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OMAR GOODING - Eggcellent Noodles · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guest actor Omar Gooding in the building. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: excited to have you, Thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not as excited about the dish you're gonna make
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  Speaker 3: me eat.
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  Speaker 2: Copy that come.
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  Speaker 1: Traditionally I ban rahmen across the board unless you're doing
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  Speaker 1: something crazy with it, but go ahead. You could tell
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  Speaker 1: our listeners what you're gonna have me eating today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no, I mean it's it's funny because
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about the old fashioned cup of noodles,
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  Speaker 2: how it's in a styrofoam cup, and we weren't even
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  Speaker 2: supposed to put that in microwave as they say now,
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  Speaker 2: but we didn't care. We didn't care. You know, back
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  Speaker 2: in my I used to call it my college years
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  Speaker 2: when I had a lot of roommates. I never went
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  Speaker 2: to college, never went to college, but you know, cause
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  Speaker 2: I was an actor since I was nine years old.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was like in my twenties, I just
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  Speaker 2: did a movie called baby Boy. So I had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of roommates, you know, house full of house full
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  Speaker 2: of house full of fellas. And I remember I was
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  Speaker 2: eating a couple of noodles one day and my guy
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  Speaker 2: was like, yoh man, you don't put the egg in
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  Speaker 2: the noodles. And I said, what you what you on bumper?
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, man, the cup of noodles. All you
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  Speaker 2: do is you crack an egg right over the top
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  Speaker 2: of the cup of noodles after you pour the water in.
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  Speaker 2: But don't pull the water all the way up to
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  Speaker 2: where that line is. Just pull it up. Pour it
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  Speaker 2: up to the top of the noodles right right, can
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  Speaker 2: you Right when you can see the water, you crack
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  Speaker 2: a raw egg, set it right on top, throw that
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  Speaker 2: bad boy in there for three minutes, and watch it cook. Now.
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  Speaker 2: We did this before we got on air, so I
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  Speaker 2: remember you were looking at all. Is it gonna be running?
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  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be cooked? Bro?
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  Speaker 1: I was watching you like a kid that has never
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  Speaker 1: seen this project. I literally was like, oh, war like,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to come over and do this because
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess this up. But I watched you do
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  Speaker 1: this and I'm terrified.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're taking a look inside.
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  Speaker 3: So we did it. Omar did it.
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  Speaker 1: He taught me how to put an egg in a
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  Speaker 1: cup of noodles.
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  Speaker 3: I okay, now this egg.
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  Speaker 1: My biggest concern, and I was kind of annoying you
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  Speaker 1: with this, was what the texture of this egg is?
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  Speaker 2: But a cook But look at that. Look at that
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  Speaker 2: that may got mine is a little running. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: it's a little running, you just dip it into that
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  Speaker 2: hot water and then you just steer it up and
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  Speaker 2: it'll cook. It'll all cook.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this looks.
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  Speaker 2: See the more the more you stir it up, the
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  Speaker 2: more it'll cook. Now the key ingredient, because you really
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  Speaker 2: got to let it sit. I think we did. We
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  Speaker 2: let it sit long enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yours sat mindset a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, usually once you take it out of the microwave,
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  Speaker 2: you got to start chopping it up and stearing it
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  Speaker 2: and making that thing happen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so it's supposed to be thoroughly mixed in there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't just like eat the
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  Speaker 2: raw egg off the top of the thing, like what
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  Speaker 2: does that? No? No, no, no, do you have to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that the egg After.
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  Speaker 3: You learn this with the noodle, do you make all
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  Speaker 3: your eggs with a microwave?
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  Speaker 2: No, not a chance, No, no, no, this is just this
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  Speaker 2: was this was the back end the day thing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when we was lazy, We wasn't cheffing it up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and having women cook for us and then figuring out
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  Speaker 2: how to do it ourselves and so forth and so on.
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  Speaker 2: We was like, okay, look, we need to eat. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be drinking tonight. Grab me that cup of noodles.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Get you a get you
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  Speaker 2: an egg, set it on top. And then the key
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  Speaker 2: ingredient is the hot to the sizzauce. You gotta have
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  Speaker 2: hot to the siss ace.
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  Speaker 3: You're originally from La.
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  Speaker 2: I'm from La. Yes, born and raised. My parents were
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  Speaker 2: born in Harlem. My, uh, you ain't gonna do that. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're really risking it down because hot sauce is the
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  Speaker 2: only reason I said yes to this. You can't do
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  Speaker 2: hot sauce.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's why I said you're from LA, because I
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  Speaker 3: feel like La is all about the hot.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the hot to the sissauce. Yeah, you can.
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  Speaker 3: I put a drop in there, a drop.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, don't drop the noodle the egg when
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  Speaker 2: you can get down right? All right, here we go,
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  Speaker 2: we go break the diet on.
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  Speaker 3: He's on a diet guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a you know, you do the interimnute fast
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's how it is nowadays. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: stay right. You never know what that phone call is
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  Speaker 2: gonna be for the next project. Shirt off. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: I've been eating a couple of noodles for the last week.
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  Speaker 2: Now you can do that. You want to booge it up,
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  Speaker 2: put it in, put it in there. Oh yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: make it fancy. Hunh Yeah, noodle, gourmet egg noodle. What's
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  Speaker 2: a cup of noodle? Now it's bowler noodle? Okay, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know you mix it up a little bit and
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  Speaker 2: depending on how many noodles you want.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to try it with the egg peace.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get a little pee, get adventurous.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go. I'm gonna try it.
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  Speaker 2: You're I'm gonna watch you when you dry. You just
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  Speaker 2: kept straight faced. Okay. We don't know if she's wincing
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  Speaker 2: because it's hot, or she's horrified. Look at the face.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the face. You ain't got no chase around
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  Speaker 2: or you see you got the UHU just in case,
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  Speaker 2: gonna get you some uh You can't do it. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't done this in about ten years, so I'm a
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  Speaker 2: little nervous myself. Let me try it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's what I remember.
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  Speaker 2: So you didn't put enough hot sauce on it.
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  Speaker 3: I was sucked on a cough drop before.
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  Speaker 2: Are you just trying to sabotage my whole meal?
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  Speaker 1: I do it because all our listeners complain if I
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  Speaker 1: have a little bit of a cough, They're like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: But we're close to that pandemic still.
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  Speaker 3: So it's I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, the egg is
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  Speaker 3: not is.
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  Speaker 2: Not doing it for You're not an egg person.
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  Speaker 3: Not in my noodles.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, this is taking me back. I'm about to
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  Speaker 2: call the homies up and started start a dice game.
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  Speaker 3: Look, this is a terrible way to come off a diet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no, this is right. This is shocking to here.
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  Speaker 2: I jog home. I ain't even gonna drive. This is it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get one.
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  Speaker 1: Moment, right, So, yeah, your dish, I wouldn't. I would
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  Speaker 1: probably never do this in my free time. Again, So broke, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: You can afford a little bit more than the noodle.
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  Speaker 2: But see the color in the texture of mind. The
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  Speaker 2: more you mix it, the better it gets you know what,
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  Speaker 2: just just look like regular little noodles with without no
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  Speaker 2: hot talk.
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  Speaker 3: But it has like an egg flavor to it because
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  Speaker 3: you just took.
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  Speaker 2: A straight by to the egg, right into the egg.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why you've bit the egg like that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's all mixed together like you have fried rice. Do
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  Speaker 2: you fish out the egg or you don't really eat
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  Speaker 2: fried rice? I love?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just me mentally knowing that the egg
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  Speaker 1: was a little runny is messing with my brain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. See, but if you know, the more you mixed
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  Speaker 2: that jone up, so you gotta constantly have your hands
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  Speaker 2: moving at all times because the hand moving keeps mixing
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  Speaker 2: the flavor. Because there's flavor in there that you have
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  Speaker 2: to get to see that.
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  Speaker 3: See how look, Yeah, you can barely see your egg.
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  Speaker 2: You can't see the egg it's got you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: in there in the broth. See your broth looks a
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  Speaker 2: little pale too. I don't know why your broth looks
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  Speaker 2: so pale. Well, let's seit my broth. Look at that thig.
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  Speaker 3: That's because you have hot sauce.
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  Speaker 2: Get your hot sauce in there. That is the point
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  Speaker 2: for the message hot to the sissauce is the bisaus.
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  Speaker 2: You understand me.
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  Speaker 1: Take me back to what was going on in your
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  Speaker 1: life during this time when you're so.
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  Speaker 2: This time, you know, it's it's like it's bachelor life.
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  Speaker 2: It's bachelor life. It's it's quick meals and push ups.
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  Speaker 2: And you in your twenties, so you ain't got to
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  Speaker 2: worry about your weight. You know, you don't do none
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  Speaker 2: of this in your forties with two young kids. This
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  Speaker 2: is nah, this is two bites and that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: I can feel my stomach saying what are we doing already,
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  Speaker 2: I can feel it saying what are we doing? So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I think I'm eating enough for the program. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, it was it's about twenty years ago. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: years ago. Like I said, I was explaining to you
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  Speaker 2: now behind my wife makes noodles. When we say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's have some some noodles. With the way
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  Speaker 2: she does it is we take the ramen, we take
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  Speaker 2: two packets and no, but yeah, you're two packets of noodles.
