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and we keep winning that ain't going to
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change as long as we stay true to who we
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are
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we fighters right
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[Applause]
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hottest show on the cw all-american star
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and our friend db
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run down the list of accomplishments
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would you please
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well uh he's been on the show several
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times before and we always love having
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him because he always gives us a good
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story of some sort like when he talked
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about
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going to see house on haunted hill and
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having that interaction with uh
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one of the moviegoers in the theater
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afterwards but i don't want to spoil it
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you got to go on swizz universe to watch
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that interview and you can hear the
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story for yourself
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he's uh been in just about every genre
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of film you can think of from
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uh great classics like how stellar got a
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groove back the wood the best
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man franchise brown sugar and uh come on
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he's done he's done musicals like
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chicago and rent which was uh directed
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by one of our good friends uh chris
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columbus
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uh come on there's a movie i want to
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recommend to you called basic that he
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did with samuel jackson and john
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travolta
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you love those kind of movies where you
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have to pay attention to try to figure
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out what's going on you got to put that
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one basic on your watch list
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and uh right now we have coach baker
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with us from season three of
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all-american
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airing right now please welcome back tay
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diggs
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ladies
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[Applause]
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say you know why i [ __ ] with you that
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was a hard ass
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that's the homie f right that's the hey
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that's beyond the business f
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right dude hey you know what i mean
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that's it
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you can [ __ ] with somebody you see them
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on the set or you see them in
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award shows and functions that's what
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they but when you [ __ ] with somebody
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that's something different
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i was like yo yes
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woke me up that woke me up
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man okay i'm getting [ __ ] with all
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right good morning yeah i love your work
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ethic man i love your work ethic tay
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i love it man oh master i wish i could i
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could take credit for it but i'm just
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i'm just trying to stay working that's
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all it is
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straight you got the straight 1988
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burner phone connection going like it's
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like you got so many clicks in your
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phone line right there i thought it's
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morris cole
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right it's like the whole feds is
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watching you bro
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oh no what the hell is that oh no
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all right let's sorry that's all good
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man i saw you um post on your social
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media picture of dr king with the
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caption in honor of the king
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um let's give a moment to dr king man
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what it meant
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just dr king his presence his legacy
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what is meant to you
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his contributions what it's meant to you
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oh well
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uh i mean he says that's a loaded
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question
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it's so much he's uh as everybody knows
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he's one of the
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one of the one of the first african
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americans that it's kind of that is kind
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of
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that was introduced to me just growing
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up and then uh and then the older i got
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and the you know the more i kind of
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delved into
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you know uh african-american history uh
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the more i found out about him and and
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uh
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and the more he represents when it comes
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to uh uh
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he wasn't just uh uh uh just all about
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love this was a very uh diligent a very
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serious
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and a very uh uh streetwise
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uh man so i love the way he kind of
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balanced both
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uh but still you know made sure that not
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to let anybody you know
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step on him or or uh you know
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uh uh do anything to
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to what belonged to him you know i mean
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he was uh he was not just a softy
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he he was a he was a very strong man as
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well so
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that's what uh that's what stands out
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most to me reminds me of tay diggs right
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there
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you know i know we we've had a lot of
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conversations with
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we don't talk about everything under the
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sun it's normally usually not about your
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project
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although all american is that [ __ ]
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congratulations with that
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and um i'm appreciative thank you sir
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yeah i've been uh
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uh this is something that that's that
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i'm i'm very i'm very grateful for i
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had no idea that i would end up being on
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the show like this
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you know uh on cw you know
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working with a with a bunch of you know
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young people doing a high school
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what what a lot of people call a high
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school drama i had no idea
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but this is one of the most uh this is
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ends up being one of the most uh
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important uh projects uh of my life to
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be honest yeah
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how so why do you say that it was uh i i
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just i was
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i'm at a point in my life where i just
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kind of trusting kind of
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uh uh you know my instincts and kind of
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the the universe
