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Lamman Rucker- co-starred in OWN’s “Greenleaf” and starring in OWN’s “Cooking Up Christmas.” · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: can offer direction and help you reach your goals through
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Speaker 1: your planning and committed effort. My next guess is Lamon
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Speaker 1: Rucker old friend. He's an actor, educated activist, an entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: whose career platform has used and has been used to influence, educate,
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Speaker 1: and ignite communities through artistic and academic innovation. Lamon is
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Speaker 1: starting in a new Christmas movie on their Own network
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Speaker 1: entitled Cooking Up Christmas. He plays a professional baseball player,
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Speaker 1: Donovan Jackson, who was a single dad of three and
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Speaker 1: even a living chef to get him through the holidays
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Speaker 1: with the kids. The chef role is played by Megan Holder.
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Speaker 1: She starts as an Atlanta based chef at a fine
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Speaker 1: dining restaurant who gets fired just weeks before Christmas, and
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Speaker 1: reluctantly the takes this job off her. Cooking Up Christmas
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Speaker 1: premieres Tuesday, December fifteen and nine pm Eastern on Own.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to my moneymaking Conversation show, My man, Lamar Rocker. Man,
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Speaker 1: what's good? Thanks for having me man? Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, we we we we we have said with agreedlea.
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Speaker 1: We've been talking a lot for the last couple of years.
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Speaker 1: Has been very very good to the Rocker Halsehold has
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Speaker 1: been yeah, yeah, yeah, and I would I would love
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Speaker 1: to say, and vice versa. You know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I try to try to be an asset everywhere I go.
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Speaker 1: So absolutely blessed and thankful, grateful to the Own lions Gate,
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Speaker 1: Harpo family for um UM for believing in me and
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Speaker 1: seeing the value that I can bring to UH, to
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Speaker 1: the work that they're creating. And I'm incredibly excited. I
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Speaker 1: think this is literally just the tippity Iceberg. I would
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Speaker 1: love to continue to do some some wonderful things in that,
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Speaker 1: you know, in that family of of of allies, you know,
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Speaker 1: so shout out to Discovery UM, you know as well. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know everybody involved, So don't be surprised, man, I'm
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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully be on some that geo stuff and
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Speaker 1: everything else. I'm like, you know, some cooking shows. You
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Speaker 1: might be building houses and gardening and who knows what,
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Speaker 1: like whatever, whatever. Don't don't get me excited that lament
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Speaker 1: because you know, relationships financial, you know, planning and travel
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Speaker 1: and like let's let's do it. Let's well, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's that's what we kind of say it off area
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Speaker 1: because our relationship goes way back, man. You know any
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Speaker 1: time I we've been on panels together for the Black
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Speaker 1: Back Black UH Movie Festival here in Atlanta, when I'd
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Speaker 1: asked you to come down to Disney for the Disney Dreamers.
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Speaker 1: You've always been a person who had value in conversation,
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Speaker 1: value and effort. You know, it was a lot of
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Speaker 1: people they say they do you do what you say?
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Speaker 1: Why is that important to you and your brand and
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Speaker 1: why it's important to educate young people moving forward? Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is is where is
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Speaker 1: the last part of that question is it's the value.
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Speaker 1: It's it's your value and your understanding of your responsibility
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Speaker 1: to serve, you know, serve young people, serve peers. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, you and I serve one another. We love
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Speaker 1: and support and encourage and empowering up lift each other. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know that the branding is completely secondary. I believe
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Speaker 1: if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, if
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Speaker 1: you're being who you're supposed to be, if you're walking
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Speaker 1: and living and your love and your life on a
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Speaker 1: regular basis, your brand will be shaped around you, not
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Speaker 1: you having to try to be something you're not just
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Speaker 1: because it's gonna sell or look good or profit you
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Speaker 1: in some way. So I do my best to work
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Speaker 1: from the inside out, not the outside in. And that's
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Speaker 1: been my walk to just be authentic to who I am,
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Speaker 1: to use my voice, um, you know, to speak for truth,
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Speaker 1: to speak to equality to speak to education and um,
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Speaker 1: you know, empowerment and equality for all people. So in
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Speaker 1: all the various ways that I try to do that, Um,
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Speaker 1: that's really what's important to me. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: important for everybody to find and identify what their walk
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Speaker 1: is and how their voices and how they fight for
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Speaker 1: faith and how they fight for fulfillment and uh, and
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Speaker 1: how they fight for freedom well as awesome when when
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Speaker 1: I look at our relationship and look at your you know,
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Speaker 1: your producer you know, and uh, actors. Sometimes a lot
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Speaker 1: of people look at an actor said, that's all they
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Speaker 1: do is act. But you've been an entrepreneur in my life.
