Episode 191 - How Your Favorite Actors Are Able To Keep You So Entertained

Ever wonder what your favorite TV and movie stars do to prepare to keep you entertained on the big screen? Actors Chris Meyer & Patrick Cage join to show to give you the perspective from the life of an actor. We sit down and have a refreshing “guys talk” about all things pop culture and entertainment. 

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

This exact question, he has a theory for, a saying for. And it's the long walk home. There's gonna be a project that you super want, you feel like you're so aligned for. The tape was great, the callback was great, the test was great, they act, they said they loved you in the room, it's yours. And then after four days, three weeks of being on hold, they say no.

SPEAKER_05 0:20

Wayne, Wayne, everything, and then you know, through Wayne, he introduced Drake to the world, and after that was over, music. T three?

SPEAKER_01 0:27

What's that? Drake, Drake, and Drake. No, Drake, Drake and Wayne. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. Drake just made albums that like feel like soundtracks to my life every time he drops one.

SPEAKER_05 0:35

What favorite song out the whole shit, but like honestly, you gotta accept it because look, we lost the battle, but we win the war. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07 0:43

We as a lot of people. I'll never say that.

SPEAKER_04 0:50

Yeah, let's get right to it. Welcome back to Can I Vibe with y'all with the vibes are immaculate. Every time we hop up in here, we're chopping it up off camera. We're excited. Like I said, I appreciate y'all coming on. Um, we're gonna talk some good stuff today. Like, we got the boys in here, yeah, we got creatives in the building, actors, artists, all that good stuff. Oh nine. Um, I don't know if you well, you say you're living here. We're this is like for you, so welcome back to Miami. Thank you. Uh, so we're gonna get into uh everything that's been going on this week. Yeah, all that good stuff. First time watching, my name is Kaz, the host can I vibe with y'all. Eli here. Welcome back. Yes, sir. And like I said, we got Patrick and Chris in the building. Yes, sir. Um, and we're we we excited because we've been we be getting into it off camera. So I said we're gonna get into um some of the projects you've done. Okay. Um also real quick off camera, I'm gonna do this one more time because we were having a little conversation.

SPEAKER_05 1:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:45

And um they're saying men shouldn't be drinking fruity drinks. I just, you know, I think men can't drink this, men can't drink that. So we're here to show you today. We got our peach bellini's hands. Bellini.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Cheers. Yes, sir. Bellini. Cheers. Put me in there. He got urban. He got peach bellini too. Put me in Bellini too. This is the man in the city.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

I'm just saying, look at the color of it.

SPEAKER_04 2:08

I don't put do not put the camera. Because the glass different don't really mean it. The camera's gonna catch it. Don't you worry. You know what, Patrick, we'll start with you. You here visiting. Yes, sir. Um, you can just let us know like what you're here for, what you got going on, what you most excited about.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Um, here for ABFF, the 30th year anniversary. Um, I'm really just here to support. I just I started directing this year, so I want to make some contacts, obviously. But he's got a movie planned uh on Saturday, and the other friend of ours, Christy Lofton. Shout out Lofton. Lofton, uhka Lambeau. Yeah, he's uh he's got a movie planned tonight, actually. Uh that's what we're headed after this. Yeah, okay. So 93 Till. Nice with uh him, Petey McGee, Lawrence, uh or not Lawrence, uh LaRoyce Hawkins. Shout out to the army LaRoyce. Yeah, so I'm definitely just here to just support our connection. So yeah, he's the film Saturday.

SPEAKER_04 2:56

Yeah, and he's just here in the in the mix of it.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

I mean, yeah, he was here. He was gonna come regardless. Yeah, just crazy timing. Swim week, I didn't know about it until I got here. I'm not a swim week film.

SPEAKER_04 3:08

Listen, yeah, the knees are out. That's crazy, yeah. That's what's up. So, what about you? What you got going on this week?

SPEAKER_05 3:19

I have a movie called Thought She Was the One, directed by T.I., starring T.I., me, DC Young Fly, Terrence J, Britney Hall, Dominique Perry, Chameleon, Kelly Kells, Tyler Chronicle. I gotta shout out all the same. It is a it's a it's a family affair, uh, it's a comedy. It's premiering on uh Saturday at 6 30.

