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Hassan Johnson visits to discuss starring in Showtime's new comedy "Flatbush Misdemeanors. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: and I was so excited. And when they first booked
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  Speaker 1: him on the show, on this new show flash Bush, Flatbush, misdemeanor,
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  Speaker 1: this Aaron on Showtime, I said, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: I got to see the episode before I interview him,
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  Speaker 1: Lord and Mercy. I'm glad. I wait, I'm glad I
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  Speaker 1: pushed forward before he is breaking out fund But see,
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  Speaker 1: here's the cool thing, because I gotta give his credit
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  Speaker 1: because I just want to give us from love before
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  Speaker 1: we get started. Because his name is Hassan Johnson. Hassan
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  Speaker 1: has been seen in many rows from the Wire Brooklyn Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Now hear what I'm saying that that had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with funny them two roles. That has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with a comedian. He recently wrapped a recurrent role
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  Speaker 1: and they hit ABC Drama for Life. No comedy there, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just setting you up for where we're going with this
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  Speaker 1: journey with Hassan. But he's recently seen in the comedic
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  Speaker 1: Chops okay, Tracy Morgan in The Last o g You
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  Speaker 1: might have saw him in Top five Okay. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: in this new show, Flat Bush Misdemeanor, which premiers May
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  Speaker 1: twenty three at ten thirty pm on Eastern Standard Time
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  Speaker 1: and Pacific on Showtime. You know his characters drew a bold,
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  Speaker 1: direct man who's extremely protective of his loved one, in
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  Speaker 1: particularly his niece. His demand is coming comflict with his
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  Speaker 1: livelihood of both Kevin and my man damn them two brothers.
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  Speaker 1: They lead character, they wrote it, they directed, the executive
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  Speaker 1: produced the whole series. Are fantastic, please working with the
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  Speaker 1: money make conversation for the first time, the very fun
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say y'all, the very funny and talented Hassan Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing? Oh man? They were introduction. Thank you, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad they definitely showed you the episode first man.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the bonus says, because you know, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to book you too, that's the awesome ball And I
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  Speaker 1: went hold on, he got a new show, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I hate coming on there talking about something I
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  Speaker 1: don't know nothing about. And you know, it'd be just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of air, hot air getting blown around. I understand, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I respected with you'll do the don't
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  Speaker 1: want me coming on the show, just revealing the pilot
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  Speaker 1: and don't matter nobody watches. Well, let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: all this. We're gonna talk in like you know, in
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  Speaker 1: evergreen term generic terms about the pilot. But the pilot
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  Speaker 1: his historical and this boy right here, this ball right
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  Speaker 1: here I'm talking to right here is uh he played.
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  Speaker 1: He stayed in the little genre little thug, look thug,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but boy he funny man talk about man.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the series, and then we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: back to when I first encountered you on the wire.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a journeyman long journey of excellent opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: But you can get, like it says, stereotype into certain roles,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about you coming out of that and
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  Speaker 1: and just being uh, just super funny. I'm hoping this
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  Speaker 1: is the character that you're doing, it becomes a hit series,
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  Speaker 1: so you can really really show people your range. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about flask Bush misdemeanor and your character Drew well ce
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  Speaker 1: Drew uncle Drew. As you'll get to know, he is
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  Speaker 1: uncle to the little girls ain't and not so little
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  Speaker 1: girls ain't on this show because she had a mean
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  Speaker 1: punch boy. So anyway, Uncle Drew brings, I like to say,
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  Speaker 1: this balance to an array of this like dysfunctional characters. Right,
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  Speaker 1: because then while he's so overprotective of Zanta, he's this
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  Speaker 1: tough guy that's put the central tough god mean god
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  Speaker 1: he he this is a fairness in him that that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna explore that, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 1: he encounters Kevin and Dan and they start to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the fairness that is who who Drew is. But he
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  Speaker 1: brings this this balance to this dysfunction and then vary
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  Speaker 1: lies his own this function because he's so over protectular
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  Speaker 1: Inzana and he's about his education and you get to
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  Speaker 1: discovery why well, you know, the beauty of the characters
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  Speaker 1: is written by Kearn and Dan exaction. You know it
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  Speaker 1: really uh, it's it's a it's shot a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: The comedy is real. You know, they say street language,
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  Speaker 1: they say the N word, you know, they go there
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  Speaker 1: with the with the with the regular vernacular, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sagging pains. Ah, it's the look of the streets, and
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  Speaker 1: it's enjoyable because of the fact that I was not
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  Speaker 1: offended by anything I saw. I felt it was some
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  Speaker 1: of the things were very relatable, but then the characters.
