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Ernie Hudson Talks About Carl Weber’s The Family Business Season 3 on BET+ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Oct 15, 2021
Ernie Hudson checks in on Sway In The Morning to talk about his role as the Duncan Family patriarch in Carl Weber’s The Family Business as they return for season 3.
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Ernie Hudson Talks About Carl Weber’s The Family Business Season 3 on BET+
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i don't think you understand who's in
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the driver's seat
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the wheels i'm about to fall
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off yes and that trailer is from the
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family business premiering tomorrow
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season three premiering tomorrow on
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b-e-t plus
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our guest today is an executive producer
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db break it down for him
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he's an actor writer producer husband
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and father some of my personal favorite
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films he started include the deep sea
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thriller leviathan that ending still
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bothers me to this day and he knows what
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i'm talking about when he played reggie
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in the basketball diaries his role is
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warren leo glenn in the hbo series oz
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and i can't forget the man who said
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that's a big twinkie winston zed more in
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ghostbusters ironically last time he was
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here was in 2014 and he was promoting
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the 30th anniversary of ghostbusters and
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now finally the long-awaited highly
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anticipated ghostbusters afterlife will
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be in theaters next month on november
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19th but tomorrow like you said sway you
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can watch him return as lc duncan on
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season three of the family business on
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bet plus ladies and gentlemen mr ernie
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hudson
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hey mr hudson
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hey guys hey wow that's a nice intro
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thank you
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come on man hudson should do radio you
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hear that voice oh yeah oh mr hudson you
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trying to take my job bro you're getting
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all the work
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you're giving me that isaac hayes voice
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man
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too
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wow well you know it doesn't sound like
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that to me man you're doing it i love
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listening to you guys so oh wow man
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thank you sir we appreciate you man i
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one of the things i've always enjoyed
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you uh it's been a long time since
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you've been on the show and you know we
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do nothing but give you praises and
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uh i like when i find commonalities and
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people that i you know grew up watching
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or that i have tremendous respect for
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and mr hudson one of the things that you
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and i have in common is like myself you
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grew up a big fan of the icon muhammad
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ali am i mistaken
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oh yeah yeah no he um
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yeah inspiration man for you know
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certainly my adult life i mean he was
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just incredible so
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yeah did you get to meet him
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you know i met him once he was uh i went
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to wayne state university in detroit he
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came through there when he was exiled
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from boxing
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and um didn't get a you know to spend
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any real time with him but at least i
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shook his hand and got a chance to say
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hello absolutely it was a big deal to me
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i was like oh you know
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you know and i thought i was a a big guy
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but man
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he was
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it wasn't just his physical size his
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presence was uh was amazing
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ali was huge man uh he was huge when you
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think about when you talked about him
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being exiled from boxing you know and we
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we talk about this a lot on the show
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what he stood up for at that time you
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know you didn't see that that often and
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nine times out of ten you was going to
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jump drop out of public favor you know
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but when we look at certain athletes
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like you know the lebron james of the
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world you know the carmelo anthony's uh
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chris paul's different people have stood
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up against um police brutality and
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social injustice did you liken it to
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that time period that muhammad ali was
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exiled you know and yeah
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well you know not only was the exile he
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paid the price and he still he came out
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of it i mean he came out a bit strong
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and and set an example of um you know
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yeah i mean because
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you know you stand up it doesn't
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necessarily mean that that's the end of
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the game you know so uh i think he just
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inspired a lot of people and he did it
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at a time when it wasn't
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you know really popular for
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a lot of people black white or otherwise
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you know but but he's still on his
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principles and that uh i think that's
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what really characterizes him
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absolutely and we see that in these
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young athletes today and then um i think
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i was going to lead up to this question
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did you watch the fury and wilder fight
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no no i didn't no
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oh well that's gangster
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hey man you must have a great life that
