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S12E017: DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? WITH LADARRION WILLIAMS · Blerd’s Eyeview

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  end. Yeah. In the sky, it's a bird. It's a plane
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  flying high. Y'all emerged through the flames, have no fear from here.
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  Will stand back Medling, then activate the name of super Black. In the
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  The name is super Black. Hey everybody, it's Tuesday. Welcome back.
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  shout out to them. But without further ado, you know what,
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  let's bring let's let's let's bring my brother in. Maybe what's up man?
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  How you feeling man? Sir? I am making so who do we have
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  today? For those who are in the lost or not in the know.
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  But those who know, of course, they call me the games Master for
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  a reason. So this is a colossal piece in a game Hero clicks.
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  This is Dorma moved, y'all. I got me my dorma move. Man.
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  I like to annoy him as uh, Sir Benaduct come a botch the
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  second Uh. For those who don't know he did. He did the voice
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  for Mamu on Doctor Strange as well, So I'm happy to have that.
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  So what's going on? Brother? No, it's it's Tuesday. It's Tuesday.
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  Uh, trust me. It's been some changes in my life for the
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  past while in the past week since Thursday. Yeah, a lot has changed
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  with me since Thursday. Man, we got our set. My second in
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  command in the building. She's always fashion late. She's just my god.
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  We can't leave until all weapons are checked. That's just what it is.
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  That's just what it is. She would not let me do Sunday Night with
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  her anymore. We were we were insane, Oh, y'all were on one.
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  Congratulations on that one. We have the twenty twenty three winner of the
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  Children's Blurred con Cosplay Contest in the building. It's Logan and her father the
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  cinematic. Oh my gosh, we got a celebrity here. Oh my gosh,
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  you are so adorable. I want you to when I meet you,
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  I don't worry about your dad. Dad all right, and our connects are
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  very on too far. ITV in the building. Oh my god. The
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  other celebrity yay, Oh my gosh, I can't wait get your autograph.
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  Celebrity, celebrity has celebrity has a bone to pick with whoever's dropped off my
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  brother's door dash order. I don't know if I'm more I don't know if
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  I'm more offended that they got the order wrong or whatever sick effort out there
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  likes to get there. Doctor Pepper with the shot of Hershey's chocolate in it,
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  what Wavid? It was like you want to sip? He's like,
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  yeah, I didn't want to deal with this by myself. So, whoever
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  you are, thirty thousandshes, I hope you are locked in the cage thirtys
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  of the world. You got something. My reparations will come directly from your
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  paycheck. Whoever you are. What sandwich? No, we have a special
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  guest in the building with us tonight. But we show him before we bring
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  him on board. I want to show you a clip or his trailer from
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  Blood at the Root. It's it's something we've always talked about, right,
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  It's something we've always talked about. And uh, here we go, baby,
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  sometimes you got to get to the root of that. I don't know
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  anymore, reckless a hundred years and you still know how to hold the grudge.
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  Resilience is a form of magic that's in our blood, y'all, and
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  that's something they ain't gonna never take away. Yeah, but there Williams face,
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  let's go, let's go. Oh wow, that was that was amazing
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  that y'all were able to show that. It was amazing. We got to
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  see it. Kidding me, yo, that was d O P sir.
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  We do. We do our best to keep our guests uh in the know
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  of everyone. So for one number one, Uh, that's what brought me
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  in in the first place. I had been following you for quite a while.
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  And the tagline is you know, what if you had Harry Potter,
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  but it was HBCU type thing and and here it is we have Blood of
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  the Root. And this is something we've always talked about here at this panel
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  is where where's our magical realms? Where's our stories? Where where's our our
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  our roots? And and you've turned this into a novel. Yeah, let's
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  talk about it. Yeah, I'm ready to talk about it. Yeah.
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  So I I turned it in. Obviously the novel wasn't That wasn't the original
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  plan. I actually wrote it as this was like back in twenty twenty,
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  like right when things started shutting down, not starting. It did shut down
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  for the entire year. But so I wrote it as a TV script.
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  So because I was just you know, I started binging again when we were
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  all locked in the house. So I was like binging, you know,
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  of course like the Moesha's and the Parkers and everything else. And then I
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  was binging why not, right? But I was I was starting to binge
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  like a lot of the like you know, obviously Harry Potter and like the
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  Vampire Diaries and the Originals, and I was just like, you know,
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  just rewatching all those shows, and I was just like, man, like
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  I wish we have something kind of like that but for us, And so
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  I tweeted, I said, man, what if what if Harry Potter went
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  to an HBCU HBCU and like the tweet went viral and like it blew up
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  and people were like, oh my god, like like we want We've been
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  wanted that. We we want to be Harry Potter, we want to be
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  Slytherin and Briffin Dort, we want to be all of that. And I
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  was like, oh okay uh. And so I saw that there was a
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  need for it. I was like, okay, well how do I I'm
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  a writer, so you know Tony Morris and said, like, you know,
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  if there's a story out there that you want to see, you need
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  to write it right. And so I put pen in the paper and I
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  created like this, I don't know, I just created this pilot script about
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  this kid getting accepted into a magical HBCU. And so I rewatched like Stumpy
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  Yard, I rewatched all these others like like drum Line and all of this,
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  and so I was like, okay, let me have that but with
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  magic and black people are like in the South and like everybody's getting accepted.
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  So I wrote a full pilot script and from there I was like, okay,
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  well I want to shoot a short film or a trailer or something.
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  Obviously I didn't have the funds that the So after I wrote the pilot script
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  and studios and networks started seeing the tweets and like the posters that I was
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  posting about it, and they were like, hey, we would love to
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  meet with you. And I was like okay, and so we met and
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  then I sent them the script and it was and there was this one particular
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  big network. A lot of people don't like them now because they changed their
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  names, but so they were like, yeah, you know, we love
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  the script, man like, but we want to see something we want to
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  see like like like a like a concept like a concept trailer. I was
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  like, okay, I don't have the Okay, I don't have the money
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  to do that, but and everything is shut down, like nobody's really working
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  like that. But then I think randomly when I open Twitter, like this
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  one girl asked me like, hey, what's your cashup? I would love
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  to support that idea. And then when she asked that started like a chain
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  of reaction like people were like okay, yeah, I'll donate five dollars.
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  Here, I'll donate twenty dollars. And then this one dude donated like three
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  hundred dollars and he was like from Canada and like then I started having people
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  from UK donating and so I eventually got enough money to kind of like I
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  said, okay, well I got enough money to make a trailer, and
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  so I called up my friends. We did a table read of the script
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  and I was like, y'all, I know we shut down. I promise
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  we don't. We won't get sick. There would be there would be hand
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  sanitizers. If we can find dip your hands in this bleach just for don't
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  drink it. We're oh god, yeah, So I you know, they
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  were like, yeah, we're down. Like they loved the concept, they
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  loved the idea, and they saw that I was very passionate about this story,
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  and so I hired a cinematographer. I hired a sound person through Twitter,
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  and then we were like, okay, let's let's let's let's shoot it.
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  And so we shot it around l A. And on the first nine
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  of the first night of shooting, we shot at this gas station somewhere in
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  Inglewood. I don't even It was like an arc of he was cool,
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  the guy was cool, and so we shot it there and the cinematographer was
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  like, oh, yeah, this is gonna be a short film. And
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  I was like, brother, I don't have that much money for in a
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  time. So and so he was like, look, we'll make we'll make
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  it. We'll make diven. So me and my friends we literally shot entire
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  film all like all over Inglewood and all over North Hollywood, and then we
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  tried to cheat it to make it look like we were in New Orleans,
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  which was very, very difficult. And after that, you know, we
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  completed the short film and then I was like, okay, I got a
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  whole twenty five minute short film and we PopEd. We put it out and
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  people were they was like, yes, yes and no. I put it
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  out on my birthday, December third, twenty and we shot it around October.
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  Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah every season. Yeah. So yeah.
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  So we we shot it then and then I sent it back to the
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  to the executive, the Hollywood executive. I said, hey, I did
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  what you asked me to and I would love to set up a meeting to
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  try to, you know, get you the Bible show. To this day,
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  i've never heard from that executive ever. Again, I don't know,
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  you know, Hollywood, Holly, Hollywood. Yeah, I was gonna say
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  to Hollywood, I don't know, I don't know what happened. I never
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  heard from him ever again. And so I had this script. And then
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  I had this this this short film, and I was posting it everywhere,
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  and I was trying to get it to go viral and viral every time I
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  posted, and it was just so difficult. And and after that, I
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  was like, Okay, well I got this viral short film. I got
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  this viral script. Like, let me try to get an agent, you
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  know, a Hollywood agent to direct me. Nobody wanted to rep me.
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  They were saying, oh, you know, this is great, but we're
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  not really connecting with the main character or we don't see it. We don't
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  see this as marketable. And then I ended up getting more meetings at other
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  networks and studios and they kept telling me the same thing, like, you
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  know, it's not really marketable. This is something we're looking for, but
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  this particular story is not that marketable. I was like, okay, in
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  other words, what man, the Napkins keep covering ship that exactly? Yeah,
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  So you know, because there, because what I really wanted was this
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  to be literally for black people, like we are reclaiming our magic. Because
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  when Lovecraft came out, that's something like click that's what really is, you
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  know, seeing that I remember the Tulsa episode and that was just so powerful.
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  Yes, Smolette's character walking literally through fire and like she has she has
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  the book in her in her arms, and and you know, we normally
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  don't get to be taught about Tulsa, and so I was very interested in
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  and diving into our history a little bit more and through that and reworking the
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  script because you know, you got to rewrite like that, that's the nature
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  of writing. I was like, Okay, I want to put in the
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  Hatia Revolution. I want to put in black people time traveling and they're casting
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  spells and like all of this stuff. And so with that, I was
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  feeling very depressed about just it just wasn't going anywhere. I think people on
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  social media got tired of me posting the same trailer over and over and over,
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  and kind of it felt like the hype kind of died down a little
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  bit, and I was like, man, I'm trying to keep this momentum
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  going, and it just felt like I was doing it by myself, you
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  know, like my friends were like they're and supportive, but like you know,
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  actors they do something, they go on to the next project, because
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  also it's the pandemic. So I was like, okay, my one.
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  I was talking to my friend and it was like, hey, like,
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  I think you should turn this story into a book, like because you always
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  loved books, and and I was like no. And you know, this
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  was during the riot in George Floyd and it was a lot of racial to
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  learn. There was a lot of going on, and and I was very
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  radical in my thinking as far as like this is when I was really like
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  radical in my thing. I was like, I don't want I don't want
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  to see black men being killed or shot by police or dealing with racism in
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  this in this type of story. And I need for a fact that publishing
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  was not going to like that, because at the time, publishing was only
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  you know, producing books that if they had a black boy lead specifically,
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  they were only dealing with police brutality that was their story. And then they
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  died by the last page of the book, and so and so you know,
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  I kind of put it off for a little bit, and just like
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  a year later, I was just this story wouldn't leave me alone, and
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  like, you know, Malik would leave me alone, who was my main
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  character in like this world just kept growing and growing in my mind. And
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  so I was like, okay, well I'll try to write it as a
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  book, because I do remember reading books when I was in high school.
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  I was in high school when the Ya boom was like just it started booming,
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  Like you know, there was Hunger Games, Twilight and uh like The
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  Urgent. Yeah, you know we had to go when the movie dropped back
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  then you had to go. You had to wait till like twelve o'clock at
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  night to on a school night to go. Yeah yeah right yeah era And
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  and I love those movies, and you know, we grew up on them.
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  But I just I just got tired of not seeing me, Like I
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  got tired of not seeing my friends, you know, on there getting to
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  have the adventures and getting to have the love stories, right and like just
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  and they always have the dystopian stories, but they were always with the white
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  leave. I was like, I don't know if the white girl would be
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  saving the world during a dustopian So I came to be on a girl with
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  a Stanley cup trying to say the world. Yeah, I don't know about
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  that, you know. And so you know, I went to Barnes and
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  Noble because I wanted to pick reading because I stopped reading for that reason.
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  So I went to Barzanoble here in Bourbank and I asked the clerk. I
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  said, hey, you know, I'm just getting back into reading, like
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  can you help me like pick out some books. And so we went to
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  the YA section. I was like, I'm looking for books with like black
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  boys on the cover and I don't want them to really be dealing with racism
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  right now. She's like, yeah, sure, and she went up and
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  down, like she was looking up and down. And then you know,
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  the YA section is pretty big, but at the end of the day,
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  it's pretty small. So we went to the YA Fantasy section and then she
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  was looking up and down. I was looking up and down, and she
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  was like, oh, what about this book. I was like, yeah,
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  I like that. I want to support that book, but I just
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  don't want to deal with police brutality right now, because it's in our faces
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  every day on social media. Want to deal with and she kept looking up
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  and down, and I looked up and down, and she looked at me,
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  and I looked at her and she was like, huh, Like,
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  there's really not books with black young black boys in the ya, fantasy section
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  that don't really deal with racism and police was out and get build and be
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  pushed to the side to help the white man character realize their dreams and their
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  purpose in life. And so that's when I was like, okay, I
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  with that with my friend telling me, and with that, I was like,
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  Okay, I gotta write this as a book. And I locked myself
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  in my apartment for twelve days and wrote the first draft of the book of
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  Blood at the Root and that from there, adapting it from the script to
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  a book, I had to create more characters. I had to build out
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  the world a lot more because with the pilot script you can only go so
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  far, and technically Act one of the book is the pilot script. So
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  I had to build out the college and the classes and the curriculum. And
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  so I had a first draft, yeah, in twelve days, and I
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  was like, Okay, I'm gonna self publish it. I was like,
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  I'm gonna self publish it because publishing just don't want stories with black boys as
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  the magical character. And uh, I got hired of an editor. She
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  was she's a black woman. Her name is Margo Weston and she's from Louisiana.
