick a little knowledge. You 540 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I love what y'all are doing. 541 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: What's in the immediate future? Uh? Straight out of Compton 542 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 1: August fourteenth, Ride along too, January? Um, This Friday, eight 543 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: thirty people are talking on NBC check that Joining out 544 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: Friday hilarious fall on Fridays at eight thirty, and it's 545 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: gonna be funny. Yeah, that one's coming out, and then 546 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: Uncle Buck's coming out at the top of the year. 547 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: That's mid season. Show Roots is coming out next Memorial Day. 548 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: We keep it a pop, Yo, keep the radio show 549 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: for your movies and TV shows. You can always just 550 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: come film us because you know absolutely Tyler used to 551 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,959 Speaker 1: always throw like Tom join in yo. You know. I 552 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: love that idea, y'all playing. I think that'd be great. 553 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 1: I think it absolutely. Yeah, there we go. I love it, 554 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: and we do. We got to do something different though, 555 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: we need y'all Like, why do you look like that? 556 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 1: I don't think you talked to your look a little 557 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: crazy man. I don't think there was a vote take 558 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: it on. How else did you get for ride along? 559 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: There you go? But when you when you have a line, 560 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: don't you have to get paid? Once you have a line, 561 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: do you do that? People will do that. That's the 562 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,719 Speaker 1: extra trick. Like if you're extra and you say something, 563 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: if they film it, they gotta pay you. That's the thing. 564 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: But absolutely, we could have a silent radio show now. 565 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: We would love to whatever. I love it, man, appreciate 566 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: you All Family Breakfast Club when