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Morris Chestnut on ‘The Best Man: The Final Chapters’ & Classic Moments with The Original Cast
Dec 20, 2022
Morris Chestnut stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about the upcoming series that brings the cast together for the first time since the 2013 film, “The Best Man Holiday.”
The sequel series, “The Best Man: The Final Chapters,” premieres Christmas week on Peacock.
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yes yes big round of applause for that
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trailer
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I'm gonna go on record and say it
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this will be the best series streaming
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yes yeah hands down yeah for so many
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reasons in the series I'm speaking of
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you just heard a trailer for The Best
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Man the final chapters was premiering
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exclusively on peacock Thursday December
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the 22nd
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this is the perfect
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series to sit around a holiday yep with
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all your family members kids included
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because they're going to enjoy this too
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sit down Bond watch it touches on so
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many just Dynamics and nuances that
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families face that people face friends
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face as they grow older in life
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it's done such in such an amazing way
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shout out to the Malcolm D Lee yes
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Round of Applause for real
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because it's hard to keep doing it at a
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consistent level man
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this this cast is this cast is like a a
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dream team if you will of actors who are
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all in their Prime and playing like MJ
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it's all you see my daughter and I
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watched this the best man the final
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chapters last night together and I was
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like we gotta stop watching because if
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we watch the whole season we're gonna be
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disappointed that we ain't got nothing
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to watch next week watch it again we're
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gonna watch it again they've done an
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excellent job
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um let me see Tay Diggs Regina Hall
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Round of Applause
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um how do you say Harold parano parano
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okay and Melissa Melissa De Sosa
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and uh T how would you get Terence
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Howard in there Terence Howard never
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ages yes none of them do
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who I had that chance to you know uh you
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know co-star with him and Empire a few
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episodes right right he went back and
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forth in a few scenes we'll talk about
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that later that's not why I'm here right
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now I want to introduce a brother man
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that I I feel like I went to high school
2:16
would have to be you know I watched this
2:18
man grow up although I might have went
2:20
to high school a little sooner than he
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did but we knocked it up before you I'm
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pretty sure it doesn't matter We're not
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gonna do that I got a place in life
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where it really doesn't matter good
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point good point uh the game plan uh uh
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uh Under Siege two dark territory
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um he played Ricky and boys in the hood
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I can name all the things he's done he's
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about to reclaim his title as sexiest
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man alive when you see this series get
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it I want to welcome my brother back to
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the show give it a photo one and only
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Morris Chestnut
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have you ever
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um I mean we we know you as the amazing
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actor that you are don't forget the best
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man in the Final Chapter from December
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22nd sorry
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you know which like I said earlier is an
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amazing
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um amazing film what a series
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um what I can appreciate uh someone who
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has that that uh
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audacity or that privilege or that
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freedom and you can put it all on the
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line
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um you know then you're living
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uninhibited in thought you know that's a
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that's a great place to be at you know
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in some places and sometimes
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I'm curious to you you've ever held back
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yourself during your career on speaking
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on issues or topics publicly all the
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time I mean I rarely I rarely speak out
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on on interviews or topics quite frankly
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because
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a lot of the times I think people may
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want to know about me maybe what I'm
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eating or maybe but I don't think I
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don't I stay away from from hot button
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issues things to where it's it's only
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natural for people to just have a
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different perspective everybody doesn't
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think the same right and you know you
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have a certain number of people voted
4:19
for Biden you have a certain amount of
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people voted for for Trump and certain
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things that you're going to say that you
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can say to where you can have literally
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two-thirds of the population a third a
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half 40 50 of the population disagree
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with you and all of a sudden they don't
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want to watch your movies and quite
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frankly and honestly if I'm watching
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some sometimes
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sometimes I don't really want to know
