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in love.
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I am Sub-Zero.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that was a clip
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from Mortal Kombat premiering April 23rd
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in theaters and in on HBO Max.
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Available on HBO Max for 31 days after
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the release.
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Man, we got a young man here. Had the
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beat that landed a big role. I'm proud
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of him, man. I used to see him on the
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game as Jerome. He came a long way from
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Jerome days.
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too.
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He came A LONG WAY FROM JEROME DAYS.
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I USED TO WATCH HIM ON True Blood as
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well, baby. Come on, man. I used to love
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him on True Blood. That was like one of
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the weirdest series I ever watched. But
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we was all watching it.
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We was all watching it. Mehcad, he's
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here. DB running down the list of stuff
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that he's done, man. This dude is
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blowing up, man. Talk to us, DB. What
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He's an actor. He's a model. He's an
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athlete. And now he's starring in this
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new Mortal Kombat reboot as Jackson
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Briggs, aka Jax, the guy with the
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enhanced arms. And I'm excited. You
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know, normally we get to see the
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screeners. I was joking with him on the
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phone a minute ago when I said, "I wish
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I could have seen the advanced
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screening." But, you know, I'm I'm
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excited. I'm going to be the first in
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line. I'm hopefully this will be the
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first movie I go to see
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back back in theaters now that they're
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opening again. So, we have him here now.
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He's playing Jax, as I said. Please
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welcome Mehcad Brooks.
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MEHCAD. MB, what's up? Mehcad. Hey,
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what's up, guys?
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How you doing?
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What's up, man? What's up?
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I've been warm welcome. I appreciate
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that. Thank you so much, Sway. Oh, man.
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Hey, listen, bro. Hey, man.
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I've been a big fan of yours for a long
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time. Even when you was doing
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Desperate Housewives because I just like
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seeing black faces on that show. Uh uh
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number one. And and then I
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Sway in the morning, man. I've been a
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fan of yours. I've been a fan of yours.
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So, thank you for having me. Oh, man.
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Oh, this dude about to win in this
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interview. He just You heard what he
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just said?
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Come on, man. I've been watching you for
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years. I've been listening Yo, but it
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come
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Hey, talk in the phone a little closer
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for me, Mehcad. It's a little, you know,
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once once you get
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Muffled. Yeah, sound a little muffled. I
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know what it's like, man. Once you get
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that Mortal Kombat money, you know, uh
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the phone the phone service changes,
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man.
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Hey, man, you
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So, you Is this better? That's the man.
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That's a lot better.
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Hey, man, what So, what were you a fan
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When you say you're a fan, you you
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you're a hip-hop fan? You're a music
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fan? Did you Did you know MTV, Sway in
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the Morning, Shade 45? What what what
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what what what I'm a I'm a I'm a hip-hop
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fan. I'm a music fan. I was a Sway fan
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from MTV. I'm a I'm a fan of your of
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your
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of the way you approach culture, the way
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you talk about our issues. I mean, the
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fact that you you like
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Who Who does this where you have Lenny
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come on?
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You know what I'm talking about? His his
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his testimony. Yeah. You know what I'm
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saying? So, like I I think what you're
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doing for the culture is
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is amazing. It's it's it's
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Afro-futurism. It's where we're headed.
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Mm. Afro-futurism. Talk about that
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terminology, Afro-futurism, and what
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that means. A lot of folks when they
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hear that go, "Hm, what does that mean?"
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What What does that mean to you?
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It What What What it means to me is
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like, you know, we we we have
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we have a
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We have a We have the GPS locator about
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like where we are in our society. And
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and we are here, right? So, like what
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that means is like everything that we've
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been fighting for and everything that
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our ancestors have been fighting for has
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led us to this moment. But where do we
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go from here? Because we're in a [ __ ]
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up situation where we we we're we're
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looking at Dante Wright, right? You know
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what I'm saying? Like
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in Minnesota where
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the entire world is is watching.
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So, this is this is their best behavior.
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Mhm.
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This is their best behavior. He got He
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got killed less than 10 miles
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where Derek Chauvin is on trial.
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So, my question is not you know,
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does this hurt? Yes, it hurts. Do black
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lives matter? Yes, they do.
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All these things that we've been saying,
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all these slogans that we've been that
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we've been coming up with, all all
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the the the civil rights movement
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continuing into a new generation,
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you know,
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but where do we go from here?
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How do we create global pillars of
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consciousness to to eradicate racism by
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2040?