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man even watch the fight man you got
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stuff to do huh
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[Music]
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i've been busy man i've been digging
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you've been able to i love i love
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fighting but i'm just uh boxing but
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i just been traveling working
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heading to new york to work on another
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show
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yeah it's uh god is good and uh i'm
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blessed to be able to do what i love to
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do absolutely and now you're not just
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acting you're also an executive producer
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was was that always the plan when you
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got into acting you know you're the ep
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of the family business
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was that always yeah
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no no i started out wanting to be a
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writer and uh but acting was always fun
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writing was work
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and so uh i became a single dad really
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early and so i had to feed the kids and
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acting was immediate
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but uh acting is what i do i've been
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making a living from acting for 56 years
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when my first son was born he's 56 years
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old now so
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i was acting then and
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this being an executive producer on this
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show is my way of saying okay i want to
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be a part of it but i also want to have
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some influence in terms of how
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we go with this and where we go with
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this because a lot of shows
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you know i've been in somebody else's
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story and uh i just want to you know
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just step up when i need to and
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sometimes the things that need to happen
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um that only i can
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well i shouldn't say only i but but i'm
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the one to make it happen so i'm glad to
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be able to do that but it's acting on
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the show that i'm that inspires me that
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i'm happy about
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okay man ernie hudson is here man eight
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eight eight seven four two three three
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four five bills you wanna holler at
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ernie hudson i do thank you mr hudson
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for calling into the show today i wanted
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to ask you about that process of
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stepping into executive producer as like
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for years of being in front of the
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screen and and you know i don't know how
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crazy your journey was i could only
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imagine just having so much respect for
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you as an artist but finally taking that
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leap of faith and having an idea and
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presenting it and pitching it how
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difficult was that for you or maybe it
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was easy could you share a little bit of
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that with us
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well in this case it was it was easy i
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mean i've tried to bring some things uh
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you know forward in the past but
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uh carl webber um you know he he's
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amazing and uh he wasn't from hollywood
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he came with this story
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um
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you know
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it it um and we have an amazing uh
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executive producer uh indeed brown who
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uh it's a an extraordinary team trey
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haley who directs all the episodes
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um
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so they just made you know made
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everything easy i came in as you know
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that
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um you know when you need it when we
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needed to step in front of the network
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you know i was there and all the work
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i've done were able to bring that to
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play and
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you know
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thankfully
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um you know they responded and we got it
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to the air so
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but yeah i know they
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they do the hard the heavy lifting but
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sometimes uh
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i need to step up and
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and do what needs to be done
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there it is ernie hudson man hey man i
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didn't know you had a 56 year old uh son
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yeah yeah yeah yeah i know man you know
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uh my son is becoming an old guy i'm
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like dude
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who looks young
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well well thank you you know i've been
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uh i've been very blessed you know i
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mean i grew up
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you know on the projects and
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you know god has has been good
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amen and my four sons and all they're
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all amazing people and
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i'm just very proud of all of them
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okay ernie hudson is here tracy you want
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to jump in yeah absolutely hey mr hudson
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i'm so happy that you're joining us um
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and i know outside of just promoting the
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family business which is on season three
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god bless but also um the third part of
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ghostbusters ghostbusters afterlife and
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thinking about this like magical number
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three
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when it comes to a trilogy that doesn't
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always work for certain um franchises
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but it's working for ghostbusters can
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you share like what are the elements
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where if if a movie is going to have a
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sequel or even go as far to have be in a
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trilogy or even beyond