SPEAKER_04 3:39

Okay. Yeah. Nice. Congrats, congrats. Thank you, bro. So are you a comedic actor?

SPEAKER_05 3:42

Um actor.

SPEAKER_04 3:44

Okay. Yeah. That's what's anything versatile. Anything. Okay. We'll go back to you, Patrick. I know you're on one of them days. Yes. And rap shit. We're talking about rap shit before I'm gonna do that. I saw you on one of them days as well. Appreciate it. So listen, I love it. Love, love, love.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Yeah, no, that was a fun one. I mean, being being from LA, being able to do a movie for LA, about LA, that traverses the hood that I grew up in, that was a monumental experience for me for sure.

SPEAKER_04 4:11

How long did you live in LA? My whole life, sure. Since 93, baby.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Born raised, yeah. Shout out to Cedar Sinai. Hey, man, don't bang on him. No, no, we heard that shit in here. Um, but yeah, nah, I mean, LA is that's home. So yeah, it's it felt good to be a representation of the city that I'm from in a movie for the city that I'm from. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 4:32

Well, you on the East Coast now. We uh we actually talking a little East Coast versus West Coast vibes. What you wanna talk about? Uh we're gonna get into some music because I'll remember right now.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

You can't but you came in here and you said let's play some Drake as soon as you came in here. That was the first thing you said in here.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

Father, Drake could typically be East Coast, right?

SPEAKER_05 4:47

Yeah, yeah, but he said some Kendrick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't say play Kendrick, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Yeah. I didn't. I'm a Drake fan. I'm I'm gonna stand on that. Yeah, yeah, good thing. Okay. My man's looked into the camera and looking into the camera. Let's stand up.

SPEAKER_04 5:00

I've actually, well, shout out Brittany too, she's over there. But I've been going to the West Coast more. I've been I've been liking LA. It's cool out there. So I mean, we have vibe out there.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

I think LA gets a bad rep, just like a lot of transplants. No offense to anybody that moved to LA, but a lot of transplants feel like they have this preconceived notion of what LA is supposed to be like. And so when they come out there, they put on this facade or they they feel like they have to be something else. And LA is definitely the type of city where if you are yourself, you are accepted. And I think LA natives are a lot more chill than I don't know, people give us credit for.

SPEAKER_05 5:33

Man's gonna call them a transplant.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

And then say no offense. No offense. Like if you move to if you move to LA and you're from somewhere else, you are automatically a transplant. I'm not saying you wanted the transplants, fucking it up. But I mean, where y'all from?

SPEAKER_04 5:45

We all over. I mean, we lived in Jersey, New York. Okay, uh, we live down here now. I'm from New York. You from New York? Originally. What part? Brooklyn. Oh, we live in Brooklyn. Yeah, he's born in Brooklyn. What part? Born in Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_05 5:56

Yeah, what what part of Brooklyn? Oh, East Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

East Brooklyn, East Brooklyn. East Brooklyn Saint. Okay, I was in Florida most of my life. Okay, then I'm from Cannarsey. I know what I said. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

Yeah, we we Florida boys now, but uh you know, just seeing because we especially Miami, we have a lot of transplants too. Yeah, um, so I'm kind of like comparing the vibe of like because I say Miami and LA are very similar.

SPEAKER_05 6:18

Really? Well, as far as like if you're comparing it to other cities, because I I also lived in Florida too, from like nine to thirteen, right before I moved to LA. And I'm that's interesting.

SPEAKER_04 6:29

Take I think not I don't think the people are similar. It's more so the definitely not the weather, obviously. Okay, just kind of you know, other cities, it's cold. I think the shininess of Miami and Atlanta can be compared to that.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

You get a lot of you get it, like you said, transplants down here. If you talk to locals in Miami, people born and raised in Miami, they will tell you like I'm boying. Like yeah, yeah. Brickle, Windwood, South Beach is not true, Miami. So right, right, right. So when you come down here, you move here, you're not moving to no offense. You're not moving to Higher Leah. You're not moving to Kendall, like you're moving to be here from Miami. So I get what you're saying from the transplant aspect.

