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Kel Mitchell Talks ‘Good Burger 2’, Influence of ‘Kenan & Kel’, New Book + Freestyles
Nov 30, 2022
Kel Mitchell Talks ‘Good Burger 2’, Influence of ‘Kenan & Kel’, New Book + Freestyles
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[Applause]
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that man can read his ass off Heather V
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listen reading is fundamental there
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ain't no ebonics right there man no no
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baby the Annunciation was perfected oh
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boy my God you can see he was the pacing
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was good
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holding up that piece of paper bro come
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on man hold it up I'm not surprised I'm
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not surprised man this is uh man listen
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I'm not surprised this guy is
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multi-faceted multi-talented as many
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layers to what he brings to the universe
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HB come on this man has been coming up
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here for yo you've been coming up here
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supporting us since 2011. thanks y'all
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family man thank you God did god dude
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feel me thank you man thank you you know
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what y'all do man thank you every
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morning getting everybody in good
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spirits yeah man come on man
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when I said that it really sunk in yeah
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yeah we started here in 2011. what yeah
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yeah that's crazy and so for 11 years
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you've been supporting us yes thank you
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brother I was on tour when I came up
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here right I was on tour I was getting
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that money for my wedding
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2012 I got married right after that
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congratulations for 10 years you've been
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married yeah we're going on 11 now 11.
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just like yeah we're going over there
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that's 11 years yeah we're going 11. oh
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my gosh oh congratulations yeah shout
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out to my baby yeah yeah and I like that
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shout out she's smart he's smart he's
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scared Heather he's scared
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because in this industry like I used to
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hear people say oh my gosh like it's so
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hard to be married and be in the
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entertainment industry yeah but
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definitely once you pass that double
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digit Mark it's like yo we got it we
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found out Rhythm because there's a
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rhythm to a relationship and now you see
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they know how to dance with no music
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they they got it it's a rhythm it's a
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rhythm I love her soundtrack it sounds
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good
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let's be real for a second let's tap in
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yeah so when you really step into
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marriage it's a spiritual union you're
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asking God the two shall become one and
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you're asking for his covering so when
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you're tapped into that you don't need
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music like literally God is your music
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so you can that you can complete each
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other's thoughts you can finish each
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other's sentences you cover each other
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when when that person is not even let
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Dad break it down like this it's like a
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a puzzle piece like I found my puzzle
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piece you know what I mean you're
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connected in such a beautiful way and
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when that happens it's just like it's
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it's awesome God I mean yeah God bless
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her because your puzzle your life has
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been like a jigsaw puzzle
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might be a little hard to find that one
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right so 11. yeah man I'm so happy I
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found her he finds a wife finds a good
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thing so for me it's just awesome that's
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my that's my teammate in life my journey
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we won you know what I mean yeah so it's
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cool so I'm celebrating with y'all and
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celebrating with her because this comes
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up in January so yeah I'm already
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getting ready for it yeah
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beautiful yeah oh man get married sway
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hurry up let's go
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yo I got so real way shook a little bit
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you haven't been telling me that for
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quite some time yeah because he didn't
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follow the wife find us a good thing
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yeah you'll find it the wife and then
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you'll be out of my house
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really what it is yeah okay it comes
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every week
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torch and DB are off in New York say
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hello to torch and DB what's up torture
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DV what's up fam
