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Let's get a cruise show real Natty
two three little routes back on the

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Yeah, oh my guy, how
are you? Bro? I am good?

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How you doing doing well? Man? I'm doing very looking healthy,

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looking good so much so much you
forget to eat because I'll be trying to

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fight it. Like you know what, people like talk about you when you

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look good? You your best list, and I'll be trying to call the

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people fat. It's like, so
do we do? We do insults?

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No? What do you say that? Because I'm like, yeah, I

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do. I eat what I woke, but I work out every single day

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and guess what, I'm mentally healthy. That's right, That is that is

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the key. That is what makes
this happen. Yeah, because you can

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look physically fit, but if you're
man, I say it's clear for a

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reason. All right, man,
that's great. If I loose skin,

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then you I should be worried.
Is this the most clarity if you've had

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in your whole life? Mentally?
I think so. I think just even

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just learning to not react to everything, you know, like I don't.

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I don't even read comments. That's
some grown mans, not for real.

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I'm really just literally, you know, being I think this is the last

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I'm engaged, you know, so
like you know, like life is just

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life is just beautiful and different.
Now you know, we're talking with your

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people off camera people people. You're
always working though real, I mean,

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it's just NonStop. This work ethic
is crazy. I haven't seen someone with

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this kind of running in a long
time. Man, I see this directing

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run. I'm about to direct my
fow a couple of months, So that's

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a whole nother life. And it's
been fun and I've been on the workaholic

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side of that too. So if
you ever need to catch any latinos man,

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I'm saying cruising eye, I'm serious, We're ready to work like you

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to do it. We'll pay you
to cast for real, man, Like,

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no, we'll give you the money
to catch what made you want to

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welcome that challenge? You know,
that director role, And I've always wanted

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to do it, but I like
the fact that I get I have more

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control, right, and so,
like you know, doing all these movies

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I've done over time, like I
could do this and I would love to

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do this. Was now I was
like, all, brouh, here's your

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chance. You've been talking all this
stuff. Yeah, and you could do

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it and so and also too,
just like the process has been fun.

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I am a workaholic. Yeah,
so just having all these different roles with

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directing, it's been great. Man. I love like having that know everything.

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Congratulations man, We're constantly learning,
right, Yeah, We're never done

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learning, never does. We gotta
learn every day. The thing I think

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if you if you think or believe
you're done learning, you're done. You're

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cooked. Yeah throughout. Yep.
You know you're dead where you stand.

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I guess right, yep, you
gotta learn. We've grown now. I

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saw it last night. Congratulations.
What a movie, man, Thank you.

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The ending, I'm not going to
spoil it, but dog like it

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had me in tears. I got
two sons, you know what I mean,

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I got two boys. And I
just saw that and I thought to

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myself, like, wow, like
that really is what it is. You

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know, what's praying too much?
When I first saw the finished cut of

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it, because when I shot it, it was I would think I was

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doing another thing at the same time, so I was kind of in and

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out and I read the script,
but like seeing it. I actually teared

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up a couple of times. Yeah, watching it. No, that conversation

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you had on man oh Man,
that's that's one of my favorite scenes.

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But but even journeys, like you
know the scene where when the two boys

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kind of you know, hitch school
or whatever. Yeah, and just her

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he could watch her trying to figure
out as a parent, I'm mad,

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but I'm glad you're safe, right
watching her battle that was so fascinating to

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watch Man. So like it's it's
it's a well active film. Shout out

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to Blake and Geohn. Those two
young boys are great. They did great

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now that Yeah, that reminds me. I remember when I was a kid,

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I got hit by a car right, Not like it wasn't devastating I'm

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here, but I was hit by
a car right and my dad. My

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dad hit me for getting hit by
a car. For you got embarrassing him.

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You got a whooping for being hit
back up, Yeah, dog like

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that before he did take you to
the hospital first. No, he didn't

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ask me if I was okay or
not. He hit me first and then

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asked me if I want to not
tell you not to walk in credit cards.

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Right, I'm like, all right, I want mento. But that

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brought me that. I was like, I remember my dad like yeah,

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like like whoopball me forgetting it if
I had a card yo. And another

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thing too, is you know,
telling my kids you're grown. Now.