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  We still talk to this day. And when we were working together,
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  she was like, Ladarian, she was like, this book is too good
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  to She was like, I know you want to self published, but you
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  need the engine behind you to really really help you get this book out there.
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  And I was like, Margo, no, I'm good. I'm not
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  trying to. I'm not trying to have that heartbreak. Hollywood already broke my
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  heart with this story. I have publishing break my heart too. So we
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  kept working on it and she kept saying, look, publishing needs this story,
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  like and she was on the same front as I was. She was
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  like, there's really not a lot of books with black boy main characters in
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  the Ya fantasy said. I said, okay, this was like March.
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  This was like around April May twenty twenty two and twenty twenty one, sorry,
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  twenty twenty one April May twenty twenty one, and I went on query.
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  So I started queering agents around May. And you know, for those
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  that don't know, querying is just you know, you send a cover letter
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  in about your book and like a little bit of like a sample to agents.
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  And I was getting rejections from like the very first hour that I sent
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  emails out to for literally, I was getting rejections in the morning, late
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  at night, and they were seeing the same thing that Hollywood producers were saying,
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  we like it, but we can't really connect to the main character or
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  it's not really marketable for us right now. And uh, and I was
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  being petty. I was sending every single rejected to my friend Mark. Got's
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  like, see, I told you, I told you too that I'm going
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  to sell publish this and she's like, just keep going and then we're gonna
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  rework. We're gonna rework the first fifty pages. We're gonna rework the first
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  hundred pages. And so we did that, and then around they like around
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  may Or, Yeah, may Or June, I got an offer for representation,
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  and I was like, oh, okay, that's cool. And you
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  know when you get an offer for a representation, that's when it it's weird.
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  It's a weird dynamic, like the tables are now they have to convince
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  you to sign with them because now they see value into your work. And
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  so I said, okay. And typically when you're getting offered, you have
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  to let every single quirring agent no that you queried, Hey, I got
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  an offer of representation. Hurry up because you got you only got so many
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  days to make a decision. That's typical. That's a typical industry. And
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  so I was getting you know, agents was dropping out. They was like,
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  yeah, we're good. No, I'm good, you know. And
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  I ended up getting two more offers from agents, and and I had to
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  spend like two weeks in like July August to kind of make a decision.
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  And then I currently signed with my agent. Now who we were still together
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  is Peter Knapp at Parking Fine Literary. He took a chance on Blood at
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  the Root and he really believed in my vision is to showcase black boys the
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  complexity of you know, black boyhood through the lens of magic. And he
• 26:55
  really understood and he really he really supported it, and so I signed with
• 26:59
  him August. Yeah, that was August twenty twenty one. And then we
• 27:03
  got to work right after, you know, we started editing the book to
• 27:07
  get it ready for her to submit it to publishers, and that's a whole
• 27:10
  another feed And so from like August to the next year, just rewriting the
• 27:15
  book, you know, and letting it grow and grow and meeting more characters
• 27:18
  and getting the draft right. We went on submission to editors at publishers September
• 27:25
  nineteenth, twenty twenty two, and I was like, Okay, here we
• 27:29
  go, Like, you know, I crossed one hurdle to get the agent.
• 27:32
  Now I got across another hurdle to get the actual publisher to buy the
• 27:36
  book. And it's the same thing. Like within an hour that he was
• 27:41
  sending emails out, we were getting rejections. No, like again, it
• 27:45
  was the same thing from Hollywood to the agents and now to the publishers.
• 27:49
  Now we're good. You know, we don't really see we don't really have
• 27:53
  an editorial vision for this book where we don't know how to market it or
• 27:57
  we don't really connect to the main So I was getting that for hearing that
• 28:03
  story over in in not just in the literary context, but in the physical
• 28:10
  media and whether it's television, whether it's movies, and we hear this story,
• 28:12
  but the problem is, we know that's not true, Like we know
• 28:18
  that's not true. And my stuff was going viral still like on YouTube,
• 28:23
  and and so it's clear. And then and then I went viral on TikTok
• 28:27
  because I joined TikTok at that time I bit the bullet and enjoying. Uh,
• 28:33
  they can't take credit for it. That's why they're giving that trashy line.
• 28:38
  They can't take credit for what you created. It's unique and it's something
• 28:41
  in the back of their mind's sitting there going why did not think of that?
• 28:45
  Well, okay, you didn't, But make it something, make it
• 28:48
  something. It always comes back to who's your lead? Oh well this lead
• 28:52
  is this young is this young black? I'm sorry what I mean? It's
• 28:56
  this young black hero I have? That's Oh? Is it blues brutality?
• 29:02
  No? Is he? Is he from a rough neighborhood? No he loses
• 29:06
  parents? No he is? Is he a drug dealer? Is he?
• 29:14
  Is? He is Tyler Perry plays where he's reformed in their song? No,
• 29:22
  oh well we're not interested. He's a runaway preacher. No. Yeah,
• 29:29
  it's just so yeah. You know, in looking back now, I
• 29:30
  was very dramatic because you know, being on sub to publishers, like you're
• 29:34
  you're literally at the door. You just need somebody to open it, right,
• 29:37
  Like so every day I was getting like two Peace Combo every day,
• 29:44
  Like I would get one in the morning and then you know, you're checking
• 29:45
  your phone every five minutes, which is not healthy. I don't because you
• 29:52
  know my age, because I don't like silent rejections. I have to to
• 29:57
  give me against I don't like silence. My agent, if they say no,
• 30:00
  just send it to me. That way, I can just count them
• 30:03
  out. And so we submitted. I think we originally submitted to thirty editors
• 30:07
  and my agent he doesn't usually agents do rounds. They do like ten or
• 30:11
  fifteen, and so we were running out, like people were saying no,
• 30:17
  like by November December, and you know, Hollywood and publishing they shut down
• 30:22
  for like three and a half weeks in December because you know, the holiday,
• 30:26
  and I was like, well that's around. So we didn't get no
• 30:30
  book deal because I wanted a book deal before my thirtieth birthday. I was
• 30:33
  like, that's my goal. That was like my life goal is to get
• 30:34
  a book deal, but before my thirtieth birthday, and didn't get it my
• 30:37
  birthday December third, I got like four rejections on my birthday. I was
• 30:41
  like, well, yeah, so you know, like things started shutting down.
• 30:48
  And at that time, I was going to Chicago to work on a
• 30:52
  play of mine because I'm also a play, right, So I got to
• 30:55
  go to Chicago to work on a play. And so while I was out
• 31:00
  in Chicago, you know, things opened back up again. You know,
• 31:03
  people were going back into the office and rejections was flooding, and I was
• 31:07
  like, we're down to like literally less than ten editors. So I got
• 31:11
  to break up with my book and just say, hey, you know,
• 31:14
  I tried, but maybe it's just not it's not the time right now.
• 31:18
  And woke up one morning and I had an email from my agent saying,
• 31:23
  hey, La Darien, please call me. We need to talk. And
• 31:26
  I was like, okay, and I called him and he told me that
• 31:30
  we got an offer from a publisher or imprint, like you know, publishers
• 31:37
  have different imprints. So we got one offer Imprint, and we got on
• 31:41
  the phone with the editor and they told me how much they loved the book
• 31:45
  and like what they what their editorial vision was. And so it's kind of
• 31:48
  like with the agent again. So my now my agent have to go to
• 31:52
  all the remaining editors and tell them say, look, he has an offer
• 31:55
  on the book. Either you offer or you gotta we got to bow out.
• 31:57
  And so I was like, oh my god, he's telling them that
• 32:01
  like, oh god, right there, team, Oh my god. And
• 32:10
  so so yeah, they offered, and then a couple of days later HarperCollins
• 32:17
  they offered for a book deal and I was like, oh my god,
• 32:22
  like that's one of the big five, right, And so after they offered,
• 32:25
  another editor came in and was like, look, I love this story.
• 32:30
  We got on the phone really quickly and she was like, look,
• 32:31
  I love your story. This is my editorial vision. She's like I love
• 32:36
  that. I love your mission. And she's like, this is what I
• 32:37
  want to support. And she was like she went to my age and she
• 32:40
  was like, we will offer this much to take it off the table.
• 32:45
  And she offered, and and what and what really drew me to her also
• 32:54
  too, is I wanted to see this book in three like a trilogy,
• 32:59
  and the other offer they only offer two books. And then I'm possible maybe
• 33:02
  I maybe a third book. And so on January nineteen, four months in,
• 33:08
  we officially closed submission and we sold Blood at the Route in a three
• 33:13
  book deal and a major deal. On January nineteen, twenty twenty three and
• 33:16
  three days after my birthday, yeah, my actual birthday. Yeah, yeah,
• 33:25
  I you know, my I was doing lyft. I was, so
• 33:28
  I went back home, came back to LA and you know, to do
• 33:30
  lyft, you know, to back to the nine to five. I guess
• 33:34
  we want to call it that. And my agent call and I was like,
• 33:37
  okay, this is something, and so my age call. Yeah,
• 33:39
  he told me. He was like, hey, La, dam do you
• 33:40
  have time to talk. I was like, I'm driving right now, but
• 33:43
  let me pull over. I was in the middle of downtown somewhere like downtown
• 33:47
  LA, and that's when he told He was like yeah. He was like,
• 33:50
  you officially sold the book. Blood at the road you're going to be
• 33:52
  and they're going to fast track the book so they're going to have it come
• 33:54
  out May twenty twenty four instead of May twenty twenty five. And I gotta
• 34:02
  give you this. I gotta give you this because you better. That's much
• 34:09
  thought off after situations that here on this platform, in the within the Blurred
• 34:16
  community, we talk about seeing ourselves in leads, whether it's action, sci
• 34:24
  fi, fantasy, romance, and it's it's it's it's so necessary, it's
• 34:31
  so necessary. When they when you hear those stories, just like you told
• 34:36
  that story, they kept returning. They kept turning it down. Oh,
• 34:38
  it's not our vision. It's in other words, it's not napinized. It's
• 34:43
  it's not it's not for the ash. It's not it's not it's not coalition.
• 34:53
  Yeah, yeah, because it's because you know, this book what I
• 34:58
  wanted to I wanted to create this world. But we also we learn our
• 35:02
  history, we get reconnected to our ancestry and like, and it talks about
• 35:07
  it does have tough conversations in our community. And I do I don't even
• 35:13
  know if I said, I can understand, but like when they read stuff,
• 35:15
  like they're like Haitian Revolution there, these kids are time traveling back to
• 35:21
  that one. They're seeing heads getting chopped off. We don't know. We
• 35:25
  want to talk about it, you know, we don't know. And I
• 35:29
  was like, because as a kid from the South, I was born in
• 35:31
  Alabama, Like we didn't get to learn about the Haitian Revolution. And not
• 35:36
  realizing now that the Haitial Revolution sparks so much in Black history and it inspires
• 35:42
  Black history all the way from Louisiana to Alabama, Mississippi, all the way
• 35:46
  to the Gulagigie, Like it sparked so many insurrections and so I wanted those
• 35:52
  I wanted these kids in this story to learn that, and I want kids
• 35:54
  and everybody like who buys the book to learn to also learn that as well,
• 35:59
  because are like a lot of hidden history, Black history that they don't
• 36:02
  that they're refusing actually to school system. Yeah, you know, thank god
• 36:10
  my editor Lisa Abrams, she took a chance on the book, and she's
• 36:14
  been very, very supportive of the books so far. And we're three months
• 36:19
  now today, we're three months away from having again bookstores. So, Cinematic
• 36:23
  Assassin, you had a question, and I want you to ask you you
• 36:27
  always got a question. I just wanted to let you know you're amazingly inspirational
• 36:35
  because we're actually mutuals on Twitter. So I was in the Twitter streets when
• 36:39
  you were like, hey, guys, how do y'all feel about this Harry
• 36:43
  Potter the idea? And so seeing that go from a tweet to then seeing
• 36:47
  the little film the film drop and then now it's a book that's coming,
• 36:53
  like it's a real physical thing like I saw your unboxing. I was like
• 36:58
  that crazy, like it literally was an idea and now it's a real thing
• 37:04
  in the in the universe, like thank you for that, like thank you
• 37:07
  for me being able to be a part of like a passenger on this whole
• 37:14
  process. And with that, my question was what was the transition from it
• 37:21
  being a script to being a novel? Like what did you have to do
• 37:27
  to make that transition and flesh that out? Yeah, So it's interesting because
• 37:34
  it's writing a script. Screenwriting is already Sometimes I have a love hate relationship
• 37:37
  with screenwriting because it's so formulating. You know, they don't want your they
• 37:42
  don't they I've been told so many times when people read my scripts like,
• 37:45
  oh, it's very novel. It's like a novel. It reads like a
• 37:47
  novel, and I'm like okay. And then writing the novel, my agent
• 37:52
  will tell me like, oh, you know it's it's kind of like a
• 37:54
  screenplay. Okay, so how do I how do I switch it up?
