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Pokemon Is Delicious w/ King Moore · The Delicious Culture with Jon Francois

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you Hey, delishies, grab a plate and feast on
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the delicious culture. I'm your host, John Francois.
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We are feasting on food, pop culture, and lifestyle
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this week with 10 -year -old performing sensation,
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King Moore. You've seen him on America's Got
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Talent, The Tamron Hall Show, and so much more.
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Hey, King Moore, welcome to the show. Nice to
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have you here. Thank you so much for having me.
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Yeah, absolutely. So, so much to get into with
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your life story, your career, your talents. But
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first, as a bit of an icebreaker, let's start
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out with the food part. What was a favorite meal
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that you had in the past week? That's hard. I
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know. So many to choose from, right? All you
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can eat sushi. Oh, you can eat sushi? Oh, man.
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Tell me more. Tell me more about that. Yeah.
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Okay. So is that something you had at home or
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was this at like a buffet restaurant? So it was
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like this very, it's not like, I wouldn't say
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fancy restaurant. But oh a mid restaurant like
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a nice restaurant, but they have the best food
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It's like it's like um I don't know they give
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you like two pieces of sushi every time you can
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order like and then it starts with appetizers
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then classic rolls Just regular tuna or salmon
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all this crazy Tasty good stuff. Yeah, how much
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sushi did you end up eating? So I love food So
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probably like a half a roll, like they give you
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like six pieces and I probably had like four,
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four little rolls, whatever you, how you say
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it. But I eat a lot of appetizers. That's one
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thing. I can't even count how many appetizers
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I ate. What appetizers did you, what appetizers
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did you have? Tell us about it. And amame, spicy,
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garlic and amame. Like these. fried vegetables.
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And, um, we had goza, dumplings, pop stickers,
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whatever you want to call it. We had, uh, tuna
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rolls. We had just straight tuna albacore. Uh,
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yellowtail. They had, uh, just regular tuna.
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And then, I don't know, uh, fried squid. I don't
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really like that, but we had eel. That was busting.
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Yeah, we had a spicy tuna crispy rice. Yeah.
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Wow. So what got you into sushi in the first
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place? Was it something that you sought out yourself?
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Was it something that your parents introduced
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you to? So look, I was craving sushi because
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I love sushi and my favorite role is spicy tuna
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crispy rice, right? Okay. And I love eel sauce,
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like eel sauce is the best. And so look, I used
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to, I wouldn't say hate shrimp, but I used to
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dislike shrimp. I used to throw up, but my brother
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used to, like when I wanted to play his video
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game, his PS5, I hated the texture. I mean, I
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disliked the texture. And then he said, if you
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eat two pieces of shrimp and not throw up, I
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let you play my game and I used to always throw
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up. But sometimes I used to keep it in. So what
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made you eventually not throw up? Was it just
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because you just got your body got used to eating
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shrimp? The only shrimp I tried was in that I
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didn't like. Wait, no, I liked it, but didn't
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like it because it was like, this is good. Then
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I just switched over. Oh, I love shrimp. Oh,
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let's go. I'm eating shrimp left and right. But
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because they had this coconut ball fried shrimp
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and dipped in some coconut creamy sauce. It was
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so good. Yeah. Louisiana food is the best. But
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I love shrimp boils and like seafood. You know
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how you go to like boiling crab, juicy crab.
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Oh, my God. Oh, man. You mentioned Louisiana.
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Is that where you're originally from? Well, I'm
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from Florida. I love Jamaican food, Cuban food,
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Mexican food, especially tacos, rice and beans.
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I'm a foodie, OK? But Louisiana, my dad went
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to college at the Louisiana Lafayette. OK. I'm
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in those, like, some ULL or whatever. But the
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food in Louisiana? What? I bet you it's insane.
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Yeah. That hot sauce be bussin'. Yeah? Oh my
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God. So have you ever found that like you eat
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so much appetizers that you have like no room
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for the main dish? Or are you the kind of person
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that you will eat as many appetizers as you want
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and still have room for the main dish when it
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comes out? Look, when I eat, I don't stop. I
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do not stop until I throw up. You're the right
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age for it. I mean, you're 10 years old. I mean,
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you have an appetite that's like the size of
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a country. Yeah, but I used to not eat meat.