SPEAKER_05 7:08

But I didn't even touch like Miami till like 20 something. My grandmother used to live in Little Haiti, so I used to be there all the time. I I didn't even come to like Miami, Miami till like maybe five, six years ago. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 7:20

So you experienced like the oh yeah, different all parts of Miami.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. You Haitian? Yeah, I'm a Zoe. Okay. Shout out to the Zoos, man. All the ZBs. We got another Zoe over there, too. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I noticed you might be my cousin, bro. Honestly, you might be my cousin. It might be that honestly.

SPEAKER_04 7:41

Chris, I want to talk about a couple shows. Yeah. Uh the first one, The Sex Lives of College Girls. Talk about it. I'm not gonna lie, I haven't seen it yet. And I'm curious to hear from you. Yeah. Because the name alone end up in it.

SPEAKER_05 7:54

It's crazy, crazy. It's so funny, too. I remember so he actually helped me with my audition for the show. Okay, and I just will never forget like seeing the title of the show on the shit and being like, yo, what what kind of shit am I signing up for right now? Right. I mean, I was like, Whoa, who's it?

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Nah, he got out of this and said, I've been preparing for this my whole life.

SPEAKER_05 8:15

But um yeah, it was, you know, came across like any other audition. It was really, really funny. And um, yeah, you know, we put it on tape. Uh, this was during 2020, pandemic era. It's like early 21, yeah. Yes. I'm way behind. Oh, yeah. I need to watch that. Okay, yeah, man. Tap in whenever, you know, at your leisure, at your own. Um, but um, then we did a zoom. Mindy Kaling is who created the show. She's on the office. Yeah, um, did a zoom with her and everybody from HBO, and yeah, got that call kind of right at the end of COVID. Okay. Which was which was crazy.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Now, was that with your first gig?

SPEAKER_05 8:51

No. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

Let's go down the timeline. How far back are you going?

SPEAKER_05 8:54

Okay, okay, down the timeline. We we uh first the first thing I ever did was General Hospital. General Hospital. Yes. I mean, y'all trying to go down the timeline. Wait, how old are you? I was how old am I now?

SPEAKER_04 9:06

How were you when you did it?

SPEAKER_05 9:07

Um 13.

SPEAKER_04 9:08

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_05 9:08

13 or 14.

SPEAKER_04 9:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 9:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did like 22 episodes at General Hospital. Wow. That was like my first uh TV appearance, which was great because I did theater my whole life. And it was a really good transition from theater to television because it's it's very much like theater. So you know it's on a stage, everything's fast-paced.

SPEAKER_04 9:28

What do you say the biggest differences are?

SPEAKER_05 9:30

Uh between theater and television. Television. Um, I mean, you know, just the live aspect, the nerves are messing up, um, you know, the projection, everything's over the top. You have to act with your whole body rather than you know being in a tight frame or anything like that. Uh it's a it's it's a lot more like like relationship oriented too, because you know, you can you can come to set and not know who you're working with, and you guys just got scenes and then you go home. Like in theater, you are spending 12, 13, 14 hours a day, every day rehearsing, you really become like family with these people.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

What about you, Patrick? Like, what did you have a theater background or kind of just hopped in?

SPEAKER_01 10:08

I got stage fright, oddly enough. Yeah. Nah, my my body used to shake, my breathing would get all weird, and yeah, now it's like I just get on stage, and the second I started talking, I just sweat hella. So you still get stage fright? Last time I was on stage, like yeah, when was that? When was that? Three years ago? And it was just a stage reading. We was on stage with the with the scripts in front of us, and I started taking up some line come up. I started reading sweating. I was like, man, you just gotta push through it.

SPEAKER_05 10:31

But you know what I was thinking, I was thinking about um when you hosted. No, I was actually good that night. Yeah, you was. Yeah, I was having fun. No, you were you were great. You were sweating though. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

Maybe it was still happening. Yeah, yeah. I was off to the side. You remember that? I was in the game. Yes, it doesn't still happen. Yes, if I'm on the stage, if I'm elevated, yes, I will still sweat.

SPEAKER_04 10:54

But um, so when you stay on stage, like like acting for an audience or like like hosting?

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Um, apparently both. Because I mean, like I was on that stage, just I think it's the elevation, and I'm real susceptible to people's energy. I mean, shit. I just started talking, I started sweating right now. Um, I just I feel like when I see people or I can feel people looking at me to be entertained or for me to like give them energy back, the energy that they're giving to me in that moment to like like in in waiting, yeah, I feel that. And that's it.

