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that's funny that that excerpt was
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actually in the trailer because I
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remember laughing out loud at that
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particular scene where the where the
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character says that wasn't a full
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sentence but uh this is a movie that um
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I want to suggest to all the citizens
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this house Friday September the 15th
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it's called outlaw Johnny Black right
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and I thought it was really interesting
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because I'm a I'm a westerns dude you
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know what I mean I like the old westerns
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I used to I used to like to watch Clint
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Eastwood and all of those guys when I
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was younger
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um and so I didn't know what to expect
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from this but I did know that it was
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from somebody It Was Written directed
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produced and starred somebody that we
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tremendously respect uh who's been with
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us before
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um on every aspect of the game are
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watching out off when he's off camera
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and I love what he does on camera as
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well so it's my privilege you know if
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you ever watch Why Did I Get Married Why
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Did I Get Married to
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um for better for worse
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um if you ever watch spawn if you ever
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watch Tyson Black Dynamite all of these
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amazing amazing projects then you know
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who I'm talking about I want to welcome
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him to the shoulder one and only Michael
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Jai White is here
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[Applause]
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uh man good to have you um on the show I
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was thinking about spawn you know when I
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mentioned that because when we talk
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about a lot of the black superhero men
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and actors or actors who play black
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super play superheroes
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um a lot of times I don't hear your name
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well I mean I did it a long time ago
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but you were the first yeah yeah
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you were the first
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so you know that's a big deal that's a
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big deal right but I don't hear your
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name enough and nothing knocking the
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ones who names we do here
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but spawn was huge and that and you're
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in
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the success of you and that character
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were either open could easily open or
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closed doors for other people to play
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similar roles right true true yeah did
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you when you took on that role did you
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think of it like that oh it's just a
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check no man I I was I I just anything I
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do I I do it to the best of my ability
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but I don't make expectations okay you
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know especially in you know I understand
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like in you know as a black performer
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you know you got to be like three times
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better you know to get half as much
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right and so
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um you know I don't have a whole lot of
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expectations on there uh I know you know
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how it is man I looked at history yeah
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and you know there's so many people who
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I think are you know under represented
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you know me being you know one of them
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yeah but I I kind of understand it
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though you know because I mean people
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are used to the type of folks that you
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could you know you could put on a
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certain shelf and know that's that type
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of person you know the pigeon holding
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yeah yeah and I don't necessarily fit on
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one shelf so sometimes it's confusing
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it's like well okay what do we do with
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that guy is you know because it's it's
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but that's been you know the story of my
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life you know it's kind of like you know
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I'm a little bit of a walking dichotomy
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you know is he from the suburbs or is he
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Street you know or is you know he I
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could be the funniest guy in the room or
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the most serious guy in the room the
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nicest or the most violent I don't you
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know so people don't you know that's
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that's confusing to a lot of folks so
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they don't know where to where to Peg
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you so they just kind of go okay I don't
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know what that is so how do you go when
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that is like how do you respond like no
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you know you know I'm just me man it's
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like so I I was at a comedy uh Club one
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time and this comedian uh called me
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everybody laughed but I was like damn
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that's kind of insightful because you
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know he's like Denzel van schwarzenheart
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so all the things but but that in in in
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essence that kind of fit in a wheel in a
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weird way uh-huh because I'm TR I'm kind
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of categorized in each of those kind of
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categories well this is interesting
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because with Denzel and then van is the
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Van Damme Van Damme schwarzen
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Schwarzenegger
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this person was calling you a [ __ ]
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yeah
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and in heart because of comedy and the
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first thing I said to you when I saw you
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is uh when I looked at outlaw Johnny
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black I didn't expect to laugh so much
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right you know it's it's one of those
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things because you know you see me
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kicking people in the face that usually
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kind of takes precedent yeah so I start
