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Roy Wood Jr Says He's Leaving His Infinity Snapped Wife! (Interview) · For All Nerds Show

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  Speaker 1: What's up, y'all? Welcome to another episode of the four
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  Speaker 1: All Nerds Show.
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  Speaker 2: And on this.
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  Speaker 1: One we got Roy Wood Junior and the Mother House.
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  Speaker 2: And what's up y'all? Welcome back to the for All
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  Speaker 2: Nerds Show.
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  Speaker 1: As always, we are bringing you that heat and we
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  Speaker 1: have it yet again. I mean, this is pretty legendary.
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  Speaker 1: Here we have Roy Would Junior himself, the comedian, actor, writer, producer,
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  Speaker 1: motivational speaker, and much more. You may know him from
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  Speaker 1: his time on the Daily Show, his stand up specials,
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  Speaker 1: or from the.
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  Speaker 2: Hit television series Have I Got News for You? On
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  Speaker 2: seeing It?
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  Speaker 1: And he also has a new memoir in stores now,
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  Speaker 1: The Man of Many Fathers out now, better books stores everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: please everyone, yeah memoir.
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  Speaker 3: You know Roy Wood Junior.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: I approciate your blessings, blessings. Wonderful to be in the building.
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  Speaker 3: Thank your pastor for having me as a guest at
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  Speaker 3: the church today, Oh Maine.
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  Speaker 1: You know I did grow up in Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church,
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  Speaker 1: so shout out to Reverend Lawston. Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 3: I bring you greetings from First Baptist Church of Clarkston, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 3: where an Honorable Elder Griffith's my pastor. Every summer. I
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  Speaker 3: used to go to a church so small. I go
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  Speaker 3: to Mississippi to visit my grandma every summer. They church
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  Speaker 3: only had a pastor first and third Sundays because he
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  Speaker 3: had another church where he pastored second and fourth. Wow
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  Speaker 3: all time. Yeah, yeah, okay, small, small.
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  Speaker 4: Damn, I got to spread the wealth. I guess I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do what you need to do.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I appreciate you all for having me in
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  Speaker 3: the mix.
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  Speaker 2: Man, All right, now, thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, since we met at Tannahsee Coach's house,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my first question to you is your new book.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like basically a le to your son.
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  Speaker 1: So did you let Tanna houseI know, did you?
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  Speaker 3: Yah? I told him I was biting the style.
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  Speaker 2: Okay you first.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Just so you know, it's it's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: a letter, but it's more. Here are a series of stories.
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  Speaker 2: Stories. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Because my pops died when I was sixteen, I get older,
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  Speaker 3: I have a child in my late thirties, and I
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  Speaker 3: started doing the math, and I go, damn, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: learn everything from my pops. So who did I learn
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  Speaker 3: it from? Oh, and you have these realizations of all
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  Speaker 3: of these seeds of knowledge that were planeting you by
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  Speaker 3: people that weren't related to you. So I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: kind of give my son a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: like like a guidebook for values, just a broader value
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  Speaker 3: system that I possess. And here's why, Because if you really,
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  Speaker 3: if you really sit back then and you really like
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  Speaker 3: think about, well, why do I believe that thing? You
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  Speaker 3: can go back to the first time in your life
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  Speaker 3: when that moral was tested or that piece of that
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  Speaker 3: value was stress tests by the world, and you can go, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's why I don't snitch because my coworker that snorted
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  Speaker 3: cocaine slam, oh wow, okay, that you know, like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm being silly. But then it's also in the converse.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm so communicative with my son, because me
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  Speaker 3: and my pops never had that. In the one window
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  Speaker 3: he gave me into really asking him questions, deeper questions
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  Speaker 3: about parenting and fatherhood, I missed that window. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna talk cryptic to my son. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 3: out in the open. Hey boy, what did I do
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  Speaker 3: this week that you liked, And what did I do
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  Speaker 3: this week that you didn't like? Don't really change, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm open to here. This is the suggestion box. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's a very important dynamic to have
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  Speaker 3: father to son. But but yeah, you know what Todd
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  Speaker 3: has he did between the world like that was it
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  Speaker 3: was definitely a big influence on how can I speak
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  Speaker 3: directly to mylf. Y'all want to buy it and read it? Too? Cool?
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  Speaker 3: But this is for him?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now taking it back, as you know, as
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  Speaker 1: your sweater says, you attended FAM, you and you you
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  Speaker 1: know credit your time at the university was saving your
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  Speaker 1: life when you got caught up in some extract, you know,
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  Speaker 1: curricular activities.
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  Speaker 3: You have to take credit cards because otherwise people are
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  Speaker 3: thinking dope and guns.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, cool.
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  Speaker 5: He was a scammer, yeahify, Yeah, but I mean you
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  Speaker 5: you were more than just a stammer.