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  Speaker 1: You love the characters and you're engaged by the realness
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  Speaker 1: of it. Now your character is real. Now let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about you know that the character Drew Uncle Drew. Now
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  Speaker 1: I it was as a scene and it kind of
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  Speaker 1: reminded me and training day. You know, it's a training
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  Speaker 1: date moment. Remember when he was about to do homeboard
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  Speaker 1: bad in in the in the bathtub and then it
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  Speaker 1: came around and found out he he saved my niece.
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  Speaker 1: That was a trainment. So you're a good one, Reshawn.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really glad watching because in the moment in time
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  Speaker 1: and on the day up, I'm not even understanding or
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  Speaker 1: putting the correlation with that scene. With that that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what that was. That was training down. But to guess what,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't mad at it because I was like, we're
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  Speaker 1: doing a comedy here and it was affacting. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: such an a parody where you like you just understood, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that's the same you saw the parallel
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  Speaker 1: or the because because believe me, it wasn't funny. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even close to being funny. And training day, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here it was funny. I was I was followed out
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  Speaker 1: my chair. I was going, this boy food, this is ignorant.
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  Speaker 1: Then your then your other boy. All he do is
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  Speaker 1: play video games in the right and then the other boy.
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  Speaker 1: He just opened the door let anybody in, you know. See,
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  Speaker 1: so so you you got your niece in there, she
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  Speaker 1: popping boomerang photos on and you get The thing about it, man,
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  Speaker 1: is that this is just that's setting because Kevin is
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  Speaker 1: a delivery man. Dane is a school teacher, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to call it, because Kevin ain't really a good
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  Speaker 1: delivery man, and Dad is not really a good school teacher.
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  Speaker 1: He ain't neither one of them, right and so and
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  Speaker 1: so that's what we have been laughing about. This series
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  Speaker 1: that premiers on Showtime. It's called Flatbush Mr. Meaning starts
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  Speaker 1: my Man. I would say stars my man my Son
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  Speaker 1: Johnson because he's a pivocal character, because he's a community character.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the neighborhood. He's that guy that you know,
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  Speaker 1: if he walks by you by you you know, you
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  Speaker 1: probably clutch your bag. If you if he goes by
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  Speaker 1: your car door, you probably push press lock on your door.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're going this door. You might see him
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  Speaker 1: and went back back out the door, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: all those things because you got that look man. But
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  Speaker 1: in the end, you have a heart. So when you
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  Speaker 1: get the main thing, he has a heart. Got said,
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  Speaker 1: there's a level of fairness that comes with Uncle Drew.
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  Speaker 1: You what you see is what you get. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he wears hard on his sleeve. You're not gonna get
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  Speaker 1: no b as. You ain't gonna sugar coat and water
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  Speaker 1: nothing down for you. And that's what you could appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you'll see. The characters Dan and Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: they start to appreciate that. I think about Drew more
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  Speaker 1: than anything because everything and everywhere else and so if
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  Speaker 1: he had wish washy and they're surroundings they're so uncertain.
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  Speaker 1: Did these uncertain characters that they could appreciate that Drew
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  Speaker 1: is so you know, just add of me. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think let's let's let's be real about that character.
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  Speaker 1: Because good writing has a way of telling a person's role,
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  Speaker 1: and your role is about rules. You know. It's like
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  Speaker 1: we all have rules. You know what I said, Somebody,
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  Speaker 1: the speeding of it might be thirty five miles now
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  Speaker 1: you drive forward it, but it's thirty five miles now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you. You know what I'm saying, if you
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  Speaker 1: make a mistake, you hold people accountable for that mistake
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  Speaker 1: based on Drew Uncle Drew's rules. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: If you respect the rules, you're gonna walk out of
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  Speaker 1: the house a lot. Respect the rule. You might walk
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  Speaker 1: out of the house. He kind of alive, but you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna remember you broke that rule right exactly. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be a learning lesson and that's what I
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  Speaker 1: love about it. So but then again, we talked a
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  Speaker 1: little bit off air before we got on the air,
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  Speaker 1: because you get stereotyped. You know, people people see your photo.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna play a thug. Oh, he's gonna play a criminal,
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  Speaker 1: or he can play this. And you know when I
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  Speaker 1: first fell in love with your acting man, way back
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  Speaker 1: on the wire, which was to the novel, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at all the people, man, they were casting that serious.
