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Apr 30, 2021
Michael B. Jordan talks with the Sway In The Morning team about his new thriller ‘Without Remorse’.
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okay man listen this is what makes our
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job worth it right here it's these
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moments right here where we see people
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who we watch their star catapult into
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the stratosphere at levels that not many
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will reach
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and when i say that i'm speaking about
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the one and only michael b jordan db
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just real quick break it down for those
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everybody knows but just let them know
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man
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well he's been on our show before and i
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don't want to be too long-winded with it
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but i have to i never got a chance to
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thank him because
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you know lately given the past week or
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so that we've lost some of our icons
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we've always been talking about giving
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people their flowers
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uh while they're here so i think i want
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to take the time to do
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just that right now because um a couple
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years ago when michael b jordan came by
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serious to promote creed and he had an
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interview schedule with a host who
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wasn't able to make it and so they were
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like hey
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uh would you like to do this interview
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with michael b jordan over this new
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movie creed he's got coming out luckily
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i saw the movie sway i think you
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remember i text you about it
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after the screening and so uh michael
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thank you first of all because you were
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my first solo interview that i ever got
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to conduct i didn't want to say it at
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the time because i was like you may not
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want to do this
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but um i'm gracious that you allowed me
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to interview
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you for that film and oq was there too
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um so it was a great experience
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and i thank you for your uh your
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graciousness allowing me to interview
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you for that film
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since then you've gone on to do some
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some fantastic work obviously black
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panther when you and the rest of the
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cast were here
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doing a town hall with us and that was a
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monumental moment that has uh
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gone on uh to mean even more to all of
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us here
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uh since then for obvious reasons um but
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now we're here to talk about this film
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uh tom clancy's without remorse you
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played yes clark and uh it's coming out
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tomorrow on amazon so everybody please
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welcome him back
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michael b jordan michael b jordan
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first of all man appreciate that brother
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i didn't even know that but you know
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congrats on
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on your journey man your growth you know
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i'm saying i'm giving your flowers man
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continue to blossom on that man
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and uh keep doing your thing bro thank
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you absolutely
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last time we we did have that was such a
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monumental moment when we had
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and i won't i won't harp on it too long
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but i'll be remiss if i didn't mention
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when the whole entire
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cast of black panther came to siriusxm
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when we got a chance to sit and talk
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with you guys
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the rest is history there was a magical
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moment that happened with chadwick
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though
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and i don't think we we weren't aware of
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what was going on with him at the time
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and
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he was talking about you know fan the
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fanfare the response that he had been
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getting from
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different kids around the world and
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something about that moment
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um he eventually he broke out in tears
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and he had to excuse himself
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from that interview at that moment did
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you know what was going on did you guys
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talk
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talk about that afterwards at all uh no
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no he um i i we didn't know anything uh
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honestly he and that speaks to him
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speaks to his family and his team
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you know i was able to keep something
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like that so air tight for a long time
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you know even during production and
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shooting and filming
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you know you just wouldn't be able to
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tell the guy the guy you know he used a
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workhorse you know he showed up every
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day and