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  Speaker 1: You had you know, you you had a few levels
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  Speaker 1: to you know, to how you operate.
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  Speaker 3: I was it was an innovator, king you know there
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  Speaker 3: you go. You know, it's not just boil me down
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  Speaker 3: and just like oh yeah, take your credit card. I
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  Speaker 3: was doing my best to feed the men and Women
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  Speaker 3: of Florida A and M. Because you have to understand,
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  Speaker 3: our cafeteria closed at seven, but you're up till midnight,
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  Speaker 3: and the only pizza spot is the Terrible One. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: else will deliver it to the black side of town.
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  Speaker 3: So I liberated those pizzas from Pizza Hut and brought
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  Speaker 3: them back to the campus and sold them for value
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  Speaker 3: prices O Monday night football in the TV room.
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  Speaker 4: I heard he was also liberating some polo shirts and Tommy.
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  Speaker 3: Girls, you baby steps. First you have to liberate the
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  Speaker 3: credit card from the post office, which is a federal crime,
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  Speaker 3: and then you take that credit card down to the
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  Speaker 3: Dillots the Tommy girl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah boy, I'm from Houston, you already know, so yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun. You know what's funny when you get older.
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  Speaker 3: The store that was like top of the line to you,
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  Speaker 3: once you realize what top of the line really is.
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  Speaker 2: It is, but it ain't do it, It ain't.
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  Speaker 3: Doing It's just oh that was all right, Like Northoms
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  Speaker 3: is the top of the middle class, and then there's
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  Speaker 3: whole nother stores like this one. Doesn't I know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the store. I can't afford when it's space
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  Speaker 3: between the shirts on the rack. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there's only one, and it's one of us for
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  Speaker 5: a sample, because all.
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  Speaker 3: The sides of all the sides of want your greasy
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  Speaker 3: hands touch on all the shit that they'll have. You
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  Speaker 3: look at a rack and it'll just be two shirts
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  Speaker 3: of the thing that you like, and you go, oh,
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  Speaker 3: they ain't got none to stop. No, they didn't put
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  Speaker 3: fifty of them out there, like JC Penny. When I
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  Speaker 3: see space between the rack, I already know that shirt
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  Speaker 3: one thousand dollars, I can leave right now.
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  Speaker 4: What made you choose fam You?
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  Speaker 3: My mom went there and my pops taught there, and
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  Speaker 3: it was far enough away from Birmingham where I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I get a change of scenery. I think if
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  Speaker 3: you go to college where you live, or close to
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  Speaker 3: where you live, or around a bunch of folks you
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  Speaker 3: went to high school with, you're not maximizing the experience,
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  Speaker 3: because the beauty of college is that you it to
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  Speaker 3: be something different. All I knew for sure is that
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  Speaker 3: I want to lead the state of Alabama. So I
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  Speaker 3: had Tennessee, State, Clark, Atlanta, and fam You. Those were
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  Speaker 3: the I only applied to three colleges and I got
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  Speaker 3: accepted at FAM you like in October of my senior year,
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  Speaker 3: like early acceptance.
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  Speaker 4: That's early acceptance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I'm good, this works. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's good. Don't you ain't gonna apply because you know,
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  Speaker 3: I like kids, you know, smart kids in your school.
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  Speaker 3: I've got fifteen twenty exceptance of I got one Tennessee
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  Speaker 3: State and never even wrote back. I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: if they got the transcript. Like, damn I was. I
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  Speaker 3: was just I was good. I just knew that's where
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to go. I never visited the campus. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't request her bro sure it just I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that feels like a good place to go where people
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  Speaker 3: will look out for me. In hindsight, I probably should
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  Speaker 3: have gone to Clark just because Atlanta was a better
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  Speaker 3: city for journalism internships Tallahassee. Yeah, Atlanta was becoming a
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  Speaker 3: media hub and Tallahassee only has three of the big
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  Speaker 3: four local affiliates. And then on top of that, there's
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  Speaker 3: no cable stations there, so there's just not and then
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  Speaker 3: you're competing with Florida State, And at that point, for me,
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  Speaker 3: I had I was on probation, so I'm really not
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  Speaker 3: gonna get no internship. I had to. I talked about
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  Speaker 3: it in the book. I had to create my own
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  Speaker 3: internship just to get the internship credit I needed to graduate.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, that's that's probably one regret. But then
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  Speaker 3: you know, on the other side of it all, if
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  Speaker 3: I were in Atlanta and I had gotten caught up
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  Speaker 3: in the mess I gotten caught up in, I would
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  Speaker 3: have been expelled. But because I'm baptized and fam you
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  Speaker 3: there were enough people on that campus, within the family
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  Speaker 3: ecosystem that looked out and a lot of it was
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  Speaker 3: just on the strength about Pop's reputation, in my mom's reputation,
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  Speaker 3: So that kept me from throwing my life away completely.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I feel like at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, I was, I was where I was supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be, And you know, there's there's no regrets in
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  Speaker 3: terms of man if I'd have gone to that school
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  Speaker 3: because you know, also, you be in Atlanta, I messed around,
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  Speaker 3: had three babies, but no, d C was too far
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  Speaker 3: and in my brain in the South, d C was
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  Speaker 3: New York, and I know it's not so yeah exactly,
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  Speaker 3: y'all in bubble.