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Speaker 1: You've been an activist in my life. Now this movie here,
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Speaker 1: we know pandemic has been raging this year and you
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Speaker 1: just came off the very successful series green Leaf. How
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Speaker 1: is that? You know, we always want to be involved
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Speaker 1: with projects that are special to me. That felt like
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Speaker 1: a very special series. And you know you've done a
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Speaker 1: lot of significant work. Don't don't get me wrong, you know,
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Speaker 1: because I know your resume. But how whether that onether
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Speaker 1: that that relationship with that series landing your career? Oh man,
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Speaker 1: it's what's what you just gave me chills because uh,
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Speaker 1: and I just became aware of the chill right as
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Speaker 1: I was about to open my mouth. But uh, it's
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Speaker 1: real deep how you know what life uh not just
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Speaker 1: does for you, but what it does in you. And
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Speaker 1: and I found a very very poetic timing, if you will,
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Speaker 1: with the work that has uh come my way and
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Speaker 1: the work that I've chosen to do. This isn't just
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Speaker 1: somebody plucking you and saying I like you, I want
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Speaker 1: you and then you just say you know, it's a
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Speaker 1: relationship and it's an agreement to say, Okay, you want
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Speaker 1: me to be there, and you think I'm your guy,
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Speaker 1: let me make sure i'm your guy because if I
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Speaker 1: say yes, I've got work to do. I've got a
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Speaker 1: duty to you, I've got an obligation to you. But
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Speaker 1: I want to have fun with you. I want us
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Speaker 1: to do something profound and I want to be able
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Speaker 1: to authentically bring myself, bring my gift, bring my voice
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Speaker 1: to you to elevate what we're gonna do together. And
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Speaker 1: that um the timing of green leaf, uh and even
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Speaker 1: my own personal wife of faith, of fatherhood, of husbandhood,
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Speaker 1: of you know, brother hood, UM whatever a service UM
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Speaker 1: really had a really interesting actually contrast in many ways,
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Speaker 1: but also an interesting parallel to Jacob's you know, um life,
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Speaker 1: to Jacob's walk, to his process of self discovery, um
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Speaker 1: you know, him trying to figure out who he is
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Speaker 1: and what he is and how to you know, create
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Speaker 1: his own identity aside from you know, all these other
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Speaker 1: people in this family. Family. But it ain't no small
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Speaker 1: you know, and it's and as regular as we are,
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Speaker 1: which is what we all made a commitment to do,
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Speaker 1: is like no, no, no no, We're gonna show that this
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Speaker 1: this family is real regularly are normal, regular folks. I
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Speaker 1: got regular, real stuff like any other family. Let's focus
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Speaker 1: on that. You know, if we focused on that, all
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Speaker 1: the other fabulousness about us, you know, we'll just be
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Speaker 1: icing on the cake. But let's be the cake, not
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Speaker 1: the icing, you know what I'm saying, Not just trying
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Speaker 1: to be the little fancy, cute sweet cherry on top.
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Speaker 1: Let's be you know, let's give this some real density
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Speaker 1: and structure and flavor and you know, really let it.
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Speaker 1: Let this be a rich moist gate that you want
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Speaker 1: more and more and more of. So that it was
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun doing that, and it was a
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Speaker 1: great character exploration. Wonderful to play somebody who I believe
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Speaker 1: was a really magnificent example of the beauty and brilliance
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Speaker 1: of black family and even of a black man, to
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Speaker 1: show that even in his flaws, and however he might
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Speaker 1: screw up the time of time and make poor decisions,
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Speaker 1: at his core, Um, you saw how you know, you
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Speaker 1: you saw how incredibly wonderful he was, and you were
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Speaker 1: praying for him and um, hoping that he would succeed,
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Speaker 1: and and knowing that he wanted to do better, and
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Speaker 1: you wanted what he wanted for him. Actually you wanted
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Speaker 1: more than he may have even wanted for himself. And
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Speaker 1: that's so very true. That's true, very true. And then
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Speaker 1: watch him go through it was the fun of it.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time we've got we keep these you know,
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Speaker 1: barricades up, or we put these facades up so you
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Speaker 1: can't really see the truth. And I tried at least
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Speaker 1: let us do this and at some point remove that
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Speaker 1: veil altogether and really let people kind of see the heart.