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everybody comes up here yeah uh so uh
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Kell we were talking earlier about just
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sort of like the the ritual for kids
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growing up in the 90s uh watching
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Nickelodeon at one point was like pretty
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much if you could get on Nickelodeon and
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get a starring role on any Nickelodeon
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show I mean whether you're watching uh
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hey dudes the Lucha shorts you can't do
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that on television you know what I mean
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so to be on Nickelodeon was such a huge
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deal to a certain demographic of kids
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that were watching these shows so when
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we talk about the Denzel's the Sidney
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poitiers the Oprah winfreys the Ava
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duvernays and all these people who open
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doors and were representing on the big
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screen and and behind the scenes on like
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bigger platforms do you feel like Keenan
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and Kel should also be mentioned as like
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representing just for you know the
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younger audiences
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wow that's beautiful man
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um you know I I that's not that's not my
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call I know what I've done in in my
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journey uh and you name some amazing
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names uh but I'm always
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um you know I always say be humble and
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have Grace you know what I mean so I let
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other people say it you know what I mean
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you know what I mean and other people
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speak on it you
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know when I hear the fans say that uh it
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feels good and it's just uh it's
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confirmation you know uh for us for me
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and Keenan
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um you know we're always we recently
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talked about that like we're in tears a
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lot of times you know what I mean when
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we talk on the phone because we know
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like we were we were literally like you
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know tweens when we got started and for
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uh people to still be excited and
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um have these memories you know with the
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things that we're doing I mean when we
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announced that well I mean we y'all
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already know what's going on already we
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announced good burger too uh how people
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were just like you know uh crying and
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excited and hitting us up about it in
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all these years to be still relevant uh
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and the actors that have uh started
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acting because of things that they saw
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that we did you know
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um and in working with us it's a
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beautiful thing man yeah and they're
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excited to see y'all back together yeah
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yeah you know like I feel like we all
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kind of got excited 25 year anniversary
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a good burger man y'all better get big
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round of applies come on
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25th anniversary but we were just having
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this conversation because kale started
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when he was two so I still look the same
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yeah dude does not change right um but
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we were having this conversation about
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an artist a younger artist that called
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out a a classic artist Jay-Z and it's
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it's interesting that in that 25 years
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Journey that you've had how much
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information you've acquired that others
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will never be able to
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entertainment is like the NFL or NBA you
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know you see a lot of people you think
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you see a lot of people there but you
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have no idea how many people didn't make
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it right and when you do get in there
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there's an average time lifespan right
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you know most we had who Viola Davis
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came up here and talked about
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entertainers how many what percentage of
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actors make over 50 000 a year she said
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like two two percent somewhere between
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two and five percent so it's 25 years in
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now 25th anniversary a good burger you
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got all these projects coming up how are
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you approaching this now differently not
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just as the person in front of the
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camera but also the person behind the
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camera with the business man it's a uh
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it's a beautiful thing to uh you know
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see things through God's eyes to see uh
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what has happened uh in this journey you