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I used to like, oh, I don't like meat, like dislike
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meat. But now I like filet mignon. Wow. That
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sounds classy. What is filet mignon? I've never
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had that before, I don't think. It's like a different
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meat. It's just like steak, but it's like this
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part. I don't know. It's like... a smaller part
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where you can't get it more often, you know,
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than this big part of steak. It's like soft and
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tender. Nice. And I think you had to make sure
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you didn't like the texture of fried squid. Can
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you describe that texture? What was it like?
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Well, I don't like the texture of... shrimp.
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But now I do. But that squid, the only thing
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I didn't like about it, it was just not the texture.
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I would say chewy. I would say chewy, very a
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little bit chewy. Yeah. All right. Don't like
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the taste. Yeah, I might find new things new
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things are great Is there like a new thing that
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you're looking forward to trying next like maybe
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a new? Recipe or a new food that you looked at
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online. I thought oh, I gotta try that. Oh, yeah
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So look I want to go to Dubai and try the 24
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karat gold steak. It's like $50 ,000. Whoa, okay
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$50 ,000 not not to buy money us dollars. Okay
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Wait, so in Dubai money, does that mean like,
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is the Dubai dollar good or bad? I wonder if
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that's like, considered cheap in Dubai. Oh, no.
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Yeah. But all I know is 50 grand in USD, so.
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So describe the 24 karat stake. Like, does it
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have like gold in it? Like, is it like a really
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big stake? It's like covered in like foil gold
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they probably got from Walmart. But. But. I don't
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know. It's just my dad told me about it and now
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I want to try it. Okay. I wonder if it's like
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a really juicy meat, thick kind of steak, the
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type where you get like a food coma within seconds
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of eating it. Yeah, you're dreaming about it.
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I see your face. You're just like, oh my God,
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the vomiting that I'm going to do afterwards.
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So lovely. So let's get into pop culture, Kingmore.
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What is a favorite TV show, maybe movie, play,
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music, book, just anything that you're consuming
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lately that you're in love with? TV show? Stranger
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Things. Yes. Oh, yeah. Recently ended. Yes. Stranger
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Things. But, hmm, movie? Hmm, Wall -E. OK. So
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Wall -E. So Wall -E, I couldn't even get into
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it when I watched it. It was a very, like, quiet,
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sore movie than what I'm used to with Pixar movies.
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What did you like about Wall -E? Wall -E has
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a great story at the end. It's Eva. So look,
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my mom loved that movie so much. My mom's name
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is Eva. But her nickname is Eva. And the person,
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the little spaceship rocker person, her name
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is Eva. So she loved that movie so much. Her
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nickname is Eva now. That's awesome. I forgot
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what the story of Wally was like it was just
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he just seemed to be this cute quiet little robot
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just kind of roaming around on this abandoned
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Mars planet looking thing. What was the story
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if I have that wrong? So it's like he's on this
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abandoned planet with no trees no plant life
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where you can't breathe because when you need
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trees you need trees to breathe and if you cut
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down trees you can't breathe but he found like
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a little plant, like only one, like a little
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grass leaf, but it was green and he took care
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of it. But the spaceship was looking for greenery
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and they saw it and they had to go back to tell
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their captain, right? And the spaceship went
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away. And then Wally found it and kept it in
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a boot and put it in his room, right? And then
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they came looking for it again. And they were
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like, where is it? Then they kept on scanning.
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Then Eva was like the cap, well, not a captain,
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but like the commander or something. And then
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she went to go find it. And then she found Wally.
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But and then Wally invited her to in his room.
