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Chris Tucker: From Friday to Faith | The Untold Journey · Love You Moore with Willie Moore Jr.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey family, welcome to the Love You More Show, excited that you decided to join us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the thing, I need you to watch this entire interview because at the end of the interview, I got a special offer for you that I'm sure you want to be a part of.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, it's time for the Love You More Show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Play that out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Next, on the Love You More Show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Will there ever be a Friday,
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, Friday with you, I was raised in church as a Christian Church of God and Christ.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I used everything to my advantage and the best investment I ever did was trust in God and use my spirit challenge and thank all of my moms and my father taking me to church as a kid
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I got to a certain point that I always want to get better and better.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So with my stand up and everything, I always want to perfect it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So when I told people I wasn't cussing as much, it was me studying myself saying, I don't want to be like every other comedian and have a customer at every two seconds.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I want to be the funniest, one of the funniest comedians.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My reward is when people, I heard Boba Streisand say that about like a ward shows.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Howard Ward is not winning Oscar or winning a Golden Globes.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's when the people say I really like that part you did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey family, Willie Mojoon, you're here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So grateful and thankful for everybody who's told me that family listen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can I be honest with you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've now gone over 150,000 subscribers and such a short time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That just led me know that God in this thing and you feelin' that in your shanan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: not come on somebody family listen I have heard so many great comments and I want to challenge you to get in the comment section leave your comments I do my best to read every single one and of course please subscribe to the channel because then let me know that you're just not creeping you just really lock the end to the show shout out to all of our guests for being a part you know the Bible the Claire's that
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[SPEAKER_02]: We are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and you know, many times the truth is we can't love our neighbor because to be honest, we haven't taken the time to learn how to love ourselves more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so this show has been designed to make sure that you understand that you are important too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, like at the end of the day you pour and you give out to so many people whether you're children, your wife, your husband, your job, but oftentimes you are the last person on the list.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we want to make sure that you understand that you got to put that oxygen mask on first before you help anybody else and you have to choose to love you more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, family, the man who's hanging out with me today is not only a dear brother, a dear friend, but of course he is an icon, not only in comedy, but also for his decision-making, his choices.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I just think God, that I get the privilege of calling him brother, of course you're saying rush hour, of course you're saying Friday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And of course you've been to his shows as he does stand up all around the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The one and only Chris Tucker is hanging out with your nephew.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chris, what's up with it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, I'm so glad to have you here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, man, it's always an honor when I get a chance to hang out with greatness, you know, thank you, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This show is literally designed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's, it's, it's, it's the Willy mode during your show kind of after dark.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was sitting down with so many people having these interviews with them and we are sitting there and we be talking and they be like, cut and just go, we got 30 seconds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I said you know what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We got to get a chance for the audience to be able to know them outside of what they do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so this is what it's designed for and we like to open up our show with music.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I want you to take your attention to the screen, hear this music, the name of the song is called Turning Point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Check this out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know when I left that church, my life had changed forever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I realized that moments quickly become memories, so it's important that you spend great moments with your loved ones because you just don't ever know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of loved ones, I was getting picked up by one of my favorite, but not so favorite uncles Uncle G. I mean, he owes school, driver Cadillac had to the back, and he not needed to help, but he's still a good guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He sometimes joked too quick, but the truth is, he's exactly what I need to do in this time to bring me back to Earth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He walks up, and he says...
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[SPEAKER_02]: You are right, sir.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like it's tough.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He can tell you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know it, but it's a part of life He says don't worry about a thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's in a better place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know I'm crazy, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why they say in a better place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He in a box But you know you see I got your laughing already laughter is healing for the soul no matter what it is laughing all keep laughing you're like no matter what you do, okay?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now get your punk ass in the car
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[SPEAKER_02]: What?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Get your ass in the car, Junior.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Say a lot of people don't understand again, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's no stability in this guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why are you living off for him?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a dream, you have to say it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If people are by your news, if you don't eat, then so it'll get hard for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm sorry, I'll tell you, don't worry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My promise at times, I wanna break down No one loves you, it's me This time I'm going up and going back now If you believe in my love Taking my private book called Shes Time's getting harder Do what we gotta do in the feed I saw us and noticed You weren't able to survive Oh, then you got your word You just told me to claim it And I saw all I know Living in my steady stream Nobody got it
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm making everything out
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[SPEAKER_02]: The name of the song is turning point and that's why I want to talk to you about Chris because it's hot man.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's hot.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Come on, Chris.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Don't let him in there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then go talk about it, man.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Chris, that's all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's all Jake.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Can I wrap on the end of it?