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  Speaker 2: You take the spices out of each one, so you
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  Speaker 2: have two packets one cup of noodles. Throw it in there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, boil the water, put the noodles in It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I made this the other day. It's crazy you say
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  Speaker 2: this and then while it's cooking, you only cook it
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  Speaker 2: for like, I think, two minutes. Same thing like it
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  Speaker 2: in here. Then you crack the egg, throw it right
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  Speaker 2: on top, and then you just keep stirring it, keep
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  Speaker 2: stirring it, and the egg cooks right there in the broth.
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  Speaker 2: But it's in that chili broth, so I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to add hot sauce to it, because.
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  Speaker 3: The chili flavor, the chili.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the chili, not just oh any old rama. No, No,
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  Speaker 2: the chili. That's the only one we use. We use
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  Speaker 2: two chili packets. And that that that's goodness. That's it,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't It tastes way better than this I had, And
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  Speaker 2: the egg is more Cooked're right. It doesn't look like
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  Speaker 2: the white. You don't see the white fleshy parts of it.
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  Speaker 2: It looks more like a scrambled egg.
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  Speaker 1: I think when Tim Chantarrong suit taped with us, I
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  Speaker 1: want to say he put egg in it, but he
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  Speaker 1: put peanut butter in it, damn well, And it was
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  Speaker 1: it was Tim Chantarong suit bless. And the one thing
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  Speaker 1: that I did like about his was that he chose
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  Speaker 1: a Thai flavored ramen, which I never think they had,
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  Speaker 1: and they put like corn and onion. And let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something, I went home and try to remake
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  Speaker 1: it a couple of mons, and I never saw peanut.
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  Speaker 2: He was eating broke.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was like a tie. They got different
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  Speaker 1: flavored ramins. I never noticed that, but it literally changed
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Peanut Butter. I was like, peanut butter, Peanut butter.
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  Speaker 2: I won't even pretend to act like I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 2: that ship. I don't really like peanut butter that much,
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  Speaker 2: for one, and my kid has a slight allergy to it,
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  Speaker 2: so I think that's probably just in my brain now
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  Speaker 2: Reese's maybe, But then Halloween try to mess up here
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  Speaker 2: about all that with the Reese's cups and if I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, no, no, no, it's sad.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was recalling all type of candy, finding
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  Speaker 2: stuff in and poison and little bugs and that, and
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  Speaker 2: oh yeah, they said, dude, the recism. It's too like.
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  Speaker 2: Now when you're watching this, hopefully you ain't still eating
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  Speaker 2: that candy from Halloween. Throw it out, throw it out.
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  Speaker 2: It gets worse.
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  Speaker 3: So in your twenties.
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  Speaker 1: You're with all these roommates, but you were acting, yes, ma'am,
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  Speaker 1: But you didn't have a day job.
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  Speaker 2: No that what what do you mean a day job
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  Speaker 2: with acting? Yeah, that's not a successful actor. I've been
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  Speaker 2: working since I was nine. Yeah. So yeah, No, when
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  Speaker 2: you get paid, you ain't have to do shit on
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  Speaker 2: the day. During the day, you sleep in, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. Acting pays well enough to where, uh
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  Speaker 2: you can eat noodles and go to Vegas and then
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  Speaker 2: uh be back to work on Monday. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: But at the time you said you had roommates.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I did have roommates, but I they they some
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  Speaker 2: of them were broke.
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  Speaker 3: So you were like the wealthy roomate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly. I was. There was just come live
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  Speaker 2: with me. I got it. The house is big enough.
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  Speaker 2: There's plenty of rooms. I don't need all these extra rooms.
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  Speaker 2: You know. We had animals, pets, and you know, women
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  Speaker 2: walking in and out of the doors every five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It was single fun life. That's what it
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  Speaker 2: was felt like my college years. But I was paying all.
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  Speaker 3: The bills, but you were paying all the bills, yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, kind of tell me your story starting
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  Speaker 1: from I guess we'll take it all the way back
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  Speaker 1: to when you're nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so when I was nine years old, then we
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  Speaker 2: were actually broke. That was, you know, because it actually
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  Speaker 2: my story starts back a little further. So my father
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  Speaker 2: was a singer with a group called the main Ingredient.
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  Speaker 2: He's singing hits like everybody plays the food. Just don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be like everybody plays the food. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 2: that was my father and my mother was also a
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  Speaker 2: singer and they were from Harlem, raised in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 2: They had two kids, my oldest sister and then my brother,
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  Speaker 2: Cuba Gooding Junior, one year apart to the day, so
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  Speaker 2: they shared a birthday. Then they moved to La I
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  Speaker 2: was born five years later, and that makes my brother
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  Speaker 2: and I our gap is nine years, my sister ten years.
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  Speaker 2: And then a funny thing happened, not that funny. My
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  Speaker 2: father went to Africa during apartheid and it was a
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  Speaker 2: big no no for the act in the US to
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  Speaker 2: perform out there for them. They were telling him, don't
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  Speaker 2: go out there, don't support this and that whatnot. My
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  Speaker 2: father was like, shit, I'm gonna go wherever I want.
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  Speaker 2: So when he came back, he got blacklisted. They pulled
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  Speaker 2: his records off the Yeah, he pulled pulled his records down.
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  Speaker 2: He had to start pretty much start over from scratch.
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  Speaker 2: So be it that we were in Los Angeles. He
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  Speaker 2: went on the road, you know, touring, and basically he's
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  Speaker 2: from New York. He he basically was in New York
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  Speaker 2: for most time, and he would we would see him
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  Speaker 2: when would see him type of thing. So I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: really see my father. A whole lot going up, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we parents they were still together. They actually
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  Speaker 2: did divorce when I was around twelve years old, and
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  Speaker 2: then they remarried when I was eighteen years old. My
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  Speaker 2: father's deceased, so but yeah, no, but they did. They
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  Speaker 2: did remarry. Like I said, they remarried and they were
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  Speaker 2: together until till he passed. But yeah, so that time
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  Speaker 2: in between, my brother had an idea. He said, I
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  Speaker 2: want to become an actor. So we were living. We
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  Speaker 2: actually lost the houses that we were in and moved
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  Speaker 2: back in with my my mother's parents, my grandparents that
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  Speaker 2: lived in Victorville, So we stayed with them for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years until my grandfather said, nah, you got
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  Speaker 2: to find a way, all right. So we loaded up
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  Speaker 2: in a Bobcat station wagon, the four of us and
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  Speaker 2: a great name. It was a great name by the
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  Speaker 2: side of you, yes exactly. So we had one of
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  Speaker 2: them in the car with us, and we sat out
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  Speaker 2: on the road and we traveled from the High Desert
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  Speaker 2: through Orange County and finally settled in to Luca Lake, California.
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  Speaker 2: We had our first apartment, and that's when it got
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  Speaker 2: a little better. You know. My brother kept booking small
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  Speaker 2: stuff and whatnot. And then when I was nine years old,
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  Speaker 2: I actually went in to pick up a script for
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  Speaker 2: him from his agent. She saw me and said, wow,
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  Speaker 2: you speak very clearly for a nine year old, and
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  Speaker 2: you got a nice bright smile, no braces. Let me
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  Speaker 2: send you out on some auditions and see how you do.
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  Speaker 2: I begged my mom. She said, all right, fine, we
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  Speaker 2: can try it. Why not, what's to lose? And I
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  Speaker 2: went on on two auditions and my first try and
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  Speaker 2: I booked the second one. Wow. Yeah, So and it
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  Speaker 2: was for a McGruff. The Crime Dog was an industrial
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: film that gets played in the schools, right, so I
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  Speaker 2: kind of stayed at it. Stayed at it. I booked
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  Speaker 2: a movie called gold Dad. About a year later, with
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  Speaker 2: starring Bill Cosby, I was on a show called Webster,
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  Speaker 2: which was like my first speaking robe prior to the
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  Speaker 2: Cosby And then when I turned twelve years old, I
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  Speaker 2: landed a regular series role on a show called Wild
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  Speaker 2: and Crazy Kids for Nickelodeon. And at that time, my
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  Speaker 2: mother was able to quit her job and become my manager.
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  Speaker 2: Right at the same time, my brother's still doing his thing,
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  Speaker 2: and he's you know, he's getting parts like saying elsewhere
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  Speaker 2: and two to seven, and you know he's doing this.
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  Speaker 1: Did this bring your guys relationship really close? Because you
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: were both in acting? You and your brother?
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: Uh No, not at all. And I said, like that
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: kind of to be funny, but that's the thing. You know,
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that realized that we're actors saying
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: why I didn't I I mean, when they realize that
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: we're brothers, say, man, I didn't know you guys were brothers.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: It's not that we're not close, but it's really more
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: like a father son relationship. As far as the gap,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: you know that nine years, that's like, you know, it's
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: ten years, a whole decade, you know what I mean.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: He's breakdancing and I'm rapping like it's it's just two
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: different almost cultures in a way, you know. But his
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: friends weren't my friends. Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: It was more like, you know, go get your own friends,
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: big brother type of thing. He was real, you know.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: So it's like when he he left the house at eighteen,
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: you know, so he moved out and to pursue his career.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: Now I'm just ten years old, eleven years old, and
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like the man at the house because my father's
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: out on the road, so he's never there type of thing,
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: you know. So I just kind of grew into my
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: own at a young age.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: So when you're booking these young acting roles, did it
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: they have the things where like when you're young, your money.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Gets put in a trust.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, So how was your mom able to quit her
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: job and manage you if your money was in a trust?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Not all of it, just half?
