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INTERVIEW: Kevin Hart & Will Packer Talk Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, Industry Relationships + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ and B Jess Hilary Charlamage the guy
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  Speaker 1: we are the Breakfast Club. Jess is out today maternity,
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  Speaker 1: and we got some special guests in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. We have Will pack up what's happening,
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  Speaker 2: and we have Kevin, Kevin Hart, he's here, he's here.
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  Speaker 2: We have elect Kevin Hard. So it's allowed for you.
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  Speaker 2: So Kevin was supposed to be her. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: the irony of this, right.
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  Speaker 3: Kev's hungover right now.
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  Speaker 4: But if you read the first chapter in Will Packer's book,
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  Speaker 4: he has a chapter called We're Gonna Die tonight, right,
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  Speaker 4: and it's essentially this story. This isn't what you were
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  Speaker 4: worried about, Will, you were concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, brother, he almost ruined both our careers. This is
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  Speaker 2: not This is not the first time.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: See.
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  Speaker 5: The difference is that Kevin is at a point now
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  Speaker 5: he can get away with the ship.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: He's Kevin Hart, right, so you know people will just
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  Speaker 5: wait and been over back. Isn't all that There was
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  Speaker 5: a time when it was the biggest movie of both
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  Speaker 5: of our career. He was absolutely right along with ice Cube,
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  Speaker 5: and we had done things like a man. That was
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  Speaker 5: the one that really kind of caltiposed to Kevin and
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  Speaker 5: everybody was like.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's gonna do next? Like, what what are they
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  Speaker 2: gonna do next?
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  Speaker 5: So this was the one the biggest budget of our
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  Speaker 5: careers everything, And Kevin, you remember what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Did I? Like? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 6: Did we get what we were supposed to get? And
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  Speaker 6: did we get back to where we were supposed.
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  Speaker 2: To be so Envy were shooting?
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  Speaker 6: Did we get back to where we were supposed to be?
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  Speaker 2: We barely got back?
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  Speaker 6: Vita, why are you.
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  Speaker 5: Bitch all the time? You see this? This is people
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  Speaker 5: want to know what a producer does. Right, They asked me,
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  Speaker 5: this is what.
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  Speaker 2: A producer does. You see it? You see him smelling
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  Speaker 2: the coffee, trying to get you're trying to come back
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  Speaker 2: to life. This is what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: So Kevin was supposed to be I was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be here three hours early, four hours early.
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  Speaker 6: Boy issued. First of all, tell me why the people
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  Speaker 6: on radio need to know that it's radio? So you
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  Speaker 6: say they need a fucking breakdown.
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  Speaker 2: Four hours earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And they said Kep can't make it because he's SI
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  Speaker 1: and we all said, bullshit, he was drunk because he
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  Speaker 1: went out last night.
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  Speaker 6: I did not go out last night. So let's let's
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  Speaker 6: that's actually true.
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  Speaker 2: I go out last night.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, I do not go out. I'm forty
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  Speaker 6: five years old. I don't go to fucking clubs. I
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  Speaker 6: don't go to parties. I was working. I did promos.
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  Speaker 3: My weekend.
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  Speaker 6: I own the fucking weekend, and then I have to
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  Speaker 6: show face.
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  Speaker 2: I have to be there.
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  Speaker 3: My weekend. I go.
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  Speaker 6: We have clubs, I gotta show face.
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  Speaker 3: To the club.
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  Speaker 6: No, well, yes, no, on all seriouslys So last night, uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we're doing promo and everything for Fight Night,
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  Speaker 6: rolling out all of the carpet of the carpets. So
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  Speaker 6: before the actual premiere, we announced it. But I had
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  Speaker 6: to leave because I had to do Seth Myers and
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  Speaker 6: Seth Myers has a segment called Drinking with Seth, and
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  Speaker 6: you you go to a bar and Seth makes these
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  Speaker 6: drinks or whatever, and it's like, you know, for hour
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  Speaker 6: and after two hours, you're drinking throughout the interview. And
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  Speaker 6: you know, I don't drink anything outside of my fucking
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  Speaker 6: tequila at this point in my life, so you know,
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  Speaker 6: anything else, anything else I'm very unfamiliar with. And said,
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  Speaker 6: let's close it out with your tequila, but let's start
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  Speaker 6: it with everything. So he threw it all at me
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  Speaker 6: like I'm talking. It's Jaegermeister and wild Turkey. I mean
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  Speaker 6: we were brown, we were dark, but.
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  Speaker 2: You can.
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  Speaker 6: But you have to understand the beauty of good television.
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  Speaker 6: And it was a good conversation, great interview and while
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  Speaker 6: we're drinking for good reason behind the answers, and we
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  Speaker 6: we finished it with is to kill it. We went
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  Speaker 6: through a lot and I just don't remember the back
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  Speaker 6: half of the time. And that's why I didn't show
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  Speaker 6: up to the after party. I missed that. And this
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  Speaker 6: morning is to say, m I would have been here.
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  Speaker 4: Bro, Why couldn't you missed the after party after the
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  Speaker 4: garden that night? So y'all could have just got back
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  Speaker 4: to you.
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  Speaker 6: Because we weren't drinking. That's why I want somebody's being
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  Speaker 6: a bitch like Kevin.
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  Speaker 2: It was our money.
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  Speaker 6: We weren't fucked up like oh man, where's my jacket?
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  Speaker 6: We weren't just out at a show.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest movie of our career. Okay, where's your tampon?
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  Speaker 5: Jesus Christ books a show at Madison Square Guarden. He
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  Speaker 5: takes a comedy special in the middle of our movie.