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know over being you know super young and
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seeing people come in come out of this
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business uh give up on this business uh
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you know all the all the kind of things
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that happen within it but for me uh it's
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not about uh the business it's about the
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um uplifting okay to let others know you
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can do this too okay and I want them to
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see my consistency I want them to see my
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actions I want them to see how I clear
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my mind to be able to get on these
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stages and when I go to uh when I work
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and when I'm on set I I'm like a sponge
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like I like to look at the legendary
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actors I got a chance to work with
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Loretta Devine oh and for uh for this
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you know my new film uh all I do yes
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and when they when they told me I was
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like yo what Loretta devising this movie
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and you know I'm looking at the script
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I'm like they're like yeah I got a scene
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just me and Loretta just wow acting back
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and forth me and Loretta and I'm just
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I'm in all the whole time and I told my
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mom I was literally like in the scene
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and I'm supposed to be my character
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supposed to be like uplifting her in the
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scene but in the scene I'm killed in the
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inside yeah was screaming like I was
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just like no I'm look at this journey
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like I'm where I'm sitting here you know
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working with Loretta Devine legendary
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and I kept calling her Legend every time
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they would say cut you gotta stop
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calling me a legend that makes me feel
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old and I'm like no you shouldn't feel
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old it's just like it's just you're
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you're a legend to me this legendary you
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know what I mean and I watched how she
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moved and how she spoke to people and
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things and it's like it's uh it's a team
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effort you know what I mean with
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everything and I just feel like it's an
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uplifting she uplifted me with through
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her work and then now me being able to
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work with her and I just think that's
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just awesome when we tell these stories
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on that it's something that was given to
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us by you know God and divine this
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character that we write and all this
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stuff and tell stories to touch people's
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hearts yeah you know when you watch a
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movie you touch someone yeah so that's
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the point it's the story what are we
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telling what's the story in in our
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career and in our real life what are we
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telling what are we telling what's the
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story so when you say it's not about the
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business not that's not to say you're
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not dotting your eyes and crossing your
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teeth come on now right yeah no it's I'm
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saying it's discernment and and
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understanding of uh you know I'm always
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saying like gaining the knowledge and
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never feeling like oh I got it all
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together I know what's going on and when
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I sit down with my team I sit down with
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my attorneys and all these different
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things we're like really you know like
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putting it all together like what are
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the steps before I just kind of was like
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yo I got this this talent and I'm gonna
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do what I do with this talent but now
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it's this this longevity that I'm
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looking at and I'm going man I'm still
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I'm still here this longevity is is for
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a reason you know and uh I've talked to
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other actors about that and it's really
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like you have to look at the journey and
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what you're putting out there through
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the things that you decide to do within
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your career yeah yeah you know what I
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mean so it's important that uh you look
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at the characters it's important that
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you look at the story it's important
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that you you know look at what you're
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putting out there and for me that's
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that's that's what I'm all about yeah
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yeah um I I we follow each other on
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social media I love it I love it