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getting categorized as the guy that
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kicks people in the in the mouth right
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but like I've done actually more comedy
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than anything else if you lined up
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everything I did yeah so but I I
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understand the confusion for people okay
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right because you know when you start
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thinking about why they get married you
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know black dynamite and then and all the
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stuff on TV and there's actually more a
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lot a lot of Comedy there but you know
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again I don't expect people to really
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get it well I get it Michael Jai White
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is here the new movie the film outlaw
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Johnny Black is in theaters it's in
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theaters right yeah
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I didn't get a chance to say it's in
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theaters September the 15th I get it too
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Michael thank you so much for being here
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and thank you so much for sharing sway
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mentioned like your roles in this but
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you sharing inside of you I think the
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cast as well makes sense for me I was
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looking at this cast and I was like my
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goodness Glenn Turman I remember him
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from Cooley High hats off a bunch of
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flowers to him Tommy Davidson we've he's
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been a guest here so many times in the
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layers I've heard other comedians just
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give him flowers for what he's been able
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to do just in comedy in that DMV area
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Anika Noni Rose my gosh every time I see
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her I just want to hug her and just tell
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her I don't care if they never announce
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your name I'm always screaming your name
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at award shows from my couch you know at
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home and then Jill Scott like so these
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layers of folks who you just cannot put
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them in a box I think it speaks to who
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you are personally as well and then to
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me it was like a way of giving back to
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those folks that are so multi-talented
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that don't fit in a box so just salute
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on the cast alone from me to you well
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thank you thank you I get an opportunity
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to you know put these people yes on
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their platforms but I mean and they're
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just amazing they're real you know so
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it's you know when we talk about uh
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people who are underrated you know
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that's that's a through line there but I
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mean I admit this was a VIP like just an
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amazing cast that's just so multi-hyphen
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it you know so it this was an amazing
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opportunity for me that's the thing I'm
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most proud of but I'm really proud of
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the the responses I'm getting from you
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know the critics and and the test
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audiences because I mean it's like um
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you know it's just like you raising your
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child yeah you raise your child in the
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best way you can and it's Gotta you know
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kind of be out there in the world and
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and people are getting it they're
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getting the fact that I have a deeper
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message in within the comedy and the
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action and everything else message about
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you know redemption and forgiveness and
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you know I want to do a thing to where
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when I was you know growing up when I
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was a kid I was watching these movies
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with Sidney Poitier and
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uh you know Harry Belafonte yeah Uptown
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Saturday night
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and man I I felt so great yeah you know
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about my culture and my people and
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everything else and I wanted to do that
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for another another generation and I
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wanted my generation and older to kind
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of relive that so I I did it exactly
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like it was in the 70s yeah the same
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bullet sounds and everything else and um
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and plus I'm a big lover like yourself
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of westerns because you know they had
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morality like the old dude but there was
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Morality In everything you know and I
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wanted to kind of revisit that you know
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the movie The First movie I ever saw as
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a kid since we go in here Michael you
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know was Blazing Saddles oh
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do you know in Detroit they are they're
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playing Blazing Saddles and outlaw
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Johnny black as a double feature really
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yes Ryan Detroit you have all places wow
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because they they ride on
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yeah
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but you know but
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in a double feet they're doing double
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features wow with with Blazing Saddles
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and with uh with equalizer so I mean I'm
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feeling really good about it you don't
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you're gonna do great and it's a studio
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company is it gigantic yes sir gigantic
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what a ill ass name yeah for real damn
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it when I saw that just on some hip-hop
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[ __ ] almost hate it on you
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better name than you you start uh you
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know you start feeling away so are you
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under pressure to succeed or this is
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just a passion of love man it's it's out
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of love man okay I I feel like I've
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already succeeded if you if you can do
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your best you already succeeded what can
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you what could you wish for yeah I mean
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you know what I mean so I mean you know
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how it performs just like I said I
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raised my child in the best way I can
