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Lamorne Morris On Being Recognized By Fans and Talks Season 2 of “Woke” on Hulu | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Mar 30, 2022
Lamorne Morris is back in season 2 of his hit comedy ‘Woke’ on Hulu. He stopped by Sway In The Morning to catch up and give fans some on what to expect this season.
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Lamorne Morris On Being Recognized By Fans and Talks Season 2 of “Woke” on Hulu | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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what is going on right in front of you
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yeah that's a clip from the the hit hulu
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series
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entitled woke
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and uh
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man i was a big fan of season one
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i'm not even sure what year it came out
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it's been so long since season two has
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returned
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but
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we got our good friend here with the db
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you want to do the honors
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yeah it's not often that i get to
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introduce somebody who i can say that
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i'm genuinely a friend with that we're
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uh that we have as a guest on our show
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and i've known this guy for i want to
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say probably around like 15 years or
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something like that longer yeah yeah we
0:37
met through a mutual friend sway you
0:38
know jeremy as gary promoter in new york
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yeah yeah
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we met we used to run into each other at
0:44
his parties and stuff like that and that
0:45
was back when he was doing bet and then
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i'm wired
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he relocated to the west coast here in
0:52
la and he got a hit with a new girl and
0:55
now they got the podcast because new
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girl has just gone on to be so
0:58
successful each of the cast members have
1:01
so many fans within their own right
1:02
winston is a fan favorite they have
1:04
their own show welcome to our show the
1:06
podcast uh he's been in movies that i
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love like game night barbershop the next
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cut blood bloodshot but now he's back on
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season two woke is on hulu april eighth
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and uh we have with us keith knight also
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co-starring t murphy was on the sway in
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the morning comedy broadcast at
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caroline's
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welcome him lamar morris
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you would think with all those accolades
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that i'd be a wealthier man i am not
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you're not no
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well what do you mean you accept low
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payment and and food coupons to work do
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you really yeah i just want to stay
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relevant do you have do you feel like
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you ever had a job where they paid you
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what you're worth uh you know what i i
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would say yes i'm joking but i will say
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yes but i always know and i can always
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look around the room and go
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i think my co-star is getting more than
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me
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i can always look around
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[Music]
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i would imagine that people don't even
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have those kind of conversations like
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what you get what you get
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you don't have them like that but you do
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have them off the record sometimes
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sometimes you have them off the record
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especially around renegotiation time you
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go hey let me ask you a question brother
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you know and then and then you know like
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i'm not gonna rat you out but i wanted
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to use your number to fix to fix my
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number uh-huh you know what i mean so
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those conversations they happen a little
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bit you're not supposed to it's taboo
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but
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people do it has any actor ever told you
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man i don't feel comfortable sharing
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that information with you yeah uh vin
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diesel he we
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we've been shooting bloodshot i was just
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like i feel like we don't make the same
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vin tell me
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she's like duck
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[Laughter]
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said what he said we're not family
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enough
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[Laughter]
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that's the first slide i might use that
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as long as i've known you and it's as
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many times as i've seen you
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i never seen you wear so much ice that
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you wearing on your neck right i've
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never seen you wear these kind of
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necklaces though oh i see
