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Tyler James Williams Dives into "Abbott Elementary" Season 3 on Sway In The Morning
Feb 15, 2024
Dive into the enchanting world of 'Abbott Elementary' with Tyler James Williams on Sway's Universe! 🌟 Subscribe now for an exclusive glimpse behind the magic that has captured hearts across America. Tyler opens up about the joy, challenges, and laughter that come with being part of one of television's most beloved shows, alongside the talents of Quinta Brunson, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, William Stanford Davis, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. From the hilarious on-set moments to the profound impact of representing black men in education, Tyler shares insights that are as inspiring as they are entertaining. Don't miss this candid conversation that goes beyond the script of 'Abbott Elementary' Season 3. Watch more exclusive interviews with your favorite stars and join the Sway’s Universe community for a deep dive into the stories that shape our culture.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Tyler James Williams Love for Abbott Elementary
2:48 - Importance of Tyler's Character in Abbott Elementary
6:45 - Emotional Toll of Perfection for Black Men - Tyler Williams
11:28 - Mike Discusses Producing Insights
14:02 - Mike's New York Relocation Journey
15:02 - Acting as a Family Business - Mike's Perspective
20:20 - Behind the Scenes: Creation of Abbott Elementary
22:44 - Kevin from Charlotte Shares His Thoughts
26:26 - Kevin from Erie, PA Calls In
31:36 - Connecting with Tyler James Williams
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I'm
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always as honest as I can be yep that's
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cuz sometimes the truth hurts and I'm
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not into hurting people but I'm as
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honest as I can
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be but I'll tell the truth here mhm I
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don't like a lot of shows on television
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yep you say it that's true for the most
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part television sucks I I just don't
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like a lot of shows I find myself at
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home I watch a lot of sports I watch a
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lot of repeats of shows I can probably
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name every single episode of The Fresh
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Prince of
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Bel Martin and Everybody Hates Chris
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those are like my favorite shows in the
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world so I find myself watching a lot of
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repeats it's hard to get me I've very
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own Mike Muse can attest to this to
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watch a new show it's hard it's just
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like ah okay I was cool I watch Seinfeld
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too I watch that a lot classic um but
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it's hard for me to get into these new
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shows I don't know why maybe because the
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way the industry is now you get into
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something and then by season three or
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four it's gone it's over and it's like
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damn I just wasted like 18 episodes in
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my life on something and now it's out of
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my life but then this thing comes along
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called Abbot
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Elementary my goodness I don't know how
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I stumbled across it I don't know if it
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was the imagery or something about it
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that spoke to my heart and spirit but it
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put me in that place that I grew up as a
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kid when we would run home to watch
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television to catch every episode it put
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me in the mind frame when I would come
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home as a young adult I gotta watch
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Martin tonight I gotta watch Martin
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tonight I got to check it out that's
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what this put me in the mind frame of so
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when I got invested in this show I would
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go around y'all watching Abbot
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Elementary where you been what why y'all
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a tell me nobody told me about this sh I
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love it I love it young old older than
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old younger than young everybody seems
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to enjoy this show man and I think the
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thing about it is when I saw you on this
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show I was rooting for the
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show I was rooting for this show because
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I wanted it to win cuz I want you to win
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and when I found out the story about
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quenta and then I saw the legend the
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icon Miss Cher Le Ralph who every time I
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say her name we just got to give her a
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round of applause and the camaraderie
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and everything I said they got one they
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got one they got one welcome him back to
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the show cuz we got one we got him here
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citizen the Sway in the Morning the one
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the only Tyler James
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Williams TJ W thank you thank you thank
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you that's like all true I mean forget
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an intro that's that's love man that's
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that it like it it hits differently um
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because that's ultimately all you ever
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really want to do you want to make
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something that people can get excited
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about that they can become like part of
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their lives and their world and like
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that's the beautiful thing about this