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Oh only hah.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they don't put the entire money and there
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: you got to you gotta live off something. So you know,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: it paid well enough. That's how good acting pace, you
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. So at half of it, I didn't.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to touch until I was eighteen. The
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: first half I was able to, you know, have bills
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: in my name, you know what I mean. So you know,
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: so it was you know, it was fun life, you know,
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: and I just it just went NonStop for me. You know.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: So when I booked this series Wild and Crazy Kids,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: it ran for three years. Right when it ended, now
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I'm around fifteen years old. I booked a show called
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Hang with Mister Cooper that was on Channel seven that
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: ran five years, took me through high school, and then
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: right when that ended, I booked a series called hang
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: with I mean I'm sorry, called smart Guy. Smart Guy
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: ran for another three years. Now I'm twenty four years old. Yeah, right,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: so it's oh, you didn't go to college and then
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: went in high school. I was like, I got a
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: full time job, you know what I mean. It pays well,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I got and I'm good, you know what I mean.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: So then when I was twenty four, I got a
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: call from the late great John Singleton who called my
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: mother because she was my manager, and he specifically told her,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I made one of your sons a movie star. I'd
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: like to make your other son a movie star as well.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I have this script called Baby Boy that I want
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: you to read. And then I read that, and it,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: you know, blew my mind because you know, my friends
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: at the time, which are still my close friends that
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I that I kick it was still you know, we
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: stay as touch as much as we can. We're real cats,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And I say that like
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: people say, hell, you grow up in the industry, So
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: did you hang out? Do you know this? And you
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: know this person? You know that person? I'm like, not really,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: I work with them and then that's that. But I
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't want them to have my back
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: and we're out in the streets. I don't know if
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: beon Ardo DiCaprio can fight, and I don't want to
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: find out if he got hands. And I you know,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I got got real cats behind me that you know
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: what I mean, that I'm rolling with. So when I
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: read the script for Baby Boy, it touched home because
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: it wasn't my personality obviously, but I was able to
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: draw from people that I grew up with, you know
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: what I mean for that role. I had some similar experiences,
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: believe it or not, you know, just being out and
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: God was good. I escaped, you know, a few situations
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I used to carry guns. I got caught with that
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: one time. It almost cost me my whole career. You know.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I had one day where they said, you know, it
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: was like twenty four hours of hell. It was like
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: hanging with Cooper star, hanging in jail. And then I
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: had to go, you know, show up at Warner Brothers
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: studios and apologize everybody. And thank God through the tutelage
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: of Mark Curry, who suggested that over the weekend he
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: called me, said, yeah, I heard about what's going on
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: with you. I think you should first day when you
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: show up, you need to show these people that that's
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: not you. You need to apologize. You know, bended me
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: and you know, really really let them know how someonce
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: here you are. And I did that, and it really
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: it saved me. It really did. And you know, I
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: appreciate him forever of that for that a little bit knowledge,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: because you know, if he didn't call me in tim
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: but I probably just showed up at work and just
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: tried to do my job and then all of a sudden,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I've probably got a phone call saying you ain't got
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to show up no more, you know, But yeah, man,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: so you know, it's just been It's been NonStop for me,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and God has been good.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I've I've had a long career, especially in television.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I finished a series called Family Time. We did ninety
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: one episodes of that for Bouncing Network. I just signed
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: a deal with Disney I got a show called Saturdays
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: that's on Disney Plus right now. We did one season
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: of that and then that strike hit, so I don't
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: know about the season two, but the season one is
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: still going. Season one is still airing on on Disney Plus.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: You can live stream that. And that's a cool show
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: man because it's about the roller skating culture in Chicago,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: so I had to learn how to roller skate. I
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: was out of Chicago for about six months in the summer,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: so I didn't freeze my butt off.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Chicago in the summer is amazing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it was. It was amazing. It was real.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Chicago's a real town. It's a real town. I mean,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: you know, it's everything that that that they tell you about,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: from the pizza, the food, the culture, the people, u
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: the danger you know. I was seeing. I mean I
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: literally came out of my apartment one day and walked
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to the store and everything was roped off and the
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: cop said, oh man, you look familiar. Man, you out
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: of here doing the movie? I said, yeah, so what's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: going on over here? Somebody just jumped off the building. Yeah,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: they died, But listen, can I get autographic sensitized? Like
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: he didn't bother him. I was just like, I'm getting
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the buck back inside. But it was, you know, it
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: was a beautiful town other than that, you know, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: it was fun. And then, you know, during the pandemic,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I kind of spun into stand up comedy, which is
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: interesting because I've always been funny and I've always done sitcoms.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So I hosted a room before the pandemic actually hit
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: in Hollywood, and it started off as, why don't you
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: just put your name on this comedy show and we'll
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: do the rest. So it's all mar Gooting presents such and.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Such, and you're just hosting.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm not even hosting. I'm just presenting. So I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: would just show up at the beginning, welcome everybody, crack
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: a few like, hey, how's it going all? Look at
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: this dude over here? Things for coming right? Here comes
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: your host, and then I just sit back and collect
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: the job, you know what I mean so that just
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: evolved because once you put a mic in front of me,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I can't just you know, do nothing, you know what
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I mean. I remember one time before that happened. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: actually think it was during while I was doing that show.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I said, hey, man, once you come down on my
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: comedy show. I said sure, and he said, I'll send
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: a limo for you. That's all right, fine. He sends
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the limos out in Redlands. So it's a long drive,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and you know, he's got champagne and liquor in the limos,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: so you know, I'm drinking and whatnot. And we get
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: there and we're watching the show and the show's great,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh man, it's a good show. And
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: then the owner comes over. He says, you mind getting
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: on stage, maybe just saying hi to everybody, you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: just just let him know you here. I was like,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: a little weird. I don't think I've ever seen that
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: in the middle of a comedy show, but sure, I
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: don't care. So we're watching, you know, another maybe fifteen
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: twenty minutes goes by, and then I hear the whole say,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: coming to the stage, you got a very very very
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: funny comedian. You guys are gonna love him. Oh, he
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: is just outstanding. You've seen him, you know. He just
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: happened to be in the building. So he's gonna come
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: up here and give y'all a little taste. Man, he's really
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: really funny. Are y'all ready for that? And I started
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: looking around, like, man, I can't wait to see what
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: this is. You know, I like surprises. You know. He's
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: like I've seen him in Hanging with Mister Cooper. You've
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: seen him in Smart Guy, You've seen him in Baby Boy.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I was like, I must know him. He's been in
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: half the stuff I've been in. Who is this dude?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: He's been?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Was your wife with you?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Was she looking at b This was before that, before
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I even got married.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: That's so long ago. It was and it was fun
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and then she he called me up. And when I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: got on stage, you know, I just it was a
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: ham So I just I just started talking about stuff.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: The light was bright. I was like, damn, it's right
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: up here. What is an interrogation? You know? People start laughing.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And then I got on a roll and I'm feeling
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: good and they kept laughing. And then I hit that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: wall because I said, man, I'm surprised y'all to laugh
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: with all these hicks in here. I adn't think nobody
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: be laughing. And it looked like and it got quiet
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: like that, and I was like, anybody see baby boy?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: And it was like, yeah, we started cheering. I jumped
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: off stage.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, so nice, say nice, you know what I'm saying.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: So everyone's like, why'd you get off? I was like,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that's not what I do. I just you know, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: just tried it. But now it's it's evolved, you know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I would when I do stand up or when I
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: do regular comedy, like I mentioned I did a family
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: time uh for Wolf ninety one episodes, I would bring
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: up punch up writers who were stand up comedians because
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: we would film without a live audience, and when you
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: don't have a live audience, you you still need that energy, yeah,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: because you don't want to tell a joke and then
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: me go to the next joke. You need to like
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you need to leave room for the laugh tracks, right,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: So I like, I would have comedians help me come
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: up with new punchlines for every joke, you know what
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I mean? So if we did we do a scene
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: we're talking about noodles in this and that boom when
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I say something Tommy's noodles a nasty and everybody laughs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna do it again. When I say
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: noodles would laugh nasty. No one's gonna laugh because they
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: just heard that. So I need something fresh for the
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: next joke, for the next take round and we do
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: take after take after takes. So anyway, so I got
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: used to writing jokes and writing new punchlines and so
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: forth and song.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: But so you weren't just acting, you were writing too.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I was writing. So I was a producer and a
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: writer on that show. Yeah, exactly. So so that was
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: a that was that was my first voya into producing.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And uh so what happened is I would always I
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: wouldn't really practice my jokes. I would just save them
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and then spring them on everybody so that they were fresh.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: So as I transitioned into stand up, I realized that
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: you need a team. I always think about Kevin Hart
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: and the Red Cup Boys, how he has his group
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: of guys and I'm sure they run jokes past each
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: other and that you know, he has a team that
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: helps them. The last time that I saw Kevin Hart
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: was before he really really took off and he was
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: at I believe it was the comedy store, and I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: saw him out the lobby and we were talking with
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: just me and a couple of fellas, and we're all laughing,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and he's getting ready to go on, and he just
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: starts talking about things and bringing up certain things, and
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: everything you're saying was just funny. We were all just
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: laughing at it. That out he's all right, man, I'm
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: about to get on stage. It's all right, man, good luck.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: And then twenty minutes later he gets up and everything