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And then she saw the leaf and then put it in
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her body. and then told the captain, like, with
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signally, signally, but like this, and then Wally,
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like, hold her hand, but she couldn't see that
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Wally was taking care of her, but she had the
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leaf in her compartment. I love that. I don't
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even need to see the movie again. You, like,
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described it very perfectly. That's wonderful.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. And let's talk about Stranger
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Things. So, are you all caught up, or are you,
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like, in the middle of the show? I'm all caught
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up. Okay. So, you know how it is. So, when it
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came out, I wasn't caught up. It took me, like,
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a month, right? Yeah. Because I was very busy.
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I was going here to Dallas. Blah. Got to watch
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it with my brother. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
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nah, nah. Yeah. Okay? And, but Stranger Things,
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it's just so good I have to re -watch it. Me
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and my mom re -watched it probably like three
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times now. Okay, okay. All the episodes. and
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everything. Yeah, like I started watching it
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around the time when it first came out, like
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2016, 2017, and I didn't like it on my own, but
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I found that when I gave it another chance with
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my wife, we were like really locked in and we
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would look forward to every season, even if it
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took like three years in between seasons for
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something to come out. But yeah, I mean, two
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hour long episodes, supernatural goodness, 80s
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goodness. Do you have any thoughts about Vecna
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and maybe if you have any favorite characters
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in the show, things that you would have liked
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to see in the show? So probably I like Elle.
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She's nice. And Mike. Mike is my dude. He's my
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dude. Yeah. I like Mike. But that's what you
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were saying. You said you watched it in 2016?
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Yeah, yeah. It first came out in 2016. Yeah.
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So I watched it around the time that it came
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out. And I think that's when you were born, right?
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Wait, wait, wait. It came out... I thought it
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came out in 2022. No, no, no, no, no. Stranger
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Things first came out in 2016 and then they just
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rolled out seasons pretty slowly over the next
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decade. And it finally ended at the end of last
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year. So yeah, it's been on for a while. Isn't
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that bizarre? Like you're watching this show
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that began when you were bored, I think, right?
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Because you were born in what, 2015, 2016? Well,
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I was watching it in 2022 because it came out
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on Netflix 2022. Well, maybe a new season came
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out that year, but like in terms of like the
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overall show starting, it started in 2016. Well,
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I was born in 2015. Got it, got it. So you were
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born a year before Stranger Things came out,
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correct? Yes. Wow, I didn't know that. Cause
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I know, isn't that bizarre? Yeah. Yeah. You're,
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you're, you're watching shows and then you realize
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how long they've been on. It's almost like Sesame
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street. Like I watched Sesame street when I was
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a kid growing up and by then it was already on
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the air for like 30 years. So, and now it's like
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50 plus years old, I think. So yeah. I mean,
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you, you watch these shows for the first time
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and you think that they're these new things,
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but then you find out, no, they've actually been
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around multiple generations. So that's pretty
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awesome, I would think. Is that I love Stranger
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Things, okay? I love Stranger Things. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. I know Elle and Mike, they had their
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relationship over the course of however many
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seasons that show was on. So... I gotta ask,
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I mean, watching shows like Stranger Things,
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watching TV, because I mean, I know that me,
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like, as someone who does a podcast, has someone
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who's been on radio, as someone who has acted
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in theater and film and TV shows, I got my love
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for performing from watching TV. What was that
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start for you? Was it watching TV? Was it listening
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to music? Because I know you're a musician. Like,
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what first got you into performing? So, okay.
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Let me take you way back. Yeah, 10 years ago?
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When I was three, so that's like eight years
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ago? OK, OK. Whoa, I did that super wrong. Seven
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years ago. There you go. OK. OK, so my mom and
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dad bought me a smart TV and a tablet. And my
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favorite app was YouTube, and I loved to watch
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music videos from like Michael Jackson, Chris
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Brown, Dre, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, Soulja
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Boy, mostly everybody. And I wanted to be just
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like them, but all of them combined. So I went
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to my dad and asked him, can I be a recording
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artist? He laughed so hard he said no at first,
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but he told me to come back when I was five.
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So on my fifth birthday, on the exact day, he
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made me wait two years so I can forget. So I
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can forget. So I can do sports or something else.