SPEAKER_04 11:21

Honestly, I I've always wondered because I feel that, and sometimes when I'm like, even doing this sometimes, when you're kind of like waiting for a reaction, and they're just like, like it's kind of like you just got you got eyes on me. What are you doing? And I'm like, uh, and they're like, oh, that was so good. I'm like, that's fine. Okay. I told him that yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

We shoot just us two in the house, like we're chilling, whatever. Yeah, yesterday was like the first time we had like eyes on us while we're filming, like yo, y'all still watching us like it was those eyes.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Turn around. Okay, okay. No, I mean, uh, no stage background. My first project was iCarly. You want iCarly? iCarly, bro. Yeah. I gotta go back to the couple of things. The episode when her room broke down, yeah. It was I had one episode, one line. So, like, I I asked my mom to let me go to homeschool for a year to focus on acting, and she was like, if you book something in that year, you can stay out. And so I booked iCarly. It was one line, and she was like, That's not good enough. You booked it yourself? Yeah, yeah. How old were you? Uh 15.

SPEAKER_04 12:15

Damn, okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Yeah, no, 16. 16 when I did that, and then she was like, That's not good enough. You gotta book something else. And a few months later, I booked We the Party, which uh directed by Mario Van Peoples, YG, Snoop Dogg. Okay, so it was just kind of like a build-up. Yeah, I mean, it was a it was a quick build. I mean, I went from one line to having fucking 20 seniors we the party 2010 when we shot it. I know that one hurt you. We talked about this other side because he auditioned for the main role.

SPEAKER_05 12:39

Listen, listen, if you were a young black actor in 2010, you went out for a Wheat of Party. At the time, it was Where the Party at? Yeah, right, where the party at, and and at the time too, y'all remember like the jerking phenomenon? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Okay, y'all was jerk.

SPEAKER_05 12:54

So listen, though, it's cool if you was in your reject, no nothing. But um, man, and I was heavy into that as a kid, and that was kind of what the movie was like. That was what it was about, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Yeah, it's like it was like a this is it was a docudrama about the jerk era, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:10

And it was like it was I was so obsessed with the role. I wanted it so, so bad. And I didn't I didn't even know you at the time. Yeah, no, and then I watched the movie uh 20.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

What when we met? Yeah, 15, 16. Yeah, we've been we've been friends for a long time. It was 20 minutes. 2015. Yeah, because last year it was 10 years, yeah. Yeah, I remember that. Okay, yeah, yeah. You met on set or nah through uh the mutual friend Kofi, Ciro Bone. Kofi, yeah. Yeah, so they did a movie kicks back in the day. And then when they were doing promo for it, I was kicking it with Kofi. He brought me around. I met this nigga, dude. I met this dude, and I was like, yeah, this uh this is a great guy. So Kobe, man.

SPEAKER_05 13:51

Shout out Kofi. Shout out Kobe, shout out Jay Tip too, Justin Tipping, who directed him that just came out uh last year, I think. Yeah, that's what's up. Let's do a little function.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

You guys started off fun once. You guys started off fairly young though, yeah. Um, into the scene. Um at that age, was there anyone at the time like kind of inspiring you? Like, oh, I'm trying to be like him, or was it just like from a young age, that's what I'm trying to do? And then now, as you guys are getting older, is it like this is where I'm trying to go, and this is who you know I look up to in this role, or is it just like I'm blazing my own path for that?