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[SPEAKER_07]: You got it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I just wanted to do a little wrap on the end of it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I came up with a break right now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You ain't got the A-Boy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not as beautiful, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chris, like so, so the song is turning point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we see you as, at this particular time, it's Chris Tucker, Friday, smoking, drinking, and then all of a sudden, Chris is like, I've turned a new leaf.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what was that turning point light for you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: When, seemingly, the world is at your fingertips and everybody has something to offer you at this point, but you choose to take a strong stance for your faith.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what was that transition light for you?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I mean, a lot of people don't know.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a perfectionist.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a perfectionist and when I reach a certain level, I want to go to the next level.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So when I, you know, with everything I've done, we'll back then, from Dev Jam, you know, you know, did that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: did a great, and it took me to touring, and it took me to give me opportunity to get in movies and stuff, I did a little small part in house party three, and I had like, I don't know, out of about a minute, two minutes to do my thing, that got me an agent, and then from there, you know, I gotta, I start getting a co-star in roles, I got Fridays, and then I think I got a few other ones, and then rush hours.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I got to a certain point,
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[SPEAKER_07]: that always want to get better and better.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So with my stand up and everything, I always want to perfect it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So when I told people I wasn't cutting as much, it was me studying myself saying, I don't want to be like every other comedian and have a customer at every two seconds.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I want to be the funniest, one of the funniest comedians.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I was cutting down the cutting because I wanted the comedy to come up front.
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[SPEAKER_07]: and all the the profanity and stuff that that's secondary if it happened at all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So people miss misunderstood that said I wasn't custom anymore, which is fine.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I just let them think whatever because you know I think what that's good with it because my whole thing is always getting better and better.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And better.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, and what I was raised, you know, in church as a Christian Church of God and Christ, I used everything to my advantage.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And the best investment I ever did was was trusting God and use my spiritual element.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think thank God for my mom's and my father taking me to church as a kid,
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[SPEAKER_07]: I, you know, that that that helped me use my spirituality instead of you thinking I'm going to know everything I'm going to figure everything out because none of this stuff I've ever done has been planned it all happened doors open after I did one thing and it prayed about it got open up another door after that and you open up another door after that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then I realized I can only take myself so far.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that was to the top.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That was to the top of Hollywood.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was the highest paid actor in Hollywood.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was asking for $20 million and getting it, $25 million and getting it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I wanted better roles and better things.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I was like, God, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I wanted to also do great stories, not just make a whole bunch of money.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I was like, I need to get out in the world and get some life experiences and then come back and do great, great roles and do great stories that I like that I would, you know, I think that, you know, the world will like and my fans will like and, you know, just take my time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But that takes a lot of faith and trust and in God.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But that's the best investment I ever did because
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think right now it's like I just started my career.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's like I'm so excited about what are the possibilities of, you know, what God, you know, the doors he can open and he's going to open it and he's going to breast me, but yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm a perfectionist and that, yeah, I just didn't, I don't just take any role and then I just don't do it for the money.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, I just want to keep doing it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My reward is when people, I heard Boba Streisand say that about like award shows.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Howard Ward is not winning Oscar or winning a Golden Globes.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's when the people say I really like that part you did.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's my reward and always being when people say, man, I really love you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: what you did in that part and I'm like, man, I make me feel so good as somebody enjoyed it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that's always gonna be my reward, but don't get me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I love award shows.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I watch them, I'm gonna watch the Oscars next week and I hope you can win one one day.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I love to see other people win because they'd encourage me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Because I take everything, I see all, I try to see everything to keep myself encouraged.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Like, man, one day I'm gonna get one of those, you know, if I do the work, you've always gotta do the work, you can't.
