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Oct 19, 2022
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Xolo Maridueña Talks Cobra Kai Series, Blue Beetle Movie, Playing King Tech In Wu-Tang Series & More
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listen let me tell you something man
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that's the hottest thing on Netflix
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right now
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highly anticipated
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Season Five Cobra Kai it's available on
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Netflix right now you saw that
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Hey listen man I listen I was a huge fan
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of The Karate Kid we have Ralph on the
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show before DB who else we have from the
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original Karate Kid on the show before
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uh we had Martin Cove yeah
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um yeah who's uh the longtime villain of
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The Karate Kid franchise but uh I mean
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we love all the guys we've had Ralph
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Macho up here plenty of times and you
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know with us today is the guy who was
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introduced I like to think of him as uh
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the new Daniel Larusso the way he was
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introduced in the show and living next
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door to Johnny and everything it was a
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very cool sort of like tie-in back to
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the original Karate Kid and sway you've
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apparently known this guy since he was
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introduced to the world basically not on
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screen but in real life I'm showing
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everybody in the room of a a picture of
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this young man I don't even know how old
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you were on this picture I mean as far
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as I know I was in you know the studio
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in like day three of being in this
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planet yeah so I yeah I this could be
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anywhere from like zero years old to
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three I mean this is but no it's my my
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mom yes Carmelita Sanchez AKA Crum first
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of all we gotta welcome my nephew Here
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solo Marie dewana yeah okay yeah
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yeah
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not marijuana
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[Applause]
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yes okay uh solo is
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um
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this young man has made my partner King
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Tech and I extremely proud we've had so
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many full circle moments and it's got to
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be weird for a kid when their parents
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friends and you know have this Affinity
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towards them and he's been very generous
2:01
and accepting and embracing it he he
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doesn't really know I don't know you
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know but he's going along with it really
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well his mother citizens if you watch
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Cobra Kai as my sister
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sees King Tech sister and when we first
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came down to La before we even moved to
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LA his mother Carmelita used to take
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care of us so before I even knew your
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mother I remember one of the first times
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I Met Your Mother We were coming down to
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La for a Far Side party
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um and we weren't La yet we came down
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from the bay and I remember waiting in
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the line like man we know nobody here
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like you know what I mean it's L.A we're
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gonna be waiting in this line a long
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time and your mother who was running
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whatever event that was came down and
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said hey come here follow me you know
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your mother is and we was like okay
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her voice is powerful her voice is
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powerful she speaks in command tongues
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doesn't she okay I guess I'm moving you
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got to do it you can't tell her no and
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she got us in the club small gestures
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with me stick forever that's true and
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she said I know who you are which was
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big for us because we were coming into a
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new Marketplace we didn't know who knew
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us and I got you I got your back from
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that moment on your mother and King Tech
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and I decided to join forces and this is
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how it all started right and we had our
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syndicated show the world famous wake up
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show which is the hugest show of his
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time Vanguard in the space and your
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mother coordinated everything for 2
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rambunctious young men who didn't know
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how to you know organize your mother
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kept us organized and your mother became
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the first co-host we ever took on women
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co-hosts that we ever took on but your
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mother is a pillar in the community of
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L.A and it's hip-hop scene her activism
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has been impeccable she's been on the
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front lines she still she stands up for