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Um, you want to take this, or I can I feel like for me it was a little bit of both. Uh at the time, uh my childhood best friend was Rashawn Fagan, who was on Shake It Up at the time. And so we was always out together. He was making music, I was directing his videos, I was just involved in the industry and being around people like Terrence and and shit like that. And so it's like, I think at a young age, I was just always around it. And at around 15, people were just asking me, like, oh, what do you want to do when you grow up? What do you want to do? And I was like, I've always loved this acting thing, and I don't have to grow up to do it. I can do it right now. And I think that was what it was was everybody kind of asking me what I want to do with my life that made me say this is it, and choose to kind of spearhead that journey. And I think now, I don't know, I mean, I'm I'm 17 years in. I obviously have people that inspire me artistically, like uh Tom Hardy, one of my favorite actors, Chris Nolan, my favorite director. Still want to work with Jonathan Majors. I know people have their feelings, but I think he's phenomenal. Great actor. Um so like there's definitely people that I have on like a on a hit list that I want to work with or want to elevate my talent to be able to be on the same pedestal to be in a project with them. But I think now, I mean, like I said, I started directing this year, so I'm in a space of just trying to create overall. What are you directing? Um, romance, actually. Uh that's that's the name of it or? No, no, no. Romance is just the type of films that I want to do. So right now, you got a lover boy in the building. Yeah, I'm shooting uh I shoot my first short actually in a couple weeks, June 10th and 11th. Okay. Um, my second short stars him. Uh so yeah, I'm just I'm really trying to just find my style as a director, the way I want to tell these romance stories. And, you know, God willing, all goes well. The next one I direct after that, submit to ABFF. We get in and we win. So then that will be your third one. That fourth. So I got three originals. Uh like there may be about three to five pages that I want to drop on socials, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. And then that fourth one, I want to like kind of really focus more on story and and character building. And that one's the one I want to submit.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

But so you're just expanding, you're doing directing and acting.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Yes. Okay. So acting is still gonna be always a part of me. I mean, that's that's what's my first love. Yeah, it's but directing, I just feel like I'm not limited by what I look like or what I sound like in order to tell a certain story. Like if there's something I want to say, but he's a better fit for the character, I can still hop behind the lens and still get that story off.

SPEAKER_05 16:46

And you see, that that's 17 years in the game. Yeah, uh, people don't feel like that. People are like, no, I want to be in the camera.

SPEAKER_01 16:57

Me, it's me, it's me. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I just I try I've truly grown to a place where I I just love storytelling now. Actually, much respect. Yeah, we hope to see you at the next. We will see you at the next year. Yeah, 100% next year. The 31st ABFF. 31st. So it's the 30th.

SPEAKER_04 17:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 17:09

Chris, what about you? Uh man, for me, it was it was Will Smith as a kid. Uh like I I never caught the acting bug. It was more of like I was a class clown. I would watch the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, be practicing all the stuff that he said in the mirror. I'll go to school the next day and say his jokes like they my jokes, you know what I'm saying? And and through that, like people just laughed and was like, you should do this, you should do this. Um and my parents are very religious. We went to church every Sunday, Wednesday, and in church they were like putting on a play. And uh my pastor was like, You gotta, you know, you gotta be on the play. I feel like that's how it always starts.

SPEAKER_04 17:46

Yeah, so I was like either the play or the choir or something like that.

SPEAKER_05 17:49

Yeah, yeah. I was like, I was like nine, and uh my mom tells me this story. I don't remember it, but like apparently I got off stage after the first show, and I walked up to my mom and I was like, I I got it, like I know what I want to do. She was like, Well, I was like, I'm gonna be an actor. She was like, Okay. I was like, no, seriously. I went online, I found um, you know, brochures for like acting schools, and I brought it to her, like, and she was like, Oh, like he's serious, okay, bad. Like, let's let's do it. And um, you know, since then, my my manager, who's still my manager to this day, shout out Nick Roses, just so happened to be in one of my middle school plays. Like, he came there because a family friend of his was performing, but that's when he was starting his agency and saw me and like walked up to me after and was like, Where's your parents? I thought he was staff. And I was like, They're over there. And shout out my bro, man. And he he went up to my mom and was like, yo, your kid's gonna be on TV. And my mom once again was like, Yeah, right. Gave her the number and he did not stop calling for like two months until eventually picked up. He's been your manager since. Since. That's my brother. Since I was uh since I was 11 years old, it took him two years for us to actually do it. Um, but yeah, yeah, shout out Nick Roses, man.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

So acting found you in church.

SPEAKER_05 19:12

Acting found me through God. Shout out to me. Did you know?

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Nah, I mean, I think I heard the story before, but I just never really put that together in my mind. Like, because the first time I found it, it was my both my parents were models, so they had agents that were trying to get me to do it, but my mom was like, I'm not gonna ever put him in it unless he wants that. I heard an audition for the Lion King musical on the radio, and I was obsessed with The Lion King as a kid. I mean, like, I I still am obsessed with Lions, love the Lion King, and my mom, I think, has been.