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  Speaker 6: I tore while filming a movie faithfully he does.
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  Speaker 2: Which is not a good thing.
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  Speaker 5: Boys and girls like and you're looking at how to
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  Speaker 5: be successful, like, don't overbook yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That one thing about my friend here, do it because
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  Speaker 2: nobody's going over working. I'm a bad don't do it, Kevin.
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  Speaker 2: Look at his career.
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  Speaker 6: He's been doing wrong this whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, kids.
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  Speaker 6: Kevin booked the fucking cloud showing Madison Square Garden take
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  Speaker 6: the Special and got to work and on time for
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  Speaker 6: the biggest movie in his career.
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, people that are listening, no, it's
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  Speaker 5: because you have people around you who will save you.
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  Speaker 2: You have folks that will save you. And that's what happened.
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  Speaker 5: He booked it right, and so he left the show
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  Speaker 5: in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Of it, right, the biggest moves for Universe Studios. He leaves.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what he does, because this is the
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  Speaker 5: evil genius of Kevin Hart.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, hey, man, I gotta do this show.
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  Speaker 5: It's next week, you know, he tells me a week
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  Speaker 5: before he goes, hey, you know what you and Tim
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  Speaker 5: Story did the Like He's like, I got the jet,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, bring bring the wine. So my dumb ass,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, you know what he brought, and you know
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  Speaker 5: what he said. He said that way you can make
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  Speaker 5: sure that we get back on time, because I knew
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  Speaker 5: we had to shoot the next day. So we're shooting
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  Speaker 5: one day. He's gonna go do the show that night,
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  Speaker 5: and then we had to shoot the next morning on
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  Speaker 5: a location we can only get that day.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, come with let.
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  Speaker 6: Us driver in Alabi.
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  Speaker 2: So absolutely right, absolutely absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: I think I was a professional because direct producer for me.
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  Speaker 6: You can't think I'm an asshole.
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  Speaker 2: They would be. Kevin has an amazing show of Masies
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  Speaker 2: Square Guard.
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  Speaker 5: All the celebs come out afterwards were after party that
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  Speaker 5: he did not tell me about. I'm in there with
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  Speaker 5: Carmelo Anthony buying bottles, going, oh, we dying tonight?
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  Speaker 2: We turning up tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Why wars have power? Why are we going to die
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  Speaker 3: to that?
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  Speaker 6: This is what? Well we're gonna die to? That means
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  Speaker 6: we're having a good time. You're choosing to die over life.
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  Speaker 6: How good of a time is that? Last night? I
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  Speaker 6: didn't say we're gonna die tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is work.
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  Speaker 5: When I was in that club and I saw my
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  Speaker 5: career flashing before my eyes, because I realized there was
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  Speaker 5: no way we're gonna be able to get back in time.
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  Speaker 5: I had that moment because I'm sitting there look at keV,
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  Speaker 5: and I realized we're not gonna make it.
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  Speaker 2: And keV looks at me, he goes, well, we tried,
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  Speaker 2: we tried. That was it?
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  Speaker 5: Remember in Usual Suspects, when he realized that was sitting
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  Speaker 5: in front the whole time. I looked at Kevin Hart
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  Speaker 5: and I realized that he had convinced me, the producer
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  Speaker 5: and director of the movie, to get on a jet
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  Speaker 5: with him, so that when Universal called and said, why
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  Speaker 5: are y'all over budget and not able to finish the movie?
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  Speaker 5: And they say, well, Kevin Hart, Will Packer and Tim's
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  Speaker 5: story were there, so the producer went with him.
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  Speaker 2: It would be on me.
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  Speaker 5: When I was complicit, I realized that was his evil
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  Speaker 5: plan all in along.
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  Speaker 4: I called him a diabolical rascal, spawn of Satan.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I love him, but that's truer words never spoken, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I will ask you and your listeners, what is a
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  Speaker 6: life without a great story. It's something that can't be
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  Speaker 6: talked about. It's untold. A life with our stories is
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  Speaker 6: nothing you need fucking stories, good and the bad. He's
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  Speaker 6: bitching about a great story. And by the way that
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  Speaker 6: story did what amplified our relationship? And look at where
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  Speaker 6: we are now fright night, we're talking about something else
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  Speaker 6: that we're yet in business and we produced and developed together.
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  Speaker 6: Do we get here without that moment?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 6: We do not.
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  Speaker 2: So why did you still want to be his friend
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  Speaker 2: after that? After you figured that out? You could have said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, this relationship no longer happens.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, You need it, you need
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  Speaker 6: to envy.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so afraid that if I leave Kevin Harts Like
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  Speaker 5: he'll just get close right he just burn up on
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  Speaker 5: the spot.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know what he did.
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  Speaker 6: Without it's close to being over it.
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  Speaker 7: Have brought you to that works so well because even
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  Speaker 7: like just here with you guys in person, it's like
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  Speaker 7: I could I could listen to this back of a
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  Speaker 7: fall day long really talking.
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  Speaker 5: With each other's most frequent collaborators kept one a ton
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  Speaker 5: of movies. I've done a ton of movies, TV projects.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't worked with anybody else more than we work
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  Speaker 5: with each other.
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  Speaker 6: I'll give it. I'll give will this on air and
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  Speaker 6: half of it is because I'm still drunk and by
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  Speaker 6: the way of some of the best fucking to kill
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  Speaker 6: it in the market. He's kind of commercial, but it's
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  Speaker 6: just a time to let people know smooth taste. And
• 10:09
  Speaker 6: it comes to it. You got to understand what and
• 10:14
  Speaker 6: why Grand Cormino is that and has been that, which
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  Speaker 6: is why I drink it at the level that I do.