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women's rights she stands up for Latino
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rights she stands up for everything
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everybody writes you know and she's been
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she's been in the front line forever so
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I want to say salute to your mother
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Carmelita Sanchez Carmelita
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[Applause]
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and I know you went to you and your pops
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and King Tech went to see the Wu-Tang
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Clan last week right you know and so I
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want to welcome you to the show man come
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on man thank you for having me I've seen
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many uh interviews in this room many of
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uh Five Fingers of Death
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here here so I'm really happy to be here
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and no no no no no not not now not now I
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was thinking about it the whole way here
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I was like you brought it up that's the
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chill I was like I know I know that time
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I come in here you've seen how many
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interviews happen how many magic moments
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happen in that chair you don't want to
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make one hey I've seen it I've seen it
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all right no no no not today no no I
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know your mother told you I was gonna
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ask you to rap
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I'm not ready I'm too nervous I don't
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know I'm
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um but but I'm so grateful that you guys
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are having me and and really
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appreciative that you guys are uh
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welcoming
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come on man Show Low you are here man
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last time you were out well I don't know
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if it was the last time you were here
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but last time we saw each other we went
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to lunch and we we had a beautiful
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conversation I was couldn't take my eyes
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off you I was amazed at the amazing
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person that you've evolved to become and
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one of the things you talked about I'm
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trying to because I've had some
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experience in the spotlight you know
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yeah that celebrity world is you know I
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always ask people how they transition to
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it you made an interesting point that
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your visibility started to rise during
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the pandemic yeah but we're Way Beyond
5:40
quarantine right and so how have you
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adjusted to people just knowing your
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face everywhere you go I mean I I I'm
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blessed with long hair and I'm blind so
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I usually wear glasses and okay I have
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some facial hair so I'm pretty incognito
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when I'm out and about
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um but I I lead a pretty normal life you
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know I have my my best friends you know
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at home with me I got Tony and yeah
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Anthony
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they're gonna freak out they're gonna
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freak out what up Tony man what up baby
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which is kind of like the same name but
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they both really name Anthony yeah okay
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his name Anthony but we can't say
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Anthony so one one turns into Tony okay
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but you know what happens is your
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friends become famous too have they felt
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it
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um you know look I I
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we're very blessed that we we stay
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pretty low-key okay and and I don't I
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don't know this that whole side of
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things came in after we all became
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friends you know and that really goes
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for all of my friends so that's not
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really ever meant anything to to them or
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I'm really appreciative that they kind
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of
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they're like yeah we don't care about
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that staying grounded yeah yeah they're
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like we like watching movies with you so
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uh but no I not really not really no I
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don't think so I'm curious your mom you
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know
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um your mom is a very prideful person
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man very intelligent
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um a strong-willed person I wonder how
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much of that rubbed off on you being you
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know taking on these roles you're taking
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on as a Latin man you know um do you
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feel a certain level of responsibility
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yeah I think you know my mom and my dad
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um both instilled really
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um conscious like values I'd say
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especially when it comes to things like
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culture and and as I was heading into
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this acting world
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my both of my parents were pretty good
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about massaging in like