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Speaker 1: Um uh, you know, in the trials and tribulations. That's
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Speaker 1: why I love that character for you, Lamar, That's why
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Speaker 1: I love that character for you, because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm mad. I get mad. I got mad at you. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, right, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: You walk into Harvard, you know, you know, apartment with
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Speaker 1: this chick. Come on, come on, loan, I'm talking to
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Speaker 1: the screen. I'm talking to Saxa exactly. Stop. Stop. That's
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Speaker 1: what too. Man. There's so many men, you know. It's
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Speaker 1: been great that on occasies like you know, they like
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Speaker 1: of course the dominant fan base of women around the
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Speaker 1: world is great, you know, but to have you know,
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Speaker 1: a very equitable admiration and respect and appreciation of the
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Speaker 1: men you know around the world, not just brothers and
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Speaker 1: black men especially, you know, but even to have them
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Speaker 1: roll up and be like, hey, hey bro, I appreciate you. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know, yelling at you from across the street. I
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Speaker 1: see you dog, keep doing what you think you know,
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Speaker 1: but whatever, just all flow down. Stop man, full up.
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Speaker 1: I think I've got countless warning from don't do it.
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Speaker 1: Wait you know, things like that. Absolutely, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. And you need to handle that little girl. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, hey, girls, ain't no joke.
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Speaker 1: It's tough in so many ways that Jacob uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: so many other men identified with him, and I thought
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Speaker 1: it was aporting me a lot of pride to tell
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Speaker 1: the truth in that way and for that the resonation.
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Speaker 1: And then I thought port lamar on their character because
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Speaker 1: you know, a daughter and the okay and so and
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Speaker 1: that that that role that you played, that male figure,
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Speaker 1: and we all know how that plays out in the
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Speaker 1: black community. You know, what what is the young lady
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Speaker 1: think of our dad? What is the right the young
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Speaker 1: man think of the role of how his dad treated women?
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Speaker 1: And all those things. You know, it's a really great stories.
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Speaker 1: You know, I hope people go and created and executed
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Speaker 1: scial out to you know, uh to to Craig Right
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Speaker 1: and and Oprah and Clement Virgo as well in particular
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Speaker 1: Chris turn of Towns and you know all the other
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Speaker 1: people that we've got, um again writing stories are incredible
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Speaker 1: writing team, all of our other directors and of course
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Speaker 1: you know my acting, you know, my other peers on screen.
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Speaker 1: But there's so many countless people that were involved in
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Speaker 1: telling that story. Um. But yeah, just the creation of it,
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Speaker 1: support behind it and uh, cinematograph. I mean, it's just
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Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful old piece of piece of art
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Speaker 1: you know, lives on. Well, uh, well I think it's
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Speaker 1: a countless ageless classic. I really do. It definitely is.
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Speaker 1: And let's go on, just cooking up Christmas here, cooking up.
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Speaker 1: There's Tuesday December fifty on on at nine pm. You
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Speaker 1: know it's family. You got some more kids now show.
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Speaker 1: But you just bite yourself this time. You handsome athletes
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Speaker 1: got you, that's right, You got all the things that's
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Speaker 1: just say, be successful. You got you got the beautiful kids,
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Speaker 1: the house, your successful athlete. But there's no woman now
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Speaker 1: this ye, you got money, all this stuff that's supposed
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Speaker 1: to make you whole, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, So
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Speaker 1: tell us how this movie came on your came on
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Speaker 1: your desk, and how you are the opportunity presented itself
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Speaker 1: to you? And did you shoot it during COVID or
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Speaker 1: before COVID? Indeed during COVID. So that was that was
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Speaker 1: crazy too. I mean, getting tested, temperature checks every day,
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Speaker 1: and and you know the whole crew and uh, everybody's
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Speaker 1: got masks and shields and you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And you gotta remember in between takes and after in
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Speaker 1: between set ups, like oh we put my mask back
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Speaker 1: on you know, let me wash my hands, I'll let
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Speaker 1: me do this. And it's you know, and social distancing
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Speaker 1: and yeah, it was, it was. It was an undertaking,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um, and I uh it was, it was something.