SPEAKER_05 19:42

He can genuinely recite um Scar, like all of Scar's lines, he holding it down. No, he's like, it's actually crazy.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

I still nah, it's still a dream of mine to play Scar in the Lion King. Bro, it's not too late on stage. Yeah, no, I would I'll I'll sweat that whole on I'll sweat that whole day. Sorry. I don't though. I I I that's something I want. Like my seven-year-old childhood self still dreams.

SPEAKER_05 20:09

Y'all gotta see this shit. We we don't gotta do it now, but that's certainly. He has a video, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

I gotta y'all gotta see it. Is that true? Yeah, we're gonna get it out of there. But that's crazy. My first audition for the Blind King was at a church.

unknown 20:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Yeah, so I just thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_04 20:21

I feel like again, like whether it's the plays in church or like I know a lot of people who make music now, or they started off just singing in the choir. And uh, you know, as a kid, you don't expect to. Next thing you know, you just singing. Yeah. I wish I could, to be honest. Y'all make music, but yeah. Which I mean, we can get into that too.

SPEAKER_03 20:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of music, you make music, don't you? Yes. Okay. So how did you how did you navigate kind of that growing up? Kind of the music thing and the acting thing. You said your mom knew that you knew at a young age you wanted to act. When did music kind of play a part into that?

SPEAKER_05 20:55

When the music kind of Um around the same time, but it was like uh it was like a hobby. You know what I'm saying? Like we used to come to school and like have like freestyle battles. Like we used to battle each other in the cart in the courtyard um before class. And it just became like a competition thing, really. And through competition, you get you get you get better. I get reps. And uh, you know, there's a few chosen ones that like everybody knows, like, okay, like he's the nicest one, you know what I'm saying? I was blessed to be one of those ones. And I I think that I took that to my head and I just kept, you know, kept going. Notebooks, notebooks, notebooks, notebooks, and then eventually found a studio and just you know, like, what type of music are you making now?

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Rap. Rap, okay. Oh, so you can spit. Yeah, spit. Boy, let's get a freestyle here.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

Speaking of music, yeah. Artists that inspire you, favorite artists, who's your goat, top one, two, whatever it is. I love that from an LA guy. I really love that from an LA guy. That warms my heart for real. Both of y'all Drake.

SPEAKER_05 22:01

No, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 22:02

Yeah. I mean, my early influences were were Wayne. It was Wayne. It was Wayne, everything. Like that. Wayne was a great trapper. It was Wayne, Wayne, everything. And then, you know, through Wayne, he introduced Drake to the world. And after that it was over. I was also a really big Wiz Khalifa fan because of shit. Like Wiz just like, he was everything. He was the reason why we got tattoos. Everything started. Yeah. Anyways.

SPEAKER_04 22:27

Tattoos. Yeah. Okay. What about you? Technically, that was top three, but. Shit.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Music. Top three?

SPEAKER_04 22:33

Drake, Drake, and Drake.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

No, Drake, Drake means dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. Drake has just made albums that like feel like soundtracks to my life every time he drops one. But I think for artists that inspire me. I mean, Drake's pen game, 100%. I make RB though, so I don't rap. So who's your R B artist? Maxwell loved Brent Fayez. Okay. So Maxwell? Yeah. Maxwell, Brent Fayez. Yeah, I can't I can't sing as high as Maxwell, but I think Maxwell's music is amazing. Brent is incredible from one Virgo to another. I felt like what he writes, I fully understand. I'm with you. He's like. When you like really listen to it, you're like, oh. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like I've been there. I do.

SPEAKER_05 23:09

He's he's a singer, but he be rapping though. Like his smooth way. I love the Drake stuff.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

I love the Drake stuff.

SPEAKER_03 23:16

I wish we had more time. He said really Drake.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

So what's your favorite song of the album? No.

SPEAKER_04 23:21

If you want, what's your favorite Drake album?

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Ooh.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

It says a lot about a person.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

It's a tie because people don't consider this an album. They consider it a mixtape. But for me, it's if you're reading this, it's too late. And then under that, I'd say nothing was the same. That's an album. What was the first one you said? If you're reading this, it's too late. Yeah, that was my shit. When that shit dropped, I was in acting class. Like not enough people, not enough people like that.