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  Speaker 5: I'm from New York. I'm from New York and that's
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  Speaker 5: not the South.
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  Speaker 2: I've learned.
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  Speaker 3: All I knew was school days. So to me, d
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  Speaker 3: C is New York. Like y'all got on boots and
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  Speaker 3: a vests that everybody on campus and d everybody in
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  Speaker 3: d C dressed like PM Dawn. I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: this this, I'm so old. I was.
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  Speaker 2: I understand yeah and so like.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't until I got to college where I
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  Speaker 3: found out all these East Coast cats don't run with
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  Speaker 3: each other like that. But the way y'all group us
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  Speaker 3: all in is bamas. And we were just like, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot call somebody from Philly or New York.
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  Speaker 6: They be ready to fight. I'm from the New York.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you bring them New York. I'm from Philly.
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  Speaker 4: Son to jealousy, it's pure jealousy. I'm from Brooklyn, so
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  Speaker 4: it's always jealousy.
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  Speaker 2: I get it it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, can you please explain this tweet right here? Relationship
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  Speaker 1: question tweet and got nervous.
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  Speaker 3: I've said some ship on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: This ain't even the hardest if you lost your spouse
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  Speaker 1: in the Thano snap. But five years later, the Avengers
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  Speaker 1: brought them back, but you already remarried with three kids
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  Speaker 1: and spent the life in the shirts on a fail
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  Speaker 1: food truck. Do you get back with your old spouse
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  Speaker 1: or stay with the new Snap family?
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  Speaker 3: So apparently there's a TV show based on that. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know this. There was really no People replied to
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  Speaker 3: that tweet from a couple of years ago, and they
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  Speaker 3: told me so basically like black, like you can check
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  Speaker 3: it real quick. But like, I think it was ABC
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  Speaker 3: or something, But there was a show about a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of people who disappeared and then reappeared years later, and
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to figure out there, Oh it.
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  Speaker 2: Was It wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't about the Snap family, but it was about that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: missing like some sort of wrapping happened.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they came back and.
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  Speaker 2: The later Yes, is that the forty four or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a few shows, for real, There
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  Speaker 2: was a few of something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So you know, first off, let's let's think
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  Speaker 3: about that question logically.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because the failed food truck means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's very similar to the end of Castaway.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever saw Castaway, Tom, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: So for the folks who never saw it. He's on
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  Speaker 3: the island for years and years. He has a wife,
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  Speaker 3: and when he comes back, when he's found and he
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  Speaker 3: comes back to America, his wife has a new man,
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  Speaker 3: she has a baby, and she basically tells, Buddy, I
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  Speaker 3: thought you was dead. Sorry about that, big dog, and
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  Speaker 3: closes the door in his face and like it's like
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  Speaker 3: one of the last things in the movie. And I
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  Speaker 3: kind of gotta agree with the wife, because here's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: If if my girl left and then I just assumed
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  Speaker 3: she was dead after you know, the federal limit is
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  Speaker 3: seven years where I can declare you dead and dissolve
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  Speaker 3: your estate if you come back in year eight talking
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  Speaker 3: about baby, what's up? Even if I get back with you, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna hold that shit over my head and the relationship's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be awkward because you're just gonna be asking me
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of questions about why I ain't come look
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  Speaker 3: for you, and then I'm gonna have to explain to
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  Speaker 3: you I did, Like I'm not gonna lit the rest
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  Speaker 3: of my life's sad because you stranded somewhere or Thanos
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  Speaker 3: snapped you into how I was supposed to know. Iron
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  Speaker 3: Man was gonna bring your ass back.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't.
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  Speaker 3: No iron Man was gonna bring you back.
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  Speaker 2: But are you gonna stay with the failed food truck?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, but you know what, but because you
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  Speaker 3: were my previous girl, you're welcome to stay here for
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  Speaker 3: a minute. I will explain this situation to my new
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  Speaker 3: wife and I'll be like, look, you remember when Thano's
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  Speaker 3: killed half the country? Yeah, she back? Can she stay
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  Speaker 3: and kick you for a quickment? And and I let
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  Speaker 3: my wife. I will convince my wife to let my
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  Speaker 3: old wife stay in the garage.
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  Speaker 4: Not the garage.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can't be in the house. That's just weird.