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But guess what? I asked him again, and then he
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forgot. Well, he didn't forget. He was just playing
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it off, like he didn't say that, because I got
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his memory. But then I said a man has to keep
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his word, right? Yes, yeah, of course. Because
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I was using his words against me, against him.
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I was using his words against him. OK. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Because he was telling us a man has
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to keep his words. So when you're going to say,
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when you say you're going to do something, you
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got to do it. Right. Right. And then I was like,
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OK. And then I was like, a man has to keep his
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word, right? Then my mom said, you did tell him
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that. Then we've been grinding ever since. So
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look at me now. I'm on the delicious culture.
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Right? Well, I mean, it's not definitely as big
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as like America's Got Talent. That's pretty amazing
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that you got on that show. I loved watching movies
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and I wanted to make movies. I wanted to direct.
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And I always like to tell people what to do.
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Well, not tell people what to do, but like, I
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like to direct. I like to control. Okay. You
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know what? Creative control is a big part of
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being in the industry. Creative control is a
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big part of being in the entertainment industry,
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so you're in the right industry for it. So how
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did you get on America's Got Talent with the
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talents that you had? I mean, take me through
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that journey from realizing that you wanted to
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perform to being able to get on the show. What
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was that journey like? I think they DM'd me through
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social media, and if I could audition to do America's
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Got Talent. And I gave them like a... And I auditioned
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many times for that, for AGT. And... So how did
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you... Can I ask how you got to a point where
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they DM'd you? Like, so, okay, you start realizing
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that you want to perform, and then, I mean, how
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did you get to that point where they contacted
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you? So had you been like performing in, I don't
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know... Concerts clubs like where were you performing
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before you got the DM from America's Got Talent?
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Where was I performing? Probably I was on tour
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with Kingdom Thompson at the 1960 tour And I
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did the 20 city tour with that girl Lele I think
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I think I did like half of that tour then went
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on AGT then did the other half I don't know those
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okay a 20 city tour with that girl Lele and then
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I probably did AGT And then how I got to AGT,
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so I got to audition for it. And then I had to
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audition three songs. And they picked one of
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my songs was actually my single, my first single
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called Pin Game, Pen Game. OK. What's that song
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about? So it's about how, so the chorus is like,
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my pen game is crazy. So like my pen game is
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crazy. So I'm like a great writer. I can make
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up great verses. Like I'm a great writer. great
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writer. I write my own music. My pin game is
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crazy. I'm not lazy. So I'm not lazy. I don't
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wait for people to do stuff for me. I don't wait
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for people to give me a song, to write stuff.
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I write stuff every day. You can see my board
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right now. It says media academy, finished piano,
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writing, media training, singing, review music,
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reading, dance practice, tongue twisters, workout,
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everything, man. Okay. And All right, so you
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have that song and then we mentioned that you
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got a DM from America's Got Talent and what did
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they say? Let me know how that process went in
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terms of like them DMing you and then and then
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you being able to audition for them. So I auditioned
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for it many times when I used to live in Florida
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and I had to like just self tape it and then
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send it to them, but I did it in person and they
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actually saw my personality. Cause people got
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to see me in person, not like this, like we're
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on right now, but people got to see me in person.
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So they actually get to know me better because
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I just send videos. They don't know like I'm
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a charming kid. So then we moved to Los Angeles
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to follow my dreams to be an actor, singer, dancer.
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There's more opportunities in Los Angeles. Okay.
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Yeah, there is time to work. We had the auditions
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and then I performed three songs for them. And
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then I performed probably pin game. I did pin
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game. And then they picked that song. Then I
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did it on AGC. This was the original rap song
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that you performed, right? You got the standing
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ovation for it. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Man.
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And how did that feel? Because it's a song that
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you wrote. people are just positively applauding
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you in that electric room. I mean, how did that
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all feel? Your parents are watching you from
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backstage? Like, what did that feel like? So
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it felt great because more people hear my positive
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music. And I love performing positive music.
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And that's all my music. All my music is positivity.