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  Speaker 1: Oh y'all working, Oh y'all doing big things. Man, to
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God. That's right, though, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So so you said why with that serious
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  Speaker 1: so brilliant the cast, and now you get to understand
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  Speaker 1: why that seeking that's the favorite song. When we were
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  Speaker 1: shooting the wire, we don't know been making history, not
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  Speaker 1: not not not you. I swear they got any one
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  Speaker 1: of us telling you that we knew that show was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be we'd be talking about it double the time
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  Speaker 1: later than it was on Right, you couldn't have pick
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  Speaker 1: no no when I say they de lined if they
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  Speaker 1: said that they knew that we didn't know, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean that it was the writing that cast.
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  Speaker 1: Now you start to understand as everyone's careers Blossliman came
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  Speaker 1: into fruition that no wonder that that was such a
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  Speaker 1: great show. Absolutely there your character with way Bay we
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  Speaker 1: Baya's right, he's steal. In my mind, there's two characters
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  Speaker 1: states in my mind, you know, Stringer bound and Bay alright, alright,
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  Speaker 1: string and strange. But when he got killed, I was hurt.
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  Speaker 1: I said, oh no, he I know he went out
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  Speaker 1: like oh when you look at that, that that was
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  Speaker 1: that was really your first really um consistent acting role,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like sure, yes, that was my first recurring
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  Speaker 1: role on the television show for sure. Everything else before
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  Speaker 1: that was either a one off in the film, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like a co star role or U started you episiotic, right,
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  Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about that. When you when you
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  Speaker 1: get an opportunity and you finally because you work hard
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  Speaker 1: for these opportunities and then you trying to get that
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  Speaker 1: regular check and you know, like and and so you're
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  Speaker 1: on all these challenges people because all you guys were
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  Speaker 1: young stars at the time, young young up and comers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that word up in corners because we
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  Speaker 1: and one of you guys are on it, what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and some of them two or three y'all in the
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  Speaker 1: same series. Yeah, let's not play with you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't popped up in a few shows or you know,
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  Speaker 1: movies with my fellow cast mate from the show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't go on skate now. So So with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, what were your thoughts man, when you when
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  Speaker 1: you when you were brought on the wire. Was it
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  Speaker 1: just a paycheck or was it just hey man, finally
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  Speaker 1: and finally seeing my craft being appreciated, my skills being appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to us about that. I think it was a
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  Speaker 1: mixture of both, but over role and ultimately it was
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  Speaker 1: and right auditioning for the Wire it was Prenin eleven.
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  Speaker 1: that it was first very introduced to me and then
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  Speaker 1: it came into reality, right because the world stopped. The
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  Speaker 1: world stopped in between that time and then resumed again,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to come back with that energy. So
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  Speaker 1: when I got the callback, I'm like why. I almost
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  Speaker 1: didn't even remember what it was, but shaw, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh that show, okay, let's go. I got got back
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  Speaker 1: I remember now in the middle of the audition, I'm
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  Speaker 1: up the Clark john one of them leaned over to
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  Speaker 1: the other one in the audition, Rashawn, and say we bay.
