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Step into the fascinating world of acclaimed actor Michael Beach in this engaging Sway In The Morning exclusive interview. Delve deep into the intricacies of his role in the controversial "Jeffrey Dahmer" series and explore the profound reactions from affected family members. Michael, an actor with an impressive resume spanning "Aquaman" and "Law & Order," unpacks the challenges and moral considerations of portraying real-life figures. Discover how his upbringing in Roxbury shaped his journey, from athletic aspirations to a stellar acting career at Juilliard. 🎥 Also, get an exciting sneak peek into his latest project, "The Perfect Couple," set to premiere on Netflix with an all-star cast including Nicole Kidman and Dakota Fanning. Don't miss this insightful conversation that weaves personal revelations with professional milestones. Subscribe to Sway’s Universe for more exclusive interviews, and follow our journey through the realms of entertainment and insight!
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:18 - Michael Beach: Roxbury Roots & First Acting Role
07:39 - Controversial Characters: Michael Beach's Perspective
12:15 - Michael K. Williams: Journey to His First Acting Job
19:58 - Michael K. Williams in "The Perfect Wedding"
21:55 - Michael K. Williams: Relationship with Wife Felicia
29:40 - Michael Beach's Concept of the Perfect Couple
29:50 - School Days with Guru from Gang Starr
32:18 - "The Perfect Couple" Premieres on Netflix Tomorrow
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[Applause]
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and when that man speaks you best to
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listen this man has really curated a
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career for himself that I think many
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would admire including myself and I'm
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not even a thespian and when I think of
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where it all started for him um it's
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pretty impressive how he's been able to
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sustain this quality of career yeah uh
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we've seen him in many films many TV
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series some of my favorites are lean on
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me waiting to excel a family thing is
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one of my favorites Aquaman is one of my
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favorit have it Be You Got It soul food
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soul food okay Law and Order um The
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Blacklist brothers and sisters Criminal
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Minds the list goes on and on Tulsa
0:39
Kings the Jeffrey dmer story uh May
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mayor of Kingston and today he's here to
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talk about the perfect couple which is a
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limited Netflix series that premieres
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tomorrow I want to welcome him to the
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show and I feel like he deserves a
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standing o give it up for the one and
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only Michael be man I know first time
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here yeah man first time it's 2 in the
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morning
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app you can hear them Mike right come on
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man at least we know you could act like
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you hear them cuz that's what you do
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brother that's man it's good by the way
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we got Tracy G if you look at this oh
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there she is Tracy G is back in our New
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York office hello Tracy G okay hey hey
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hey happy to have you thank you hey hey
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man I played that at OG because I know
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you're from that area right where did
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you grow up I grew up in rockbury Boston
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yeah yeah in Warren Gardens specifically
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oh what does that mean Warren well it's
1:30
like the you know the it's a particular
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neighborhood where they you know you
1:36
grow up in the you know the the
1:39
highrises highrises yeah well for Boston
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it's not like New York Boston doesn't
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really have that the highrise thing but
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you know in the hood man okay there you
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go oh so Gardens like projects like yeah
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like the Nicholas Gardens like like okay
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the hood hood Warren Gardens yeah okay
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well well you know we would hear like I
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played at OG I know he's a popular
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person um the almighty RSO with Ben Xeno
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and those groups I don't know if you was
2:05
following all that stuff but they were
2:07
painting these pictures of Roxberry and
2:09
their music back in the late 80s and the
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back in the 90s it seemed like was a
2:13
challenging environment is was that for
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you well definitely yeah I mean I was
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born in the 60s and and um you know went
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through the all the busing that was
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going on in the 70s and and um you know
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Boston was was a place where at that
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time time where you stayed in your
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neighborhood you know if you went into
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the to the white
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areas uh you know you you know you risk
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trouble you you risk yeah so so you
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stayed out of those neighborhood you
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stayed out of those neighbor who who are
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some of the um artists I know I don't
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know did did you did you grow up uh with
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hip-hop in your life or was it just kind
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of a side thing because if you grew up
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in the 60s and
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not necessarily no I mean that didn't
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really I mean the the term hip hop
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didn't exist at that time right and um
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but I grew up yeah with R&B you know the