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understanding that as an actor and
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especially as a person of color and and
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someone who is representing what people
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perceive your community to be that there
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is a responsibility that that takes
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place when it comes to what types of
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roles you want to portray like what your
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what messages you're deciding to throw
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out into the world like there's a for a
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lot of people especially in these
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industries the music industry the acting
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industry the window of time is so brief
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that you have the mic in your hand or
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the you know your face on the screen
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that you have to
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not necessarily capitalize it but you
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have to know that like hey you have this
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opportunity to do as much good as
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possible
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and and my mom is a big you know that's
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like my to this day she's a workaholic
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dude she every single day it's something
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else she's she she has a full-time job
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and also rescues every single puppy that
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she sees
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but but
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um and surely it rubbed off yeah you
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know she she raised me she you know my
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family they they really did such a great
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job supporting me so that definitely
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rubs off and I think now that I've
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gotten a bit older you know I'm 21 now
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I've been able to incorporate more of my
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own personality into there and figure
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out like okay what parts you know even
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though seemingly my family is perfect
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and this this and that are not perfect
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but they they check a lot of the boxes
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which things do I want to change around
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that's that's just adulting you're 21
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now bro 21.
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when he said that that's a pause right
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there damn you're 21. 21. yikes my
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daughter's 24.
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wow yeah something's happening DP go
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ahead Something's Happened is that what
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this is time
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uh yeah so show I was actually at the
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premiere when first season launched um
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and it originally yeah I was I was at
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the theater they gave out those Cobra
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Kai uh reversible headbands and
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everything yeah so it was great seeing
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all these um characters come back to
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life and I'm you know I'd like to
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reserve judgment whenever I see
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something revisiting a classic film or a
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TV series and then make my decision
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after I've seen it but after I seen it
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and seen how they bring back all these
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characters little by little it was like
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hitting all the all the check marks for
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me as far as a fan of the original
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franchise what I wanted to ask is um
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because it started as a YouTube uh red
10:04
series and then after season three moved
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over to Netflix did you guys feel a
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little bit more comfortable having a
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bigger budget and like a little bit more
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room to play with moving over to Netflix
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um great question uh and thank you for
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for the kind words
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um
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I think
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coming from YouTube Red
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you know they they had announced after
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we had finished filming season three hey
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I don't think we're gonna move forward
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with this we don't really want to stay
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in the scripted space we want to move
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more to the reality type stuff so you
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guys can kind of shop it around
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and all of these other companies are
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thinking I mean look if these guys can
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make a kick-ass show with this budget
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why would we give them more money you
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know like there were certain things
10:48
obviously that moved around and that got
10:51
upgraded but you know the crew the
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everyone was the same so it felt like it
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was the same show I'm sure behind the
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scenes there were things that like
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renegotiations that happened and and
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what happened and whatnot
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um but I think
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the biggest change was that now there
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was really an expectation for the show
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we had had a cult fan base you know when
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we were on YouTube red and and those
11:18