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  Speaker 1: need to hear that. You know, like I said, you
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• 17:28
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• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So really when you look at her, Sorry, you were
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: being pushed by the best every day. Talk to us
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: about that. That's a that that's surrounding. Talk about the rehearsals,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: talk about them, you know, being pushed and being mentored
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: as well to be your best during that time. I mean, Shaun,
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest experiences of my life. We're talking
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: about when du piss son, your son Lance Reddy, Claude Peters,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, it keeps going. Joke John Done, Maan uh
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  Speaker 1: Andre boy, your Michael K. Williams. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's just it goes down the rabbit hole
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  Speaker 1: so crazy. And then whether you knew who those people
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  Speaker 1: were or not, by the end of the day's rat
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  Speaker 1: you knew who they was. You feel what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to Michael, Kay, we come on now, if you didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: now you know. And so That's when I knew I
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  Speaker 1: was being brought up with the best and I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is turning into something. Now I can
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: see where this is really going. Now I have a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: career in a yeah, that uncertainty with you know, being rejected.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm in the line of work where I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: get rejected or a limit. People don't really understand what
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that feel like. You go home after these auditions and
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  Speaker 1: you're not the best man, right right right, and then
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: then because you know that that's that's that's what it
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: really is, because rejection is so high in Hollywood, you know,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: just is just imagine just going on auditions, auditions, auditions,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: just didn't gonna job interview, job interview, job interviews, and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: then they're just telling you you're not the one based
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  Speaker 1: But then you gotta eat that. You have to accept that,
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  Speaker 1: and do better. Like listen, for instance, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you this is what happened for me. This is how
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  Speaker 1: I learned the code. With this rejection. I figured it
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: like this, the more auditions you're going on the better
• 19:26
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• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you're going on auditions, you're working, you're shopping in your blade,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you're getting better, trust me, right, and then and then
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be fun. But then when you don't
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: get the job, I mean, you know, there's no gratification
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, what's so fun about that? But what
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this is what I did for myself. I built the
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  Speaker 1: system up that for every ten auditions, I'm gonna get one,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that one that temper sent RATEO out of ten, I'm
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: gonna get one. I was able to live and come
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  Speaker 1: every eight, every sick and then low low low wit
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• 20:08
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• 20:11
  Speaker 1: relief system. You have to have to keep going. Wow.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: So how did you get into actor? Let's get that out.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Let's hear the fans here about that. How did how
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: did Hasaan Johnson get into actor? Oh Man? All praise
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: due to Spike Lee, Lord and save your spight Lee.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He had an open call for a movie call Clockers
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  Speaker 1: and a girl at school, Dad need to go to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the open audition because I was just this like boisterous
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: young boy. I played ball. I played football. I thought
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I was gonna be a baller. And I was pretty smart,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you know. I was in the academic classes, like the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: student athlete whatnot. And everybody try to get me to
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: be more proactive with the academic stuff, you know, the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: glee club, the African Culture Club, the math club. I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: didn't want to do it. I just wanted to play ball,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and you know, that's it. So she did me because
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I always said I wanted to be on television. Oh well,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: why don't you go to this spike me ordition, Mr,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I want to be on TV. And dared me in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: front of like the whole lunch room. Right, I'm holding
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  Speaker 1: court at lunch doing what I do, and she dared
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  Speaker 1: me in front. So I did one of those. All right,
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  Speaker 1: who's going with me? And then everybody did one of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: these here, and I went. It was like a dare
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I went. I got up that Saturday it was poured
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  Speaker 1: dawn rain and it was in hall and at the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: school he had at a public school in Hall and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I went up theory Sean and the rest is history.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I went to one audition turning the seven callbacks and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I got a principal role and Spike Lee film thirty
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: million dollar budget out the gate, Love it, Love it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Now now we're making the transition. Top five. You know
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: that that I think Top five was the first time
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I saw you in funny scenario, you know what I'm saying,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: But you when yeah, I'll say that was the first.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: They might be something we're missing before that, but let's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: just go with that. With that, you know, this is
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Rashawn's career path for Hasau. You know what I'm saying,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I'm tracking. I'm tracking, you know, So top five, Top
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: five was was the one for me. Just started looking
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: at you because because I always, like, you know, I've
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: been fortunate in Hollywood, the cast a lot of people,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: you know, to see African American talent get pigeonhole. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: when I saw you in Top five, but you were
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: still being yourself, but the but the spin on your
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: words were funny. I said, this guy is funny. So
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: talk about that experience. And then we're gonna go to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the last o G with Tracy and Tiffany Hatters, where
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you really started showing your comedy chops, talking about right
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and and and and Top five birth met even being
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: able to have an opportunity and a shot to get
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: on last O g with Tracy Activity, which was a
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: blessed as well. But it all started with you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: me telling my uh my manager, Adam Adam Robinson, like,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you know, I gotta get out of this this pigeonhole
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that seemingly a pigeon hole, it's not quite one. Because
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Adam used to always say, how's time come on there?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: If you do something good, that's what they call you for.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: You're great at what you do. That's not your fault.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: You can't beat yourself down about that. So if it's
• 23:10
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• 23:12
