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Jacob Latimore Opens Up: Faith, Family, The Chi & Handling “No” Without Breaking · Love You Moore with Willie Moore Jr.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Next, on the Love You Moorship.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I've been a studio at 9.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did my first film when I was 11.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, it was like, it was the name of that first film.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The first gig I got was one tree here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I think it's important to be gonna be single.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and then if you're gonna be married, get married.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But you know, I don't drop names, but you did the residual, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That remix, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you did it to a certain young lady.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Do you ever look back and have regrets of any form of relationships things that you could do now that you're this version of your sister?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I still love coming home alone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got to tell you love my space.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I still look at my house and be like All right, when am I ready to share my space?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I even get a little nervous kind of just open up about certain things, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I also understand this is healing and relatable for a lot of people because
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do come from a place like Milwaukee and and I think you know people don't really know that a lot of times We audition for stuff, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We just not getting it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like we auditioned.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I auditioned probably about five or six times this year You know nothing
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's real like a spiritual warfare connected to your financial goals, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like if you've never had a million dollars, you don't, you don't know how to, you know what to do with it, you're like you're looking at a show account like Like we're all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right
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[SPEAKER_05]: into these auditions right and you hear no no no you're close but no then you got to get the car from the age how did it go I thought I killed it no and you're all of these knows like how do you keep your spirit encouraged you know to to steal feel like I'm that person when you hear no so much
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[SPEAKER_05]: and you see her familiar face and you think to yourself, man, how did these babies grow to be so grown so fast?
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I know you guys watch families that you watch and you see their children and you go into the comments and you think to yourself, hey, hot.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is that the same child that they do me like this all the time with my with my 16-year-old 17-year-old son and I've had the opportunity Ever since I was pretty willy to travel back and forth to Milwaukee early in my career.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I used to go to this thing With a radio-scatial station called WKKV with Doc Love and others and it was this young man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He couldn't be no more than six or seven six seven my bad
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[SPEAKER_05]: But he's and he's just so like intelligent and smart.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know those kids you look and you like, man, this dude's a star.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's got to get the heck out of me walking.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I remember talking to his mother when she was about to transition and move on to Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, no matter what, God's gonna be with you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Literally the promise that's been on this kid has just been so amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's not a kid anymore.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's like a grown man But um straight from Mill walkie Musician that everybody knows of course you see him on the shine so many other amazing television shows throughout his 10 or 15 year years of acting He started when he was a kid so there's a a plethora of things that he's been in but currently
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[SPEAKER_05]: You see him on the shot and he got a new album that's like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm talking about bring it on, be back the right way.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The one and only Jacob Lattermore singing out with me now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What a joke.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey man, I appreciate that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What a rollout.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Man, what is what?
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[SPEAKER_05]: How are you like this grown?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's like 28 now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 27.
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[SPEAKER_05]: 29.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 29.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How old is Chuck?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Cause I know I'm not, you know the, yeah man, it's been, it's been a, it's been a ride.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like this year I've been definitely been able to just like reflect and just, you know, see how long I've been doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I started it at nine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was, I hopped in the studio at nine, did my first film when I was 11.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it was like, man, it's the name of the first film.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The first gig I got was one tree here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: One tree here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's when she calls you like you will not believe this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You had a you had a new age I remember just to be a black woman.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I had a woman from here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Joy purpose.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Joy purpose.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and to you know I think you went on to another age and but I remember your mom was working so hard Yeah, just stepping out on faith.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, when you look at the mother who steps out on faith for their for their son I was that do for for a young man
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, man, it's definitely like, you know, me and my mom, we talked every, we've talked about five times a day, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's definitely, it gives me a lot of, just strength and just, it was just powerful to see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I, I saw watch my mom work for Sony and watch all the artists come into the Midwest, like B2K would do their radio shows and she had be moving them around the city and I would just watch her work.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I knew she knew what she was talking about when it came
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[SPEAKER_03]: labels and just the music industry and my dad side was singing and they was the artist but my mom was doing the marketing stuff behind the scenes stuff so um just to see how I had that family support.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really don't know what I would have did without the family support to be honest like I think it would have happened just to happen in a totally different way but yeah my mom's just fooled on support and just making sure that
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm dressed right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was my she was everything my style is my Publices my manager, you know, and she's still kind of where a lot of those hats today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, um, man It definitely um just Protecting me protecting me from a lot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, I mean growing up
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, shout out to Jacob, a lot of more senior, too, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I love the him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, shout out to Pops, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, he's a legend in his own right means, rightly so.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Major love to him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So when you have a mother who's so caring, so tough, yet loving at the same time, doesn't make it hard to find a good woman in the day when you have so much to compare?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not really, I think, um, I think for me, I just, I think the hardest part from my mom was when I actually moved out the house.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, leaving the nest, like you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I'm like my, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I bought my mother a house first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I was still under her roof when we was doing like maybe sort of like the first two seasons of the shot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I just remember being like, man, I got to get them on the spot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: like we were going to different temperatures in the house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want certain art on the wall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to play certain music, you know, and I was in that point where I wanted to invite friends over, you know, and she like vases.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I like color, you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so when I, by the time I really left the house, I think it started to, she started to see the, I don't mean you really like, you growing up for real, but even then it's still like, nah, you think you grow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, you grow, I still feel like you think you grow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, what does this be?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A cut that you know, I know, but I think it's, it's, I think it's all about me wanting to be a husband.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Me wanting to be that, you know, I think sometimes I can get so caught up in my career, I can get so caught up into accomplishments that I may forget that side, like all men, like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, what does fatherhood look like for me one day?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What is being a husband look like for me one day?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and I still always feel like it's gonna clash.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: If I'm like, if I'm pursuing my career heavy, I'm like, marriage is gone, or relationship is gone, like slow it down, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm also like, you know, if you single too long, and you just out of these clubs, you know, you might...