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show for me is watching that happen
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again um and coming into people's living
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rooms and and becoming a part of their
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routines and their lives and that's the
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beautiful thing about TV when it's done
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well um and you know I got nothing but
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love for this room everybody in this
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room man I always feel feel like immense
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amounts of Love here so that it really
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means the most what no just all truth
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like I said I find myself when I'm
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watching this show and just being
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blessed let me say this to have
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experience and television and film I'm
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like how many times did they do this
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take because I would break character
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every five minutes like y if I'm home
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watching this and busting out laughing
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how do y'all stay in char character on
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set we
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don't we don't that's the thing it's
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it's so hard man there's like there are
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takes where or just whole scenes I'm
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like I don't even know what we're going
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to be able to keep here because we're
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all fans of the show and like I don't I
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particularly I don't watch the show when
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it's done like I I don't really watch
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the edits or what you guys end up seeing
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I watch the show when we're shooting it
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and
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that's it's just so good and that's not
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not everybody else it's so good and
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people are so funny um that's how I know
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there's something there is that we can
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barely make it through a take that's how
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I like there's C there's a few episod
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stuff that we just shot on last Friday
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that like it's it's going to tear your
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mouth out it is it's going to tear your
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mouth out it's it's we couldn't keep it
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together and that's what I think is so
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fun about it is when you do a show
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that's like kind of chuckle funny you
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can feel it when you do a show that's
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like I can't keep myself together you
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get excited about what the audience is
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going to see yeah man I love it Tracy is
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there a reason Tyler that um you prefer
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watching it while you're filming versus
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when the entire product is
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complete I think I'm too critical of the
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final product yeah I think I'm way too
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critical of the final product
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particularly my stuff um I can't really
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enjoy it um when doing it on the day
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also so there's a whole another show
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that you guys don't see that's the
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privilege that I get to have I get to
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see that other show that isn't going to
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make it because of time or it gets left
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on editing room floor that's my show
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that's the show that like I get to hold
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on to and keep near and dear and like
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you know people use memes and stuff all
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over the place and there's stuff that we
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just have from the edit that we can send
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to each other um that's to be the
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beautiful part of doing the show um I
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have a separate show I get a chance to
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watch and participate in wow man thank
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you for sharing that with us too yeah no
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it's it's it's a really at some point
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you know at some point you should come
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by we would love to you should stop by
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we would love to you guys stop we're
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shooting now um and we just uh okay
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let's leave work yeah let's go um but we
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just got picked up for season 4 so yeah
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come on just got picked up for SE
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congratulations um so yeah sometime in
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the summer stop by it would be great no
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we will we actually we shoot out La once
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every other month or something like that
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for the week we would love to just to
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watch you guys and the magic that that
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happens we would love it thank you yeah
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bring the whole Sway in the Morning
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everybody have a good time Mike mes yeah
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I have a question for your character for
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me on television is so important and I
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think it serves such an important role