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that's nice ripping right now man what
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is that like
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this this these these things i mean you
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worried quit trying to act like they're
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not there's a long night
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no this i found found this one did you
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really no okay
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i found it at the jewelers
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no this you know it's interesting every
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time i book a gig i i don't do much for
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myself i just say i'm going to get you
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know something that i don't wear often
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and these i literally do not wear these
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that often but i was coming on the show
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i said oh man i want to i'm wearing a
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t-shirt i mean as well
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yeah i mean a lot of folks just from a
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business perspective and we're going to
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talk about woke but um
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i know
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friends who buy gold and buy diamonds as
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investments like people buy land or
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people buy paintings
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they actually hide not high but they
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keep their about their uh their worth in
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the jewelry that they buy oh absolutely
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yeah 100 yeah i do that too i do that
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too okay um but for the most part
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i just do it to look cool man there you
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go man
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then usually when i'm drunk i just throw
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it on somebody oh
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[Laughter]
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i love it man um so woke man does it
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i find it really interesting all i don't
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know man i thought i think to be woke
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i've always thought growing up when you
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say woke that it was a
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it's a positive thing like it's a it's a
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it's a enlightenment you know it's it's
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it's a vision thing you know you see new
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vision but now the word woke has been so
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politicized and it almost has some type
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of some people negative connotation oh
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100 has a negative connotation now um
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and i think you hit it on the head it's
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politicized you know it's used as a
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weapon now it's used when you're awoke
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you're you're usually taking the left
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side you know they would say and then
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the right side would be pissed off about
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that and it's usually as a weapon you
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know but
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for me the word is is it's such a
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i don't like using the word that much
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anymore because it's been tossed around
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so much
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but that's the name of our show so i
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have to but but but for me it's just
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being it's just being aware and
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enlightened in some sort of fast it
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doesn't have to be political it doesn't
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have to be it doesn't have to deal with
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race it could just be
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it could be anything like even in season
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one you had cats that were dealing with
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you know
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t murph you know what i mean the the
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fantastic t murph he was his character
5:57
clovis was playing a womanizer on the
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show he didn't realize that's not how
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women wanted to be treated so he was
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awakened to like this new thing i just
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got to be myself if i'd be if i'm myself
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women might like that you know what i
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mean the character gunther he was
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dealing with his sexuality he didn't
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know what the hell he wanted to do but
6:13
then he was like man i could i could try
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this i could try that like he was
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comfortable with who he was and he had
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this bit of a a sexual awakening if you
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will
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so woke is just being enlightened and
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aware of all the information that you
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need in order to make um the decision
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that's best for you
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okay that was really good you thought
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about this huh thank you man that's my
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time y'all
6:36
let's go now before i say something
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stupid
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it was damn good uh woke is coming back