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I have a seven year old and
a three year old. I found myself

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telling my son, you're grown,
but he's not grown. And I had

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to stop saying that because I don't
want to rush his childhood. And so

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that's what's funny with even my characters
saying in the movie, right, that's

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how worried they were after the trail
got killed. And so for me,

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I grew up at that time.
I mean, but it really happened,

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so it's documented. It's documented.
It's actually a thing. But yeah,

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you know, all of our parents
were like that, and in a weird

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way, I did have to grow
up a little fast, and I was

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supposed to becau especially in the early
nineties in Chicago at that time. You

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know, the movie actually depicts when
it when we started seeing straight bullets hit

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kids. That's when it started.
And so all our parents were worried about

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it. So we all did have
to start looking at like, you know,

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certain people like Dangn O'Brien got a
gun. We gotta stay away from

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him right now. It was just
stuff like that. It was kind of

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crazy now that I think about it. Yeah, no, yeah, I

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remember my parents saying, you know, you're grown, uh, and that

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was just for to put us in
the state of mindy to protect ourselves.

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I think you like, make make
adult decisions and don't hang out with those

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kind of people. You know,
we're talking about grown. If you if

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you revisit some of your past,
what was the first grown decision you think

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you had to make? Dang,
I think once again, maybe as a

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as a kid. I remember like
it was like a random summer and I

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don't say random, but like when
everybody was joining gangs in Chicago, like

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all my friends, and it was
weird because it was all recruiting them at

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the same time. It was like
one day we're all just playing basketball and

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baseball and being kids, and then
the next day you had like seven or

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eight homies that couldn't hang out no
more because they like they gave the game

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banger And that was a real decision
to make. As far as like,

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hey, I can't be around and
my dad and my mom. I have

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both my parents growing up, so
my dad was really adamant about it.

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You know, thank god he was
around because everybody didn't have that made it

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easier for them. Yeah, and
so like for us, who was to

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make a decision like, dang,
it's one of my good friends, but

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I can't be around this no more. Yeah, no, I remember that.

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Yeah, Like summer there was a
summer break and when we came back,

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some of the homies were in gangs. And that's just what it was.

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That's what it was. Like,
it's such a crazy thing, Like

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I think about it now, like
damn, that's why. At the time

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it was normalized. But now it's
like because even for me making that decision,

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they had to make an adult decision
at thirteen, that's crazy wild.

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That set the course for the rest
of their life. And it's a decision

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of survival, which is crazy.
Man. Growing up, I read you

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were in a lot of fights and
you got robbed. I wasn't a fight

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I got robbed. I would have
a lot of fights. I got robbed.

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Rob you for so once again,
it was it was a gang thing.

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It was a gang initiation and it's
so far I'll be My brother was

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laughing about this other day because it
wasn't even name brand shoes. He was

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payless like proin Like. I was
like, bro, you could take these

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if you want. You don't have
to rob me. You can actually buy

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these. I can know I'll give
them to you. You think I like

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running these loud shoes because he was
a loud you know, back in the

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day they used to make the hard
bottle pro Is shoes. So I sued

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to run across country and people said, Joe, we can hear real coming

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because you can hit my shoes tapping
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He about to be this third here, but Loud I got because he and

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I remember him saying like, I
gotta do it because I'm being recruited because

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you can see the older game member
watching him. Wow, do it.

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But my dad and my uncle,
so this made it funny. I'm like,

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okay, cool, you took the
shoes. Fine, I go home.

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I tell about father. He's like, oh, we got to go

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get the shoes. Like, no, you ain't got to go get the

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shoes. They went back and got
these cheap ass shoes. And I had

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to wear them a getting them loud
ass cross country shoes. You're like,

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na, they can have them.
Please give me some more shoes. Yeah,

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I see the U the death Row
Records hap man. Yeah, that's

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crazy, right, I mean legendary
label. Snoop is is now head of

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Death Row Records. Yep, it's
wild right. Did you grow up listening

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to the West Coast hip hop like
that? Hell yeah? I remember when

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Snoop came out and I was the
seventh grade and we in Chicago. Yeah.

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Yeah, we all bought our plaid
shirts. We didn't even know that

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was your thing. We just saw
Snoop do it the Penalty and the school

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didn't know that was gang ship at
the time. We was walking around like

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yeah, but dressed like little But
that's how we but that's how we juking.

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Snoop had it. You know that
Snoop was so like that was the

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thing at one time. It was
so funny when that happened. I remember

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that you ever hang out with Snoop? Yeah? We did. We did

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a movie together. We did like
hung out. I don't smoke, but

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I was high. It's like you
walk in a room or Snoops out you're

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gonna walk out. But I'm gonna
tell youself in movie history of anything I've

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ever filmed, that anybody will work
with. He's the only person I've ever

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seen a studio give a smoke break
too. Yeah, no, for for

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real, Like I thought it was
a joke, Like no, no,

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no, it was like no,
it's a part of my contract. I'm

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like, damn, that's it.
Won't even lunch yet. It wasn't.