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  Speaker 6: But it's not about that right now. It's not about
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  Speaker 6: the product. It's about the passion. Let's get to that
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  Speaker 6: and we'll toast it that after with Grand Cormino. But
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  Speaker 6: I would say this is about Will. I don't say
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  Speaker 6: it enough if people don't understand it, and I think
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  Speaker 6: they should. Uh, I don't get to where I got
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  Speaker 6: in career or business without the information and relationship of
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  Speaker 6: Will Packer, you know what I mean. Like when it
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  Speaker 6: came to producing and when it came to development, or
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  Speaker 6: it came to packaging, Will Packer is the guy that
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  Speaker 6: was the definition of what that was. So from the
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  Speaker 6: early days of think like a man, he was the
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  Speaker 6: producer that came to me and said, Hey, I got
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  Speaker 6: this thing, I want to do this thing, and I
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  Speaker 6: think you're the guy. And those are words words without
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  Speaker 6: action are just that. He put action behind the words.
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  Speaker 6: Everything he said he would do he did. He got
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  Speaker 6: the people he wrangered, wrangled, the directors, the actors, the actresses,
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  Speaker 6: the producer partners, writers, etc. He can figured a way
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  Speaker 6: to formulate and activate. And I was like, goddamn man, like,
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  Speaker 6: how do you do that? And he taught me. Will
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  Speaker 6: taught me how to do it. And as I progressed,
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  Speaker 6: I never forgot who he was and what he was.
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  Speaker 6: So our relationship today is based off of never forget,
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  Speaker 6: like you don't you don't forget the real side of
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  Speaker 6: like success attached to just care. He gave a fuck
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  Speaker 6: about me, then he gives more fuck about me. Now
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  Speaker 6: in return, I doubled down on my level of give
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  Speaker 6: a fuck about him. So I don't I don't want
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  Speaker 6: to win if I can't figure out a way to
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  Speaker 6: win with my brothers. So the commitment that we made was, hey, man,
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  Speaker 6: let's figure out a way to continue. Although keV, you're
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  Speaker 6: doing and you have, but how do we still do?
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  Speaker 6: And I love the fact that we still are, uh,
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  Speaker 6: and we're committed to figure out more ways to do more.
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  Speaker 6: And what you're seeing today is a definition of what
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  Speaker 6: we want people to follow through with like, we are
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  Speaker 6: no egos. We are help your brother so he can
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  Speaker 6: help you. We are that And I think it's the
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  Speaker 6: best story in Hollywood if people were more privy to
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  Speaker 6: how deep and like in depth it actually is facts,
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  Speaker 6: right the.
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  Speaker 4: Fight Night TV show, right, it shows these characters operating
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  Speaker 4: within a black world where they all hold power. So
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  Speaker 4: to your point, keV, how effective has that concept been
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  Speaker 4: for you both in the world of Hollywood.
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  Speaker 6: I think I think it hasn't been effective enough. And
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  Speaker 6: I think you know when you look at the ice
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  Speaker 6: Cube and Kevin Hart of it all are the middle
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  Speaker 6: common denominator packering. All right, guys, let's do this, but
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  Speaker 6: let's make it and Cube come in and like, there's
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  Speaker 6: always a through line of connectivity and that person has
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  Speaker 6: to be willing to go above and beyond. Fight Night
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  Speaker 6: is the definition of going above and beyond, all right, keV,
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  Speaker 6: I got this idea. The idea came after I was
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  Speaker 6: supposed to do Uptown Saturday Night. Uptown Saturday Night was
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  Speaker 6: gonna be me and Chadwick Boseman rest in peace to
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  Speaker 6: the legend himself. Fuck, oh my god, I had no idea. Well,
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do
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  Speaker 6: that without Chadwick. That project is dead to me. Will
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  Speaker 6: had the actual rights, the original story, the true story.
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  Speaker 6: So Will came to me. I said, well, I can't
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  Speaker 6: do a comedy because of this. Can it be serious?
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  Speaker 6: Can we do it in a way to where it's
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  Speaker 6: like a lot deeper raw real? He said, Kevin, absolutely, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: the podcast was points me to the podcast that he
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  Speaker 6: was a part of that understood, etc. All right, shit,
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  Speaker 6: this is like real information now real knowledge. Will. I'm
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  Speaker 6: a fuck with it because it's you. But let's make
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  Speaker 6: sure that we try to go above and beyond to
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  Speaker 6: package it correctly. How do we do a premium a
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  Speaker 6: premium cultural piece of IP that has the bandwidth to
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  Speaker 6: live forever? And you can't do that without big stars.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: To get big stars, you need real relationships. So the
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: leverage of understanding that we both shared and that we
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: had at the top of get the studio's commitment, get
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  Speaker 6: the studio to back and support, then go get the talent.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta be honest with you. My guy was a
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  Speaker 6: big part of all of that conversation, and I followed
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  Speaker 6: the lead of most and I think where we were
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  Speaker 6: collaborative was dope as fuck and the outcome was amazing.
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  Speaker 6: Talent configuration and now an example of what the business
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  Speaker 6: should follow through with, which is collaboration. Collaboration, you can
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  Speaker 6: win more together, you win less as an individual, How
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  Speaker 6: do you put yourself in a position to collaborate more?