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I mean, it was a baby.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and you can just be caught up into just lustful situations and just, you know, you'll be outside and just the weirdest way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's important to be going to be single, be single.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and then if you're going to be married, get married.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I'll drop nice.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But you did the residual.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That remix.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And you did it to a certain young lady.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Do you ever look back and have regrets of any form of relationships things that you could do not achieve this version of yourself?
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, I know regrets.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No regrets.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just more so just like, you know, for me, it was more so just about letting people know where I was.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we were friends.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We were friends.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that was the most important in the foundation I just have our relationships.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's why I was hard, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But other than that, like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: I still love coming home alone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I still love my space.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I still look at my house and be like, I want to my ready to share my space.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm a super OCD a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you know, I have a hard time even just having guests at my house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm like, yeah, yeah, my roots are, my roots are too nice, you know, I got a bunch of little sisters now and they want to be a part of my world more, so I'm just like Opening up that that side.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think I've just been so locked in on my career in my 20s.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like I'm just like, no, no, I gotta get this I can't you know, I can't go back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm like
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[SPEAKER_03]: I bought my grandparents and house like my house like my mother's house.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got investment properties.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like nothing can stop this You know what I mean, so it's just from for me I've been so locked in on that sometimes you forget the the family aspect of it and I feel like I'm getting more into that space now I think I had a lot of growing to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was just one ready.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know, I mean, you know I think you've always been like that because I remember speaking to your mom back when you first
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like when you were first getting started and she had this plethora of things that you could do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He could act, take it through this, you could do this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it was like, now I just wanna do music.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, because you don't want anything to overlap from the focus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's always been your primary character.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Where did you get that from?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I think I was just seeing my dad and my uncles, I used to see limousines pulling up in the hood, like, and I used to see them go off away and then I used to see them on TV and then they would come back and they'd be dressed in all leather and coat and stuff and I'm like, when they go,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Go to that spot, go to that, that's what we was in that lake.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, fine, pop, a part of this is not cool, I'm like, that's how you got to live that out there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I think just seeing the entertainment from my mom side, just the marketing, her going to Chicago, you know, every weekend or once a week to just pursue her dreams and then seeing my dad and then my grandparents really raising me for real for real, like when my parents was busy, I think it was,
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[SPEAKER_03]: That really just shaped me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It just had me so locked in like, oh, this my purpose is what I'm going to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And from nine and from nine and 11 years old, this is turned into a career.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I haven't had to this all I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I don't know how to, like, when I do the shy, like when I'm working in, in sunnys, like, I'm like, whoa, I ain't never did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I'm working, I'm behind the cashier register.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like what do you do when like so this is really active.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you know the shy is definitely been a I opened it for me too and just a dope humbling experience and just having that kind of window peek of Father who a window peek of relationship in the household and having kids and all that so I'm like, you know That's like I'm like, I'm like woo you know and I get back home from set.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be like
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[SPEAKER_07]: That's what y'all want to do with any of my life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, y'all got it hard out here in these streets.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's a beautiful moment too, and it's dope.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But it's definitely been a lot of reflecting, you know, these past few years, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, I mean, I always tell the truth, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like I went through uncompaling about three years ago.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, my boys are older.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, my son is 22 years young.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's down to the University of Mississippi.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's working as a grad assistant for the football team.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he's recruiting, he's doing really well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Then of course, I have my 17-year-old boy.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's about to go off and probably, you know, I'm probably going to, hey, man, call Jacob and see what's going on, because, you know, he's just into the arts, et cetera, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No one in the go down the wrong path.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, starting to date again, and just saying, okay, I do want to campaign your ship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Your mother did the same thing, lighter in life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And she had to walk in and introduce you to somebody.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, say, okay, I want this person in my life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, what's the best way for a parent to introduce their child to their new mate?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, for me, searchy was like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: we kind of entered into like this family business.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When I moved to Atlanta, I was also signed to his record company, the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, I think when we, when we maybe stopped doing business, we had to figure out, okay, like, now with this, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because it felt so family at that time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then, um, but Cersei has always been super dependable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I think for me,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like any time I needed something, he don't really talk much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But when he do, when he just, like, he's an action-driven person.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if I need something, he was always, I got shot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I think, for me, it was more so just about him coming in and just doing and being.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I always trusted...