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different social media doesn't make
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people friends you came here he was
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talking about how we like your your eyes
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I I don't want people know I go on
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social media to cook like I'm just there
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cooking thank you but I watch you with
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your family and I think it's beautiful
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and your faith and everything like that
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and that listening to you I always felt
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like you've been very selective about
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what you choose to do and probably
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because you have kids and different
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things like that but with your level of
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talent like just say a 50 Cent called
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you to do power would you like switch
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over and just grab the hammer and just
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start blasting and if you ever would you
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go into a role like that as well before
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you answer that yeah we'll come back
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we're going to go to songs
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I told him that years ago when he came
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by the show and told him he was iconic
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he didn't believe me I don't think
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now we celebrate Creighton 25th
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anniversaries
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come on 25th anniversaries the clip I
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played earlier was from um prank day
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yeah which is a
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incredible project that you're working
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on thank you that you've done talk about
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that man
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um I'm coming back to your question
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going to something else I'm excited
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about prank day uh this is an awesome
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book for uh for tweens I had an idea
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where uh what if there was a kid that uh
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does pranks on April Fool's Day but then
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the next day all the pranks come true so
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now there's running refrigerators
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through the neighborhood there's clowns
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coming out of toilets it's all kind of
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stuff going on he has to figure out why
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and so I take you on this journey I grew
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up like watching like Back to the Future
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and uh stories like that where some Race
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Against Time and I wanted to do a
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action-packed kids story uh and it's
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just been it's been awesome you know
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what I mean the book is awesome uh my
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character Chase that's in this book uh
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the illustrations that are in it uh I
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just saw something and I love you know I
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love writing it's my second book and uh
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yeah man it's cool uh being this this
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author now I'm I'm enjoying it
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hey get that get it prank day is out now
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it's a comedy fantasy illustrator out um
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album for kids and adults because
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usually those things have lessons for
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adults oh yeah right yeah it's a message
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in there for kids too uh the reason he's
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even going on a journey is because he's
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not being himself and he's doing the
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pranks to impress a girl and all this
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different stuff like that uh and then he
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finds out along the journey uh the way
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to figure out what's really going on
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it's just you know to be yourself be
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yourself and that's the that's the real
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thing I like that okay so Heather B
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wanted to ask you this real tabloidus
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type question
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no because he just mentioned like the
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kids and I know how it seems like who
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you've been very careful about the roles
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you take on and like you think about the
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success and shout out to 50 with power
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and all the different subsidiaries of it
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would you just jump on and just
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completely go do something we've never
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sort of seen you in before uh here's the
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thing yeah I mean my thing is like there
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was a time when I was just like you know
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passing up certain roles and things like
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that but then uh I started to go what is
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the ultimate outcome of the character
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what's the ultimate outcome of the story
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uh everyone has trials and tribulations
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and ups and downs before they get
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through a breakthrough in their life so
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if you're telling that within a story
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tell that you know what I mean I wasn't
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always the man that you see before right