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Speaker 1: And I did three projects actually during um, you know,
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Speaker 1: during during covid um and uh, they were they were
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Speaker 1: they were different. It was, it was it was quite
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Speaker 1: a different march. Um. But you know, but this coming about, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know again, shout out again to the
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Speaker 1: entire uh Oprah family, you know, shout out to the
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Speaker 1: whole thaige core family, you know, living Hope, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody in the process and you know, uh on my
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Speaker 1: team you know as well. And it just ended up
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Speaker 1: being a great uh, a great match, great marriage. My
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Speaker 1: man Roger Bob also directed. Yeah that's also that's awesome.
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Speaker 1: That was icing on the cake the show man actually
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Speaker 1: County Psychs Deacon Psychs, you know, played by Jenn Harper Lays.
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Speaker 1: Jen plays my mother in this film, so okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: and uh and and my man a lot who also
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Speaker 1: plays one of our deacons. Uh. He plays Uncle Buck
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Speaker 1: go back home, and and yes, and so how did
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Speaker 1: you walk through the this? Because I have to put
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Speaker 1: the word courage in front of your name, Okay, because
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Speaker 1: this is a courageous action. You know, it's for your craft.
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Speaker 1: It's also to put food on the table. How it's
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Speaker 1: a courageous action about you. Let's talk about mentally where
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Speaker 1: you were at physically you know you could do it.
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Speaker 1: Put the mental part the challenge and then with the
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Speaker 1: amount of time that we had to shoot. So you know,
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Speaker 1: everything now is being so condensed, wanting because you are
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Speaker 1: also trying to not only minimize costs, but minimize this,
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Speaker 1: expose your risks and all that. So you're literally working
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Speaker 1: virtually every day for a month, maybe with one day
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Speaker 1: off every six you know, seven days or something like that.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Um, the hours are crazy,
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Speaker 1: So you've got to take care of your body and
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Speaker 1: be careful about being fatigued and make sure you're getting
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Speaker 1: a proper rest and recovery and nutrition, you know, just
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Speaker 1: so you can do the job let alone. You've got
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Speaker 1: to be careful not to make yourself vulnerable to getting
18:21
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, to getting sick because even if you
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Speaker 1: were to contract anything. And again it's getting chilly, the
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Speaker 1: season is changing, even screwed up the environment so much
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Speaker 1: even the animals are confused, you know what I'm saying. So, um,
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Speaker 1: you've got a lot of things you've got to be
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Speaker 1: aware of and not trying not to say, be aware
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Speaker 1: of instead aware of and so as courageous a walk
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Speaker 1: it is if you're if you're comfortable, if you create confidence,
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Speaker 1: also setting that example for others, and then yeah, holding
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Speaker 1: other people as well as um, those that are responsible
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Speaker 1: for creating the environment to keep you safety, keep you safe,
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Speaker 1: and to focus on that safety and having these protocols
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Speaker 1: in place, you start to be able to just kind
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Speaker 1: of relax and not think and worry so much about it.
19:20
Speaker 1: You know, you have COVID compliance officers on set UM.
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Speaker 1: You know, again, we get tested on a regular basis
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Speaker 1: as well. And there was one person that I recall
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Speaker 1: that actually UM didn't necessarily test positive, but they thankfully
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Speaker 1: openly reported that. I think they either lived with somebody
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Speaker 1: that just worked with somebody who had a positive test
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Speaker 1: contract and then they isolated that person, I believe, or
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Speaker 1: a b C d E and then, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. So I think that people are doing the
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Speaker 1: best they can because again, they also don't want to
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Speaker 1: get shut down, right. That's why I was really great
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Speaker 1: that that person appreciate our unions and I appreciate the
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Speaker 1: entities that are there to hold people accountable, you know,
20:08
Speaker 1: because that doesn't allow them to be irresponsible, or to
20:12
Speaker 1: be laxed, or to be negent, you know, not to
20:15
Speaker 1: mention just personally, regardless of what rules there are, how
20:18
Speaker 1: you choose to get down, you know, and how you flow,
20:22
Speaker 1: you know, should be at a consistent standard, no matter
20:25
Speaker 1: what are the rules somebody else is making, you know,
20:27
Speaker 1: I was saying the other day matter that we're talking
20:29
Speaker 1: about cops and law enforcement on an earlier interview, for example,
20:32
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I wasn't. I wasn't afraid of the
20:34
Speaker 1: cops when I was like, when I was younger, I
20:37
Speaker 1: would worry about the law of the house, for the
20:39
Speaker 1: law of family, you know, so regardless of what other
20:42
Speaker 1: laws and rules and protocols there are around you, you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: in these systems, that really matters is how you govern yourself.