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[SPEAKER_07]: not do the work and think something's just going to fall into your lap.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Sometimes it happened for people like that, but it is rarely does, you got to do the work.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, so the perfectionist, I think people don't know that about me, it don't know that I always want to do the best.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I always want to be, I want to be one of the best communities on the FGM.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I wanted to have you work.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You wanted to do we grew up watching Eddie Murphy and Richard probably I grew up watching Eddie Murphy and Richard prior 48 hours and and stir crazy I wanted and when you saw rush hour that you go see again and again like that because I was raised with the best in the world, you know Richard Eddie and Robin Harris and so many Robin William so many great comedians.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So many great actors, Mr. Portiai, I became friends with Sidney Portiai, Mr. Harry Bellafonte, used to go to launch with Mr. Portiai in LA and you know, so many, so many, so many great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So how old are you when you get your break and how do you get your break?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you like doing auditions?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you in comedy clubs?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like how did you get discovered to be even in the one-minute role in the house party?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I was, it was from Dev Jam, it was, it was kind of from Dev Jam because I was doing comedy in high school.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I started in high school talent shows and I was the class clown and all that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, but, uh, and I hosted talent show got my, I told my first joke and I said,
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[SPEAKER_07]: Man, this is what I want to do.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody else said I'm going to the army.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to college.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not going back to school.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm barely getting out of high school.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I got to figure this thing out.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I said, oh, this is a comedy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: People say I'm funny.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But of course, you know, it's different being funny in a class than on a stage.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I said, you know, but once I got that guy gave me that dream, he gave me that passion.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I something that I knew that I could have
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[SPEAKER_07]: It wasn't, you know, the mud, the cars and the house.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I never thought about that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was a purpose, something.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't want to, I didn't want to let my mom down, I didn't want to let my parents down.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I told them about my dream of being a stand-up comedy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I wanted to move to LA.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They never said, no, you can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then they're going to happy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: My mom and then she was happy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I found something.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She thought I was going to be living where.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I was.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I was kind, I built a, you know, a four million dollar house and we got to stay together, but I, but it, like, yeah, it's different, but yeah, but that's your true worth.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I said that to all young comedians when you find a passion and you, and you, something you enjoy doing, that's your wealth, that's your true worth.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And if you love that and continue to love it, everything else will happen after that, you know, money will come and, and material things will come, but you can't let go of that first passion
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you first get, you know, because now, you know, Casso doing $1,000, $1,000, $1,000, $2,000, $2,000, $1,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,000, $2,
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[SPEAKER_07]: We black come on somebody and I did all of that like what's the first thing that you did when you first got your big break Yeah, I was you know, I always say that raw instinct when I was younger I was like I never really cared about a lot of material things.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I bought my mom's a call like you did I bought a house So I really wanted to do stuff for my mom's first and I and I got me a truck or something like that because I just need to get it I needed a car to get back get to the comedy clubs
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[SPEAKER_07]: Because that was my wealth, you know, working in the comedy kid on that stage, yeah, working in the comedy clubs in LA and getting on that stage stand shot because that was my happiness.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And before all the, you know, all the other stuff, I really didn't care.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then, of course, you know, I did get, you know, your money came and then I bought other stuff.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But the first thing I took care of my mom's, I bought her a house in the car.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So as you look at the industry, like as you continue to move and you continue to grow, you know, the myth has been like when a comment, you know, five Jesus, then it kind of dilutes the funny that they have, like, do you feel like in terms of like your faith and knowing like, well, God wants me to do this, do you still feel the same freedom that you have on stage when you were younger?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because he, you know, he blessed me with everything.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He opened those doors for me because like I said, I didn't plan it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I didn't plan doing a movie with ice cube, co-starring and out of all the comedians that was already before me and after me, you know, they choose me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That wasn't my doing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That was God's doing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Now I realized that back then.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was like, oh, you know, I'm just, you know, whatever, they need somebody new and I'm the one to do it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I believe there was God opening up those doors to allow me to be in that position to do those movies.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And it was, it was made for me to do that first Friday with everybody else that was in it that made it, made it a classic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's all good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So did your age in college, the ice cube college, I say, hey man, I want you to be a part of this role.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the only role for you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I see it for you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was in the comedy club.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody called me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was in the comedy club and I heard about the movie.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody said Paul Mooney and Ice Cube was doing a movie about smoking weed on a porch.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I was like, man, I want to be in that movie ship.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I could just get a couple of words.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I called my agent and next day I said, man, give me an audition because I had just got an agent from House party three because he saw me through a little part in the House party three and he came ran backstage and premier said, you got an agent, I said, no.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He gave me his card and I gave him my manager the time now and he was my agent.
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's how it happened but then I called them.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I called my agent and told him to get me on art.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So if I wasn't been in the comedy club that night working and you know, I wouldn't have probably heard about it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody else would have probably auditioned.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They would have picked them because I would probably wouldn't have known about it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So you
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[SPEAKER_07]: as a young comic, you've got to keep working, keep yourself in the mix and you hear about something and really I had to tell my age and to get that audition and then I had to execute the game's like, go get it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I was like, can I get a chance to try out for this part?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So what Chris do auditions now is like, you just got to call me and make a word.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't have to, but if I really need it to to prove that I could do it, it's easy for me to do that, but I don't really have to now, but because I've been proven that I can do certain roles and stuff like that, but yeah, I don't have no shame.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What would make you turn down a roll?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, I know you enjoy this episode, shout out to everybody across the nation who's watching this nation's up on nation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just talk about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do me a favor, just real quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can you subscribe to this channel for your nephew and why you edit coming up next week?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I get an opportunity to hang out with these amazing ladies.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Check this out.