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And you know how my parents watch the news and
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they see all this fighting not working together?
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And I don't like how people don't work together.
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And when I put my positivity music, people hear
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that. They hear this positivity. It changes their
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mindset of not fighting. It changes, oh, what
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you need to do. If you want to be a billionaire,
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don't fight. Work with people. Like my mom always
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says, talk with people. Figure things out. Solve
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the problem. Don't talk at people, talk with
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people. Because then you can figure things out.
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And then you can be whatever you want. And then
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if you work together, you guys, it's just like
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pushing a truck. But 40 people are helping you
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push a truck forward. Not backwards, forward.
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OK. And so how many times were you on America's
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Got Talent? Like, after that original rap song,
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were you back multiple times or, like, were you
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on that one time? Just on that one time. Okay,
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okay. Tell me about, I think you had spoke at
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the White House, is that correct? Yes, sir, on
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gun violence prevention in schools, and I was
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invited under the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden
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administration. Okay, so this was, was this around
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the time that you had broken out on America's
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Got Talent? Or was this before? No, just before.
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Okay. Okay. So talk more about that. How was
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that experience? So that experience was fun.
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Cool. Yeah. And like walking on the campus to
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get to the White House because we saw Joe Biden
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speak on gun violence prevention in schools and
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signing this paper. Okay. Yeah. And I made this
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song called Safe at School and it tells parents
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and adults to lock their guns up. and where kids
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can't reach it, right? So kids can be safe at
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school, right? So that's why I went to the, you
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know, I can't vote because I'm only 10, but I
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was eight when I was there. But when you give
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a speech to adults, like a young kid, but that
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talks like an adult gives them, like, not, I
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wouldn't say motivation, but what you need to
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do, they will probably listen, but... Like my
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song and history made it has that lie and um,
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I can't vote but you know king delivered the
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speech the speech so they can vote Right, but
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I just want kids to feel safe at school. That's
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why I made a song called safe at school because
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kids just want to get an education make this
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world a better better place not worry about school
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shootings and Kids shooting up the school. It's
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like kids just want to get an education so they
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can grow not not, like, a decrease. And what
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my saying is, kids make up 50 % of the population,
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but we are 100 % of the future, and we make this
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future. Not you guys. We make this future because
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we are the future, and we can make this world
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a better place, and we can make this world, like,
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keep going. Not go like this, but go like this.
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We open up to the world and how... We can just
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get an education. That's what school is for We
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get an education to make this world a better
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place and you can do anything you want But it
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has to dedicate and you have to put something
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into this world that that um increases like Just
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increase unity increase how we work together
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and not fight and that seems to be the spirit
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of the Kicks to Grow Foundation that you are
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trying to promote out there. Can you talk more
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about that? Because I think it's a really great
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thing that you're doing there. So Kicks to Grow
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is my foundation that I created because kicks
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is like shoes and I love shoes. And I don't give
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just shoes out. I give clothes because clothes
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and shoes give me confidence. And I want... underprivileged
26:03
kids to have shoes, clothing, because if it gives
26:08
me confidence, it gives them confidence. And
26:10
when they have confidence, they can feel like
26:12
they can do anything in the world, and they can
26:15
make this world a better place now. But you can
26:18
actually donate because I donate to charity,
26:21
and I always love to give back. always love to
26:24
give back and that actually resonates with my
26:27
um brand new campaign called it's like this global
26:30
campaign called brand new and i have about 10
26:32
new artists from 10 different countries featuring
26:35
on my song in a native language and how it all
26:38
got started i was booked for this international
26:41
event in moscow and there were 16 different countries
26:45
there featuring well there were 16 different
26:47
countries there singing my song and they're sleep
26:51
walking around moscow for three hours. We were
26:55
just having a walk around Moscow touring because
26:58
we have to see all the history behind Moscow,
27:02
Russia. And they all love my song, and I asked
27:05
them, can they remake it in their native language?