• 38:00
  And so I'm gonna play right at Heart? And so I was like,
• 38:05
  okay, La Darian, how do you infuse the two into this book?
• 38:08
  And like talk about you know, create crafting like amazing prose or in my
• 38:14
  opinion, I think it's amazing prose. And also but also when I was
• 38:21
  reading books, I was like, Okay, black people don't talk like they're
• 38:24
  in a Shakespearean play. So I'm gonna I want to. And I'm from
• 38:29
  the South, and so I want to hear my mama talk. I want
• 38:31
  to hear my my aunties and my cousins and my friends. I want to
• 38:35
  see that in a book. I want to. I want to see the
• 38:37
  AA V E. And also it can manifest magic, it can manifest their
• 38:42
  spells, and and so I was really diving into all of that. I
• 38:45
  was reading not only scripts, but I was reading other books. But I
• 38:51
  was also reading plays. I was going to go see plays. I was
• 38:53
  going to go see author like talk about their books. And and I was
• 38:58
  like, okay, I got a sick down. And with my agent he
• 39:00
  told me, one day, you know, just be basically be unapologetic about
• 39:07
  what you're seeing in these chapters and be free, be free. And he
• 39:12
  gave me that, you know, he gave me that rain. And so
• 39:15
  this I don't even know what because I wrote so many drafts of this book.
• 39:17
  I don't even remember it's now, But there was a moment where it
• 39:22
  really clicked. I was like, Okay, I want to see a chapter
• 39:27
  again, like the Haitian Revolution. I was like I want to I want
• 39:30
  to build a whole chapter off of that. And now getting into that chapter,
• 39:34
  I was like, Okay, that's going to spark so many events in
• 39:37
  the book. Now I want to write that, and then going to and
• 39:42
  also too, when you write a pilot script and you haven't sold the show,
• 39:45
  you don't have the other episodes to show people. So now I really
• 39:49
  got free rain to talk about what I want to talk about in the story
• 39:52
  in showcase, what I want to talk about. So that kind of lifted
• 39:54
  a lot of pressure off of me while I was editing the book, while
• 39:58
  I was rewriting it, and it's still also still letting it be uh visual
• 40:05
  even though you're reading it. Says that the book is very cinematic, even
• 40:10
  even even when they read it, like they could still picture the magic and
• 40:14
  they could picture the school. In Malik, I don't know, he's conjuring
• 40:17
  hurricanes and fire and he's calling on his ancestors to basically like, YO,
• 40:22
  help me out. I'm in trouble, you know, uh, and so
• 40:27
  yeah, so it's it's just I had to, like I had to really
• 40:31
  step away from the pilot. I haven't read the pilots. Great probably in
• 40:35
  two years. It's on my computer, it's in my FID. It's gonna
• 40:38
  be one of the things where you reach back and be like, Okay,
• 40:40
  I can change this because he now is a little more relevant or something.
• 40:45
  Yeah, now when we you know, when we updated to the time,
• 40:50
  Yeah, I updated and and and really and really uh and takes the lessons
• 40:55
  that I learned about writing a book back to screenwriting and really, uh,
• 41:00
  beun apologetic about what I'm trying to say in the screen in the screen writing,
• 41:04
  because that's when people are really going to see it visually on a screen.
• 41:07
  So you this is coming out at a time as I've I've coined this
• 41:12
  year the Year of Truth because things have been popping up and getting aired out
• 41:17
  and it's become a it's array has literally just said, you know what,
• 41:22
  I got funds that I'm putting together. And didn't I call these guys putting
• 41:25
  funds together so we can do our own thing because seeing ourselves on a television
• 41:30
  show or in a movie, and it doesn't fold over well for the general
• 41:36
  masses as they like to call but we know what it is, you know,
• 41:39
  and now here we have something when when the concept of your short film
• 41:45
  came out. My eyes lit up. Yeah. And this was right like
• 41:51
  around the time like Hogwarts legacy was popping up and people were doing the whole
• 41:55
  TikTok thing and I'm like, yeah, but where's all you know, like,
• 42:00
  why do we have to use someone else's don't mean magical negroes either,
• 42:06
  because that was just let's not lessivity, because when you cross fifty years old,
• 42:15
  all the fox have just disappeared. In your Lady Man the Lord,
• 42:21
  you had a question the ys I had Are you okay? Oh ship okay?
• 42:36
  Are you do you feel do you feel any worries about your book potentially
• 42:42
  being banned? Mm hmmm, because you are, you're doing some critical,
• 42:50
  critical race theory. You're you're making the small children maybe nervous about their their
• 42:55
  heritage and how delicate they might feel about being told how they were resacting back
• 43:00
  in the oldies, even though they asked us what wasn't there? But that's
• 43:08
  one question. My second I don't go finish that first finish. Yeah,
• 43:14
  that's a very wow, that's a very good question, because I'm it's it's
• 43:20
  weird actively seeing books being banned right now. It's just I'm like, wait,
• 43:25
  what they're they're they're banning. Okay, I don't I don't am I
• 43:31
  worried about it. I don't know. I've been told by even white people
• 43:37
  like, yes, finally, finally different type of stories, like we're tired
• 43:42
  of the woman told her. She's like, I'm tired of reading about white
• 43:45
  men or white girls save in the world. I'm like the older white woman
• 43:52
  from like Mississippi, like that's me. And I am afraid because, uh,
• 44:00
  I remember growing up in Alabama, right, like just being a teenager
• 44:05
  and not even having a car and being able to go to like books,
• 44:07
  like we had books a million Barns and Noble was like all the way and
• 44:10
  burning in somewhere, but not being able to have the access. If it
• 44:15
  wasn't for my school's library, I wouldn't have access to books because one I
• 44:20
  didn't have the funds and two I didn't have like a way to get to
• 44:22
  the bookstore. And so that's what I'm afraid of. It's like a lot
• 44:27
  of you know, black and brown kids who are wanting to and who are
• 44:30
  yearning to see this book and they're not able to read it. That's going
• 44:35
  to be very heartbreaking. And you know, I have to figure out,
• 44:38
  you know, how to get this book to them. And that's why it's
• 44:42
  so important for people who are who are very frequent visitors of their local libraries
• 44:47
  to request books like Blood at through like just black books, because the more
• 44:53
  they requested, the more the library has to Well hopefully I don't know what
• 44:57
  the laws or rules or whatever they have, Hopefully they do stop them.
• 45:00
  But that's what I'm really really afraid of for like a lot of yon black,
• 45:05
  brown kids, especially black kids who don't have a lot of access to
• 45:08
  the arts, not being able to get this book. That's what That's what
• 45:14
  I'm afraid of. Uh. And and I'm glad you said that because there's
• 45:19
  someone you can you can also follow up with, and that is a sister
• 45:22
  sci fi mm hmmm mm hmm. Sci fi pretty much deals with this type
• 45:30
  of stuff. Yeah. Uh And and showing black books, black authors,
• 45:36
  black leads, and not not torture porn, not trauma porn, now,
• 45:40
  none of that stuff. So I'm glad that question was asked, And I'm
• 45:45
  glad that was put in because we know people, we know people, Yeah,
• 45:51
  I know people. I think since the sci Fi I think I have
• 45:53
  an interview with them in July. But I think I'm going to go up
• 45:57
  there. Are they there North cal right? Are they think so? I
• 46:00
  believe so? I believe in a Bay area. Yeah. Well, my
• 46:05
  publishers already been talking to them, and I'm going to be doing some signings
• 46:08
  for books of books there. Get God, you said that, I was
• 46:14
  like, Oh, yeah, like my public sisterci Fi are really interested in
• 46:17
  your book and like stalking it. And so that's very important too. Especially
• 46:22
  I'm hoping that more black owned bookstores are able to be placed in a lot
• 46:27
  of cities, small towns, every everywhere. So I'm very hopeful for that.
• 46:32
  But yeah, that was a really good question. And now that's making
• 46:37
  me think, like the work work is never the work is never strategize.
• 46:45
  Yeah, before I get the Navy, before I get the Navy, I
• 46:46
  have to say this. It's needed. I said it earlier. It's necessary
• 46:52
  because when you hear people say, oh, that's not what we're looking for,
• 46:54
  it's not what you're looking for. However, there are army of people
• 47:01
  who are who are dying to see this type of work. They want to
• 47:07
  read about this stuff, they want to see it on screen, they want
• 47:09
  to see it in their homes because and I'm Lovecraft Country shot out to Misha
• 47:15
  Green number one, who took a book that was written by racist white man
• 47:22
  and flipped it on its head, yeah, and said, I'm going to
• 47:28
  tell this story and the questions and the conversations that were being had by several
• 47:34
  generations about stuff they never knew about, whether within our own bloodlines they didn't
• 47:40
  know about stuff they didn't know about it if it shocked me finding out from
• 47:46
  someone who's three times my age, they hadn't heard of Tulsa and I heard
• 47:52
  I heard it Tusa thirty years now, so you know, it was shocking.
• 47:55
  And I'm like, this is crazy Tulsa sundowntown towns that have been drowned
• 48:00
  out by conversation in my hometown. Yeah, so this needs to be told.
• 48:08
  These stories need to be talked about because someone just like you said,
• 48:13
  that white woman in Mississippi, she was like, finally, I want to
• 48:17
  know. I want to know. You know. So when you hear stuff
• 48:22
  like that, when you hear about the Lake Landiers and which has a horror
• 48:25
  movie now mm hmmm please the boats that is that the premise, I was
• 48:37
  like, oh look at that. Uh, you know, the central parks
• 48:38
  and all the different man made things around the country and everything. When you
• 48:43
  hear these stories and here when you hear about, oh, they're going to
• 48:45
  ban books in Texas and in Florida and all the in Virginia, and it's
• 48:50
  like, why, you know, what are you hiding? You know we're
• 48:54
  in the year truth. Now you're hiding something grandparents want to let the grandkids
• 49:00
  know that you might have been racist. Yep, uh, maybe you had
• 49:04
  a question. Yeah. First of all, it's a pleasure to finally meet
• 49:08
  you, sir. I dig what you've done because I'm a bookhead. I've
• 49:13
  been back in the day where the library was my rec center. So I
• 49:16
  don't care what anybody says. What made you decide to go the route of
• 49:23
  bringing in Haitian history because we know ethnic and indigenous cultures around the world all
• 49:32
  focused around magic. And I've noticed that whenever you bring anything of anything from
• 49:37
  the Islands, anything from the Caribbean involving magic, it's always with a negative
• 49:42
  connotation, especially in movies. I hate seeing it where you're not letting people
• 49:45
  see the genuine love and what it has done to allow these people to live
• 49:52
  and to grow, but rather you want to see the deadly demon, you
• 49:55
  know, the the voodoo side of it it. And I was like,
• 50:00
  no, So, out of all of them, what made you decide to
• 50:04
  focus on the Haitian culture, which I'm fascinated by because again, like you
• 50:09
  said, a lot of people didn't know about the Haitian Revolution and how much
• 50:13
  of an impact has had on our folks as a whole, especially around the
• 50:16
  Gulf coast and around you know, around the southern region. So yeah,
• 50:21
  that's a really good question too. And it's it's for that very reason when
• 50:25
  I was like doing like research, because I've always been very fascinated with the
• 50:30
  Haitian Revolution. But when I started researching, there was like stories of during
• 50:37
  the during the war, right like that you know, they were like I
• 50:43
  tried, was dancing in the woods in Haiti to call upon like the Areshias
• 50:46
  like Ogon and Shango and to help them in the war, and like what
• 50:53
  like because you, like you said, like every time you see something,
• 50:55
  if they even allude to the Haitian Revolution, it's always it's it's the black
• 51:00
  warriors holding the head like the chopped heads of the white and the dancing andati
• 51:07
  on their land and you tried to steal their land and you tried to kill
• 51:09
  the people, pillage and everything. So I was like, okay, like
• 51:14
  how do well, how do I kind of humanize this? Right? Because
• 51:17
  growing up like and this is no shade to American horse story because it's one
• 51:22
  of my favorite seasons. When I saw Papa Legbud, which that wasn't they
• 51:30
  mixed it, but he was he was snorting coke and I was like,
• 51:37
  wait, what like and he's steal a baby. Okay, no, this
• 51:42
  is not this, no, like and maybe there's a version of that,
• 51:45
  I don't know, but the ones that I was studying and hearing people talk
• 51:50
  about, you know that there was like after Riah Toya, like this black
• 51:54
  woman was chopping hands off, but there was stories that she had super speed
• 52:00
  and she had superhuman strength and like she was leading it. And then also
• 52:05
  hearing about other warriors like really just calling upon the magic, and so I
• 52:09
  was like, that's not negative to me. They were just they were defending
• 52:14
  themselves like naturally what they were doing, and also using that and using the
• 52:20
  call on the gods and their ancestral powers and using the soil and like the
• 52:23
  nature like just all of that and learning that the boat stops how like the
• 52:30
  customs from the motherland, right Africa, and then they stopped in the Caribbeans,
• 52:32
  and then they came over here. Those slaves were taking all of that
• 52:37
  they knew from their motherland, and they were just switching it up like,
• 52:39
  Okay, we have to hide this. We can't perform this publicly because we'll
• 52:43
  be killed. So how can we change this oak Like, how can we
• 52:46
  you know, practice it in the open? But it's still they looking like,
• 52:51
  oh, they're just dancing around the fire. That's kind of weird,
• 52:53
  but that yeah, but they don't even know the ring shout. They're literally
• 52:58
  calling upon the ancestors to help them, you know, get to get So
• 53:05
  I was that's the reason, because I just wanted to humanize that, which
• 53:08
  I hope I've done correctly, But I wanted to humanize those in history because
• 53:15
  learning about that for the first time as a black kid from Alabama, and
• 53:19
  I'm like, but we've been learning about Greek mythology all through high school and
• 53:23
  middle school, and those Greek gods was I mean, they were doing some
• 53:28
  file stuff. There's a half naked hero doing all kinds of weird ship I
• 53:36
  don't want to know he's half naked. What are you telling me this for?