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to hulu april the
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8th
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right yep uh db you want to talk to your
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friend or yeah of course of course um i
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actually want to talk to you about fame
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because i mean like we we've had
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conversations um you know usually joking
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around or just talking about stupid [ __ ]
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but like when we first met you were kind
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of first touching that that beginning
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stages of being recognized and like you
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know being on tv and things like that
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then you came to la you hit with new
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girl and now you've got like your own
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funko pop your house is amazing with the
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basketball court in the backyard and the
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movie theater we can talk about that
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maybe doing the broadcast from there oh
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yeah
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we're not family yet
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but a lot of people kind of have this
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idea of like they want to be famous
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without necessarily being good at
7:29
something they just want the the
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adoration from fans and people to love
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them and like them and have followers
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without actually having something
7:37
tangible to be like hey i can act i can
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sing i can rap whatever so in your
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experience from going from you know like
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from the early stages of bet to like
7:45
what you had to go through just even to
7:47
get new girl to now
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what has been your experience with
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dealing with fame you know from the
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early stages to now where you go outside
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in public everywhere people know you man
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it's uh i it was something to get used
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to i could tell you that much i i
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i i'm not gonna lie and say i don't like
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it you know some people are like i don't
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want to do this no because you know i
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used to live in my car at one point so
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so
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when fans want a photo or fans show
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appreciation even if it's sometimes a
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little overt and a lot i still go
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thank you
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thank you yeah
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hold up hold up take a moment
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give that what he just said a moment
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right there thank you we had a
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conversation about that this morning
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that you had no idea that we did so
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thank you for saying thank you you're
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grateful you're grateful that you know
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people are coming up to you and
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appreciating your work oh yeah because
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you slept in your trunk
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uh and i remember when i was when i
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first got recognized when i was on bet i
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was working with i was i was shooting
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something in memphis and i was with the
8:53
camera operator this og cat and as we
8:55
walk into the airport this dude goes hey
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man you a funny brother
8:59
and i hadn't heard that before from
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somebody who i didn't know so i just
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kind of went like this i'd give them the
9:04
heads up like
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like all right
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like that was weird yeah and the dude
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grabbed my arm and he said listen
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brother
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i don't know you that well but let me
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tell you something
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when somebody walks up to you and shows
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appreciation for you you shake that
9:16
person's hand ask them they name you say
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thank you if you want to have a
9:19
conversation longer than that then cool
9:21
if not at least you can do is get that
9:22
person's name and show appreciation
9:24
because he goes there might come a time
9:26
in your life when ain't nobody coming up
9:28
to you at all that means you did
9:30
something off and he's like so right now
9:32
that means you're doing something good
9:33
and people are appreciating it so show
9:34
your appreciation back ever since that
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day
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i've been so engaged with fans you know
9:41
even sometimes where i spend hours
9:43
dm'ing or hours at the you know wherever
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i'm at a mall or a show or ever just
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talking
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that's why nobody hangs with nobody
9:52
likes to go places with him because he
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keeps he's talking to like facts y'all
9:57
y'all should go like tracy y'all should
9:59
go like down melrose
10:01
together with
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can i share a story with you yeah
10:17
when before i got on radio my partner
10:19
king tech and i were a rap group
10:22
it couldn't get a record deal
10:24
so we started putting out music
10:26
independently
10:27
the music did well
10:29
fairly well in northern california we