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  Speaker 3: She gon't me and never do. And she just you've
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  Speaker 3: been stranded for seven years on an island. You know
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  Speaker 3: that that booty lost weight. Shit, No, you can't be
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  Speaker 3: in here throwing all that around respect anything. Does everybody
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  Speaker 3: know that? Like, yeah, look, that's why dudes be getting
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: caught up in that HR drama at work, because you
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  Speaker 3: don't end your harassment with respectfully.
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  Speaker 2: It's like saying lol at the end of it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You say whatever?
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  Speaker 3: You know that ship don't fix no text. You say
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  Speaker 3: something crazy and then you see the dot dot dot
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  Speaker 3: come up, then the dots disappear. You'd be like, oh no, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: oh lord.
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  Speaker 2: You try to say lol at the end, and then
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  Speaker 2: you know, hope for the best.
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  Speaker 5: You know you've said before. You know we're talking about
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  Speaker 5: than on snaps and all that stuff. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: reminding me of comic books. And you just said before
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  Speaker 5: you don't have it. You didn't feel like you had
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  Speaker 5: a real childhood. So how did you find time to
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  Speaker 5: really explore your imagination and getting touched in nerd the time?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? For me, it was cartoons and things, yes, land,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I had a lot of toys and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I remember taking the g I Joe's. So
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  Speaker 3: there used to be this robot series, like it's Lego
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  Speaker 3: Techniques now, but there used to be this robot toys
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  Speaker 3: series called Robotics, and Robotics was I don't even want
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  Speaker 3: to call it transformers, but it was like a dinosaur
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  Speaker 3: that could turn into a spaceship or like a spaceship.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, what's the Japanese joints that come out
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  Speaker 3: the ocean? Nongers know, the things that kill the things
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  Speaker 3: that come out the oceanaphic griam niggass So whatever killed
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  Speaker 3: the kaiju. That's what robotics were. Okay, Okay, So you
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  Speaker 3: could make these man made robots that were shaped like
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  Speaker 3: animals or whatever, and so those I would team those
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  Speaker 3: up with G I. Joe's and they would have these
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  Speaker 3: battles against the transformers. So you know, it was it
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  Speaker 3: was real big imagination. You know our voltron of course,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, for me, it was just I could
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  Speaker 3: take the styrofoam out of stuff and turn that into
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  Speaker 3: an army base. I could take bro I could take styrofoam,
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  Speaker 3: put that joint in the tub. Now it's a floating base,
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  Speaker 3: a marine base. Now I got the little lego boat
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  Speaker 3: coming up to the marine base. I got the snorkel man.
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  Speaker 3: Did y'all ever have the snorkel man where you would
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  Speaker 3: put the bacon, soda and vinegar in the in the
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  Speaker 3: tank in his back and then drop it in the
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  Speaker 3: water and then he like fizzled cross.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I know what you're about, but I did
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  Speaker 2: not have it.
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  Speaker 3: There was a making Nize one two with the legs
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  Speaker 3: like did whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely wanted something like that, but I never had
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  Speaker 1: that joint. Yeah, I think, and like, I know what
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  Speaker 1: robotics are too. I had g I Joe, some Transformers,
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  Speaker 1: I probably had some robotics at some point, but I
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  Speaker 1: definitely did not have the man who swam across the tub.
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  Speaker 3: You know something I've been amazed at when I like
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  Speaker 3: really dig into my childhood and like the things that
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed, and I try to go back and enjoy
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  Speaker 3: them now. There was an old cartoon series called Centurions,
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  Speaker 3: and I went back and I'm like, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 6: Order the DVDs. I wanna watch every episode the Centurion.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna watch all sixty seventy episode It's twenty three episodes, bro,
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  Speaker 6: That's all it was. It was twenty three, twenty four episodes.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: It was only on the air for a year, but
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: they ran that bitch for another three or four.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: And then I get into a rabbit hole on YouTube,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: and I'm sure you've been to these channels about why
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: this cartoon failed or why this toy failed or whatever,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: and they were just it basically just said the Centurion
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: toy was too damn big and kids wasn't fucking with
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: it because transformers were smaller. GI Joe's was smaller, ThunderCats
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: were slightly smaller, even ThunderCats didn't have a whole lot
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: of episodes. Big yeah. So this idea of how you
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: remember something versus what it was at the times. Oh,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: this was just to sell toys, and the toys didn't sell,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: so they canceled the show. And maybe it was a
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: good ass show.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: It happens to the best of them. Something more related
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to your book. Right, as a nerd growing up, my dad,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: you know, he was definitely he was there, but he
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't there. It is the best way to say it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: He was there in the house, but he just wasn't
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: always there, and he really struggled, especially to connect with
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: me on the nerd side of things. So do you
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: have any advice to fathers now. I know you went
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: through your own struggles with your own father. I mean
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: it was like completely different obviously, But do you have
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: any advice for fathers out there now who are like
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: struggling to connect with their sons on different things.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I think you have to just meet your kids where
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: they are being to the things they're into. If you