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uh it's rare we get a chance to see that
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on television and to see uh black man
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with so much range of a story line
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I'm just curious um as you were thinking
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about this character for you like who
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did you think about when you were
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constructing um who your character is um
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the men in my family my dad my
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grandfathers my uncles they were fully
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fleshed out human beings that's what I I
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love about them so much um and the
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conflicts that they have in their lives
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aren't necessarily the things that you
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used to see on TV they're just trying to
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show up and be good men in the places
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that they have to be and that's what
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when I approach Gregory was the first
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thing on my mind this isn't a guy who is
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trying to shuck his responsibilities
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this isn't somebody who's um got your
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typical sitcom struggles his struggles
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are just trying to exist in this space
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and do the best that he can and I wanted
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to bring the humanity of my father and
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my grandfather's and my uncles to
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network television mhm and that's that
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was really important from the jump and
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when me and Quin talked about it for the
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first time she had the exact same
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feeling that was the thing that let me
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know that we had something here we were
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on the same page about it immediately
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yeah it's R because we don't get a
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chance to see black men playing
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characters where seeking Perfection yes
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right and seeking excellence and I think
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that is such a dynamic that black men
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have to wrestle with inside of corporate
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America and so to see your character
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Gregory have to reconcile Perfection uh
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and to reconcile wanting more and in
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particular we don't see black men in
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education space as one as a teacher but
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then two wanted to become a
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superintendent or principal
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administrator I say administrator and
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then also two third balancing out with
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gardening like we don't even see there's
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so many black men that I know who
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Garden many black men that know that
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tend to flowers and and and
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prw plants and to see that is so fleshed
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out it's just so special about that if
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you can talk a little bit about that
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feeling of when you're thinking about
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Gregory how to reconcile of like seeking
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Perfection and stepping up to home plate
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expecting to hit a grand
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slam I think we're always in a good
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place when we can show black men caring
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about things
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deeply um the reason why he seeks
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Perfection is because he deeply cares
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about not only the kids in his life but
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he's fully aware and we kind of explored
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that a little bit in season one of what
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he represents to them this may be one of
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the only times they see somebody in his
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position um I also feel like the what
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what what is I guess you could say
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relatable in this is that every black
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man walking on the face of the Earth
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feels this high standard that he has to
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meet um we we've we've always kind of
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had that we have to do twice as much
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work to get half as far um but we don't
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necessarily always
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see the emotional toll that that takes
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we see the Triumph and I think the the
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Brilliance in Abbott is not the Triumph
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of him getting to the principal position
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it's watching him grapple with the
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emotions and the weight of that he has
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several moments when he cracks and those
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are the things in the episodes that I
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love the most is like we have to show
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what this pressure does we have to show
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how he cracks and then he comes back
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that's the that's the Brilliance of the
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way Quinta in the writers room approach
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Gregory is they don't want him always to
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just win because that sets up an