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[SPEAKER_05]: you a good community of friends that will surround you that will give you wise counsel.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like we are around each other, we protect us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We watch over this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And so you got to get you some good friends that you can talk to with our blasting somebody on social media because it's making you look bad.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Make sure you're the only person to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care how much they hurt you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Trying to hurt them back is doing nothing but making you look so bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Go to therapy, get you in them, get a good mentor, get a good mentor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I believe that God sends voices in your lives for certain seasons.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Find that voice that speaks to you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You may never meet them, but they are every day in your ear telling you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So find peace.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Go for peace.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because you can't expect that, okay, I want to be this big leader.
18:33
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to be this great leader.
18:34
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to influence all these people, but you mismanage in your private life.
18:37
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
18:38
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not following you nowhere.
18:41
[SPEAKER_02]: That's coming up next week, now back to the Chris Tucker show.
18:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Gladow.
18:44
[SPEAKER_02]: What will make you turn down a roll?
18:48
[SPEAKER_07]: If I can't be if I can't be all the way 100% creative to make it right to make it work, you know, if that event that to me, that's not fun, it got to be fun to me at this point and and I know that my fans, you know, hopefully they would enjoy it too, but I'm going to do everything possible to make it the best possible and I mean, I can make I can make it work, but you know, but, uh,
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that will make me say, no, if I feel like if it's, you know, if the, if it's restricted in any kind of way of making it the best because you are perfection.
19:21
[SPEAKER_07]: Because I'm a perfectionist, yeah.
19:22
[SPEAKER_07]: Why don't you get perfection from my mom?
19:25
[SPEAKER_07]: That was just gift from God, I think.
19:27
[SPEAKER_07]: I think some people, you know, yeah, that was just gift from God, I think.
19:30
[SPEAKER_07]: And probably, yeah, I got a lot of stuff from my mom.
19:32
[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of stuff like style and clothes.
19:36
[SPEAKER_07]: Because I say mom and dad too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She had the hat on.
19:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not all that from her.
19:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so so perfection perfection is always your thing.
19:46
[SPEAKER_02]: So then after Friday, you get this beautiful opportunity and probably one of the greatest movies of all time with rush hour with Jackie Tay.
19:54
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, thank you, man.
19:56
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the way you were able to create that character and it's exactly what you say it.
20:01
[SPEAKER_02]: If the goal was to make people watch it watch these this series over and over again, it's exactly what it did.
20:07
[SPEAKER_02]: You at the pinnacle of your career, you get the call.
20:10
[SPEAKER_02]: So I have this idea is going to be you and it's Chinese do and it's got a rush out what makes you say yes to this and how is it presented to you because at this time you could pretty much take any role you want because you have the peak and the height of who Chris Tucker is at that time.
20:23
[SPEAKER_02]: So what made you say I take this one because this was totally away from what we, you know, the Friday's and other stuff.
20:29
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, yeah, I was a big fan of Jackie Chan.
20:31
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, he was like, man, this could be, this would be great, you know, because I can do comedy, and he's gonna do the Marshall Arts and that's all that, that would just be cool, you know.
20:42
[SPEAKER_07]: But once again, Friday's open up the door.
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[SPEAKER_07]: for rush out because I was just like, you know, let me do a great job in this and let me make this work and then it was the same company new line cinema and they were they had some deals and stuff with Jackie that they want to do another American movie with Jackie and they were they did Fridays with me and we were looking for something else and we told them we were looking for something else
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[SPEAKER_07]: I said, well, we got Jack Chan and it was like, that'd be cool.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You got this movie rush hours.
21:10
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's do it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I love Jackie Chan.
21:12
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a fan of Jackie Chan.
21:14
[SPEAKER_07]: He's a, I mean, he was iconic back then, you know, with, with rumble in the Bronx.
21:19
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
21:19
[SPEAKER_07]: All this stuff.
21:20
[SPEAKER_07]: I had all that stuff on laser disk.
21:22
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll use to watch Jackie.
21:22
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
21:23
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the big lesion is in my crib and LA.
21:26
[SPEAKER_07]: I used to sit there, just watch Jack and Chad, not even knowing that I'm gonna do a movie with him.
21:31
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's God, that's the thing of this God.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, and it worked.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The chemistry was great, Jackie was so nice and so kind and I felt so comfortable around him that I could say whatever I wanna say.
21:46
[SPEAKER_07]: And he didn't have it attitude.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He was,
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[SPEAKER_07]: humble as a dove and and I was the same way because he knew I was I looked up to him because he was already Jackie Chan so and it just worked man the chemistry work and it was just all three of them we did three of them and they all been fun you know yeah so
22:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I see such a, so what I've learned so far is that each step created a new step and then another step.
22:09
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, when I look back and people's careers and I look in legacy, I see that it's step by step.
22:15
[SPEAKER_02]: So many people want to just take the elevator and just get to the top.
22:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Even if it means that they're going to stand on somebody, crush somebody, say to me, things, do whatever.
22:23
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm sure in this climate of comedy beef, there's always somebody who has different things to say.