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and gave it you know his all you know
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constantly you know giving giving giving
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so you know you you you wouldn't have
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been able to know
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any of that and um you know in hindsight
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you know
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we get an opportunity to reflect on all
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these moments you know what i mean and
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instead of connecting ox and you wonder
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and you and you
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think like oh man maybe is that was that
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what he meant or is that
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what he was giving me you know what i'm
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saying so you really like
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you know you're following these
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breadcrumbs and these little seeds that
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i think he's that he's been planting you
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know all this time
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and uh and it really uh it really
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affects you really hits you you know
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comes in
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moments you know but you know you see
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something that he's done or you see an
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interview or
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see one of uh you know you know a
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project that he worked in
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and you uh you just you just uh start to
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you know reflect in a real way so that's
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the the power of film that's the power
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of chadwick so
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you know really really uh blessed to
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have uh you know been able to work with
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him
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absolutely man i know ryan you know i'm
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from oakland michael b
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jordan so you know come on man we love
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you in oakland man
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you don't have to pay for no food if you
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go to a restaurant if you go to get a
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grocery store
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you ain't got to pay for sneakers
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anything in the town
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you good money baby you good money y'all
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heard it first y'all heard it first
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okay cool uh i know ryan talked about
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how difficult it is moving forward with
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black panther and i know your character
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killmonger
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uh was uh killed off so to speak but you
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know we we're from the mcu we're in the
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marvel comic universe
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nobody ever really perishes do they you
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know
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it's i mean i mean that's what they say
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you know so i mean i i personally can't
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speak on that
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as you know for for uh for uh for for
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eric you know but
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but you know like i said it's uh they
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that ryan's been you know
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you know tasked with you know a
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tremendous
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challenge you know um an obstacle you
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know to kind of to try to figure out you
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know how to move forward in a real
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gracious way you know that honors you
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know chadwick but then also
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something that honors the comics and and
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and the fans
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and um but marvel i have the utmost
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confidence and marvel and kevin
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and ryan for everybody to figure out you
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know what's the best way to move forward
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and you know
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as as close as i am you know being an
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honorary you know oaklander
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landon here or whatever whatever you
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want to call it you know saying be an
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honorary town member you know it's a
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i still don't know anything i don't i
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don't have any idea what he has up his
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sleeve but you know
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as soon as i do i'll let y'all know okay
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michael b
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jordan we're going to get into this
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movie but i'm looking at you right now
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somehow the dude looks like he's younger
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tracy i don't know how he did this
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my beard is connected now this is the
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opposite of what
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i've been trying to go for but i
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appreciate it thank you that that's not
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the the tack on beard that's the real
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natural beard
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it is real you see it it stretches you
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know okay i love it i love it man
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what what's changed man when you when
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you named the
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100 most influential people in the world
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by 10 by time magazine
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you know you're getting all these
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accolades uh people's sexiest man alive
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dude target that's a target man is that
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a target it is man imagine if i was in
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your group chat and i
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actually and that joint came out y'all
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would be roasting me