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[SPEAKER_03]: who my mom loved or who she decided I was always gonna rock with whatever she she went so um search just just showed up in our lives and really just he really you know was you know like a really like a shelter for us for Atlanta you know I mean like we was all in camp creek living around house we had producers in the house I'm recording he's he's paying for
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[SPEAKER_03]: make sure I get to New York for New York Show cases and and record labels we are in LA like stand in other producers careers just trying to shop a deal and you know so he was just he stepped in he stepped in I think um yeah my mom just when did you discover like why the minute yeah a immediately you know because
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was so young that I've never really seen my mom and dad be romantic is that you know mean so at that time it was just like oh this my mom is my dad it was already there was already separate you know I mean I've never really seen the romantic side of their relationship you know I mean I've seen a lot of ugly like I've seen a lot of ugly early I was like okay
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[SPEAKER_03]: you know, those mentors, you know, men of God, you know, married men, you know, family men who just focused on their careers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, this, this, this, this what I want to mirror that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, um, yeah, search just, search came in and just, like, really change the game for us, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Set up to search.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think I was so hell happy like I just like I'm grown bro like I should not be this happy But I just always wanted to best for your mom like I just worked really really consistently To hard and I remember she called one time she knew prayer for something man and like for that whole week like I just like Okay, cool.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm supposed to play the way like there's so many people on the backside.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's just praying for you just because
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[SPEAKER_05]: Just kind of what you represent and there's no pressure for you not to be fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like I'm so glad on your music and the shirts off and I'm funny.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And doing your thing, I'm like, y'all, like you don't have to be, you know, what other people think you need to be.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I think you do a really good job of wearing both hats of actor and musician, you know, son and of course business man.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: However, I do want to actually this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: there has been so many young men who have had to go through that season of just like tough public conversation of what they had to go through.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: At this level of the game, how do you give the parts of Jacob that are intimate?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's still protect the brand and kind of knowing who's who.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Man, it's hard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard because I've never really been, I came in the game where you
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now it's kind of like, who are you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We want to get to know you more.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then I'm just kind of like, like, I really want to keep parts of my life private.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But it's definitely like, I even get a little nervous kind of just open up about certain things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I also understand it's healing and relatable for a lot of people because I do come from a place like Milwaukee.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think, you know, people don't really know that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I don't really,
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't glorify that, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just like, you know, I follow my dreams and I was focused, and it was like, all right, what's more, you know what I mean?
17:03
[SPEAKER_03]: So, um, but now you come from that place, though.
17:06
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I know where you from.
17:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
17:09
[SPEAKER_05]: And people who know their pedigree, they know what's in your eyes.
17:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
17:12
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
17:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Your eyes.
17:13
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, sure.
17:14
[SPEAKER_05]: It wasn't understood, I don't got to be said, I don't know if I did goofball stuff.
17:17
[SPEAKER_05]: If you look closely in my eyes, you'll see that I've seen it.
17:20
[SPEAKER_05]: I've seen it very too young.
17:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't see it at all.
17:22
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the shy was a beautiful play.
17:24
[SPEAKER_03]: It just would be like, you know what?
17:25
[SPEAKER_03]: I can actually show the stuff that I've seen through this character a little bit.
17:30
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
17:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I can kind of play that side of Milwaukee.
17:34
[SPEAKER_03]: That's in me a little bit right here.
17:36
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and I think that's why people maybe feel like, oh man, is that Jacob or that's in me?
17:41
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
17:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I don't know what I mean.
17:45
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little bit above, you gotta feel it out.
17:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been a dope journey to just kind of show people Jacob, like even just do certain challenges, like the residuals challenge or just my music, you know what I mean?
17:58
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's why I just title my album, J.L.
18:01
[SPEAKER_03]: because I'm like, this time to just show people me, you know what I mean?
18:05
[SPEAKER_03]: because the acting side, you're playing different characters and you got to step into someone else's shoes, but music is like, I'm putting my heart out on the table.
18:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know what I mean?
18:15
[SPEAKER_05]: It's becoming huge.
18:18
[SPEAKER_05]: And I know it's feels like an elevator.
18:20
[SPEAKER_05]: You came in the day and you'd go through the wrong floor and it's like, hey, we're here and they're like, no, but come here, come here.
18:28
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
18:29
[SPEAKER_05]: Dude drop up.
18:29
[SPEAKER_05]: Dude drop, can you do this, you know what I mean?
18:32
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you, like,
18:34
[SPEAKER_05]: I know they put you a will Smith young, you know what I'm saying?
18:37
[SPEAKER_05]: You got an opportunity to visualize and see how he handled people.
18:41
[SPEAKER_05]: I remember you talked a little bit about on one of the interviews about how you could just walk to sit, but we all had to move like totally, totally different.
18:49
[SPEAKER_05]: Why do you think God showed you that?
18:51
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I desire fame at a young age.
18:55
[SPEAKER_03]: I used to look at a lot of Michael Jackson videos or him getting off the airport and the airplanes and different countries and seeing like autophans like, and I'm like, man, I want that.
19:05
[SPEAKER_05]: I want you.
19:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I want that, and I used to be in a living room just rehearsing hard with the TV remote.
19:10
[SPEAKER_03]: And then boom, I book a film like that.
19:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Just to see somebody that, you know, I've always looked at for years and just to see his start-in-law close,
19:20
[SPEAKER_03]: It almost scared me, once I saw it up close.
19:23
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, oh, this ain't like this ain't nothing like the YouTube videos.