10:30
got a few songs one of those songs put
10:33
us on tour went as far as philly
10:36
we had um things start slowing down
10:38
right and um
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we start getting gigs and i remember
10:45
this tech company in the bay hired us to
10:47
write a song about whatever their
10:49
product was and this i didn't know
10:51
technology that well at that time
10:53
and we performed for these people and
10:54
they paid us five thousand dollars
10:57
five thousand dollars at that time was a
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half a million yeah
11:02
right
11:03
and i got up there and i wrote this
11:04
thing and i got up there and i started
11:07
brian you know rapping and and i drew a
11:09
blank and i forgot it they were so out
11:11
of the culture they didn't realize it at
11:13
that moment i thought our career was
11:15
over he went and sat on the side of the
11:17
sidewalk tech was mad at me
11:23
and i'm looking around like i think this
11:25
is over i think this is it we might have
11:26
to try something different
11:28
eventually
11:29
other things picked up we ended up
11:31
getting the record deal from that moment
11:33
on
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i shook the hand of anybody who came up
11:37
to me because the time in between that
11:39
record deal and that [ __ ] up mm-hmm i
11:42
thought i was out the game
11:44
so when heather's talking about man this
11:46
dude talks the butt a butterfly gonna
11:48
bump into my head i'm breaking the
11:50
button
11:52
i can relate to what you're saying and
11:54
with that man told you you know what i
11:56
mean absolutely and so if that's what
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you own
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yeah man you should hang out with me
12:01
y'all gotta go out never make it home
12:03
they'll never make it home back to
12:04
sleeping in the cars say hi to people
12:07
appreciation day that's what we gotta do
12:08
one day just go out and show
12:10
appreciation yeah man because sometimes
12:12
it doesn't happen sometimes i'm telling
12:13
you it gets it gets scary it gets scary
12:16
when you sit when you're sitting at home
12:17
especially during the pandemic i didn't
12:19
know
12:20
if if i didn't know what was going to
12:21
happen i just thought damn this is the
12:23
last time i'm am i going to act again
12:24
and bloodshot came out right at the
12:25
start of the pandemic and that was the
12:27
last movie that was in the theaters and
12:29
so nobody went to the theaters to see it
12:31
i was like damn i worked a year on this
12:34
movie and
12:36
i thought i was one of the family right
12:38
and then all of a sudden the world shut
12:39
down and i was like okay there goes
12:41
there goes my career i was like man i
12:43
guess i better start i bet i'm gonna
12:44
start writing more or i don't know
12:46
podcasting more or something
12:49
and that all it all hit me and then the
12:51
moment we opened back up you know the
12:53
moment they lifted all those mandates i
12:55
was shaking hands and kissing mouths
12:58
that's the reason why we were having a
12:59
conversation because we were talking
13:01
about the opposite of that we were
13:02
talking about when people do make it and
13:04
make it big and on this first name basis
13:07
with the world they can sometimes feel
13:09
like they don't have to do that anymore
13:12
and it still is disappointing as a fan
13:14
as a person when you ask to take a
13:16
picture or want to say hello and a
13:18
person to stand
13:19
it's kind of weird you know because we
13:21
do know characters through television or
13:23
through the sports they play or whatever
13:25
the case may be so i think it's a i
13:27
agree with you both i think it's a great
13:29
thing to practice just be grateful and
13:31
humble for any blessing that you get
13:33
because you just don't know when it ends
13:35
that's a that's a good point and then
13:37
there's like on the flip side
13:38
additionally there's a fine line between
13:41
appreciation and validation you know
13:43
what i mean
13:44
where sometimes we can overdose on the
13:48
thoughts others have of us and become
13:50
people-pleasers
13:52
and we forget how to believe in
13:54
ourselves without the approval of
13:56
outsiders
13:58
so that how do you keep that from
14:00
happening that's i'm not gonna lie to
14:02
you that's difficult
14:03
i fall victim to that as well you know
14:05
there's a lot of times i overly read
14:08
comments i i do i sometimes i don't
14:10
trust my own instincts creatively and
14:13
i'm do and i'm it's too much of what
14:15
other people said and i'm like damn if i
14:17
if i say it the wrong way it's going to
14:18
piss somebody off or you know i don't
14:20
want to i don't want to hurt this
14:21
person's feelings or i don't want to you
14:22
know
14:23
it that creeps into your mind a lot
14:26
you become a people pleaser at times and
14:28
i you know i was talking to a friend of
14:29
mine the other day i was like
14:31
you know and i'll tell everybody i see a
14:33
therapist and you know i say what one
14:35
yeah i see a therapist because it is i
14:37
am
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scary
14:41
my therapy appointment is right after
14:42
the
14:51
one of the biggest things we talk about
14:53
is people pleasing you know what i mean
14:54
always overextending yourself and always
14:56
saying you can do it and you yes yeah
14:58
yeah yeah because you don't want to
14:59
disappoint
15:00
and that happens a lot yeah you know i'm
15:02
trying to weed that out of my life
15:03
hanging out this way like i feel like
15:05
y'all are y'all cousins did you drink
15:06
dna ancestry where are your people from
15:09
belize
15:11
yeah jamaica oh look it's close to that
15:14
the congo yeah
15:16
my ancestry thing i got a lot of molly
15:18
in me i'm from mali too oh wait africa
15:22
he's not talking about that
15:24
he was an easy
15:35
[Laughter]
15:39
you go to a therapist yeah and i'm just
15:41
saying that's just one of the things
15:42
that that i've you know what you were
15:44
talking about is i
15:45
you you you you valid the validation
15:48
part is that you want to feel like i can
15:50
do for you
15:52
you need help don't worry about i can
15:54
help you even if you can't sometimes you
15:56
end up [ __ ] everything up you know
15:57
what i mean you're just like i should
15:59
have said no saying no probably would
16:00
have been better for both of us
16:02
um and so i'm working on that does that
16:05
carry over into your relationships as
16:07
well like your personal relationships uh
16:10
i think so i definitely think so um
16:13
you know and that that's what
16:16
i've been talking about
16:17
you just said that's why i set it up
16:19
i've been his therapist i've been his
16:21
unlicensed therapist for 30 years
16:24
he don't listen to me so thank you
16:27
way later
16:31
you got to practice no bro just take
16:34
those
16:36
i feel like if i say no i'm gonna get
16:38
hit by a bus i don't know why i don't
16:40
know why that is i just feel like oh man
16:41
if i say no the world's gonna end
16:44
no i say that all the time so i'm just
16:46
right sway thinks he can't be an alien
16:56
it's for me it's part of my you know
16:58
quote-unquote therapy you need it's part
17:00
of my self-care and i think i've been
17:03
through what you're talking about a lot
17:05
younger probably than you had the
17:07
experiences and in order to get to this
17:09
place in my life i had to just start
17:11
saying no and and not answering my phone
17:13
a lot sooner otherwise they will come
17:16
out the woodworks and you know 24 hours
17:19
will feel like five you like what
17:21
happened to the day exactly so
17:24
yeah not just say not you even got to
17:25
say no just go nah