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Cuz we got to do it. Otherwise, we don't
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have a country.
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And I think we have to start thinking
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about where What does this future look
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like? Not just what does our present
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look like, but where where are we going,
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right? And we have to we have to we have
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to
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to embrace each other. We have to to
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make room for each other's voices. We
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have to talk about NFTs and generational
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wealth, not just not just Lambo trucks.
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Mhm. So,
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Afro-futurism is about where do Where
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are we going? Like How can I make sure
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my grandkids have generational wealth?
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Mm. Mm. Let me tell you something,
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Mehcad. Man, round of applause for that,
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man. I'mma tell you, Mehcad Brooks right
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here. I used to play with Raiden and
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Sub-Zero, man. I'm about to start
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playing with Jax just because you
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answered that question like that when
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I'm on Mortal Kombat, brother.
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I got one. Hey, man, you You just
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converted me right there, bro. Come on,
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HB.
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I love it. I just I feel like Mehcad,
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what's up? This is Heather. So nice to
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talk to you, and thank you so much for
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coming to the show as well. Um I'm I'm
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hoping that you could just sort of give
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us a little bit of background of before
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Sway teases you and bores you with his
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details of his past athletic life. Um DB
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mentioned
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DB mentioned that you were athlete as
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well. Could you share a little bit of
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that before Sway goes into how he played
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every sport in the world, but we have no
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proof?
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I I Listen, I I'm kind of in the Sway
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boat. Like I don't have any proof. He
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did like I I was kind of surprised when
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he said that. Like I I haven't played
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sports since high school or like
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college, but like
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I was great at basketball, but um I was
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much more of of a of an academic.
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Oh, okay. So, Sway, you're going to
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switch your story up today, too?
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I just happen to be good at it. Okay,
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you know, you see, Mehcad, so growing up
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and I don't know if I mentioned this,
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too. Um
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along with my athletic prowess, Mehcad,
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and I'm I'm not going to shortchange
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this because you and I brothers cut from
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a similar cloth. You know, uh I was a
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member of the Mesa Society,
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uh uh academic society, uh gifted and
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talented education. I did study at UC
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Berkeley while I was in high school
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during summer months. You know, so I
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Like you. Like you, Mehcad, I I could
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have ran track where you could have
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played basketball, right? You could have
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went to Ivy League school and played
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basketball, but you chose not to. I
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could have went on, but I chose to go
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the hip-hop route. Heather, you know, uh
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Heather knows this. And so so I respect
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that.
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BUT YOU WHAT?
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I FEEL LIKE IF MEHCAD WOULD HAVE TOLD us
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he was a letterman, Sway would have
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magically made up some letters, Mehcad.
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He He sort of changes with whatever
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story I guess tells us. But so, I'mma
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run with this whatever Sway saying,
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Mehcad.
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That's That's That's That's simply
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called adaptability, my friend.
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What What the the the the good thing
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about that is is like you like I think I
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think a lot of black kids like we have
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the ability to do both.
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Yes.
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And my See, my my dad played football.
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My biological father played football.
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But the problem is by the time you're
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40, you don't have any knees or back.
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That's so true. You know,
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going into the hip-hop route or going
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into to the acting route or academia,
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you you you can make some money, but you
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you get to keep your your body.
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Get to keep your body. Yeah. Hey,
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speaking of bodies, man, I noticed you
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you know, you you know,
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you know, you put some muscle on. Did
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you put some muscle on for this role?
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45 lbs, man. I had to put on 45 lbs of
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muscle for this role, man. Wow. It was
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crazy. Yeah, I know. Like What What the
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the the part they don't tell you about
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about gaining that much weight is that
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your jaw constantly hurts from eating.
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Really?
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That was the one That was the one thing
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I didn't think about. I was like, "Damn,
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like I I I got to process all this
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food." And I I would rather drink it cuz
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my my jaw hurts. It's crazy. But, you
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know, yeah, gym 6 days a week, sometimes
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twice a day,
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even if we were shooting. Boxing
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training 5 days a week. Um I was
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watching footage on on
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Joe Frazier and Mike Tyson all day.
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Um you know, 4 to 5 days a week we were
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doing we were doing the fight
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choreography. So, it was it was it was
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the most physically demanding thing I've
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ever done.
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By far. But I would do it again in a
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heartbeat. It's really so fun.
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And when you when you see the fight,
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uh if you play the game,
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you will not be disappointed. There's
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There's a lot of fatalities, and it's
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it's it's savage. It's brutal. The
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hand-to-hand is like nothing else I've
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ever seen.