• 53:39
  Yeah, they're fornicating with a fleece. But we want to humanize that,
• 53:45
  Okay, we want to villanize voodoo and and who do culture and like
• 53:52
  and and even still like even as I'm working on book two in the trilogy,
• 53:55
  I'm learning more about who do culture and how it it influenced, like
• 54:00
  the Black Baptist culture, and like all of those customs literally came through in
• 54:06
  Louisiana and like, like I said, Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi all the
• 54:09
  way up to the South Carolina, you know, the Carolina coast. And
• 54:13
  so it's just so beautiful to see that, and I want to I don't
• 54:17
  practice it, but I want to at least do my job to honor it
• 54:22
  and to honor about that sacrifice that they did, because we never know,
• 54:24
  like you know, we so cut off from our history sometimes, Like I
• 54:29
  don't know, maybe personally I came I had somebody an ancestor in the Haitian
• 54:32
  Revolution, and I just felt compelled to and inspired to write about it.
• 54:37
  But yeah, I just wanted to humanize those people who fought and bled for
• 54:42
  their land and their families. And I'm glad we mentioned in the Haitian Revolution.
• 54:45
  Shout out to MVJ Comic, MVJ dot Comics, because they actually have
• 54:51
  a book on Louis louver Ta, Tuson louver Ta and how they the Haitian
• 54:57
  Revolution and vampires and every day. It's it's dope concept, dope book.
• 55:01
  Uh so, you know, shout out to them. Uh so, can
• 55:06
  I can I these kind of stories? Can I can I put in a
• 55:08
  bid for? If this decides you want to do an audiobook version of this?
• 55:15
  You have three voice actors amongst this crew. It will be more than
• 55:21
  honored to be at this, you know. Uh he always I do you
• 55:28
  know? Do you do? You want me to do a lyric? And
• 55:30
  sounded like an old Victorian old man? Myself, my Lady Mandlord, and
• 55:37
  Navy Mantel. We're all uh practicing voice actors, and we we enjoy this
• 55:44
  stuff. I'm not here to blow my own horn, man, I'm to
• 55:47
  that damn thing. I'm here to give everybody else flowers. Immediately after today,
• 56:02
  I do some Navy Montelle Like is that your name? That is what
• 56:07
  I go through all social media. My name is Montell. But that's why
• 56:08
  I go through social media. So you want to know an interesting fact.
• 56:13
  Shoot, my middle name is Montell, so smart, not those numbers.
• 56:24
  That's why when I saw that, Wait, I've never I never met another
• 56:29
  Montel same. I don't mean you know, see that name is like,
• 56:32
  are you worthy of that title? Because I MDB Boys Voice we are credited.
• 56:39
  Yes, And my last name is William so I didn't know he's not
• 56:43
  my uncle. Wow, don't don't feel bad. I tell people my name
• 56:49
  is Williams. It's funny. Can you give me my damn food? Right?
• 56:54
  You just give me my food? So this has been one of these
• 57:00
  This is I'm so glad you wrote this. And I know, like I
• 57:04
  said, with love looks, with stories like Lovecraft Country and even even that
• 57:08
  season of Covin on American Horror Story, because I wasn't just rooting for Angela
• 57:14
  Basket because Angela Basket. I was rooting for angel Bassist because I'm like,
• 57:16
  finally we have someone who's about this ship, like she's the real prime.
• 57:23
  But I was confused. I was I was really confused by the whole Wait
• 57:32
  a minute, what this is a three hundred year old witch and she's getting
• 57:36
  she's getting her ass handed to her by a little girl. She was calling.
• 57:42
  She was calling them ounta now she was calling. I said the same
• 57:45
  thing. I'm like, it's literally not mathing. I'm like, no,
• 57:52
  she's undred years old, so she's wore English English. What are you telling
• 57:55
  you about? Right? Yeah, it was it was. I was given
• 58:00
  you know, I was giving looks like this. I'm like, okay,
• 58:07
  like disapproving right films? Uh Spartan you had a question, Oh no,
• 58:17
  I was good. I was going to I was. I was listening to
• 58:20
  you guys because I just kind of already order his book because I kind of
• 58:23
  feel like I was. I really wanted to read this because again, not
• 58:28
  just to reiterate first off, read band books. I cannot stress that enough,
• 58:32
  because you individuals, really you booked us, but days you might think
• 58:43
  that leaves you anyway. You individuals make me sick sometimes about that kind of
• 58:47
  stuff. But no, all all all jokes, aside, perceptions, everything.
• 58:52
  I mean the fact that we say we say we want our leads to
• 58:57
  represent us and make people uncomfortable. So what because for the longest time didn't
• 59:02
  bother you when we were watching your movies? So Why should it bother you
• 59:06
  when you read our movies, when you read our books, when you you
• 59:10
  see our stories, our television shows things that nature. Why does it bother
• 59:15
  you so much that now the shoes on the other foot. I want to
• 59:19
  be I want to be. I want to I want to lead over in
• 59:22
  the theater to that that one saying you're shifting a lot over there. Yeah.
• 59:27
  Yeah, it's a lot of heat coming off of you. You okay.
• 59:32
  I'm for that time when the first time I got to see roots in
• 59:37
  a room full of napkins and the napkins got nervous. That was the greatest
• 59:42
  two hours in a classroom thing I've ever had to where they were nervous.
• 59:46
  And I'm like, what's the problem. Well, it's horrible. Why it's
• 59:52
  history said it was. But it needs to have that. It needs to
• 1:00:00
  have that, not just from that shock factor alone. But again it's again
• 1:00:04
  it goes back to perception. We want to be able to tell stories,
• 1:00:07
  as you've seen in the commons field. We don't want the struggle stories.
• 1:00:12
  We don't want the uh you have to come from impoverished or unbelievable situations or
• 1:00:19
  stereotype demographic stories can we just have a story that we can relate to that
• 1:00:24
  doesn't involve a B or C and still be able to enjoy it, which
• 1:00:30
  which you have done. That's like, don't be wrong, don't be wrong,
• 1:00:31
  sir. The book that you have is exactly the example of what we
• 1:00:36
  actually need out there. But it's always but it's always funny when you always
• 1:00:43
  hear, well how coming from that? As from Oh I was, I
• 1:00:50
  was you really really will really will. No, it's just I have to
• 1:00:57
  give you. I hate you, I hate why do eat your flowers on
• 1:01:00
  that? Because you know, to continue with that story because again getting the
• 1:01:07
  slam, getting the slam doors, the rejection letters, things of that nature,
• 1:01:09
  and and to be on the cusp of it being sold. I'm not
• 1:01:15
  sorry a being available, of multiple people being involved in it. I just
• 1:01:20
  want to give your flowers on that, man, because that you got,
• 1:01:22
  you gotta celebrate the victories and accomplishments. And something tells me that you,
• 1:01:27
  along with a whole bunch of others, is going to very is going to
• 1:01:30
  kick open a very locked door. And I cannot freaking wait. So I
• 1:01:35
  will say this because apparently a lot of what I've been saying is happening,
• 1:01:38
  been happening lately. I'm just waiting for them. Damn lottery numbers. This
• 1:01:46
  this is the wave and your book is a part of this wave. And
• 1:01:51
  I see this not only as the book, but I see this in film
• 1:01:54
  form. I want to see this. I need to see this when I
• 1:02:00
  say, sitting down every Sunday and watching HBO Max for Lovecraft Country and I'm
• 1:02:07
  like this, Sh'S good, this is good, and I need to see
• 1:02:12
  more of that, you know, and I want to know those histories,
• 1:02:15
  you know, because there's always there's even our own people who don't know.
• 1:02:21
  We need to be reconnected, you know. There there's something about that reconnection
• 1:02:27
  that makes you that. It's that it's that proud. It's that feeling of
• 1:02:30
  being proud, that pride, that integrity. You were like, yo,
• 1:02:34
  we were stronger. Then made us look that. I do want better,
• 1:02:40
  Chris. I want that moment when we all watch Black Panther and Dare's somebody
• 1:02:45
  to say something during the movie that part. I want that. I want
• 1:02:50
  that you. I want that that overall for for for that entire period that
• 1:02:53
  movie came out. Long thing I said, you said that walk, That's
• 1:03:00
  that feeling and walking up to the ticket ticket taker and like, you know
• 1:03:04
  what we're here for, you know what you're like, just had the tickets
• 1:03:07
  ready, you know. But you know, even though that was a feeling,
• 1:03:12
  like you said, I want that feeling to be to be a movement.
• 1:03:15
  I wanted to become so normalized that to to to say that, I
• 1:03:22
  wanted to be to where we never thought that we were without it for a
• 1:03:24
  period. Yeah, that's what I want. Yeah, i'may x men first
• 1:03:30
  class. I'm still mad about that, says yeah, don't get this group
• 1:03:35
  started on Darwin. Yeah, don't get you don't want to do that?
• 1:03:39
  Is that the third one? When that was when they redid everything? And
• 1:03:43
  then they made them young again. And I was mad by the one when
• 1:03:46
  everybody was dying. I was like, yeah, that's it. And they
• 1:03:52
  killed they killed the brother who can adapt to anything. But yeah, like
• 1:03:55
  there's always that name of him. Like yeah, I'm like, hold on,
• 1:04:00
  if I would keep the Napkins alive, but you let you let the
• 1:04:03
  one brother? Those got a silent mutant ability. I've read, I've read
• 1:04:08
  the books. My wife is just like, but didn't he just say I
• 1:04:11
  say exactly? His ability was everything Deadpool three. I've just been trying to
• 1:04:18
  regenerate. His name was a rich Thorn or Braiden. That's why he died
• 1:04:25
  too far. Did you have a question before we look during and go no,
• 1:04:29
  I'm good. I know he's pressed for time, so I don't want
• 1:04:30
  to keep him too long. But what he's doing, yeah, because he
• 1:04:34
  this man is working. That's why I don't even realize. I was like,
• 1:04:38
  oh, I have a rehearsal tonight again. I'm gonna player right,
• 1:04:43
  I'm looked him busy. Yeah that's a good thing. Yeah, but yeah,
• 1:04:48
  I appreciate this. And I didn't say before, but I do want
• 1:04:51
  to say that I was also inspired by Blackest King. A lot of people
• 1:04:56
  slept on. I do have to shout that out. I want to shot
• 1:05:02
  because that that that was that movie and that album really inspired me. That's
• 1:05:08
  what clicked. That's what really that and Love Crowd was what really clicked for
• 1:05:12
  me to be unapologetic about my fantasy stories and to showcase us in just a
• 1:05:17
  very beautiful but complicated light. But yeah, I just wanted to say that
• 1:05:23
  because yeah, that's that's an inspiration behind the book as well. I wanted
• 1:05:28
  so people can find you on I G of course, of course. Uh
• 1:05:32
  go to the YouTube channel to see that short film Blood at the Root.
• 1:05:38
  It's it's dope, It's what you need. Get his numbers up, because
• 1:05:44
  uh, I'm gonna say it. In about a year. In about a
• 1:05:49
  year, they're gonna be like, Yo, we need this story. That's
• 1:05:53
  right. We don't need a reboot of Harry Potter. We needing else.
• 1:06:00
  Not the society of Hollywood. They look at stuff like that, right,
• 1:06:03
  They look at social media and they're like, Okay, he's getting this.
• 1:06:08
  We need to call him in so we can jump on the train. It's
• 1:06:11
  like called him out like jay Z called out the Grammys. That's all I'm
• 1:06:15
  saying. We need to we definitely because some of the stuff they do come
• 1:06:19
  out with and I'm like, I'm not gonna lie. That's that's Society of
• 1:06:26
  Magical Negroes. For like maybe several days, people were like hey, then
• 1:06:30
  they see the trail, I'm like, hey, say we wanted about your
• 1:06:34
  HBC story. I'm like, I got this in the chamber for you.
• 1:06:44
  Black Howkwarts was going down and everybody's like, oh, black hawk Warts,
• 1:06:46
  we can have her own story. I know five authors that are going,
• 1:06:49
  we would like to have a word. I was literally one of them.