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: really look at if you look at bonding with people,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: it's about getting them to talk to you about the
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: things they're excited about, and that base level principle goes
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: for father's son, it goes for a husband, wife, it
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: goes for boss to supportin it just get people, find
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: out what people are interested in, and try to talk
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to them about it just a little bit. You know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I ain't never watched Harry Potter. Harry Potter's never been
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: my cup of tea, never looked at it. And number one,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I think that was a generation and a half to
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: remove by the time Harry Potter came. I'm forty six.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Just as a reference point that I never backpedaled into
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Harry Potter. I think I'm ten years fifteen years too
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: old for it, right, So I've just never bothered with it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I watched Lord of the Rings because I had to
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: read the Hobbit books in high school. So let me
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: see what you know. You're always curious about the visuals
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: of what something you read, right, I have my son, well, Buddy, Buddy,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Buddy watched a lot of Harry Potter. His mom came
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: up on it, so she passing down the joint to him.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: And now I'm I'm asking questions and I'm not gonna
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: like it's high fine cinema. As a Christopher Nolan fan,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: no I can't just watch Harry Potter fight a two
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: hit a snaky but like this is great. I'd watch
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: it without my child, but I'm happy to experience it
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: with him. And that's the whole part. That's the whole
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: point of parenting is to go on this journey with
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: your child and guide them, you know, in every which way.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And I've learned some stuff from watching the stuff. And
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: you know, our choice in movies is so sometimes ridiculously
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: similar and sometimes ridiculously you know, drastically different. And I
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: think if you're a man and you're trying to connect
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: with your child, especially if if you if the kid
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: is not in the home with you now, I think
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: it's very very important to be in a place where
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: you can at least communicate outside the house. Like if
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: you ain't with the kid, you can at least call
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: him and go, hey, I just rewatched part four, help
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: me understand one more time about the thing that's room
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and the Hagrid and the wolf. And kids will open up,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: they're excited about it, and then it makes them open
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: to learning about your world and the things that you're into.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I will have to admit, like seam similarly with me,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: like my parents, they know what the hell I was into,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: but they asked the questions, and then that made me
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: realize that they cared at least about my interest.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: And you got to hit the nail on the head.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: That's absolutely something that the you today need.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: You know, when you're talking about how you're raising your kid,
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: how you're trying to be into what he's into, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I know you're trying to also impart some.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Wisdom as black people.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: One of the things that my family has said, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: sometimes you got a gatekeep and I was curious, in
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: your head, do you think there are some black things
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: as we call it lingo food style that we need
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: to keep and not share?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: How how do we?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: How do we do it?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Well? The question?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: I know one of the things one of the things
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I see a lot online is like if someone's trying
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: to explain what what some lingo means, they like, don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: say that online.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Don't tell no, don't tell them what that means, that that's.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Our stuff, Like they'll figure it out evah, or they
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: use it the wrong way like whoke or something like that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: You know, that was that was straight theF so Yeah, here's.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: What I would say instead, instead of don't translate it,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: don't congratulate it when you see it. M Like, if
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: you see white people's swags, serve thing, resist the urge
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to join the swags, don't say, don't steal my culture. Yes, okay,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I see y'all. What's good, good job.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Don't give them a cookie for it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't look out that when you go. You did it,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You scored black points, hooray, Like I don't think you
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: have to do that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Here's here's the thing about black culture. Like we love
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: to say, black culture influences the world. Black culture is
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: American culture. Black culture, hip hop is a worldly Okay, well,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: if that's true, then eventually white people are gonna get
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: to it. Eventually you're gonna have Koreans saying nigga. Eventually
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have people who don't look like you dancing
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: like you because they're influenced by it, because it is cool,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: because it is dope. You know, you're gonna have people
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: neck rolling and talking in is it aa ve? You
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: know the bonics as they used to say back in
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: my day, we called it bonics. Like those things are
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: just all byproducts of the influence of this culture. So
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: you know, you can be annoyed by everything, you turn
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: around and celebrate the fact that it's everywhere, well everywhere
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: means sometimes not black folks doing it too.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I hear you, man, Thank you. What's the best advice
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: you can give to people?
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: We talk a lot to our listeners and they are
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: having a very ourselves too, having a very hard time
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: managing the current social political climate right now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: What advice would you give to people? And also how
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: are you managing yourself?