17:43
i know you got more than me so you'll
17:44
pay me back with interest not not not
17:46
according to your neck i don't know
17:49
you don't have a friend when people
17:50
would ask him for photos i'm not gonna
17:52
say his name well people ask him for
17:53
photos he would always go like this he
17:54
would always go ah man you don't want a
17:56
photo with me no you don't want that
18:01
and he will sit there he will talk with
18:02
you forever he's just like he just
18:03
doesn't like pictures that's a little
18:05
right he wasn't a no right his he said
18:08
you don't want a photo
18:10
i'm the opposite i know they want a
18:12
photo they don't really want to talk to
18:14
me yeah so i'll just say off the top
18:16
let's just take a photo right you do
18:18
that yep hey hey real quick let's do
18:20
this
18:21
give you the option to leave
18:24
anyway man uh woke us out friday april
18:27
8th
18:28
the morning maurice thank you man thank
18:30
you thank you brother i appreciate y'all
18:33
absolutely man
18:35
let's do it we're looking at each other
18:36
like we about to go hang out
18:38
i brought everybody coffee by the
18:40
way everybody want to just pass that
18:42
around y'all can sip it dude this is
18:43
your one cup that's one yeah
18:46
we got straws this dude this is the
18:48
ultimate stunt haven't you gotta go do
18:50
urban view in a moment this dude wanted
18:52
us to know he got a porsche coffee they
18:54
don't have a porsche though but you got
18:56
a porsche coffee cup bro i was running
18:58
late and i just picked up the first
18:59
thing i found
19:00
come on man
19:03
i don't own a porsche everybody i do not
19:05
own a porsche okay just a cup
19:08
all right hey brother thanks for coming
19:10
through man you got a lambo wait a
19:12
minute that's a limbo
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is that a lambo cup
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damn you spent five minutes digging
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the wrong car
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is that a porsche
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but do you own a lambo
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i don't want to talk about d.b does he
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own a lambo hey man when i get to his
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house and i get to uh family take a
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little tour then i'll let you know
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vb ain't even been to your house [ __ ]
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[Music]
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yo i went to sway's house he was like
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beat me on the roof
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listen i went to swayze he was like i
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beat you outside
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yo but you made it you had to go through
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my house and get to the roof yo you you
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let me in through a door that like a
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janitor goes through
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the servants yeah for real
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it wasn't even a handle on the outside
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it was like he had to push open the door
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for me to get it do you have a servant's
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quarters come over this way toby
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shut up
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shut up
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toby
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[Music]
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yeah i'm outside looking like i'm trying
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to break in
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but it was a beautiful view though right
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oh it was
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wasn't in a beautiful field
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all right
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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we want to thank denzel curry for coming
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through once again the name of the album
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tracy
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oh my goodness um the name of the album
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is my hold on
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oh
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melt my eyes see your feelings see your
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future there it is there you go all
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right and that's out this friday um
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tracy i'm going to reach you real quick
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go to instagram it's tracy g i t s t r a
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c y
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d d-b since you uh says so much you
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might as well give up give out your
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information hit me up at israeli db
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don't forget woke on hulu april 8th and
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pick up lamorne's funko pop and uh check
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out his podcast if you're a new
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girlfriend too okay there you go the b
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i'm at the happy hour whb or instagram
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and twitter lamorne i'm at sway's house
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um
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at lamorin
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l-a-m-o-r-n-e or here's my cell number
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three one oh five five four i'm not
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gonna do that
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nobody wants to date me your dad is
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secure i am that insecure
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man i'm single too
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about to hang out all right i'm out real
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sweet across the board go to swayze
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universe you can see on youtube all
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these um
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amazing interviews and conversations go
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check them out for yourself we'll be
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back tomorrow broadcasting from la and
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on that note citizens uh we have nothing
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left to say
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[Music]
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you
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