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unrealistic standard I feel like for
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people you need to be able to see these
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moments of failure or it didn't quite go
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the way you thought or getting to that
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position that you want to be in is going
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to take longer than you thought but
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there's Beauty in the moment um and
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those are the things that I cherish the
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most and hopefully you know make a
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difference over
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time man I love it I love it I love it
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Tyler James Williams is here citizens
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888 742 3345 you want to to talk to him
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you can up next I'm going to find out
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what made him uh come back to New York
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yeah yeah he lives here now settle down
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so not only can we go to Cali then we
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just might crash the PAAD for some food
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too why not stop by we always have a
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little something we always got a little
11:14
something he's here y'all let's talk to
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him you can watch him every single week
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on Abbott Elementary Wednesdays tonight
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9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time having
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conversations we're opening up the phone
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lines now 888 742 3345 while the music
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was playing I was sitting here thinking
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about Quin Brunson who I've we've never
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met Mike have no we not yet she hasn't
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been a guest on this show to experience
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I've met her not for my show but I've
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met her met her yeah and thinking about
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her thinking about Shonda ryes um shout
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out to Shonda who's a citizen of SW
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morning we support her shows I don't you
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know um uh uh Issa Ray shout out to her
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as well everything she was doing Tyler
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Perry shout out to what Tyler Perry has
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been able to do in his industry in terms
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of shows and US supporting um his shows
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as well Ava Ava duven and and shout out
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to what she's doing I love that and I
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and I'm hoping Tyler was from one Tyler
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you know to the other switch over um to
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you um you know because I don't want to
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leave anyone out it's very important
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when I mention shows that I I grew up
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watching and shows that I love to see
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that you know there's a new wave and
12:25
there's a new thing now and if we try to
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list every single show be here all day
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but I want to recognize these people who
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are putting in this work for television
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for us that we run home and watch these
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shows is it a plan of yours at some
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point one day to possibly go into that
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you producing shows and creating shows
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for other folks and young actors like
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yourself to be able to have a platform
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yeah um definitely at some point you
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know um and to tell you the truth the
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person who really keyed me on to it was
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Quinta we would be talking about the
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show and things that were happening as
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it was taking off because I'd had you
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know success in television before I
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could kind of tell when things were
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happening and predict what was happening
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next and from these conversations we
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were having she was like yo you talk
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like a producer and I was like I didn't
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even realize that that's what I'm doing
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this is just what I've been in for so
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long um so yeah it's it's it's coming at
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some point I think I've built up a
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wealth of knowledge this is like lot
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people don't realize it's been 20 years
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since Everybody Hates Chris premieres
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Chow it's been that was 2004 this is a
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big year for 20 year anniversary my God
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so I've got 20 years of TV Tyler you
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just made all of us go really yeah it's
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been 20 years that's amazing bro wow
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congratulations congratulations that
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that knoow and that knowledge I do want
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to give back and kind of put my hands on
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something wow I don't think I was even
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born
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yet my God you was Bor to smoking
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cigarettes
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like get your get hell out of here that
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right before we cut into the music