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No, he SNOOPI is really stupid, stoopid man. Yeah, he gets

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the past and he loves sports and
I love it. Yeah he does.

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Yeah, I mean he's responsible for
some NFL players now, Snoop is Snoop

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in the program. His program is
amazing. Yeah yeah, yeah, Yo,

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we've grown now. So you know, the movie obviously hits right,

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and it was first released in Toronto
for the festival, and then Sony bought

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it right and obviously because it's a
it's a very important film, right,

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But what do you want in your
heart? What do you want people to

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take away from this movie? You
know something? I love how it humanizes,

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especially at that time, the residents
of Cabrini Green. You know,

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I think you know the way we
see I think the way they portray people

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into projects, especially it says it
was just these down ritten and everybody it

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was all messed up. But like
in this movie, you see a real

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family. It was most of most
of the families was like that. Actually,

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most of the conversations they really talked
at dinner. You know a lot

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of the stuff, you know,
we look at a lot of you know,

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nowadays, everything's little different now because
you know, the kids have more

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freedom. Everybody got their own rooms
and all this other stuff. And I

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remember was the time, even when
I grew up, where you literally have

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real conversations at the dinner table.
We all had to eat together. But

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I love how it humanizes them,
and I love the way it shows it

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from the lens of these these little
boys just being kids in their environment where

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they didn't. It's almost like that
once once again, we wanted them,

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We needed them to grow up too
fast. Yeah, they have to navigate

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through this world and think, and
they're also thinking about leaving that world or

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and how they're gonna do it.
And that's that's interesting too, because I

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was I was talking to my publicists
about this earlier today, Like sometimes we

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tend to think especially when you from
that environment. Oh, if I moved

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to the suburbs or like out here
to the valley and all this different stuff,

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things are going to be so much
better. But sometimes it's not.

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It's something's just better, but it's
really not. Like I even though I

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grew up in a hood, I
remember, nobody broken nobody house, right,

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they broke it, They broke in
stuff, but not in your home

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though, right, you know you
live in the suburbs of valley. They

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they breaking in your creed and that
feels more of a violation and breaking in

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my car or anything, because you're
that's my piece, that's my home.

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It's so disrespectful. And I was
like, damn, and we will run

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to go to these places thinking it's
gonna be so much better, and it's

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like this is almost worse, right, and scar all this money and that's

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what they breaking in my crib.
Yeah, that's wild, that's wild.

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That isn't necessarily happening in the hood. You're right, that's crazy. If

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somebody broke in your house, everybody
whipped that person out. You hold on,

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Ricky, just broken the house,
We get the back. Everybody whipping

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is new ass. Like when I
was a kid. You broke into my

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apartment that I lived in with my
family, right, Like, Yo,

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you're gonna have to see fourteen people
don't have to see everybody apartment in this

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on this floor. We all coming
out. What's the line in the movie

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you ever dream so big you feel
awake? Bro? That's man, that's

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a bar man where that dream?
And you've had those dreams right coming up

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all in the stage, Like you
dream so big that it feels real,

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and it has to feel real to
you, you know, That's what Like,

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that's why I feel like I'm doing
now. I you know, life

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gone life because life is never perfect. But man, I'm living a dream.

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I really am, and every way
you could think of it, and

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honestly, like even just you know, even you know, going to therapy

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consistently and just dealing with all this
stuff, even just even just physically waking

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up feeling good everything and making it
a part of my lifestyle and my life.

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I just just being better and then
I get to do what I love.

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Man, Right, Yeah, man, I am, I'm dreaming out

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loud every single day. That's great. Congratulations, Yeah, Like you would

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pay to do this, you know, one hundred percent would but I enjoy

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that they pay me to do.
Going back to the crib. What is

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your favorite room? House? My
media room? Now, what's that?

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Like? You know that's where I
watch all. I'm a sports head,

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so like, especially during the NFL
same anybody got the NFL red Zone,

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You got a nice television? You
like, I'm here. You get out

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of church, like this is what
it is you all day? Do you

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do? You do you host parties
at your crib? Or you ran out

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of space separately because you don't want
nothing dir at the house. That's good,

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good, I'm like, no,
come over, let me tell you

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something. I found a lot of
piece. The only thing, you know,

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it's funny. I get on the
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literally the same thing. He's in
Chicago, LA. And we'll literally like

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because we Bulls fans too, so
you would thought we had a podcast or

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a halftime show. We literally call
each other halftime like you see what the

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officers baby. But it's it's still
it's one of those things. It's still

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for private. It feels like how
we when we grew up and we always

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in the same room. It's still
the same. It's so weird too,

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where you get grown and you your
brothers and siblings still have that because even

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when he comes to visit, we'll
still be We'll fall asleep in the same

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room. It's beautif weird, that's
beautiful, that's beautiful, and that's family.