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and then it's on its own it's on its own
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so it's like man I'm already blessed you
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know so no matter what I already won
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that's a beautiful mindset I like this
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man come on Tracy get in there yeah I've
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got multi-hyphen at Michael
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um because you've been able to excel in
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so many different Lanes both in front of
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the camera and behind the camera is
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there an area right now that you're like
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this is actually an area of improvement
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for me well I mean I'm just gonna keep
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doing what I'm doing I mean I I feel
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like I can do a whole lot I've actually
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uh purchased in in creating a studio
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okay uh I do I'm a I was a I was a
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school teacher before I was an actor
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[Music]
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in Bridgeport Connecticut from what
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subject EMD which is emotionally
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disturbed it's it's I was a special ed
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teacher and so I was able to reach kids
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who were very much like me because I've
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been on my own since I was 14. and so
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you know a lot a lot of experiences go
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into this whole acting thing you know
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firsthand and everything else but in a
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way that's in in a way my my real job is
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you know you know giving back and so I
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want to do that in in the way of film
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and television and creating our own
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stories and telling our stories and
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really cultivating the the youth you
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know and their talent so I mean that's
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that's to me that you know the chapter I
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want to head toward okay yeah I like
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that love a Michael Jai White is here
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beautiful uh we're talking about his
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newest project I want to encourage all
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you guys to uh check it out outlaw
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Johnny Black is in theaters Friday
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September the 15th man you got it Friday
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got some callers bro we got um black
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from Charlotte what up black black
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what's up what up what up what's up
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what's up baby
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what's going on yeah this uh what's up
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Mike what's up man
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hey man you're one of my favorite actors
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man one of my favorite movies is Black
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Dynamite Man I threw that [ __ ] from the
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other side of
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fine
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iced tea
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oh yeah ice tea ice tea is one of the
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funniest storytellers I've ever met I
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agree right and he told me about this
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fight he had at a club and he was hiding
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under the table and then he got out and
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ended up running into somebody hit him
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and the guy fell out and it got good to
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him and he jumped on the table like the
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Riddler
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this is what he told me and he said hi
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and he jumped on the table like that
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I laughed so hard it's stuck in my head
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and I swear to you at that moment in
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Black Dynamite when I when I say you
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know you know I threw that before it
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happened you know yeah you could say it
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man I I jumped I was imitating iced tea
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on the story he told me wow wow that was
13:07
your inspiration for that that because
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it was so funny how he jumped like that
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and he went like this I did the same
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thing
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right before I did that line and so you
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know that that you know I just I'm sorry
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I I took a detour no no give it up for
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him
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we're celebrating the 50th anniversary
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hip-hop got Michael another kid
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hey black anything you want to say in
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closing
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yeah I just want to say man you um you
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met my cousin too in L.A Santa Monica my
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cousin Tyrone his wife Liz I think I was
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out on a walk or something like that and
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I went down there to visit them and I
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was like damn I was mad because I didn't
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get the chance to see you but um shout
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out to you and everything you do shout
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out to the whole morning show man thank
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you thank you black for that was very
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important Michael remembers your cousin
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you know walking down the street way to
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bring it home
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did you realize that I remember it as
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soon as you brought that up Michael
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Michael yeah I remember that black
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people
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there's only one Tyrone
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Badu was talking about that's an
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original name
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that Tyrone's parents went out their way
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to find that name yo man
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[Music]
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about three more years
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hey is it Molly oh okay Malik that's a
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little different let me give you five
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years what up Malik say what's up what
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up brother
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to everybody who's confused right now
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he's doing a line from from Blood and
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Bones and and he's not yeah yeah so I
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just wanted to help y'all help out
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contact Hey listen Carlos y'all bombing
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right now
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but they all are huge fans
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that's the thing that's the thing that
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was one of those that was one of a
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fantastic movie that a lot of people