27:08
And they said yes. And then I made this global
27:10
campaign because it shows the world, not one
27:13
person, not 10 people, not a state, not a country,
27:16
not a continent, the whole world, how we can
27:20
work together, our generation, because we are
27:23
the future. Like my saying is kids make up 50
27:25
% of the population, but we are 100 % of the
27:28
future. And that's how we can make the world
27:31
a better place if we put positivity in our music
27:34
and you can change their mindsets. Like I say,
27:38
it changes their mindsets, but in different languages.
27:42
So you are clearly this, um, fantastic leader
27:48
slash role model in this. mission that you're
27:51
describing. But at the same time, you are essentially
27:55
one of these kids that you're trying to help.
27:57
You're still growing. You're still learning.
27:59
So I wonder if that becomes difficult at times
28:03
to become both the leader and also someone who
28:07
is as young as you are and still learning and
28:09
still moving about the world. What does that
28:11
feel like? Well, it's definitely hard to get
28:13
adults to listen to a kid because they can't
28:17
almost have education like them. Well, that's
28:19
true, but we have a different mindset than y
28:22
'all. That's one thing. And my mom is homeschooled,
28:27
but look, I still play video games. I'm still
28:31
a regular kid, but I always find... I always
28:36
find time for fun. My parents take me to a trampoline
28:39
park. I have a membership at the trampoline park.
28:42
I might go to the trampoline park today. Oh,
28:45
that sounds fun. Yes. And I have parkour. I have
28:47
dance class. All of those things are fun, like
28:51
piano. I love playing the piano. And I love vacations.
28:57
Oh, vacations. Are they the best? We always have
28:58
vacations. Actually, I'm going to Miami. To go
29:03
to this nice hotel for like four days and then
29:07
go on a cruise to the Bahamas and get some good
29:11
old food and then... Well, yes. I always find
29:17
time for fun. I'm still a regular kid. I know
29:21
I for sure that so the Miami and Bahamas cruise
29:23
that you're mentioning I think you are taking
29:25
the same cruise that my wife and I took for our
29:27
honeymoon Which is which is fabulous. I think
29:30
it's is it like the perfect day at Coco K kind
29:33
of cruise. Is that what you're talking about?
29:47
Still open Pokemon. I have so much Pokemon look
29:52
I have all my Pokemon books see the Gengar Look,
29:57
it's just look. I have my own Pikachu binder.
30:00
Oh my god. You're a massive Pokemon fan I'm rich
30:04
on Pokemon man. Yeah Yeah, I used to lie to friends
30:10
that I had Pokemon trading cards so they would
30:13
like me, because my parents never allowed me
30:14
to get Pokemon trading cards back in the day
30:16
because they just... That's sad. Yeah. Do you
30:19
still open Pokemon? Do you open Pokemon now?
30:22
No, no, no, no. I never really got into Pokemon
30:25
to the point where I got the cards, but it looks
30:27
like you're really intense with it. What's your
30:29
favorite Pokemon? How many Pokemon do you need
30:34
to choose from, right? I would probably say Gengar
30:41
and Charizard. Yep. Just like, but I like that
30:46
Zorakma. Let me see that Zorakma, please. I like
30:49
this card. This card is very sick. I just pulled
30:52
it out of the Mega Dream set. It's art rare.
30:55
I'm still looking for an SAR? Yes. I'm looking
31:00
for SAR. Well, it's called SAR in Japanese, but...
31:06
It's called S .I. Mom, you see that? It's called
31:09
S .I .R. My this is not supposed to be in the
31:12
case. OK, but look. All this Pokemon, I'm rich.
31:19
That's awesome. I need to see this. Yeah, OK.
31:21
So look, I have a Charizard. I need I need to
31:25
get I need to get the 151 Charizard, but my dad
31:29
think this is going to grow. It's going to grow.
31:31
But look, I have a basketball card. Wow, what
31:36
player is that? His name is Alexander Tsar. Alex
31:40
-an -drea. And I have this very cool shiny card.