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: he said on stage was all of the stuff that
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: he was practicing with us before he got on.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: So he was rehearsing his jokes and running them by
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: us to see if they were funny and if it
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: don't work, and then.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: In a regular conversation, in a regular.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Convers and I said, Oh, that's how you do it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: So that's different. I never heard a comedian doing that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, you trust me, they do it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and you don't know. So if you see a comedian
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: before he's about to go on and he's just shooting
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the breeze with you and talking and stuff, and he's
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: gonna be funny, he's a comedian, you know. Plus he's
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: getting ready to go on stage, so he's working out stuff.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: He's working jokes out on you, and I'm like, oh,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that is brilliant. So my sister, who shout out to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: April Gooding this was about, oh goodness, is probably about
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: seven years ago, she tells us. Because she wasn't in
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the business, she kind of did like a role here
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: or there. I think she everybody hates Chris and a
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: couple other little sitcoms whatever, And she said, I'm gonna
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: start doing stand up and me and my brother were terrified,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: like are you kidding me? Like you're funny, but don't
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: just jump in the stand up. She's like, no, trust me,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: come support me. I have a show at the Improv.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And we're like, oh my god. So we were just
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: nervous as hell, and we sat there the whole show
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and everybody that got up was okay. And then she
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: got up and she killed it. We were like, oh,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: thank god. And she was so funny. And then after
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: she got off, the next person up with Seinfeld. I
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: was like, girl, you opened up for Seinfeld on your
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: first time, Like, how the hell did you do that?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: And she told me. She took a class and in
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: this class they showed her how to build her set,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: her comedy set.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: So like the first week of the class, she would
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: come up with five jokes. I got a joke about
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: rom and I got joke about sage a noodle, something
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: about eggs. You try every joke. The ones that work
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: you keep, and then the next week you start with
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: some new ones. Okay, right, you try those new ones,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: and it's just process of elimination until you build yourself
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a whole set. So you know, that's what I've been
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: doing over this last during the strike, which is funny.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I had started, Uh you heard about the Montgomery brawl. Yeah, right,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: that happened with the dude with the hat. He threw
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the hat in the air and everybody came fighting and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: jumped in the water and all that. Oh my god,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: it was brilliant. You gotta you guys haven't seen it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know where you've been living, but you gotta
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: go google the Montgomery I s. Yeah, yeah, So I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: did this bit where I walked him. Remember he had
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: on a white shirt and on some black shorts and
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and and and a hat. So I did a bit
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: where we started our scene where we started our show.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: We had a white guy. First, white guy opens up
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: and he does his set and he's great and he
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: finishes all you guys, makes no noise for omar goodding,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and okay, hey, all right, I have ever seen me do
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: standard hords that they're curious And I walk out and
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I whisper and I tell him you got to go
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: that way, and he goes, no, I want to walk
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: this way. No, no, no, bro, you got to you
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: gotta walk on that way. He says, no, I want
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to go this way. I said, cut the music, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I take my hat and I throw it in the air.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: So when I threw it and everybody fell out laugh
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: and he walks off the stage. And then I start
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: my routine. So once you know, hit him in the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: mouth off jump, it was easy. And then I talked
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: about the narrator in the video and so forth and
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: so on and all that stuff. So that was the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: beginning of my set, you know what I mean. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: then I also have a show. So I do a
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: show every other Wednesday called Funny AF Comedy Show. So
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: right now it's at the Culture Lounge in downtown La. Yeah,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: so it's every second Wednesday of the month, So today,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the twenty ninth, I on the win this air or
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: if they're watching it live or whatever the case is.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: But yeah, come on down and check it out and
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: you'll see now it's evolved too. I have my host
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: do his whole thing. We run through the whole show,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and then I just close it like a headliner. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I'll do like ten fifteen minutes at the end, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I'll just you know, I'll spend the night picking off jokes,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: you know, doing the old Kevin Hart getting getting some material,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean saying, some live, fresh material,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: because I'm also good at improv. And that's where's at.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: And I also have a tour that I'm doing called
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the We out Here Comedy Event, which started in San Antonio.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: That's the one that I told you about where I
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: did the hed of Here. We did four shows out there.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: We did another four shows in Atlanta. I just came
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: back from Arkansas. We did some shows on the ninth.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: We will be in Come on, brain, don't fail me now.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Not Midland is in Midland, Texas well. Anyway, if you
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: follow me online Omar Gooding, you can check the link
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: in my bio and I have all my show dates
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: and now how.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Are you juggling your comedy with your acting?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just I'm scatter brained.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I need it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I'm adhd. I'm just it's you know, also do music.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I dropped the album, I be writing, you know, I'm
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: producing a new film that we're filming out in Atlanta.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be one of the leads in that. So
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: it's just a schedule. It's just, you know, I just
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: put it on my calendar and try not to forget it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I'll do this, we'll finish this interview, I'll get a
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: power nap, and then I'll get ready for my show tonight.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, I got a one day gig and
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: what is this? I think we're going to be in Glendale.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: And it's just, you know, it's just one thing after
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: another for me. I've been doing my whole life forty
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: seven years old, started at nine, So it's not it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: not difficult to try to figure out with that whole journey.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Was there every any points where there was dips like
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: dips or struggles?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Definitely, And there was definitely struggles, just the lulls, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: it one just staying relevant. You know a lot of people,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: especially if you start off as a child actor nine
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: years old. You show a picture of me nine, people
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: always say you don't age. Yeah, right, show up picture
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of me at nine, side by side with me at
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: forty seven with a couple of gray hairs. Pop up.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I may a shaved and I look young or youthful
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: or whatever. But just reinventing yourself, staying current without pushing
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: it or looking like you're trying to just keep up
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: with everybody, you know what I mean. So I found
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a way to just kind of stand my lane, you
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like a lot of actors feel
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: like they have to do certain roles. They have to,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: for lack of a better example, put on the dress,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: so to speak, you know what I mean. So like
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: with me, is I know which roles I can do.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I know which lanes I can stay And people said, well,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: damn me, like you do havey You played the thug,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I played a doctor, I played a dad. I played
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the sun. Like you can do just about anything, just
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: about you want to know what an actor is? My
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: brother Cuba Gooding Jr. Now that man can play any
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: damn thing. That's why you can see him in snow
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Dog's Boat Trip, Radio Men of Honor, you'd I mean,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: that'll be five different things. I've tried just about everything.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Just about that, I said, oh, you know, like something
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: like radio mentally challenging. I tried it, but it wasn't
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: in my wheelhouse. When I left the audition room, they
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: were laughing. I'm like, this wasn't a comedy. Why are
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: they giggling? You know? And I knew to stay off
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: that path, you know, so I pretty much just no
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: my land.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Someone told me recently at a party this past weekend
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that acting requires like so if it's like a comedic
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: rom com, it's a certain style acting. And if it's
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: there's like certain styles of acting within each genre.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure yeah. I mean you know it's funny too
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: when you say that, because when I started, I did
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: sitcoms in the nineties and it was more like vaudeville.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: It was more animated. Everything was super funny and doing
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: these facials hold on this, no, no, no, blah. But then
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: as it evolved, you know, I always give my hats
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: off to John Singleton because he helped me turn the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: corner in that regard. There was you know, we were
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: talking about struggles initially in your question, And I always
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: wanted to do movies. I always wanted to be taken
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: serious and serious roles. But even though if I auditioned
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and I did well in the audition, they would look
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: at my credits and my name, what I'm known for,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and the producers would go, now we'll go with somebody that's,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: you know, already known for drama. So once I did
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Baby Boy, excuse me, I was then taken serious for
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: serious roles. For lack of a better word, you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: so comedy, my comedy has evolved into just being more natural,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So back in the day,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: it was, like I said, it was more animated and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: comedic and you know and arkle and that type of thing. Yea,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: And now it's just just natural comedy. And you say
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: something and then you laugh as opposed to here comes
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a joke.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So you know, there is that. There's the sitcom actor.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: There's plays, you know, dramatic where you have to project
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and acting you kind of you ham it up just
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a little bit more. But you also want to be natural,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. There's dramas I did a
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: during the I bring up the pandemic a lot, because
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's a big deal recently obviously
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: changed everyone's lives. But during the pandemic, right before it started,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I negotiated to do a film called Am Radio Right
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And when every time I posted about it, people thought
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I had like an AM radio talk show and I
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: was like, no, it's a movie about a recluse that
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: started in FM radio and he had a meltdown and
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: then you know, was given a second chance on AM radio.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: So it deals with mental health, being alone, feeling alone,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and it's also a love story and I really got
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to hone in on my serious acting, you know what
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I mean. So it's a drama for sure, but it's
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: also funny because I can't do anything without making a
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: joke here there. And we scaled down the budget all
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the way so that we can just film it with
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: a skeleton crew. A shout out to Ricky Burschell, who's
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: a film director out of Tennessee who is phenomenal. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: he came up with the script that he had actually
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: wrote for another actor. But during the pandemic, this and
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: that happened, the guy couldn't do it, and I said,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I'll do it. I'm ready to get out the house
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: been too much. So we went out. I flew out
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: to Tennessee and we filmed it in like two weeks
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and it was brilliant. Man. You know, if you ever
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: get a chance to watch it, check out AM radio.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Can we get it?