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  Speaker 6: So if we can be the example of hopefully most
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  Speaker 6: will follow through and hopefully we can do more and
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  Speaker 6: people will say, oh, that's great because they do dope
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  Speaker 6: shit and here's an example of it. Let's do some
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  Speaker 6: dope shit with them. That's where I'm at in my
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  Speaker 6: career now. I could care less about the individual star
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  Speaker 6: of Kevin Hart. I'm looking for the moments. I'm looking
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  Speaker 6: for the IP and I'm looking for the evergreen like material.
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  Speaker 6: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: That part is true.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you that, like Kevi has definitely reached
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  Speaker 5: a part in his career, a moment in his career
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  Speaker 5: where you know you've had success and it's like how
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  Speaker 5: do you grow, how do you work with people that
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  Speaker 5: you respect, and how do you build a machine that
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  Speaker 5: then empowers others. It's interesting, Charlomagne, you talked about like
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  Speaker 5: the world of Fight Night, Fight Night, is really about
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  Speaker 5: a group of hustlers, dreamers, entrepreneurs who are trying to
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: take Atlanta and turn it into something. It's back in
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  Speaker 5: nineteen seventy, right, Martin Luther King had just been shot
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  Speaker 5: a couple of years earlier. Atlanta was like seen as
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  Speaker 5: a small country town that you.
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  Speaker 2: Had a couple of civil rights folks.
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  Speaker 5: Like people didn't know if it was going to be
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: the next Charlotte or Birmingham, and nothing wrong with those cities,
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: but it definitely wasn't looked at on the level of
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: a global superpower or a New York Chicago LA.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: You know, it was Atlanta and it was not respected.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: But you had a group of folks, which is not
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: unlike how Black Hollywood is right now, where you got
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: a group of dreamers trying to figure out how do
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: we work together now. Of course in Fight Night, you
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: got you know, a character who's Kevin's character.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: He's a hustler.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: He's going YO, give me a shot, give me a chance.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: I can just turn it Lanta into something great.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Chicken Man, Chicken Man.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Weirdly, Sam Jackson, who plays the big gangster the Black
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Godfather in the show, he actually also got a dream too.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Even though he's a big gangster's running a black mafia,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: his dream is saying, you know what, the white man's
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: been holding me down for a very long time. If
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: y'all give me a shot an opportunity, I can take
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: over Land. I could turn it Land into a black mecca. Oddly,
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: even though like Kevin, Sam's characters are odds for most
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: of the.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Series, the reality is that they have the same kind
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: of a dream.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: That's kind of how it is right now in terms
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: of like folks like us in Hollywood in real life.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Who are all trying to work together. Is it true
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: that Samuel Jackson was really there in Atlanta? Right there?
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Dog?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: He was at more House.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: Sam old as fuck.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Like that.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: I remember, like we were we were on a call
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: with Sam at the start of with Sam said like, yo,
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: he liked that he would do it. We were on
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: a call. We're going through the materials seeing what Sam
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: said about the characters. Sam was like, yeah, man, y'all
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: got to change a lot of the ship because more
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: happened then. You know, I think we got the story,
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: you know, because we you know, the podcast and everything.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: We got the really, motherfucker, I was there. What do
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: you mean by that. He's very adamant about telling you
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: where he was, what he knows. So the story of
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Fighting Night got better. It got so much better as
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: we went on. Oh my god, she is the best
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: by the way, you and me, I mean since the
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: joke with the little Mike, we have never left that stage.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: You're the best, uh walking on? She gave out much
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: to them, all this right here, got here, get this
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: right here. I need Greek.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Brother.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: There's a chance right now I may not make it
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: to the end of the I'm giving you everything I
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: got to try to say, tell you.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Always makes it. It's going to fall off to did
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: you did you see your You know.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: We look at the iron the war finish, look at
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: this man, I mean, and is that cha?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Sam and Chadwick and Ca Wow. On the scale weill
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: as far as size because he'd be small. But is
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: that that crazy?
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: He just told that story? What story is one thousand
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: percent accurate?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: For the listeners, if you guys, go watch Don't Funk
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: This Up, which is a document to documentary documenting on
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: that documentary on Netflix about when I went through like
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: some of my worst times in the business and the
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: things that I was juggling during the duration of that time.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: You'll see me and Chadwick actively meeting about uptown Saturday night,
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Me and Chadwick before before us going to the final stages,
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: we wanted to make sure that we were on the
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: same page with the characters, the story, and the development.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: And Chadwick was an active producer in it. He had
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: his partners there. You'll see it, and don't funk this up.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: So the fact that y'all got a mural right with him,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: with keV Hart and Chadwick and then Sam Jackson, who
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: he ended up making that same project with, that's insane.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: That's insane, you know what, man, And and I don't
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: do this often, but I'm going to drink a shot
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: of Grand Cormino to that.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: It's a moment.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: It's a moment of understanding. It's a moment of understanding,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: and it's a moment of celebration. Man, that right there
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: is celebrator.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: And I just want to take a shot to get.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Lets do we all need a shot?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You and you and you said it did that your
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: feet didn't touch the ground. Now with charlatans a chair.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: I'm selling a chair. Sorry, I never said I said,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: I never said an game about my feet.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry he said it wasn't to scale. It's not
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: just sc said, yes, HBC.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I knew this anytime will pack come because he always
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: stays family. So I put the hampt University.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: A lot of old niggas that can't let college go,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: a lot of old niggas that refused to just accept
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: this over envy.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: When you when you wear a cat that never went
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: to any school at all. He didn't go to a historically.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you what I didn't, and this is why,
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: like you guys are the example of what you don't
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: want to be.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: It's over your culture.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: You don't let it go.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Come on, let it be. No Where did you go?