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and and not going by uh you know a lot
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of
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what i i was kind of raised to do coming
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up in the business you know i mean
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um you know when you're young you know i
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wanted to be the next will smith and i
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wanted to be and
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travel around the world and do all these
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movies and uh
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and then you're also told that that's
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the the thing to do
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you know what i mean um but with this
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project something told me to just you
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know stay put
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uh i really loved the scripts it wasn't
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about
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you know working with other names or
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other
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movie stars or i went with uh with kind
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of
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my gut and uh and took a you know a
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little bit of a pay cut
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uh something just told me that this was
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this was something that
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that was going to be uh important in my
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life and it and it certainly has been
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i've made some really wonderful friends
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you know i feel like uh just personally
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you know
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i've grown as an actor of i've put
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myself in situations
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uh that i otherwise you know would not
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have would not have
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thought i would let myself be you know
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so so vulnerable at certain times
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um and uh and this is you know this is a
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program that that is really resonating
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with
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with the young people and it's also a
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show that i can watch with my own son
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and that is great that that that is
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something that that i really really
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relish
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um you know he's at an age where he's
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almost a teenager
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and some of these situations you know we
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can we can watch on this television
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program and then discuss and that's huge
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that's huge because as a parent
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as i'm sure you know all of y'all know
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um
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some of these uh you know what what kids
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are going through today can be it can be
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tough to discuss
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and uh and this show is uh is an easy
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gateway
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how have you addressed like if you think
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about you know we've had a lot of
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conversations in the past about
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everything family even race
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right and even embrace how it pertains
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to you and
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this past year race isn't everything
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we're learning it's at the core of
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everything
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right in this country at least um and
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this discourse this national discourse
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has been happening but
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how has it happened in your home how
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have y'all discussed race
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in your home with your family and your
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kids well so we had a yeah you know we
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had we actually had uh episodes
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where uh you know young young uh you
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know the young black men on the show
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uh got stopped by by cops and and uh
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and we discussed that my son discussed
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that and then you know it's really
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difficult
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to not with uh you know having
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discussions with what's going on in the
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world so
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um i let my son lead and any questions
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he asks i just give him
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you know an honest answer and if uh if
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there are
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answers that i don't know the answer to
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yet you know i'll give my opinion
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and and uh and say you know some of
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these things
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uh the daddy doesn't quite know yet but
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we can figure it out together
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but i always let him know that he can
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come to me and that you know
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any situation uh that he comes up
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against
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you know that he can that he should feel
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comfortable to to bring that to me and
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then we can discuss it
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tay diggs is here we talking all
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american season three on the cw tracy
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you want to join me
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yeah um so good to hear your voice my
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dude sincerely and i love that
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you gift yourself with humanity
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you know what i mean by telling your son
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listen daddy
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does not know this but let's learn it
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together that way i feel like also your
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son is okay if he doesn't know something
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going to you and feeling like all right
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there's that level of
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vulnerability i'm not going to know it
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all so i appreciate you
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sharing that thought it was subtle but
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powerful i want to ask you tay because
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you celebrated a humongous birthday at
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the kickoff
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of the year buddy big
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bold beautiful five oh so happy baby
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happy birthday family yes indeed
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so listen bro because i'm a woman
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and i look at how anti-aging is just
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marketed to me out the ass you know what
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i mean
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it's always like how can women get rid
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of these and i don't really see it for
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men but at the same time i just know
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especially in
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in america even just hearing something
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like the youth are the future it's all
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about the younger generations
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it almost feels like your best years or
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when you are younger
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but then we just had our good friend of
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the show bebbie smith
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and her tagline is it gets greater
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later so for you tay was it
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easy for you to embrace becoming 50
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were there ever any like qualms or fears
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or do you um do does it resonate with um
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what bevy said about it gets greater
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later