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: You can see it on I'm sure it's on two B,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: It's on Amazon Prime, it's pretty much everywhere streaming is. Now.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Were you you were also producing on it or just act.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a producer as well on there. I helped with
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: the editing, you know, it was it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Was it was fun being helped with the editing.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: The editing.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, they said, you were actually editing.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't like push the button. I gave my input
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: put it that way. So they sent me like they
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: would send me the first raft and I said, can
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: we change this? And we moved this scene? Maybe you can,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: you know, because there was something in there that I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: just I felt like it was just going to make
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: people think about the movie in the wrong way. And
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: we actually edited it out and replaced it with like
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a flashback. And it was fun. It was fun, and
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: it was it was just fun to be on that
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: side of it and giving my input after being in
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: the business for so long, and that's what started me saying,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you know, I have to be on the produce the
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: production side of every film that I'm in because sometimes,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: and this will happen a lot too. People call me
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the King of two B right now because people will
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: call me and say, yo, how much what's your day rate?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: All can I get you for a day in my
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: film out here? And blah blah blah, Like h sounds
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: like an easy job. You fly out of town, you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: first class accommodations, They give you what you want, pay wise,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: your film for one day and then you're done. But
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: then when people go on to B they say starring
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Omar Goode and they think I'm all through the film
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: and it's like one or two scenes that they shot
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: in that one day. And then I look at the
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: film and the quality of the film and I'm like, man,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I should have pushed to be a producer on the
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: film so that I can give my input. Let me
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: see the final product before this thing is released to
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: the world, so that I can help you out, you know,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: you know, just just just the transitioning, maybe the music,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: scoring a little bit everythingcause there's so many things that
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: go into to making a successful film.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Wow. So where do you see yourself comedy wise now
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that you're entering Well, you've been in the comedy arena,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: But like most comics, I think it takes like an
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: average of like ten years before they're really where they.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny. It's kind of
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: like it depends on where it goes opportunity wise, because
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: there's so many things that you can do. I mean,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I think the top everyone I was, Oh, you want
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: your special. You know you're a one hour special on Netflix.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: You know you say an hour and I go, damn
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: an hour. You know, a long five minutes is of
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: stand up comedy. That's a lot, you know. When I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: went on stage, and it's funny because what I would
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: always do. I started off as a presenter, right, which
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: was like something that I invented. I felt like because
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I just I walk out. I think about Russell Simmons
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: when he would just come on at the end of
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Death Comedy gen and say thank you will come and
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: God blessed good night. Right, So that was gonna be
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: my role. But I started at the beginning of the
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: show rather than at the end. Now, if anybody knows
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: anything about stand up comedy, the hardest part is the beginning. Yeah,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: because people just getting there ain't nobody full of liquor.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: You know, they want to laugh, but they're just say, man,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I'd be warmed up just yet. So to get a
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: crowd ready to laugh, there's a tough spot, you know.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: That takes a special skill in itself. I was just
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: jumping out trying that at first, and then I transitioned
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: into hosting, which was also fun because it's the same
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: idea where you welcome people there. He told them what's
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: going to go on a joke over here and there.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: But it's easy. You kind of have a safety net
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: because if you run out of material or if you
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: feel a little stale, you just say, all right, let
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: me bring your first comic cup. Yeah, and then you
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: jump off stage. Yeah, you know, and then in between
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: comics it's the same type of thing. How you guys
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: feeling that guy was funny? Right? Do you talk about this? Yeah?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: That is crazy? All right, let's bring your next comic cup?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: You know. So I did that in San Antonio. I'm
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: a man, Charles Allen. I got a shout out, you
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: got to shout out Charles allen Man because he's He's
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: really the reason why I do stand up now. He said,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: why don't you try just doing a set at the
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: end of the show. And my initial response was hell no,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Like that's.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: A lot of pressure and how long was the set
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: that he was saying?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: So he said, do do a set? You know, because
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: when we did the when I did the hosting the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: first night, I did the hosting, so I was up
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: for maybe six minutes at the beginning, and then I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: do maybe a minute and a half in between tween
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: each person. But it was new material, you know. I
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: would come up and I'd look at my jokes that
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I wrote, and I said, I'm try this one. I
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: come on, hey, what's up over anybody married? I do
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: a marriage Joe? Oh, that pandemic was crazy, right, you
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: couldn't call froun nobody el yet. But I'm gonna try that. Joe,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: try that joke. And he said, just put them all
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: together and do a set. So I said, I'll try it,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: and boy, it was nerve wracking. I've been nervous in
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: about thirty years. But I got up there and I
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: felt like it went fast, and I got off. I said, man,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I only did ten minutes. He said, bro, you was
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: up there for eighteen minutes. I was like eighteen minutes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I got the footage, watch it back.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And then when I watched it back, I realized I
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: was speaking fat. I was talking real quick. I said,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: a bunch of line and go right to the next one,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you know. And he's like, man, if you learn to
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: breathe and calm down and space out your jokes in
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: between you, you probably got thirty forty minutes of material.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: And I did, so moving forward, that's what I did.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: So we also, like I said, we were on tour now.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: So I have a couple of show dates coming up
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: and I'm doing the headline thing now, so I'll come
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: at the Deana. I got like four shows in Indiana
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: coming up, which is also fun because I do adult comedy.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But they said, can you do a clean show for us,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: no cursing? And I was like, ooh, I'll try, you know.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: So I've been working on that, and you know, I
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: have to march to uh to kind of perfect my set.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Like I said, I've got my show every two weeks,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: so I just work out new stuff and then just
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: keep building and building for comics.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of pressure right now
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: because there's cancel culture, and I have a very my
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: positioning on it is that comics need to not be
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: afraid of cancel culture, because you know, comedy is laughing
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: at real life, right and different perspectives on it. But
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: once these comics start to get more filtered, I mean,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: can you really be funny. I've seen a couple of
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: specials that dropped that I thought were like, okay at best.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously we have the icons like
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy, and we have you know,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: we have so many good icons where you can watch
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that same tape one hundred times and be like, this
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: is amazing, But then the news.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: To watch it now, I feel like an old I
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: still think they're funny. I mean, during this cancel culture,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: we would people if you if they released any of
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: that old stuff now, people would be like, oh my god,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: they'd be outraged. Oh it is. It is a challenge.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I remember I was on I was on set a
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Harmless Mistake. We were trying to rehearse our lines and
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: there was a that's funny. I've never told a story
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: on filming because this happened who about six months ago
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: and there was a person female gender that was Sam.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: So I'm still trying to figure out how to say this.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: She was the DP, which means she was setting up
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the shots and trying to figure out how to film us.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: But we were going over our scene. So we're going
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: when when when actors, when when the director says and
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: action and we start our lines, it needs to be
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: this quiet. If we hear anything going on, it'll throw
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: us off. And we're guys, we gotta be you guys
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: be quiet on set, please, because we're trying to rehearse
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: and we shouldn't have to say that. That should be
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: an ad saying quiet. You guys got to be quiet.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: My actors are trying to rehearse their lines. It's hard
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: enough to do this job and remember all their lines,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: and they're blocking and their placement and the lighting and
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: all this and that other. They got enough on their minds.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Please just be quiet while they're rehearsing. Right, So anyway,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: so we're going over our scene and that's what was
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: just keep out of years and I was just like
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it. I said listen, you guys gotta
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: be quiet when we're rehearsing our lines. I know this
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: isn't the most professional production, but it's good enough to
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: where you guys need to respect your actors. And they said, well,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you want to look good, then you need to let
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: us talk this out. And I'm like, listen, I've been
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: in this business for thirty years and I've never been
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: told that I need to be quiet or that I
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: need to ignore you when I'm trying to do my
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you know. And they wound up going into it back
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: and forth, and then another person joined in and said, well,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: you need to let her do da da da da da.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Let them do blah blah blah. And then a friend
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: of mine said, hey, hey, young lady, listen, we're trying
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: to put and she said, oh my god, that's not
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: even the right pronoun you know. And then I said, oh, damn, okay, hmm.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I mean it's respectful as for him to say, young
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: lady that in our generation, all right, that's about the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: nicest thing you can say to a female, you know.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: And not to know that I had to go the
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: right pronoun or I should have looked at this person
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and known that they didn't want to be referred to
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: as a young lady, a woman, or her or she
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: at all. Like I have to filter all that in
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: in an instant while trying to do my job here,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and I was just like, wow, we're we're on a
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: slippery slope. And you know, in comedy, I kind of
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: feel like if you lead with that, you may be okay,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Lead with what the disclaimers.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, you know, for one, I think I
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: think if you're gonna get canceled or if you're going
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: to get upset with something someone says, then it should
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: be a someone that you believe should know better. So
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: if you're in I don't know, your twenties and under,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: that's about the end of the No better is in
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: my opinion, maybe thirty. But if you're forty fifty years old, Like,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: if my mom walks in the room and says something
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: crazy about somebody, everybody's gonna be like, it's okay, she's
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: you know what, she's seventy eight, Yeah, you know what
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, she's sixty says, They're like, all right, like
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: you know what she means. She didn't mean it like that,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: or maybe she did in her age, and you you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: you'd be fine. Well, there's got to be some latitudes
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: given to people that are that grew up in a
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: certain era. I mean, I was in trouble for saying
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: and the F word and not the U because I
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: was but I was referring to a man who had
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: two women with him and I was just angry in Vegas.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: So I didn't mean him to be a homosexual in
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: any way. Yeah, yeah, I was just using that word
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: because I was angry. We were liquored up and I
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: wanted him to try to do something, you know. And
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: then the next morning I had to my Bubba. Sis
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: was like, hey, you're gonna have to apologize if people
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: are outraised dat dad down. And it's like, what I
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: can see if I was talking to a person that
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: was gay, yeah, you know, and I tried to slander them,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: that would be one thing. But then again, like I said, slippery, So.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: We're definitely a sensitive world.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: It just sucks because a lot of these actors, comics
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: or people in front of the camera already have It's
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: already such a hard gig as it is to get
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: in and to stabilize, and then you have to now
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: walk on eggshells because of society. I don't know where
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: the pronouns meets disrespect. Like you know, if I see,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: you know, someone and they look like a woman, I'm
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: gonna say female, But then like now off camera will
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: be like, whoa am I supposed to say female?