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before Tracy jumps in um back to New
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York you are so hell yeah man welcome
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back oh it's so good I've been trying to
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get back home for the longest um so
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that's 20 years ago I did a show about
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New York that took me to La and I never
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really had a plan to go to La I was
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always going to be a New York actor I
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was just going to stay here and great
14:23
but Everybody Hates Chris Shout out
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there um and ever since then I've been
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trying to get back um and then it was
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during the the strike of this year I was
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just like now's my time I'm coming back
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I'm done um so Abbot still shoots there
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when I'm there that's what I'm doing but
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when I'm not I have a sense of normaly
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here which is nice my life have yes
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family my life doesn't have to revolve
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around the industry yes it's it's I can
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have a regular life here so it's so good
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to be back you deserve that you deserve
14:53
Joy that's the one thing we've been
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repeating here constantly you have to
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cuz you have to have to if you don't
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tell yourself that you'll forget yep you
15:01
deserve Joy courtesy and comment Tracy
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thinking about your younger years with
15:05
um the 20-y year aniversary of Everybody
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Hates Chris it reminded me that you
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actually have two younger brothers who
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have the same initials as you and
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they're both actors as well so one is
15:17
there a deeper meaning between the
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tjw and then also do you guys like um
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help each other hone your acting skills
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so my mother when she named us she
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wanted us to always be connected that
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was the thing that was her goal she was
15:33
like I want you to always no matter what
15:36
happens be connected and take care of
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each other um beautiful and it's really
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developed more as we've gotten older to
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the point where now we all live together
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yeah it's yeah we all choose to to live
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together on both coasts and we just kind
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of like bounce back and forth um and
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yeah we like hone everything every every
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cre cretive decision that we make we run
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by each other um there's nothing that
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you'll see or hear that I didn't kind of
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talk out with them first um to get their
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opinion on because they we have a really
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high standard and a high bar for
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everything um but they you know I had my
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first show at 12 my middle brother had
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his first show at 12 and sold to the
16:17
baby boy um so there's an understanding
16:21
that we have hell of each other's
16:23
experience that nobody else will ever
16:24
have that is some Divine secr like what
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is it really is wow cuz it's I don't
16:31
know for all the citizens out there I
16:33
mean it is not easy to get a job in this
16:37
industry no not even even though we
16:39
watch television we were just talking
16:41
about this at lunch you know a
16:43
commercial is hard to get a national
16:46
network commercial the chances are
16:48
astronomical are astronomical not the
16:51
kind of they just give to celebrities
16:53
I'm talking about a real audition
16:56
commercial you go in and it's tough yeah
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it's tough so for all three siblings to
17:02
have this beautiful gift you just know
17:05
God is real and it's that's amazing for
17:07
sure it's something that like to me it's
17:10
kind of like the the teaching profession
17:11
in the same way you got to be called to
17:13
it you have to be called to because if
17:14
not you're not going to be able to last
17:16
not just from the perspective of the
17:18
talent of the thing but it's difficult
17:22
to go through those periods of time when
17:23
there's not stuff or when you're reading
17:25
against a hundred people and you have to
17:27
be the one reading that they pick for
17:29
Everybody Hates Chris they read kids on
17:32
both
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coasts both coasts um two years in a row
17:37
is the thing so like they the first year
17:40
I went I was on my way to the audition
17:42
and they said go home we found whoever
17:43
it is going to be and then they came
17:44
back a year later still looking so
17:48
getting one job the chances are out of
17:52
this world if you're not called to it
17:55
you're never going to be able to push
17:56
through that you have to be able able to
17:58
push through that time and and and
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looking at other people and knowing that
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what's for me is for me that is such
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brilliant I don't even want to call it
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advice that those experiences I'm so
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glad that you shared that because people
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need to hear that it is it is a daunting
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task to go audition because oh my God
18:19
you you can feel like you nailed it like
18:22
you can walk out of the room there's
18:24
still like pee dripping out down your
18:26
leg cuz you're like I know I got this
18:28
baby they about to call me I'm about to
18:30
pay my rent for 3 years straight right
18:33
and you had and just like he said Tyler
18:35
they go home we found somebody yeah you
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know and sometimes has nothing to do
18:40
with anything that you did the amount of
18:42
times where even for like Abbott there
18:45
will be tapes that come in from people
18:47
and it boils down to not even whether or
18:49
not the read was good the read was great
18:51
you hit every moment it was everything
18:53
that we needed but there's something
