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Professional Development: Ice Cube's Two New 'Friday' Scripts Were Blocked By Warner Brothers · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 3: So, speaking of the Friday, was there lessons that you
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  Speaker 3: know because let me if I'm wrong. Was there issues
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  Speaker 3: with Warner brother because they owned the franchise?
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  Speaker 4: Right, Warner Brothers, they are they they distribute the franchise.
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  Speaker 4: So they distributed the first one, and it has in
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  Speaker 4: the contract that they have the right to distribute each one.
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  Speaker 3: So what were there issues trying to make more Fridays?
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  Speaker 3: Like they have to approve something before you could actually
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  Speaker 3: make a Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we you know, we did the first one and
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  Speaker 4: and I wasn't gonna do another one. After that, they
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  Speaker 4: approached me, could you want to think? Could you think
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  Speaker 4: of another one? So I said yeah, and then I
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  Speaker 4: approached Chris Tucker. He didn't want to do it, so
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, okay, this is kind of throw
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  Speaker 4: a little monkey wrench in the movie.
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  Speaker 5: So so we did it next my Gaps. That was great.
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  Speaker 5: People loved it. Then we did Friday at the next.
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  Speaker 4: And then they asked me to write a fourth one
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  Speaker 4: and I wrote and they.
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  Speaker 5: They had an issue because.
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  Speaker 4: Craig and Day they ends up in jail from selling weed,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and finally end up in jail, and dee
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  Speaker 4: Bo and the Joker Brothers is trying to you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean, they in jail too, so they're trying
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  Speaker 4: to you know, trying to you know, stab them up
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  Speaker 4: and ship so they just was like, Jail's not funny.
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  Speaker 4: You know, nobody, nobody's gonna laugh about being in jail.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, you're ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: Like then all these movies come out like Oranges, New
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  Speaker 4: Black and and Let's Go to Jail and Life Life
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  Speaker 4: and you know, Get Hard and all this shit, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, so y'all definitely don't know what y'all
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  Speaker 4: talking about. So I just kind of, you know, that
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  Speaker 4: was in twenty thirteen, you know, so I just kind
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  Speaker 4: of stopped paying attention to him. Then they asked again,
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  Speaker 4: they begged again for me to write another one.
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  Speaker 5: So I come a right one to fit. This time
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  Speaker 5: won't be about jail.
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  Speaker 4: And they loved it, but they just had these little
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  Speaker 4: notes that they kept trying to change things, trying to
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  Speaker 4: change it, and I'm like, dude, you guys do not
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  Speaker 4: know what needs to go on a Friday movie. Like,
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  Speaker 4: stop pretending like you guys are smart when it comes.
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  Speaker 5: To this shit.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, I know it, I know
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna work. I know it's not gonna work. And
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  Speaker 4: they just kept messing around. No one knows, back and forth,
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  Speaker 4: back and forth. You know, six months of this shit
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  Speaker 4: and then John Witherspoon passed away, so they like just
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  Speaker 4: fucked around till the man passed away and then Tiny
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  Speaker 4: passes away. A. J.
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  Speaker 5: Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the movie We're gonna go back on the block.
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  Speaker 4: And so you know, I've been trying to get it,
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  Speaker 4: get control of the franchise.
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  Speaker 5: Since then.
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  Speaker 3: So you essentially essentially you wrote to you actually wrote
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  Speaker 3: two more Fridays. Yeah, and that's never came out. Yeah, obviously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So you say you're trying to get control of the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: How do you go about trying to get control of
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  Speaker 3: the franchise?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, of course appealing to their superiors
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  Speaker 4: on you know, their basically sleeping on money.
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  Speaker 2: Is like a buyout thing.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe like if you pay, you can not I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not. I'm not gonna pay for it. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: gonna pay. You know.
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  Speaker 4: What they need to do is let me control it
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  Speaker 4: and they'll make a lot of money, but they're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna make it.
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  Speaker 5: So you're open to doing another one.
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  Speaker 4: I'm open to saying if another one can be done.
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  Speaker 6: While you're doing that, while that's happening, there's still other
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  Speaker 6: franchises being created that you're involved in Yeah, right, so barbershop, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
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  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
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  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded. In over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand and illegal aliens have been arrested. If
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  Speaker 1: you were here illegally, your next you will be fine
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing, you know, to be able to sustain love
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  Speaker 4: in this household, that household or whatever. The last thing,
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  Speaker 4: I want you to look at your kid and be
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  Speaker 4: like ice cute, you should? You should look him up.
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  Speaker 4: He used to be He used to be cool.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean. We used to rock him,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he used to used to use to record.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So I.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't want to be that guy, you know, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: I wanted the kids to know who I was. So
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  Speaker 4: the way to do that is to do a movie
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  Speaker 4: are we there yet?
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  Speaker 5: The kids grow.
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  Speaker 4: these generation that watched that movie, they end up growing
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  Speaker 4: my music they discover my my other movies and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So it's.
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  Speaker 4: It's a way to reach rejuvenate fans and to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that that the youngsters know who you are and
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  Speaker 4: they're not just relying on you should have heard death certificate,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: You should have heard today was a good day.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you've done something very unique inside of that too,
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  Speaker 4: If they're great, you know what I mean, if they're good,
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  Speaker 4: if they if they have a personality that I think
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  Speaker 4: people want to see more of. Yeah, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: really all about being the right person for the role.
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  Speaker 5: And so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I didn't know they was all gonna work out,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, never know how it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be when they when they actually audition or they come
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  Speaker 4: on set. But yeah, I want to give people a
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  Speaker 4: shot that that Hollywood may be overlooking.
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  Speaker 3: So speaking of Hollywood screenwriters, they're on strike right now.
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  Speaker 3: And this goes back to the web three conversation where
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  Speaker 3: somebody told me, you know, I just do. I started
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  Speaker 3: to thinking about it, and I'm like, they might not
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  Speaker 3: have as much leverage this time because of chat GBT,
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  Speaker 3: And it's like, well, if I can have a computer
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  Speaker 3: writer script in a day, then I don't necessarily need
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  Speaker 3: a screenwriter.
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  Speaker 5: What's your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think you know, it's something that's very real
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  Speaker 4: and it can happen. Yeah, you can have a computer
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  Speaker 4: write to a script in a day, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, will it be as
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  Speaker 4: as real as a person writing it.
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  Speaker 5: Will they have that feel to it?
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  Speaker 4: Who knows? You know, it's a it's a new world.
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  Speaker 4: That's why they don't strike, you know, they want to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, curve it in some ways.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The worst thing is for them to tell the studios
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  Speaker 4: not to do it, but then they go home and
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  Speaker 4: do it when it's time for them to turn in
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  Speaker 4: that spread.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, at the end of the day, you know,
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  Speaker 4: technology is here. Everybody got to make an adjustment. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if I want all my entertainment to you know,
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  Speaker 4: come from an artificial source, you know, I mean, just check.
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  Speaker 1: Out an illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: child in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Salvador accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: with filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: just some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: President Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: you are here illegally, your next you will be fine
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported, you
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: will never return. But if you register using our CBP
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: home app and leave now, you could be allowed to
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: America's laws, border and families will be protected.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,