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the listening to um you know Teddy
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penr stuff like that but uh and rap came
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I was just about you know when it became
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I was just about heading to college at
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that time you know and so I was in New
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York cuz went to college in New York and
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um and I remember being me and Ving
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rigns and Eric Lal wow um we'd be up uh
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even West West Snipes and we'd be up on
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the
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um 145th in St Nick yeah be up on the on
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the roof uhuh with our beatbox listening
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to you know all the cats of the time
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trying to work out trying to get in
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shape you know do you Wes Lee Snipes Vin
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RS ER re Eric L would be there uh yeah
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West was coming around cuz the first
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film I ever did was with Wes uhhuh a
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film called uh streets of gold yes yes
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right so Wes was Wes was out of school a
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couple of years before me about a year
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year year or two MH and so he was
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starring in this film that we shot in
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New York and um and I played his like uh
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he was a boxer trying to get get out of
4:30
the hood and I I was his uh his his dude
4:35
in the street trying to keep him in you
4:37
know had these ideas gu drugs and this
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yeah yeah I was that guy you was the
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crab in the bucket I was the crab in the
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bucket okay all right okay what's funny
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is I I had to um I had to the first
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scene I ever shot uhhuh I had to smoke a
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cigarette okay right back then they
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didn't have all the clothes cigarettes
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and stuff they had
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now I never smoked a day in my life
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right so I didn't know what I was doing
5:05
so they were like oh yeah you got yeah
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you're smoking and you're this and that
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and I and at the time I I was it was my
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first job I said okay I'll I'll try it
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they had to go and get um camel I guess
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when they had to filter
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yeah dude if you ever watched the movie
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I I'm not
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inhaling uhuh right so I take a puff
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and I start talking and the smoke just
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goes across my face there's no stream
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it's just literally just you know like a
5:39
cloud and it's clear I don't know what
5:41
the hell I'm doing yeah and you know so
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now you they have three four cameras
5:49
back then it was one camera so you got
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to do the big shot the coverage you got
5:55
to do every closeups yeah so you shoot
5:58
like a gazillion times and I'm smoking
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these cigarettes a gazillion
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times that night I was so sick I I I was
6:09
so sick that I I vowed to myself I Will
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Never Smoke on camera again and even
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when it becomes relevant I just I was
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like nah you won't do it I'm not going
6:22
to do it you wow I was going to say even
6:24
with the clove now you still nothing
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it's just it's you know it's a mental
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thing right it just is a block for me
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and uh and I mean I'm a very healthy
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dude anyway yeah and just the idea of it
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um I just did I did a film called if
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beill Street could talk of course round
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of appli for that talking great film
6:46
great Cass you know Barry
6:48
Jenkins and we're at we're in the bar
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you know uh Coleman Domingo my man who's
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killing it right now he you know we got
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this scene where we supposed to be
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smoking and drinking and so obviously I
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can drink cuz it's crap you nothing it's
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just water and thing or whatever he's
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smoking and I was like nah dude I can't
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I can't do it and uh and Barry's like
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okay what and I see the movie which was
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fantastic and I thought damn I should
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have done a cigarette you thought that
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CU it was right what you know cuz it was
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it takes place in the 70s you know we're
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in the bar where you know and and it was
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the one time I thought that's is
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appropriate and you should you know I
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should have done it wow man that's
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interesting I I didn't know folks
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thought Michael Beach is here by the way
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we're talking about the perfect couple
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which premieres tomorrow's Netflix
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limited series yes I wonder how much
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thought because we often have um actors
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here and we we ask them questions about
7:51
the roles that they um they that they
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choose to play and um how do you factor
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in if a character is so if the character