• 1:06:54
  I was like when when people were like reposing it, like they have really
• 1:06:58
  big following, and I'm like, you followed. Uh you know I've been
• 1:07:01
  posting about black Hogwarts or black or Magical HBC for like two and a half
• 1:07:04
  years now, you know, but you know I get it, yeah here
• 1:07:11
  now, Like even through that, like because I was getting rejections left and
• 1:07:16
  right through all of that, and I was like I was sending it to
• 1:07:19
  my agent every day. I was like, they want it, they want
• 1:07:23
  this, they want this. I told you he was collecting them and he
• 1:07:26
  livingly would send them to the publishers like they want it. So it's problem,
• 1:07:30
  give this man a deal. Miss Ray, Miss Ray calling, Uh,
• 1:07:38
  we might need to have a word. I mean, no, Mike,
• 1:07:42
  Mike, we need to have a word. I don't have a word
• 1:07:46
  with you. You say you secured funding. I'm just saying you secured funding.
• 1:07:54
  But it's like the in the the the independen See is open, the
• 1:08:00
  church open. We've got We've got the donation. Just just come on in
• 1:08:09
  a little bit. This is this is the book blood it through. You
• 1:08:12
  want to go check that out. Get your pre orders in now. Uh,
• 1:08:16
  those numbers are from what I've seen, they're moving. It's so funny
• 1:08:26
  to see my publishers say it's like they're like just off of the like off
• 1:08:30
  of a book cover. I was like, I tried to tell y'all,
• 1:08:33
  you know, they're gonna, they're gonna come by. And this is just
• 1:08:38
  before the book comes out, Like this is not even counting when the book
• 1:08:41
  is actually in stores and everywhere, people can really go and like, wait,
• 1:08:45
  what is that? What is that? You know? These are?
• 1:08:47
  This is pre orders and pre orders are very important for black authors because publishing
• 1:08:54
  still have a lot of work. They have a lot of publishing has a
• 1:08:58
  lot of work. Hollywood needs a letter. Everybody has it. But yeah,
• 1:09:01
  pre orders are very important. That just they just show publishers like,
• 1:09:04
  okay, they are actually interested and then they're gonna push it even more.
• 1:09:09
  And that's just you know, but yeah, it's on pre orders right now,
• 1:09:15
  mister Williams, thank you for your time. Thank y'all. Uh,
• 1:09:23
  this platform and this door is always open whenever you want to, when the
• 1:09:27
  book drops, when you say, hey, whatever you need, we're uh
• 1:09:31
  so I'm gonna let you do your thing. We're gonna go to break.
• 1:09:35
  But before I let you do all that, I gotta give you this once
• 1:09:39
  again. All I gotta say is come come back like jay Z did with
• 1:09:47
  that wall of receipts and just give a speech. That's all I ask.
• 1:09:51
  Exactly. All the people who rejected me, I have I still have a
• 1:09:59
  writing. We we we like people to have receipts, especially when there's all
• 1:10:03
  people, because that way they can you know, go ahead, it's okay
• 1:10:06
  to be a little petty, paid to be petty. It's ok you're once
• 1:10:18
  again. I want to thank you for coming through. Go check him out.
• 1:10:20
  Go check out the YouTube channel, Go check him out on I g
• 1:10:24
  give him a follow at Ladarian. It's Ladarium. That's all. That's all
• 1:10:27
  one word and uh here it is right there. Go check that out.
• 1:10:31
  Uh he is putting in the work, in the purpose, in the product.
• 1:10:39
  Okay, thank you for coming through. Thank you all. So we're
• 1:10:45
  gonna take a break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna talk about some
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  of jay Z and the Grammys, he puts everybody else in their place.
• 1:12:41
  Shout out to Killer Mike winning his three Grammys Best Album of the Year and
• 1:12:45
  all year it was the only album worth listening to. Uh, So shout
• 1:12:51
  out to Killing Mike. Shout out to Victoria. Yeah, Victoria mon name,
• 1:12:56
  uh says a uh the SAMURAII shout out to the Samurai for her performance
• 1:13:01
  with Sizza on stage during the kill Bill performance. That was amazing. We
• 1:13:06
  would like to uh and you know, shout out to uh Coco Jones winning
• 1:13:15
  her first Grammy. There were it was black Girl magic. Mm hmm.
• 1:13:20
  We know that, right, mm hmm. You know that it was.
• 1:13:23
  It was black Girl Magic for that for that week. It was. It
• 1:13:26
  was wonderful. It was beautiful. So and a little homie from I'm blanking
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  on his name from the He was on the Nickelodeon show Victorious. Oh yes,
• 1:13:35
  it was a night of Nickelodeon and Disney Kids, wasn't it mean?
• 1:13:41
  Growing up? Coco Jones, I can't remember his name, but he was
• 1:13:45
  on Victorious. And then of course Miley Cyrus who won her first Grammy.
• 1:13:49
  So I'll give her flowers because she was yeah Leon, Yeah, she was
• 1:13:56
  genuinely happy and surprise. So you know, we're not gonna talk about the
• 1:14:01
  album of the Year. But that's okay, we won't know. I want
• 1:14:08
  I want to important part a t L. I'm gonna kill Mike. It's
• 1:14:13
  a sweet it's I don't know what. I don't know what the detour on
• 1:14:16
  the way to the after party outside was about, but so so here it
• 1:14:21
  was so apparently he had a slight physical altercation with an over zealous security guard.
• 1:14:29
  H and that was it and and literally literally like they questioning and then
• 1:14:38
  he was released. Yeah, I'm sorry it happened. You would think it's
• 1:14:43
  a black person. You just saw the black person in the heck of Award.
• 1:14:45
  So what if he showed the rushes you just say killing Mica was happy
• 1:14:48
  he checked me. I felt at my job. I'm not gonna call about
• 1:14:53
  it. It's on the tape. Who who's the security guard? I wanted
• 1:14:57
  to I wanted to have a scrifuffle that night. Skin Drake looking some name
• 1:15:04
  is probably like Chalante. I don't know. That's the first time I've seen
• 1:15:10
  I tell you this, what I tell you as much. They weren't mentioned,
• 1:15:13
  Uh, of course, right, they weren't. You didn't want to
• 1:15:17
  be the one that tried to put the put the skirmish and the killer imagine
• 1:15:24
  said at L brun And killing Mikes, killing Mike's Knight and you n a
• 1:15:28
  t l and and and I've talked about this album before, like it's a
• 1:15:31
  dope album. Everybody that is like, run was Run is my actual theme
• 1:15:39
  song? M like, listen to that? You got those Travis Scott people,
• 1:15:44
  isn't there's not really rap. I assume you were born in the mumble
• 1:15:47
  rap era. So I'm gonna just say my child, So I said,
• 1:15:51
  anybody born before the year two thousand, I don't know killing, Like,
• 1:15:55
  yes you do, because that speaker box era of the who Old world was
• 1:16:00
  unavoidable. Also right killing, I'm like y'all, don't y'all the wrong ones
• 1:16:06
  to add? They said they said hip hop, they said hip hop album.
• 1:16:15
  Mm hmm, that's a hip hop I mean through it was damn near
• 1:16:19
  gospel album. I'm not gonna lie to you. Did botham both like,
• 1:16:27
  so I mean hip gospel. This ain't This ain't his first time here.
• 1:16:31
  He just spend in the block two decades later, That's all I mean.
• 1:16:34
  Shout out for people finding the Kendrick Lamar. But the Kendrid of Lamar bar
• 1:16:38
  though. I was like, somebody had to go dig in for that one,
• 1:16:42
  just to sit there and say, if you believe, you believe grabbings
• 1:16:44
  ain't messed up, killing mild be platinum right now. I was like,
• 1:16:47
  damn, shout out to the plantation. She gave that a tribute to Tina
• 1:16:51
  Turner, and I'm like, of course it will be fantastic. I was
• 1:16:55
  a little worried about tear down the daggone roof. Why don't you dare shout
• 1:17:00
  out Brandy? Brandy was out there looking like she came. Somebody said she
• 1:17:03
  looked like she came off the Virginia Slims hand and so like, I'm like,
• 1:17:08
  I ain't mad at it? Which one are? Y'all at the Recording
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  Academy made that a false announcement tweet then tried to set off the angry mob
• 1:17:16
  that will come and get anybody. Just damn. She said, of all
• 1:17:21
  things, it was will Probably the man is made him for a reason.
• 1:17:30
  I don't want problems with the barbs. I don't want was out. And
• 1:17:38
  yet now everybody's burning sage around. Shark, you better not pick up that
• 1:17:47
  phone. He better not pick up that phone. Leave that alone, up,
• 1:17:50
  Lead that alone. She is calling. I promise you, she is
• 1:17:56
  calling. Show the phone picked if he can answer his phone. Between the
• 1:18:01
  angry tweets, he's probably getting for not knowing who he was talking about.
• 1:18:05
  No, he that's appropriate. Nikki who I know, not saying, but
• 1:18:12
  somebody's like he's interviewed like three different Nikkis on five different shows, so it
• 1:18:15
  was a valid question. Please just spare unk on this video. Why do
• 1:18:19
  you want to interview somebody that sounds but that you gravel? She can go
• 1:18:24
  back to Kay sat Look will I will say this, Well, he just
• 1:18:28
  lost money to twenty of us savage and blew his setup up. I will
• 1:18:32
  say this, Uh, for someone who is unbothered. Shout out to Meg
• 1:18:41
  and winning mm hmm that part if silence was golden. I'm just saying she
• 1:18:49
  pulled that one off and unsigned and owning them the masters, being the youngest
• 1:18:56
  part of a woman to own her masters and and everything. Shout out to
• 1:18:59
  Meg doing number one single went to the top. Just she litd that out
• 1:19:04
  one day. You ain't heard none sense very much. I'm just saying,
• 1:19:14
  Uh. Deadpool creator co creator Rob Leifield has said that he will officially be
• 1:19:19
  retiring after his last stint on the Deadpool comics. Uh. He obviously created
• 1:19:25
  to help create this character. Uh. I'm glad he's able to poke fun
• 1:19:30
  of himself because he feels proud. He said, he's his chest is poking
• 1:19:32
  out further than Captain America is bigger than half the country. Yes, with
• 1:19:40
  the tiny with the tiny feeding what I said, No disagree, I'm not
• 1:19:45
  disagree with you. Maybe because that man dreams in four K as big as
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  that forehead is. I'm telling you see, the man in person is like
• 1:19:50
  I'm way from with the projector so you want to see a movie, Hey,
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  Rob, here you go. So that's not it's not a bad way
• 1:19:59
  to go. But I mean, we thank you for bringing us to the
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  mark with a mouth. We are looking forward to we I'm calling this.
• 1:20:08
  We're probably going to see a trailer come Sunday. Oh yeah it's coming.
• 1:20:14
  That is this week. Yeah, that is coming. I'm talking more about
• 1:20:17
  it. Certain they've been talking more about a certain couple in the haircuts and
• 1:20:20
  they have the game. So so Kelsey, I'm glad you stepped up and
• 1:20:25
  said, hey, I just needed a cut, Like I'm not claiming anything.
• 1:20:30
  He's like to get shaded to be clear plays in Kansas City. He
• 1:20:38
  his invite to the cookout is real. He wasn't about to give it up
• 1:20:43
  and give up. He wasn't that meme ug like Dave and Chappelle show when
• 1:20:48
  they announced fifty million and everybody just stared at him. I would just I
• 1:20:53
  mean the fact that somebody said, you ain't gonna try me on February first.
• 1:20:56
  I'm like, sir, you could say and on Black History Month if
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  you can get me, however, we will remixed swag, sir. So
• 1:21:04
  there's that. Yeah, He's like, you know what, she needs to
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  be stopped. It's too late, but she needs to be stopped. This
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  is where you was already recorded and cut and they're going to reject it during
• 1:21:19
  Usher's performance. Watch this is where Beyonce is like Batman, like we need
• 1:21:25
  you. Beyonce is gonna be like she was man hat, I'm gonna let
• 1:21:29
  my husband speed, and then I know they're gonna try to force her into
• 1:21:33
  the super Bowl somewhere. It's gonna be Usher and her reaction to Usher,
• 1:21:36
  and no one else will be there. I just need to get a little
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  bit ghetto please bring out Gucci Man for spotlight. Just I need a little
• 1:21:44
  balance of black. That's it. I do. I do want to shout
• 1:21:47
  out I do want to shout out jay Z for another reason, however,
• 1:21:51
  for being at the ground, not just calling out the people behind the Grammys,
• 1:21:56
  but having his daughter up there mm hmm, and showing what it looks
• 1:22:00
  like to support a black woman and showing his daughter what that support looks like.
• 1:22:09
  And that is needed heavily. If y'all don't see it here with us,
• 1:22:14
  you, I know you've seen it with you. When I get nervous,
• 1:22:16
  I tell the kids a different that girl sprouted. I swear to God,
• 1:22:23
  she sprouted that that knows them, know them. Beyonce knows Jeans is
• 1:22:30
  strong because they showed a picture. They showed a picture of Beyonce and Blue
• 1:22:35
  last year, hmm, and then they show her picture this year at the
• 1:22:40
  Grammar. I'm like, good lord, did we watch her grow up during
• 1:22:43
  the Renaissance tour and we just didn't know it? And then we just songs
• 1:22:51
  and she got proteins and carbohydrates during the whole tour and she got so confident
• 1:22:58
  And I love that for too. You thought, mag you thought make the
• 1:23:00
  Stallion was confident. Wait till that young girl steps out. That's what I'm
• 1:23:05
  waiting for. You thought Meg was confident. Okay, So you didn't tell
• 1:23:11
  me you didn't see renaissance. Without telling me you didn't see renaissance, Okay,
• 1:23:16
  you know, look, I watched it. I watched enlightened me what
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  happened. That is, she's already surpassed whatever expectations you think is coming.
