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The CW has set the cast for its All American planted spinoff headlined by Geffri Maya reprising her All American role as Simone Hicks. Joining her are Peyton Alex Smith (Legacies), Cory Hadrict (The Chi), Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale), Sylvester Powell (90210), Netta Walker (Chicago Fire) and Camille Hyde (Katy Keene).
Hardrict checks in on Sway In the Morning to talk about the new role.
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yes indeed man that's a clip from uh
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it's a new series db right all-american
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homecoming premiering at 9 00 p.m
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eastern monday february 21st starring
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one of our good friends db do the honors
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man would you
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yeah he's no stranger to the show we
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just had his co-star scott eastwood from
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the film gran torino on last week you
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know him from other films such as the
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1999 classic never been kissed battle
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los angeles american sniper all eyes on
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me he's been getting tv money since the
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90s and now he's got another check
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coming from his role as coach marcus
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turner on all american homecoming which
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premieres next monday february 21st at 9
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00 pm eastern on the cw welcoming back
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corey hardrick
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man
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hey hey hey what's going on
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corey how you doing man how you feeling
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brother oh man i'm blessed brother i
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can't see nobody y'all can see me though
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yeah well you can't see us we see see
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you should have been on that black women
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uh talk to talk tech conversation man
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they could have told you how to fix your
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zone bro
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i know right i mean i had to come in the
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bathroom because you know the kids
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getting ready for school man it's like i
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said okay i got to go somewhere
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quiet to make this happen but you know
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we're going to get it done
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corey's bathroom look like somebody's
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living room right oh man oh god it's
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good
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all the time
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all the time amen congratulations on the
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kids you got two two now right two
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amazing kids yes yes i got a daughter
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and my son my daughter's three my sons
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ten they they my world man so you
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already know
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we we do this me and my wife do this for
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them so yeah i'm very blessed
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have you thought about have y'all talked
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about you know what black futurism
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involves stem you know the sciences
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technology engineering and mathematics
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have y'all talked about
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putting them in in the tech industry and
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teaching them about coding and learning
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what those things are about yet
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uh i have to learn more about this way
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i'm just being honest i don't know
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enough yet to teach them yet so once i
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get more information on that yes for
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sure for sure
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i thought it was mad cute cory i think
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that sometime last year but it was a
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post you put up and i saw crete like
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leave a comment saying dad and i was
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like wow i've never seen like look at
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instagram where all these generations
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can live under this one social media
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platform where i'm looking at someone's
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like child shout out their dad on their
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post and it also you know when you think
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of um kanye being very apprehensive
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about north being on tick tock what
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conversations do you have with your son
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about how to hold things down on
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instagram
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well here's the thing my wife runs that
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instagram that's not really my son she
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just started having an account you know
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but like the posters clippings uh i mean
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i just supposed to clip into like
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basketball you know just to show them
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like hey you know this is all fun but
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you know mommy gonna run this you know
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you too young so that's that's how we do
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it in the hard drive also
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nice
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you agree with that bill i said you
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nodding like hell yeah love it what up
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corey it's heather how you doing what's
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going on heather this feels weird cause
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i can't see nobody but you know i'm
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gonna use my imagination i know y'all
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some beautiful black faces over there
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all right
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you look nice man it looks like just
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pretend like you see us go ahead okay
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oh man i really appreciate you sway
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heather y'all been holding me down for
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years every time you know something
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comes out or it's just y'all just real
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up there so i really appreciate you guys
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and that's why y'all forever bless
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because y'all just real people up there
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i i really appreciate you swaying
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heather thank you family thank you thank
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you love to you too corey as well tracy
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um asked you the question and and you
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spoke about tia and what she's doing it
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cracks me up because i'm also wondering
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about your home playlist in your house
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what y'all listen to
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a couple months ago i had to hit tia i'm
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like yo tia red man is at my house um
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he's flipping out over your vitamins
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he's stealing all my vitamins and i'm
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telling him like yo this is tea tea like
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he's like what course this up until i
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need some of her vitamins and i hit tia
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she was freaking out i'm like word i
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know tia and corey love god and they be