8:01
is so extreme against who you are if
8:04
maybe if the if it's based on a true
8:05
story like we talk about the dmer the
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Jeffrey dmer story that got a lot of
8:10
backlash from people because um it was a
8:13
great done great it was great you know
8:16
production yeah but there are people who
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are uh related to some of the victims
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that came out and protested uh do you
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consider that you know when you take on
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a role you you play the detective in
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that right right yeah yeah um I play one
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of the guys who actually you know he had
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like 63 hours of confession yeah and so
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I play like an amalgamation of the uh
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officers that the officer that he spoke
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to and then and then I have to go and
8:47
inform the the family that their loved
8:51
one has been a victim of Jeffrey
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dmer so it's tough yeah and um I you
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know when I do stuff I try not to have
9:04
an opinion or a thought or I don't think
9:06
about the audience or I don't think
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about pleasing them or not pleasing them
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or whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy
9:15
or you know just I don't think it I
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don't think it's going to would serve me
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as an actor as a guy trying to play
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someone if I have to worry about
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ramifications of things
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you know what I mean it just doesn't
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um I I don't I don't factor that stuff
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in you can't factor that in yeah if it I
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mean if it's something that that
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I personally would have some major
9:43
problem with I just wouldn't do the job
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you know okay but to be honest when now
9:48
I think about I never ran across that
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you know I love to work and I love to be
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put in uncomfortable
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situations and I think that's that's
9:59
when you discover things and that's when
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things become interesting to watch yeah
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you know um and so it's not about it's
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not about pleasing people or being good
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or bad I did a I did um a film called
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um uh oh Jesus you did about 200 I get
10:21
it bro I was like I was like he put
10:23
himself out there if he come up with the
10:24
name I'll be you going to be impressed
10:26
me
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too oh it's called it's called Patriots
10:30
Day okay it's a big film bro yeah Mark
10:33
Walberg yes but it was about the Boston
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uh bombing at the marathon and we did it
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a couple of years after it happened and
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so the the question was the same thing
10:45
is it too soon yeah and there were a lot
10:47
of people that thought it was and and a
10:49
lot of people that didn't and there were
10:51
a lot of the um
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survivors uh they don't call themselves
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victims they call themselves survivors
10:57
who we got to meet who um most of which
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who were in favor of us doing the film
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okay and so the the question is is it
11:10
going to be is the film going to
11:13
be um accurate is it going to you know
11:17
are we just going to try to show
11:19
everybody's good and these are bad guys
11:22
or we going to really
11:24
be um delve into who the people are and
11:28
and why they did what they did and how
11:31
they did what they did and without
11:34
particularly putting a spin on it yeah
11:36
you know yeah and and and the fact that
11:40
it was back in Boston where I was from
11:43
Mark wber exactly exactly and and uh it
11:48
it I I think it I think it was a
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fantastic film yeah you know it didn't
11:53
it didn't break any records or anything
11:57
and and it wasn't a huge opening but I
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think most people that watch the film
12:02
are really impressed by by what we were
12:05
able to do with it I saw the film man
12:08
Round of Applause that's great film Mark
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wallberg is a friend you know what I
12:11
mean I'm proud of him of what he's been
12:13
able to do with his career HB Michael
12:15
you talked about being from rockberry
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and we have so many we call our people
12:19
who watch and listen to the show
12:20
citizens we have so many citizens who
12:22
watch the show and listen who are trying
12:24
to get into acting they're taking
12:26
classes they're taking all the steps how
12:28
long did take you from your humble
12:30
beginnings to going off to study this
12:32
professionally to get your first job and
12:35
when you got it what was it do you think
12:37
that happened that finally clicked to to
12:39
have you book and land that
12:40
job you know I was I was very lucky I
12:45
was very fortunate because I went to I
12:48
went to juliard in New
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York and when I first went there I it I
12:54
had been acting maybe nine
12:57
months right uh from high
12:59
School uh because I I played football
13:02
like for real he play for real thank you
13:06
foring little Pop Warner and then you
13:09
know so I was I played I was 9 10 11 12
13:14
13 14 you know going yeah I kept going I
13:17
retired at 10 all right put that out
13:20
there but we had that two years in
13:21
similar N9 and 10
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transformative but I played um football
13:28
so I got a I got a scholarship to a prep
13:30
school outside of the hood you know in
13:34
Boston I went to DEA Massachusetts and
13:36
played at a very nice prep school which
13:39
really opened my eyes cuz you know a lot
13:42
of lot of family members hadn't gone to
13:45
college you know it wasn't a thing right
13:48
when I went to prep
13:50
school it it it was like grade 13
13:53
everybody was going to college and I
13:56
thought I was going to go play football
13:58
in college but I got
14:00
hurt um severely playing lacrosse
14:03
actually this game lacrosse
14:07
and since it was Prep School everybody
14:10
did uh we had morning announcements
14:13
right the whole school got together and
14:16
you talked about what was going on over
14:18
the week everybody did announcements and
14:21
and some for some reason someone asked
14:23
me to do an announcement and I said okay
14:25
fine and I did one and you know people
14:29
enjoyed it and then I and people were
14:32
afraid to do it because it's in front of
14:34
the whole school so they would ask me to
14:36
