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INTERVIEW: Jeremy Renner Talks 'Mayor of Kingstown' S4, Snow Plow Accident, Marvel; Avengers, Music + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Morning, Everybody's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We
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  Speaker 5: Of field, like Jeremy Ryan. Now, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: how you doing Breakfast Club? Feeling good? Beer oil, very happy,
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  Speaker 5: very blessed to be here America.
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  Speaker 4: Kingstown Season four is coming.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, man. That's been a wonderful job. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 5: love it. Man, it's pretty exciting we've got to especially
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  Speaker 5: this far into the series. It's the best season so
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  Speaker 5: far because of I think just because when you know
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  Speaker 5: the characters better season one. Huh you said better than
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  Speaker 5: the season one? Well yeah, yeah, yeah, just because the
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  Speaker 5: audience will know all the characters, so now we can
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  Speaker 5: take all this instead of having a bunch of being
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  Speaker 5: seen d storylines, we can put everybody into the same narrative.
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  Speaker 5: So we're all kind of we're watching a movie type
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  Speaker 5: of vibe. So pretty excited about that. Which is a
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  Speaker 5: lot of amazing characters in the show too. It's pretty diverse.
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  Speaker 3: You you've played everything from blue collar heroes the conflicted
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  Speaker 3: anti heroes.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of roles challenge you the most at this stage?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think like all those. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if you play a bad guy, it's got to be
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  Speaker 5: something pretty conflicted. You might, you know, with the audience
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  Speaker 5: kind of has a great understanding of why he's a
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  Speaker 5: bad guy and a good guy. You know, you have
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  Speaker 5: to have things go wrong for you otherwise, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we don't have a story, right, So I just look
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  Speaker 5: for always complicated characters. I think that's whether you ride
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  Speaker 5: the line of I think I've even kind of built
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  Speaker 5: a career of like is he a good guy or
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  Speaker 5: a bad guy? You're not going already where he's both
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  Speaker 5: or just like every human being on the planet, there's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of good in a lot of us, and
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  Speaker 5: then then we can do we can do bad behavior,
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  Speaker 5: but can still be a good person. Right. These are
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  Speaker 5: all just very human sort of traits and behaviors. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm kind of attracted to those.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to get out of that space when you
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  Speaker 3: dive so deep into like those moral gray areas, especially
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  Speaker 3: like on the show like.
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  Speaker 5: Kingsun No, Yeah, there's there's such you know, like when
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  Speaker 5: I put that suit on, there's a there's a certain
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  Speaker 5: there's this an energy to think same if I suit
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  Speaker 5: up for Hawkeye or whatever it might be. There's it's
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  Speaker 5: easy want to shed the skin of the the actual
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  Speaker 5: skin you can really kind of emotionally in psychologically you know,
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  Speaker 5: shed that you kind of have to, you have to
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  Speaker 5: practice that.
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  Speaker 6: How do you see your character might on the show.
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  Speaker 6: Do you see him as superhero, anti hero, something in between?
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  Speaker 5: How do you? I don't know, there's if hero is
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  Speaker 5: in there, I think it's uh. I think there's a
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  Speaker 5: moral code to him that's and ethics to him that
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  Speaker 5: I'm attracted to, even though it might come with some
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  Speaker 5: gray area moral gray area as well being you know,
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  Speaker 5: coming from an incarceration, and but I think there's something
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  Speaker 5: selfless about Mike McCluskey that I'm attracted to. So that
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  Speaker 5: does make him more heroic or more good, I think,
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  Speaker 5: than than bad, even though there are some moral you know,
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  Speaker 5: gray areas with him, But I think the intention behind
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  Speaker 5: him is always forthright and being selfless.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at how you played a Mayo of
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  Speaker 1: Kingston in his show, and then you look at today's
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  Speaker 1: American and some of the things that politics is doing, now,
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  Speaker 1: how do you compare the same.
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  Speaker 5: I think mcclussey's kind of needed, you know, we need,
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  Speaker 5: we need. I think someone that can kind of grease
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  Speaker 5: the wheels on all all all sides and all kind
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  Speaker 5: of smooth the edges of people. I think there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of devices this that kind of goes on and
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things that can divide us, and I
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  Speaker 5: think what's important is to unite us all like in
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  Speaker 5: just like in Mary Kingstown in that world, a world
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  Speaker 5: of incarceration. You know, there's there's people waiting for people
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  Speaker 5: to get out of the prison. There's people waiting to
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  Speaker 5: get out of prison. There's some people that work in
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  Speaker 5: the prison, and uh, in all all different levels of incarceration.