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now you know what I mean so everyone has
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a story so what is the story you know
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what I mean and that's that's what's
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important to me uh when you walk away
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going wow they they have some adversity
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in that story they went through some
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things but they triumphed that's the
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thing that I look at instead of just
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going nah nah nah you know you have to
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really really look at that I love it you
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like that yeah because you're the guy
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every time you pop up in the project
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people just naturally root for you I
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don't know if you know that and it would
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just be like dope if I saw you and I'm
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like oh [ __ ] you know what I mean look
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at these dudes in the room look they've
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been staring at you like you a museum
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like you're a man they hung out because
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they heard
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they hurt you bro
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ask him a question what's up man we grew
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up on him come over come over here
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is this one right here come over here
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and say it on my mic so you gotta be
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okay so you could be on camera okay yeah
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yeah these dudes just waiting and
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waiting
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while they waiting man you want to say
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something no I was just saying like
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everything you do is legendary like from
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Good Burger I used to watch it and then
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I re-watch it now get in that camera get
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in that camera
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what's up because being a student of
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like videos because I'm in video
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production
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um I watch that stuff just to just to
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get you know Concepts and ideas and just
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the laughter you bring in the joy that's
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what I want to do in my media is make
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sure I can you know make people laugh
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that's that's what I feel like we lack
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now in a lot of in a lot of um new
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productions so yeah shout out to you man
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for just always leaving away Paving away
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I appreciate that that's love that's
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love man
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I'm on the camera there we go
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it's nostalgic just seeing you oh no no
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that didn't work
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there we go there you go it's nostalgic
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it's like um yeah we grew up on you we
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were kids you know what I mean so it's
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like people understand what that means
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when you were a kid you was watching
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certain people on TV every day all that
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Keenan kale Nickelodeon I'm a new kid
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you know I mean yeah yeah we wanted to
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be y'all you know what I'm saying like
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we wanted that I always wanted to act I
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mean actually coming I'm actually in a
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movie coming out that's what's up you
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didn't say that congrats bro congrats
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm
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actually one of the lead roles in it
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because I do a lot of videos and funny
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videos and stuff but like you know I'll
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go back on YouTube bro just to feel like
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a kid again and watch Ken and Carol and
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just oh there you go someone sold it if
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I still see one so I still think about
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you know who loves on so yeah I mean so
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yeah man we appreciate you I appreciate
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it
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[Music]
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one thing the one thing I did want to
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say is looking at like watching y'all
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coming up y'all was the first like black
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kids that I saw on television like on TV
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with relatable content you know what I'm
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saying relatable like stories and
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situations and stuff that we could laugh
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about you know we go back to school be
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like all right you know what I'm saying
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that's what's up so it was it was very
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impactful thank you brother I'm just
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sitting here watching listening what you
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you doing now and I think it's dope
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thank God he got it he got his own
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company with higher creators hey that's
17:54
what's up man
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what's it that's love man yeah man I
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just wanted you to sense that because