do more and more and I just kept doing
14:39
it and based on that when I got hurt
14:41
someone asked me to do a play and I was
14:45
like wow wow I'm a play why would you
14:48
ask me to do a play I don't know nothing
14:49
about a play I'm an athlete you know and
14:52
and they asked me a few times I said no
14:54
a few times and then eventually I said
14:57
yes so I auditioned and I got it and
15:00
then I I probably had like another 10
15:05
months of school left so I did a a few
15:08
other plays and not knowing what to do
15:12
for college because I couldn't play
15:14
football sports anymore somebody said oh
15:17
well you should audition for theater
15:19
schools and I was like well what's a
15:20
theater school and they said well will
15:22
you will you will you act in school I
15:26
said really they have those I had no
15:28
idea dude seem easy to me yeah so so um
15:32
they they gave me a list of schools and
15:34
I auditioned for the schools that they
15:36
gave me a list for and juliard happened
15:38
to be one of them I didn't know anything
15:40
about it and I got in so I said well
15:44
which one should I go to and they said
15:46
you should go to
15:48
J now you know though yeah so yeah I
15:51
know now yeah uh so I went and um
15:56
and you know juliard then is real
15:59
different now I mean it you know they
16:01
had Cuts MH like um so you had your
16:04
first year then you had at the end of
16:07
your first year they so I went with 26
16:11
people that went into the acting program
16:14
my year 26 26 yeah you go into a room
16:19
and
16:21
literally uh there were probably there
16:24
just thousands and thousands auditioned
16:27
right so you go into a room and um
16:30
there's a lot of people in tights for
16:31
the audition you know and they're
16:33
talking about like Fame yeah like that
16:35
right exactly like Fame like a little
16:38
more adult right and they're talking
16:40
about how they just finished they yeah I
16:42
just did a run of AOW or yeah I was just
16:45
doing MC Beth you know at the so and so
16:47
theater and D I didn't know what the
16:49
hell was going on I was just sitting
16:52
there this little kid from the hood you
16:55
know spent a little bit of time in the
16:56
Prep School
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you know the difference between the hood
17:01
and the prep school was huge and the
17:03
difference between prep school and
17:05
juliard is huge cu the it's a juliard
17:09
there's no academics I don't have to
17:11
take math or science or it's all theater
17:15
wow you know all movement all voice all
17:17
diction speech all of that stuff so that
17:22
whole experience was crazy for me too
17:25
and and going there and you find out
17:28
that there are people that are there
17:30
who have been acting since they were
17:33
nine and 10 okay see it matters it
17:37
matters exactly he tried to sneak
17:41
in it does matter you're right you're
17:44
right bro yeah and um and I was not one
17:47
of those one of those people so um the
17:51
lore of
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it because it was
17:55
it people in my class were
17:59
really intimidated by the fact that they
18:02
were at juliard you know they first of
18:05
all they made it which is amazing yeah
18:07
and then um they had the the lore of
18:12
these teachers and what it meant and
18:15
this and that and so at the end of the
18:17
first year they would warn people saying
18:22
that you're coming back for the second
18:24
year but if you don't improve this or
18:27
this or that then we're cutting you from
18:29
the program oh that's what he meant by
18:31
the cuts initially right so there are
18:34
you the 4year program but if you don't
18:38
make the cut you only do
18:40
two and damn so we started with 26 I
18:45
think one person left the
18:47
program the third year which is after
18:51
the cuts we had 11
18:54
wow wow so it was tight yeah any names
18:58
we know that were a part of that 11 well
19:01
uh from my class no okay but like Eric
19:04
LEL yes who you know I'm sure he doesn't
19:06
mind me telling but he was a couple of
19:09
years before that but he got cut Eric
19:11
LEL look at his career yeah but he was
19:15
so he was so smart about it he he had a
19:19
mentor who literally was on top of it so
19:23
he was able he ended up going to NYU mhm
19:27
so he got cut from juliard he went in an
19:30
audition for NYU got in the NYU Advance
19:34
program and ended up doing two years at
19:37
NYU and graduated from NYU at the same
19:40
time he would have graduated from
19:42
juliard Smart yep yep he's been up here
19:45
too Eric L he's a citizen yeah now
19:47
that's my man that's an author he's
19:49
writing and doing a lot yeah he's got
19:51
these great uh series of books books
19:54
yeah okay man this is interesting bro
19:56
Michael Beach is here give him a big
19:57
round of applause and uh he's in a a new
20:00
series is called the perfect couple uh
20:02
premiering tomorrow here on Netflix and
20:05
Cole Kitman leave rber in a Dakota
20:07
Fanning is in it and uh give us a brief
20:10
synopsis of what this series is about so
20:13
this is a limited series six episodes
20:15
right it's about a n Tucket family a
20:19
wealthy old school family mhm and one of
20:23
their sons is getting married to someone
20:27
who is not of a wealthy old school
20:31
family not of the pedigree she coming
20:33
she's on she's on a come up she's on the
20:36
come up okay she's from the gardens yeah
20:39
she she grew up in the hood
20:42
yeah but uh the night before the
20:48
wedding someone is killed mm and
20:52
obviously uh we don't I I'm not going to
20:56
say who but someone is killed yeah
20:59
and so the question is who among the
21:03
family members or the friends of the
21:07
family killed this person
21:10
okay my character is the chief of police
21:15
and he is heading up the
21:18
investigation um and so it's really this
21:22
who done it uhuh in a very very wealthy
21:26
setting and
21:29
um you get to know cuz it's called the
21:32
perfect couple I think because it's the
21:34
idea of this perfect family and perfect
21:38
setting but through through the
21:40
investigation you start to the family
21:44
and their problems and who they are and
21:47
how they're so not perfect all of that
21:50
stuff starts to come out come out wow I
21:52
love this man that's my kind of who done
21:54
it too man it's called the perfect
21:56
couple premieres tomorrow Tracy you want
21:58
to jump in yes I do um Michael you know
22:02
we've been speaking about how you've had
22:05
such an illustrious career you've been
22:07
on so many different size screens but I
22:09
got to say one of my favorite times of
22:11
watching you was you and your wife
22:13
Alicia on the black love docu series on
22:16
on own I thought that was so spectacular
22:19
to hear your story and before here
22:22
seeing the the trailer for um the
22:24
perfect couple when I heard that title
22:26
it immediately brought me back to those
22:28
episodes and for those who did not catch
22:30
its citizens Michael you were so honest
22:33
in talking about being married prior a
22:36
Felicia 17 years in and congratulations
22:38
because that is a lot with sustaining
22:40
that love but you spoke about being
22:42
married before and um creating four
22:45
beautiful children from that
22:47
relationship and saying you know what
22:49
I'm done I don't think I'm ever going
22:51
to travel down this path again and I
22:54
think that's so relatable for a lot of
22:56
folks where you know a a a life that
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they had that changes and then you can
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just kind of melt into a puddle of
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pessimism what would you could you share
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some words for folks on just being open
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to the possibilities of life because
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eventually you did meet Alicia and now
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here y'all are 17 years in holy
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matrimony yeah we yeah we've been