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hardly ever talk about I mean Mike been
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in this game for a long time and I
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appreciate him as well as I appreciate
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everybody in the morning sway you you yo
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you my [ __ ] way my family's been up
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there quite a couple of times Heather
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what up man I'm scared you should be you
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got good reason
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trust me
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right quick
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your real brother no blood wouldn't
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blood wouldn't make us any closer oh man
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okay that's deep right there so they
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don't have screeners anymore for these
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no we have a screen okay this is a trick
16:34
America sometimes oh you talk about
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phone screeners yeah yeah so that's our
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phone screen now look at our phone
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screen you think he's gonna stop anybody
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he's like one love peace
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if you're righteous
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long time listen to The First Time
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caller can I get my sound effects please
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Michael every first time caller receives
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this
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it
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[Applause]
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um
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I always can tell but
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by the callers the impact I guess that's
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made right and um you got grown men
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calling and character
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yeah
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is that better than an Oscar
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well I mean it's interesting it is
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interesting it absolutely is absolutely
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is
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uh you know on the street sometimes you
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know people people kind of do that and
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you know there's sometimes they forget
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themselves
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I like the way
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yeah nobody ever challenges you though
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no I used to think that would happen I I
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but it really it really doesn't it's
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just I'm really only a few times a long
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time ago like random people would
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challenge you well it's I don't get
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challenge challenged no okay you know I
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I like I said I thought that would
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happen one time in Wilmington it kind of
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happened like what happened like I don't
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know the the you know the statue of
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limitation type of thing I don't know
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how long that lasts for but uh oh [ __ ]
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yeah but uh okay all right you can't
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talk about it well I don't you know no
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never mind it's cool you know yeah but
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they but they pretty Trace you know why
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I asked him ask him this right right
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yeah okay all right Anthony is on the
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line going back to the calls I'm going
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back
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and go ahead
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hey guys good morning good morning good
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morning
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saying Mr White Michael Jai White sir
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thank you for all you do
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but if all of us brothers who grew up
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watching kung fu movies wanting to be
18:55
just like Jet Li and all that and
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and Bruce Lee thank you sir well thank
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you thank you now my question to you
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uh chi Sal versus Push Hands where do
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you see the the which one to you would
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be the greatest to practice at right now
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and can you explain the difference oh
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yeah yeah it's a kind of a Tai Chi or
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Qigong type of thing well I don't think
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I'm helped At All by giving you that
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information
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yeah it's a Kung Fu you know it's that
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type of thing
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um and to me all right I'll put this in
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context
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um Kung Fu or like Tai Chi and all the
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Kung Fu's really old right and like say
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Tai Chi to me is one of the best martial
19:45
arts because of the health benefits the
19:48
breathing and your Fitness and
19:50
everything else but it's not necessarily
19:52
something that is going to help you on
19:53
you know in in an alley you know what
19:56
I'm saying so so you know just put all
19:58
these things in different contexts but
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Push Hands all of that it's really great
20:02
for your breathing for for your overall
20:03
health okay so what he's talking about
20:06
is kung Fu's it's a deeper things it's a
20:08
very traditional old Chinese type of
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thing okay all right so so what's your
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question what does he prefer to practice
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Anthony or which one first yeah yeah
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because I've I've seen him do I've seen
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him do something Tai Chi moves in a few
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movies and
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you know I've studied for years but I've
20:26
also studied some Wing Chun and and
20:29
doing chisel so I was just wondering
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just on a personal level yeah I would
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say yeah the the you know she saw that
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kind because with Push Hands you got to
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have somebody else right so
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um so yeah I would I would you know
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designate that you'll designate that
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yeah but also just to be the old dude
20:48
you know you know this where the martial
20:51
arts came from but before it went to
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China
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who brought Kung Fu to China wow okay he
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brought not only Kung Fu but Buddhism to
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The Shaolin Temple absolutely so you
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know let's you know put where was he
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from
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from Africa to India and then to China
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he traveled yeah yeah and and little
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little
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um you know uh
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uh trivia thing
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my my
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um my uh part in Kill Bill my the extra
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footage
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uh that's my name in Damo yeah Quentin
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Tarantino love the idea that a black man