SPEAKER_04 23:43

Love that.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

And second one you said? Um, nothing was the same. Okay. And then take care right under that. And then after that, we can shuffle. Scorpions. Scorpion. Yeah. What? Really?

SPEAKER_05 23:53

I mean, bro, if you if you No, no, you don't have to sell me. You don't have to sell me. I just never have to. Yeah, that's my first time here. Yeah, and I feel like every time I say it, people are like, what? But I'm like, if you look at that track list, bangers. It's ether, the whole point. Bangers, both sides. What? Like, bro, got non-stop on there, mob ties, can't tell a joke, talk up. Is there more? In my feelings. Ratchet, happy birthday, jaded. Like, all it's this is one album, dude. Yeah, like it's it's really. He got me singing. Is there more? Is there more? It's the Bellinis. What's yours? What's yours?

SPEAKER_04 24:31

Top one? Or just give me one two, yeah. Um favorite one. I like views, to be honest. I like views. When you keep the family close. Um most people did it. Most people didn't. I actually like um if you're reading this, I forget the name. Because that was uh that year I just uh got to college. I was like just starting college.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

So that was like running through the Andose Secret albums that he just dropped randomly at nine o'clock or midnight or whatever. I remember being in class, looking at the album.

SPEAKER_05 25:04

I'll never forget views dropped when I lived in Vancouver, Canada for five months. I shot one show out there called Wayward Ponds. And I'm not even trying to flex, but like I I lived on the 24th floor of this like penthouse place they put me up. And like, I don't know if you guys have ever seen Vancouver, but it's like super futuristic. Like it's like it has glass buildings. So like I had the views when the views came out, like I really thought he was like he was talking about my life. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

When you talk about his pen and like soundtrack to your life, that was the first time that I really felt like okay, he that's he's talking to me. Which one?

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Take care, he dropped it, and I broke up with my first like little high school girlfriend, and I was like, This nigga gets it.

SPEAKER_04 25:45

But like, because like a lot of us, take care came out a time where I'm guessing we around the same age. But um I think we weren't like old enough to fully understand it yet. But we were just stepping into stepping into our manhood. And then as we look back and we're like, damn, that was a real professional.

SPEAKER_05 26:04

But as far as Iceman goes, we'll we can we can bring this to a conclusion. I genuinely feel like Iceman is some of his best work ever. I actually just Iceman or all three? I mean all three, but I'm gonna I'm gonna single out Iceman because I think the other two albums is like if you like that, you like that. Like if you like the RB Drake, here you go. If you like the outside party Drake, here you go. But Iceman, like that, like that's that is. I I yeah, I relate so crazy to what he's on on that.

SPEAKER_04 26:32

And I think he intentionally did it like that, where he knows Iceman is the main thing. But here, I'm gonna give y'all one for the ladies, yeah, yeah, yeah. One for the little summer anthems, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because it's Drake, yeah, how he is. Yeah, but I actually I'll throw this in. No one likes this album. I liked his house album.

SPEAKER_05 26:48

Who said who knows?

SPEAKER_04 26:50

A lot of people, honestly, never mind. Loved it. A lot of people didn't like it. Fuck you. A lot of people never been on a yacht.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

A lot of people never been on a yacht.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Especially if you if you're in Miami, late in the summer, what? Don't that downhill, that sticky?

SPEAKER_05 27:02

How did numbers did numbers that summer? No. I'll still play.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

Let's get into a little this or that. Okay. Um, so the first question, it's funny. The first question on here was Drake or Kendrick.

SPEAKER_06 27:17

Answer.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

We want you to answer, Patrick. Answer this one.

SPEAKER_05 27:20

Soda LA. So make sure you show the L. Where are you from?

SPEAKER_01 27:24

I'm from Los Angeles, California.

SPEAKER_05 27:26

Where specifically?

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Lamarck Park. Okay. You say what you gotta say. Are you asking as an artist, or you're talking about the beef? Oh, you're about to piss me off. Let's go artists.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

Let's go artist first. Drake. Let's go beef. Kendrick. Oh, you're sick. You're sick.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

I'm sorry. You know what it was? It was meet the grams. It was the way he dropped that shit two hours later in the beef. I literally thought someone was gonna die that night. Like we talk about Thompson was gonna die. I mean, family matters is great, but then he said meet the grams, right?