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But it's it's elegantly done.
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So, like it's like it's elegant level of
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violence.
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Uh elegant. It's really beautiful.
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Really beautiful. Did you do your own
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stunts? I I saw somewhere where you were
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shouting out to choreographers and the
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and the stunt men and that you learned
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from. Did you end up doing your own
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stunts?
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I did everything that they would let me
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do.
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You know what I'm saying? Like cuz like
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we like there's there's certain
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situations where you're as an actor
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where like you just really shouldn't do
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it because if you get hurt, movie's
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over, right?
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So, um I did I did
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90
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five I did like 95% of the fights. Like
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anytime you see the fight, it's it's
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probably 95% me. And then there's like
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times when I'm getting thrown and like
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ratcheted like 75 ft and some [ __ ] like
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that. That's not me. But there's no
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That's not me. That's not you.
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No, no, no. me
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okay I love
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my car Brooks man
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you know he's Jackson a Mortal Kombat
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hey man
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you are you are the amazing actor and
10:15
scholar you know and you're a handsome
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guy you know you're a great looking man
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you know
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a lot of you got a lot of fan fare you
10:23
know you what they call them Heather a
10:25
sex symbol you know you all of these
10:27
different things but then I look at your
10:29
roles
10:30
you know I'm wondering if your looks
10:33
ever got in the way of folks taking your
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acting seriously.
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Well
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you know that's that's a complicated
10:43
that's a simple answer with a
10:44
complicated sorry simple question with a
10:46
complicated answer.
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I
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don't
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I don't particularly find myself
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handsome
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you know I think I think it's always in
10:57
the eye of the beholder okay but at the
10:59
same time I I have you know I think we
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all have to deal with with preconceived
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notions about what we look like right
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like so a lot of times
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I'll get the fact that like you know I
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got a 1480 on the SAT I got I got into
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Harvard I got into Yale I got into
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but like they see me 6'4 245 lb black
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guy they're like not smart.
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Automatically walk into the door they're
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going to like
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well now you got he needs to prove his
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intelligence to me
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that kind of thing so
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I don't know if it's if
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you know sex symbolism has has has
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made it harder for people to to accept
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people who are who are good actors or or
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whatever the case is
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but I think we all have our
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all have our preconceived notions that
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we have to address
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for sure and I I I have my fair share.
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Yeah
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I I deal with that too when I walk in
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the room. You know what? The
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sex symbol parts right or the proof that
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you smart Makai you wasn't getting away
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with that one just know I will say this
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I will say this sir I will say this the
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the thing about me that people don't
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really understand I think and I think
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they kind of get wrong about me
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is that
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I'm I'm a nerd
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I'm straight up like I'm just a nerd I
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love it I love reading I love I love
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nerdy [ __ ] I love comic book I loved
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comic books when I was a kid I love
12:22
superhero movies like I'm a nerd and
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then they they they see you walk in and
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like I'm I'm over here like
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studying 17th century history to to see
12:32
how it applies to today and then you
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know people want to talk about something
12:35
else and I'm like I don't know what
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you're talking about so
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there there is that one thing where it's
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like you know the package is different
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than than the than the interior for me.
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Okay that's fair enough man I like that
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we getting to know Makai Brooks Mortal
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Kombat premiere in Friday April 23rd in
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theaters only and on HBO Max for 31 days
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after its release DB you want to jump
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in? Of course of course man I remember
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when the first Mortal Kombat movie came
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out and this was back when live action
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versions of
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of of of video games and adaptations of
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comic books and that things that was not
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as common so this was a huge deal when
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this movie came out Makai I know you
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remember it as well and
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then the sequel came out in 1997 and you
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know no disrespect to the cast and crew
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of the people that were involved in that
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film critics just panned it just
13:26
horribly and so when they made the
13:29
announcement that this film was coming
13:30
soon and then you started seeing the
13:31
stills being released then the trailer
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came out and became the most watched red
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band trailer in history on YouTube it
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was like okay now the momentum is
13:40
building up so Makai I'm just wondering
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for someone who was involved and
13:46
I know a lot of actors who are kind of
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resistant to watch their own footage
13:50
whenever everything is done but were you
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kind of like taking a peek at the
13:53
trailers and seeing okay what part of me
13:55
are they are they teasing or are there
13:57
any spoilers that they're letting go cuz
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there actually is one big spoiler in the
14:01
trailer that they revealed but I'll let
14:03
the fans watch that but just wondering
14:05
about like did you watch all of it or do
14:07
you just want to wait until the movie
14:08
comes out and then see what they did
14:09
with your character and your scenes? All
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I know is when I watched it I was like
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man Steve Harvey killed it as Jax bro.