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it's it's a little that's a great that's
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a great question um
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um and it's uh it's a it's a bevy of of
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of a bunch of a bunch of things it's
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more the latter it's more you know
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the older i'm getting um uh the more
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experience
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i'm realizing i have and the the more uh
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the more the more i know you know what i
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mean and the more i know
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uh the less i care you know if that
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makes any sense you know when you're
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younger
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it almost doesn't match up because uh
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you care about everything
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but you don't know nothing so you're
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just running around trying to do what
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you think is right
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when you're older you you've fallen down
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you've gotten back up you've watched
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other people
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succeed and failed and uh and there's a
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there's a certain uh
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there's a sense of relaxation that is
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that is that feels so
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good you know a lot of times uh when i
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was younger i used to
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look at my parents and they would
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embarrass me they
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would they would say things as if they
10:38
didn't care and it would embarrass me
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but i could tell that they didn't give a
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[ __ ]
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and and it's to reach a certain age
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where you really don't give a [ __ ]
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is kind of awesome
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it allows you it allows you to have a
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certain freedom
10:53
and uh and it's almost like everybody's
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talking about you know entitlement and
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privilege
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it almost gives you a certain element of
10:59
entitlement you
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you really don't care you don't care
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what people think so you can
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so without that element of caring it
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allows you to go further and to do what
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you want
11:08
and to kind of really really focus on
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you know what you need and your passions
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and your dreams
11:14
but then on the other side you know it's
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you know the knees are creaking and
11:19
and you know these little young girls
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are running around and my ears still
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perk up so it's all
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you know
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hey that's all that perks up though
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[Laughter]
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oh snap
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i can't mess with these young ones
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anymore i forget
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don't even listen to your ears you don't
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the rest of you don't want the smoke
11:55
it's just your ears the
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ear system the ears just delicious
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the ears are the last thing to go
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[Music]
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you are dumb calloway i know
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i see you too my ears perked up i put a
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hat over them
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calm down you get the hat now
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okay chill out you
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you just barking you ain't trying to do
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nothing to that tree oh my god
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that's the realest thing ever all right
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uh tay diggs is here we talk about all
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american man let me ask you this too
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because
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i'm glad you touched on taking a pay cut
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and you know uh really playing a
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supporting role
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in in all of this yeah yeah yeah and uh
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talk about that dynamic well i mean uh
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go ahead go ahead
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now i'm gonna let you go ted go ahead
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it's uh it's just it's uh
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at this at this point in my life uh um
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you know this shoots in l.a
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and and my kid and his mother in l.a
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and uh and it's just this world just it
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spoke to me you know i'm
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uh i'm i'm i'm working with a bunch of
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really really talented
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uh and uh and really wise like wise
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beyond their years
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these young actresses that young actors
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and actresses that i'm
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that i'm surrounding and surrounded by
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and it's uh
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it's been a wonderful give and take with
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um
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you know me being there if they have any
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questions about
13:30
the business or certain difficult
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difficult scenes and them you know just
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teaching me
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you know just them being just young and
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uh energetic
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and excited because it's easy you know
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it's easy to get
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jaded uh in this business um you know
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when you're working with
13:49
with networks and and publicity and
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agents and lawyers and whatnot
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so uh so i kind of glean from them that
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this kind of energetic
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excitable youthful energy and whenever
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they need it you know i can i can just
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kind of share my my experiences with
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them
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um and it's and it's been great and then
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you know the the
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the the cherry on top which actually i
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should have led with
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it's just the the work is is wonderful
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you know man
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it's it's really i feel very proud to be
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a part of something that
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is uh very current and uh you know that
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that people can
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can can discuss subject matter that that
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people can discuss with with their
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friends and with with
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their family and you know things that
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are going on things that are going on
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today
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um um that that uh that a lot of
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kind of other tv shows and other
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networks kind of choose to sweep under
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the rug
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uh and we're running towards it uh face
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on so
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i really give credit to to uh to nk our
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our uh
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uh you know the she's our showrunner and
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and uh she's that she's at the top and
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everything is is falling down very
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nicely
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hey uh tay you you touched on the