19:26
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
19:26
[SPEAKER_03]: This real life.
19:27
[SPEAKER_03]: You got real people different from different walks of life, different countries.
19:32
[SPEAKER_03]: And we, if we film in New York, so everybody out there, you know what I mean?
19:36
[SPEAKER_03]: We like,
19:37
[SPEAKER_03]: He's trying to lock in, it's thousands of people.
19:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking thousands of people watching us.
19:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we don't street theater or something, you know what I mean?
19:44
[SPEAKER_03]: So, he just say, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way he's doing the way
19:58
[SPEAKER_03]: guy like you want this on my show you you know I'm gonna get your front row view but this you know I mean of what you want and um everything is kind of been slowly but surely like getting to that to that point you know I think it's hard to be it's hard to be another wheel smith today because it's just it's so much content out but the shy is definitely been a ride and an experience like
20:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Like no other part of my career.
20:24
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
20:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Like just different fans and walks of life of people just watching this show Maybe thinking that you're right.
20:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, they like em in.
20:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, huh?
20:35
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
20:35
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's it's dope though because it's like when I watch
20:39
[SPEAKER_03]: Friday or when I watch, you know, everybody hates Chris, I'm just like, I'm fans of those actors, from those pieces of content.
20:47
[SPEAKER_03]: So the shot is definitely like, you know, I'm going to be that character forever.
20:52
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean to the coach, I think.
20:54
[SPEAKER_05]: So 29 years old, I can't call you Lil J.
20:59
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
21:11
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, a lot of more.
21:12
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's JL and you continue to grow.
21:14
[SPEAKER_05]: I got to ask you this because you talked about purchase at home for your grandmother.
21:18
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
21:19
[SPEAKER_05]: And you talked about purchase at home for mom and then giving yourself an opportunity to finally get your home or whatever.
21:26
[SPEAKER_05]: You pull back up to Milwaukee and you, you know, you see your grandma and them and you, you, you buy them in this house.
21:35
[SPEAKER_05]: How does Jacob present that to people who didn't necessarily come from real money like that?
21:42
[SPEAKER_05]: And they're boy doing something on the TV, you know?
21:47
[SPEAKER_05]: They don't necessarily understand it all the way, but they know that they're excited for you.
21:51
[SPEAKER_05]: How did you present them with their new home?
21:53
[SPEAKER_03]: I think for me it was like, I was already helping out so much, you know, for me it was more so like my grandparents just
22:01
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all my granny's out of more my grandpa's out of my I got grandparents on both sides that actually live in Indianapolis, okay, and they just such a huge part of raising me like my grandfather really
22:15
[SPEAKER_03]: introduced me to God.
22:17
[SPEAKER_03]: He's like, you're, your gift came from God.
22:20
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm like, art, would you see your dad and your uncle's when they're singing in rehearse and that gift came from God.
22:25
[SPEAKER_03]: He said, we're going to put that suit on and you're going to go to church.
22:29
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, you know, all that just stick with me and it just for me, I feel.
22:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Not like obligated, but, you know, um, just a man of God raising his, raising his sons, being married to my grandmother 40 plus years, you know, I just kind of felt like, like, I need to take care of this.
22:48
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
22:49
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just, it was just on my heart.
22:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like I drew the, uh, uh, uh, lying in the sand right there, though, because you know, family members like, could you buy me?
22:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:00
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, that's over, you know, it's over so, um, but it is, it is hard to to explain like, all right, this real estate y'all, we got all just, you know, money's coming out every month, you know, and I need, I need this, I need that, you know, I need, I need, I need y'all to take care of this, you know, so, um, and I think when sometimes when in family even see success, they like, oh, Jake got it.
23:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think.
23:25
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's real.
23:26
[SPEAKER_03]: No, Texas is real.
23:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Texas is real.
23:28
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I got to figure out how I'm invest to do tax deductions like I got to figure out this season eight this last season of the shot.
23:37
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
23:37
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I'm saying my anxiety get crazy about that because I've had work.
23:41
[SPEAKER_03]: for eight, eight plus years, you know what I'm saying so, and I have to take that off and like I don't worry, like God has already shown you, I'm gonna take care of you, you know what me?
23:51
[SPEAKER_03]: So that weight, they don't feel that, you know what I mean?
23:55
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's okay, like I feel like God definitely put me in a space of just, you know, I'll be able to handle it, you know, I just
24:10
[SPEAKER_03]: in my house now this this this real estate we got to take care this real estate we got to we got to understand real estate we got to understand all this and that's why I'll just surround myself around mentors that
24:20
[SPEAKER_03]: And they teach me how to deal with family, too.
24:22
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
24:23
[SPEAKER_03]: Like family that don't really know what you're doing for them.
24:26
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean or how to handle all this.
24:29
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it was just a way for me to just be like, you know, I've been helping out so much already.
24:34
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, here's a home and, you know, and I got to set my boundaries at that point.
24:40
[SPEAKER_03]: Because it's a lot of being, it's a lot of money being spent.
24:43
[SPEAKER_05]: It is a lot.
24:44
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and I think that's the part that that you you're learning.
24:48
[SPEAKER_05]: I won't be honest with you And this is gonna sound so insensitive, but I'm so glad that one season is ending.