20:51
Speaker 1: You know. Um, you know, independent of that cool cooking
20:55
Speaker 1: of Christmas, this is about food. This is about Christmas time. Now,
21:00
Speaker 1: let's let's let's go and have some fun here, Okay. No,
21:05
Speaker 1: I know, because because she's a she's a chef, and
21:08
Speaker 1: then it's the story about because you know, the thing
21:10
Speaker 1: about black families, food is like especially during the holiday season,
21:14
Speaker 1: you know, all we think about it. I'm sure every
21:16
Speaker 1: family thinks about those plates, talk about the Every culture
21:23
Speaker 1: is a centerpiece. Food and family is the centerpiece of
21:28
Speaker 1: any you know, so and so. To me, to me,
21:32
Speaker 1: this is the worst thing that could come your way.
21:34
Speaker 1: You know, you in COVID doing a TV show, a
21:38
Speaker 1: movie's movie that's gonna be airing on own on December
21:41
Speaker 1: fifteen and food is the center and it's romance. So
21:46
Speaker 1: again again it's romantic and COVID food, you and COVID.
21:50
Speaker 1: So it's like, this is a beautiful movie concept, but
21:53
Speaker 1: all these uh, the safety protocols are sitting that you
21:57
Speaker 1: can't really be romantic, that you really can't talk about
22:02
Speaker 1: that man kind. We were kind of like, well, you know,
22:07
Speaker 1: like I always have these conversations with my leading ladies. Anyway,
22:10
Speaker 1: it's just like, okay, so how can I touch your
22:15
Speaker 1: ultimate one with one another or into each other or
22:18
Speaker 1: married for years or whatever. All right, let's talk about
22:21
Speaker 1: our you know, boundaries. And so now it's almost almost
22:26
Speaker 1: like assumed, well almost like well, all right, well obviously
22:28
Speaker 1: we ain't gonna be touching each other again, gonna be
22:30
Speaker 1: kissed with each other. So how we're gonna do this
22:32
Speaker 1: without making it weird or making it, you know, not
22:36
Speaker 1: look fluid and sincere and warm and romantic. So again
22:41
Speaker 1: you start to figure out how to do that with
22:43
Speaker 1: these adjustments. But yeah, it was tough. You see all
22:45
Speaker 1: this food and you want to be like, yeah, it
22:47
Speaker 1: passed me to such a such and you know, pass
22:50
Speaker 1: this instead. All the foods covered we got masks on.
22:54
Speaker 1: You can't touch each other's utensils. And I mean it's
22:57
Speaker 1: like the whole point of this timing year typically is
23:01
Speaker 1: this roximity. It's this, It's this intimacy, it's just sharing.
23:06
Speaker 1: It's this, you know what I mean. It's yeah, it's
23:08
Speaker 1: the fact that I ain't seeing you all year or
23:11
Speaker 1: maybe in years. So now we're gonna be all over
23:14
Speaker 1: each other's family, on top of each other, kids on
23:17
Speaker 1: your last plane. That's what. That's the right the kids,
23:21
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you know you're you're an athlete,
23:23
Speaker 1: and you know your dad's home and run up to you.
23:27
Speaker 1: That can't happen. You know, you're sitting on the sofa,
23:29
Speaker 1: you know, jump on you know that can't happen. So
23:32
Speaker 1: it really you really got now you really got to
23:35
Speaker 1: think about the acting steps, the acting techniques and thought
23:38
Speaker 1: and things. Is taking it beyond normalcy to COVID and eighteen. Yeah,
23:44
Speaker 1: it's tricky, but but again, everybody, please have the discipline
23:49
Speaker 1: to do things differently than you know this year. Trust me,
23:53
Speaker 1: it's okay. The sooner we have that discipline that than
23:58
Speaker 1: this year and a probably even next year, you know,
24:02
Speaker 1: but I'd rather sacrifice the comforts that we're accustomed to
24:07
Speaker 1: for however, so many prior decades or centuries or generations.