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: She didn't?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I thought I was trying to university? There you go,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Delaware State. That's just a bunch of niggas. Don't care
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Delaware State.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: You know what I wanted to ask you, Yes, sir,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: how do you manage all these big as personalities?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Roger bitch, Samuel Jackson? How do you do it?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, cheers. First, let me you know, did you drink?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: I was.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm a Christian. That can't be Jesus with the family.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: This is not wine. This is not Jesus. Can't turn
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: this and then nothing. We're not gonna do it in
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the area. Don't you don't, Chris Man, I'm a Christian, Kevin,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: don't do it. Drink the Lord.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Don't you want miss an impulse?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Did? Let me see?
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: I never poured him one Look at that, yo, real,
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: you don't know what he do to.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Me every day. Took him down.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: I didn't pour him a shot, so he ain't taking nothing.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Really, I'm saying, as punishment, give a big shot.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: You don't I do? Like my brother is Workotte Man?
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm with you. Listen. You talked about the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: big person out.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: That's that is the hardest part of the job as
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: a producer, you know what I mean? And in real talk,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: it's it's awesome when you got somebody like keV who
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: gets it, who understands at the end of the day
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: with the bigger pictures, but a lot of time, okay,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: if it's you know, Hollywood music, you know stock market,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: whatever it is, the people say, you say, right.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Air, can you so you argue with kem though, because
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: he seems like he's a lot. Let me tell you something.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: The least problem that you will ever have in any
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: work environment, that's unproblematic.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: He's a problem. I mean.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: The challenge with Kevin is that he will overdo things right.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: He would do things like have a show a massive
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: square garden at the same time that we have a
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: big scene in our movie. Now, he's definitely he's not
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: He's not a moderation guy, you know what I mean.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: That's part of the cheese. That's why I'm here on
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: the breakfast club. You're eating this this turkey saying was
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: trying to get some grease.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: In his cut. It didn't burn you. At least let
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: it cool a little bit. Come on, animal, This is
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: what I needed? Is that what Hollywood? I can't take him.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: He's done a phenomenal job as Chicken Man, but I
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: can't take him serious and dramas because it just always
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: seems like always jokes.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: But can't tell you something real talk. Chicken Man is
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: his best work yet. I'm telling you. You look at
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: what he's doing with his eyes, and you know a
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: lot of people. You know, it's known that comedians they
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: pulled from pain, right, and that's how they deflect, and
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: that's where a lot of the comedy comes from Kevin exception.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: But the reality is that when he said we gotta
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: do this as a drama, that was a big risk
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: because people say, all right, fight not Kevin Hart starring there,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: let's go.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to laugh, like you said, Charlotte Main. But
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: the reality is that this is serious.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Now you have moments of levity, but the tone make
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: no mistake, is dramatic, like it goes there.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I don't want to sound like an asshole, but this
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: may sound asshole ish, right, it may sound assholely.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: You gave it to him.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: It's a big jump to the audience that watches of
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: what a talent is doing. If you're not used to it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: A talent knows what's in their fucking bag. You know
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: what you can ring, well, you know who you can call,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: you know what you can package and do. The operation
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: at task to drama is project based. You give me
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: a great project, and in the project, I'm supposed to
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: be serious and I'm supposed to have a cadence of
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: and it is such a great piece of material that
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: I choose to do, I'll do it the best of
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: my ability. That's called the talent. That's a town's choice,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: in a town's decision, it's what are you what are
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: you fucking factoring in to you making the decision. I'm
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: not doing it in an environment where it won't be cool,
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: collective and fucking like dope. If I can't work with
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: great people, I can't work with great directors, great producers,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: great writers, then I don't want to do it. I'm
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: at a point in my life where it's about having
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: a good time. This project is relationship based. Every aspect
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: of this project is formulated off a relationship.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: That's really by the way, everybody said that too.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Sorry, I was just gonna say because castuck, Like a
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: lot of people ask, oh, with that cast, you had
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: to back up the truck, right, And by the way,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: you do right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: These folks deserve you know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: And I'm very proud of the fact that you know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: as a black producing the business, I definitely take care
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: of folks that look like us and make sure that
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I pay them on par with their counterparts and their peers.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: But Kevin is absolutely right. You don't do a show
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: like this unless you want to, right. Sam Jackson is
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: not doing it for the check, right, And don Cheeto's
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: not doing it because he's available. They do it because
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: they want to work with certain people because it's subject
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: matter that speaks to them and that is very, very important.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: And the other thing, you know, Charlot Mane, you brought
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: a good point that I want to just hit on
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: real quick in terms of like the egos and all
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: of that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: You got to make sure that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Everybody understands that the ultimate goal is everybody's goals. Because
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: once people start thinking, Okay, this is for me, and
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I got to be focused on my own goal and
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: not the greater good, then you will never win.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: You got to get people to working as a team.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: That's why as a producer you're like a coach, you're
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: like a general manager. You got to get everybody to
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: understand that their goals aligned with your goals. By the way,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: that is true in any industry, not just Hollywood.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: But you also need, respectfully, you also need you need
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: a collaborative figure at the top to say, I'm gonna
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: make sure that no matter what I'm I'm on a
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: layer and level where everybody can understand and it we're
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: all the same, Like I'm not coming into a project
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: on my dick on the table. For lack of a
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: better word, I'm not Yeah, y'all know what I am.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: I don't do that. I'm saying I'm about the greater
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: good for all. So I come in head in hand
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: and I bow down to all talent on the set
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: because I'm so grateful that the talent is fucking choosing
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: to do whatever the project is that I'm a part of.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: So for Sam Jackson, I bow down. Goddamn legend, you
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: should get the respect that you deserve. Don Cheetle, I
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: bow down to Rojjie. I bowed down.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Awkward.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, listen, Pa, Kevin harts down. We call it
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: down woman, right. She is his right hand, is also
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: his mistress, and so there is a scene worded better well,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: well she's a down one.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: What I'm saying is I have no problem with being equal,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: and I think, once again I gonna I'm gonna highlight
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: this as much as I possibly can. That's the version
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: of the example that I want to get out there.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: I want the collaborative side of our culture connecting. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: want us to understand we are so much better together.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: I want us to understand the premium factor of us
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: doing things together is so much better than the individual
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: trying to be one.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Do you challenge yourself to do things outside of this comedy?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Said, I just don't want this comedic role. I want
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: this serious role. Do you challenge yourself or do you
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: just take roles that come?