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Like what you know, which is it's a weird. It's weird.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: But we're definitely from a different air, you know, we're
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: from the era of you know, tomato is a tomato?
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's it's definitely tricky. I mean,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: it's like talking about the N word and who can
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: say it? When you said and how are you supposed
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: to say it? The B word? Same thing two women
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: like yeah that oh ship, Now I'm in trouble, you know. Yeah,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: so it's it's tough. I don't I don't think it's
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: it's you know, I think personally, I think comics would
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: have it it easier in the sense of like, okay,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: obviously he's just making a joke, so he might get
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: let off the hook, you know, but other people doing
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: interviews and you know, talk show hosts and people and
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: you know, in your job, you know, it's you know,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: good luck, good luck to do a podcast. No, I
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: shouldn't know.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I say things on here.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I get calls from uh one of my cousins shout
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: outs to Heather, she listen to my podcast, and I
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: get a text pretty often from her like I can't
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: believe you said this on your show, And I'm like,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I still can't believe you listened.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: To this show.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the comment.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, But yeah, I've said stuff on here. I
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: don't care about being canceled at all.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I like.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I like the hate attention. I don't know why I
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: like it. I like it more than I like the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: nice attention.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I know, I remember you said something about that. I'm
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: sensitive in that regard, but I'm easy. I'm quick with
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: the block button. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. If you call
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: me too much, text me too much, you'll be blocked.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: If you're online and you say something crazy, you know.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I'll let that first comment go. But if I feed
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: into it and start giving this person block, that block
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: button is awesome hat oh yeah, and they'll be like, oh,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: leave those comments on there. That's how people know you're authentic. Authentic,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: my ass. I don't want to read that block block
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: block block. I won't report them, but I'll block them
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: and they'll be like, I can't find this dudecause you're blocked.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: I block friends all about my mama once.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, well I did block one fan from our show
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: because he was disrespecting one of the guests on my show.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: He was like in my DMS in the in the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: eating while broke DMS on, like, are YouTube like any
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: form of contact to me? And he was like talking
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: so derogatory about this guest and I was like, had
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: he actually listened to full episode, he actually would have
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: had more respect for her. But like, you know, for
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, but he was like stalker level and I
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: ended up reaching out to the guest and was like, yo,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I think there's something unsafe here, you know, And she
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, I put a restraining order on him.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Could you keep all those records?
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I was like he knew like everyone in her camp,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: and I was like, he's like after Charlemagne, And I
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: was like, yo, so I let the black effect know,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: like you know what there is there's a problem, the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: mental health issue, because they'd be really invested. You'd be like, dude,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: they don't.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Really know you. You don't know that you know you're
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: really losing sleep over here.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: It's funny too, you know, and I work with the
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: comedian shout out to damn, can I shout him out.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I'm about to get this story.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: I won't, but he's he was being heckled by this person.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: It's funny. Everyone at the show and it's funny. It
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: was an all black room. You know, do mostly these
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: black shows and U but there was you know, I
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: have white fans and a couple of you know, a
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: couple of white fans showed up and they were just
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: just completely drunk, like he was just three sheeted away
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: and he was completely a mess. And every time he
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: said yeah, homeorko, it's come up, he and he's like
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: right up front. So every comic was kind of being
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: bothered by him, but the more seasoned comics knew to
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: just ignore him, maybe give him an okay guy all right,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: and then relax. But this one comic got up there
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: and he was like, you know, close to our headliner,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: and he has a whole routine and it's a rhythm
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: and a it's all about you know, the first joke,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: and it all kind of snowballs from there, and this
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: guy started yelling and he just started engaging with the guy.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Now it just ruined his whole set because he's going
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: back and forth. And then somebody else came to his defense,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: actually believe it or not, and was like, heah, he's
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: not the only white guy here, so who you mean
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: by white people? And he's like, oh my god, somebody
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: did it. And then he was just going back and
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: forth with these people. I had to yell at him like, bro,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: finish your set, we love you, ignore them, you know.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: And then when he got off out to tell us, well,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: you can't engage with them, you know. And it's sounded
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: the same thing with these trolls online. As soon as
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: you give him a little life now, they're like, I
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: got it. They're just seeking attention. That's all they want
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: they need. And then you see, I've seen I've made
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: a comment or I've made a post, and then somebody
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: will comment positive, and then someone will comment negative, and
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: now these two people are going at it on my post,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I got to block both of these people,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: like I don't hear any of this conversation. Can y'all
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: take that somewhere else or go to her page or
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: his page, whatever the case is Yeah, it gets great.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I am curious before we close out your situation with April,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: your sisters. She started going on our comedy journey, where like,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: what does your relationship with her look like in regards
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: to you now joining comedy.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. I mean she's kind of taking a
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: step back to because she had she had a day job,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: you know, a day job because she wasn't a full
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: time actress. She do it here and there, and she
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: worked actually at an airline, and then there was an
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: incident towards the end that was very traumatic for she
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: was actually attacked leaving the airport and she's never like
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: fully recovered from that. So it's like, you know, with
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: the pandemic and then kind of being pushbom. So she's
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: taking a step all the way back. I actually threw
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: which actually got me really jump started my stand up
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: comedy career, is that I threw her a party at
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the year because she said she wanted
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: to just be around it again and she just wanted
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: to laugh. So are you gonna go up? She's like,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: oh no, I'm not ready for that yet, but I'll
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: come and have a good time. And I brought five
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: or six comics out shout out to comedian Warren V
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: and a couple of his friends, and we had a
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: terrific show because her birthday is January second, and so
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: is my brothers because.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: They're born Yeah, same day exactly.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Part so you know, it was funny. I always throw
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: a party for it and be like, yeah, keep a
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: good a junior's coming back. Yeah, you know, and he's like,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: I don't go to parties. But anyway, So, so she
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: still hasn't got back all. You know, she hasn't got
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: back off the sale, and I keep trying to eat
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: so edger on, but she's very supportive. I'll come and say,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: you know, she's come to everyone, well not everyone, she
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: comes to a bunch of my shows, and then we'll
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: talk about it afterwards.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Now, all three of you siblings are very close, I
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: would assume, right, And then when have any of you
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: guys hit a low pocket and then you had to
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: pull one out?
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously your sister went through that one.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah that happened my brother. My brother's more guarded, you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: so all the things that happened with him, he kind
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: of you know, we're like, are you good? I'm good man,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I'll be all right, all right. I was like, bro,
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you we upset here. We were ready to
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: you know, rush in know, go Craze. He's like, nah, nah,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: can everybody be cool. I'm gonna trust the system. And
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: I said, a man, you know, and he's a different
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: breed than me. I'll tell you right now, they've been it.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Don't come after omar because if I got anybody had call,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I would be like, yeah, you want to do something, Yes, yes, yes,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I'm outside, Yes, help, I need help. I'm not doing
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: do this by myself.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: I'm more like your brother.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, let's wait until the last, last final moment
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: before I push that red button.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah no, I'm quick, like I told you a block
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: of you need something? Yes, yes, me over here. I'm outside.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: The address is two two five note seven. Yeah no,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: but that's happened. I mean, I've had emotional times and
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I had to call him both and we all showed
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: up and then when hung out and been like, yeah, man,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: is this going on? And that going on? And you know,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: and especially since I started having kids late in life.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: You know, I started at forty. My brother had already
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: had two or three kids. So I'd love to call
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: him up just pick his brain about women and children
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: and kids and just being that family man type of thing. So,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: you know, I've kind of I've had my father who
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: wasn't around and my brother who traveled a whole lot
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: because he was so successful when he had his kids.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: So then I took that as like what not to do,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: but also how to stay engaged and then still try
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to stay relevant. So it's tough to juggle at all,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: but you know, there's there's opportunities that I've definitely kind
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: of said, nah, I don't want to do that because
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I had to keep me await form my kids for
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: too long. Like when I had to do this thing
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: in Chicago was brutal, and I brought my kids out
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: for like a month, and one of them got really
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: sick and we had to go in hospital, and it
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: was it was just a lot. It was so much.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: So you know, the strike was, you know, it was
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: important because there's a lot of things that needed to
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: be addressed. I mean, I know we're closing, but I
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: can go on and on about that strike. It's in
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: my comedy set. So I'll wait and I'll wait and
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: talk about it. Then but you know, if if if
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: the Chicago, if we don't get a season two, I'll
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: be fine with that because it was a lot. It
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: was a lot. But I did love the culture and
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: I did love being out there. But you know, my
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: kids are too young. They need daddy.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: And then what did you do to avoid the plague
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: that happens with young talent?