24:54
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, because I think the will Smith opportunity that you saw early I believe that next opportunity is just gonna be yeah, like I definitely like one
25:02
[SPEAKER_03]: boom away.
25:04
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I see different type.
25:06
[SPEAKER_05]: The next role is stretch you.
25:07
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
25:08
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like this is not him.
25:10
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and that's what I mean, I guess I can't really say, but it's a, it's a film opportunity.
25:15
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, I'm like, yes, you know, because a lot of times we audition for stuff, man, we just not getting it.
25:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
25:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, we auditioned probably about five or six times this year.
25:28
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, nothing, it's close, nothing.
25:31
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
25:32
[SPEAKER_03]: It felt like the days I was in LA, and I was just like, man, like, they sang on my star, but you were a star, but I'm like, what that mean?
25:39
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, when you get on the other side and actually start hanging with producers who are scouting actors for film, you start to see the other side.
25:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, oh, it's not even personal.
25:49
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's like, oh, it's just,
25:51
[SPEAKER_03]: When you write for the role, you write for the role.
25:54
[SPEAKER_03]: All the actors was dope.
25:55
[SPEAKER_03]: My guy was showing me, he's like, I'm auditioning the actors for this movie.
25:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Check this out.
26:00
[SPEAKER_03]: And we looked at about five or six actors who were auditioning for the same part.
26:03
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, oh, she dope.
26:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she dope.
26:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, oh, he dope too.
26:07
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, but when you saw that one, you like, that's the one.
26:11
[SPEAKER_05]: That's the one though.
26:12
[SPEAKER_03]: From the role.
26:12
[SPEAKER_03]: For the role, I'm like, and that's when I started to kind of have to just,
26:17
[SPEAKER_03]: take that weight off my shoulders and be like, hey, you know, if it's not, if it's not for me, it's not for me.
26:21
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and I'm just excited for it.
26:23
[SPEAKER_03]: I am excited for this next chapter and of my career, uh, Mrs. you know, the Sha- Sha has been such a huge part of my life.
26:31
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's eight years.
26:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Eight years, man.
26:33
[SPEAKER_05]: I have no radio for 10 years.
26:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
26:35
[SPEAKER_05]: Like this is, you're 10.
26:36
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, oh my god, but you didn't kind of feel like God is like, okay, well, come on, bring it back to me because I have so much more work for you to do.
26:44
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm just like,
26:45
[SPEAKER_05]: But it's so easy.
26:46
[SPEAKER_05]: And it takes care of so many cool little opportunities, people's houses, and it's consistent.
26:52
[SPEAKER_05]: It's consistent.
26:53
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
26:53
[SPEAKER_05]: I can look forward to it.
26:55
[SPEAKER_05]: It is, man.
26:55
[SPEAKER_05]: And then you realize that comfort is the enemy of all greatness, all great stuff just for now.
27:01
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, you know, cannot be comfortable.
27:02
[SPEAKER_05]: He puts you in these uncomfortable spaces.
27:04
[SPEAKER_05]: You can get back foundationally to the word that he wants you to walk out on.
27:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, man.
27:08
[SPEAKER_03]: Do not worry.
27:09
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's like,
27:10
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a commitment, you know what I think that's like a real, a real thing and sometimes we like worry and stress and financial gains and I think there's real, like a spiritual warfare connected to your financial goals, you know what I mean?
27:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Like if you've never had a million dollars, you don't, you don't know how to, you know what to do with it, you're like, you're looking at a show account like.
27:32
[SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna keep this up, you know what I mean, or like how are we gonna uh steward this and just looking at the number like if you guys go in there and see the number But hey, I don't went down to home.
27:46
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't went down to nine hundred thousand not a million no more
27:49
[SPEAKER_05]: Now, you're going to sad part.
27:50
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
27:51
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't have a lot of people that you can talk to.
27:53
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
27:53
[SPEAKER_05]: Because it looks like you're being ungrateful.
27:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
27:56
[SPEAKER_05]: So I would have to prefer if it's like, I know this gonna feel like it's more than what you think it is.
28:01
[SPEAKER_05]: But you don't know the expenses that I'm pushing out every single month.
28:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
28:05
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm a father and I'm trying to figure things out.
28:08
[SPEAKER_05]: So for you, just look like a huge number.
28:10
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but for me, I'm like, that's eight months.
28:13
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, work for my expense.
28:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you can be like, I give nothing.
28:15
[SPEAKER_03]: It could be empty.
28:16
[SPEAKER_03]: It could be going like, like, just like that.
28:18
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
28:19
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're not putting it up in the right places, if you're not really like throwing that stuff in your Roth IRA, yeah, retirement accounts.
28:27
[SPEAKER_03]: It's it will leave like life just be life.
28:30
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean you eaten you panbells.
28:32
[SPEAKER_05]: I got to ask you this.
28:33
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you go to all of these?
28:37
[SPEAKER_05]: Inter these are auditions right and you hear no no no
28:46
[SPEAKER_05]: You close but no then you got to get the car from the age.
28:49
[SPEAKER_05]: How did it go?
28:49
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought I killed it.