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  Speaker 5: How how that world works. I think there has to
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  Speaker 5: be some sort of grease to kind of uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: unite people in all these different perspectives, Like it happens
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  Speaker 5: all the time in real life with you know, just
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  Speaker 5: the prison guard life is a very brutal job or
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  Speaker 5: just being incarcerated, that's a very brutal sort of place
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  Speaker 5: in space to be. I think that this had a
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  Speaker 5: really cool documentary that came out that was shot in
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  Speaker 5: the prison.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I heard about that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, such amazing. I just saw it. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: I can't remember what it was on on Netflix or something, but.
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  Speaker 4: Some about Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly in Birmingham Friday and everybody watch it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. But it's sort of like kind of injustices that
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  Speaker 5: go on, you know, and and incarceration and so anyways,
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  Speaker 5: it's just it's I just think it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I think there's a there is a kind of kind
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  Speaker 5: of great need for that. Uh, like the morally great
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  Speaker 5: area guy had to come in and be able to
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  Speaker 5: listen to everybody. I think that's what even what sort
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  Speaker 5: of politicians should do?
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  Speaker 2: You think we should do that more?
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask, because in mayor of Kingstown,
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  Speaker 1: you deal with the bad guys and the good guys, correct,
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  Speaker 1: but you are the kind of keeping the peace with
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  Speaker 1: that side. And I feel like sometimes with maya's and
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  Speaker 1: governors or even I can't even say president, but maya's
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  Speaker 1: and governors, seems like they stay away from the bad guys,
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  Speaker 1: like they just messed with the good guys.
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  Speaker 2: Where they can't make sure there is peace.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I think, like money just sort
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  Speaker 5: of pushes us around and and uh forces our handed
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  Speaker 5: I think I think capitalism is sort of the crushing
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  Speaker 5: of humanity for us right now. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't really lead that way. I kind of lead
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  Speaker 5: with them more open heart. But yeah, I think you know,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you're supposed to serve the people. But to
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  Speaker 5: serve the people, you have to listen to the people,
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  Speaker 5: understand the people. Also, the people have to speak out,
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  Speaker 5: and we have to like you know, be uh be
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  Speaker 5: vocal and you know, everybody needs to be witnessed, right,
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  Speaker 5: Everybody needs to be understood. And when we don't feel
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  Speaker 5: that way, we get divided, right, And you know, I
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  Speaker 5: think we need to find ways to to unite, man
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  Speaker 5: because that's that's what we are. That's well how you know,
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  Speaker 5: how we how we survive, is how we succeed. It's
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  Speaker 5: how we flourish.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even if you can't fully understand a person's
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  Speaker 3: you know, story, understand their existence as a human, I
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  Speaker 3: think the golden rule that we learned as kids, just
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  Speaker 3: apply that everything.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly, third grade playground rules. That's that's my sort of
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  Speaker 5: like religion, if you will. It's like all that third
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  Speaker 5: great playground stuff. It's like, treat people like you want
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  Speaker 5: to be treated like all that stuff. And it's like
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  Speaker 5: if we operate from that accord, you know, if we
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  Speaker 5: got like tax breaks for doing those applying those rules,
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  Speaker 5: like you know, we've been doing it more often, so
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  Speaker 5: I think it's important to you know, at least, that's
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  Speaker 5: how I think we can all even agree that that's gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Work for all of the crazy tax base.
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  Speaker 5: Basically for being kind, yeah, for being kind, for walking
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  Speaker 5: someone across the street. But yeah, for Yeah, then you
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  Speaker 5: got everybody hugging each other and mowing each other's lawns.