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: None of it is a challenge. By the way I'm
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: developing the things that I do. Nothing is coming to me.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: I'm creating the things, or I'm a part of the
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: process of how it gets to the final stages. I'm
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: at that point. But I have no desire for the
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: star of Kevin Hart to get bigger. I don't give
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: a fuck. That's what's so gone and done with. I'm
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: more about the success of others, the success of the entity,
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: the success of the brand, and more importantly, the success
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: of what we represent and what we can look back
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: and say we did. That's bigger now than a conversation
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: of myself. I did it. I'm done. What else am
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: I going to do at this point?
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Go in two minutes?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Actually, we got to get I want to I want
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: to have both of them to do this well. They're
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: hard to find someone to play Muhammad Ali And did
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: you ever consider Will Smith?
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Very very challenging, right and I think that you got
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: to understand.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously that's an icon. He's been portrayed before.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: For us, it was about finding a newcomer that wouldn't
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: pull you out because these other characters you didn't know.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Nobody knew Chicken Man Kevin Hart's character, or or Vivian
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: to Right's character, or Frank Moulton. You know Sam's character,
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: but you know everybody knows Muhammad Ali. So I think
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: to have somebody in that role who you had some
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: familiarity with and who you associated with something else would
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: have pulled you out. And we really wanted to immerse
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: you even with these big stars. We really wanted to
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: take you to a time period right fifty years ago
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: and really drop you in and be as authentic as possible.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: And we've paid a lot of attention to the detail
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: and the nuances to try to get this thing right right. Yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: come on, man, this cast and by the way, not
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: just the big names that you know, like Oh Dexter,
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Dark Dexter, You're gonna be hearing a lot from him.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: There's some young gunners in this cast that you're gonna
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: be hearing that I predict you're gonna look back and go. Yo.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Remember when so and so went toe to toed with
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: with Kevin Hard and Sam Jackson.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, Melvin Gregg, Miles.
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: Bullet, Koe Bailey does her thing, yet Lloyd Harvey jumps
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: in the future.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: L Yeah. My wife said that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I was like, I don't think that's Laura, because you
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: like you look so different.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: But I think I think that you're You're singing amazing
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: example of baton passing. You're you're looking at people that
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: are established, have been established for so long, and Sam
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: and Taraji and Terrence and Don and then you also
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: have the second tear of talent that is a valuable
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: piece of this puzzle where they're toe to toe with
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: the big names and you don't blink an eye. You
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: understand why everybody is there, and you respect the talent
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: on screen, and you still respect the story. You're never
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: taken outside of the story. So I think that for
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: that younger generation that we were able to on board,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: it's a great example of what we want to do.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: We want to be the example for the next generation,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: the bridge. We want to be the example for global
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: success for or the new star that popped on If
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: we're part of those stories, how dope is that? Like,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: that's the biggest side of the conversation of Once Reese,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: celst Jalen Hall.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: These are names you're gonna know. I got a zoom zoomy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: I was here. I'll be like you were. You can't mean.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: What I'm telling you. This is why I meant. It's
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: like this actual age to what you're going back on
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: a big star at age now, Well, I don't know
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: if you know you don't kick me out of one
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: of his show, kick you out of you had your phone,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: kicked me out.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: They threw me out, And as they're throwing me out,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I'm yelling, cav is me because I know what you
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: can go by.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: That's why we should have kicked you out.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Brother.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That's the Hampton family and kids, So you know, sometimes
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you gotta check your phone to make.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Sure you're good the show you knew. Come on, I
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: gotta I gotta signe with cave on this brother, Come on, man.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: Come into a common show is an intensative environment. And
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: by the way, my acting my Age tour, it's a
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: very dope fucking thing going on right now. It's a
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: premium ticket with a dope experience and in that experience
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: for an hour and a half. Check out out check
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: out a lad?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Did you see it was in me? Did you know
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: it was him? I'm saying.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: What I'm saying to you is people people kill me,
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: like when you act as if rules don't exist for
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: a dope reason. Phones are a bad experience. Phones are
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: taking over the intimate appeal of life and lifestyle. Like
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: your phone has checked you out of every experience you
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: or the concerts. People watch the concert through their fucking phone.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: You're looking at the.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Concert for an artists that's trying to put out new content, right,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: and then everybody can just watch it on YouTube.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: It totally diminishes respect.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Just like come out.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: To put your phones off, you lock them up in
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: that moment, and you're such a dope sho.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: You had that privilege, They had that life scare privilege.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: See you thought he was like a me mvy you
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: did that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: I don't even know what a couple of He's the
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: lightest envious, right expectation, is one of the lightest operators
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: of the path.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you're like, you're not white, Yeah, yeah, you get confused.