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I'm
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not I thought I blacked out and then it
14:22
blew up calling me Steve Harvey but it's
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all good I like Steve Harvey
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I've seen I've seen the trailers
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obviously I've seen we had an old cut we
14:32
had an old cut of
14:34
the movie in November I saw in Australia
14:37
and then I saw the most recent cut like
14:39
two three weeks ago at home and
14:44
I'm not I'm not a guy who watches a lot
14:46
of his stuff his own stuff
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cuz I know what I did and
14:50
you know I I know what they shot and so
14:52
on and so forth and like sometimes
14:54
you're really happy
14:55
with with the final product and
14:56
sometimes you're not but we put so much
14:59
blood sweat and tears into this one
15:01
that
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I watched it
15:04
and I loved every moment of it so so
15:07
I'll I'll tell you this cuz you guys
15:08
haven't seen it right? No we have we
15:10
have not no Okay which that's unfair but
15:15
it's the greatest
15:16
video game adaptation of all time period
15:18
hands down it's elevated to a cinematic
15:21
level of like and I you know I I catch
15:24
flack when I say this but
15:25
we don't have any other words to
15:26
describe it right now like it's on the
15:29
same level as Star Wars it's on the same
15:31
level as Hunger Games it's on the same
15:33
level as Lord of the Rings
15:35
but it's it's but it's its own universe
15:37
it's its own cinematic sort of universe
15:39
right like they created a lens for the
15:41
movie.
15:42
If you get a chance see it in IMAX
15:45
it's beautiful it's beautiful the fights
15:48
the hand-to-hand combat like we got the
15:50
same guys doing
15:51
from like
15:52
got this guy Kyle who did like John Wick
15:55
and and
15:57
Aquaman and and you got James Wan as the
16:00
producer who I love his horror films so
16:02
I know the fatalities are going to be
16:04
incredible. Listen James Wan is a beast
16:07
and yes like so his touch was all over
16:10
it Todd Garner also the producer who's a
16:12
beast he did you know he was involved in
16:15
in Iron Man and a bunch of like 60 70
16:19
movies like we we just have a bunch of
16:21
beasts who came together and just did
16:22
their thing man and you know as Jax like
16:26
the the research that I was doing in the
16:30
in the backstory development that I was
16:32
doing
16:33
was just that this dude had to be a
16:34
monster to catch monsters so like 45 lbs
16:37
I changed my voice I could change my
16:39
physicality the way I fight you know if
16:42
you're a fan of the game
16:43
you're going to look at me and go that's
16:45
Jax.
16:46
For sure
16:48
and when you look at Sub-Zero you're
16:49
like Sub-Zero and when you look at Kano
16:51
you're like that's Kano.
16:54
Like everybody everybody pulled it off
16:55
man everybody pulled it off cuz
16:57
everybody was fans of the game too
16:59
everybody was fans of the game.
17:01
Well we we have we have listeners we
17:05
call them citizens because it's all one
17:07
nation here
17:09
and they're fans of the game and Kyle's
17:11
been waiting for a minute he's all the
17:12
way in Indiana grand rising Kyle say
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what up to Makai Brooks bro.
17:17
Hi what's up Makai how you doing bro?
17:20
What up citizen Kyle how you doing?
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I'm doing great man hey dude I cannot
17:25
wait to see this movie man you are going
17:28
to kill it bro Jax is a beast but first
17:32
I got to say one thing RIP to DMX and
17:36
two
17:37
I've been following you since I seen you
17:41
on Who Wants to Be a VJ on MTV back in
17:45
the day
17:46
I've been [ __ ] with you for that long
17:48
and I'm the one that talked to you with
17:50
burner the other day that got y'all back
17:52
with the 45 and I can't wait until this
17:55
Mortal Kombat movie comes out it's going
17:57
to be sick I hope Cyrax is in it I can't
18:00
wait to see Scorpion and Sub-Zero
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I can't wait dude the movie is going to
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be off the charts it truly is. Kyle I
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appreciate you bro thank you man
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that that enthusiasm is amazing I
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appreciate that bro and it's
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you're going to love the movie
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hey Kyle man you a super citizen bro
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thanks for your call man
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all right my man Kyle okay
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hey we got
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Madison is on the line from LA what up
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Madison?