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brought Kung Fu to China That's why one
21:52
of the reasons he shot that that scene
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where I'm leading a a band of Chinese
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people do China recognize this
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absolutely China is the first to
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recognize this okay there's there's
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statues of Domo all over the place and
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paintings and he's brown and there's a
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lot of historical paintings of brown
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leaders
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teaching the monks
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teaching the monks teaching the monks
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and statues of Domo and he's very much
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George jefferson-ish with the you know
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receding but nappy hair you don't create
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an old statue with nappy hair by
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accident yeah yeah so you know just a
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little bit of especially back then yeah
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yeah I've been you know been in China
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several times trained in in Beijing for
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years uh not years on you know back and
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forth so you know that's uh something I
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you know just want to throw out there
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hey Anthony thanks for your call man
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yeah thank you Sway in the Morning
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Michael Jai White is here we had um
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Seafood
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who was um you know sifu he was the um
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he defected from China Shaolin monk that
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taught reasons Wesley Snipes all these
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guys yeah yeah
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wait a minute that's that's a friend
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y'all never met have y'all met yeah I
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met it yeah so what was that like the
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people always try to put y'all against
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each other no no no no what was it like
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ah man it's like one of these things I
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don't know if I should talk about this
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well you know there's there's the truth
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in it there's a fantasy okay the truth
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and then there's the fantasy yeah okay
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we grew up with the movies right yeah
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and um you know there was a time where
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the United States they we made a lot of
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cowboy movies like we love yeah and you
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know in in Japan they were making
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Samurai movies as you noticed the
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lineage as we kept making those movies
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you the samurai ran up against guns and
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you know Innovation and everything
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Cowboys ran up against you know
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motorized you know horses basically
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right
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um there's a reason why in The Shaolin
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Kung Fu movies you don't see that
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because the Shaolin Temple burned down
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close to 400 years ago
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they were decimated uh-huh so the
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Shaolin Temple
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was gone hundreds of years ago that's
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why all those movies are in ancient
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times you don't see a gun or or you
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don't see the Advent of anything else
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because they didn't exist so when we
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were making the cowboy movies and Japan
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was making the Samurai movies
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China who stepped into the movie making
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they they you know glorified The Shaolin
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Temple from a long time ago people don't
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realize
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that you know a lot of those movies it
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it will start with back when Shaolin
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Tempo was looking for you
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know it's like you know you know chindi
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ho whatever so it's it's ancient times
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right so in 1983
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when they opened China back up and
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people started going back there after
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Mao XI Tung was gone you know who
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outlawed religion and everything else
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right
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so westerners kept coming there going
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where's the Shaolin Temple because they
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saw movies about it all throughout the
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70s and you know people in China is like
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what are you talking about burnt down
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400 years ago we don't have that anymore
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but in 83 they resurrected a replica
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of the Shaolin Temple these These are
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facts y'all okay very easily you can you
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can easily Michael's not saying this
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this happens yes and you know as a
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person has been going back and forth to
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China since the 80s okay they
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resurrected The Shaolin Temple and right
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around 85 no shortly after that they
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would have townspeople dress like child
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and monks for tourism
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and later on they started hiring people
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to do kung fu in the temple for tourism
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85 or so they started
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accepting people
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to go and kind of interact with the
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Shaolin Monks
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right okay who were mainly just some
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people that was teaching Kung Fu and it
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became a business
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but there's a there's an inference that
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people think that these Shaolin Monks
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are connected to
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it's not these you can call this The
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Shaolin Monks of 83. if you wanna and
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Beyond well because you know it's kind
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of like because
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to say that you're being taught or you
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are a Shaolin monk
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is to say you are a knight of the Round
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Table
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I get with you it's the same time period
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as well
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so if I said hey I'm a native them
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Roundtable
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maybe you know maybe I could