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what are some of the elements that have
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to be there if you want a shot at
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success
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well i think the most important thing is
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you've really got to pay attention to
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the audience the people who
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kept it alive the people who are looking
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forward you have to listen to that we
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had another movie um that was all ladies
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being the ghostbusters and uh
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paul feig did it but
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i i don't think he necessarily just
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tuned into what the fans were asking for
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and looking for
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um
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and i think this new one is uh jason
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weitman's dad produced ivan reitman
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produced and directed the the first two
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movies and he was on the set as a
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six-year-old kid running around
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he loves the franchise he's very aware
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of the audience and i think that's the
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big difference uh here
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okay got it
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stand on that post any ghostbuster fans
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uh 888 742-3345
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here i got one okay there he goes all
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right go ahead
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yeah mr hudson um i know we're here to
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promote family business premiering
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tomorrow but me being a huge
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ghostbusters fan i grew up on it last
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time you came by you signed my
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ghostbusters dvd and uh so i just have
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to ask because i'm going to be there
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front row whenever it opens in theaters
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next month um just a basic question
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uh since you are a ghostbuster and you
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talked about the the fanfare you know
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from the the toys the merchandise the
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people turning ecto ones uh from their
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cars do you own any props from the first
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two films or even did you keep anything
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from this one
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you know the only thing i got from the
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first movie was uh my jumpsuit
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and um you know studios get very
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possessive and i'm like okay i'm you
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know i
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but uh i was the last day of shooting i
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was uh getting ready to leave and harold
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uh rhema said uh are you taking your
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your jumpsuit and i said well i'm i'm
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not sure we
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you know we're allowed to he said ernie
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we're the ghost buses take the jumpsuit
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so
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from the uh
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all the movies i've been in um you know
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there's always something in with
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ghostbusters i have the jumpsuit from
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from you know all the movies
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can you still fit it you know what oh
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yeah yeah oh yeah you know what this
11:02
pandemic came out and i was hearing all
11:04
this stuff i'm like okay i told my wife
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we need to make sure we get healthy i
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don't want any pre-existing so i dropped
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probably about 30
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35 pounds during the pandemic
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well so you know
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that time well
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were you doing push-ups too like how
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what was it
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was it to die you know
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you always got to do your push-ups you
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know basic stuff you learn as a kid you
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got to keep that in play otherwise uh
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the body starts to disappoint you
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what a way to put it
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right the body and disappointed itself
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is you just disappointed right okay
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we got jessica on the line from michigan
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uh jessica welcome to the show grand
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rises hey grand rising hi
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hey hey hey say hello to the executive
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producer of the family business
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season three
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hello mr hudson
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well hello hi
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hello to michigan
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yes i'm from benton harbor
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oh wow my hometown i'm a huge fan yes
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everybody around here knows we're very
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proud that ernie is from benton harbor
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um i just heard you on the radio so i
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wanted to call him
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oh well thank you thank you that uh it
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means a lot you know i mean when home
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appreciates you uh that that it means a
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lot so uh absolutely but i was thinking
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about uh the the question about
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ghostbusters and and family business the
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reason i wanted to be executive producer
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on it and have influence because when i
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did the character winston i had no um
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influence in terms of how things went or
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right what was happening and that was
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kind of a humbling experience in a lot
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of ways so
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um when something you're passionate
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about i just want to make sure that
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that i got a voice in the game
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got it yes thank you
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that makes sense uh we got uh i'm gonna
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take a few callers uh we gotta go quick
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carlos in vegas so what's up say hello
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to mr hudson carlos hey
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carlos um hey grand rosin everybody
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bless up to everyone appreciate the show
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uh just wanted to be quick mr hudson i