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: He envy is the guy you believe they're doing.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: Monique and Lee Daniels just sit the deliverance. Are we
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: ever going to see a reconciliation with you and her?
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: Because she I don't know, I know that there's no problem. No,
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: but she has said that, like I know when she
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: was doing club and they talked about it and she
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: was talking about the phone call that happened from your
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: team or whatever. Right, is there ever going to be
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: a conversation that we hear you talk about? Where y'all
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: to have another conversation about that and move forward.
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: I'll challenge your question with a better question.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: You hear me talk about anyone? Do you ever hear
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: anything bad come from me? No? So information can be
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: one sided. A perception can never be one sided. It's
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: always a duality. It's it's your side versus another. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: if there's not a common ground, that means that means
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: one hasn't been attempted to like be met. So there's
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: no problem between me and Monique, there never will be.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: There's no problem between me and anybody else. There's nothing
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: to reconcile, there's no there's no problem. So all these
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: problems that have been attached to Kevin Hart, they're one sided.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: I don't have a problem with anybody.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: I agree with that people right to have a conflict
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: because that's the reality.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Like, there's a perception that like if somebody comes out
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: and says something that like, you know, me and Kevins
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: behind the scenes said that we're.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Not doing that. That's what.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Social media has fucked us up to the point of
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: you hear is what you're forced to believe. Gotcha, you
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: do not understand? Like the common ground for truth is
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: always a conversation. And if there ever is a conversation,
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: do you're not forward facing in a public statement ever,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: Like I didn't say anything about what I did or
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: what I did for Monique or my gestures, you never
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: would have heard. It's it's a one sided version or
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: reason for and by the way, i'ven overbuttal to it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: I stand on the side of I'm unproblematic and if
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: me and Moe want to do or could do or
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: would do, we will. But that's a me and Mo thing,
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: like this new thing that people are like, let me
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: tell you something, world that's like that. I want to
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: be honest, I'm forty.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Five years old.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: By the way, team or not, it's not hard to
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: fucking find me, like, you know what my schedule is online?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: So she hasn't hit you.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Since all of that stuff.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Me and Monique have had com sations, and those are
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: me and Monique's conversations before and after. That's called adulting.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: I don't. I don't unadult So all of these new
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: ways of conversation and finger pointing, it's very easy. You
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: know what cortminos in Because I'm gonna say some dope
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: ship all right, Everybody points to the fucking moon because
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: nobody knows what it's like to be at the moon
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: and for the moon to look down. Everybody sees it
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: this way, but nobody sees it the other. There's only
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: a couple of people that have been down here and
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: looked at the moon and said I'm going and went
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: and looked down from So if you don't stand the
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: version of eyesight from both sides, but then you're near side,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: you got you got one vision. I don't have tunnel vision.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: I have an equal vision of understanding. But if you
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: can't understand the moon side, how do you speak as
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: if you do? That's not that's not life, that's not adulting.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: So I've they.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: Don't even fucking how many astronauts that have walked on
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: the moon. But everybody speaks if they know what the
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: is on the move. Everybody talks like they know it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: up there. You don't know what's up there. You never
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: walked up there. You don't know what it's like to
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: be up there and look down and see what Earth
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: is like from there. So it's only a couple of
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: people that do. When you are on a different side
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: of life and you speak to those that are on
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: that side, is if you know what they're doing or
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: why they did it, you're one sided. You can't speak
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: on my fucking reasons as if you know what my
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: reasons are for, you can't speak on my business choice,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: my business choices, professional choices, more importantly, lifestyle choices, if
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: you don't know what the fuck my life is.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: But you know, that's what I like about the movie
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Fighting That right, because it seems like they show each
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: character in the movie as a hero in their own story,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: but a villain in somebody else's.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: It's a super complicated narrative, which are my favorite kinds
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: because you're protagonist, right, Your quote unquote heroes are very
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: gray and are very flawed like in real life, and
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: you're antagonists are people that you root for. Those are
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: my favorite kinds of narratives. I love that because we
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: all know the world is not black and white, right,
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: and so you're absolutely right, it's about complex people at
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: a complex time.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: And that's really what the show was.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: What a successful Now before you do that, I just
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: want the world to get to a better place of understanding, Like,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: stop taking the bait. It's bait. Bait is unnecessary. Like
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: if people really have problems, they talk amongst themselves, there
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: are no conversations among themselves, then it's not real problems.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that simple.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: No, Kevin's right, I mean, and Kevin's big and a
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: lot of us are on real interactions, you know what
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And you got a lot of people out there right now.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: They're trying to win the internet.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I just when when.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: The Internet, I got the most clicks, I got the
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: most likes, and you know, let's win real life.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Let's focus on real things.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: So whatever conversation he may have, I may have, somebody
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: else may have, and it doesn't have to be for this.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: You told me a while ago, he said, and you
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: shut the fuck up.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you a lot.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: I told you that because he's like, you're explaining yourself
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: to who?