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• 23:15
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• 23:17
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• 23:22
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• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and funny stuff, that's what we're gonna do. So what
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: happens is when Top five comes along, it's this character
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: that's kind of just played meant to play be played straight,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and and and in the world of all these comedians
• 23:38
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  Speaker 1: your manager? Your manager is right and you were right,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: because if you don't fight for change, Hussan, then people
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  Speaker 1: will settle for what you get. And by fighting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's talking what we're talking to. Anybody who's watching the
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  Speaker 1: shot and listen to the show. Your brand, because you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: have a brand and you fought for you know, I'm
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: not satisfied. It's like, you know, it's like this, because
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you have a nice house, why can't you ask for
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  Speaker 1: a bigger house, a better car, or more groceries in
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  Speaker 1: the refrigerator. People like, well you got food in refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: I want more and that's how I want more. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not content And and so that push enabled this conversation
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: we're having right now because when you got on to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the last O g and like I said, man, you
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: know I really went he funny man. But I'm gonna
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: just tell you about your funny Hussan. You know, like
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you said, you mentioned you know Sheriff Shepard, Tracy Ferrell,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, of course Chris Rock. They have built a legacy.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: There's like I always tell people, stand up comedy just
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like math. If you know what toothless two equal fourth,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: then you know how to get there. Your style of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: comedy is that you're just natural, but you don't even
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: understand you funny. And I think that's you know what
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, that's the gift because all those people have
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: walked on stage in front of hundreds of thousands of
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: people and made them lad. And so you are just
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: one of those guys who just naturally funny. If you
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: get around your family, you crack them up. I don't
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: give it you your family go hico you. But see
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: what what a comedian has done. He's taking his funny
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: from in front of his family to strangers. And so
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: because you're not done that, it questions your ability. But brother,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in the last O g that stepped you up. And
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: then you went back to the lot for life on ABC.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Nice check wasn't supposed to be funny. You're supposed to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: be who are you supposed to be? Incarcerated? Then in
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: back of your mind you set these templates templates or
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: being able to do something more than just be a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: stereotypical black thug. Then flatbush misdemeanor comes along. Tell us
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: about that whole process. I know we talked about it earlier,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: but I gotta close the show because brother, I can't,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to. So this is what it is.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: The Sean This, like you said earlier, this is the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: most tangible opportunity to really show my range because then
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you're gonna say, I mean, you're talking about the first episode,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you got eight nine more to you got eight nine
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: more to and they let me go. Man, I'm telling
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you Kevin and Dan Man that the two of the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: greatest guys around right now that they are soon to
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: leave a deep footprint in this game. I'm telling you
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: what this one and it's all there for you and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they and they really let me go. They just let
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: me go like how they tell a box and let
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: your hands right right right right right. Yeah, that's the best,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the best analogy with this character I could come up with.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: You guys are gonna be in for it's a roller coat.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: There's so much emotion because you sit here, you talking
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: about this this Comedi dick stuff, This funny stuff. But
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: then you're gonna be so emotional, you're gonna be stressed
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: out a little bit, right, we know the thing about
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: but in a in a good way because Kevin's life
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: is stressed, is stressed because and he's relatable. Here's a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: guy that their lives are not moving forward, y'all. I'm
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: gonna just be honest with their lives are in a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: stand still. They got jobs that don't have career opportunities.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: They don't even see the career in the opportunity. All
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they are trying to do is get by. And I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: think we know a lot of people who are just
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: trying to get by. That's why their characters are relatable.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: But what happens is when they try to move ahead
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and they start making mistakes. And that's when they wrote
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the mistakes start to come in. That makes you humanizes
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: everything because the way and I I can say this,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the way Kevin encounters Uncle Drew as a delivery and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: when he comes into his place, he makes a mistake.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: The consequences of that mistake drives the first episode and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the long term relates ship. Am I right, Yes, it does.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: That one mistake and you know I always say Rashaan.
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  Speaker 1: In real life, I always tell people you can't be
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  Speaker 1: upset about what is and what's not at the moment
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  Speaker 1: it is a beautiful right now. He's I'm telling man.
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  Speaker 1: The blessing in this interview, man, was that I'm always
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: been a fan of Hussan. I've always been a fan,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and then and then going to showtime saying I want
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to interview my bar but I got to see the pilot.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I saw the pilot, man, I am recommended. I'm mad
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: because it's several weeks away before premier, so no listen.
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  Speaker 1: But you made my whole month the rest of my
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  Speaker 1: year is Sean, because you know we we don't know
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: what we're in for, so you're telling me it's rest
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: assurance that we're doing something right. I'm chasing herself. You know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I ain't got time to be lying to you okay, brother, Yo,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying like that. It's funny. Okay, they are
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  Speaker 1: straight funny man and you and you deliver it on
• 31:24
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• 31:27
  Speaker 1: man started out on a dare. But you saw it through.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And that's what people understand is that is that whether
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you see it through. You know, if people tell you
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• 31:38
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• 31:45
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