28:50
[SPEAKER_05]: No and you're all of these knows like how do you keep your spirit And encouraged to to steal feel like I'm that person when you hear no so much.
29:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, I think it was it was just
29:01
[SPEAKER_03]: For me, LA was a dope experience shot at some of my brother, Dexter Darden, who really, like, when I was in Atlanta at the time before I booked the shot, he opened up his home to me, he had a guest room, a guest bathroom, I was paying him half of his rent.
29:17
[SPEAKER_03]: And he was just a state there for six months.
29:21
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was helpful to be around other actors who was just feeling that saying, wait, you know, hey, it was like, man, after you doing audition bro, we just got to go kick it and get our minds off of it,
29:31
[SPEAKER_03]: got to let it go, like we may be auditioning for the same thing, you know, you might get it.
29:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I might get it.
29:38
[SPEAKER_03]: One of our homies might get it.
29:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I was for him.
29:40
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and talks with my brother Dexter just talks with my grandfather, keeping my Bible open while I'm in that lay, like keeping those same principles and leaning on that stuff and saying, like, you know, the plans I have set out for you.
29:54
[SPEAKER_03]: like, it's for you, you know, and once I booked the show, I was like, I ain't really been an L.A. since.
30:00
[SPEAKER_03]: So now I'm like, all right, let me give it the condo and L.A. after this, you know, I'm back back back to L.A. You know what I mean, but it was, um, it's hard, it's hard because especially when you first dealing with it, but now you start to understand like, man, what's for you is for you, you know, and you got it, you got a lean in that, you got a really lean in that and
30:18
[SPEAKER_03]: and be happy about the simple things in life.
30:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm not where I was, really not where I was.
30:25
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think those are hard to lean into, especially when you're just constantly thinking about the next five years of your life.
30:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Or what is now I'm hyping in, about the hyping to my 30s next year.
30:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, what do my 30s look like?
30:36
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
30:37
[SPEAKER_05]: It's still the 20s.
30:38
[SPEAKER_05]: It's still the 20s.
30:39
[SPEAKER_05]: You killed something.
30:40
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, you killed the 20s.
30:41
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, how do you see that?
30:44
[SPEAKER_05]: 25, God, God, we win.
30:46
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm way too happy right now.
30:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was good.
30:49
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but I'm glad you're going to thirties.
30:51
[SPEAKER_05]: What's one thing that you learn from your grandfather that he might not have thought you heard him say or you might he might not have thought you'd listen Um That's interesting.
31:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
31:04
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like anytime he he he he talking.
31:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm
31:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm listening, um, he always said he said he said he said man, something, he said something's coming for you like a, like a big, a big role.
31:18
[SPEAKER_03]: He said it's not the shy, it's not the shy and I'm like, blah blah blah.
31:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he can't give you a little more clarity on it like we may be, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, um, uh, I feel like I'm always listening to him, um, for advice, uh, I mean, sometimes you gotta get on the phone with him too, just to kind of like, if I'm...
31:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Philan anxious in my house alone and just I feel like I'm out here alone on my on this journey.
31:50
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I got a call him to just let me know like Man the only thing that really matters is is his Christ and Jesus like all this things you try to reach for miss
32:02
[SPEAKER_03]: It's temporary, you know, as soon as you reach your financial goal, you're going to want to get the next millionaire to or whatever.
32:10
[SPEAKER_03]: And then so the only thing that's truly satisfying is just leaning into the word of God and leaning into, you know, I'm alive today.
32:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I woke up today, you know, all those simple things and taking a trip to Ghana was important to me, like just seeing like, oh, they got in, got in a washing dryer.
32:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, right.
32:29
[SPEAKER_03]: You trippin.
32:30
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
32:30
[SPEAKER_03]: You bugging.
32:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, like they washing up in the lake.
32:34
[SPEAKER_05]: You got a nice shower when I came back You know, so pissed off.
32:38
[SPEAKER_05]: They're my children.
32:39
[SPEAKER_05]: They told me to stay in the airport.
32:41
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean stay stay like in a hotel for two or three days So you can decompress.
32:44
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, because I came in it was like
32:46
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, the clears move my I said if you don't sit down somewhere I just love people doing that running water.
32:53
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know, it's it just puts everything in perspective But I will say this.
32:57
[SPEAKER_05]: I do see that foundationally.
33:00
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean like you're there Yeah, like God literally wants to take your life as he's already done to get more glory from it
33:06
[SPEAKER_05]: Like as long as he has as long as he has a vessel that he knows he can trust not with doing everything right.
33:12
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what religion teaches us that you do this and God do this and God that ain't really the way he worked.
33:17
[SPEAKER_05]: He just needs to be able to trust somebody with his glory that's gonna give it back.