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Right there. You say media room. We just saw Floyd Mayweather's media

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room. So it's a theater and
a spa mix. You see yourself doing

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something like that. I don't know
he there getting his nails done and watching.

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He's in there getting his watching.
Hello, can someone turn the TV

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for me? Because my my nails
ain't dry. But man's grooming is very

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important. I'm big on that,
you know what I'm saying. I like,

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let me tell you something. I
love a good massage, but I

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do get a manicure, and you
know what's fun. I've never had a

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panicure before that. I come my
own toe. Now. It was like,

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I'll get a clip, my own
thing. But I've never like set

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my foot in the bath and then
the lady tickle me. And I've thought

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about it. It's so weird because
I've done every I'm a I get facials

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and everything, but I ain't never
got nobody to do nothing. My toes,

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y'all do that with wife, Girsie, It just paused your facials.

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Gia, we're grown, We're grown, We're grown. Now we've grown out,

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Garcia. You gotta pause that though. How old you are? You

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gotta pause that? Man? Yo, you heard the news about O Jay

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Simpson he died. Man, Yeah, man's that's wild that news, just

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like what the shook everyone though,
Well it's it's it's like quietly ship like

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nobody if like nobody could say anything, what do you say? Kaitlyn Jender

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said good riddings for real? Yeah, no, for real? Yeah,

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I mean Kaitlyn didn't know, but
Bruce did, right, right, So

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like, yeah, so I guess
he's he's going off for that. To

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tell you, be careful what energy
you put out there. You don't want

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nobody reacting to you that way.
Can you imagine, like, Yo,

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you leave this earth and someone says
good ridden, you won't say it in

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his face. That's real to piggyback
up. You just said, like,

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be careful what kind of energy you
put out? Are you very intentional about

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that? I'm very intentional about that, Like I try my best even when

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I walk in rooms. Now it's
even more intentional about even walking on the

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set, just making sure my energy
is right. And that's what I'm excited

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about directing my first movie. I'm
like, oh, I get a chance

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to do things maybe even a little
differently I've done as an actor, and

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be more inclusive with everybody and make
sure I speak to everybody and make sure

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you know all these different things.
That's amazing. Is there a director that

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you studied. It's quite a few. I mean some of my favorites now

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and this random one. Aba Duvene
is one of my favorite directors. I

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just love the way she does everything. Michael Jah White is one of the

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most underrated directors right because you know, doing movies like Black Dynamite and stuff

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like that. Mike has a and
I've sat down with my Michael joh White

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is the most fascinating person in the
world. He's what about He's like my

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favorite new friend. It is Michael
joh White. He's so he's so interesting,

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Yeah, interesting, weird or interesting, fascinating or both all of it.

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Yeah, because because he like even
when he go like he he could

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go on like these rants about stuff, even if we just talk of fatherhood

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or something. But you can hit
a toughness in the fatherhood talk. It's

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really interesting even we like we went
to breakfast with time. It's like you

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kind of want somebody to start some
ship with us. Yeah, I believe

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that. Yeah, y'all don't want
this Michael John White. Take a sip

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of that coffee roundhouse, shoot right
now and drop some knowledge and drown some

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knowledge. But he's so he's so
smart. He's so smart, and he

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knows his film and TV and everything
really well. Yeah, man, do

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you bring stand up everywhere you go? You do? I think it is

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Actually, I think without even trying
to get to your core, that's who

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you are, That's who I am. And it's like breathing, Like stand

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up is one of those things like
I can get on stage anytime and it's

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just it's not in right. I
can drop in and have fun and like

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that was fun. I'm out.
Yeah. Freestyle, Yeah, I freestyle

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before the time is what I do. Really, you just go up there.

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So you're not a writer in that
way, no, because you're too

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talented. Bro Well, I don't
know if it mean because Simbad is one

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of the greatest to ever do that. Man, God bless Yeah, Simbad

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is one of those guys that can
go up and just like his spec HBO

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specials. If you ever get a
chance to even see classic legendary, he

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was like, man, man,
I didn't break none of that, and

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I'm like, damn, but that's
who he is. I went and saw

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a show he did, like two
and a half hours wow of stuff.