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really appreciate what you do for
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ghostbusters um hey i'm a huge fan i'm
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an artist and one of the first pieces of
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art that i drew up was uh you guys
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taking down the stay puft marshmallow
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man so i just wanted to give a shout out
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i'm excited to see the movie i can't
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wait for it um i got my kid she's turned
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on to it so hey
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keep up the good work um can't wait to
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watch family business it's my first time
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hearing about it so i can't wait to
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check it out because i know that
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everything touches gold so y'all take
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care bless up have a great day get it on
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the b-e-t plus app and family business
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is like
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falcon crest mixed with dynasty
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mixed with a little bit of love and
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hip-hop
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you know is everything rolled up in one
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and there's not a second i i i think
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y'all probably got a scandal quota every
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five minutes you know on the family
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business might be written in the script
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but carlos
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you're going to enjoy it all right you
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will see this it's just become recently
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uh
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stress-free and drama-free so i could
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appreciate a little bit of drama in my
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life so i'll go ahead and check it out
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check it out
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you'll get a plenty for all right you a
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citizen man come on
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you know what clifton powell
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is in family business
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yeah
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man this is amazing i love clifton i've
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always been a fan of his work i admire
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him
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um yeah he's he plays my brother and
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yeah he's just he's a he's a wonderful
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actor i'm glad he you know
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he's still doing what he loves to do
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absolutely uh i'm gonna take one more
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call this is jess she's in augusta
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georgia jess how you doing grand risings
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hey grand rising slay tracy g and
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heather b hey hey mr hudson hey hi jeff
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hey uh
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hey how are you i was just kind of let
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you know that
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the whole ghostbusters movie has
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inspired my seven-year-old son
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to
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dress up like you guys go out and buy a
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proton pack an ekg meter the glasses
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the jacket the whole the whole nine
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and we go to the movies and watch it
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wow and he's like i love ray stance you
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know dan aykroyd he watches right right
15:26
to the end of death he's like mom i just
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want four or five chickens
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so
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you guys have inspired my seven-year-old
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i just want to let you guys know that
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it's going on for generations
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wow that's that's beautiful
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you know that's the the wonderful thing
15:43
about ghostbusters it crosses generation
15:46
i've seen
15:47
great grandparents watching with their
15:49
little everybody enjoys it for different
15:51
reasons but the little kids the adults
15:54
it's um and not many movies do that so
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it it means a lot absolutely just thanks
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for sharing tell your son what's your
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son's name
16:04
his name is jeff he's named after me i'm
16:06
jessica he's just okay tell him we said
16:09
what up all right he's a citizen he's a
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citizen
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hey how does that work um mr hudson um
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as popular and as big as ghostbusters uh
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especially the first movie
16:20
is the you get in terms of the payment
16:23
you don't get residuals any longer do
16:25
you do they how do they negotiate that
16:30
mr hudson you get uh oh you get can you
16:33
hear me yeah go go for it i thought you
16:35
hung up when i asked that money question
16:38
my business why are you in my business
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[Laughter]
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yeah yeah no no no i uh yeah you know
16:45
it's uh if it's shown on tv you get
16:48
residuals and um you know they they set
16:51
it up where you're supposed to get some
16:52
back in here and there but you never see
16:54
that so uh yeah i love ghostbusters but
16:57
it's not from all the money i made on it
17:00
uh i just uh i appreciate the fans but i
17:03
don't appreciate the studio and they pay
17:05
systems so yeah it's good yeah and it's
17:09
interesting now we're entering a new
17:10
time in this digital age and this
17:12
streaming age and like many artists when
17:15
we in the music business where you only
17:17
have one or two
17:18
uh avenues of making a stream of money
17:21
now you got plenty for now so it's
17:23
different now so you you you an ep it's
17:25
a it's a streaming system now you
17:28
obviously could have more proprietorship
17:29
in the work you do right absolutely and
17:32
you know it's much more diverse now they
17:34
appreciate our talents more it's always
17:36
been a different pay scale for
17:38
you know black actors as opposed to
17:41
white and that's known
17:43
but um but yeah things have um
17:46
you know
17:47
changed for the better and uh
17:49
you know i'm excited about that okay
17:51
ernie hudson ladies and gentlemen a big
17:53
round of applause man i you know next
17:55
time we'll be hopefully we'll be in the
17:57
studio we'll be in person we can see you
17:59
again okay
18:00
i'd love to thank you so much for taking
18:03
the time i really love and appreciate
18:04
you guys so just
18:06
stay up stay strong and you know
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um y'all the best to you thank you man
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thank you i'm you to stay off the radio
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uh because i feel threatened right now
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okay so keep your voice somewhere else
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all right mr hudson
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well thank you thank you you got nothing
18:24
to worry about okay that's what's up man
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there it is season three the family
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business premiere tomorrow on pc
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hey hey hey hey hey mr hudson you still
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there
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yeah yeah yeah why don't you just do a
18:40
little radio just you know just say
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we'll be right back on sway in the
18:43
morning that's it go ahead
18:46
hey
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we'll be right back on sway in the
18:49
morning
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you
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