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what a person thinks you know I don't I
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don't want to know I want to keep
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enjoying them for whatever their art for
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whatever it is for whatever it is that
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they do you know
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um and sometimes it it it could tarnish
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it it's like it's like nothing's like
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even like being an actor you you
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mentioned
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um you know the next sex symbol or
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whatever whatever that is sometimes it's
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best not to meet people because you're
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not you I don't feel that you can ever
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really live up to the uh the image
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that someone may have in you so
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sometimes it's just best not to say
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anything you know what I'm wondering
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does acting being inside all of these
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different characters does it help you to
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understand other people's perspectives
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easier does it help you with like
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forgiveness without a doubt because what
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it does is and a lot of people don't
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realize that's a great question because
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when we have when we get a script you
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know the whole thing with action what's
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our motivation what's our motivation but
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that's really what you do it's like well
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why is this person saying this when
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you're breaking down the script why is
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this person you're looking for what you
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want from the other person and you're
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looking at how the other person is
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giving you an obstacle and then once you
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find that out then you have to determine
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okay well why why do you want this and
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why is the other person giving you that
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obstacle and so it really helps you to
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think and understand different
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perspectives that's why
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um Hollywood in general when you talk to
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producers and directors of projects
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they'll have a wealth of knowledge not
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just because they're smart people it's
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because when you get a character if you
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play a lawyer now you're trying to
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figure out how did this person become a
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lawyer they went to law school they did
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this you play a doctor so you're you're
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listening and you're you're you're
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learning about different people
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different aspects of different careers
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um and so that's and so you over the
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years you really think like I I I'm a
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very introspective person I'll sit and
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watch and I just I I I mainly just think
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I'm always until this interview the
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quietest person in the room yeah I think
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I'm talking about
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I think I'm talking the most today
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because and I always tell my my son and
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my daughters like if you go into the
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room and you're talking the most you're
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learning the least
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um and people are learning all about you
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and you're not learning anything about
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them you know it's okay to pull back and
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let somebody else talk let somebody else
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have you know that stage or whatever it
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is because to me you know even still
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like I've learned things you know with
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this last year about people and things
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that I never would have thought I never
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would have thought I just couldn't
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understand why people said some of the
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things that they do you know they do
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some of the things that they do but
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Morris Chestnut is here man I'm loving
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this yes your son I saw a picture of you
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and your son I got confused to who was
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who
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don't let me say this though no there is
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there is one picture on the internet
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that that is not my son but people are
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saying it's my son
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um so yeah so I don't know what's your
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son
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Billy Jean all right and and yeah while
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you pulling that up yeah
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um I'm curious because when I watched
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this series yep I saw everybody I felt
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like y'all were on the playground right
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I really felt like y'all went on the
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playground and it's it's the the
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chemistry and the acting I can honestly
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say I don't know if I seen a better as I
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don't know if it's Ensemble of cast yeah
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ever like it's like the Dream Team
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of did was that the sense on on set yes
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so the one thing about us I mean we when
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we when we get on set it's a nightmare
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for the producers and the directors okay
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because that nothing gets done like that
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day if they had to if they had you know
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four scenes scheduled we're probably
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only going to get to two because it's
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it's it's really hard because we're all
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talking about everything and we all
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genuinely get along a matter of fact I
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don't think maybe there's like one or