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  Speaker 5: And I love that, right. I mean that's just called community,
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  Speaker 5: that's called humanity, right, And I think we're in a
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  Speaker 5: system that doesn't allow for that to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Sadly, How do you humanize a man who operates in
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  Speaker 3: a world where power often replaces compassion.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's what I lean on the things I
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  Speaker 5: think the family part aspect of him, I think I
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  Speaker 5: lean all the things that that do make him to
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  Speaker 5: have that fortitude. For like, McCluskey has like a strong
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  Speaker 5: family ties, right, he's half his family's and cops. But
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  Speaker 5: he was incarcerated. But he was but we didn't go
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  Speaker 5: too much into the backstory that. But he's incarcerated and
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  Speaker 5: didn't do the thing. He was kind of like the
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  Speaker 5: scapegoat for why he was incarcerated. But at any rate, there's
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  Speaker 5: a code, right, there's a moral code that I think
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  Speaker 5: is kind of inspiring. It inspires me, So I really
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  Speaker 5: just focus on the things that that make him good.
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  Speaker 5: That the righteousness of him is about the righteousnes of
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  Speaker 5: others and not about its selfless right. It's not about
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  Speaker 5: him serving himself, and I really like that about the character.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's something, you know, if it's anti hero
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  Speaker 5: or heroic about him, it's that's that selflessness. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that's that's a great message to send. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Now I wanted to I wanted to go back a
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  Speaker 1: little bit a couple of years ago, right, I remember
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  Speaker 1: you all over the news in twenty twenty three. A
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  Speaker 1: fourteen thousand pounds snow plow ran you, over you and
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  Speaker 1: saving your nephew. They say that, you know, they had
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  Speaker 1: to revive you, and they said that you even upset
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  Speaker 1: that they revived.
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  Speaker 2: You because it was like it was so break that down.
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  Speaker 5: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: Please tell us?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was a an incident happened in my
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  Speaker 5: driveway on New Year's Day, And uh yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 5: lot you know, I had to spend a lot of
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  Speaker 5: time writing a book about even so there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of a lot of healing it goes on in that.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, it's like it's like a you know, near
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  Speaker 5: death experience essentially, and it's an incident that that transpired that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I have like zero regrets about it. I
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  Speaker 5: do it again for the same instance. What happened maybe
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  Speaker 5: I'd go about it a little bit differently. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: my nephew, Yeah, he was at risk. He's gonna get
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  Speaker 5: ran over by the machine. So I tried to jump
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  Speaker 5: back on. I got knocked off of this tank like
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  Speaker 5: machine and try to jump back on it, and it
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  Speaker 5: has like these tank tracks, and it's you can't. It's
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  Speaker 5: it's a stupid thing, ultimately, really to do. But you
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  Speaker 5: know what else you gonna do. I'm not gonna sit
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  Speaker 5: there and watch him get crushed, So I try to
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  Speaker 5: jump onto the machine to stop it, and then I
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  Speaker 5: got crushed instead. But at any rate, you know, we
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  Speaker 5: know the end of the story here and flourishing and happy,
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  Speaker 5: and I learned so many great things and gifts that
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  Speaker 5: came from from dying and coming back. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: if you could so you've actually died, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see heaven or did you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Well, I don't know if we call it heaven,
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  Speaker 5: but I guess, you know, a version of it is.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty pretty amazing. I what I was really strange
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  Speaker 5: though about it all. It's like I have very specific
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  Speaker 5: sort of feelings about it privately. And then there's this
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  Speaker 5: doctor I talked to that and I talked with on
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  Speaker 5: this Oprah on the Opra show that she has and
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  Speaker 5: this guy that all he does is is deal with
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  Speaker 5: near death experiences, and then he spoke about sort of
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  Speaker 5: the general sort of ideas of things that that people
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  Speaker 5: experience over the forty years he's been studying it. And
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  Speaker 5: by the time it got to me to ask me questions,
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  Speaker 5: I had nothing to say. The guy I almost said
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  Speaker 5: word for word what I wrote in the book about
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  Speaker 5: my personal experience, and it ends up being like really
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  Speaker 5: common with everybody that has a near death experience. So
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  Speaker 5: it's not that I didn't feel special thing. I just
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  Speaker 5: felt like it's actually felt more concrete resolved about what
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  Speaker 5: does happen when you pass or when you almost pass
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  Speaker 5: or I mean I certainly went away for a minute
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  Speaker 5: or I don't know how much. Time doesn't matter, but
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  Speaker 5: it's a pretty pretty interesting experience. And then to know
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  Speaker 5: that I wasn't alone in it, that it wasn't just
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  Speaker 5: sort of my you know, one time shot at it. It
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  Speaker 5: was that it's there's something really concrete about it, and
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  Speaker 5: it's beautiful, and it's it's ultimately in the short of it,
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  Speaker 5: I think just about love and the only thing sort
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  Speaker 5: of you take with you because like like hate, right,
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  Speaker 5: a very very powerful powerful human emotion. It could run
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  Speaker 5: a country on it. Love sadly can't, even though it's
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  Speaker 5: pretty powerful human emotion, right, but it hate only exists
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  Speaker 5: on the on the tails of love because hate burns out,
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  Speaker 5: burns hot and fast, and then it dies there. I
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  Speaker 5: just can't hate forever, but you can love forever. It's
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  Speaker 5: a perpetuity. And that's the somethly thing you can't take
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  Speaker 5: with you. And it's a it's a beautiful you know.
