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Allen Maldonado (3rd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: is one of my favorite people in Hollywood. He's a
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  Speaker 1: the performing aunts. I'm gonna try to squeeze all this
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  Speaker 1: into him, but he's starting in the movie on Netflix
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  Speaker 1: that comes out. Netflix, the number one streamer in the
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  Speaker 1: world called Project Power. It drops August fourteen, that's Friday
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix. Here's a short synopsis on the movie. And
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  Speaker 1: Next Soldier that's Jamie Foxx. A team that's played by
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  Speaker 1: Dominic Fishback and a cop callaide in New Orleans that
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  Speaker 1: they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill
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  Speaker 1: that grants user temporary superpowers. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation,
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  Speaker 1: my friend Alan mal Donado. Hey man, man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, brother. I appreciate it. Man, Come on, even
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  Speaker 1: though we go back every time, and even on my
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  Speaker 1: showing a long time, you bet nobody almost eighteen months
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  Speaker 1: since you've been on the show does because I think
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  Speaker 1: last time brought your own it was the premiere of
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  Speaker 1: Last o G. I think that's the last time that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was over. Yeah, that hasn't been almost two years.
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  Speaker 1: And then you did that run on that that that
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  Speaker 1: that that Lebron James project. Yeah yeah, boy, that was
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  Speaker 1: funny that you had on that. That So now, but
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  Speaker 1: every time I put you on these shows, but with
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  Speaker 1: your money Making Conversations, I always got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: your serial entrepreneurship side because that's so important because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you do it. You do when you
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  Speaker 1: break it out. But you know, Netflix, I gotta Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta talk about this movie because guess what, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great movie. It's Jamie Foxx. You involved and talk
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  Speaker 1: about what they shot in New Orleans or was that
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  Speaker 1: you know, was you know they kind of shoot some
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  Speaker 1: place in Vancouver. But we shot that, and we shot
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  Speaker 1: that and New and and all that something down and
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  Speaker 1: we have to get the assids we have to get to.
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  Speaker 1: You can't take New Orleans, man, not if you wanted that.
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  Speaker 1: You want not if you wanted to be right. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now we shot it down there. I play, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: partner to Joseph Gordon Levitt as we're police officers. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm more of a straighten in narrow by the
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  Speaker 1: Book type of character, which is vastly different from a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the other characters earlier. You are a normal character,
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're trying to say to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a straight up by the book police officer. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not with the with the Shenanigan, Sir, I'm stricken
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  Speaker 1: by the book. Um, that doesn't that doesn't say that
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  Speaker 1: he's not funny. Us. Uh, it's definitely a contrast to
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  Speaker 1: the kind of rebellious and uh independent thinking of Joseph's character.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm you talk about I'm excited about you're excited
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  Speaker 1: to see the movie. I'm excited to see the movie.
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  Speaker 1: So um, it's one of those films that even if
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't in it, after seeing the trailer, I'm locked
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  Speaker 1: in like you would be locked in the locked in man.
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  Speaker 1: So um. Shout out to the director's here in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Like they they they presented a project and executed in
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  Speaker 1: such a way that it's Um, it's inspiring and hearing
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  Speaker 1: that story and them sharing to me, actually you know
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  Speaker 1: how they got from ideas to now we're on set, man,
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  Speaker 1: and this inspired by their story, Um, just going out
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  Speaker 1: and doing it. And just the kind of segue back
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  Speaker 1: to the took the serial entrepreneur um tone of the interview,
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  Speaker 1: like even in the art it was a business on
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  Speaker 1: and how they took the idea, developed it, put it together,
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  Speaker 1: package that invented with to go sell this idea, this
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  Speaker 1: art form as a product. So um, even in even
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  Speaker 1: as an artist, you you must have a business sound
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  Speaker 1: they in order to see right right, we were talking
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  Speaker 1: to Alan maldon Maldonado Uh, he's just He's just one
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  Speaker 1: of the co stars in the new Netflix. And Netflix
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  Speaker 1: is the number one streaming platform in the world. When
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  Speaker 1: this movie comes out, it will premiere in a hundred
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  Speaker 1: and nanny countries. You know, this is what Netflix is
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  Speaker 1: or Netflix is changing the game, and they changing the game,
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  Speaker 1: especially for African American film projects, because generally a movie
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  Speaker 1: like this, just jais Fox, He's a global name, but
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  Speaker 1: generally movies like this premiere only domestically. They opened domestically.