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? That one.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Or do you think your mom played a role?
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: My mom definitely played a huge role. I mean, I
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: have a praying mama. You know, I watched her pray
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: things in New Existence, from poverty, from a better job
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: for herself to an apartment for us, from living in
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: a car to living in an apartment. She prayed me,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: you're going to get a series. One day that happened,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: you know. Not when I say pray, she need to
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: say one prayer and then oh it just happened. No,
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: every single day it was a mantra. She would pray goodbye, this, hello, this,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: and we would sing it driving in the car over
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: and over again till these things happened. And it was
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: just you know, I know that God is real and
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I've seen his power work. So it's it's it's faith
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: first and foremost, and then having people around you that
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: want the best for you as opposed to that are
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: just leeching off you, or just happy that you're paying
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: the rent, you know what I mean. And I had
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: gentlemine people saying, nah, bro, we don't need to do that.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you sure? Yeah? You know I
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: I do music too, And I have a line where
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I say I'm tired of watching peers raising peers, you know,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: but that happens.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's such a deep statement. Raising peers.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is. It hadn't happens all the time,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: you know. And I remember my father. I loved him
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: to death, but he would he said something to me,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: and most of the time I'd be like, yes, absolutely,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: But you know, I got in trouble and talked about
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: having guns and whatnot. And remember he's like, yeah, you
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: got one of those. You gotta give me that gun, bro,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: And I was like, not a chance. If anything, I'll
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: get rid of it, but that's not going to happen.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: And my friend was there and always said not give
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: it to him. And that was when I went seriously,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: all right, cool, and I gave it to him. And
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: it's like I'm not a follower by any means. I've
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: always been a leader in every aspect of my life.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: And that was the one time that I remember, not
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: too clearly to this day. I remember my friend said it,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: and I went, huh, all right, fine, and then he
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: kind was like, yeah, man, we can get another one.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know how deep it was, but
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: it's still okay. Near dad, you know, he was like, yeah, okay,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: and my son's listening. But I was like, yeah, it's
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: only because my friend said it, because initially I was
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: just gonna fight him on it and be like, yo, man,
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: I got this. I'll figure it out on my own,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: you know. And it's tough, you know, especially raising kids now.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: And I remember had a conversation with my friend with
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: a guy that I just met when I was out
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: in Chicago, and he said how his son is very
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: successful as a very successful athlete, gifted athlete, but he's
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: having problems following the rules. You know, he loves girls
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: too much and he's getting trouble this, in trouble with that,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: and he's trying to tell his son things. But what
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: he does is he appeals to his son's friends and
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: he takes them all out here, treats him to this,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: talks to them directly because he knows they'll have a
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: bigger influence.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: On Okay, you know what I mean.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: So he has a real good relationship with his son's
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: friends and they're helping him stay on the right path.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: And I thought that was very deep.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Someone once told me that too.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: They said, uh, you know, part of raising a kid
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: is who their friends are, like being mindful of who
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: their friends are. I know, growing up, my mom used
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: to always be like, show me your friends and I'll
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: tell you who you are.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: That.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: It was her basic like every time she was around us, like,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: let me see what your friends are looking like.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: That's it was funny my mom. We always said to
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: where'd you learn that from? Who taught you that? Where'd
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: you get that from? And I'd be like, what, nobody,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I probably saw it on this and that. I always
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: would get offended, you know, as like a young man
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: like I don't follow nobody. Everybody says, oh, Mark, what
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: are we doing today or where we're going or what's
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: the next move? They come to me, I don't follow nobody,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: you know. But now that I have sons, like a
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: young boys, I see when son comes on with and oh,
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: I want to hear this song. Where's you hear that?
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Oh Bobby said this? He was get it all day.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Oh Bobby does it? Who the heck is Bobby. It
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: was like, now I got to talk to their parents
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: because they're now raising my son because he's coming up
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: with new stuff and new things. You know, he meets
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: his cousin and he teaches him how to armpit fart
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: or something like that. You know, now he's doing this
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: at the table. I'm like, look, boy, you have to
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: find out, you know what I mean. So I'm like,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: who is this? And always cousin taught him that. Now
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I want to talk to their parents, like yo, for real.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: So they're like, oh, let's all have a play date
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I don't know about this play date stuff.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: You know, it's cool when you want to go hang
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: out or whatever or meet some people and you know
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: they see him at school and want to hang out,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: but you got to be involved. You can't. You definitely
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: can't leave in the front of no iPad.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: No more, no, no, that's over.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Well that's I thought it was cute when they can
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: just as soon as they learn how to scroll on
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: their own. It's like, all right, okay, let me see
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: what we're watching. No headphones, no, no, I'm listening in
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: and what is that now? Oh? Ad came on? Because
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: they're real sneaky with these ads. I'm watching that one.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I'm scrolling all of a sudden, How did I get
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: down this rabbit hole. I'm not following none of these people,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: but I've seen all these reels of stuff that I
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: didn't really necessarily want to know about. Now then've found
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: out about all type of things going on. I'm depressed,
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I'm nervous. I'm scared about all type of shit because
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I try hard to stay off the socials as much
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: as possible. It is terrible. I wish we could go
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: back to like my era where we just had aim.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, right, no business. It's been there. My wife be like,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: am you on the phone, Like no, you're you're scrolling
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: memes and then sending me something that you found out
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: about the spoons and the forks and all this craziness
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: that you can't No, no, no, I'm actually it's business.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Every time I post, then I go on my DM
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: it's new job opportunity, so I have I'm talking every time, like,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: oh man, you look at good. So how much is you? Hey?
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Can I get you on that? I said, yeap, call
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: my agent Neil set it up every I'm talking every
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: single time, so I have to check on it. Wow,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? That's be blocking.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: I needn't get my MS popping.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: We have a we have a but we get a lot.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Of requests for talent from people trying to pitch talent
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: on the show. But we I use application so I
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: don't have to do it manually.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: From my phone. Like literally, it's like a calendar.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: It's called later and we just put all our socials
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: in a calendar and it drops it like in advance,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: so like whether I touch my phone or not, something's
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: gonna drop today. So it looks like and it's all scheduled,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: and then they'll like set parameters like best time of
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: day to post or whatever. Between that and chat GPT,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: we do the whole caption and drop or whatever, and
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: then we have a clip team that just generates clips.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so does that happen if you're on TikTok?
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: When you went there yet I tried it, I said, Wow,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: this is a lot you have to be engaged constantly,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: but you get way more traffic than Instagram. But I'll
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: go live on Instagram to be like one hundred people.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: I go live on ig with like I got about
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: three hundred thousand on Instagram. I go on TikTok, I
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: got maybe fifteen hundred. But then I go live and
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: it's like fifteen hundred people are watching you right now.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: I don't even know TikTok had a live feature.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: You have a lot, But I will say that TikTok
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: does give a good interaction, Like I'll go on TikTok
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: and it'll be like, compared to Instagram, a video will
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: probably get like one hundred thousand or eighty thousand years.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I thought it was a joke. I was like, what
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: are you talking about?
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: I want to I'm.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Telling you I went on live a couple of times.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: And then when you're on live, they'll put the little
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: hat on you and the glasses while you're talking and
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: like what is this? And then it's over. It's like
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: you've made fifty dollars. I'm like, what do you mean?