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all day every day anything i say there's
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all the sexiest man live is talking oh
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he's taking off the jacket look at that
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that's the sexiest man live
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jacket that's coming up like nah like
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all my boys have been just like roasting
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me nonstop but it's it's
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it's it's fun man it's you know it comes
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with the it comes with the territory i
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guess and it's it's a
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it's been it's been a it's been a fun
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fun ride man it's
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you know everything that's been going on
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all the accolades and
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acknowledgements you know are um you
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know
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it's it's it's cool you know but i've
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always been the guy that
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you know wanted to let my work speak for
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itself and you know
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naturally kind of quiet you know and out
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the way but but just always want to kind
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of you know
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move in silence and continue to set the
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example i'd rather i'd rather walk it
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instead of talking but
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but but i'm happy that um you know i'm
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making an impact somewhere
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you know and moving the needle as much
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as much as i can where i can
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and it all ties in and i'm gonna let
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tracy i'm gonna let you jump in i'm not
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gonna hog michael b jordan because i
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don't i don't want the backlash from you
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um what i like about it though bro
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is you made a choice you know especially
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when all the civil unrest you know what
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what the country have been going through
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uh what we have been seeing in
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inequities in our judicial system you
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know people falling at the hands of
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police
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man when i would see you outside with
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the bullhorn
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speaking you out there i don't know if
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you had team with you you look like he
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was by yourself ten toes down
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man i couldn't man to me out of all your
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accomplishments that was one of the ones
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that just kept a smile on my face like
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this dude can't do any wrong he cares
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about the people he's sacrificing a lot
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i know you probably had handlers around
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you and no fault to them that's their
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job
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to say hey man look you know let's be
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careful what we're doing here we're
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really going out on the line the country
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is divided and you're going out here in
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the advocacy of
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this you're fighting for the people what
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was that like for you during that time
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man was that that was that a
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contemplation of how it might affect
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your career and did you have people
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around you that was
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trying to advise you to do differently
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at all yeah i'm gonna keep it a hundred
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man like honestly
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i'm extremely blessed you know and i'm
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extremely blessed to have like
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a crew of people you know um you know
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friends
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family you know uh co-workers uh that
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all
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support what i do you know and how i
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feel
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in my community um and you know
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sometimes it is a conversation but it's
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always around
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mike how do you feel you know what i'm
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saying is this something that you know
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i'm saying like how far out there you
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want to go let's
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and but we riding with you it's never
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really it's never really oh no you
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shouldn't do that
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out of fear of uh you know losing
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something like we we've
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we've uh we've built this you know what
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you know you know this team we built
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you know you know my businesses my
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career
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like this legacy uh out of not moving
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out of fear but with purpose
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you know and and i i'm not gonna let you
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know anything or anyone you know around
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me kind of sway me from that
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but every you know i ain't got no do men
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i know yes men or women around me so
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it's like that's that's that's a
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blessing to have you know moving forward
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but
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you know for me i felt like with this
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pandemic you know being in a
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situation where you know everybody had a
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chance to sit still