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  Speaker 1: They may get some minor support depending on different markets,
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  Speaker 1: but there'd never be a worldwide that that that Netflix
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  Speaker 1: brings to the table. And just the impact has had.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Tyler Perry opened up in January. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that movie was off the chain. Then they came back
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  Speaker 1: with Eviction, Then it came back with that. The Tiger
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  Speaker 1: King during the pandemic was off the change. The Five
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  Speaker 1: Bloods Old Guard you just popped off a few three
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  Speaker 1: month or two weeks ago. Now they're coming back right
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  Speaker 1: now with the Power Project. The Project Powers were named
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  Speaker 1: Project Powers. And so how do you get cast in
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  Speaker 1: the movie like this because first of all, knowing so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know, you gotta resume, but that I was, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well this is you know, it's interesting. Um is that
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  Speaker 1: I was actually in New York. I think I was
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  Speaker 1: filming season two of the Last so g at the
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  Speaker 1: time when they called me, they do an artist, So
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  Speaker 1: I just did. I put an audition on tape, um
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  Speaker 1: uh in New York and reality see, I gotta lad
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  Speaker 1: because you this is a normal character. So you put
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  Speaker 1: this own tape now, So yeah, you know the normal
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  Speaker 1: characters put tape. It was simple. We did, and we
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  Speaker 1: knocked it out and here we are. You know you,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, the character is still he gonna have
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  Speaker 1: it gonna of course it's me, So it's gonna it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some humor as the community time into what
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  Speaker 1: it is. But his personality is again the opposite of
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  Speaker 1: a cousin Bobby, who is this wild and reckless and
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  Speaker 1: he's more about the book, which is absolutely again. This
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  Speaker 1: movie premiers August fourteenth, which is Friday, or Netflix Project
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  Speaker 1: Power Stars. But man, Jamie Fox, Oscar winner, gotta throw
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  Speaker 1: that title when you win it, Academy Award winner and
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  Speaker 1: on HBO called Deuces. He plays a young prostitute and
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  Speaker 1: that there was very well received on New us A.
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  Speaker 1: They did a great auticle Owner and it's just a
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  Speaker 1: really great was set in the heart of New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: a Superpower fan, and that's that's the take on this,
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  Speaker 1: that Thursday night, twelve on one, that's when they started streaming.
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  Speaker 1: So you can get out and tell everybody you saw
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  Speaker 1: Project Power first, because it's a move that everybody, everybody
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  Speaker 1: get get their midnight parties together. Now, now, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: remiss because I don't mention to you. I don't call
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  Speaker 1: I don't proclaim you're serial entrepreneur just because I like
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  Speaker 1: saying that you are. You've you've every time I brought
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  Speaker 1: you on the show, it's a new project. And you
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  Speaker 1: what drives you in that entrepreneurship space there? Alan Wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know what it's It's crazy, it's ever evolving, and
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  Speaker 1: I think every entrepreneur needs to know that it's ever evolving,
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  Speaker 1: as is mature as a person, as a man, and
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  Speaker 1: even financially. You know, you begin to think and reanalyze
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  Speaker 1: on what you want. Um. But for me, it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know what drives me is a way of life.
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  Speaker 1: It's a UM. It's an understanding of being being poor
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  Speaker 1: and knowing that I don't want to be that and
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  Speaker 1: making every and then under understanding that my happiness isn't
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  Speaker 1: built off materialistic things, but the way I can live
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  Speaker 1: my life definitely can reflect that by eating healthier, um,
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  Speaker 1: having more time to rest, being able to have certain
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  Speaker 1: amilities to make life a little better. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: like it used to be a number, it used to
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  Speaker 1: be a dollar amount um, where now it's more of uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's again off a pure happiness and way of life. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So according to how I want to live, that's the
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  Speaker 1: amount of money I need to make in order to
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  Speaker 1: do that. And I think that's what you think you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in in your intro as far as uh people
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  Speaker 1: measuring their own success, and Uh, I've gotten to a
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  Speaker 1: point where I've been able to identify where I measure
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  Speaker 1: my success at, and my success is being happy. And
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  Speaker 1: every business that I do and everything that I I
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  Speaker 1: work on is usually coming from a place of love,
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  Speaker 1: know you say that, because that's that's my philosophy. I
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  Speaker 1: always told people, you know, I had simple goals, and
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  Speaker 1: some people they make their goals too much. Like one
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  Speaker 1: of my early goals was like I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: shop with coupons food, you know, coupons, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: off for That was just a goal. Now, if I
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  Speaker 1: see a good coupon, I use it. But that was
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  Speaker 1: just a goal that I have. Then another goal was
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  Speaker 1: when I go in the store, if I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: buy that, I would buy it. I would if I
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  Speaker 1: touched it, I bought it. That was another if there
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  Speaker 1: was another find, it wouldn't tied to I gotta make
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  Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollars, I gotta make a million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like a lifestyle change. And then when
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  Speaker 1: I went shopping, if I wanted two pair of shoes
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  Speaker 1: and I was putting myself in a position about two
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  Speaker 1: pair of shoes, then I bought those two pair of shoes.