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  It's already been here and been passed. The party that iol tell you can
• 1:23:35
  tell her parentage is strong. Okay. I know her in North, I'm
• 1:23:41
  gonna do some crazy things and to become adults. She ain't North. It
• 1:23:47
  may not be, it may not be together, but I know the industry
• 1:23:50
  is not ready for whatever they do. Speaking industry kids, speaking of industry
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  kids, t I son, I think it's de Marian King. No,
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  no, no, no, no, no, not that not King.
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  I can't. One of the older ones is I can't think of. I
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  think one is Lai. Yeah, his flow yo, pretty good. I'm
• 1:24:17
  like, I sense your father and j Cole all in that pot right there.
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  You Your dadd's not for real. I'm like, I'm like they're looking
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  at King I'm like, King wish he was in the trenches. His brother
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  was back there doing the work. King is. King reminds me of what's
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  his face? What's that one? He wanted to be He wanted to be
• 1:24:42
  in the trenches so bad. And it was like, dude, yeah,
• 1:24:49
  I'm not gonna lie. Every time I see King, I'm like this,
• 1:24:53
  he just needs a belt. He looks like people all the wrong pride as
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  you beating them. Like every time I see that kid, I'm like,
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  why did y'all not whoop this chip from Jump Street? That part, I
• 1:25:13
  did have an issue with that when I was just like, this is awkward.
• 1:25:19
  Yeah, she's not lying. I'm man, she beat me to it.
• 1:25:28
  She's not lying. And the award that up. I'm glad jay Z.
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  I was just like, I'm taking off for that for a second.
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  Speak the truth, my friend and ladies and gentlemen didn't televise any of the
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  ramp categories, right, they not want And that was and that's another thing
• 1:25:51
  that was the grammy because I saw it on Killing My Story at like two
• 1:25:56
  in the afternoon and they were still going like at night. You figured one
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  there one there in California, Okay, that's that's one thing difference depending on
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  Yeah. Yeah, so two they're looking at network time. But they say
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  they always do that. They never never televiss the wrap section for a couple
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  of years. They didn't do it for a couple of years. Yeah.
• 1:26:24
  Yeah, the sun was up here still and the mic already had the entire
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  all his Grammy shot and edited and cutting his own and posted. But I'm
• 1:26:31
  seeing people in the red carpet the rhyme and like, what did is it
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  like show going on? They stages Grammy message get out and the whole atl
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  alright, just just it's almost it's almost your people in the South and are
• 1:26:48
  watching the Grammy. Wait, Mike want something. Let's go back and let's
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  put tune into this and find out. I don't know why to keep doing
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  them like that, because remember they did the what was it the Hip Hop
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  fifty at BT when Big Boy came home at l with the commercial. Yeah,
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  I still that's that was still good and terrible. Who you telling?
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  So we got a couple of trailers. We got we have a special one
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  first though, this one actually caught my mind. Uh this one is housing
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  ninjas, oh birds, So call uh some kick you mm hmm. A
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  lot of times she knows me, don't kill you got your stuff, You've
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  kissed them all right, what does your most so because so can stern us
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  having she know being your motor No, that's your am. I guess you
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  can already and you run say logic and as K and Scar not talk around
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  there. Ye, I've been waiting for what em you look suck them s
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  because why did you? As does she Santa Kushner Chris. But I mean,
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  okay, so that there's always that one character with no eyebrows, you
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  can't always rely on having them no eyebrow character and they just look like I
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  don't like people. Well, that's why you're in the show. I mean
• 1:30:17
  it's basically spy family meets Ninjas that I was getting. I was getting good,
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  great, they like on the fight scene. So I'm down. Yeah,
• 1:30:29
  that one dude that sounds like you. You just need that guy.
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  I'm sorry, I like to even I'm gonna go ahead and say box becoming
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  to me all they want? He said, what are you going to do?
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  Internet? Thug me? I feel like I'm getting to death keyboy cripping
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  and bands with bloods. I'm telling you. But I kind of get like
• 1:30:59
  Ninja sassified but very much modern graphics. And apparently a lot of people don't
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  like that film. I thought it was great back in the day. Yeah,
• 1:31:06
  well, you know in signs in the building, what's up? He
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  has risen watching them ghost Head, but his dad he's like he's missing every
• 1:31:17
  time. Oh no, he's connected a few times. He's he's learned the
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  iron the iron style. Apparently. I don't know where, but it's a
• 1:31:30
  movie or a series that's dropping. That's probably a that's a series that's a
• 1:31:34
  serious I hope it's. If it's a limited series, I hope you get
• 1:31:40
  a satisfying conclusion. If not, I hope they get renewed. It looks
• 1:31:43
  interesting enough as it is any anything that's dealing with ninjas. It gives me
• 1:31:48
  childhood modern ninjas even more. They knew what they dropped this trailer for because
• 1:31:57
  we run anime and Kung Fu. Don't we run that? Uh got another
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  one? Uh we were gonna wait to show this one. So this he
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  always says that. He always says that because because I have been sitting there,
• 1:32:13
  I have been sitting on this one. I had to the Zombie Apocalypse
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  to show this were the will show it now, it's like that will see
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  that would take your mind off the impending doom. I wouldn't it. I
• 1:32:21
  wouldn't leave my damn house. There you go. See that's the purpose hip
• 1:32:28
  hop story here, Love and glory. Give him the number one, the
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  number one. Allow me to reintroduce myself. I'm on the hip hop.
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  We would be lodge talk about the house without choke every body on the block.
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  If I tried to hang you, this pa him alive and well.
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  Hip hop is dead. The game is trash right now. These wackum seeds
• 1:33:05
  are brainwashing these kids, everybody in the streets in a stupid doodle dance.
• 1:33:11
  Meanwhile, we got lyricists who built this working at Furgus. But hey,
• 1:33:20
  they don't respect the old g's no more. I guess somebody told them to
• 1:33:24
  stop these jaws. We got to bring real hip hop back. I mean
• 1:33:31
  right now. Okay, what are you doing here? Bro? Time we
• 1:33:39
  got some white women with some really fat asses waiting for you. Okay,
• 1:33:47
  hip hop bbo, why would they band book? Look at my shoes.
• 1:33:51
  That's why it became the bun fuck said my moms thrown with the parents damn
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  what Yeah, what did I just witness? I'm sorry? What did I
• 1:34:10
  just with this? I think this is the movie? Yeah, yeah,
• 1:34:15
  this is the one we got to heads up about a dream kind that we
• 1:34:18
  couldn't talk about. So I can see why you didn't talk about it.
• 1:34:24
  I mean, also a strike but Tube stakes in there somewhere, bro.
• 1:34:29
  I want to watch it just because I just you got Kanye looking like an
• 1:34:32
  NPC character. It's definitely it's definitely a self funded spoof. He will make
• 1:34:36
  his money back on this. We're good enjoy that. I mean, I
• 1:34:42
  mean what I know, knowing that it's a it's a spoof, I'm fine
• 1:34:45
  with that. You know, you know it's gonna you know, it's gonna
• 1:34:51
  be a few references to mumble rappers. I'm looking forward to it. Just
• 1:34:56
  I want to know will he reprised his impression of fifty cent in the Boom
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  Dicks Magnificent not magnificent the Soul Plane to the black Jack fifty Yeah, nobod
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  uh, it's not that. Yeah. I mean, you got enough people
• 1:35:23
  to be in it. Clearly they saw something, so it's it's worth the
• 1:35:27
  spinning on a Saturday night. If you burned through your back, candalog.
• 1:35:30
  I'm gonna give it a shot. I'm definitely watching it. If it's meant
• 1:35:35
  to be a school So if you can't take a joke, then something's wrong
• 1:35:39
  with you. At least he's somewhat diving into the hip hop culture. We
• 1:35:44
  see how the award shows feel about us, right, I mean, I
• 1:35:47
  mean he doesn't. He doesn't spot on jay z impression? He does,
• 1:35:51
  yes, but damn, whats wrong? What's wrong here? What you back
• 1:36:00
  on something? Say anything? I have nothing. I really want to be
• 1:36:08
  a positive source and negativity has no place in my heart and I want to
• 1:36:16
  keep it that way. Okay, fair enough, I won't push although you're
• 1:36:21
  saying that I don't. I have I run the clip. Okay, So
• 1:36:32
  I don't know who. Okay, So I think with the leading, with
• 1:36:38
  the exceptance of the far uh, we're familiar with Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special.
• 1:36:44
  Right, this is what I said we should do because we all have basically
• 1:36:48
  different perspectives of it. I've seen it a few times and I was about
• 1:36:54
  to say, what the is going on? My guy? So I got
• 1:37:00
  in the library and then Apple TV was like, you know what, We're
• 1:37:02
  just gonna yank all of these. So yeah, they did do that.
• 1:37:04
  So there's a particular scene in this Thanksgiving special where we see the only black
• 1:37:13
  kid in this town at the table, Yes, seeing Franklin sit at the
• 1:37:17
  table on the opposite side of the table. Now, man, mind you,
• 1:37:23
  he was probably thinking the same thing we was thinking, what the fuck
• 1:37:27
  is the popcorn and buttered toast impressible impres for Thanksgiving dinner? Because you know,
• 1:37:34
  I don't know where he's where Sally and Charlie's mama, mama and daddy
• 1:37:38
  was at the These kids was home a lot by themselves. I don't get
• 1:37:43
  it, latch key kids. Uh well, on Thanksgiving, Curry, I
• 1:37:51
  need you to kick well mister mister Mayhem out of the chats. It's a
• 1:38:01
  valid thought. But of all people, of all people, So what the
• 1:38:12
  hell, yo, if they ain't have the little black boy walking around with
• 1:38:18
  a cloud of dirt around him all the time these Franklin was the one.
• 1:38:27
  He was He was the smooth one. He had to dance moves. Let's
• 1:38:30
  face, and they dance and they wasn't dancing like that. So he was
• 1:38:33
  the one. He was the one daffing of Charlie Brown and the dough.
• 1:38:39
  I just want to also point out we wash our legs so we would never
• 1:38:45
  Okay, it looks like he was rolled in dirt and then baked twice over.
• 1:38:48
  Yeah, yeah, man was a dingy baked Alaska. If you if
• 1:38:54
  you see, if you've seen Poody Tang, and you know who dirty d
• 1:38:58
  is, that was pig Pin. Had I come across the special like again
• 1:39:02
  in my teenage or like adult years, I probably would have picked up on
• 1:39:08
  him more. But seeing that originally as a kid, I feel like you
• 1:39:11
  can couldn't flash back to that moment and realize it ain't right. But I
• 1:39:14
  don't initially pick up on it. Same way like watching Your Your Your Black,
• 1:39:19
  Your Black Radar was it wasn't tone being this year. It was still
• 1:39:24
  developing, whereas y'all were just were immediately like what the hell is this?
• 1:39:28
  Same way, same way with Tom and Jerry. Because I grew up in
• 1:39:31
  southern countrys around people like that, so seeing somebody in the move with all
• 1:39:36
  I hear see is how ankles. I didn't realize something was wrong until until
• 1:39:42
  I got older and people spelled out to me what the whole Mammi concept was.
• 1:39:46
  It also didn't help that my baby sit at the time was named Sister
• 1:39:49
  Thomas, Florida. Yeah, you hear somebody speak like that was not foreign
• 1:40:06
  to me. I didn't realize until I got elsewhere and it was like,
• 1:40:10
  oh no, that's it's because of this and this and this, and I'm
• 1:40:14
  like, I get it now. Don't feel bad too far. Everybody sound
• 1:40:18
  like boss hog around me when I was growing up, so I can't say
• 1:40:20
  nothing. It's hard. It's hard to feel bad about something that you see
• 1:40:25
  all the time. Right. So here is the welcome home trailer. Welcome
• 1:40:31
  Home Franklin trailer. Come to Apple TV. Hi, I'm Franklin. Lived
• 1:40:38
  in a lot of different places. My family's always on the move. This
• 1:40:44
  was it our new town. Do you want to excuse me? There is
• 1:40:49
  little friends can be hard. I'm Franklin Armstrong. My name is Charlie Brown.
• 1:40:57
  Soap much Sturby, Racist coming to town. The windows, It's a
• 1:41:00
  trophy and three pizza for a whole year. What do you think, Charlie
• 1:41:04
  Brown partners partners? Hey, Franklin, what kind of music do you like?
• 1:41:11
  The Godfather of soul James Brown? You're not related, are you?
• 1:41:16
  I don't believe. So hold on, did you notice the slight shade there?
• 1:41:24
  I'm just there. My grandpa always says, you gotta wanted to get
• 1:41:28
  it. Let's see what we can really do. Friendships are not perfect,
• 1:41:33
  but we can get through the rough spots together. A best friend is someone
• 1:41:40
  that you can totally trush, always has your back. Hey, Franklin,
• 1:41:50
  we see if you have seen over here, you know you found your home
• 1:41:54
  and you're surrounded by good friends. Will you a fol Yeah? He said
• 1:42:06
  who? Who? He said? Who was the other brown kid? Brown?