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What up what up what up good morning
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everybody? Grand rising good morning bro
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Makai this is Madison from Supergirl I
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did craft service for you.
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What up
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I'm so
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proud of you man I had to call in cuz I
18:46
I turned on the radio on my way to work
18:48
right now and I'm like oh my god it's
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Makai man I'm so proud of you hope
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you're doing well man.
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Wow okay so so so so for all the
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listeners let me let me just let me just
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explain Madison is
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he worked on a show that I used to work
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on called Supergirl back in LA when we
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first started on CBS
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and Madison was like it was it was you
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know it was
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the first season of any show is tough
19:13
but Madison was always there
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just making sure everybody was good
19:17
making sure everybody was fed making
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sure everybody was taken care of he was
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he was always there if you needed if you
19:23
needed to talk a little bit and and just
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a great dude and he makes a hell of a
19:28
[ __ ] Americano don't you?
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Yeah man always I always had your back
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bro I appreciate it man I just I just
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had to show you Yeah man you really did
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bro man I really appreciate that man
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it's good to hear your voice
19:40
thank thank you guys for having me on
19:42
the show this morning good morning to
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everybody all love Madison man go be
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great man continue to be great man damn
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hey Makai this This a this is this is
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your life McCauley right here, brother.
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Um
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We got Ryan on the line. Ryan, grand
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risings. Ryan, how you doing?
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What's up, Ryan?
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Grand risings, family. Happy Tuesday to
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y'all, each and every one of y'all.
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Absolutely.
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to you, as well.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Uh so, McCauley, um do you have any uh
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so, I grew up uh and and I was always I
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hated and loved playing as Jax.
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Back in the day.
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Um he was the obviously he was the he
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was the black guy. Um
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and they
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I've seen
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where they did you wrong in the in the
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in the movie. Uh did you have any Did
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you have any hang-ups about that?
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Uh I I don't know what you mean. I don't
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know what you mean when you You know how
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they show how he got to steal arms and
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all of that.
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I don't know what you mean when you say
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that they that they did me wrong. Like,
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what do you What are you referring to? I
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mean, where they where In my eyes, they
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they they did you wrong. They was I
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mean,
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I don't know. Uh
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Are you Are you Are you saying because
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he loses his arms?
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Yeah.
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Well, he's got to lose his arms to
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become Jax, though.
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So, I I think I think what you're
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referring to is because um
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in the in the trailer Sub-Zero freezes
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off Jax's arms, right?
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But, the thing is like it it's actually
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not doing me wrong. It's actually giving
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me more. If you think If you think about
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it, like it's giving Jax a backstory,
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humanizing this this this half man, half
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machine, right? So, you get to meet him
21:27
before he's he's this hero, before he's
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this um
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this bionic man, right? So, it's
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actually it's actually the opposite,
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brother. It's more like
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they they they took the time to let you
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know who Jax was before this happened,
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right? And he and how how he was a hero
21:45
before this happened. And that that
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basically
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uh the through line for the character is
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that just because something awful and
21:53
unforeseen happens to the body, that
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that doesn't mean that it happens to the
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mind and spirit and the heart.
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So, it's actually a positive when you
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watch the movie.
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So, just just just to let you know.
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Okay, Bryant. Hey, man, thanks Thanks
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for your call, brother. You're a
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citizen, man. Persuade in the morning.
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Y'all, you you know, it's it's one of
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those things where you're going to have
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some die-hard fans and who know the real
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story and
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and they're they're very particular
22:20
about how things are portrayed, but man,
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I'm I'm very excited for you, McCauley.
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McCauley Brooks, ladies and gentlemen,
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he's playing Jax
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in the film Mortal Kombat. I'm glad we
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got so much in common. Uh
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hey, you hear that, camera?
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He's got a 1480 on his SAT. I'm not sure
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where
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It wasn't far from a 1480, but I got a
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score on my SAT, too.
22:44
Um
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but man, congratulations.
22:48
I can't tell you what that score was.
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All right. You doing excellent.
22:52
I'll be back. I'd love to come back and
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hang out with y'all, man. It's a fun
22:54
time, for sure.
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Hey, listen, man. Congratulations.
22:58
Mortal Kombat, April 23rd in theaters,
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HBO Max, and it's going to stay there
23:02
for 31 days after the release.
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Appreciate you, McCauley. Stay great,
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brother.
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Stay great. Hey, thanks for having me.
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McCauley Brooks.
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Man. McCauley Brooks.
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