33:23
[SPEAKER_05]: I tell people that all the time it's like how do you go from singing to this and then go to that and just twitch fields and just that another I was like I think God that know that I'm so crazy that I'll try it and then be like he did it for me And then more people are gonna come to him.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I think this next season that you have bro is like
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[SPEAKER_05]: an opportunity to take that shy group of people.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know why this in my heart in my head is that the first one will have to actually be a no.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like he wants you to work on your no, too.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like no, that was not for me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean it is, but I see something different.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And it's like, well, right now, how you going?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we go, I don't really care.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My agent definitely taught me that, too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just even in the midst of the shy, it's some offers came in and he just like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: We got to set up, we can't just take every offer that comes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, even from a walk, you're like, come on, man, what do you mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so, but you understand, like, men to have a long Jevity and your career in half, you know, a mentor told me he's like, man, it's what we said no to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's why we still hear today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The things we said no to, that's why we have so much long Jevity and this thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just I carry that I carry that now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and I really you right got it in a lot of stuff because they'll throw numbers out and the script like Yeah, you know, you like Yeah, it's only a great script cool cool Maybe switch him do I have to do that?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm a switch then they said they'll take that out I mean, and then you get on say you like why that?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Why?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Why is it so believably beneath my floor?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I'm not going to say that part.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But there are certain roles that I'm just not taking in television no more.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's like, no, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I just don't feel priority in that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not doing that no more.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a waste of time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It takes away from my vision.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a big payday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You get the check.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hell, I don't even know where I have that money be going because then I got to pay taxes.
35:25
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like, whenever I get out of line of what I believe the Lord is challenging me to be in, it just would be like, I'm out here by myself.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, I made a wrong turn.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to go back and just say no.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's important, man.
35:38
[SPEAKER_03]: It's important to really talk to him first before you make any move.
35:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's when doors really just started to open up for me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I'm like, God, is this the right one?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he would always just show like, this is it.
35:51
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you know, the shy was like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's it, you know, eight years later, yeah, it's late, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Cause I thought we, I didn't think we would go this long, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, every season, I'm like, nah, nah, nah, yeah.
36:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta stay on the pivot, gotta stay on the pivot, gotta stay on the pivot.
36:05
[SPEAKER_05]: So do you know what the number AD is, biblically?
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, I don't know, it's the number of new beginnings.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Mmm, wow, wow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: like seven is completion, eight is the number of new beginnings.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So there's beautiful number eight in this eight season of of of this beautiful opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: represents a new beginning.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So it's already numerically in the earth dead.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I get to I get a new beginning.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You can be a strong heart posture because there's no like everything is new.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's next role like even it ain't none you have a deal before.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a stretch.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and it's global.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And when you go to Australia, people gonna know you're nice.
36:44
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I'm saying?
36:45
[SPEAKER_05]: I think when you get that global success, that's when you be like, bro, you're good in America, but yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm old.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a number one and eight different.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's when you like, it's levels.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got an action this man because I have a son who came from my house, although you didn't necessarily see them together because this this part is more about hurts habits, breakups, and the journey to to loving themselves again.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But I just see you work.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So aim to sleep through the cracks like mime and dad didn't get together It was a little tough.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You had to go in mom kept a relationship with dad just and like what advice do you give to a parent?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because that was my biggest hurdle Like I was like I just don't want this boy legacy to be messed up because of my own personal decisions
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't want him to stand up on the testimony and say, and then my dad, I'm like, Oh, no, I was there for you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to make a diss record on you if you say that like what advice do you give a parent that may, you know, when things don't work out, you know, they didn't work out the way you thought it was, but yet you still are successful.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And they say that when you come from a quote on quote, I don't call it broke at home, but I just call it a different home, a way that God wanted to let me differently.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I always tell my children.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is not a broken home.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's just different.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And God uses broken crayons and they steal color.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Come on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We can still do this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So like what advice would you give to parents who may not have come up together?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, like, what advice would you give them for a child?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because we were about to support their dreams for that child.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, like support their dreams or what trajectory did mom say, you know, some parents like, well, y'all daddy ain't this or yo mama ain't this because of their own personal trauma.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like it's there, a blueprint of making this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: when it didn't grow from the beautiful American dream.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think it's just important to find some way to show them examples of what it can look like.
38:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Or I feel like there's so many stories out there of broken families that and it just arose from the concrete of just the situation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to
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[SPEAKER_03]: to instill that into a child or instill that to a parent because it's like, oh, they only see what they see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and it's important to just have that super vision of just like, no, it's all either way it's still going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: This don't parents being together, parents being separated don't ain't going to stop with what God got for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It just, it can't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like,
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[SPEAKER_03]: It sounds crazy to somebody who just don't believe or don't really get it, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's important to just stay diligent, stay focused and stay locked in on just if I want to do something or if I want my son or I want my daughter to be focused on this journey.
39:46
[SPEAKER_03]: Like today is probably the most, it's a lot of mentors I haven't met yet.
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[SPEAKER_03]: like I get online in just me like I want to learn about this boom boom I got 18 mentors I don't watch thousands videos I don't watch podcasts I don't watch you know this person invested in this or whatever and you know the internet is a great place for I think for for young people to
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[SPEAKER_03]: To dive into mentors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They don't have to meet you know what I mean.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to meet your mentors They don't have to be on your block You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can get on that website get on that phone and actually do something with it and start to just grow And yeah and actually follow some things you need to follow and and you and the parents need to get involved too Because every parent don't know you know I mean they don't know like thank God my mom knew about the music business Thank God my dad knew about the music business, but
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen a lot of parents not know when put their child in situations or whatever and just kind of let them go but not really learning about the business and then now they feel like they are out there on their own and you know and because my mom and I had talks with parents in that way if just like, oh no this is this how the labels go
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is what happens when you get out to LA.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the, you know, and my mom is still learning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She makes sure she's trying to learn something every day, especially in the film side, you know, like it's a totally different world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I would say it's important to find mentors online, especially with technology and crazy and like, man, you can touch places you don't have to go, man, like you can really, and it's people out there putting out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: content and want to help people, um, and whatever you want to do, whatever that is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if you want to be a lawyer, it's bright man.