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  Speaker 5: It's how I kind of continue on as I walk
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  Speaker 5: through the day and breathe through the day and feel
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  Speaker 5: blessed and honored to be here. But I only focus
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  Speaker 5: on shared experiences with love and people I care about,
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  Speaker 5: and nothing else really matters outside that.
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  Speaker 4: How did you How did your nephew appreciate you saving life?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, well, the depths of we've already have a
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  Speaker 5: very very close family, and my friendships I have for
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  Speaker 5: a very long time, we're also very close. All those
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  Speaker 5: is deepened immensely. It's it's you kind of you kind
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  Speaker 5: you know those extra sketches, right, it's kind of like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, racing the extra sketch and that everything's kind
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  Speaker 5: of cleared away and just it's more focused and purposeful
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  Speaker 5: and intended with everything that we do, everything that we do,
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  Speaker 5: every thought that we have, every dream or or or
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  Speaker 5: or belief. It starts, it starts kind of fresh with
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  Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty pretty pretty
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  Speaker 5: dank good. I tell you, what.
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  Speaker 4: Have you have?
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  Speaker 3: You asked them to do something simple and he kind
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  Speaker 3: of like hesitated, Like I don't feel like.
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  Speaker 5: Uh no, I don't. I think he's I think he's
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  Speaker 5: been pretty good. Yeah, everybody, we all took Look, I've
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  Speaker 5: taken care of him, and he's definitely taking care of me.
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  Speaker 5: Like my sister, but it's her birthday today and I
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  Speaker 5: was just speaking to her. She's on her honeymoon and
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  Speaker 5: in Italy, and yeah, she's, uh, you know, like she
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  Speaker 5: was very instrumental in me and during the accident and
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  Speaker 5: you know, being strong headed and strong willed about you know,
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  Speaker 5: all the stuff that to get me better. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: my yeah, my family is yeah, we will all say
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  Speaker 5: yes to which I don't think we're saying each other.
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  Speaker 2: It's not scared of death at all.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't really scared before. But like It was really bad, guys.
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  Speaker 4: It was exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I saw my eyeball with my other eyeball. My legs
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  Speaker 5: are all twisted up. You know, it's pretty it's gnarly, right.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like twenty five percent titanium in my so but
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  Speaker 5: if that's the worst, that's the worst. But if that's
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  Speaker 5: the worst of it, like this is all you got.
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  Speaker 5: This like this is like probably can't get much worse.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe if I you'd let me on fire. Maybe, but
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  Speaker 5: your body already kind of shuts down in its nerve endings,
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  Speaker 5: and when you have that much kind of trauma going on,
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  Speaker 5: so you're only kind of feeling X amount of pain
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  Speaker 5: your your brain, the pain center can only take certain
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  Speaker 5: amount of information otherwise the kind of its overloads. And
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  Speaker 5: that's what happened. It was just all overloaded. So I
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  Speaker 5: just felt like, you know, it was terrible, but mostly
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  Speaker 5: it was like a cramp and I couldn't breathe. I
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  Speaker 5: felt like I was suffocating. That was it. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to I'm oversimplifying it, but you know, so.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you definitely are because from there to you go
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  Speaker 6: from that and then you shoot second season of Mayor
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  Speaker 6: of Kingstown.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, that was. That was pretty fast, pretty fast,
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  Speaker 5: you know, from me from almost a year to date
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  Speaker 5: to go into season three to to shoot. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's it's it was. You know, I was, I was,
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  Speaker 5: I was doing pretty well, I was moving around, I
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  Speaker 5: was doing really well, and I wanted to get kind
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  Speaker 5: of back out into the world. I was always wanting
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  Speaker 5: to kind of get back out into the world to
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  Speaker 5: kind of push away, like, Okay, yeah, I'm walking again.