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We just talked about two days off
the Dome. Paul like, man,

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we just talked about this leuff.
That's crazy. That is show one hundred

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percent. I mean I did vergenes
of it right with the Oscars, I

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did the pre show and then they
had me when they didn't have a host

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that year, they had me.
I got Glenn closer to the button all

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that. Yeah, yeah, but
I believe like being that guy, I'll

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be I'll be a great with the
lights on. I'll be a great host.

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And to think about it is just
because I know how to host,

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and you know, I think sometimes
people come in with the wrong mindset.

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I'm gonna row celebrities and I'm gonna
do this and do that. No,

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just be funny and keep a show
moving. That's why Trevor Noa's been doing

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a good job at y. He
looks he's having fun. And Trevor's my

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favorite at it because he looks like
he's having fun. Yeah yeah, Now

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is that an act? Do you
have to look like you're having fun?

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No? I think find somebody who
enjoys what they do. If you love

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movies or TV, Like if you
have met hosts of Oscars or the MTV

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Awards or even celebration the gospel,
because I love gospel, I'm gonna really

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have a great time hosting no show. Wow, yeah, you would kill

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that. I know. I was
they so scared of comics. Now I'm

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like, but you ain't ask me. You didn't ask me why Why are

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they scared of the comics? Because
because really because of the old heads.

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What do you mean, bro?
Because like they old so some of the

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stuff they just meaner. And so
it's like you get somebody who actually loves

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this and don't want to be mean. Yeah yeah yeah, don't want to

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tell the room. Yeah, I
don't want to be mean. No,

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you just want to entertain, want
have fun. That's great. Man.

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Do you drink before the shows?
No? I haven't had a drink since

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December, God blessed man. Congratulations. Yeah, and it's it's weird.

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I didn't put a timeframe on it. It's like I really like one day

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was like, yeah, like am
I forcing myself to drink to this point?

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That's that's ah, it's a crazy
realization. Yeah, it's like it's

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like it was weird one day because
it was like damn. And then I

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was like, I want to be
more present for stuff. Yeah, you

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know these award shows, I go
to these these premieres. I want to

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be present and deal with my anxiety
at a little better. That's what it

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aiety. It was like a coping
thing. You think it help you with

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your anxiety. It's bravery when drinking, though, it was like it was

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coping. And then you know,
it's funny once you start having it where

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you can afford whatever you want.
Yeah, then that's a whole other level,

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like there's no limit to it.
And then you go to all these

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things and everything free, that's even
crazier. And so it's like you just

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got to get control of it.
And for me, it was like I

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had like cut down, don't like
I stopped drinking as much, but I

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still felt the same way. And
that was weird. And men, I'm

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like, wait, a minute.
I didn't cut. Maybe I shouldn't be

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drinking right, right, right,
I don't need it. And it's been

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a beautiful and it's honestly, it's
so interesting because didn't even realize how much

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calories I was putting on because of
a lot of sugar tequila. Got a

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lot of sugar dog tequila, and
I was doing everything. I was like,

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I would have a shot at tequila
and a double Tito's and like that's

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that's crazy, that's crazy, and
Ben, it'd be it would go together.

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Yeah, no, like four shots
and like three beers. Let's get

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it, and let's get it.
He said, I know, I know

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I need help. You okay,
we all need help. We all need

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a little help, right as a
comedian. What do you think is wrong

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with you? As a comedian?
Yeah, you know, something I could

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be makes you I think I'm funny
because I could be I could be kind

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of mean. It's funny because it's
like I'm like nice, mean, you

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know what I mean. And then
you and your front me like our group

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text. If somebody ever broke in
our phones, they will kick us out

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of it because we we're just so
it's so funny and dark but it's funny

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to us, you know what I
mean. You know, if you if

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you get your group of friends,
you're like, all right, I can't

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wait to see what this oj conversation
it started before. I don't know where's

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at now. It's probably like ninety
messages right now. I mean, yeah,

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yeah, down, what's what's your
favorite emoji? My favorite emoji?

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Oh, that's a good one.
It depends, but right, I guess

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right now is the the praying emoji
I used all day? Yeah, I've

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been using the hugging one. I
use the fistball, which wants I've never

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seen none of those. You never
seen the hugging, the fifth bukhok,

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the yo. All right, so
we've grown now in theaters, Man,

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Little Ralph, thank you very much
for the time and energy. Man,

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we make sure y'all check this movie
out. Is so good. No,

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let them know, absolutely, it
is really good. Man pays checking Rich

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