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: For me, I take time as best I can to
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: try to read and slow down. I would say one
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: major thing, and I say this as a full fledged
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: seeing an employee on Saturday nights, watch the local news
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: when you can instead of consuming national news. Local news
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: still has its own slants to it, but it's shorter,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: it's quicker, it's not as doomsday ish. If you will
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: spend time with friends, people you love, people you rock with,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: my friends, then spend time with activities that help you
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: forget about where you are, like, this is my joint
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: right here, that's my book. So nice, Okay, I got
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: we got the switch on deck at all times.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: What you're playing right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Now MLB the show twenty five, but we got we
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: got the Mario card on there. Of course, we got
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the the Sega Genesis or one. Yeah buddy, Yeah, So
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I go, I go Sega Genesis a little bit, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: then I bought some jankie ghetto ass. Hey, whoever created
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: airplane flight simulator combat Zone? You need your ass beats.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: The buttons don't do what the fuck they supposed to. Like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: you go to the controls and they say this way
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: is up and then the plane turned left.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: How is up? Left?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: You can Teleroy the only one in that support chat
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: that support for him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: All the chick as I am, It's me, It's me,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: y'all some hoes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And I tried to find like the developer on like
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: on social media to complain directly, like I'm gonna use
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: my blue Star celebrity. They got like one post from
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen and some shit like this company is not
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a serious company.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: But I'm so desperate.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I'm so desperate for flight simulator games other than like
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: an ACE Combat, which is fine, but that's more coin
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: op Arkadie, and I want something that's a little more
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Microsoft serious. Yeah, I'm trying to go full DCS where
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I got to learn the power up procedures for every aircraft.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: But my point is I try to find things and
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: activities that invoke stillness and consume less chaotic versions of
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: the things that I know I need. You know, one
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: upside to leave in the Daily Show is that my
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: need to my need to consume news across all channels decrease.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: For seeing men, I just need to know what happened.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I don't need to know anybody's opinions and slants because
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to write a correspondence segment that has
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: an angle that hasn't been presented to the world.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: So the.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Needs within the job are different. So that part has
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: helped me to lighten up a little bit.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: But yeah, excellent, all right, real quick, I just want
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: to give you some rap questions we have. These are
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: quick fire questions. The first question three six Mafia or
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: April and MJG.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Let's start something rough.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: I gotta go ball and g thank you just because
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I came up on Lay It Down, and I came
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: up on Crime Boss and Swamp House and they just
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: pre date three six, and I really do feel like
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: them two boys really did lay the blueprint for a
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: lot of what Memphis wrapped eventually became mm hmm and
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: skinny Skinny Pimp.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Was he from Memphis to Yeah?
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I think so yeah from Ryan, but he was more
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: of a base, you know, bass guy, but same same game.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That might be the first mention I lay it down
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: on our show, sadly, but thank you for that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Y'all should be talking about lay it down every single
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: week like that's I mean him, that's right, A favorite
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: breaking Thieves and hold the gods in changing hands.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Man, you're already to lay it down like a fresh
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: of the dominoes. All right? The wire are breaking bad?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Wire?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Not even close. The answer is always the wire. The
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: second answer is the shield. The third answer is breaking bad. Okay,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: and wherever you want to put sopranos, though I low
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: key feel like better call Saul kind of deserves to
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: be in that conversation. But I can see if you
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: want to one A one B it with Breaking Bad.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, definitely.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: If you could have a theme song play when you
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: walk into a room, what would it be?
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, the player's ball reprised? And who is Southern playeristic?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: With the pianos?
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Mayor cattle Lexa colem from Everywhere.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: And the good because.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: You did.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: It's either that or it's Big Timers. How you love that?
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Volume one and the song is called Beautiful and it's
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: just many No one's heard it, but it's it's it's
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: one of the most amazing fucking songs of all time.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Just when you tonight it's ignorant.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna read you the lyrics so you can
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: understand what a feel good song this is. Now, I'm
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: feeling good and fine, smoking green and drinking wine ten
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars at the bar. I guess that makes me
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: a super duper star, drinking ripple and Tanga ray, a
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: brand new drink. I call it rip a Ray. My
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: life is beautiful and it's just like that's the chorus,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: second verse, Take me Baby, this is the most nigga
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: shit speaking three to six. Put up in that okay
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: many fresh second big time, It's beautiful. Take me Baby
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: to the motel. When we're finished, you can go tell Esa,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Lisa and down how we got button naked and got
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: it on. How I split you, hit you and bring
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: you home, then stole your change your reins and hair
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: and bones. I'm so beautiful. Why are you still a jewelry?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Girls about it too? Like you had me in the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: first half. IM not gonna live.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: We go to the motel, we have sex. I take
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: you home and drop you off like a gentleman. And
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: then you're not looking.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Did I rob you?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I tell you to tell your girls about it. That's
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: because I was with them. You know, you say, ohyeah,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: tell your girls how I hit it.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: You know, took you home. You know now they'll want
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: something to now. But no, also time I.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Ship so that so in state flying Paul. Oh, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: didn't know this was a theme, and apparently it is.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: DJ Paul is a dog when you should not trust
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: trust you leave your drink around me, nigga, your drink go,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: don drunk.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Girl around me.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Leave your green around me. Gonna get smoked up?