22:31
[SPEAKER_02]: You've been in comedy for a very, very long time.
22:34
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the proper way to handle differences as it pertains to comedians, maybe having issues or what have you versus kind of the 2024 culture?
22:42
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just going to blast everybody and tell all of our secrets and try to challenge people names like what's the, what was the old school way when Richard Pire had a little sum with Eddie Murphy?
22:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Like what's the, what do you think could be the proper way to bridge a gap between the and now?
22:57
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, first of all, you know, comedy, comedians, we all like, it is a brotherhood, you know?
23:04
[SPEAKER_07]: We all, reason why I was good in Fridays was because going to the comic clubs every night, watching so many comics.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Because we all helped each other pick up each other's game, you know, or, you know, we had to, we all helped each other because everybody was funny at the comedy radiator here in Atlanta.
23:24
[SPEAKER_07]: when it was open in the 90s, in LA, comedy act, the 80s when I moved to LA, I went to the comedy act, the eight out there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody was funny, so you had to pick up your game and it took you to another level.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was almost like when Michael and Prince was doing that thing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They picked each other's, what you called?
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[SPEAKER_07]: up to another line up to another level because they were just so good and so creative Michael did thriller and prints.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He did color, got me purple rain.
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[SPEAKER_07]: He did purple rain and Michael, I'm pretty chill.
23:52
[SPEAKER_07]: Michael said, oh, that was good.
23:53
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that was a move.
23:54
[SPEAKER_07]: That was all change.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We all intertwined and we all helped each other.
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[SPEAKER_07]: When I did Fridays, I represented every comedian that came before me and every comedian that was my peer and in my generation, because I watched them all on stage and I had to go up behind them and I had to make sure I was good, just as good and sometimes they will get me, but sometimes I will get them.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But I don't know, we learn from each other and we helped each other because we all wanted to be good and we all wanted to be great.
24:24
[SPEAKER_07]: So I would never go against another comedian because, you know, we all, I know that everything I am is because of them and it's, it's a, it's a brother, it really is a brother because we, we, I mean, the comedians that came before me, I deal hugely and a little bit before me, Jamie Fox.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Rex Garvin and a different people Chris He used to host the comedy and all these guys was a little bit before me Ernest Jay They was like I looked up to those guys, so everything I am is because of them and then of course The legends and the greats like Eddie Murphy Damon Wayne's and Richard Prire and and so and Robin Harris and so many others So we all
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[SPEAKER_07]: to you can't be great if you don't respect all the comedians and everything that they do because everybody got a little something that's good and you look at that and you say man you study that and say man I need to work on what they're doing because that's good but but who you are you know better yourself don't try to be like anybody else but yeah it's it's you gotta keep it
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[SPEAKER_07]: a brotherhood and learn from each other and that's how you get great.
25:39
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't get great picking at somebody saying oh he ain't this he ain't that uh now because one day he's going to be funny and then you the next day you're going to probably be a funny and then him but it ain't about that.
25:51
[SPEAKER_07]: It's about everybody's
25:54
[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody's on the show together five comedians, you want everybody to hit hard and make it a great night for the audience, not just you be funny and everybody else like, man, that show was all right, but the one community was funny.
26:04
[SPEAKER_07]: Now you want, we want it back when I came up and when I'm coming up, we want everybody to be hot.
26:09
[SPEAKER_07]: So everybody go out to do a bent over laugh, it's about, bet y'all crazy.
26:14
[SPEAKER_07]: And did we want?
26:15
[SPEAKER_07]: So I say that to say Fridays, for example, uh, everybody was funny in the first Friday.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody was good.
26:23
[SPEAKER_07]: It wasn't just me.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was everybody that made Fridays a classic.
26:27
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'll never take credit for something when you know, and I think God, they were good.
26:32
[SPEAKER_07]: And I went to the one just good thing God.
26:34
[SPEAKER_07]: They was on point.
26:35
[SPEAKER_07]: They was ready.
26:36
[SPEAKER_07]: And I was ready.
26:38
[SPEAKER_07]: And that's the movies I like to be in when everybody comes with a game and make it a class.
26:42
[SPEAKER_07]: So I say that to say, yeah, no, that that stuff is that means the way it's supposed to be it's supposed to be.
26:49
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I appreciate what he does.
26:56
[SPEAKER_07]: comedy thing going and have fun with it.
26:58
[SPEAKER_02]: So this whole Friday thing, like everybody was like big and like Chris Tucker do Friday too and can we just kind of get another one and then you got DC young flight who's our brother.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We love him the life he's always like Chris said I can do it if we do it to this another will there ever be a Friday too?
27:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that something that you will ever consider?
27:17
[SPEAKER_02]: What, um, what Friday with you in it?