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you know and focus on one thing it was
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less distractions you know so i was
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i was actually you know you know
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obviously everybody struggled through
9:31
this time but i was happy to be able to
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have a moment where i was like man i
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could lock in on something i could
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actually
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you know step out and speak on things
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that you know maybe in
9:40
in the in the in the natural hustle in a
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day-to-day grind i might have been to
9:44
all over the place to really give it the
9:46
full attention that i needed to so i was
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i was thankful to have that moment to
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really like step up and speak
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um and a lot of my business partners
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you know in partnerships you know that i
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have in relationships throughout the
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industry
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it was a lot of like-minded individuals
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you know um that kind of stepped up
10:02
you know i'm saying to to the call
10:03
whether it be self-preservation or not
10:06
you know what i'm saying they stepped up
10:07
you know what i'm saying
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and and was holding themselves
10:09
accountable they wanted to be involved
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and figure out how to be a part of the
10:12
solution
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so the fact that i you know it was very
10:15
telling you know what i'm saying of uh
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of uh that that time and i'm glad
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because if we we did somehow but at the
10:22
same time it strengthens the one
10:23
the ones that are still here and the
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ones that were around me so you know
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that was that was a
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that was a really impactful time for me
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no fear
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as a person you never had any fear being
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i mean you have
10:34
you've always got to be strategic you
10:36
know black men in this world you always
10:37
got to contest
10:38
you know what i'm saying there's always
10:39
there's always a but that's always been
10:41
from the beginning that's that's what my
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dad taught me you know i'm saying that's
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what my mom taught me that's that's
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from from a young age but especially
10:48
when you're learning
10:49
you know an industry you know that it is
10:51
a business
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and you got to understand the the
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industry that you're in
10:55
and you got to be strategic you got to
10:57
move a certain type of way but at the
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same time doesn't mean you can't trojan
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horse such situations doesn't mean that
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you can't play long ball
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you know sometimes the loudest person in
11:05
the room sometimes the weakest person in
11:07
the room maybe that's not for you right
11:08
now
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maybe you position other people in in a
11:11
place that could do
11:12
more more more you know do more good you
11:15
know make more of an impact
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than you can at the moment so you just
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got to pick and choose and not let the
11:20
noise of
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sometimes the people and the people who
11:23
don't really understand what's going on
11:25
sway you into something
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um that may not be the best decision you
11:29
know so you gotta
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you gotta take all that account man it's
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you know it's uh
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it's it's a weight that comes with you
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know where we're at
11:37
you know that you know what i'm saying
11:38
but yeah and you gotta you gotta just
11:39
move a certain type of way and
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i'm moving i like it man and i like that
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shirt go ahead tracy
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it matches my hat thanks god this is the
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zoom
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call mike you may be leaving with one
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less item
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video bro i'm wondering
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off of what sway was saying i don't know
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i found myself thinking about
12:03
when you were getting ready to jump on
12:04
how so many
12:06
people from other disciplines of art
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whether they are
12:09
musicians or even looking at athleticism
12:12
find their way into acting and i'm
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curious for you
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if you would find your way into another
12:19
type of role
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outside of hollywood even thinking about
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like i saw a poll a week ago where
12:25
mad people want matthew mcconaughey to
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be a governor
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you know what i mean okay okay
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yeah like what else do you think that
12:35
you could do
12:36
at the same level as you do your craft
12:38
now that's a great question that's
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actually the first time i've ever been
12:41
asked that that's
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really good uh uh man i gotta uh
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i think i think the first
12:49
instinct goes to maybe because
12:53
it's cooking is like you know open like
12:56
i love
12:57
being in the kitchen like my mom my dad
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had a home catering business growing up
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so i
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naturally you know as a kid was always
13:03
helping out where i could and i really
13:06
enjoy you know it's a love language like
13:08
food is a love language i love cooking
13:09
for people i i
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you know love being of service in that
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type of way so like i think
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you know being a chef was definitely one
13:17
of those
13:17
one of those things and uh you know
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i guess just directing count directing
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or you know i'm saying
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i mean yeah you know it's like a branch
13:30
off the same tree
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yeah yeah yeah okay so so i mean maybe
13:34
like i don't know maybe it's another
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who knows what the future is hopefully i
13:39
mean i said who knows what the future's
13:41
hold but i don't know man
13:42
i don't know i don't know essentially
13:44
i'm i'm gonna stay i'm gonna stay