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married SE going on well we've been
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together 24 years now oh wow and um yeah
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and she I mean she literally to In from
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from my mind she
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she she saved me from myself you know
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and um in terms of in terms of my
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happiness you know and um cuz I I can't
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imagine the idea of not being in love
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and being with someone and be aging as I
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am and not um having that relationship
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but the
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the I was married 17 years before yeah
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had the four kids like you said and it
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didn't work out you know okay and
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because I had four kids I thought well
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why do I have to do that again you know
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I'm done I'm done and it wasn't a
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horrible marriage in fact on on the uh
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black love I talk about the fact that um
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that my
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ex-wife lives with my wife and I and our
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kids lives with what you mean in in the
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same
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house did you do that when you were nine
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or 10 no no I didn't get I I had kissed
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a girl yet Mike what you talk oh my
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bad but but but but talk to us yeah um I
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mean the circumstances is a long story
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but the you know my my
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um you
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know you thinking about it sound kind of
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crazy yeah because because it is a it is
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a rare situation you know where uh she's
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lived with us now for I don't know it's
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been seven eight years wow and she's
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literally just a part of our family cuz
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my wife and Elish and I have four young
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kids as well and so they just know my
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ex-wife's name is Tracy they just know
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her as Tracy mhm they know we we used to
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be married because they because our
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older children who are in their 30s they
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come over all the time and they know
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that Tracy is their mom and I'm their
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dad but they they're brothers and
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sisters but their mom is different yeah
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so it's kind of it just become this
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blended family that is that is awkward
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from the outside but it actually works
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perfectly and I the reason I think that
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I think I've been saved is because I I'm
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able to let go of negative things um or
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things that you know sometimes you think
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what was done to you or uh how you know
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I was put in this situation or you know
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all these terrible things that that
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Tracy and I went
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throughh but a lot of people hold on to
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it MH and if really doesn't help you you
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know you know you get bitter and you you
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know it you make bad decisions because
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of those th that weight and that
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pressure and and I found that in letting
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that stuff
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go it just makes my life so much easier
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so much more enjoyable and Elicia my
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wife has helped me do that you know
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because it's not it's not me I think her
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having your
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wife embrace the fact that your ex-wife
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is is living with you yeah exactly yeah
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stand know we gave you the standing this
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her man I needed you to help me
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understand how you could come home and
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ask that question like how does that
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yeah I mean the the the way it happened
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is a that's too long of a story but
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but it it you know there there's been a
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lot of times because the funny thing is
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they're together more than we are
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together because I take a job I go out
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of town you know and early on I was when
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I was doing Aquaman I was in
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Australia I'm in Australia for two
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months you can't say I'm going to go
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home for the weekend when you're in
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Australia yeah no you know because time
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difference all that
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2 yeah exactly so so during that time I
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was in Australia and then right after
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that I was in South Africa doing a film
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wow and and so Elicia and
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Tracy um got closer and Tracy was very
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helpful with our kids taking them to
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school and helping you know with the