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you guys have such a broad appeal across
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the board every every facet of life but
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it's I think it's special that you have
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young black men that you've inspired and
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a lot of time will be going through this
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work process we're not we're not always
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cognizant of that where you and were you
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and Keenan aware of that were y'all
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making sure that man we got a rep for
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the young black men as well as everybody
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else but yeah my my shout out to my
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parents for doing that you know what I
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mean uh they were definitely
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instrumental in letting me know that you
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know I I grew up on the south side of
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Chicago okay you know what I mean and so
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uh you know I I've stayed in the church
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but then you know I have friends that
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want to up and up and then I have
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friends that weren't you know what I
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mean as well and so uh it was important
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for them to let me know you know what I
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mean of uh this blessing that is
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happening but then also how I'm being
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represented you know what I mean uh and
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that was very important to them and so I
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do see it and then even getting oh you
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know as I grow I don't like to say older
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but I like to say season
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yeah yeah good season within his
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business I hear stories like that from
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you know uh you know different people
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you know uh and family because I call
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family you know what I mean I I hear
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that uh which is dope you know I I one
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guy told me we were like the first like
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blurred you know for them you know what
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I mean like you know what you got out
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there and you could just you know
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totally be yourself you know on screen
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um and so it's always awesome to hear
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that man I don't know did you grow up in
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South Side I did yeah yeah so well you
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confronted with a lot of the street you
19:34
know energy that was going on yeah yeah
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like can you give me an example like
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um best friend uh you know and here's
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the thing because I love the city of
19:43
Chicago so shout out to the uh south
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side of Chicago a lot of uh beautiful
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people out there and creatives and uh
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that do amazing things and so I I you
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know I support a lot of the
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organizations I support a lot of
19:53
teachers out there but uh but yeah you
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know growing up out there uh I had an
19:57
uncle that was you know murdered when I
19:59
was very young uh my best friend was
20:01
murdered at a very young age and I saw a
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lot of that you know uh coming up yeah
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and so even when I got on all that it
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was a little different because my
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lifestyle was a little different of what
20:13
I've you know have what I've seen you
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know what I mean and uh so at first it
20:18
was a thing where
20:20
um when I got on the show uh I remember
20:23
one story where you know my uncle that
20:25
that was murdered I remember when I
20:27
first got on the show he was like yo you
20:29
need a bodyguard you know what I mean he
20:31
was like you need a bodyguard and I was
20:32
like the show just started you know what
20:34
I mean I was like man we ain't even on
20:35
like that I'm thinking like that's
20:36
Michael Jackson or you know all these
20:38
different people just to give y'all that
20:40
aspect of what I was going through you
20:41
know stuff like that and so uh then
20:44
later that summer he was murdered right
20:47
and my dad didn't know that you know as
20:50
a as a young man I held that for years
20:53
because I felt like it was me like I
20:55
went like oh if I if he was just with me
20:58
he was The Bodyguard you know what I'm
21:00
saying but then later I realized like no
21:02
no he had a certain lifestyle that he
21:04
was living in things that he was doing
21:07
and that's why so it's so important you
21:10
know to for people to talk you know as
21:11
far as like with uh therapy I always say
21:14
therapy in Jesus because that's very
21:16
important yeah it's a combo because uh
21:19
you never know what somebody's really
21:20
going through you know what I mean even
21:22
when I was dealing with different things
21:23
like that I would have to get on stage
21:25
and go well I'm gonna get a burger home
21:26
in a good burger can I take your order
21:28
you know what I'm saying but what it
21:29
showed me was to keep your joy even
21:34
through certain circumstances and
21:36
adversity like God always lets us know
21:37
that you know we follow him but there
21:39
will be trouble but he gets you through
21:41
the trouble that's the thing is the
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through is the important part and so as
21:45
I as I go through my journey and as I go
21:47
through it and I look at the look at the
21:49
journey that I've been on and then I go
21:51
like wow keeping peace through it all
21:54
and learning from all these different
21:56
aspects a lot of people will go crazy
21:58
you know what I mean but it's like it's
21:59
really learning through it and not
22:01
pointing fingers at other you know what
22:03
I'm saying the things of that nature
22:04
yeah Kel Mitchell man you he's from the
22:06
same place Little Dirk is from yeah
22:11
Chance the Rapper you know yeah Taylor
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Bennett
22:18
I know them all man did you know I'm
22:21
coming up soon yeah yeah I know Common
22:23
went to school with my sister uh Luther
22:25
South uh I got the freestyle against
22:27
common when I was a kid get to Hell uh