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: I made fifty dollars? I look on every time they
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: put one of those hats they buy it. It's called
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: a badge. I believe, no, buy a badge? Who I
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: want to interact with him? I thought, hat and I'll
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, thanks for the hat, such and such
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: dot whatever whatever, and TikTok on TikTok your life.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: I'm just try and do that.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's crazy. I'm like, look a, where
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: does the little fifty dollars come from? People just keep
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: tacking on a dollar here. Dollar. There's crazy. It ads up.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I said, well, that's smart. I don't know if people
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: know about that.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: What would be your main piece of advice for the
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: longevity you've had in your career, in addition to the
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: pivots to people trying to get into your position.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the longevity part for me is it's it's it's
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: about it's called compromise, not compromising. Don't feeling that you
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: have one shot and you have to compromise either your
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: beliefs or your sexuality or your you know, your religion
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: or whatever the case is, and and go all in
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: on like one role. Because I've seen people take the
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: wrong role and then you never hear from him again.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: I've seen people be you know, their career was going
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: pretty well, and they said, you know, I gotta do this,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: and then that was it for them, or they got
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: discouraged because of the backlash they took for that role.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: You know, you gotta be careful too, you know, you
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: don't don't feel that you have to do something and
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: then don't do something that you're not going to be
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: able to live with. Like I'll you know, I always
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: take I'll be honest, I'll take like the hero role
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: or the macho role of the role that I know.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be at the bar and someone gonna say, hey, man,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: you that dude that I saw in this such and
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: such role. I said, yeah, I was. I was that one.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: And if it's something negative that I'm not gonna be
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: able to respond to, and I'm not taking that role.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: You know, I have a fan base, you know, and
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: they're always proud of what I do. And then they said, well,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: every actor does this, and every actor eventually blah blah blah.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Denzel Washington is my favorite actor of all time, next
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: to my brother. And I've never seen him letting me
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: down once. I haven't seen him come up anything. I said, Damn, Danzel,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: you see his name, You're gonna enjoy yourself. That's you
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: know what I mean.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't think Fences was that great.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: I you know what, I thought it was a lot
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: I was, but I was it was impressive. I was
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: you memorized all that, like that ship was impressive to me.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: That's all I was doing as an actor. I was
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: just watching him, going, look at this man. I said,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: he didn't take a breath, they didn't cut nowhere. I
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: could tell he memorized all that, And I'm sorry that
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: him self, to me is a lot. That's a big
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: deal for me. Then the acting, you know, you kind
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: of get you know what you're gonna get. He's already
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: done everything, so it's just one of those like, well
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be what to be. But I'm just talking
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: about the choices. There's nothing that's like, maybe go I
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: can't look at him if again, I don't I don't
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: like him. Yeah, you know what I mean, nothing nothing,
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: nothing is wrong anyway.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: So that's how I feel about Diddy right now. I
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: mean I used to, let me just tell you something.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: I used to look up to Diddy.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I was like when I was in high school, you know,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: but then as I got into the industry, I would
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: hear so many bad rumors about him. But now it's
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: just like, I can't even believe how much as a
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: young person I looked up to this dude and to
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: hear like and I one hundred percent believe everything.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry all.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: The Will Smith stuff that's pouring out now, and we've
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: heard about that for years.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Let me tell that I believe Will Smith stuff, so
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: What I've learned is some with every story, there is
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: a true underline, especially in the entertainment business.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Just it's just how far will those believing it take you?
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: As far as are you still gonna watch the movies? Like, Okay,
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: this movie comes on? Now, you're not gonna watch it again? Yeah? Right?
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: This song is on, gonna tell him turn it off?
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: No?
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I'm sure they'll stop playing R Kelly.
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: But if I'm out somewhere and it comes on, I'm
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: gonna still nod my head. I'm not gonna be like
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: I'm out here.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: R Kelly's situation is kind of very It sounds terrible
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: what I'm about to say.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: Jesus, I get a call later about this, But R.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Kelly, I feel like is a is a two edged
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: sword because he came from abuse. He came from a
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: lot of you know, abuse, like sexual abuse. So I
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: definitely feel terrible for the victims, but I also feel
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: like that is definitely.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: A a like that.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: It was both both victims, you know what I'm saying,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Like R Kelly, you know, everyone's a victim of that kid.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Is But it's like a matter of knowing right from wrong.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: Well, the people around you, No, no, no, he definitely
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: knew what was wrong.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: But like when you have mentally normal people and they're
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: like co siding, coldning and playing a role, then it's like, yo, no,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: I don't care how much someone pays you.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: You know it's wrong, right.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: And so there was a person, a person like that
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: definitely had a room full of people that were looking
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: the other way. But I'm not I don't give I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: don't give nobody a past though I don't mine.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: I'd probably get backlash for saying the fact that it's
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: I just don't think it was necessary for a man
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: that could get pretty much any woman. You can get
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: a woman that looks young, go to Thailand. They got
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: the little kid, they look like girls to actually go there.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: You know, when it wasn't necessary. That's that's where I
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: have an issue with. I got two sons. I can
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: imagine I had a daughter, I'd probably be trying to
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: go to jail. Just be next to them for a
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: minute and get well.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of parents that play a role in
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of the kids to minds. Like people approach
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: me all the time about my daughter getting into entertainment,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: and I'm absolutely against it. And my main reason is
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: is the industry doesn't necessarily always support those parents that
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: are guard dogs, like you know, like some of those
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: parents that are guard dogs get blacklisted for being guard.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Allowed to say about that. And I talk to women,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: especially in the industry, and I think it's it's a
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: matter of common sense and your upbringing. It's some people
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: are far more susceptible to peer pressure than others. I mean,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: I guess that goes without saying. For me, it always
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: seemed obvious, it seemed easy. I'm in these rooms and
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: they're passing around the coke and they're doing this, and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: they're doing that, and I'm like, look, I'll smoke some weed,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: I'll drink some drink, and I'll wake up the next
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: day and have black spots like I don't remember what
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: happened the rest of the night. I don't need to
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: do anything the hell out When they're passing it around,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, no, I'm good. They're not gonna be like,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: get out. You know what I mean. For young females,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: they invite you where they invite you to the hotel.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: All right, go to the lobby, but don't go up
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: to the hotel room. There's a there's a there's a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: point where you know that don't but don't go up
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: to the room and then tell me something crazy happen.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: You didn't know something crazy have in a room.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I will I agree with you, but I will say
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: when I first moved here from New York, there was
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: a couple incidents where I and my sister both put
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: ourselves in positions where I mean, had us not had
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: really solid good streets smarts, I would say we would
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: have definitely been compromised. But yeah, there was some dudes,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and it's usually to be honest, for my experience, it
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't dudes that were actually in the industry. They were
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: like the fake industry dudes like that house skirt dudes
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: walk up to you.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: In the mall and they're like be a.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Model and like no, no, they you know those ones
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: that are like come be me here. But I will say,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: like even in the open, like I've seen dudes with
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: power that were in the industry across the line where
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: I remember I was as.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: Good as done.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: I went to my uncle like I'm I'm good, like
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: I'm good, like this dude touched my leg and was married,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: and I just remember being scared death, you know, like
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: oh my god, like this is this is terrible, and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: I started making rules. But even with men in general,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: I don't I personally don't do dinner dates. I only
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: do breakfast and lunch dates. I don't want to hear no, and.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: Guys will literally like if they hear breakfast and lunch,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: will be like I'm good, and I'll be like, no,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: that's cool. You know what I'm saying.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: We both on the same page, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: But I'm not trying to walk into no setup or
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: manipulation or any misconfusion or whatever.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: But we will. We're on a clock.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: So anyways, how can your fans, our fans keep up
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: with you?
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Omar keep up with me? The easiest way to find
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: me is Instagram at Omar Gooding period. I don't hide it, TikTok.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: I threw my middle name in there, Omar Miles Gooding. Yes,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: my initials are O MG. And that's the easiest way
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: to find me. Many what I would I Yes, Yes,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: I named my oldest son Omar Junior, because, believe it
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: or not, when I'm out and people say, oh, keep
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Gooding Junior's brother. Yeah, so his name is Omar Gooding Jr. No,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: that's not how it works. That's not how juniors work. People.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: The Omar Gooding Junior is my son and he's seven.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Uh well he will be seven. And then my my
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: my youngest son is named Miles. So I give, I
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: give myself, like, oh you just hold on a name. Listen.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: My wife's name is Mia, and I was trying to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: think of names for a boy. We went Michael, Miles,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: I have two boys. I have two boys. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: that's right, you know. It's uh, that's that's where we're
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: at with it, you know. And then it's this culture.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know that that's that's it's tough. You want
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: him just to be boys and be you know, and
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: I'm a manly man for man, I got to look,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: I gotta I'm gonna start a culture, like, can I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: be a man? Please? Is it okay for me to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: just be a man? I'm not, you know, hating on
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: any other gender or race or or cumul unity or
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: whatever the case. I'm just saying I'm a man and
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: I'm raising men. So that's that. Now, something happens down
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: the line that I have no control over, and you know,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: we'll have that conversation and we'll cross that road when
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: we need to. But as far as what I'm raising,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: I know how I was raised. So you know, if
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: that's what's in me, that's how I figured that should
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: be in them. And we'll go from there. For it's
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: my young my OLDESTKI cries a lot. It's it's still
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: he's very sensitive. It's very sensidive. And my father said
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: that to my wife. He said, you know, I was
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: worried about him when he was younger. But you're all
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: man now, I said, all right, he pulled out of that,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: he pulled, he pulled up quick. But uh but yeah, no,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: but that's that's where you can find me. You know,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: I got a lot on the plate. You know, I
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: got music, I got comedy shows, I got some movies
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing. I even signed on to do a play
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  Speaker 2: in May.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll be keep it up with you on your socials,
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  Speaker 1: and I will retire this dish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, please don't here. Yeah please don't nobody try this
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  Speaker 2: at home, because first of all, we shouldn't even have
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: the style phone and the microwave as we led with
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  Speaker 2: you try to put it in tap.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a save y'all fans from yourself. Okay, don't in
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  Speaker 1: the cup of noodles cup unless you're apps.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's good for a cleanse because I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing nothing for next week.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Peace out, guys. Peace for more eating while
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