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listening to red men too something is
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going on that they have oh yeah did he
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get the vitamins i mean she could send
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them some vitamins for sure if you take
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takeoff he definitely he he definitely
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got the vitamins tina got
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tia reggie got the vitamins it was all
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love but i'm like yo i look at y'all
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instagram i follow tea and i'm like yo
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they always seem like they having a good
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time and it just made me wonder once i
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told a red man you know what is some
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what y'all listen to in the house in
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terms of music
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my son loves little baby you know i'll
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be honest he likes money yo my son hey
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he's 10 but he's all he's all with the
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culture in the rap game so my son yeah
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he's uh he's uh he's a special guy man
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so but we listen to anything like on
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sundays yeah uh we i listen to a lot of
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like r b old school r b you know
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go to c you though that's what's going
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on over here it's old school out over
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here everything's over i love it my
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house too corey how did your son react
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to you that being in the music video
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with nicki minaj a little baby let me
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tell you how that happened because let
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me tell you how that happened because
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the day before the video benny uh benny
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bone called me
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uh it was like 11 o'clock at night he
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sent me all this dialogue and said hey
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listen i need you to be in a video
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tomorrow but he didn't tell me nothing
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else then he was just like oh let me
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tell you it's uh it's nikki and little
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baby's new song she's looking for a real
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actor and i ran i ran your name and
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showed her who you were and he was like
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she approved can you get down here i'm
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just like i'm i'm going and then i told
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my son little baby he was like dad you
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gotta do it little baby you know i
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didn't mean but uh so that's when i went
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down there and and did that video and it
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came out pretty cool and you know
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everybody like oh cory can act you know
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what i'm saying like i've been doing
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this for almost 30 years y'all you
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already know yeah all right almost 30
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you heard that that's 30 years of checks
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too
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no you don't come on corey hey does it
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sit awkward would you like a lot of time
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i've been doing this for a long time and
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then sometimes kids approach me and they
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they only know me for one thing sway in
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the morning baby my last name is in the
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morning now right
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i don't mind it though i don't mind that
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they don't know all the other things
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that i've done but i'm it's different
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for me in my role you as an actor does
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is it awkward that people may not be
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familiar with how long you've done this
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and how many different things you've
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done
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no
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it does it doesn't because like i say
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you know what my thing is
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i'm i'm not in it to
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to you know get all like the the fame
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and the praise i'm just in it to do the
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work and wherever the work takes me out
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of being consistent that's just where
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i'm gonna go you know i believe in my
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path my journey i don't have to speed up
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the process you know just because
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everybody else you know is
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doing this or that so i'm just like i'm
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gonna stay in my lane and
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in time you know cream rises to the top
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and you know people gonna see me when
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they see me that's how i look at it but
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i'm gonna keep giving them real work and
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staying consistent um so it doesn't
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bother me it doesn't bother me
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i'm just keeping my name clean and
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working man i'm staying clean out here
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they're just working and coming home to
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the families wait that's it ain't
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nothing
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man ain't nothing dirty on your name man
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trust me i looked
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ain't nothing dirty
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i can tell you that i still cuss but you
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know i cussed a few people out because
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i'm still real you know and it's hard
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when you're real you know that
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yeah absolutely man i love it though man
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you real
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but i remember one time we were talking
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we had tia on we were just talking about
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you know the stuff y'all do on social
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media and then i saw you guys do the
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couple challenge on on tick tock you
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know and
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you know i i find that
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really great to see you know couples who
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are in the public eye
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put themselves out there like that
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are you gung-ho those sort of things or
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do you have a limitation of what you're
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going to do when it comes to social
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media you you get well i have a
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limitation my wife she's like cory she
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do got to kind of ask me like several
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times to do it you know and i'm just
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like all right i'll do it you know
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to keep everything peaceful in the house
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you know what i'm saying but um it's all
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it's all love and all fun you know what
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i'm saying like i i definitely love
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showing that you know i'm a family man i