18:55
that just doesn't quite fit the way that
18:58
we need it to whether it be a look or
19:00
sometimes it even boils down to height
19:03
like just from Quint size just a frame
19:06
two people in the same camera angle wow
19:09
you can't be but for so tall so it boils
19:12
down to something like that sometimes
19:14
and people take it personally but you
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shouldn't you just keep going and
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there's no one can take the role that
19:20
was built for you it's not possible I
19:23
don't care what it is when you see
19:25
somebody read and that moment and that
19:27
spark happen I've seen it happen
19:29
multiple times there's not a person on
19:31
this Earth that can do that but you but
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if you're not called to it it'll break
19:36
you down over
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time yes amen citizens that's listening
19:41
if as an artist however you want to
19:44
Define yourself take that with you right
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there cuz that is a gem rewind this 50
19:50
million times because you need to hear
19:52
that he you're absolutely spot on Mike
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mes I mean that was a word a word and I
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think that goes back for people who may
20:00
not be interested in acting but if
20:01
you're looking for a corporate job we're
20:03
in the season right now where college or
20:05
high school students are receiving
20:07
acceptance letters or rejection letters
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and I think that's important takeway
20:10
that even if you didn't get into the
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school of your choice parent listening
20:13
to us right now who may have a child is
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not getting into school their choice
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know that what is for your child will be
20:17
for your child right and what's for you
20:19
be for for you I'm curious though with
20:21
that being said then talk to us about
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Abbot in the moment you got called to do
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Abbot right because I would think on
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paper if I was to see something even
20:29
before it came out I was like I don't
20:30
know how a show about a school is going
20:33
to work out right and so I'm just
20:35
curious for you
20:37
so I don't get even the first
20:40
conversation about Abbot until we're in
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the middle of the pandemic so I'm at
20:45
home locked down um and Quinta shoots me
20:49
a DM because she had lived down the
20:51
block for me at the time it was like Hey
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I have this idea for a show I'm going to
20:54
go pitch and I want to put your name in
20:56
it if you're cool with that and I'm like
20:58
yeah sure let's see what happens um I
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was looking at other shows at the time
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there was one of which is on currently
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and is very successful
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um but again what's for you there was
21:12
something about one she had built
21:15
Gregory around me and that was unique
21:18
for me I was like okay there's something
21:21
here but then there was that like
21:23
feeling of I know every now and then you
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look at somebody you're like I feel like
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you got something I feel like there's
21:29
something in you to give and that's how
21:31
I felt about her was like I feel like
21:33
you're about to pop crazy and I can't
21:36
put my finger on why I can't even build
21:40
the evidence or the argument for it but
21:42
I know that whatever it is you're about
21:43
to do is going to take off
21:46
and it was one of the biggest blessings
21:49
of my life because coming out of the
21:51
pandemic there were a lot of actors
21:52
looking for jobs and trying to figure
21:53
out what their next move was and I
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wasn't even aware that during it all
21:58
somebody was building something for me
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specifically in the time where there was
22:02
the most uncertainty in the world there
22:05
was somebody sitting somewhere thinking
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I have something for this person right
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here and it would it came from a place
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that nobody would have expected
22:15
um that that gives me Faith going down
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the line forever if ever I'm in a place
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where I don't know what's supposed to be
22:22
or what's supposed to happen somewhere
22:25
somebody is working on the thing that
22:27
you need and you may not even be aware
22:30
of who they are um that that was the
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most serendipitous experience I think
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I've ever had in my life Beau yeah God
22:40
did God did God did it man listen we got
22:44
Kev on the line Kev you've been holding
22:45
forever brother thank you so much
22:47
calling in from Charlotte how you doing
22:48
say what up to Tyler he's here Kev yo yo
22:51
yo yo yo what's up good morning
22:53
everybody what's up what's happening man
22:56
what's happening cooling cooling man I
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appreciate y taking the time and taking
22:59
the call um I want to say I am a black
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man in education and when I first saw
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Abbot Elementary like the first episode
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like the first season bro I saw myself I
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don't know if you were in like the first
23:15
early early episodes but like the first
23:17
one or two but I know when I saw you I'm
23:19
like bro there I go there I
23:21
go like literally literally because you
23:25
dressed apart you act AP part and I'm
23:28
going say something that I don't think
23:29
I've heard from people um with black men
23:32
in
23:33
education they want us in the building
23:36
but they don't want what comes with us
23:38
if that makes sense to y'all and when
23:40
you said you mimicked your your your
23:42
family and things like that and you
23:45
projected that into your character it's
23:47
like this is not me this is a lot of
23:49
things that come with me you know what I
23:52
mean and it made sense inside the school
23:55
and when I saw you bro like I said was
23:58
like yo every week I got my wife
24:00
watching it I think I started putting
24:01
people on it but before it got to like
24:04
really really like talking about you
24:06
know like that water cooler conversation
24:08
but bro I saw you I saw myself and I
24:11
couldn't do nothing but cheese and um
24:13
also Mike uh I spoke to you a week ago
24:16
about um education and ask Mike and that
24:19
just shows how passionate I am about
24:22
education these days because it's
24:24
totally different from when we grew up
24:26
and that Abid element looks like old
24:28
school days it doesn't look like new
24:29
school days it looks like old school and
24:32
it just like I say it just mirrored what
24:34
I went through as a student in school in
24:37
the like to say 90s 2000s so yeah man
24:40
big up to you and even what you saying
24:42
now was prophetic bro yes it is
24:44
everything you're saying is what's
24:46
what's for you might not be for you but
24:48