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two skirmishes throughout all the times
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that we've been together and um those
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got resolved rather quickly but it's
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it's really it's it's really like being
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on the playground it actually it was
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toughest for me because so in The Best
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Man Holiday
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all my emotional scenes that's right is
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when everybody is there like when I was
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at the funeral site everybody is there
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so in between scenes everybody's
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laughing and talking everything I got to
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put on my headphones and go in the
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corners be like you know I can't
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participate in everything the same thing
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in the original when I was getting
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married all of us were there so it's the
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same thing everybody is is having fun
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but that's the day that I have to be
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focused you know we all have our moments
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but it's it's it's uh it is it's really
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fun it's like just let's just hanging
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out hanging out with each other and and
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you know having fun doing what you know
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what we love to do last thing yeah black
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Hollywood stock just went up 100 when
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people see this this is incredible I
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want to see y'all do more Hollywood in
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general thank you thank you Hollywood in
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general but you know specifically that
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because we're telling a lot of great
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stories and that's what my daughter was
9:37
like Daddy I love like you know Nia
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Long's character what's her profession
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yeah she's a journalist she's a
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journalist that's true Tay Diggs is a
9:46
writer he's a writer yeah you're an
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athlete you know everybody has these
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professionals and my daughters said I'm
9:52
glad they're doing this because I was
9:54
inspired by it all along and arts look
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you step it away and seeing folks in
9:58
these positions and that then to me
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that's that even adds to the lore and
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honestly that was one of the things I
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think when we first when we came out
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with the very first one it was we had
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all of these characters who were who
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were very uh Progressive they were doing
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they were fluent young and black
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um and pursuing careers that um that at
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that time it wasn't as prevalent as
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Holly was showing us pursuing these
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types of careers and having this type of
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influence and so I think that is one of
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the reasons why the first one was so
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successful because it was refreshing to
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see that yeah
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um I know some embargoes on what was
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what we can and cannot say okay uh I
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don't remember what they are okay let's
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go for it let's see trust me they're
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gonna let us know so trust me let's
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start out slow
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I saw your naked ass
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okay
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I didn't know wow I didn't want to see
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it I'm not saying I have it but you
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can't you can't understand I can say
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this though do you guys you guys wanna
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know you guys know when they're true
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yeah okay
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here's the truth um that was my no
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it wasn't so here's what happened so
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here's that so we got the script and uh
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so the first the first scene in the show
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I'm kind of like I'm there on the robe I
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think I was originally naked when I came
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to the door I said well can I at least
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have a robe yeah so I had a robe
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um that scene with my naked ass wasn't
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my naked ass I wasn't sure
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there's only one picture I think on my
11:49
Instagram with my shirt off and I didn't
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put that up the social media team put
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that up I don't I'm not out there like
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you're not that dude I'm not that dude
11:56
and so when they were like yeah you
11:58
gotta be naked and hop in the pool I was
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like oh man come on and they were like I
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was like yo we need to buy those you're
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not in shape it's no I'm I'm in shape
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yeah but I don't want to be naked in
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front of people I mean there's a whole
12:07
bunch of people for you yeah yeah to me
12:11
that you're saying all of this because
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you asked me how to sway get embarrassed
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and how because sway shy in that way as
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well it is fascinating to me that two
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men sitting here that literally walk
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outside with name and face recognition
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across the world is like no not me I'm
12:29
trying to live low and I witnessed that
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firsthand I ran up on Morris in airport
12:34
what yeah he was so nice to me though I
12:37
scared the out of him but he was so
12:39
nice to me because you would you were
12:40
coming from the Super Bowl I think and
12:42
we was and I was like Mars he's like huh
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and I was like he was like oh yeah I'm
12:47
sorry my son I took him to the game but
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you were really nice and I I always say
12:52
that about you because sometimes people
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don't know because not everybody will
12:56
run into you or run into famous people
12:58
in the airport but you stop you're
12:59
talking like how you doing did you enjoy
13:01
the game and I thought that was cool but
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I literally walked away thinking does he