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  Speaker 5: They said I wouldn't. I'm doing I'm doing better than
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  Speaker 5: I thought I would. But I wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 5: get back into the world and start working again. And
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  Speaker 5: it was a little a little early on, like you know,
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  Speaker 5: because of my energy levels were pretty low. And but anyway,
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  Speaker 5: that's it's. I was. Getting back to work was important
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  Speaker 5: to me, even though I really struggled, which I found strange,
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: but then not so strange because obviously Mary Kings sounds
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: fictional even it's based on a lot of truths, but
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: I'm still saying lines, I'm still playing a character. That's
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: I have to live in reality and real real, real
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: nonfiction just to exist through my day, right, I have
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: to breathe, I have to walk, use a lot of energy,
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: to walk right and do all these things right at
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: this time, So I felt it felt really weird to
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: go play Make Believe when I have to really live
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: in real fucking reality. Sorry, but I have to live
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: in real reality, right, so like it's no joke, So
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: it was. I found that to be a little tricky
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: in the beginning, but then once I got it was
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: really more. Also, my blood work was really bad, my hemoglobin,
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: and if you know anything about that, as a two,
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: it was like the kind of the blood of a
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: dead man. So I had no energy. I had no
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: like my minochondriar. Everything was all messed up. So once
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I got that corrected and did some hormone replacement all
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: these other different things, I got more energy, and then
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I really started to flourish more through and then playing
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: make Believe was a little bit more palatable.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I suppose, how were you spiritually before the accident. Did
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: you believe in God?
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I'm I'm I'm certainly godly, but
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I but my dad is a theologist, so I studied
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: every religion growing up, so I don't really subscribe to
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: any particular type of organized religion, but I definitely of
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: a godly sort of spiritual guide, so none of that's
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: ultimately changed. Outside I still believe in something that's I like,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know what brought me back, like I wasn't
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: when I died. I didn't want to come back, but
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: that something brought me back, something outside of it. I
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: don't know what it was.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: It was there on the other side, like no, not
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: your times.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: No, no, if it's it's it's anyone. It's there's no time,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: place in space. So it's everyone, all things all at once.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: You know. I saw me the same age as I
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: was with my dad or my mom or anybody. You're
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: just all once. It's all happening at once, and it's
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: magnificent and peaceful and quiet. So there's nothing that like
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: like rip me back or a thing. I just remember
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: coming more back in the consciousness and I saw my
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: eyeball in the eyes. I'm like, oh, I'm back in
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: this body. Like I was just doing so good, doing
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: so good. But then I'm like, all, here we go.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: We got to overcome these obstacles and start breathing again,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: and you know, and thank God, you know, but that
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: I was, you know, pulled back even though I didn't
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: want to be, did.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: It make me appreciate God even more.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know if more I think I I look,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's about appreciating God more. I
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: think it's about a I think I appreciate like like
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: love more. Or I really just wiped away all the
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: white noise of nonsense that I gave credence to. There's
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: so many things that you know, I gave value to
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: that doesn't have any value, and I continue down that path,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: whether that's a path of God or not. It's just
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: like I just only do things that are very purposeful
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: and very intended. I don't do anything otherwise. I don't
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: do anything the kind of I don't know anything with
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: my one toe. It's either all or not. Everything I
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: do is with great, great purpose and great clarity. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: there's a free it's very freeing right when we allow
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: ourselves to not get our own way, not to just
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: be just so focused on what we really want and
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: what we really want and like what really has value.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: And you know, I had to go to the nth
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: degree right to to learn that. I mean, it's partially
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: why I was kind of writing a book about it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: If anybody else could grab on to some of the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: blessings because I got so many gifts and blessings from
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: being tested to my limits and and squeezing all the
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: crap out of me. I suppose you know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: The book is my next breath.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Is it true that Marvel reportedly cuts your salary in
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: half because of the snowplow incident?