24:10
Speaker 1: I'd rather sacrifice these two years in order to get
24:14
Speaker 1: the best of some of those traditions back. But if
24:18
Speaker 1: we don't have the discipline, it won't just take one
24:21
Speaker 1: or two years, it will take five to twenty will
24:23
Speaker 1: never get ourselves back on track. Some things we probably
24:26
Speaker 1: should do a little differently, you know. So this is
24:29
Speaker 1: probably gonna teach us some new lessons and maybe some
24:31
Speaker 1: new traditions and that are also be discovered. But yeah,
24:35
Speaker 1: we want to get back to the stuff that's that's
24:37
Speaker 1: really warm and really then you know, about being loving
24:41
Speaker 1: human beings because you brought this earlier about the home life.
24:45
Speaker 1: You know a lot of things that we got away
24:47
Speaker 1: from what is higgs and washing your hands and all
24:50
Speaker 1: those things, because you know, they've always said doing the flu,
24:53
Speaker 1: if you just wash your hands, that would cut down
24:56
Speaker 1: or you're getting the flu. That's always been stated, okay,
24:59
Speaker 1: And so wearing a mask is part of the bard
25:02
Speaker 1: is just an upgrade to washing your hands all the time.
25:05
Speaker 1: But so so we're not asking people to do anything
25:08
Speaker 1: outside of normalcy other than other than you can't hug everybody.
25:12
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, and you can't hug everybody.
25:14
Speaker 1: Be more mindful of that. And so when you come up,
25:17
Speaker 1: when you gotta show the movie coming out like cooking
25:19
Speaker 1: up Christmas, like I said again, premiers uh Decenter fifteen
25:23
Speaker 1: owned stars my man Lamar Rutger who has been in everything,
25:27
Speaker 1: and uh and then from an activist, well if you
25:30
Speaker 1: had to say anything, and and just wrapping up because
25:32
Speaker 1: I can never just talk to you about your projects
25:34
Speaker 1: because you are like you was honored this year by
25:37
Speaker 1: uh Cafe Moke Radio. I saw that when you were
25:40
Speaker 1: honored so and I was really I was proud. I
25:42
Speaker 1: watched that and you know he's on the big screen
25:44
Speaker 1: and lending love was talking to you and everything, and
25:47
Speaker 1: those are the moments man, that UH makes me feel
25:50
Speaker 1: good about you, man, makes me feel good about the
25:52
Speaker 1: relationship I have with you. We've raded over the year.
25:55
Speaker 1: Tell us about being honored by Cafe Moke Radio. Well,
25:59
Speaker 1: I mean that then a lot, man. I mean, that's
26:01
Speaker 1: that's part of what I was saying earlier. Man. Um,
26:04
Speaker 1: you know, you know how it is as as a
26:05
Speaker 1: black man, and there's I mean, aside from again obviously
26:09
Speaker 1: shining on each other and knowing how wonderful we are
26:13
Speaker 1: as black men. Um. Having the love and support, um
26:16
Speaker 1: and encouragement of your sisters and of your you know,
26:21
Speaker 1: a black the black woman in general is incredibly powerful.
26:25
Speaker 1: So my respect for the ladies over there and what
26:28
Speaker 1: they've been doing over the years, Um, the lives that
26:31
Speaker 1: they're living, the legacies that they're building, and the fact
26:34
Speaker 1: that they also now created this vehicle to support and
26:38
Speaker 1: acknowledge and uplift other people as well. It's incredibly powerful things.
26:43
Speaker 1: So I was wonderfully honored um always uh, you know,
26:47
Speaker 1: entertained by by the gifts and personalities of a girl
26:53
Speaker 1: Lonnie and uh you know the rest of the crew
26:55
Speaker 1: over there. Um. So you know, when we do this,
26:59
Speaker 1: even when you and I, this is always this is
27:01
Speaker 1: part of this is part of the love. But this
27:03
Speaker 1: is also part of the accountability. You know. We know
27:06
Speaker 1: that when we're out here walking our walk, that would
27:09
Speaker 1: representing each other, you know, and every opportunity we get,
27:12
Speaker 1: whether it's this direct or not, you know, it's always
27:16
Speaker 1: about like, hey, how can I you know, make sure
27:20
Speaker 1: I'm showing love, supporting and shining like on what this
27:23
Speaker 1: person is doing because if they're doing something wonderful, then
27:27
Speaker 1: and they're also a reflection of me and a reflection
27:30
Speaker 1: of so many of the other people who are out
27:32
Speaker 1: there doing something wonderful. So let's let's tell the story.