what's for you will be for you and it
24:50
will fit it won't be tight it won't be
24:52
loose it won't be uncomfortable and bro
24:54
all of that I I love it I love it I love
24:57
love it I love it thankk you first off
25:00
thank you for the work that you do um
25:02
because doing Abbott has been an
25:04
education for me on the work that
25:06
teachers do and the unsung heroes that
25:08
they are and it's something that you
25:10
have to be called to and it's something
25:11
that nobody claps for you for and you
25:13
show up every day and you do it and it's
25:16
hard and it's not easy and you're
25:18
dealing with kids that aren't even yours
25:21
um thank you for doing that in the way
25:24
that you do it even in the midst of the
25:26
silence um and it is one of the greatest
25:29
honors of my career to be able to give
25:32
you something to look at and see
25:33
yourself in the
25:35
middle yeah hopefully we can continue to
25:37
do the show and I can continue to do
25:39
that but thank you for the work that you
25:42
choose to do every day you could do any
25:44
number of things I'm sure you sound like
25:46
a very intelligent brother but thank you
25:48
for choosing to do this because we need
25:51
you in this space there's not enough of
25:53
you in this space and I would love to
25:55
see that thank you man it's not like we
25:58
on the phone man I
26:00
app like not yeah right and thank you
26:04
Kevin but Tyler this is what we were
26:06
talking about with his role is cuz Kevin
26:08
called up last week and he's so
26:09
passionate about that the work that he
26:11
does and this what we were saying we a
26:12
conversation about appreciate that
26:14
important your character is and when I
26:16
watch the show I think about people like
26:17
Kevin yeah yeah that's so thank you
26:19
Kevin this is who this is for thank you
26:20
y got me cheesing listen it's a feeling
26:23
you're a citizen I love it I love s in
26:25
the so from cev to Kevin we got in PA
26:28
what's up Kevin what up Kevin hey what's
26:31
go hey what's going on Y how y'all doing
26:33
today doing great today say what up to
26:35
Tyler Tyler how you doing Tyler I just
26:38
want to thank you man you are
26:39
inspiration and uh sway this show for
26:41
sway man this is the realest show I've
26:43
ever heard so I want y'all to keep on
26:45
doing what you're doing man Tyler what
26:47
you have said is so true about you know
26:49
your character Gregory you know it's a
26:52
struggle out here being a black man you
26:53
know I'm in a city that's a 100,000 in
26:56
Eerie Pennsylvania and it's it's really
26:58
not going down like it's was going down
27:00
in bigger cities you know what I mean
27:01
right but it's it's a real it's a real
27:04
struggle and you showing how it's okay
27:06
for black men to feel all their emotions
27:10
how it's okay to fail how it's okay to
27:12
keep trying because you know you have to
27:14
fail some always to succeed and we don't
27:17
teach that it's part of the proc and
27:18
it's it's important for us to understand
27:21
that you know I teach a lot of Workforce
27:23
Development myself you know and I'm
27:25
trying to get a you know these families
27:26
into self- sustaining jobs that are
27:29
careers for their for their betterment
27:30
for their lives so we can stop poverty
27:32
man it's yeah it's bad out here in these
27:34
streets man it's so bad you choosing to
27:37
do good work we have to understand that
27:40
accepting and expecting failure you know
27:42
what I mean that's the key because once
27:45
we change our mindset to become more
27:47
positive that we can make it and we can
27:49
struggle and make it through that then
27:52
we understand that's part of the process
27:53
of growth yeah and that's part of the
27:56
plan and then as you said you God is
27:59
good all the time I thank God and give
28:00
him all the glory for even connecting
28:02
with y'all and hearing this message CU
28:04
this
28:17
reinspect generation because uh mean
28:20
we're all we got it's a circle man if if
28:24
if I can inspire you then you can
28:25
inspire me and then we keep going back
28:27
and forth I'm going to take these
28:29
stories and I'm going to remember them
28:30
when I go to work I'm going to remember
28:32
those who are choosing to do work that's
28:35
not necessarily glamorous so that
28:36
whenever I am stepping in front of a
28:38
camera and it is I don't get it messed
28:40
up and I don't get it twisted wow um so
28:44
thank you for what you do and for
28:45
sharing those words man and like I I
28:47
hope as you go through this process and
28:49
there's going to be struggles and ups
28:51
and downs that you just you keep heart
28:53
and you keep going yes you're right
28:55
failure is part of the process when
28:56
you're failing you're doing something
28:57
good to get into it so thank you man I
28:59
really appreciate that man God bless you
29:01
brother Kevin as well and you a citizen
29:03
way in the morning man wow wow man one
29:07
of them on one of them on there's a lot
29:09
of good energy today no said if you mind
29:13
sharing you said that I was going to say
29:15
he said that he shared that when he
29:16
walked in he said the energy in here and
29:19
um that's on purpose Tyler like I said
29:22
to you it's on purpose sway decided
29:25
purposely he wanted to make this safe
29:27
space and a welcoming space for artists
29:30
and and and and for people to come
29:31
through and share their stories and talk
29:33
about their purpose and and their craft
29:35
and what they've been chosen to do and
29:37
be protected by their feelings and their
29:39
thoughts in here so thank you for for
29:41
your compliment to us because we we we
29:44
choose to do that as well now thank you
29:46
for Contin I've come to this show since
29:49
I was in my teens wow
29:52
um and I've done a lot of press a lot of
29:55
places and talked about a lot of shows a
29:57
lot of places no room feels like this
29:59
one this one feels actually safe there
30:03
are other people who create the illusion
30:04
of it and there's a lot of especially in
30:06
the age of the internet of like people
30:08
trying to you can feel it they're trying
30:10
to bait you into something to create a
30:12
viral image or of
30:14
something this is an actual safe space
30:17
and I think when people listen to that
30:18
show this show they can feel that I feel
30:20
it when I walk in the room it's always
30:22
my stop when I'm coming through New York
30:24
I can't not um and that takes a lot of
30:29
fortitude to choose to do you could do
30:32
what everybody else does you choose not
30:34
to and I commend all of you including
30:36
Sway and I hope a man's feel better yes
30:39
snotty knows that's you know it's all
30:41
good um we all get it a little bit but I
30:44
commend y'all for making that choice
30:46
because not everybody always makes that
30:47
choice thank you and I can feel it thank
30:49
you thank you so muchler listen tonight
30:52
9900 p.m. Easter Standard Time Of course
30:54
abber Elementary man I can't wait for
30:57
all all that you God has got for you I
30:59
cannot wait I cannot wait I cannot wait
31:01
I cannot wait thank you thank you thank
31:04
you Tyler for everything love you
31:05
brother love you love you love you we
31:08
got more Sway in the Morning uh coming
31:10
up in just a bit wait Tyler give out
31:11
your social if you want people to hit
31:13
you up um will Tyler James Instagram I
31:16
try to that's the one that feels most
31:17
healthy right now yeah the other
31:20
platforms are little nuts um so that's
31:22
really that's all I am you want to keep
31:23
up with anything that I'm doing or
31:24
anything coming up or any the like
31:26
there's a lot of great causes that are
31:27
kind of yeah being you know pushed out
31:29
that's what I try to do as much as
31:31
possible um follow my page and and
31:33
donate where you can man will Tyler
31:36
James TK is on the line he wants to give
31:38
you flowers calling you a young Legend
31:40
the phone lines are literally lit
31:42
lighting up right now will Tyler James
31:43
where you can reach him thank you we got
31:45
more Sway in the
31:50
Morning
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