fans that went out and got the
11:20
subscription to YouTube and did this and
11:22
this you could tell that they were
11:23
really fans of The Karate Kid and that
11:25
made the support feel intense because
11:28
these guys are Die Hard fans of Daniel
11:30
Larusso or Miyagi or these types of
11:32
things but when it hit Netflix then it
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was really like
11:36
people in all over the world were were
11:39
interested in the show and I think
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that's kind of the biggest change was
11:43
being like Oh snap
11:45
Brazil Knows My Name you know yeah
11:48
you're like Ecuador yeah yeah yeah my
11:51
character is Ecuadorian like there's
11:52
there's uh I think that was the biggest
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change got it solo is here uh Marty
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duenga hey there you go y'all better
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stop playing with me Mike you like you
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know what that's great
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I do so
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um thank you welcome again uh to the
12:10
show uh so sway talked about your mom in
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particular you spoke about your parents
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does it help as an artist having like
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having strong rules of foundation at
12:20
home where you don't have to take roles
12:22
that you're really not proud of you know
12:24
because we were speaking to Viola Davis
12:26
a couple weeks ago for the woman King
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and she was saying most actors would be
12:31
happy to get like a commercial because
12:32
it's so hard to book a job and get a job
12:35
but you said your mom mentioned about
12:37
being proud and being prideful and being
12:39
a role model if you will are you
12:41
conflicted at times or does it help
12:43
having your mom's voice in the back of
12:45
your head saying be careful what you put
12:47
out there be careful what you take but
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as an artist you want to work yeah so
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yeah yeah you ever conflicted
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um I think at the beginning I was a
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little conflicted or not necessarily
12:57
conflicted but you know as a youth
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they're
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it's harder to have an understanding of
13:06
what these opportunities mean or or what
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you're presenting yourself as for
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example
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there was there was an audition that I
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had
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for this really really big project I was
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super excited about it and the you know
13:21
casting person had said they won an East
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L.A accent
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and I'm from east L.A born and raised
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I've lived there almost my whole life
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and I don't sound like
13:31
some of these caricatures that we that
13:34
we see in in the cartoons or whatnot and
13:38
there's where am I trying to go out with
13:40
this the the casting director had said
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hey we want you to kind of sound more
13:44
along the lines of Speedy Gonzales like
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that's what we're looking for and this
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is I mean granted this was 10 years ago
13:51
the industry has really changed since
13:53
then but
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I had no register
13:58
no no like Constitution for what that
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meant like what where that came from
14:04
when this person said this what that
14:06
actually meant whether or not the person
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you know meant it right in that in that
14:11
way but I was I remember being so broken
14:13
up about it the fact that I didn't get
14:15
this role because I was like ah damn it
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like I I really wanted this and I
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remember telling my mom about it she was
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like what what'd she say
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she was like what
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like I and I never it I think moments
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like these make me realize like I okay I
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you know I still have a lot to learn
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um but every a everything happens for a
14:36
reason and be the point of I'm I'm
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fortunate enough right now that I don't
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necessarily I'm still 21 I live with my
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family I I you know I have a really
14:49
strong support system thank goodness and
14:51
and the need the necessary to like the
14:55
necessity to pay bills or these types of
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things weren't really in the question
14:59
yeah at first
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um you know now I'm kind of growing up
15:02
and and becoming more independent and
15:05
starting doing things on my own so now
15:06
I'm like
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you know if I you know I I want to kind
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of make some change yeah
15:15
but that never really was it was all
15:18
just for fun at first and I think that
15:21
is really what helped nurture me really
15:24
wanting to do this is that it never was
15:26
my parents weren't trying to live
15:28
vicariously through me my you know there
15:31
wasn't a need to be the breadwinner of
15:33
the house you know I I
15:35
so it was it was really just more about
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hey this is something that I'm
15:39
interested in let me nurture this patch
15:40
on that road okay man uh a solo is here
15:43
you know from Cobra Kai uh Tracy you
15:45
want to ask him a question yeah I'm
15:47
curious shallow because you're 21 but
15:50
you're so well spoken and you have such
15:52
big dreams thank you I'm curious you're
15:53
very welcome
15:54
um in Hollywood do you feel like your
15:57
opinion is embraced by some of those
16:00
folks behind the scenes because you know
16:02
every time there's a new generation
16:03
particularly in gen Z you see all these
16:05
think pieces and it's like oh you're
16:07
defiant blah blah blah but also your age
16:10
can definitely be an asset to you do
16:13
people listen to 21 year olds in
16:15
Hollywood
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um I think it depends on the
16:18
conversations you're in and and
16:20
especially I feel like there's a a
16:22
really large group of
16:24
Hollywood that still I don't know this
16:27
maybe this sounds controversial and I
16:28
hope I don't sound like I'm being
16:29
disrespectful here but like a a more
16:32
traditional
16:33
way of thinking even when it comes to
16:36
things like
16:37
um
16:39
what type of content is being out there
16:40
right I think some of the
16:44
more Progressive and more aggressive
16:48
when it comes to switching things up and
16:50
being disruptive and and making new
16:52
content
16:54
um those conversations sometimes I feel
16:57
like maybe my mind melds a little bit
16:59
better with yeah but overall I'd say I'm
17:03
really appreciative to be alive at this
17:05
time right now there's so much change
17:07
happening in it and it's really easy and