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cooking for that one
13:46
i i feel you and i hear you and and and
13:49
and maybe in
13:50
a after this life is over i might step
13:52
into something like that but i i'm with
13:54
it
13:54
i i feel your vibe trust me i got i hear
13:57
it what's lori's favorite dish from you
13:59
does you love me probably my pasta
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mm-hmm my pot i probably eat my pasta i
14:04
do i do a nice um
14:07
i know i do a nice pesto from scratch oh
14:10
with the basil yeah yeah yeah see my key
14:13
is like pine nuts but then you gotta
14:15
put the walnuts in it you gotta mix the
14:17
walnuts and the pine nuts you know
14:19
that that little blend makes it makes it
14:21
makes it nice enough wait you can make
14:23
that in your vitamix
14:24
callaway just got himself a vitamix a
14:26
couple days ago you can make
14:28
all that in your it's crazy your vitamix
14:29
is a food processor like but like
14:31
like literally it's soup it's super
14:33
simple but you just use fresh
14:34
ingredients you gotta make some good
14:35
olive oil some good parmesan reggiano
14:38
you be in there damn man he not just
14:41
wearing that italian shirt he is
14:46
he turned into italian right there boy
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no culture appropriation
14:50
[Music]
14:55
dp what's up man we man we watched the
14:58
movie man i love the movie imma let db
15:01
because we analyzed and dissected this
15:03
movie go ahead db
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yeah i was tracy sort of took my
15:06
question i was going to ask you about
15:07
your love of anime but i'm gonna go
15:08
ahead and move into this film because um
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i've always been fascinated with uh tom
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clancy because
15:14
a lot of people are familiar with him
15:15
with his name that's attached to the
15:17
projects and the
15:18
the books that were adapted into films
15:19
you know clear and present danger some
15:21
of all fears
15:22
patriot games that sort of thing but a
15:23
lot of people don't realize
15:25
is that this guy was an insurance
15:26
salesman with no government spy
15:28
training anything like that who just
15:29
decided hey i love this genre and i'm
15:32
going to write some books
15:32
and next you know they just become
15:34
insanely popular and
15:36
back to your character john clark who
15:39
when you see the the actors who
15:41
portrayed him in the past
15:42
lia schreiber uh william defoe john was
15:45
always sort of like this guy who was
15:47
like okay well he's important but you
15:48
don't exactly know why you don't know
15:50
his backstory
15:51
he's just kind of assisting jack ryan
15:54
now that you're doing this film and
15:55
you're the lead guy and john clark is
15:56
the main character the protagonist
15:58
i'm watching the film and i realized
16:00
that the training you must have had to
16:02
do
16:02
to do this seal action you know what i
16:05
mean like
16:06
tactical gear and weaponry and coming up
16:09
with the strategy and
16:10
swimming underwater holding your breath
16:11
for countless minutes
16:13
how was that different from the stuff
16:14
you had to do with say fantastic four
16:17
black panther where you're training for
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you know the most
16:20
acrobatic stunts and that sort of thing
16:21
this is like seal training which is
16:23
incredibly difficult yeah so
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so i guess it all goes back to like my
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love of like you know you know time
16:30
plants the universe you know
16:32
you know video games was the first thing
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you know playing with six that's kind of
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where i first got introduced to it and
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like you know envisioning yourself going
16:38
through you know those missions and
16:39
stuff like that so that's kind of where
16:41
like you first kind of you know i'm
16:42
saying uh you know i first really got
16:44
excited about
16:45
about the universe and then have an
16:47
opportunity to kind of like you know
16:49
you know take a character that's been
16:50
you know you know done before but then
16:52
also you know modernize it you know make
16:54
it
16:54
a reflection of the world that i live in
16:56
today so i was really excited about
16:57
getting into that
16:58
and then having to do like decree like
17:00
me and my trainer
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my our approach has always been like
17:03
we're going to train you like you know
17:05
as the character like you know if you're
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a boxer you're going to live like a
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boxer you're going to train like a boxer
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if you
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you're a navy seal you know we're going
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to train you like a navy seal so we're
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going to you know we're going to
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you know take you out my boy buck buck
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doyle
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he was a you know ex-marine um you know
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contractor
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you know what i'm saying you know black
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ops guy you know he
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his fair share of you know of of uh
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intense dangerous situations you know i
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mean
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and you know go through weapons training
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go through tactical training you know if
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we got underwater scenes cool we're
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gonna
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deal with you know the best you know
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military divers uh you know
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go to a dive tank you know put me under
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you know high intensity
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intensity stressful situations
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underwater work through weapons
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malfunctions work through all those
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things and just spend
17:49
put the time in honestly man just just
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do just do the work
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um you know some of my you know the
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people i look up to the most you know
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in the space of like tom cruise michael
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john white
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and wesley snipes and you know jackie
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chan and you see that work ethic you
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know having the ability to watch them
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and watch how much time they put into it
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so
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you put them in a stunt they prepare for
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it
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and the stunt crew and everybody they
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feel comfortable that
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i'm not gonna get hurt and really really
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like hurt myself you know so
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so is there some things like jumping
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inside of a burning car you know i mean
18:23
that you can't really train that much
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for you just gotta like that one you
18:26
just kind of like
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i'm not even gonna think about it i just
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gotta like just do it if i think about
18:30
it you're gonna be like
18:31