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dinners and stuff like that and so it
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just you know it just worked out
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you know and it's funny CU sometimes on
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social media especially on uh black love
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you know it always comes up oh oh you
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got this uh this little uh thing going
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on you know this little sex thing going
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on yeah yeah yeah I couldn't think of it
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word but and it it's you know obviously
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it's nothing farther from the truth it
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just you know Tracy is a part of my life
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a part of my family we have four kids
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together right um she was 21 I think I
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was 22 when we met and um I just can't
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cut her off why would you know what I
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mean I can't yeah I mean it's just not
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um it's just not going to happen you
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know so um now obviously she doesn't
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have to live with us but but it just you
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know it just worked out that way and it
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is it is comfortable for us well go
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ahead about to go home and ask my
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husband cuz my ex live with us see how
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that works on the men's do flip it m
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idea don't blame me don't blame me it
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ain't going to work hey man let's give a
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big round of applause for Michael Beach
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man and it sounds like that's your your
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your concept of the perfect couple you
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know suff was a added person in here
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perfect couple man listen um I want to
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thank you for coming by this morning man
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this is awesome I I real quick you went
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to school with gur uru from Gangstar
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well his family yeah the elims his uh
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his father's a judge in Boston I went to
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school with his sister
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Joselyn and uh yeah obviously long
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before he was the guru yeah um you know
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Keith uh and I went to school with his
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sister from yeah from early age maybe
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when we were like N9 or 10 see you know
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you know it counts and then we went we
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ended up in uh we end up in high school
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together so so when he when his star
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start to rise what did you think like
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did you know he was rapping or no I
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didn't in fact I didn't even know he was
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the Guru from Gangstar yeah but then I
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didn't know who it was but then I saw
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his picture uhhuh I was like oh [ __ ] and
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you know and uh and and I was I was
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digging his music before I knew who he
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was and um and uh it was so it was so
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weird because I obviously you know
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knowing them when were kids mhm you know
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rap wasn't even it wasn't there yet it
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wasn't there yet you cuz we're talking
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about the early
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70s um and uh and it was it was so
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impressive because the family he's from
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you know he's he from a a very
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prestigious family prestigious family
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yeah his brother his brother actually
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went to uh the high school uh that I'm
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talking about to Nobles and greenos he's
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actually one of the distinguished
31:27
graduates mhm um and which I became
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about two years ago as well and um so
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it's a it's a really it's a really cool
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Connection in terms of
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Roxbury coming from the hood but um
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going to getting a good education you
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know which is the key I think you know
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having a nice education to being able to
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see more and experience more and I think
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that's what one of the things that made
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him such an amazing rapper I mean that
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dude he spoke uh he spoke so eloquently
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to me yeah no he was incredible man
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salute to Guru rest in power and salute
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to his family I just wanted to give him
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that light Michael Beach it's been an
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absolute pleasure to have you on this
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show brother man come back man New York
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yeah man um the perfect couple is
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premiering globally on Netflix tomorrow
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make sure you check it out Michael Beach
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he's in it Nicole Kitman leers is in it
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as well as Fanning sounds like a good
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series yeah Mike thank you brother
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appreciate you man right
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