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: He said, no, yeah, you leave your green around me.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Nigga green go and get smoked up and leave your
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: drink around me. Believe that ship gonna get drunk up.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: What unsavory motherfucker. It's just drinking. Like I know, it's alcohol.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Technically it kills germs. But yo, that's you a nasty
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: nigga man. If you just you just walking around the club,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: waiting for people to put their drink down.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I just got an amateur DJ.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Please now have an image of just happening.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: I don't need this. How he opens it up, you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: with his verse saying.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Trust you're talking about. The whole song is about I
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: stay fly till I die. I got blady. You don't
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: have to do this, Paul.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: You know, just letting you know.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Mister Paul, you don't have to drink this niggas. It's
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: an eight dollar hennessy.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Why would you know that?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I respect it. I'm sorry, I know this is rapid fire.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I'm talking.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: No, this is.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Fine, this is totally fine. I have another one for you. Uh,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: mister Roywood Junr. So you have no choice but to
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: run for office with a comic book villain.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Who would you choose and why?
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: On the one hand, I would run for president with
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Heath Ledger Joker as my vice president because I feel
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: like it would it would protect me from assassination.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: That's facts.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: When you're over a lot of Middle America, it seems
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to say some people like that type of chaos.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody from the Superman universe. Most DC universe villains
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: are just they're just okay to me anyway, I think
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: kill Monger would help me some crossover.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Well, he already got the vote, the black vote.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, kill Marker got the streets. The streets
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: might be you know. Okay, now, kill Marker for sure
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: is gonna scare away them. I can't take him with
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: me to the Iowa Caucus.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: He can't take it with you anywhere.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's a tough question though, because I
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: really don't. I don't know if I like that answer,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: because I don't completely consider kill Manger a villain. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: consider him inflicting. Yeah, he's just conflicting ideologies. I don't
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: want to vilify that point of view completely. But I'm
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: like going through all of the Marvel movies in my head,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: and nah, I think I think the Joker. I think
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: the Joker even even more so than Thanos Winter Soldier. Maybe.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I know he becomes hero later, but at one point
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: he was a villain.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Oh you need the white vote though.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Bucky. I think Bucky helps.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: You a lot of white votes. The good hair and.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah that's right. What about Oh I got it?
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: O rin E.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: From kill Bill from.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Kill Bill, Lucy Luke because she was a CEO. She
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: was the leader of the Crazy eighty eights, and she
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: was chopping fucker's heads off. And the staff meeting, that's
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: how we meet her. We are introduced to Lucy Luke's character.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Would she beheads one of her top advisors? That's what
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: you want. That's how you come across the aisle. Slash slight,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: slash for your head off.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: That's how you wanted the press.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, final answer, O rin kill Bill. That's the
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: villain I want right there.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Not at all. If you could have any one superpower,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: what would it be?
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: You're still want invisibility, but part of me feels like
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: super strength because that's the most profitable power nowadays. You
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: hit a baseball, throw a baseball pretty well, eight hundred
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: million dollars guaranteed.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Is all related to profit?
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Because I'm not thinking about a superpower and
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: the means of helping people. I don't care about people anymore.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I think it's how can I make money, because I'm
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: not going to run around save the world and stop
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: trains and be looke Cage and save Harlem and a target.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Hoodie all the time.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Like I told I've told her so many times though
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: that I'm winning three, no two NBA championships, and I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: don't want to disrespect you know, Kobe or Jordan.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not winning more or king.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not winning more.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Than a king for real.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: In the morning came so two quick championships and I'm out,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And I'm chilling.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Get your guaranteed money.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: You're not guaranteed money, you know, sneaker deals all that.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: And then I'm doing endorsements, you know, because I'm I'm
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: going booth wild in those two years, you know what
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm doing insane level.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I'm dunking on everyone.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm going baseball. I'm breaking Barry Bonds home run record.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I'm steal all the basis those. Yeah, I'm just I'm
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: gonna be black. Show hey, you're not how much more love?