31:46
This one's very rare. And then I have this Zorak
31:50
that I just showed you. Then I have this Makaton
31:52
Promo. So, very, my ring light, but my Cleffa,
31:59
very cool card. And then I have my Weasel. Yeah,
32:03
that's on my Pokemon, but guess what? I love
32:05
Pikachu! Yeah, of course, Pikachu's the ultimate
32:08
one. So what do you love about Pikachu? What
32:12
specific strength does Pikachu have? So Pikachu
32:14
is just like, I have a chase card that I really
32:19
want, and a chase card is like a card that you
32:21
really want that you want to pull out of a set,
32:23
and it comes out of Surging Sparks. Surging Sparks
32:26
is the set. I really want to pull the S -I -R
32:29
Pikachu. Very cool. And I'll just show you this
32:32
one, because this one's sick. Yeah? So you must
32:36
be selling and buying Pokemon cards like crazy.
32:39
Is it a business at this point? I'm not selling
32:42
Pokemon, because after 20 years, I'm going to
32:45
have all this Pokemon is going to be worth thousands,
32:48
and I'm still not going to sell it. But when
32:51
I get to, like, my... I'm still gonna be opening
32:54
Pokemon, but I'm gonna sell a couple of cards.
32:57
The idea that Pokemon as a franchise will still
33:00
exist by the time you're in your 40s, that seems
33:02
bizarre to me. You think it'll go on that long?
33:04
Well, I'm gonna open Pokemon until I'm like 80.
33:10
Tom, like 80s. Yes. We're going from 40s to your
33:14
80s. My goodness. How far in the future is that?
33:17
Like 2195 or something? So you performed, I think
33:21
you performed in front of a sold out crowd at
33:23
Little Caesars Arena. You did the national anthem.
33:25
How was that? Because it's like, here's this
33:28
big song representing our country. There's been
33:31
records of a lot of people doing it. fantastically.
33:34
Like, did you feel pressure doing that? Did you
33:36
feel excitement doing that? So, look, I always
33:39
get the jitters before I go on, but I performed
33:42
the national anthem in my single called Follow
33:44
Your Dreams for my EP. The Little Seasons Arena
33:47
was, like, so hyped. Like, so hyped. And I performed
33:52
my Follow Your Dreams single and my national
33:55
anthem single in one night. We were there for,
33:59
like, at 3 p .m. to Something crazy 2 a .m. And
34:05
then we had a fight at 6 a .m. So we didn't go
34:07
to sleep because I didn't want to but I definitely
34:11
had a hot dog there. It was good. Yeah Boxing
34:17
fight like I never seen boxing like impersonal
34:21
but and guess what my kicks to grow foundation
34:24
about that I was able to raise enough money to
34:27
bring 1 ,000 kids to that event And give them
34:32
some cool t -shirts. That must have felt great.
34:34
Yeah, it felt great. Of course, I was hanging
34:36
out with the kids. And it was under my Follow
34:39
Your Dreams campaign, too. And about my Follow
34:41
Your Dreams initiative, it's like, I want kids
34:45
to follow their dreams, to never give up. Practice,
34:48
practice, practice. And always have a great team
34:50
to help you grow and learn. You know? Yeah, I
34:53
agree. And all the things I said, you always
34:56
have to practice, practice, practice, practice,
34:59
practice, and have a great team to help you grow
35:02
and learn. And whatever you surround yourself,
35:05
you're going to think, oh, that's cool. You're
35:07
going to think. So surround yourself by good
35:10
people. Surround yourself by people you can trust.
35:14
I think you've also voiced the characters in
35:15
TV shows and movies as well. Yes, sir. I was
35:18
Cody for Cocomelon for 10 episodes. I'm sorry,
35:21
you did what? I was Cody for Cocomelon for 10
35:24
episodes. What is Cocomelon? I've never heard
35:26
of that show. So Cocomelon, it has this little
35:29
watermelon right here. And then it has this like
35:32
this little bug and like do do do do do do do
35:36
do. And Cody is like this main character. It's
35:40
a cartoon, OK? It's like it's a cartoon for.