thinking crazy don't do that so like
18:34
we're gonna throw this jello on you you
18:35
know
18:35
i'm saying you might i might lose some
18:37
eyebrows and some eyelashes you feel me
18:39
but i definitely did that but you just
18:41
gotta get in
18:42
you know i'm saying do this thing get
18:44
out uh but it was fun man
18:46
it's the stuff you know as a kid when
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you're in the couch in the living room
18:49
you know you're taking the
18:50
sofa cushions and you you know building
18:53
forts and
18:54
jumping off of it you know almost you
18:56
know breaking your little brother's neck
18:58
praying that he don't cry you know what
18:59
i'm saying get a whooping or something
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but those are the moments that has
19:03
trained me for this stuff you know i
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mean i i look forward to it
19:08
if it felt like a video game that's one
19:10
of the things i was talking to
19:11
a db about um it felt like a video game
19:14
i don't want to give away too much of
19:15
the movie because i know folks haven't
19:17
seen it yet but that's
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what really engaged me the other thing
19:20
is your your co-stars the uh
19:22
jody turner smith and lauren london you
19:25
know really
19:26
really delivered and it was great to see
19:28
lauren working again
19:30
you know what i mean excellent she did
19:32
an excellent job
19:33
i'm curious though like on the set i'm
19:35
i'm wondering if maybe she was playing
19:37
some unheard
19:38
nipsey music or something that you got
19:40
access to
19:41
you know did y'all get a chance to talk
19:43
about nip at all
19:45
man honestly you know i've known lauren
19:47
for a long time
19:48
and you know one of one of my really
19:50
good friends and
19:52
i was you know i was in i was in
19:55
germany we were in berlin when we were
19:58
filming
19:58
and we were still figuring out you know
20:00
who who pam was going to be
20:03
and i was like i woke up middle of night
20:04
and i was like man
20:06
i got it crazy idea she's probably gonna
20:09
say mike get off my phone like why are
20:10
you calling me about this but
20:11
i gotta i gotta i gotta at least ask you
20:13
know so i have respectfully
20:15
as you know um as delicately as i can
20:18
you know tried to
20:19
you know uh see how she felt about it
20:21
you know and she
20:23
she surprisingly really responded to it
20:25
you know i sent her script she read it
20:28
and you know she felt like she could add
20:30
something you know she felt like she
20:32
could bring something she could teach me
20:34
mike something about you know tragedy
20:37
grief something that you know john would
20:39
be going through
20:40
um and and she brought a lot of herself
20:43
to the role
20:44
you know um there's a lot of things that
20:46
you know
20:48
in between you know after cut that we
20:50
talked about that really really you know
20:52
helped me kind of get to a certain minds
20:54
mind space so
20:55
yeah i was really thankful and blessed
20:57
that she that she wanted to you know
20:59
come back and
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we miss her on screen you know yeah we
21:02
miss her you know she's such a talent so
21:05
you know hopefully this you know they uh
21:07
you know spoke to the other day
21:08
hopefully this is something that
21:09
you know can you know that that it could
21:12
be therapeutic you know what i'm saying
21:13
get some
21:14
get some stuff off her chest you know i
21:15
mean like like as artists there's our
21:17
space to
21:18
to to you know it's our therapy
21:20
sometimes you know so
21:21
so i i you know hopefully you know it
21:24
knocks a little bit of that you know
21:25
what i'm saying often and she can get
21:27
back into it and we can see a lot more
21:28
of her in different things so that was
21:30
really important
21:31
absolutely i i thought the the synergy
21:34
of the whole ensemble the whole
21:36
all the cast it was very engaging very
21:38
compelling
21:39
very real i wanted to put on my
21:41
bulletproof vest i keep on michael b
21:43
jordan i'm from the town you know but uh
21:46
it just don't fit right now because of
21:48
my
21:49
you know i got the pandemic belly it
21:52
won't fit man
21:55
uh you know you when tracy asked you
21:57
that that question you've never been
21:59
asked before you asked if directing
22:00
could be
22:01
you know one of those things you think
22:02
you would be good at that's not
22:04
necessarily in your wheelhouse but you
22:06
are you are slated to direct
22:08
the next creed you know right yep
22:11
and um i'm curious to
22:14
doing that man i know that's sylvester
22:16
stallone's you know creed is different
22:18
from rocky but it's all
22:20
you know from the same family i know
22:21
that's his baby you know
22:23
is he someone you tapped into or is it
22:25
you just go in it alone
22:27
and don't take advice from him or ryan
22:29
or have you actually sat down with ryan
22:30
or sylvester stallone and say okay
22:32
what do you think of my approach yeah i
22:34
mean ryan's producing this one you know
22:36
what i mean
22:37
as well you know it's it's it's all one
22:39
family
22:40
you know um i feel like you know
22:43
i think i've been training you know
22:45
secretly my whole life
22:46
to you know to to to direct you know
22:49
what i mean
22:50
just being on set and you know so i'm
22:52
kind of pulling from all my directors
22:54
and all my experiences
22:55
that you know um i got an opportunity to
22:58
work with or build a relationship with
22:59
over the years
23:01
so when it comes to like you know you
23:03
know sly he you know he
23:05
he he wrote the blueprint for it you
23:07
know we've been following this blueprint
23:08
for
23:08
for a long time so it's always going to
23:10
be some of that you know that that that
23:12
those those rexed rockyisms and those
23:14
those gems that are going to be there
23:16
you know how we shoot fighting how we
23:17
how we do the boxing
23:19
um you know and as we start to build
23:22
creed's legacy you know and build that
23:25
you know moving forward you know we
23:26
start to tap into
23:28
you know other um um other things that
23:31
start to
23:32
go that we haven't had an opportunity to
23:34
explore yet you know i'm saying through
23:35
a black champion you know i'm saying
23:37
the way the way that is and we're really
23:38
gonna start to you know dive into the
23:40
you know our culture and community
23:42
um but but also honor you know what i'm
23:44
saying like the world that
23:46
that that creed stems from so you know
23:48
from you know
23:50
especially coming just even just not
23:51
working with with denzel washington you
23:53
know what i'm saying on the project you
23:54
know like he's
23:55
like the goat you know being able to get
23:57
gyms from him from a director's
23:59
standpoint
24:00
a lot of things of what to look for and
24:01
what not to do uh so it's been it's
24:04
it's it's it's a team effort there's no
24:06
ego over here i got a clear vision for
24:08
what i want to make and what i want to
24:09
shoot
24:10
but at the same time you know i'd be a
24:12
fool not to take advice from like
24:13
you know i'm saying the people that's
24:14
done it before me especially like you
24:16
know sly he
24:17
just wonder if he's the only one that
24:19
you know boxed and directed
24:21
you know what i mean like that's that's
24:23
that's that's something that only he has
24:24
done
24:25
you know so for so for me you know it's
24:27
always kind of taking those wisdoms and
24:29
and applying it to my to my journey
24:31
absolutely michael b
24:33
jordan man i want to say congratulations
24:35
to you you make us all proud
24:37
you know you named a lot of leading men
24:39
earlier um in this conversation but you
24:41
along that lineage
24:42
of the sydney podies and the denzel
24:45
washingtons and the jamie foxx's you
24:47
know these leading black men
24:49
that have represented us well in
24:50
hollywood and so you're continuing that
24:53
legacy brother we're
24:54
very extremely proud of you um thank you
24:57
thank you for being back on sway in the
24:59
morning you know you're a citizen
25:00
you know i'm looking forward to seeing
25:03
you in person man and you're never going
25:05
to wear that shirt again so bring it
25:07
with you
25:10
i got you i got you i'm gonna let out to
25:12
see the seams a little bit for you you
25:14
know
25:14
you you see what i'm doing with the
25:15
shoulders michael b come on okay
25:18
okay all right man i'm looking forward
25:20
uh to seeing the movie do well continue
25:22
success and thank you brother
25:24
all right thank you guys appreciate the
25:26
love and the time man i'll see you guys
25:27
soon in person soon
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absolutely
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