41:31
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you got more diversity is, you know, I studied really safe.
41:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I was on really, I was on really, I was on really state YouTube for like a year before I bought anything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm still learning stuff, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's important to just educate yourself on what that thing is, no matter how the family split.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because they probably got the similar stories.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You got crazy stories where somebody started off homeless.
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[SPEAKER_03]: no parents, you know, just an eight men still made a way, you know what I mean?
42:07
[SPEAKER_03]: And we always got to remember that the spiritual father is always with us, you know, God is always with us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, when they seem like no family around, when they seem like the family is divided, like you still got that connection with, you know, the creator who really just brought us all here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's, you know, again, like it's tough for people to hear that who don't, who don't tap in, you know?
42:29
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42:38
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42:43
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42:55
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43:20
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I mean, I know, I know, I know, I was scrapped for time.
43:23
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm, I am free.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I want it, but I just, I just got to ask you this in the industry.
43:29
[SPEAKER_05]: So when I moved to LA, Simon Warner Brothers, even though I was doing a different type of music, I was like, all right, come on, y'all, that's probably real quick.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I pray in everybody will be like,
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[SPEAKER_05]: a bro like that's that like that's cool.
43:41
[SPEAKER_05]: That's great energy and just that that was like yeah, don't be going to church ever.
43:45
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I'm straight from St. Louis.
43:46
[SPEAKER_05]: We just don't we do.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We can be out there doing law.
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[SPEAKER_05]: No, it was what I brought coming right quick.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I got just give us strength.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Club all Saturday and church on Saturday.
43:56
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just make some noise.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I was just like, I know that might not feel right, but we just had this sense of God.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I just can kind of hear like when you're out there like,
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[SPEAKER_05]: Is the vast majority of the industry somewhat not tapped in with we got in y'all generation or whatever?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's a desert there is a lot I feel like for me I've always just gravitated towards who leanin more on the world who leanin Who leanin more on the let's go to church or let's not do that And anything the right crowd you know because I went out to LA and seeing a lot of dark stuff like when I first
44:34
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not the all like this can't be it this can't be it like this can't be it You know me and shotguns again shout out to my brother Dexter man and I was like I'm like This my guy we met on the set of mage runner
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[SPEAKER_03]: And after we finished filming that, I was like, I'm gonna go out to LA, but I want to be around the right people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I want to be around the right people, where especially for my career is going.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And Dexter was just one of them, one of them guys, man, big brother like, he like, bro, I got you like, we gonna knock out these auditions and you're gonna be a me and he introduced me to like, just...
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[SPEAKER_03]: like really cool people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I met the Disney's through brother.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, okay, then that's what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, yeah, like, I want to meet people who are really just who, who follow the name dreams and really also staying connected with God and like, that's where I said, and I watched this documentary called number one of the calls she, you see that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like about all these leading actors and they are doing these interviews and Eddie Murphy was just talking about he was like Man, I haven't really dealt with this like whole depression thing that a lot of these actors do it because I've always been grounded spiritually and I'm like That's it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's my fault.
45:47
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like that's like that's that's it like Eddie's you know season healthy family like
45:55
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, bunch of movies out like I'm like, yeah, like I want that type of piece at the end of my career.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want the other stuff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I want to eat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to die old.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Can't steal Beijing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Didn't decide.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's important to me that like, I know I came from and I ain't trying to go back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I want to be able to, if I want, I go back on to be able to help.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know, in position, and you will, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, as a person who's seeing you go from this very talented eight, nine year old Luget to this version, I'm just always super doing press and humble by God's grace over your life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I just know that, you know, the sky's the limit, you know, state, you know, use your power, the sermon.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It'd be a lot of beautiful people that come in to your life, but God has that one, and I just know that you're going to protect yourself, man, because you deserve the print.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You ain't got to play too much differences.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, too much offense.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's God job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That defense would be like, who are you?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm over here to me.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I've got to come in, baby.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to tell people.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, no, no, we're coming.
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[SPEAKER_05]: that although you may be in a great spot, nobody knows what you go through internally, right?
47:30
[SPEAKER_05]: And the beauty of it all is that people may not know, but God knows, and he sees.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's the case, 22.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He promised, right?
47:38
[SPEAKER_05]: Promise never to leave you nor forsake you.
47:41
[SPEAKER_05]: Meaning that he's never going to leave you just walk away or forsake me and leave you stranded and do you wrong?
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's no hurt harm a danger that can come to you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Here's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You are going to win in the end and if it doesn't feel like you went in right now Baby it just ain't the end Do me a favor.
47:59
[SPEAKER_05]: I want to make sure that you subscribe to this channel make sure that you leave a comment share this with at least 10 people and don't forget baby to love yourself more flat out
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[SPEAKER_01]: Love you more, love you more, love you more.