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your co-stars who can come to you for
15:03
advice on
15:04
business within the industry and that's
15:07
something that we
15:08
discussed frequently on the show about
15:10
you know musicians artists who
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get into bad contracts or whether it's
15:14
athletes who
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you know go broke because they don't
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have any financial literacy and so
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can you sort of give anybody who might
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be an aspiring actor who wants to get
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into the business of hollywood
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some advice on the pitfalls to avoid
15:27
whether it's
15:28
contracts or you know taking a low cut
15:32
when you should be probably asking for
15:33
more that sort of thing can you give
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some uh
15:36
experience with with the business side
15:38
of hollywood
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oh another good question um the most
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important thing
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i could say is just make sure you make
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sure
15:47
uh regardless of your age uh uh if
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you're if you're starting out
15:52
um actually even if you are even if you
15:54
have a little bit of experience
15:55
everybody's everybody's position is
15:57
going to be
15:59
different you know everybody's situation
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is going to be
16:02
very specific to them so i can't give
16:05
kind of a blanket you know a a
16:09
a blanket kind of you know kind of a
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you know school and what they should do
16:14
but i would say
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make sure they find someone that they
16:18
trust that they can ask that knows them
16:20
and that also knows the business so that
16:22
they can kind of apply
16:24
you know what they need to a specific
16:26
situation and i mean
16:27
um i could easily say you know make sure
16:30
you know your worth
16:31
and only do projects you know that that
16:34
uh
16:35
that that you feel strongly about but
16:36
sometimes every once in a while
16:38
you know something will come uh uh
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towards you and
16:41
and you might not feel good about it
16:43
you'll take a risk you'll do it
16:45
and it blows up your career you know i
16:46
mean or or you know sometimes
16:48
you know you might uh you know there are
16:51
certain people that told me
16:52
never take a pay cut never never go
16:54
beneath your
16:55
you know your uh your they call it a
16:57
quote what you're what you're supposed
16:59
to get paid
17:00
but then you know if i hadn't done that
17:01
you know i wouldn't have i wouldn't have
17:03
you know found this show and
17:04
and met all these wonderful people and
17:06
and had all you know been been exposed
17:08
to
17:08
to people you know i think this is the
17:10
most popular show i've ever been on
17:12
um and that's uh that that means
17:15
something you know i mean um
17:17
not not for my well a little bit from my
17:19
ego but to know that the
17:20
the work that we're all doing is getting
17:22
seen and is appreciated
17:24
by so many people that that that means
17:26
something so
17:27
um you know it's it's it's it's more
17:29
about
17:30
um knowing who you are figure that out
17:34
and then finding someone whom you trust
17:36
that that knows you and also knows the
17:38
business so they can kind of
17:40
um uh better better give you the advice
17:43
that you need as opposed to just general
17:45
advice that
17:46
you know because that's what people
17:47
think people think you know there's one
17:49
thing you can tell one person that
17:51
you know or a few of the five golden
17:53
rules and you're not going to be famous
17:55
unless you do this and you're not going
17:56
to be success unless you do that
17:58
and that's not the case that's not the
18:00
case especially on instagram
18:02
everybody's always saying you'll never
18:03
if you want to be successful you only
18:05
need to
18:05
you can never you know if you're going
18:07
to be successful you got to wake up at
18:08
5am in the morning i
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haven't i don't i don't wake up at 5pm
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and i like to sleep
18:14
and i'm just as successful as you know i
18:16
mean everybody is different
18:18
always say yes never say no no sometimes
18:21
you got to say no
18:22
and then sometimes you say yes it's all
18:24
different
18:25
it's different for everybody it has to
18:27
do with your own attitude
18:28
that's the one thing it's like if you
18:30
really really want it
18:32
um you're gonna get it you know i mean
18:34
if you really really want it and even
18:36
then i know people that just fell into
18:37
the business
18:38
you know man so i can't even say that i
18:40
know people that are you know amazing
18:42
actors that just
18:43
they went on an audition just because uh
18:45
their friend was there
18:47
and then they got the part and now you
18:49
know that then it's like that's brad
18:50
pitt
18:51
you mean so it's different for everybody
18:53
it's just um
18:55
um have fun with it i guess
18:58
have fun take digs that's real man um
19:00
let me ask you this on the way out too
19:02
all american on aaron on cw season three
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aired on last night
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um i was just thinking um
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you know there's certain people i could
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call on that i met through the business
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that became friends t.i is someone i
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could just pick up the phone
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let me ask you a question you know what
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i mean like david banner i could do that
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with him clark dj clark ken there's a
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few folks i could pick up
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hey man what's up man how you doing man
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hey um yeah actually this
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don't ever call me anybody okay
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okay craig good man i got your number
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too okay
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i was just looking for permission tay
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diggs ladies and gentlemen nah just
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kidding
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[Laughter]
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[ __ ] the question yeah i won't call you
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tayden that but is there somebody in
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your because
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you you're a leading man so it's a lot
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of leading men out there
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and who are in it who came up in this at
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the same time are you
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morris chess not all these different
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folks terence howard do you guys stay in
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touch
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we stay in such as uh as much as uh as
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much as
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the business allows you know it's still
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as
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as as far as we've come along you know
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as as as
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you know black actors you know we all
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came up together
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and we all see each other at at events
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whether it's award shows or charities
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and
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um we're all getting together and
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discussing whether or not you know we're
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going to do
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um um best man 3. so we all got on the
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phone together and
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we want to make sure that we get paid
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right so you know we we we see each
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other when uh
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you know when when the business kind of
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allows um but when we do
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it oh
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oh hey
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damn a couple weeks ago um to discuss
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best man 3 was it was really it was
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really fun and
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it made me really want to work with all
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of them again
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so it's uh you know you meet some really
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really great people in this business and
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i feel like i've been really
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really lucky okay great man and i feel
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lucky to know you brother and it will
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cross
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paths oh nice life when it all opens up
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but in the meantime i'm watching you on
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all american man
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killing it give it up for diggs man
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cw and then tell brees breezy he said
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what up tell daniel ezra we said what up
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all these folks been on the show all
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right tay be safe brother
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and happy new year and have a great year
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pay digs man thank you
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you
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