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I could sound crazy but it's because
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you'll be taught though with the same
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teachings how
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wasn't wasn't no Scrolls or were things
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documented I think so so what what we're
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dealing with is our imaginations yeah
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so so yeah so yeah maybe you can but
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well why couldn't you do that in the
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Bronx
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those teachings or whatever
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if it wasn't for these movies where
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would our minds be about Shaolin Monks
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they could have this this could have
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been done about the Tibetan Monks and
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we've been talking about to Tibetan
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Monks are the baddest cats in the world
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we want to believe in those type of
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archetypes or superheroes this isn't a
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human thing yeah but the truth is the
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Shaolin Temple burnt down 400 damn years
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ago okay so so so it's that's just the
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truth it's cool and if somebody picked
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it back up and you know you know
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resurrected a tradition hey all the more
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power to you I say that's who you are
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but
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let's not
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you know just be honest and go okay we
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started this back up I'll see what you
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mean okay we started it back up uh-huh
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and now it's that because the the rest
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of the world don't know there's been a
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300 year Gap okay that's all I'm saying
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so it's kind of exploited so so yeah so
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part of me is like um yep okay did you
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bring that up when you met him well we
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we knew oh so when I met him in L.A and
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I told him
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and so he first he was like you know you
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got the robe on and everything else and
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I said you know I trained with blue Ben
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he goes
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okay because Wu bin is the
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um coach of the Beijing wushu team now
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what's funny is the Beijing wushu team
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is like the All-Star team of kung fu
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every this is what's funny and ironic
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every time you've seen a movie about a
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Shaolin monk
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it was done by a member of the Beijing
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wushu team oh wow so Beijing that's what
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Jet Li was okay and wuben is Jet Li's
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teacher that's who I was training with
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damn [ __ ] so uh so when I told him
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that's a stunt Parts where you at that's
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a stunt right here
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so you know these these are all you know
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you can look just up but it's so what
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that's bizarre because
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with the Gordon allowed all these people
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who who the the people that you've seen
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um Shaolin wushu has been the cream of
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the crop of all the the regions in China
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like it's almost like kind of like a
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Olympic team yeah well children
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who have the most promise are you know
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brought from their their Villages or
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whatever and trained in the Beijing
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wushu team as the elite and it's almost
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like menudo after a certain point they
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they're when I say they're 25 they're
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damn they're too old yeah because it's
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like the the level of performance is so
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hot that high and so when they retire
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from the Beijing wushu team they become
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movie stars
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but the crazy thing is the Beijing wushu
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team will tour the world
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and people don't want to see that they
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want to see The Shaolin Monks yeah who
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are
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levels underneath the Beijing
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publicity yeah but because of the
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branding and what we want to believe is
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that the Shaolin Monks
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are these killer like ethological yeah
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because I mean it's in you know and
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sometimes I don't like explaining this
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even though you know I am an educator
31:23
and I and I you know I'm this is
31:25
something I I know about but it just
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kind of rains on people's parade when
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you tell them Santa Claus ain't freaking
31:31
real man stop you better tell them [ __ ]
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yeah we don't want no fake centers but
31:35
it's more fun to believe it so you know
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I'm gonna be hated for it because the
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truth is everything you said what did
31:43
you make up right exactly what did you
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make up out of everything you just said
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no I didn't make anything exactly so you
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can't be hated for the truth yeah well
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you know you know because if it messes
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with people's belief system and
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everything else and you know it it's not
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comfortable yeah I get that yeah but
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hate the messenger Welcome to our show
32:04
yeah all right speak your mind we love
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the truth here yeah but I figure you
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know our Our Lives intersected for this
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reason right there you go yeah so you
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know it's like I you know I have
32:15
responsibility absolutely I got to be me
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I got to be truthful and you got
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responsibilities yes right I love it man
32:22
can you come back sometime in in the
32:25
future man yeah man come on man this is
32:27
home this is your house homie Michael
32:29
Jai White get this guy around him bro
32:32
thank you for the truth breakdown you
32:34
can't help but get this food when this
32:36
man speaks I see you and it's all
32:38
receivable
32:39
he's the producer writer director and
32:42
the star
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um outlaw Johnny Black in theater
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September the 15th great to have you on
32:48
the show today Michael for real lovely
32:51
wife as well yeah and um and your whole
32:54
team over there man they love their
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