22:30
at Metro music shout out to Metro music
22:31
out in Chicago uh Kanye had me in the
22:34
All Falls Down music video it was like
22:36
you from the shot you got to be in it I
22:37
was a bad carrier yeah in that uh yeah
22:41
man me and chance I was in you know hot
22:43
shower music video because you know
22:45
chance was just like man I love
22:46
communicable you know all that you know
22:48
what I mean so I love the city of
22:50
Chicago uh you know I was a dancer
22:52
footwork I mean you did footwork oh of
22:55
course yeah yeah and it's like for me
22:57
that's what uh shout out to Eta creative
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arts Foundation uh that's the theater
23:02
that I joined because my parents were
23:04
like yo I see him you know uh I don't
23:06
want him going the wrong path so they
23:07
put me in theater and theater changed my
23:10
life when I was in theater it was like
23:12
that was a thing that made me go like oh
23:14
this is what I need to be doing so I'll
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always support the Arts uh you know even
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out here in California and everywhere
23:19
Chicago all over because uh you know
23:22
kids learn differently you know what I
23:24
mean and and I think that's just such a
23:26
beautiful thing to keep the Arts within
23:27
school they were trying to take it out
23:29
but it's important to keep the Arts in
23:30
school you know what I mean and it
23:32
changed my life yeah so shout out to the
23:34
city of Chicago Mitchell I wasn't going
23:37
to ask you about your parents did they
23:38
relocate because I think about parents
23:40
who may live in a place now where they
23:42
do have talented kids you know and don't
23:45
know where to bring them dude you guys
23:46
just relocate out to California well
23:48
here's the thing uh when I started in
23:50
theater it was just supposed to be a
23:51
positive outlet you know for me it
23:52
wasn't a thing and my parents were like
23:54
oh you about to get on TV or nothing
23:55
like that they tried everything you know
23:57
I mean we went to science class guitar
23:58
everything and then karate but what
24:01
stuck was they're like let's put the boy
24:03
or something and but what stuck was uh
24:06
theater you know what I mean that was
24:08
the thing that did it and I remember
24:09
auditions going on auditions back then
24:11
it was just infomercials and stuff like
24:13
that in Chicago you didn't really get
24:15
like these crazy rolls but then uh all
24:17
that came along uh and that was a sketch
24:20
comedy show for kids and when I got the
24:22
show and got on there uh after being in
24:25
theater for so long out in Chicago uh
24:27
when I got that my mom was pregnant with
24:29
my younger sister shout out to Kyra and
24:31
uh well in Kenyatta because you can't
24:33
shut up
24:34
so but yeah but uh when that happened uh
24:38
my my mom was pregnant and she
24:40
definitely was like okay I'm Gonna Be
24:42
Your mama's here and we going out to
24:43
Florida and we gonna make this thing
24:45
happen wow yeah and we did the show in
24:48
Florida first for a few a few years and
24:50
then did it in LA but shout out to my
24:52
mom for just saying you know she was
24:54
pregnant at the time so she was off work
24:55
so she just you know came with me salute
24:57
to that Mom and the dad too slow I love
25:00
it DB you got one for kale yeah
25:03
yeah you know being that we've been
25:05
talking about so much about like how it
25:06
is being a child actor and people
25:08
looking at you at you know at a certain
25:09
age but we have a lot of young actors
25:11
who listen to the show we have a lot of
25:13
parents of uh kids who they would like
25:15
to be into the business but I think a
25:17
lot of people aren't prepared for that
25:18
shift when you go from the commercially
25:20
viable child actor the cute little kid
25:22
that they can put in TV series and
25:24
movies to becoming an adult and people
25:26
not being ready to see you know think of
25:28
Miley Cyrus when she changed her whole
25:30
image and went from like the cute Disney
25:31
kid Nickelodeon star and what have you
25:34
to like you know wearing scantily clad
25:36
you clothing and everything like that
25:38
and people like whoa wait what are you
25:39
saying what happened to the the cute kid
25:40
with all you know covered up and all
25:42
that so can you maybe speak on how to
25:44
prepare yourself from going from a child
25:47
actor where you have an image to
25:49
becoming an adult where you would like
25:51
people to kind of look at you as an
25:53
adult
25:54
uh it it it takes time you know it we
25:57
that had to happen to us too as well uh
26:01
there was a point where people couldn't
26:02
just see us apart do you know what I
26:04
mean they were like well y'all can't
26:05
even killed you know what I mean so he
26:07
was doing something I was doing stuff
26:08
it's like yeah need to do this and it
26:11
was a thing of even when Ed and these
26:14
different characters that I played
26:16
um and then when I played different
26:17
characters and I'm on different shows so
26:19
I guess they're on different shows
26:21
um it was a thing of like At first where
26:24
it's almost like oh okay well you know
26:26
you're the Nickelodeon guy I expected
26:28
you to do something else or act like how
26:29
you are as I as I see you but for me I
26:32
always tell any actor just keep going
26:35
you know and do those roles that are in
26:38
your heart keep going for it a lot of
26:40
times that's in our it's like in our
26:42
head you know what I mean like in the
26:44
first and a lot of frustration comes
26:46
from I mean depression comes from a lot
26:48
of fresh just frustration that's built
26:50
inside that you don't get out you know
26:52
what I mean and so uh it's very
26:54
important for you to talk with your team
26:57
and talk to get people to get it because
26:59
it was like I had to talk to people on
27:01
my team like I want to do these type of
27:03
rows I went through effect while I want
27:05
to do this role I'm gonna do this role I
27:06
want to do these type of things and then
27:08
also too when I found uh you know my
27:11
love for God yeah more come on uh I
27:15
realized that when certain doors shut
27:16
there's going to be another one that
27:18
open if there's uh a character you have
27:21
to realize there's a team so what I
27:22
started to do was I started to get
27:24
direct I started to write
27:26
um I started being behind the camera so
27:28
I could understand how this business
27:30
works and what I started to see was when
27:33
I'm in an audition it's been a whole
27:35
pre-production process of who they're
27:37
looking for and what they want so when
27:40
you step in that room if you ain't that
27:41
you're not going to get that role but
27:43
that doesn't mean you're not good yeah
27:45
that just means that that's not the
27:47
character that you're supposed to play
27:48
so you can continue and Go on in your
27:50
journey and go like uh I heard an actor
27:52
say I still I'm still a working actor
27:55
it's it's a nine to five when I audition
27:58
too as well so when you audition I
28:00
should notify you go in and feel like
28:01
you're clocking in instead of you going
28:02
into the audition like I need this and
28:04
everything riding on this and when you
28:07
feel that way and you don't get it then
28:08
your whole world can fall apart and I
28:10
have been there so the thing about it is
28:12
that you got to go in there with that
28:13
joy and bring it in the room and it's
28:14
like okay cool that's cool I'm gonna go
28:16
get this other thing and it does happen
28:17
yeah
28:37
it's a lot going on in this life man and
28:40
it's a beautiful thing
28:42
um all I didn't want for Christmas
28:44
premieres Wednesday December 7th get
28:46
epic God of Applied okay that's a new
28:49
movie on VH1 yeah baby uh I'm so excited
28:52
about this role man uh I play an elf in
28:55
it okay I see that and my I can't
28:58
festive with my red uh but uh I play a
29:01
character named wolf and um I'm working
29:03
with Gabby said let me say her name
29:06