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Not because of the snowplows, No, it's just cause, you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: and then on to do season two and they're just
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: off offered half the amount to do season two. I'm like, yeah,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: of course I love to do it, but it's going
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: to take a lot of physical work to get back
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: and do it. So and also just the timing because
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: it would take a little bit more time for me
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: to physically do the role. And maybe I just wasn't
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: ready last year. It's like maybe it's it's it'll happen,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: you know, in the in a year or two to come,
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: you know, but because I was still in recovery right now,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: it will be for for the rest of my life.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: But I'm just getting stronger every day.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: You know, Are you doom today in Secret Wars and
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: all that?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: No?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Damn no, are you afraid that you know what the
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: multi not?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: They can just bring another hawk eye from.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. If they want to do that,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: they can go ahead of all means you can do that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: I got, I got. I'm pretty busy myself.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I was going to I was gonna say, what was
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: a difficult getting back?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And the reason I'm asking is your fans. A lot
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of times fans don't care what you're going through. Right,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: just said all the stuff that you're going through with
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: hemoglobin and your blood and your eye on the table.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Most people don't it on the table. I'm sorry, but
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you know, how do you deal with fans with that?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Because they still want their celebrity, they still want their hero,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: they still want that time, that talk time.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: How did you deal with that? Well, it's it's the
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: strange thing about that because most most of my relationship
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: with fans or just people in general across the planet
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: is really shifted from a guy that that slung arrows
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: to like a guy that overcame some real huge obstacles.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: So it's it's less selfies. I still take selfies. It's
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: still like you know, signing, you know, bubble heads and
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: all all this stuff, right, but there's there's a greater
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: awareness to like, you know, I'll get people to just
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: walk by me and be like, glad you're with us, man,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: good on you for overcoming a thing, like you're a
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: good man. Whatever the heck it is. It's something really
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: connective and really human exchange that I get with people,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: whether fans or not, or but it's it's less sort
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: of like I just because selfies are kind of like
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: you know, the vampiresh kind of activity. It's like to
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: take something.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: It's people were more giving typically, but there's still I mean,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I spend as soon as they land here, I'm signing stuff,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: but I don't I don't take offense to that stuff.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: I don't think they're forgetting about things. Because actually, one
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: gal gave me this beautiful like this. They do this
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: pencil like really fine dot thing. It's a drawing of
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: like it's of my face and I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: it's so beautiful. How much time that that takes, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: you know, a week or whatever anyway, And I just
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: think that, you know, there's I find that that people
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: have been more thoughtful in kind. You know, it's not everyone,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: but you know, I just think generally there's been a
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: great shift, and it's not so much about that, ask
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: so much about the fandom of things. You know, that
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: was a real truth.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: You love your fans because you even created an app
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: right where your fans can like interact with you.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Oh that was Yeah. I did that back in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: day when because I was not a big social media
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: fan because there's so many people on it. So I
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: was trying to just to have if I was going
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: to communicate, let me do it with real fans, not
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: just people that were bots or whatever the heck's up
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: on social media. I don't trust any of that stuff.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I did that like for maybe like a
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: year or so, and it was fun to be actually
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: to really engage because you know who your audience is
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: because there was a very specific audience. But I ended
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: up taking too much time, so I just couldn't continue it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: You know, I had to be a dad too and
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: all these other things, right, So I got you.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Your fans love that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for the time I had it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: When you first joined the Marvel Universe, did you imagine
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: it would become such a defighting part of your career.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not show you get yelled at homs, people yell
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: hawkeye at you every day.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm glad I really went
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: down the road with it. But no one ever expected it,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: even like the Marble people were like kind of taking
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: aback by it all and but as it. But it
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: happened pretty quickly from Iron Man and then into the
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: first Avengers essentially moved pretty quick. And what a great
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: you know, I don't know when we thirteen fourteen years
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: into it and still kind of in the ring, still fighting,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: still throwing punches and taking punches. It's a it's a fun, fun,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: fun world. And you know, the friendships that were formed
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: out of it. I mean it started off like so bizarre.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Some of us knew each other before we started filming
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: The Avengers, but there's like Hemsworth we didn't know, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: a few of the people and but it's strange. It's
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: it's like a Halloween costumes. We're all like wearing these
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: bizarre outfits and these props, foam hammer, all these weird things,
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: and uh, we were like what do we do? We
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: all like, what are we doing? I don't know, It's
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: just you know, we at least we're doing it together.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: And it worked out, you know, pretty great, right. It
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: was ended up being like you know, I got really
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: great friendships out of the deal that have you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: really great value in my life, you know, and through
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: a lot of marriages, divorces and kids and all these
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: great things.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: How script was the script because I always think about
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: this one line, right, it was an end game and
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: it was when y'all was arguing about after Natalie Na Talla.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Died Natalie Oh yeah, yeah, and you.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Say maybe you want to go talk to them. Okay,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: go grab your hammer and you go fly and talk
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: to him. I'm like, it just sounded off in the script.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Why this factice I made that one up? You did?