27:20
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, yeah.
27:21
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I don't know.
27:23
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
27:23
[SPEAKER_07]: It had to be.
27:24
[SPEAKER_07]: It had to be really, really, really something that just come together.
27:27
[SPEAKER_07]: Good work.
27:31
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I wanted, I got to say, I want, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a perfect.
27:35
[SPEAKER_07]: I got to say that.
27:36
[SPEAKER_07]: But like when I did the first Friday's.
27:40
[SPEAKER_07]: I was like, I just want to do a good job on the movie and then move on to the next thing back then that's what that's how I was it wasn't about money was just kill it again move on to the next thing so people always ask me why you didn't do Friday's to it wasn't because they didn't pay me enough I didn't care about no money I was making way more money on the road because I was yeah I did deaf jam I was touring making.
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[SPEAKER_07]: plenty money on the road so that they didn't even have to pay me nothing for the mood.
28:03
[SPEAKER_07]: I just wanted to opportunity.
28:05
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's always, you know, I joke about that so people could take it out of content, but it was never about that and it was always about going to, you know, do the next thing and that was money talks.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It was always about going to, you know, do the next thing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And that was money talks.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Get something together and it's fun and it makes sense.
29:04
[SPEAKER_07]: And all that stuff, you know, you know, I never, not, look at it and talk, talk with whoever I have to talk to about it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, and then I, I would love for them to keep it going because they did two more after that and like somebody like DC Young Flyer, these young comedians that's really funny.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They could take it on and keep it going.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Because that's, that's, that's, that's, that only makes make everybody look good.
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[SPEAKER_07]: keep going.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So it's good.
29:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So these new comics, you know, I know DC is a part of like, my other interview we were talking about people serving others and giving them the game and the business of what it is.
29:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you pour into the lot of young comedians, are there any young comedians that you look at right now inside to yourself, he or she, they have it.
29:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, that's it.
29:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it anybody that sticks out to you right now with this new new generation?
29:53
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, I'm not out there like that in the clubs, but I'm pretty sure they out there.
29:57
[SPEAKER_07]: They out there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think DC got something good and I think it's a lot of other ones, a lot of other people, but they just got to keep working at it and keep studying and keep keep learning and staying in the comedy clubs and stay keep working on the craft.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Because that's what I did.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I kept my head down just like,
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[SPEAKER_07]: In school when everybody when I found out what I needed what I wanted to do everybody was playing around joking I said no I'm going out to this comedy thing I ain't letting nobody know what I'm going to do because they're going to discourage me I'm going to keep my head down I'm hosting the talent show they thought I was just messing around but I was about to you know soon as I graduate the comedy act the a to open up right here in Atlanta
30:33
[SPEAKER_07]: And you know, that was God, you know, like how 1990, and then I graduate then the comedy clips will open up, you know, so it was nothing that my doing so yeah, I just say if they keep going and not and use it all, you know, like we use deaf jam when we came up now it's
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[SPEAKER_07]: people doing a lot of stuff online, Instagram and all this stuff, but do it all, TV, television, movies, do it all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I like this new avenue with a way that people are coming up and becoming comedians because, yeah, we had Dev Jam now, they have this, so they can film their own
31:12
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're from the ATL, like ATL, ATL, ATL.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Kada, I'm from the Kada with you from the deck.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're at the Columbia High School.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm really from here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're really from here.
31:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
31:22
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like when I hear you speak, it's like you've had so many life experiences.
31:27
[SPEAKER_02]: One experience that always put me at all because you two were like the best of friends is Michael Jackson.
31:34
[SPEAKER_02]: So you ended up meeting Michael Jackson from the cater.
31:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Like did he see you on death jam too?
31:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Like how did he call Chris Tucker out of all the people?
31:44
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you from the dick, could lump your high school and that's Michael Jackson.
31:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is your friend now?
31:50
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's kind of like, yeah, it's Mike.
31:53
[SPEAKER_02]: But you do you know how like, oh my god, that is like what was that call like?
31:56
[SPEAKER_07]: Man, it was crazy.
31:58
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, man, I felt the same way like, man, I know where all this happened.
32:02
[SPEAKER_07]: Because everything you see in a lot of my movies, I did a do a lot of something about Michael, because he's part of the culture.
32:08
[SPEAKER_07]: We grew up watching Michael Jackson, and so many others.
32:11
[SPEAKER_07]: But, man, it was, so first FGM, I did a bit about Michael Jackson.
32:16
[SPEAKER_07]: What if he was a Pimp?
32:17
[SPEAKER_07]: And that came from, you know, the Mac movie.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We still watch the Mac.