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love my wife and my kids there's nothing
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wrong with that but i do have a you know
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a limit where i just say okay i gotta
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pull it back you know i'm still the
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mystery man around here you know
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[Laughter]
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leonardo
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twisted it you know i don't want him to
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get it twisted uh sway you know because
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i you know you know i'll be you know
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smoking cigarettes and videos and movies
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and shooting people i say listen i still
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got to keep that image up you know
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you know what just hit me corey like i
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guess because we had black women in tech
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we're just speaking about
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entrepreneurship but
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being an actor is much like being an
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entrepreneur
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like when i think about when a project
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is done
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and there's a window of time where you
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may not know when the next project is
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going to start how long it lasts you
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know all these different seasons do you
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ever get nervous when you're in an in
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between when you're like in the hallway
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from one gig to the next
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um do i get nervous i i wouldn't say i
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get nervous i do get a little you know
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it's concerned or anxious you know
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because i'm just anxious on what's the
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next job like you know i'm just
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connected to you know my faith is so
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strong well i know i'm going to keep
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working because i put in the work so i
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just feel like what's what's going to be
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that next opportunity to get me from
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here to there it's more of that than you
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know um am i going to work again because
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i i don't because i i turned down so
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many jobs that people don't even know or
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seized because i don't want to go down
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that route so it's just kind of like
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it's more of a waiting game but i'm
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never no i'm never nervous i'm just um
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yeah i just wait wait till it you know
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that opportunity comes up again you know
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you want to extend on that a little bit
10:12
when tracy um asked you and then you
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answered about you know anxious and they
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actually you know it's actually
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scripture on that you know um about
10:20
being anxious and in our patience and
10:22
waiting in time what's the longest you
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felt like you waited in between
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jobs and what was that
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i don't know if you would consider it a
10:30
valley but what was that valley like for
10:32
you what was the longest time you went
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in between jobs it was probably um it
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was probably like a couple years i was
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just
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like i couldn't get nothing it was like
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maybe like a few few years into moving
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into california i just couldn't get
10:47
anything i couldn't get commercial dudes
10:49
i couldn't get anything and i'm like i'm
10:50
gonna pay my bills you know i'm not
10:52
gonna have to right go back to chicago
10:54
last expensive you know it's just like
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heck yeah
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so i you know so i just kind of you know
10:59
um weathered that storm but that was you
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know i haven't been back into that space
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in a long time but um i'm very like i
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said i'm even thankful for that because
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it just makes me take nothing for
11:09
granted like i am amen i appreciate
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everything i'm very grateful for
11:14
everything for real
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and from an insider standpoint too corey
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like now i'm curious do you guys get
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paid immediately do you have to wait
11:22
when the film or the show is done is it
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like a net 30 and that's 60 is it like a
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regular payroll like how does that
11:29
actually work with getting paid in
11:30
hollywood man they still owe me some
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money you know what i'm saying i'm still
11:34
trying to get that money back there
11:39
which project
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you know what i'm saying so tv money
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comes every like every friday you know
11:47
so um that's cool movies you you got to
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wait a little bit you know you wait like
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um maybe like two or three weeks
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after you're finished with that film
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week to get that check for that week so
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it uh you know it takes a little bit of
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time but you usually get it
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um
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yeah so it's uh yeah it's all good
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okay hey corey um good friend of mine
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uh we call ourselves cousins because we
12:11
bumped into each other at a cousin
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uh holiday function in compton
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uh kareem
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grimes who plays preach on all that boy
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yeah come on kareem's a good guy man oh
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man that dude is something else man
12:25
that's my guy i've known him for a long
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time i call him kareem the dream man
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that's my brother man that's your
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brother okay that's my brother too so
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you my brother so it makes sense um and
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he was just telling me about his history
12:38
even starting with john singleton being
12:40
on the baby boy set just learning up
12:42
soaking up all that game he got from
12:44
that
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and he was telling me about all american
12:47
homecoming he was telling me how
12:48
all-american is the number one show on
12:50
the cw and he started telling me about
12:53
homecoming and he was the one that told
12:55
me that she was um staring at it as a
12:57
coach was it coach marcus you coach
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marcus turner yes yep coach marcus
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turner and i was like man that's crazy
13:03
because i think i'm about to have him on
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the show
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and so uh so all of these things all
13:09
this synergy is happening that we got
13:10
you on today but tell us about this role
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man did you have to do any kind of
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research did you go back to old coaches
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you might have you know dealt with
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growing up
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um i watched a lot of prime deion
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sanders you know because he's a coach at
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jackson state hbcu so i watched all his
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motivational speeches i watched a lot of