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not know he's famous like you just
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casually strolling through the airport
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people are gonna see you I see it so so
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with that so here's my thing with so
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when I'm not I see it all this work you
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know I'm having a good time with you
13:18
guys right now but I'm working because I
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got all the studio and everybody over
13:21
there right with guns in my head tell me
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what I can say right but I see it I see
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it as as work but when I I but that's
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what I do for work is people say well
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how can you be an actor and and still be
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shy not and it's it's still tough for me
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a lot of it is getting in front of
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cameras and all that stuff is really
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still tough but we all do things or we
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probably all have done things
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um that we didn't want to do we're not
13:47
as comfortable doing but we do it for
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what we do it for yeah and uh yeah and
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that's that's what it is for me which is
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which is one of the reasons why I'm not
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I'm not always out at every event every
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you know every club I'm not every every
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award so you know what I'm saying I'm at
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home my day most of my days literally
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I'm the most boring person where I go to
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the gym and then I'll come home and
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that's it wow so you're not like I feel
14:10
like Lance throws himself into the fire
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of objectification
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and it doesn't ever does it get weird
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like the way women have just been like
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on you for decades you know it's funny
14:22
that you said you feel that Lance throws
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himself into objectification but that is
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that was crafted every scene that I've
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done even like so in the best man
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holiday when I come out in the Rope
14:31
Malcolm is one he said hey Morris he
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said you got to get because we're gonna
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have this scene I was like okay when I
14:37
read this it was like the first I didn't
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even know that I was going to be naked
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at the pool or naked when I opened up
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the door but yeah I would say okay I'm
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reading that stuff for the very first
14:45
time so that's what the character is but
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that's just definitely definitely not me
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not at all you you will rarely see me
14:53
when no one would ever see me without a
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shirt on you know even I can say there's
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one picture on a photo shoot I did on my
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Instagram with me without a shirt there
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was never I'm never volunteering to do
15:03
that to do that yeah yeah and I could
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too more if I wanted to
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how did you get in shape in the whole
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nine I know you got a trainer right oh
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yeah so listen so I will say this I
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could have done the scene yeah I'm
15:22
because I stay in shape and the one
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thing I will say is that so being in
15:27
shape regularly on a regular basis and
15:29
being in film shape are two different
15:30
things you know so yeah oh most
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definitely so I have to really tune in
15:34
my diet when I do that like
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um
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what's the difference yeah like so I'm
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generally shape I go to the gym you know
15:44
every day and I work out quite a bit
15:46
however my diet fluctuates and my cardio
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fluctuates okay so most of the time when
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I'm doing if I have to do a shirtless
15:53
scene I'm doing cardio in the morning
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and at night and my diet's a little bit
15:57
dialed in yeah the muscles gotta poke
15:59
yeah you guys gotta trim it back down
16:03
[Laughter]
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all you got to do in the morning when
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your very first wake up do 30 minutes of
16:20
cardio on the incline okay and on an
16:23
empty stomach maybe you can drink some
16:25
water maybe just drink some coffee and
16:27
then yeah right and so then so then when
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you do it at night
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do it don't eat after seven o'clock okay
16:34
and then do the same thing what if you
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go to bed at 3am
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you know you've been you've been
17:06
inspiring us for decades man I remember
17:09
where I was when I first saw you on
17:10
screen and it still be where I am today
17:13
you're part of that inspiration
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I do I do want to say this I just do
17:22
want to make it clear because we are in
17:24
the in the in the uh in a social
17:25
environment I didn't know that that was
17:27
that deep so I apologize seriously and
17:29
that's all seriously yeah
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to say that to you no no no that's every
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day
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[Applause]
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I think you are the first person to
17:52
extend it to a point where like he said
17:53
he has closure and was comfortable
17:55
man-to-man that look you and I have the
17:58
conversation okay cool
18:03
and then you know media take it and pull
18:06
it apart make it something to name for
18:08
the headlines and the metrics exactly
18:10
exactly that's why I want to make it
18:11
clear that's why I wanted to make it
18:12
clear before I left before y'all kick me
18:14
out protect that moment let that moment
18:16
be where it is in Time song him and I be
18:19
great we'll see each other you know and
18:21
hug and laugh you know
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um but we haven't uh but there's no
18:26
reason we can't have communication about
18:28
the way you did it made it really nice
18:30
anyway Morris Chestnut thank you man I
18:32
appreciate it I don't know if we're
18:32
gonna get to the mystery side because he
18:34
has to go yeah right so I gotta go to
18:37
work Team all right yeah okay then look
18:40
at your team they smile but they ain't I
18:42
don't believe
18:46
the only thing the only thing with the
18:48
smiles is they probably want me to get
18:50
out
18:51
peacock on December 22nd you're the best
18:55
man the final chapters on peacock
18:58
December 22nd if you don't have peacock
19:01
go subscribe now it's only five cents oh
19:04
it's not five cents
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has all beautiful fly women working with
19:15
him behind the scenes let that be noted
19:17
as well
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[Applause]
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women we up this year we up right now
19:26
ain't the best man in the Final Chapter
19:28
is like he said Thursday December 22nd
19:31
on peacock make sure you check it out
19:32
Morris thank you for yourself
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[Applause]
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