32:21
[SPEAKER_07]: the mag movie we was supposed to but we was growing up watching it and it was just so real and I was like man this is a great movie and then for a stand-up you know I just switched it and said what if Michael was a pimp you know and so yeah that was the first thing and every other one of my movies I see it now I'm like man I think it's something about Mike so I think it was it's a spiritual connection to some kind of way but uh
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[SPEAKER_07]: Man, the first call we talked in, we talked in Michael was in New York.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was doing Russia with two in Las Vegas.
32:49
[SPEAKER_07]: Michael was in New York, working on his new album and Michael, a mutual friend, connected us and Michael, and I said, Mike, I want to meet you, man, I'm a big fan.
32:57
[SPEAKER_07]: He said, I want to meet you too.
32:59
[SPEAKER_07]: He said, when you finish your movie, come week in the meet.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I said, all right, and so I finished the movie.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I called him up, I had his number.
33:07
[SPEAKER_07]: I said, Michael, I'm done with the movie, man, I'm and he was in New York, working on
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I want to see it.
33:14
[SPEAKER_07]: Man, I had a, that time I was flying in big, big jets, private jets, because I thought the bigger the plane, the little bit, you know, it won't crash, you know, if it's big, it's like, but I was spinning a grip of money.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I flew all the way to New York for something else, and then I called Michael, because I'm going to meet sea Michael too.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So it was perfect.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, and I'm on this G5 jet.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I'm down and I land and uh, and I call and make it a whole time and nobody answered.
33:38
[SPEAKER_07]: I just leave the message, Mike, I'm in New York, man.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I want to meet you here.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Never heard from him finish what I was doing flew back, took that same big jet, Jean five jet, back to LA all the way to LA.
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[SPEAKER_07]: landing on a tarmac.
33:52
[SPEAKER_07]: Soon as I lay on a tarmac, what you do?
33:53
[SPEAKER_07]: You check your phone.
33:54
[SPEAKER_07]: So I check my phone, and I got a message for Michael Jackson.
33:57
[SPEAKER_07]: He said, Michael, Mr. Jackson want to meet you tomorrow in New York.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So, and I said, oh my god, I just flew back to LA.
34:05
[SPEAKER_07]: So, I got up out of my scene, that's private playing, G5J, walked up to the front to the cabin and said, take me back to New York.
34:12
[SPEAKER_07]: He said what as to take me back to do your he said you you series I said yeah call the office.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They got my credit card just take me back out of kill how much it cost I want to see Michael Jackson.
34:23
[SPEAKER_07]: They flew me back to New York I don't that bill was so high man, but I didn't care
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[SPEAKER_07]: I met with Michael that next morning, we became friends, kept stayed in touch every since then and it was it was worth all that money I spent on that private plane to see Michael to meet Michael for the first time, yeah, it was a trip from New York to LA and back to New York from LA.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I was on the plane.
34:48
[SPEAKER_07]: I probably did the same thing.
34:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh man, and I'm glad I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was worth it.
34:52
[SPEAKER_02]: It was worth it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like that's my cool Jackson.
34:54
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the cater Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
34:57
[SPEAKER_02]: So let me just say this to see you now.
35:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't stay doing your thing.
35:02
[SPEAKER_02]: That's such a freedom.
35:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a chance to see your Netflix special.
35:05
[SPEAKER_02]: That's such a new freedom and enjoyment.
35:07
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like the child that you seems to just come out every time you hit that stage.
35:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I do, I do got to ask you this.
35:14
[SPEAKER_02]: How does, how does Chris now warm up?
35:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Cause it's such a fan frenzy if you go to the comedy club, do you still like kind of sneaking to the New York clubs?
35:21
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, how do you get ready and revved up to hit that stage now?
35:25
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I got to get in the club like everybody else.
35:27
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, LA, I was just in LA, get going into the clubs and stuff and sneaking around the cameras to do, do my stuff and to get ready.
35:36
[SPEAKER_07]: And yeah, so I'm, I'm going, I'm getting into the clubs.
35:40
[SPEAKER_07]: And working it out, man, and to get ready for the show.
35:43
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, then it's been great, man.
35:45
[SPEAKER_07]: Been on this Chris took up the legend tour.
35:47
[SPEAKER_07]: I love it.
35:48
[SPEAKER_07]: We've done like, uh, I don't know how many shows we did.
35:50
[SPEAKER_07]: Fort 34, 36 some shows and man, it's just, it's, it's, it's just so much fun.
35:56
[SPEAKER_07]: And so much freedom, man.
35:57
[SPEAKER_07]: It reminds me when I first did host to talent shows in high school.
36:01
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, coming up with stuff, you know, off the cuff and then and just, oh man, writing stuff and talking about my life now and and back then it's just it's just it's just been a lot of fun.
36:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, listen to see you now and just having so much fun with what you're doing because now's like I'm just out here having a really really great time.
36:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, it does my heart will every time I see you I see favor.
36:23
[SPEAKER_02]: like to hear your story on this level to be able to know like what I've taken from it is that on every step God's hand has been on your life.
36:31
[SPEAKER_02]: You've moved with integrity, so you've created some amazing relationships with people who of influence.
36:36
[SPEAKER_02]: And like I don't think people really understand that you come from the cater.
36:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Columbia High School.
36:41
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's a lot of great people who not come out of Columbia South to future and so many others, but you are one of the first to do that and I think that needs to be applauded to hold out more because there's so many young kids in African American communities who don't necessarily know that the gray start can be the gray start exactly where you are and that part I really really do appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, I was going to talk to this camera real quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I always like to get into like everybody's story and I like to did like deep because sometimes we see the glory, but we don't necessarily understand everybody's story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe you're an aspiring business owners, maybe you want a family, whatever that thing may be, I just want to let you know that it happens brick by brick step by step.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not an elevator run.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe if it happened fast, it's just not going last, but if it
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[SPEAKER_02]: right so maybe right now your life may look like it's very very slow and you may not think that it can grow but if you look at the life of Chris Tucker here he is doing talent shows and Columbia high school everybody else is laughing and joking but he has this thing and his heart just says I know where I want to go I'm not going to share it with nobody because they may attempt to talk me out of it not because they want to but because they've never seen anybody in the world do it
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he decided he's going to do it from there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That land to maneuver opportunity in comedy clubs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that land to him at Def Comedy Jam and Def Comedy Jam, get to an opportunity to speak to Michael Jackson.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And from Michael Jackson, he ends up being on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And from Friday, he ends up being money talk.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can you see the maturation of the brand?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what chapter you are in in your life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I do understand this that if you can learn to look back at the hands and the foot prints of God being on your life not just focusing on the negative parts that didn't work out because I believe we all need to look dirt to grow baby.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Come on somebody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But what I want you to do is start looking at the empirical data that God's hand is on my life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you can see that the next face step will be done in boldness because the Bible declares that the righteous can be bold as a lion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How do we be bold by looking back at what God has already done in our lives?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, I understand none of us are perfect.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if I can be honest, I'm just a dude from the neighborhood of Berkeley, Missouri, median income, $17,000.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And this is a moment in time where I literally get a chance to sit across from my brother, who I just, you know, call Chris, but it's Chris Tucker and I'm from St.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Louis, Missouri.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I look back at the hands of God when I was doing interviews in that little busy office, praying at the Lord would allow me to take this flip camera all the way to Hollywood when I was doing a microphone in a closet with a radio show when I was sitting do tell the shows and now the Lord is blessed in this moment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Would you take the time?
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[SPEAKER_02]: In this moment, maybe look back at some of the great things that God has done.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And here's the thing, we can look at our past, but it predicate how far we're going to go in our future if we show that gratefulness.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want you to do three things for me before we end this broadcast, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want you to find three things that you grateful for that you can say God, you did that for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I want you to put that in the chat, because I'm going to go back and watch three things that you can say, I'm grateful for this, God, you did that for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and then the second thing I want you to do is I want you to write right now what you grateful for, like God, I appreciate that I got some toilet paper and that whatever it is, I got edges on the side and I'm just glad my edges on the right is a little big, like whatever it is, I just want you to be grateful and then finally I want you to know where you go and then I want you to get laser focused.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My brother knows where he's going and he's coming to a city near you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I want to make sure that wherever you see my brother, Chris Tucker, that you buy those tickets, you get your button to see and you'd be prepared to smile and laugh like you've never done before because when you see him, you see victory.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate you tuning in and make sure you subscribe.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Glad out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: wow what an amazing show shout out to my dear brother Chris Tucker and I want to show love to all of the people who have been in my inbox lately asking to sponsor a show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Initially I was a little you know like I don't know if I want to do that but here's the thing I understand that there are so many ministries who need this platform to expand their brand
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[SPEAKER_02]: So many businesses who need this platform to expand their brand and who am I not to give you an opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So here's the thing, if you want to be a part of sponsoring one of these love you more shows, would that will give you a commercial in this show, why don't you go here and do me a favor.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All you got to do is email me, willymourjr, the number one at gmail.com.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Willymourjr1 at gmail.com.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and I will take a look at what you are doing in hopes that we can maybe allow you to be a sponsor of this amazing show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, there's a beautiful opportunity for you to click the link in the description and become a part of our Patreon community.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you'll hear all of the great questions that we have and great guests that we have coming up and you'll also get a beautiful opportunity to ask questions to the guests while we are taping.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll help you help me out, you know, get that
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do me a favor, click the little link down there in the details of this particular video and be coming forward at that Patreon community.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can you do it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know you can.