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hbcu sports coaches but since i knew i
13:32
was going to be a coach about hbcu
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university but um how this role came
13:36
about is i had a meeting with the um
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creator nk and she was telling me how
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she was just you know looking to go back
13:44
into the old like how them old shows um
13:47
in colleges black colleges were great
13:49
and influential and that's like
13:50
different world and she was trying to
13:52
incorporate the family the drama the
13:54
hbcu
13:55
you know this world of sports but they
13:57
needed a um like a father figure for a
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coach who had integrity who had morals
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who had values you know who was just a
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strong black man and she felt like i fit
14:06
the bill so i didn't even audition for
14:09
it you know we just had a meeting and
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she said um
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i'm gonna get back to you you know she
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said i'm a fan my husband's a fan and i
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told her that this role is similar to
14:20
how i live my life for real with my son
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it's the same it's the same thing so i
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told it wasn't really a stretch for me
14:25
because this is really who i am
14:27
you know um in his life and um you know
14:30
god made it happen and i got the call
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yeah so that's how that went down
14:36
corey do you
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um we hear a lot of women in the
14:40
industry say you know
14:42
they struggle with roles and once they
14:44
hit a certain age they're now asked to
14:46
play the mom or the auntie or the
14:50
grandmother or like an elder figure i
14:52
think you are the perfect cast person
14:55
for this role um
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and it doesn't come off like too young
14:59
or too old it's just like this perfect
15:01
fit and dion now that you said that
15:03
coach sanders i could see where you
15:04
could pull from him um but do men
15:07
um if you've been in conversations with
15:09
some of your fellow actors do men
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struggle with that like if they're being
15:13
asked to play a grandfather or
15:16
like yeah damn bro i'm getting old like
15:18
they only sending me these whole rolls
15:20
out and so how do you how do men cope
15:22
with it because i hear a lot of women
15:24
talk about it but i don't really hear
15:25
men i don't hear you know what i'm the
15:27
same as you i don't really hear a lot of
15:28
men talking about it because i hear the
15:30
roles are more um they're more uh
15:33
flexible for men as you get older that's
15:35
what i heard but i don't really have
15:37
in-depth conversations with none of my
15:38
active friends especially talking about
15:40
being a grandfather yet you know
15:43
like so i don't
15:45
yeah you got some 45 year old
15:46
grandfathers out here corey that's fast
15:48
i believe i i believe i believe that but
15:52
um nah i mean i just feel like as i feel
15:55
like with men the roles are you do have
15:57
more you can't you know they say like
15:59
morgan friedman didn't get it get it
16:01
going to what in his 50s or something
16:03
you know so i just feel like it's
16:05
different
16:06
you know um for for men and women which
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is not fair you know what i'm saying it
16:10
shouldn't be about shouldn't be about
16:12
that you know um
16:14
but yeah hopefully hopefully things can
16:16
change where they can you know women can
16:17
feel like they're more appreciated
16:18
because they're well deserved you know
16:20
women's uh women
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women's the strongest just period
16:25
especially black women in this business
16:27
and we need to appreciate them more you
16:28
know
16:29
thank you for saying that corey thank
16:31
you
16:32
and plus his black woman got him eating
16:34
the vitamins so he don't look like he
16:36
ate past 20.
16:40
i stay in the house man i take care of
16:41
myself and i come home every night
16:44
every night amen
16:46
uh well congratulations on all american
16:49
i i'm a fan of the uh
16:51
the the
16:52
flagship
16:53
series so i'm gonna be a
16:55
a fan of this one as well especially
16:57
because you're in it and then also
16:59
congratulations on your film company we
17:02
were having this conversation today
17:04
about
17:05
the the the movie uh what's it called
17:07
tinder swindler the tinder swimmer me
17:10
and my wife
17:11
we love we love that man that was
17:13
entertaining
17:14
wasn't it all right and then people
17:16
telling us to watch inventing anna which
17:18
is supposed to be about some khan thing
17:20
too
17:21
and then you just produced a movie
17:23
called con men
17:24
well no
17:26
i'm going to be producing that with with
17:28
the banner that i just started with my
17:29
production company uh fun and yeah i'm
17:32
gonna be getting into some films this
17:33
year it's just you know i want to do the
17:35
movies that i feel that we need to see
17:37
more of that hollywood was saying no to
17:39
me too you know like they just look at
17:41
my scripts like we love them but i'm
17:43
like listen i can't wait on y'all i got
17:45
to do it myself so i'm just going to
17:46
show them better than i can tell them
17:48
and just try to make way uh for the
17:50
culture and make a difference man that's
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just what i want to do so i just what's
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that process what's what's that process
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been like for you because you we see you
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as the actor but now you're building
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this film company oh man it's all new so
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operational is up and running you know
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uh first week of march so it's all it's
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all new right now and i'm at the end of
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film and homecoming so right when i
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finish that i can get into it like i'm
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picking like a staff a creative
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executive you know i'm i'm doing what
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y'all do now you know so it's kind of
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it's draining but at the same time it's
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fulfilling because i know it's it's i'm
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leading i'm going somewhere it's a
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vision of mine it's what's in my heart
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and uh i just definitely want to do
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films that just take you back to like
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that old school coulee high you know
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last dragon you know boy that's the type
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of films i want to do so
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let's crack it man last dragon i said
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the last dragon come on
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two episodes of all american homecoming
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he directed last dragon car wash and
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cooley high he did two episodes wow um
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yeah it's michael schultz so uh very
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cool
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bring the actor who played bruce leroy
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back he looked good too man he's well
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preserved he out here baby let's get
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deserved
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[Laughter]
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vitamins
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yo you gotta get those answers y'all
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they the truth though
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they taste great all american homecoming
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uh monday february 21st check out coach
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marcus turner our good friend my brother
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corey heardrick man hey continued
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success man yes
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y'all like our favorite power couple
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facts oh man thank you thank you so much
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man and one one more thing sway if you
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grew up on good times you'll love coach
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marcus turner remember james evans i
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call myself the light skinned james
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evans
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john amos yes yes i get that man i love
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that he was all of our second dad bro he
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was our second dad that's right he's
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trying to bring back light skin is back
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wow
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all right hey man prove you in the
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bathroom flush the toilet let me hear it
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oh man pause man
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all right cory have a beautiful day man
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