35:43
Babies I would say like yeah babies toddlers
35:47
and they have like a hundred million subscribers
35:50
something crazy But I was like one of the main
35:53
characters for ten episodes like a whole season
35:56
right and then I I was one of the baby possums
36:00
in the movie the wild robot Wow movie that movies
36:05
good And I've been on America's Got Talent, and...
36:10
Well, let's talk about the voice work. How is
36:14
voice acting for you compared to performing in
36:18
person as yourself? Like, being in a studio and
36:21
voicing characters in front of a microphone,
36:23
how is that compared to being in person, you
36:26
know, performing in front of people? Voice acting,
36:28
you have to act it out. Like, you have to stand
36:31
up, act it out. Like, some people do jumping
36:34
jacks. Get your body, get your blood flowing.
36:37
And then you have to do these voices, like different
36:40
voices, like if you can play two different people,
36:43
but you have to change your voice. And you have
36:48
to act it out. Pronounce your words, of course,
36:51
like articulate. It has to look like this. Yeah,
36:55
yeah, yeah. Yep, yep. I've done those exercises
36:58
too, yep. I know what you mean. And did you like
37:00
that, or did you find that, like, annoying sometimes,
37:03
having to go through all those exercises all
37:04
the time? It looked crazy because I always have
37:07
to look good, but... Yeah, exactly. But the more
37:11
you stretch out those facial muscles and those
37:13
vocal cords, the better off you're gonna be.
37:15
But, yeah, that's pretty awesome. So, you're
37:20
coming out with a book. Did I read that correctly?
37:22
Yes, it's called... Follow Your Dreams? No. Yeah,
37:26
Follow Your Dreams, yes. What's it going to be
37:28
about? Because you're a young kid, you still
37:30
got a lot more life experience to go. It's about
37:34
how I got started and how I got inspired. And
37:38
it's like my whole story, how it's like follow
37:42
your dreams, like follow your dreams. It shows
37:44
me, me following my dreams and like practicing.
37:48
And it's a picture book too. It's a picture book.
37:51
It shows me what I do, right? It's just like
37:53
the night before Christmas, but... King version
37:56
and not Christmas. So we're going to have like
37:58
animations of you like in this story and like
38:02
you as a baby and then growing up three, five
38:04
years old trying to convince your dad to get
38:06
you into performing and then 10 years old or
38:09
nine years old you're at on America's Got Talent
38:11
and now here you are at 10 and you're doing all
38:13
these fantastic things. That's kind of what we're
38:16
going to get in the book. Yeah, and I'm definitely
38:18
going to come out with more books. That's one
38:21
thing. Oh, wow. All right. You want to be a multi
38:24
-book author? Is that what you're striving for?
38:27
Well, I want to have a book that has the number
38:30
one New York Times seller. Yeah, that is usually
38:34
a condition of a... successful book is if it's
38:37
number one on the New York Times best -selling
38:39
list. So I think you'll get there. I mean, you
38:41
obviously have a lot of dreams. You're a very
38:43
passionate, driven kid. I love that. You have
38:45
a lot of time going for you. I just tend, you've
38:48
already accomplished so much, but you have much
38:50
more you're going to accomplish. So yeah, King
38:52
Mora, this was a pleasure talking with you. And
38:55
how can we keep in touch with you? Like give
38:58
us all the socials. How can we follow what you're
39:01
doing? So I have my own app on the iOS store
39:04
and the Google Play store. and all my socials
39:07
is at Kingmore. That's K -I -N -G -M -O -O -R
39:11
-E. That's at Kingmore. That's K -I -N -G -M
39:14
-O -O -R -E. And if you want to go to my app,
39:17
just put in Kingmore and then you'll see my beautiful,
39:20
handsome face on the top bar. Of course. I love
39:25
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39:54
King Mora, thank you so much for doing this.
39:56
Best of luck to you. You're going to do awesome
39:58
with the duration of your career. So I look forward
40:01
to seeing what comes next. Thank you so much
40:03
for having me. All right. Thank you, King Mora,
40:06
and to everybody listening and watching, let's
40:08
deliciousness ring.