• 1:42:15
  The James Brown thing was the shade the James b because because because he
• 1:42:20
  laughed, he knew what he was saying when he fails. I seen the
• 1:42:25
  special specially so long, and I hadn't watched the trail yet until some of
• 1:42:31
  the twitters like they finally letting Franklin sit with his white friends, and I
• 1:42:34
  was like, huh it took it. Took line as to say, no,
• 1:42:40
  he took it. Took the guy with the security blanket issues just sit
• 1:42:43
  there and say, I don't think what you have to like the only black
• 1:42:45
  guy sitting over side of the table from us over. Let's get the nerd
• 1:42:54
  of the group to invite you over, come on over, Thanks guys,
• 1:42:58
  let's put that. I'm gonna put shade on Linus none. Linus has something
• 1:43:00
  had some skill with her blanket against Linus Man. Nothing against Lions, but
• 1:43:03
  I'm sorry you couldn't do ship with his sister. But everybody else with that
• 1:43:08
  blanket, it was a whole problem. Fifty the year since that, I
• 1:43:13
  think. So, look, it hasn't been fifty years, Yes, over
• 1:43:17
  fifty years. It's crazy because I've seen a post by Missy Elliott and she
• 1:43:23
  did a post on ig and she was saying she got all her outfits from
• 1:43:27
  all her videos and she was she listed all the videos where she wore the
• 1:43:31
  outfits. Jesus Christ, they're all like twenty five to twenty seven years old.
• 1:43:36
  Mm hmmm. They paid Craig and and Creek down. But that music
• 1:43:42
  still slaps. I'm not you know what, Missy Ellen still fucking slaps.
• 1:43:47
  You can you can still you can still play work it, and yet it
• 1:43:49
  still does better than nine percent of the most Radio Virginia's finest. And she's
• 1:43:56
  around Portmouth all the time, so you can always see somebody with interest me
• 1:44:00
  have beans come on? So yeah, yeah, I didn't realize all this
• 1:44:09
  time until because I used to what is it my library? I used to
• 1:44:12
  get Peanuts tapes, but I used to I would get Richard Scary tapes and
• 1:44:16
  they would have the Peanuts promo on them. And I remember seeing like Great
• 1:44:21
  Pumpkin was probably the one I think I won't watch back the most, seeing
• 1:44:26
  Thanksgiving, seeing the Great River raft Race or whatever it was called Race for
• 1:44:30
  your Life, Charlie Burrady, that one that is my all time favorite.
• 1:44:34
  Oh for me, it was the Great Pumpkins. I think the Thanksgiving one
• 1:44:38
  is the one I watched the least. But when you post that picture,
• 1:44:41
  it is familiar, whereas my five year old brain didn't immediately pick up on
• 1:44:45
  it. But now that I'm old, I'm just like, yeah, fifty
• 1:44:48
  years ago, why have y'all not like reshot or re edited? Were you
• 1:44:54
  even in the new Peanuts movie they dropped? That's one of my feet.
• 1:44:59
  That was a long movie. Yeah, that was longer than I expected it
• 1:45:02
  to be. Honestly, that one I like. It's that's one of my
• 1:45:06
  go to I have a bad day, cut it on and turn my brain
• 1:45:10
  off. Movies there is so we don't have a lot of time for the
• 1:45:15
  main topic. But hm hmm, there is a thing. And you know,
• 1:45:21
  with Ladarium being on and talking about Hollywood and everything else, we know
• 1:45:27
  they are running out of ideas the rehash, the rehashing of certain franchises.
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  Tell them to get niggas from Avatar, to stop doing fucking interviews like at
• 1:45:39
  this point, At this point, we're all hypnotized because there is no war
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  in bossing say, and we will not be getting a live action leads from
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  the vine. So they're kissed. I was that was one of the main
• 1:45:50
  things I was waiting on, like you've done enough at that point, it'd
• 1:45:56
  be like, look, nobody, just don't talk. You're giving and why
• 1:46:00
  the creators left. It's just like, just shut the fuck up and show
• 1:46:03
  me losing his kid already. We keep getting teased with it, right,
• 1:46:09
  oh god? So yeah, you're you're seeing you know, they're they're going
• 1:46:14
  forward with another Pirates movie, which okay, but okay, we don't mean
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  we don't it's one unless like sore in the gangs jumping in why I mean
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  our girls, uh a berry is they're looking at a gang of female pirates
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  and I want to hope I want to hope. But I knew they were
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  gonna start giving her roles the minute she won. I was just like,
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  they're gonna give this one all the rolls, by the way, funniest hell
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  on Saturday Night Live. And she wasn't. She was never lying about j
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  worked. She worked her ass be the fly girl. She worked her ass
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  Diddy was trying. Mm hmm that that one didn't age well. But
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  Al's performance on SNL absolutely hilarious, absolutely funny. It's always, like I
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  out. I'm gonna put this out there for DC Cornbread steal in common if
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  I'm calling him cornbread still in common. Don't get me wrong, I
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  cornbread, steal in common. There's a movie that Keiki Palmer did called Alice.
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• 1:48:43
  premise of this movie was he couldn't tell if this movie was a time traveling
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  movie or whatever. But the character of Alice was kept on a farm,
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  and it comes to find out that this was during the seventies, so where
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  this farm she was kept at, it was still treated like it was the
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  eighteen hundreds, and she found her way off this farm. She ran off
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  and it's the seventies. And Common is an ex black panther, and so
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  he's helping Alice, you know, get reacclimated and she's gonna go back and
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  just kind of wreck shit that it was building up to that, and just
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  the way Common was acting, DC said, he comes off as the person
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  like you had that piece of corn bread and then you left the room,
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  and then it's gone, and then he's helping you look for it. He's
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  like, oh your corn bread, miss it? Yeah, and he's the
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  one that tell stole the cornbread the whole time. It was just the way
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  yeah, I don't know because they did that was it was it last not
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  last week, but the week before. Like Dave Chappelle was at was in
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  the sign off, and I thought I missed something. I'm like, Chappelle
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  wasn't even in the episode. He's at the sign off. He just showed
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  up, like he just showed he just flocked it on the ship. Like
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  I don't know what's going on, you know, So okay, whatever works,
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  I guess I don't know, so but yeah, I don't. I
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  don't understand the This is why I'm glad we're getting stuff like Blurred Station.
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  issue one uh in uh under the Horizon patent. Shout out to Joel Patton.
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  They are welcoming another baby girl, right, well, stay off your
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  to read her, you know, do the lip read, and she shows
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  you the pregnancy test and then turns on. He was like, these are
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  pregnancy Wait you're pregnant. Wait wait we just had we just had this son.
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  Wait. I'm like, so what happens? Darrell? Love each other,
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  I know, but congratulations. You know that's he's obviously a good family
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  man. Uh. He's surrounded by women except for his only son. So
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  quick form a tag team. Quick, It's it's that last part. I'm
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  just I'm in the same boat. I can't laugh at the Yeah, you
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  lot, a lot of I just revealed to the team what we're talking about.
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  So and we're not in privy to speak to the public. Just ship
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  to the ink dries because we're not gonna We're not gonna just hilarious this thing.
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  I feel like, beat me to the punch. I feel like that
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  was bait. However, you want to look at it. You see how
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  they had all the news ready for the promo clip, and I'm like,
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  you got those in a week? Oh yeah, I mean ice cream after
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  this is all done, I need. I was almost thanks a lot.
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  Maybe Kara care to join me? I mean, what what I'm having ice
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  cream afterwards? To join me? In tolerant I'm not in my business over
• 1:53:45
  my business. Maybe you could stay in your bunk and deal with that.
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  First of all, if we don't need to rep what is it a replay
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  of nineteen the nineteen thirties in Germany. I don't want to do that to
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  you. Oh but I don't. I don't. I don't even care anymore.
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  I don't. I don't see the purpose. And there's some films or
• 1:54:13
  franchises. I don't mind James Bond form for example, I don't mind watching
• 1:54:19
  James Bond films. They don't come out like frequent, like Fast X.
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  You know, thanks for Fast, thanks for Fast X. Though you know,
• 1:54:33
  uh, Jason More did say that movie. He did save that movie.
• 1:54:43
  Like, if he saved that movie, I'm not gonna lie mad Family,
• 1:54:53
  shut up. He pretty much he pretty much took your family and just
• 1:54:56
  shot on it. But I'm like, but he made that two hours worth
• 1:54:59
  of watch. Yeah, I'm like, I like this flair. What else
• 1:55:02
  can you do? You know? That up at home? Because the Walmart
• 1:55:08
  for set in my card, I caught it on I was I went to
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  the C's. I ordered the Oppenheimers. They had like a collector's edition,
• 1:55:16
  and every time they ran out, they said, we swapped it out with
• 1:55:18
  something you might like, and it was Fast Acts three different times. People
• 1:55:24
  Save the Day Stop. I love our I love our comments section. I
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  like that, but I love the comments section. That's why you go to
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  the YouTube channel, so you love over there. Yeah, but yeah,
• 1:55:41
  I don't need I don't need another Pirates. I don't where can it go?
• 1:55:47
  Yeah? No, no, it's it's fine, like Johnny Depps is
• 1:55:54
  Okay, it's fine, but it's I really don't need it. There's a
• 1:55:58
  time and a place, right you beat it that horse? What other?
• 1:56:00
  What other? What other story can you tell about the car about the Caribbean
• 1:56:03
  that you literally gave a beginning of middle and into and now you want to
• 1:56:09
  go back to it, like who else? Who else did Jack screw over?
• 1:56:13
  That's what? Like what spelled? It was like a throwback stories why
• 1:56:18
  you got the worst Pirate title. But even then, it's just when you
• 1:56:23
  when you offered Johnny Depp a seven figure deal to come back after all the
• 1:56:29
  Amber Herd mess, and he turned around and said, nope, at that
• 1:56:33
  point, she had been canceled. Credits. Just we'll throw that into the
• 1:56:36
  Disney vault. We'll bring that back out in ten years and say there's a
• 1:56:41
  whole new Blu ray with deleted scenes inditial commentary and make money off of it.
• 1:56:45
  Let's do it that. Borrow, borrow the CGI team because the six
• 1:56:47
  they was popping on uh at World's End, just sprinkle them throughout the next
• 1:56:53
  couple of MC movies. Will Will you need You're wrong? I'm glad.
• 1:57:00
  I could see it, really will just just will was on demon time right
• 1:57:10
  now? Just yeah they are they they? Yeah? Like it was It
• 1:57:15
  was enough. I think what was the last one at World's Yeah, and
• 1:57:20
  that was just on the other night, and I'm just like, okay,
• 1:57:23
  we can you can literally stop it right here. Please both have something in
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  common, That's all I got. I mean, by the way, by
• 1:57:33
  the way, by the way, did not know that was Paul McCartney playing
• 1:57:38
  Uncle Jack. I didn't know that. Uh hmm. I figured it was
• 1:57:42
  a rock star, but I couldn't put my finger on who so because I
• 1:57:48
  fell asleep during that part of the movie, I'm certain I fell asleep.
• 1:57:51
  About Keith Richards being the oldest pirate, I'm like, this man has taken
• 1:57:56
  every drug known the man, and he has survived the day when the day
• 1:58:00
  comes where he meets his maker and he's at the at the funeral problem.
• 1:58:05
  It was like well, we don't need to do any embalming. He's done
• 1:58:09
  the job for us. It's like I'm like, I'm like, does the
• 1:58:14
  Grim Reaper just come back to you and say, yeah, not yet.
• 1:58:18
  I'm not not yet. Let's see where this goes. I can see where
• 1:58:21
  this goes. It's literally going to be a case of he wants Sister cremate
• 1:58:27
  him, but he won't burn the hell everything giving him embalming fluid, and
• 1:58:39
  he just drinks and goes, I've had better bring me another. So I
• 1:58:47
  don't know I can deal with. There's there's just certain franchises I don't really
• 1:58:53
  need a continuance of, you know, give me fresh stories. Thank you
• 1:58:57
  to Darien Williams. We're doing Blooded Through. Thank you to MVJ Comics for
• 1:59:01
  giving us this the story of Toussaint Luvite, you know. Thank you to
• 1:59:05
  people like a Sister Sci Fi or Wingless Comics, you know, shout out
• 1:59:10
  to Malachi Bailey with her you know, and just I'm glad we have a
• 1:59:15
  lot of black indie creators, whether in comic form, whether it's in novel
• 1:59:19
  form, Shout out to Jason Michael Primrose, whether it's in film form or
• 1:59:24
  television or short film, thank you, because we need more stories like that.
• 1:59:30
  We need something different. We don't need to see the same old,
• 1:59:33
  same old, same old. There's there's comfort films that I'll watch and I'm
• 1:59:38
  fine with that, but it's it's good to see another film or read another
• 1:59:44
  book from a different perspective and it's something completely original. M Like, you
• 1:59:51
  know, they keep saying, I just say, oh, but he should
• 1:59:54
  be the next James Bond. I'm glad he said no to that. We
• 1:59:58
  don't need the black James Bond. We need our own black superspying mm hmm.