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Who listened? By the way, is like, who are you
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: talking to? Like when you there's nothing that annoys me
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: more when people do this right here, everybody's been asking,
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: so let me go. I'm saying the order you get.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: You started to realize, man.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Box that matters, and we obsessed on the negative. I
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: hate to say that, but you'll be you post something
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: and get one hundred positive comments.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Man, you walking down you look good, but.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: It'd be three people that'll say something sideways and no,
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: be's the one. Those will be the ones that you
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: respond to, that you obsess over, that you focus on, right,
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: not the other one.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: It's not a bigger supporter for the movement of people
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: doing good shit and Monique Lee Daniels reconciling that relationship. However,
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: it happened Great Dope for them, did a movie together
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: after great story Dope for them. I want to see
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: more keep doing great ship. The conversation of anything else
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: negative attached to a person's and their reservations of feelings.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: To me, I want to see nothing but good for all,
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Like I would love to see us all win. I
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: would love to see us all at the table where
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: we all can do. If it happens great. If it doesn't,
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: I guess it wasn't meant to be. But you can't
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: have a fucking stance of negativity and like also like
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: a real fucking initiative to move forward and like motivate, inspire, create,
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: or do whatever. You can't be both. So it's either
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: like you're one or the other. And if you are
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: a part of creativity, inspiration, collaboration, motivation, connectivity, then that
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: has to be it. And whatever you gather along the way,
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: and whoever you align yourself with along the way, well
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: y'all all a part of the same story. If things
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: fall apart through the duration of it wasn't meant to be.
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: On that train. Some people miss a train. It's just life.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: Some people don't make it and time to catch the train.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: And the train that's gonna go is.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Going to go.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: Why do you think trains can't stop fast? They're moving.
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: So either you're on the train, but you're not. And
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: if you didn't catch the next train, that's life.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Feel like we went back to the moon because it
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: was something about my guy, my guy, you want to
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: talk about some impressive words.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Got Kevin put some words on what makes it successful?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Because you know, Hollywood and changed before was blockbuster movies,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: but now, I mean, there's so many other platforms to
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: put your movie on. So what is successful for?
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: But you know there's still quant quantitative metrics that they
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: use to determine quantitative learn that should you brother just just.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: What is it? Uh?
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Because reality is that you still have ways that you
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: can determine how, you know, how many people watched it,
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: if the audience was into it, if they were engaged,
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: and that stuff is important and so that is definitely
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: a part of what we do.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Honestly though right now it's about I just want people to.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Feel stuff, you know what I mean. I want to
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: feel like we're touching the culture, you know. I want
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: to feel like whatever it is that we do, we
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: don't have people feel like we wasted their time.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: That's that's the point that.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: We have.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Got to get it. We gotta get Do you have
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: colors you like to use?
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Asklee Daniels as a producer.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: And when I say colors, I mean like artists are
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: there's certain artists you like to use because they're like
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: you amused.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: They help you paint the picture.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: That you would use within it within a piece.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Film.
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think that. Well, obviously is the director.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: I'm a producer. Yeah, absolutely, I think that set the
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: mood and the theme thematically. It's very important to have,
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: first of all, everybody be on the same page about
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: what the vision is going to be right, and also
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: to make sure that the ultimate vision fits the execution
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: and so you know, like, for instance, we wanted it
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: to look a certain way right light.
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: You know, No, you ain't gotta break it down because Kevin,
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: they coming in here to drag your ass.
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're done, We're good.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Real talk. We appreciate y'all like real talk.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you. The malleability that that's another word, that malleability.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: What it means that they were flexible, that they worked
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: with us, they weren't rigid.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you what. The HBCUs that you both
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: went to are better without you this inclusion.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Inclusion.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: The big takeaways for audience are very simple, man. The
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: first one, of course, is Fight Night now now streaming
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: on Peacock. Do yourself a service and us a favor,
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: go watch it. A very good fucking show, an amazing
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: story that I think should have been told a long
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: time ago, but for the city of Atlanta that we
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: all know in love is a great highlight of how
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: Atlanta got to be what it is now. Fact, understanding
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: the early stages of it, understanding the origin for us all,
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: especially people of color culture, we need to know. It's
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: a great story.
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: Eight parts eight part limits is three parts out right
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: now dropping one per week.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: If you're like a lot of us, you're looking for what's.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: That next series I can really get into and really
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: get into the characters and follow it.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: We're challenging you. Let this be a next series.
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: I would say, that's that's thing one, Thing two Yo,
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: God's collaboration, egos, et cetera. Ask yourself, what version are you?
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: What side are you on? Are you on the side
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: of that? Are you on the side of this? Pick one?
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: Pick one and be that or identify what you are
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: and make a change right the other side. Hey man,
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: this internet shit is getting out of control. It's fucking
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: like it's out of control, just from an understanding of
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: real versus not real reality and like false reality. Ask
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: yourself which version. Are you on? Are you clickbait? Are
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: you fucking real your relationships? There's real communication. Without that,
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: nothing else matters, Nothing else matters. I didn't fucking not
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: tell them to contact or not do Hey, man, I'm
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: gonna push you back. I'm fucked up. The false communication
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: would be I can't man, just do whatever. You figure
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: out what it is and what and then the relationship
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: kind of falls apart based off of an idea that
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: you are giving yourself a moment to create. Stop it.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: Let's get back to a place of understanding relationships. Relationship.
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: It's my fucking brother, and I love the fact that
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: me and my brother are great examples of what dope
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: relationships should be. We will continue to do what we do,
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: and we'll do it at a high level. And I
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: can't wait for the world to see not only this,
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: but what the things in the future will be.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: Bam, I want you to go. That's the last thing
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: I was saying. I tell you to vote for but
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: we will be remissive. We didn't get on this platform
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: and say that is real. It's real, and these are
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: challenging time to make your voice heard one way or another,
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: it matters. You can tell me you kamalaer, I'm no
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: question I appreciate that black man because we need more
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: of us saying that.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: But that's my choice, that's what I choose to do.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I need everybody's publishing my shoes to start cleaning up.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: But you would agree with the poort the vote right
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: would like I'll say, sig go they pulling me out here. Well,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: thank you, family, appreciate you'all. It's the Breakfast Club. Wake
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: that answer in the morning.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club