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: No ways wrote that they told in that moment.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Well yeah, they let you know with the brothers on
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: that one where you have certain freedoms to you know, Look,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: it's not about the best line. It can always win,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: and especially but that's not a comedic one. Usually it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: about comedy stuff. Well, if we're throw in something that's
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: very charactery, it's like it's it's never it's you can
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: be loose with some things. It depends on the you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: you never want to mess with the obvious storylines and
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: things like that, and things have to always be truthful.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: So but that was like a very heated sort of
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: you know, kind of kind of human Yeah. Yeah, a
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: lot of us are. And it's it's, you know, with
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: the whole to eat chuck something across the lake, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I think everyone's got thrown feelings. But yeah, and also
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: like you know, Hawkeys, he doesn't have any superpower. It's
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: not like really like a superhero. He is, but he's
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: you know, very he's like a he's like the dad
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: of of of the Marvel universe in a lot of ways,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: you know, so you know he and and that line
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: is just something very sort of kind of pragmatic of like, yeah,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: you can go fly around with your superpower super fabio,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: you know whatever. Thing right, It's just something you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: truthful as you you can be. You know. They look,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: they wouldn't put it in if it wasn't truthful.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I see something in regards to Marvel.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: You know, you've had your you had some controversies, you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: allegations your ex wife made about you. But why did
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Marvels stick with you but was quick to discard somebody
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: like Jonathan Mage's.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know if
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: there's which the difference between you know, gossip and then
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: the differents between anything else. I don't know enough about
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Jonathan Uh in this situation too uh to know. I
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: know they had big plans for that character, that's for sure.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: So whatever transpired, Yeah, that's I mean that sucks. I
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: think if due diligence, I think really has to be
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: played out. So I don't I don't know enough information
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: to know.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it just doesn't seem fair.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And how it happened, I mean I didn't you alsoituays
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: have nothing to do with each other, But I'm about
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the overall you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Know, arch of Marvel.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well that I think it's I think there's
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: a bigger, big, just kind of scope to that, just
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: you know, like you know, the idea of public opinion
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: becoming part of like a court process or something like that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: It's like, well, how about law and all that, you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: like when they're like, you know, public opinion become more
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: valuable than the actual truth or real you know, anything
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: on any situation. Right, And we've had that for a while,
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: ever since the with media and social media and all
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: that sort of stuff. Sort of connectivity and you know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I think it'd be Ma's kind of dangerous, yes me,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: you know, I agree, I think it's pretty dangerous, like
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: all that, all the cancer culture and all that sort
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: of stuff. It's like, wow, man, that just makes me
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: want to run and hide from, like and why why
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: put yourself out there and do anything for anybody at all?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: You know, It's like it's really kind of anybody can
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: say anything. Yeah yeah, then they can't, and that so
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: silly like And.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Marveled didn't. Right, I'm
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: glad Marveled.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Saw allegations for what they was and stuck by you.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I just wondered why they didn't extend that same grace
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: as somebody like Jonathan. You've seen them on video running
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: away from a situation.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know, I do not know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, we appreciate you for joining us Season four.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Mayor of Kingstown Man sings.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Are you still doing music?
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I still do music. Music always been like number
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: one in my life.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: What type of music?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Pop?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Country, rap?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: He does not rap? Yeah, I don't. Yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: So you still are making music because it is your passion?
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah still yeah, still do music. Just haven't had
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: the time. I've been kind of since the incident I've had.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: I just prioritized my time right now and it's with
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: my family and my daughter and my health and then
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: my foundation.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Alright, well, there you have it, Jeremy Renna.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, make sure you check out Season four
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Mayor of Kingstown premieres on the twenty six on Paramount Plus.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: And it's the Breakfast Club.
• 28:54
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