• 2:00:06
  It ain't got nothing to do with I six and anybody else, or
• 2:00:10
  I find he doesn't have to be British, doesn't even have to eat.
• 2:00:15
  I mean, it'd be cool if you would be cool if he was more
• 2:00:17
  or less he early on type for that smoothness to it, and just that
• 2:00:20
  they can have afrobeats. That's just me. I'm just saying. I mean
• 2:00:27
  Burner Boy could be on the soundtrack. I'm just saying that there's there's there's
• 2:00:30
  there's fine. I think Burner Boy needs to be on a lot of people
• 2:00:33
  man, so uh with all of that, but tune into his Thursday,
• 2:00:42
  because I think Thursday is gonna be our Black and Band. It's our free
• 2:00:46
  episode. It's gonna be our free episode. We gotta get we we have
• 2:00:51
  a guest coming through, but it's it's just a guest. A lawyer is
• 2:00:56
  gonna be popping through. Uh. I think we're gonna do our Black and
• 2:00:59
  Band episode because when you have stories like what Ladarion has with Blood of the
• 2:01:02
  Root, makes me think of a little unknown pilot called a little Bit Strange
• 2:01:12
  who started a very young Martin Lawrence a little bit Strange tale. Ah go,
• 2:01:20
  look that whate That'll be fun. That's gonna sut them down the rabbit
• 2:01:26
  hole of TV plot TV pilots that never made it past two episodes. A
• 2:01:31
  little Bit Strange made to five. Strange made the five that's where got killed
• 2:01:38
  Malcolm and fucking Eddie. That was a show. That was the show that
• 2:01:45
  it's tame as Blackish. It's for them to get one thrown in the vault.
• 2:01:49
  Yeah, so we're we're gonna be talking about that Thursday. But uh,
• 2:01:54
  until then, wrapper protocol initiated. Captain, we are wrapping this up.
• 2:02:03
  Lady Mandlord, talk to the people. I go down my Elmore rabbit
• 2:02:16
  hole to speaking of Alma Almo alone. He was, he did, he
• 2:02:19
  was all we got. Could have just paid the copay to go see your
• 2:02:27
  therapist, That's all he got. Boarded on Twitter and in real life from
• 2:02:31
  the top rope. We need to talk, Larry David, we need to
• 2:02:35
  talk. Apologize. He did, apologize, he said, But lady Lady
• 2:02:45
  Mandelor is also known as room full of Blurs. You can find me on
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  these internets, over on Instagram, on TikTok, and on randomly adding back
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  on Twitter for like two seconds. Not really, Oh yeah, Drake got
• 2:03:01
  that thing. Apparently. I'm not impressed. So I think that my podcast
• 2:03:08
  on Sundays at seven pm Eastern Standard Time, I am in the middle of
• 2:03:14
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• 2:03:17
  We're currently in the middle of the X Men Red run. It is
• 2:03:21
  amazing already ready Yes, yes, yeah, I do voice acting. Yeah
• 2:03:43
  yeah, that's me in a nutsheb yeah too far. What's going on?
• 2:03:49
  I'm also on the internet here at all platforms, I do the editing,
• 2:03:54
  and behind them, you're not going to find it. They are acting up
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  over there, and I had to log off to the final fantasy Let's play
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  today, which I think that I think that's how Bama's gonna go out in
• 2:04:09
  life. Definitely the last words ever said. I'm sorry, sweet baby Jesus
• 2:04:30
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  you, So thank you all for who've been running up the eclipse and whatnot.
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  I'm trying to upload every single day of Black History Month. We are
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  we were at twenty two hundred. We are closing in on twenty six,
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  so a little over four hundred hours ago, and we can monetize this thing.
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  And baby, it's not being broke, but for now, please Sam
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  been showing us so much love in the comments section. Right, a serious
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  noe before we haven't lost their minds. Before we get to that part of
• 2:05:46
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• 2:05:54
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  Yeah, that's where you. While you're doing this, you're gonna you're gonna
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  oh boy, dear sweet beast. Five moments, five moments Lord, Ladies
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  You can find me here across on social media. I was smart.
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  I changed it all so yay to me. So much easier, doesn't it
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  It is? My skin feels better. You know, I'm drinking water better.
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  You know it makes a difference. I just posted my latest video on
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  YouTube. Is it okay to be a blurred? I'm answering the question from
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  please go check it out. I would greatly appreciate that. I would love
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  everyone to comment on that one. And really quick, I want to shout
• 2:07:51
  out my son. After talking to little Darien, I tend to forget at
• 2:07:56
  times. My kids are very talented. My son is an author. He
• 2:08:00
  published two books already under it's called the Children of Taboo series. And I
• 2:08:07
  read his first book and it is amazing and I really want to give it
• 2:08:11
  up to him because when I see Laderia and folks like him doing their thing,
• 2:08:15
  it reminds me that my son, my kids are following in that.
• 2:08:18
  So it makes me proud. So if you want to support, please support
• 2:08:22
  black authors, especially black fiction and fantasy authors. We get plenty of reality.
• 2:08:28
  Let's let's delve, get away from the BS and just be a creative
• 2:08:31
  and imaginative. So that's all I gotta say. I know I shouted out
• 2:08:37
  several POC indie creatives during the episode, but I also want to shout out
• 2:08:43
  our very own fabe, Queen Jasmin Lafleur. She's done this thing. Of
• 2:08:50
  course, we're black fabies. You know you've been seeing this TikTok. Of
• 2:08:54
  of course we're something. Of course with something. Shout out to Queen Jasmine.
• 2:08:58
  She did a very and of course we're black fabies. And it's the
• 2:09:03
  sweetest thing. Jasmine's just a sweet woman. I will we love her to
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  death. We we will, we will go to we will ride to war
• 2:09:11
  for this woman. If Lord's Strife ain't, he's gonna be in front of
• 2:09:16
  the line. So shout out to Lord Strife. He will go to war.
• 2:09:20
  For that woman, and we will we will start the yr for so
• 2:09:24
  shout out to Queen Jasmine. Shout out to Hellspone Cosplay because he's he did
• 2:09:28
  one. Of course he's a cosplay Black Dad, and he really goes into
• 2:09:33
  depth about it and so that was really dope. So there are a lot
• 2:09:35
  of creators we shout it out today, Sister sci Fi, Invade, m
• 2:09:39
  v J Comics, La Darien Williams. Of course, the list goes on
• 2:09:46
  and on, and you will not ever stop hearing about these people. And
• 2:09:50
  the other ones who get unsung English comics you know, are another one.
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  Because I'm not celebrating for the month. I refuse. I celebrate for the
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  year every day. And y'all and people that watch us and have been joining
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  you know, that's how I get down. I you know, yes,
• 2:10:13
  thank you for the flowers, but at the same time, it's I wouldn't
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  be here finding you guys if you didn't have some of the great content that
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• 2:10:24
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• 2:10:30
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• 2:10:37
  I would even have the comments section up. I said, let me get
• 2:10:39
  serious for a minute. There are uh because I have them, so I'm
• 2:10:50
  gonna say it all day. I do too. I mean, right now,
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• 2:11:41
  site you on. I know I seem ill and I am so. Mental
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  health is important, guys, really, so take your med, take your
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  pt O, take a deep breath, and go and tell somebody you love
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  them. Okay, by God, not you too. I'm glad I've mastered
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  like knowing where I'm at on camera because I can just go why are you
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  like this? Every single time every show were getting I'm gonna do be like
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  Usher when they thought he was in the middle of the damn square Wait,
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  I will. I will have you know Mayhem that day you took off,
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  the week you took off. We still had Spartan come up here shaking his
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  head after us. So we did the job for you. Proud, we
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  are proud of that achievement. So, like I said, I'm gonna go
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  watch Floyd. I need to be cleansed. I'm going, I mean,
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  I need, I need to watch something wholesome after this, because how do
• 2:12:43
  we go from Drake to man boobs? That's what I'm trying to figure.
• 2:12:48
  Look about the whole Black History speech. I know how Martin Luther King fulp
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  in the boondocks. Now little man here blue the Rock, there we go,
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  slave all them eight. I was for that white man for this is
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  why I can not be watching every sing told me the Bulldogs was doing live.
• 2:13:15
  It's been running for three days. I low key think Adult Swim forgotten
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  to turn it off. Oh they probably the last day. I probably stay
• 2:13:22
  closed the door and kept lights runner. But anyway, look, before I
• 2:13:24
  went live, I was watching the r. Kelly episode, and I'm like,
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  yo, I forgot about this one. Are you gonna you gonna stand
• 2:13:33
  there and little man pe on you, or you're gonna a move out the
• 2:13:37
  way? I see I'm gonna move out the way. Shout out to Jones
• 2:13:45
  and that crazy crew over there. My goodness, dear lord, Okay,
• 2:13:48
  I'm going to private jacket. I want your gold now. That's what new
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  kids. I'm sorry anyway, Oh hear guys Black Sparton. Otherwise it was
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  Black Lives four four seven. All the socials do reviews on everything, including
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  gym stuff. Because after watching Man Booz over there, I feel like I
• 2:14:11
  need to go back and do another couple of push ups because that made me
• 2:14:15
  extremely self conscious. Thanks will, gentlemen of the Motor Boat Club. Wow,
• 2:14:24
  I just feel like I gotta go do push ups before I saw that,
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  Like I'm looking at that at my chest like, Nope, that ain't
• 2:14:30
  gonna be That's not gonna be me. I'm not gonna be that dad.
• 2:14:33
  That being said, a couple of podcasts I usually do my Hallo Fred Got
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  Here's my news podcast and free Wednesday at seven pm. Of course my video
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  game podcast give me podcasts every Friday at seven pm. Also check out the
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  blurnsyeview dot org website. As do called Bryan for wrestling why because wrestling is
• 2:14:50
  real and people are fake. Because the World Rumble was a disappointment and eliminade
• 2:14:54
  Chambers look like the same thing. And oh, by the way, the
• 2:14:56
  rocks back and everybody hates him, so we will talk about that much later.
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  Oh yeah, it's it's it's a drink the fun time of the world
• 2:15:07
  sports entertainment. Also, guys, like we keep on the same before.
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  Unity is everything. I say this here and everywhere else. I cannot wait
• 2:15:16
  for the day where we can all pull as array and say, you know
• 2:15:20
  what, we need to build our own table. We need to come together.
• 2:15:24
  We need to bring our own resource together. We need to basically be
• 2:15:26
  our own uh power base, if you will. We basically need to be
• 2:15:31
  the crew in real life outside of you know, Storm and Black Panther and
• 2:15:35
  Luke Cage. We actually can do it. With that being said, guys,
• 2:15:41
  just the way we've been saying before, just don't like share it,
• 2:15:43
  talk about it. Word of mouth is the greatest form of sorry. Word
• 2:15:46
  of mouth is the greatest weapon we have against the algorithm, as care like
• 2:15:48
  say, f the algorithm. Aside from that, guys, uh COM's still
• 2:15:54
  going down. But again, respect the cosplayer at all times. Please wash
• 2:15:58
  your ass before you go anywhere. And I'm not just to a con,
• 2:16:01
  but anywhere I walked past a couple of people today. That just made me
• 2:16:03
  wonder, do they just not like bathing? Because you pretty much are the
• 2:16:07
  pig pins of the world and soap could help you. Soap could help you
• 2:16:13
  so fucking much. That also being said, guys, the last thing I
• 2:16:16
  was going to say is in the world that we're living in, as cold
• 2:16:20
  as it is, be nice, be kind, don't be a dick,
• 2:16:24
  and we'll all be cool. All right. As I come down off the
• 2:16:31
  wild comments section for tonight, he gets Kevin Stage's cruise still here. Sorry,
• 2:16:37
  and oh they're probably in love with this. I'm not gonna lie class
• 2:16:48
  emoji for like six hours now. I don't know what it means. They're
• 2:16:52
  getting in, they're getting at work from us, Uh, come on you
• 2:16:58
  or yeah, we'll try, We'll behave, We'll behave. However, if
• 2:17:03
  you would like to see his life at your local convention, talk to the
• 2:17:09
  convention owners, say hey, why don't you reach out to this crew and
• 2:17:11
  have him out there. We're fun, y'all know it. Just don't bring
• 2:17:16
  liquor into the mix because then it's a different party. Then it's blurreds out
• 2:17:22
  of you at the dark. So move mm hmm. Yeah. Anyway,
• 2:17:41
  I'll take the moon shine over that craft. You would probably be better off.
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• 2:18:11
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• 2:18:16
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  section. You wrap scallions. But I like it. We are an army,
• 2:19:35
  we are legion. I love this. I'm the youngest one here,
• 2:19:39
  so I just I'm the baby of the group. By the way, is
• 2:19:43
  that that's what you're gon as she does that over my head, I just
• 2:19:48
  want everybody remember I was born in ninety five. What just means that you're
• 2:19:56
  the product of was it you're good? Yeah? That was the product of
• 2:20:05
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• 2:20:09
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  I got it, I got it, I got it right. Yeah
• 2:20:39
  right, you know, with that being said, in case you didn't know
• 2:20:46
  it, it is black history. Mind. This showed another year. I'm
• 2:20:52
  just saying with the d yeah, as you see, we celebrate three sixty
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  six this year an extra year, that's an extra day. So thank you
• 2:21:03
  very much. Until then, we're out of here, are you okay,