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  Speaker 1: And that really is how this whole thing, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Your philosophy and I my philosophy aligns because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that you can you can you can
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  Speaker 1: overreach by saying I need to make a million dollars
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  Speaker 1: when you could probably make a half million dollars and
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  Speaker 1: be very happy and reach at exactly exactly, exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what people get lost, is chasing
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  Speaker 1: a dollar amount rather than their personal happiness. And we're
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  Speaker 1: aware because what most people don't know managing managing a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, of managing thirty million dollars and managing three
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  Speaker 1: hni million dollars a lot of work. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work. And you know, be careful what you wish for.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those type of things, right, each care
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  Speaker 1: for what you risk for you. Okay, you said you
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  Speaker 1: want to be a bigger there, but do you understand
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  Speaker 1: what it takes in the pressure and the type of
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  Speaker 1: around the clock monitoring you have to do to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you can see you to maintain that beg It's
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  Speaker 1: like like so it should never be about an amount
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  Speaker 1: where where if it's built by love and you you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do that consistent, consistently and abundantly, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: want to work nine times harder than than anything else
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  Speaker 1: you were doing just for a monetary success. So the
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  Speaker 1: level of success, and you're gonna just naturally a sin,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna naturally reach your goals. You're gonna naturally probably
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  Speaker 1: surpass your goals. But the real success isn't the money,
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  Speaker 1: it's the happiness that comes with being able to live
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  Speaker 1: that lifestyle. Okay, whether what happens is also starring in
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  Speaker 1: another movie that's happiness to my and upcoming wrestling drama
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  Speaker 1: on Stars. You know, tell us about that, to tell
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  Speaker 1: that's the television show. Yeah, the television show Serious. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a series. Man again another character that that isn't
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  Speaker 1: Now you's a little bit. How about to say you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do a movie about wrestling and it's not outlandish,
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's not on Yeah, yeah, I mean his
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  Speaker 1: name is Rooster, So uh, I coudn't. I couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't even finish that ship so serious is called
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  Speaker 1: heels h e L h e E l s upcoming
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  Speaker 1: drama own Stars. Tell us about that bag because you
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  Speaker 1: know when you come, because I don't know when I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get you back out You're so busy, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: I might be another two years before I get you
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  Speaker 1: on the show. Muster. I put on the mustle for
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  Speaker 1: this show. You're saying, like, I really transformed my body
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  Speaker 1: for the for this road. Um, he's a high Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Have we seen your Instagram with your bag going up?
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  Speaker 1: We've been going up, yes, showing that six pack. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: man be going hard for this show, man. Uh. This
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  Speaker 1: excited for a project to work on in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: just to kind of lock in and get into the character. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then also it's about this independent wrestling family who
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  Speaker 1: has uh their wrestling federation in the territory where a
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  Speaker 1: rival federation is looking to uh basically bring them, bring
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  Speaker 1: them to their demises and and and in there wrestling league. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's, it's, it's it's gonna be. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even explain how dope, um, just the project is, as
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  Speaker 1: far as the direction of story, just the division they
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  Speaker 1: have for it. Man, I'm eager. I'm just as eager
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  Speaker 1: as I was when I did Prophic Power as I
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  Speaker 1: am for this one. Well, you know the thing about
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  Speaker 1: it Netflix as a series called Glow Gorgeous Ladies, of
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  Speaker 1: which I love. The first two seeds have been brilliant,
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  Speaker 1: and so I've been an elementary school. I was a
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  Speaker 1: fan of wrestling. My dad used to take me and
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  Speaker 1: I was just watching, you know, uh, watch these rats.
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  Speaker 1: And so I've been a fan forever. When I was keeping,
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  Speaker 1: I could just go in the elementary school and go
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  Speaker 1: see these See you involved in a project like that,
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  Speaker 1: I know that. I'm a big fan of all. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: that it's is natural and it allows you here's you know,
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  Speaker 1: we joke about you being that all these outlanges characters,
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  Speaker 1: but man, you know that's part of your skill set.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody gotta plan and somebody gotta play them well, and
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  Speaker 1: you're doing fantastic job and doing it. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to I just want to, Emmy slap next to your
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  Speaker 1: name when you're doing them. That's all that. Man, it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening. Man, it's happening. Man, it's we didn't route.
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  Speaker 1: damn man. It stars just coming out. We begin shooting
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  Speaker 1: um next month. So okay, so this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about before we lead your nonprofit.
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  Speaker 1: this point, um, I begin to start something a little different. Um.
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  Speaker 1: just because we're able to run together, even though we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be in a group. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: tag each other, we we support each other, We um
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  Speaker 1: giving back is helping people deal with their mental anglish
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  Speaker 1: been a big depression and anger has been a major problem.
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  Speaker 1: all that's changed, you know the Floyd George Floyd. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thirty seven years old, so I can I can
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  Speaker 1: honestly say I've seen the world change twice, you know.
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  Speaker 1: several shifts during my time on this on this planet,
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  Speaker 1: large groups and just kind of share that any energy
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  Speaker 1: uh with each other as a as a as a
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  Speaker 1: human race, like being in the stadium and cheering. Is
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  Speaker 1: is more than just watching watching these football players play. Um. Um,
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