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: You know? Not much crazier. Baseball would be just American
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: American American. If he was black, they were show hey
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: played two other sports. They wouldn't let him play baseball.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: They'd have paid off his family to take a bribe
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: to keep him from going into baseball. Some AAU coach
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: with about his mama trans am some other bullshit car.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I've seen one recently and it was like I felt
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: like that I'd got into a Delorian or.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Something because it was the old school top yo.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: It was a classic what is a DeLorean.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Down?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I know you got to get out of here.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: So one last one. Right when you left the Daily Show,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: you had no idea that you were going to end
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: up on Seeing Inn with your own show, right, no clue,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: no clue at all. So it's this is really like
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart even But you know,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: how do you as a creative, how do you know
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: when it's time to leave.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: When you have ideas that you know you may not
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: be able to do at this place. And it's not
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: because Daily Show was hating and keeping me from every
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: single thing. It's just the way that building works. Things
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: are just done a certain way, and this is what
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: we do. It's like you could never go on Saturday
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Night Live and pitch a Chapel show or Key and
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Peel style sketch. Those aren't the kinds of sketches we
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: do here. We might do one of those a week,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: but everything else need to be shot in the studio
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: and performed literally live for the audience. So I think
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: you start looking at whether or not this is the
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: place where your ideas are best expoused and you can
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: still stay and do stuff, and you know this and
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: about turning it back on the whole institution. If you
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: can make the money while coming up with the next
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: creative thing, so be it. I didn't feel like I
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: could do that because the job of corresponding is very
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: time consuming, and that's the time I need for the
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: stillness after Sudoku and playing garbage flight sims to really
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: idea when I have that stillness. I can't have stillness
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: if I got to be in the edit. I can't
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: have stillness if I'm out traveling for three days and
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: you know, on my feet for nine hours interviewing people
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: in the street. So you know, I just didn't have that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: So I like, I, I know there's something else, But
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the first thing I have to do is leave here
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: so that I can have the space and the opportunity
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: to to to grow, you know. The only the only
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: thing I could really compare it to like at the day,
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: like in my book, I kind of I breezed by,
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: but I kind of talked about in the book where
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: essentially it's like if you worked at it, like how
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: chefs be presenting new stuff to add to the menu. Well,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: if you work at a Mexican restaurant and you start
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: getting the itching to make ravioli, eventually you're just not
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: going to fit in here.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: Some of my ideas were pasta, and pasta ain't Mexican,
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: so you probably should leave and then figure out how
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: to build your own Italian restaurant. And so I think
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: that's what a lot of creatives are going to find
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: themselves dealing. But is that there's things to be learned
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: in the places where you don't feel completely heard. But
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: once you feel like you've learned everything that you can
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: learn and contribute it in every way you possibly can,
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: then you should consider that lead all of this shit
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: man like career. It should be in the career and
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: growth in life. It's just a series of calculated guesses.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: It's none of this is linear anymore. The days of
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: get your degree and then a company hires you, and
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: then you work till sixty.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Hell now, so you.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Just got to choose your misery. Do you choose the
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: misery of staying or the misery of the unknown by
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: taking the lead. Both are uncomfortable and both have their
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: own set of circumstances because you can be stable and
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: forever be thinking about what could have been, and that's painful.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: And then you could also make the jump and not
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: know how you're going to pay your bills, and that's
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: also horrific. But you're alive because you're getting to choose,
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: you're getting to create. So you know, no, I left,
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't know what would be next. But the calculated
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: guess I made was that if there is ever a
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: window for a new show to be made about politics
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: in this country, it will be during an election year.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: So if I'm going to leave this show in the
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: next four years, this is the window. Not mid terms,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: not a year from now, not four years, because who
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: knows what the marketplace is gonna be at that time,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: I should leave, and then sure enough, couple, you know,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: six seven months later seeing it called. So you know,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I'm very grateful for that. But you know, I was
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: fully prepared to start ide eighty, start trying to figure
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: out ways to live skinny, to try and get things done.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: But no, in no way was I ever for sure,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: In no way was I ever for sure about what
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: was going to.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Happen when I left Daily show that's real. Yeah, well
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I would say thank you.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know it was, you know, a jump
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: for yourself and everything, but I would say thank you
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: for doing it because this has has allowed you to
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: speak your own mind. And you know, like you said
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: you couldn't bring and that's just a really great metaphor
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: for it, like you can't bring a Chappelle type show
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: to what you were doing, and.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: You wanted to do your own Chappelle, Like I want
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: to do a.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Lot of different things man Like. In the time since
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: leaving the show, I've hosted two three during hosted the
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Peabody Wards, the MLB Awards, I wrote a book. I've
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: been in a sitcom. I've been in two movies.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: That you just literally even off the time front, the timetable.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: You don't have time to do all of that.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: So I've gotten to explore a million different things. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: dropped a Hulu special, I'm working on a one man's show.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Now I got another, like nonscripted thing I'm trying to
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: put together for YouTube so I can sit and really
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: explore all the different types of foods I want to
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: put in my restaurant. Now, sometimes you have to lead
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: and make space for that. It's not like all of
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: this is profitable, but it all is leading towards something
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: and I trust that instinct.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Man, Roy, Thank you you know so much. I know
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: you've come out of here. Yeah, we literally I get it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I got ten fifteen more questions I'd love
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: to ask you. So we're definitely gonna have to have
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: you back for sure. Yeah, sometime soon. But you know, please,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: for those who don't know, let the internet's out there
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: know where they can find you at.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Just put an at sign in front of my name,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: put a dot com behind it. Let's go at Roy
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Virginia everywhere.
• 45:26
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