right and then uh Gabby's amazing
29:08
actress as well to be on set with her uh
29:11
and then Loretta Devine as well uh but
29:13
uh Gabby's character she doesn't like
29:15
Christmas because she's dealing with a
29:16
lot of personal things in her life that
29:18
her job her family things that she she
29:20
hasn't dealt with in her life and so
29:22
when Christmas comes up she doesn't
29:23
celebrate it anymore I play an elf that
29:26
uh well I I upset Santa and and the
29:30
elves are like working at like Amazon
29:31
type of deal we don't have the ears and
29:33
none of that none of that stuff and uh
29:35
what happens is that I upset him and
29:37
he's like well you got to go to Earth
29:38
and you gotta help someone change their
29:41
idea of Christmas and bring joy to them
29:43
and so it's a journey of me doing that
29:45
for her uh and it's such a a fun story
29:48
yeah uh it's a different type of
29:50
Christmas story as well uh when you see
29:52
it you'll understand what I'm saying uh
29:54
and it's just uh it's great and I'm also
29:56
I have natural hair in that too so I'm
29:58
an elf uh with locks so uh shout out to
30:01
all the locticians out there
30:05
okay
30:21
[Laughter]
30:25
bro would have been perfect
30:29
yeah you didn't want to be his kind of
30:30
woman oh he was doing the Octagon that
30:33
wasn't the Christmas
30:34
right there
30:36
that's amazing though man you light up
30:39
when you talk about this movie oh it's
30:40
fun man we had some fun we laughed the
30:42
entire time so uh Gabby's improv is like
30:45
ridiculous like it is yeah yeah she's a
30:47
beast in this too so uh yeah we just we
30:50
just had a blast man it's a
30:51
congratulations
30:52
now you did a book called bless mode I
30:56
did right
30:57
um and now you have a song called bless
31:00
mode oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
31:02
featuring uh no big deal and scooty [ __ ]
31:06
uh you know I love uh chhh you know
31:09
Christian hip-hop you know uh and the
31:11
thing about it is that I let it work out
31:13
yeah I worked out this morning before I
31:15
came here meditating I felt I felt out
31:19
of shape I just looked at myself
31:22
don't be lying belly gang in the
31:24
building
31:25
it's so like
31:28
and for me man it's like you know uh
31:31
getting in the right mindset preparing
31:33
for your day uh you know with the Lord
31:35
your Fitness your spiritual all that
31:36
stuff and so I was like I need a
31:38
soundtrack to that and uh you know I've
31:39
been rapping for years you know since I
31:41
was 16 and I was like yo let's put this
31:42
record out and it's it's it's been
31:45
getting a lot of love I'm excited about
31:47
it okay uh bless Moe man yeah we'll play
31:50
it for you hold on let me get black news
31:52
on the line real quick Mike huge is
31:54
actually here too Mike Muse what up Mike
31:56
Muse
32:00
[Music]
32:03
I'm loving the conversation
32:06
okay great man
32:08
um Mike and I were texting back and
32:10
forth and he was like sway please don't
32:12
play the song until he passes the test
32:15
yo torch you ready oh no
32:18
okay yes sir
32:23
are you ready you know no sway oh you
32:29
put on thug music I know I need
32:30
something a little faster play that uh
32:31
okay what you need uh that what he was
32:36
playing earlier you know what I mean
32:38
yeah
32:40
it's in Paris okay
32:50
Mike ask him a question while we're
32:53
waiting on what's Happening go ahead
32:56
who is your favorite Christmas who's
32:59
your favorite Christian rapper out there
33:00
right now
33:01
uh KB
33:03
KB say shout out to KB KB KB is a beast
33:07
uh yeah man he's a beast definitely
33:10
shout out to KB a good friend of mine
33:12
and my good friend of mine uh no big
33:14
deal you know I mean scooty [ __ ] yeah
33:17
yeah man the whole Indie tribe yeah
33:20
that's dope yeah I was gonna put him to
33:22
the test HP
33:25
I think it's a hyena thing
33:28
I'm talking wolves
33:35
should I do it his head I don't know
33:39
all right all right uh why are you going
33:42
through the city swing Kel Mitchell Sway
33:43
in the morning I ain't giving up Bill
33:45
tough can't stop won't stop huh I'll
33:47
stop looking down at the ground like my
33:48
wife forces
33:51
[Music]
34:03
what the Holy Spirit told me in my ear
34:06
let me make it clear my faith get active
34:09
your head is gonna say what happened
34:11
that CNA win I knew you was capping I
34:14
knew you was capping my angels be
34:15
scrapping my interest
34:17
s I've been boy you be napping
34:32
throw that back on
34:52
that was hot
34:54
okay let's let's let's do a sing-along
34:57
because I'm
34:59
gonna do it out when I say uh I want
35:01
when I point to y'all okay I want y'all
35:03
to say blessings don't get blocked
35:04
blessings don't get blocked lessons
35:08
when life get hard blessings won't get
35:11
blind persevere when life get hard
35:13
lessons won't get blocked persevere when
35:16
life get hard lessons won't get blocked
35:18
oh you see I made it happen
35:21
my God made it happen wrong side of town
35:26
but they sent me an invite Look at me
35:28
now I'm rushing to feel right there by
35:31
the reason they spotlight they're better
35:33
reason they Spotlight but this light he
35:35
gave me stay bright to Eternity I can
35:37
see so clearly like Mike and that Billie
35:40
Jean whoa lighting my pathway a rock to
35:42
the party when I pull up they know me
35:46
I wanna stall I would not pause I've
35:49
evolved I will not beg I when I crawl
35:51
I've evolved I get it I get it while
35:55
others they quit it I stay committed
35:58
I said legit persevere when life get
36:00
hard blessings won't get blind
36:02
depressing feeling like it hard blessed
36:04
is walking blind oh you see I made it
36:06
happen
36:08
my God made it happen
36:12
here we don't display trust me now we
36:14
straight hey hey Spirit on display trust
36:17
me now we fight hey hey Spirit on
36:19
display trust me now we straight hey hey
36:22
you so fake see your corny ways
36:27
[Music]
36:30
I love it let's get it
36:39
wow
36:42
wow
36:46
I love this guy man
36:48
I love this guy messes won't get blocked
36:53
man pick up prank day is out now what
36:57
else man get make sure you watch all I
36:59
didn't want for Christmas yeah uh 25th
37:02
anniversary a good burger yeah Jesus let
37:05
me get you some um orange chicken and
37:07
Panda Express
37:08
Panda Express yeah the new Beyond orange
37:10
chicken yeah like that that should have
37:12
you're the best person yeah because we
37:14
getting free chicken we're getting free
37:16
chicken now he said beyond
37:19
orange chicken yeah yeah
37:22
I'm doing that so Burger that's all cool
37:28
you get free chicken now we are chicken
37:32
uh pray.com check that out too I wanted
37:34
to shoutpray.com out uh that's like the
37:36
comment yeah so uh it's for our
37:38
Believers I partnered up with them
37:41
um you can you hear me do the uh you
37:43
know uh uh The Sermon on the Mount uh
37:45
and put people to sleep with God's word
37:47
you know what I mean because I see a lot
37:49
of things going on that people are
37:50
dealing with uh and I feel like you know
37:52
if you could let go and just he listened
37:55
to the word of God and go to sleep
37:56
peaceful and wake up ready for your day
37:58
uh shout out to pray.com that's uh I
38:00
partnered up with them too as well man
38:01
you doing hey man love y'all truly
38:04
blessing yeah we love you man Kel
38:06
Mitchell he's been coming here since our
38:07
first year come on and we got more years
38:10
ahead of us and you are truly your
38:12
inspiration you're a Class Act brother
38:14
you've always been there yes okay so we
38:17
appreciate you and I'm glad the world is
38:19
recognizing your gifts because we need
38:21
them all right and then the bars are
38:24
okay man we got to bring this dude back
38:25
HB and put him in the five fingers
38:28
kale Mitchell this is bless mode we
38:31
gonna come back with Mike Muse of
38:32
political news thank you brother
38:34
anything you want to say on the way out
38:35
thank you oh y'all playing bless mode
38:36
let's do it oh let's go uh
38:40
listen uh no big deal in scooty WAP
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