27:35
Speaker 1: Let's show that, um, this great stuff has happening. You know.
27:39
Speaker 1: Look look, you know, look around. You know, so even
27:42
Speaker 1: my organization, the Black Gents, like that's what we're about.
27:45
Speaker 1: And it's like, yo, like, look at the look at
27:47
Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald, Look at the Rashan McDonald's of the world.
27:51
Speaker 1: Look at the other men out here doing what we
27:53
Speaker 1: know black men do and what we know black men
27:55
Speaker 1: do on the regular. Hey, what are our sisters doing?
27:58
Speaker 1: What are our mothers and daughter is and you know
28:01
Speaker 1: and lovers and grandmothers and whatever, what are they doing? Okay,
28:05
Speaker 1: let's shine on our women. Let's uphold and uh and
28:09
Speaker 1: love and you know, support. Like whatever our women and
28:13
Speaker 1: sisters and children are doing, how can we do that?
28:16
Speaker 1: Like that's like that's an incredible way to uh to
28:20
Speaker 1: live and breathe. And anybody that's part of that type
28:24
Speaker 1: of love proposition, anybody that's out here, um, fighting for
28:28
Speaker 1: what's right, even when nobody's looking like. Those are the
28:31
Speaker 1: stories I'm always open to telling. And those are the
28:34
Speaker 1: people that I love to lock arms with. You know,
28:37
Speaker 1: So you're speaking a lock of in this march with you,
28:40
Speaker 1: bro if I've always you know, as as a famous
28:43
Speaker 1: um work where you locking arms like this, you know
28:47
Speaker 1: he's reaching down like that. I've always envisioned that being
28:51
Speaker 1: the role you playing, like because like like I said that,
28:54
Speaker 1: he's more than an actor. He's an activist. He's a
28:57
Speaker 1: he's a community uplifter. I'm gonna make up of where
29:00
Speaker 1: he's in the community uplift there. That's what he does.
29:02
Speaker 1: All the times I've asked him, all the times I
29:05
Speaker 1: didn't ask him, he's called. But his brother has been
29:08
Speaker 1: to Dollars with me, to Steve Harvard camps. He's been
29:11
Speaker 1: to Orlando with me, to the Disney Dreamers. These are
29:15
Speaker 1: these kids, Okay. He set aside the time I've been
29:18
Speaker 1: sitting on board much with him talking about how to
29:20
Speaker 1: break into the film industry in Atlanta. So I got
29:24
Speaker 1: a track record with him and showing what he's done
29:27
Speaker 1: in the black gents and him being an entrepreneur, and
29:30
Speaker 1: and they were, like said, these interviews always fun with
29:32
Speaker 1: me because, like I said, we talked about his role
29:35
Speaker 1: and what he's doing on the screen, but it always
29:37
Speaker 1: drips back to the man he is off the screen
29:39
Speaker 1: and cooking up Christmas is just an opportunity to see
29:42
Speaker 1: his talents December fifteen on the Old Network. But more importantly,
29:46
Speaker 1: what he's doing off the camera. You know, when he's
29:49
Speaker 1: doing walking down the street, when you're going, hey Jacob Steep,
29:52
Speaker 1: rocking boy, I love you and Green keep left the
29:58
Speaker 1: brother your community up and left the lament. Thank you, bron.
30:01
Speaker 1: I really want to thank my legure man. Thanks always.
30:04
Speaker 1: So you know, so uh so much fun to be
30:07
Speaker 1: here with your bag. Like literally, we could do this
30:09
Speaker 1: even with there were no cameras or whatever. Man, we'd
30:12
Speaker 1: be just chopping it up, you know what I mean.
30:14
Speaker 1: And we don't chop it up. Like I said, I'll
30:15
Speaker 1: turn you off air. Don't do this, man, just sit
30:18
Speaker 1: around Atlanta. All that stuff you were talking about. We
30:22
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30:24
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30:26
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