17:09
it's really easy to say like oh you know
17:12
this everything is the worst and I think
17:15
as far when you look at the history of
17:17
things yes we're far
17:20
really far from where we need to be and
17:22
where we should be as as wet as whatever
17:25
you identify as because chances are
17:27
there's like room to be had or work to
17:30
be done
17:31
um but at the same time you know the
17:35
conversations that my voice is being
17:36
heard in right now
17:38
probably wouldn't have been the case 5
17:40
10 15 years ago and definitely not
17:43
before that so so
17:46
um I am like the my voice is being heard
17:49
and it's kind of weird and sometimes it
17:50
is a little uh surreal to be like gosh
17:52
snap I better I better think about this
17:54
now and uh but I yeah I'm a homebody I'm
18:00
like running these conversations in my
18:01
head all the time I I love I love
18:04
talking about these types of things and
18:05
okay good good because I don't want you
18:07
to feel like we just you know this was
18:08
you know we put too much on you oh no
18:10
you know you're my nephew I'm gonna make
18:12
sure you're okay man all right I'm ready
18:14
to go as deep as as whatever we want to
18:16
get into okay then Mike hit him with one
18:17
Mike Muse
18:21
that's funny
18:23
um this is your conversation I find it
18:25
very fascinating and
18:28
um you said something that stuck with me
18:29
and you use the word change I'm just
18:32
curious what does change look like for
18:34
you that you would like to pursue if you
18:36
thought about it because you know I'm
18:38
getting to know your mother through you
18:40
and swaya's conversation she seems to be
18:43
an activist in her own regard but
18:45
sometimes a child's activism platform
18:48
isn't the same as their parents platform
18:50
and so I'm just curious for you what are
18:53
you looking at when you use the word
18:55
change and in a recent conversation um I
18:58
think well in that context I was talking
19:00
about like changing my pocket like I I
19:01
would like a little change
19:05
as in the narrative I didn't know about
19:07
it but there are changes that I do want
19:10
to make you know I I think
19:13
being kind of in the position that I'm
19:15
in right now
19:16
I
19:18
there's
19:21
my goals right now are to open as many
19:23
doors as possible to you know not only
19:26
the people that helped me get to the
19:28
position that I'm in but also just
19:29
anybody trying to get into this industry
19:32
I mean I've lived in Los Angeles my
19:33
whole life but Hollywood feels
19:37
so distant to so many youth adults in in
19:42
California Los Angeles around the world
19:44
even more so because then you're like oh
19:46
[ __ ] no I'm not even in Los Angeles you
19:49
know but
19:50
being able to open the door to as many
19:52
people as possible I think is my goal as
19:55
it stands right now it's not to be the
19:58
biggest actor ever or make the most
20:00
money or work with these people I think
20:03
those are all things that are a
20:05
byproduct of of
20:07
you know working hard and being in the
20:10
right place at the right time and and
20:12
who you know and whatnot but uh getting
20:15
to show people on screen like hey this
20:19
you can do this as well I look like you
20:22
I come from a similar background as you
20:24
that
20:26
I think is where the real change is made
20:28
and then on top of that I think
20:31
the people in positions of power at
20:33
these you know record labels at these
20:36
production companies at these people
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making big decisions those people need
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to be more representative of you know
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the communities that they're trying to
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reach out to so I think if I can make
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any change in those two places then I've
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done a pretty good job and my mom will
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then be proud of me yeah you know then
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be proud of you right yeah she's like
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why are you not doing more why are you
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not working hard I'm like no it's
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Saturday yo let me sleep in
21:03
see something else man hey man I'm
21:05
really proud of you man this young man a
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round of applause different talking to
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you
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um
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we had a full circle moment you know we
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were very instrumental in the Wu-Tang
21:16
Clan success early on Steve Rifkin King
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Tech convinced Steve Rifkin to move to
21:20
Wu-Tang Clan to Northern California so
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we could be a part of the promotion and
21:24
marketing when it wasn't really
21:25
connecting outside of New York and they
21:27
actually did it packed their bags moved
21:29
to Northern California and from there we
21:32
um promoted and marked them down the
21:34
West Coast into L.A and it's one of the
21:37
reasons why our relationship with Rizza
21:39
is so close it's one of the reasons why
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King Tech is the music supervisor on on
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the Wu-Tang Clan Saga that plays on Hulu
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and we had a full circle moment because
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one of those things we were doing back
21:51
then couldn't happen like they did
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without your mom
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and so when this happened Richard wanted
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to incorporate a scene that put that
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portrayed that moment in our all of our
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careers I want to say in season two
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episode eight if I'm not something I
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don't know
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if you said it like you knew it you're
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like I believe it's minute 15. season
22:19
two episode eight season uh scene 34
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frame 34 and solo got a chance to play
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King tech tech really wanted you
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Carmelita's song The A son to play him
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and it was it's still surreal to this
22:34
moment to see you playing King Texas at
22:38
21 minus the beard but some of the
22:40
Beards yeah they got me in the little
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pencil this dog
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the glasses yeah yeah y'all kind of look
22:50
your favorite you know and about the
22:52
size too y'all favorite and so it worked
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out so I'm gonna play that scene real
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quick oh snap of you being King Tech and
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the other young man who played me yeah
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you remember his name
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um I'm not I don't remember his name but
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I will say you uh like you wouldn't I
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feel like it's more often than not the
23:11
casting team just is like all right this
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is the guy but you actually got to yeah
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yeah you chose the guy well yeah we've
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told some people I say man give that kid
23:19
a chance man and and here it is let's
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play a clip of it
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okay one two one two you're tuned into
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the world famous wake up show I'm DJ
23:28
King set and I'm sway we're coming at
23:30
you live broadcasting from 106.1 KMEL
23:34
San Francisco Bay Area everybody listen
23:36
to this brand new boots ain't playing I
23:38
ain't heard that quit playing you know I
23:40
did we gotta call the line too okay we
23:42
got a call I guess we ain't even know we
23:44
was taking calls right now baby we're
23:47
taking calls now you're alive all right
23:49
who we listening to who is this yo
23:53
[Music]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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so before you go I need to know how deep
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does your hip hop knowledge run
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hey shoot shoot yeah yeah I mean dude I
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my both of my parents I mean you know my
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mom I know yeah I've seen so many I love
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hip-hop I love jazz I love music
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um I've seen so many
24:30
freestyles happen yeah where I look in
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the background and I'm like
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why is my mom there
24:38
I'm like what is she doing in the
24:40
background I'm like I'm gonna show her
24:42
I'm like mom you never told me this
24:43
she's like whatever yeah she plays it
24:47
too cool
24:48
um but I I mean I love hip-hop I I
24:51
I think more recently I've kind of
24:53
Diversified it okay in the music that
24:55
I'm into but yeah quiz me ask me you
24:58
know his mother is his mother is in a
25:01
it's a famous video clip of Biggie
25:03
Notorious B.I.G okay freestyling on our
25:07
show the world famous wake up show and
25:08
you'll see a woman that kind of walks by
25:10
Biggie and kind of straightens up the
25:12
microphone she was adjusting Karma Lily
25:14
saw us at the just people's audio and
25:16
stuff and you know doing that and she
25:18
walks out the scene so if you go on
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YouTube right now
25:22
she's in that you see his mom standing
25:24
next to the late great Notorious B.I.G
25:26
that was like one of the last that was
25:28
his last that was the last interview
25:30
last freestyle he ever done live on
25:33
radio and your mom was there with that
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said do you have a favorite Biggie album
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um
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hi I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest I I
25:45
my favorite Biggie album or biggie song
25:50
um hypnotize is one of my favorites all
25:52
right okay kick down the door okay damn
25:55
okay okay stops you good you're good
25:57
okay you're good yeah those two about to
25:59
show up um
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but I I
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don't know I I I'm unfortunate not sadly
26:06
to say I don't know you're 21. okay you
26:08
know he's been gone longer than you've
26:10
been alive that was fine that was fine
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um who's
26:14
um are you familiar with Duck Down
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Records Down Records I I am not Duck
26:18
Down Records Duck Down Records oh yeah
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my mind me my mom we got yeah we have I
26:23
think she has a jumpsuit yeah a duck
26:25
down you know jumpsuit merch yeah yeah
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yeah
26:29
Sean P Smith and Wesson all of those
26:32
guys boot camp click right who who from
26:36
the 90s era music that uh you tend to
26:39
gravitate towards more
26:41
um tribe is 90s Tribe Called Quest for
26:43
sure tribe uh Busta yeah 90s
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um
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let me think who else
26:51
is is red man yeah yeah absolutely
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okay
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okay yeah but that's crazy you want to
27:01
hit him with one yeah I'm actually gonna
27:03
go in a different direction are you a
27:05
Rams fan a Rams fan yeah I'm not a
27:07
football guy honestly at all no Raiders
27:11
nothing I couldn't tell you a position
27:14
so what sports do you like baseball I
27:17
like baseball wow I like tennis too it's
27:20
a bit I'm not mad at that yeah yeah I'm
27:22
not so what's your baseball team the
27:23
Dodgers oh okay yeah
27:25
we had a debate this morning that's why
27:28
because I told him there's no real Rams
27:29
Fans out there okay sway's raid is
27:31
obviously being from the Bay Las Vegas
27:33
though whatever that means so you were
27:36
talking about I was just wondering
27:37
um you know what but okay go Dodges but
27:40
I will say I did go to the Super Bowl
27:41
game when they won that was really we
27:45
were there experience now we were the
27:46
first football game ever and and the Los
27:50
Angeles Rams won and I was like that's
27:52
my team
27:55
and we're all conjoined in celebration
27:56
we're familiar yeah uh okay last
27:59
question okay Clippers or Lakers
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uh really sway or Warriors oh I don't
28:07
care if he likes the Warriors or not
28:08
we're still the Champs
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we're we're
28:15
um he's he said baseball or tennis okay
28:17
Clippers Warriors or Lakers they've all
28:19
Cali teams okay
28:22
um I guess I would say the Lakers
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okay
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now if you was time to go but thank you
28:29
brother nah nah but man congratulations
28:31
we didn't even get a chance to talk
28:32
about Blue Beetle I'm excited for that
28:34
show I'm excited for that film uh how
28:37
did you get it
28:39
um it was uh it was a lot of meetings
28:42
and stuff a lot it happened over the
28:43
pandemic a lot of the work behind the
28:46
scenes and and talking to everyone
28:49
involved uh but it was the news was
28:53
broken to me over at dinner yeah they
28:55
they got together I thought my meeting
28:57
was with one person and I got to the
28:59
dinner table and there and everyone from
29:00
the movie was there they were like hey
29:02
do you want to do this part right then I
29:05
started crying you started crying you
29:08
literally started crying yeah yeah cause
29:10
you understood the magnitude of playing
29:11
this character
29:12
um well I mean I was I got punked I was
29:15
really scared because I was like this is
29:17
not what I had like I feel like when it
29:20
comes to these important meetings I have
29:22
an emotional like a like a a Readiness
29:25
that I come into the meeting with and if
29:26
anything gets thrown off I'm like oh my
29:29
gosh this was not part of the plan and
29:32
this was as far away from the plan as I
29:35
was supposed to meet with one person a
29:37
general meeting get to know and I see
29:39
the director the writer The Producers
29:41
the head of DC films and they're like
29:44
hey and and I and then yeah I just
29:47
started crying because I was like this
29:48
is this is it that's amazing come home
29:50
right that's great for you yeah it's
29:52
okay to cry Solo's gonna play Blue
29:54
Beetle man that's incredible man nephew
29:56
I'm proud of you bro thank you you're an
29:59
amazing individual you're amazing on
30:01
your own too but you do have amazing
30:04
parents there we go
30:07
tell your father send my love to your
30:09
dad too okay and of course your mom man
30:11
so I'm proud of you man thank you all
30:13
right give this man a big round of
30:15
applause and next time I come in when we
30:17
do press for Blue Beetle I'll I'll the
30:19
three Fingers of Death yeah man
30:21
otherwise yeah man I'm gonna have to put
30:23
Uncle rank on that one bro all right
30:25
okay next time
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