SPEAKER_00 27:58

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_05 28:01

Realistically, bro, as a as a Drake fan, like I he lost. And it's okay. That's a realistic answer. That's what I mean. And you know what? That's okay. If Drake, if Drake was right here, I'd be like, dang, peace it up, bro. You lost it. Not like us alone.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

Real niggas can take an L and keep it pushing. It happened. Yeah. I think Euphoria was what really what like I was like, yo, Drake, you gotta go get him.

SPEAKER_05 28:23

You gotta go get him. I'm not gonna lie. Not in the field, please. I knew it was gonna be crazy as soon as I heard as soon as I heard that, I was like, Oh, this shit sounds crazy. I was like, And you can't deny it. Nah, that that's the same thing. That one is sick. I'll never say that's not my memory. I couldn't even add it. I'll never concede. Family Matters. I love that. I love that. That's my favorite song out the whole shit, but like honestly, you gotta accept it. Because look, we lost the battle, but we win the war.

SPEAKER_07 28:54

We is a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05 28:55

I'll never concede.

SPEAKER_03 29:00

Got my other goat on here. Future of Travis Scott.

SPEAKER_04 29:03

Future. I'm you know there's nothing to talk about. Yeah, nothing to talk about there. What? You know what's crazy? The first time I heard Travis Scott was on the Drake album uh company.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Oh, yeah. Oh, really? That was the first time you heard Travis? First time I heard Travis Scott, you couldn't get.

SPEAKER_04 29:18

Then I went back and heard Days Before Rodeo on the video. Oh man, I was on Days Before Rodeo like as soon as he dropped. I was late, but still gonna future. Yeah, yeah, future.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

Oh, come so next one. We got all right, so it just says LA or or New York, but I'll expand on it. Let's say, like That's a tough one for me, though. West Coast Culture, food, influence, impact, artist, the whole nine. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Think wisely, man. I know this is gonna suck. All right, so food, y'all gonna be mad, but food is definitely New York. Definitely New York. It's just so much more multicultural. Like, as far as like soul food, we got that shit. Duelens, like, come on.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

I'm gonna be real. Um, LA, I was surprised by the food out there. It was really good. And it is I'm I'm uh I'm biased because I like burritos, I like breakfast. Oh, I tell that too. New York don't do Mexican. Yeah, if that's what you like, we got that. Every morning I can get a different breakfast burrito. So I'm gonna go there. If you like Indian food, you like burrito aborted. So that's where I feel like New York. New York different food.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

If you want the bigger variety, yeah, and that's 100% New York. That's yeah, that's what I'm saying. But Mexican food, hands down, us. Um culturally, I'm still gonna be. I'm gonna have to say it's tough just because I grew up in LA culture, so I'm gonna have to say LA, but like I appreciate the people of New York because I just feel like you don't see many LA natives in LA anymore. They've left or they're only in the hood. And so it's like in New York, you just get more New Yorkers that are just real, and that's what I appreciate. Like people say the New Yorkers are assholes. I just feel like they're honest. If they fuck with you, they fuck with you. If they don't, they don't.

SPEAKER_05 30:46

Like that's that's uh the you know, the difference between the shininess of New York and the shininess of LA. Like, whereas the the transplants in LA are so easily impressed. Like in New York, if you're lame, you're lame. It doesn't matter. You got lame everywhere. Yeah, yeah. It don't matter what city you in. You got money or what you what you just did, it don't matter. Like, if your energy's not right, we see that and we're not we don't like you. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Facts.

SPEAKER_04 31:10

Facts. It's it's funny because here it's like kind of the same thing, like with the flashiness, like they got they could hide it with the money. But because girls, girls will come down here and you know they just they're here for a few days.

SPEAKER_05 31:25

Shiny objects shine the craziest in my air. Boy, they eat that up down here. They eat that up down here. They eat that up down here. Ogre back.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

Yeah, we see some crazy shit in my mom. Well, you want to talk about it? Nah, nah, no, no, no. We're gonna leave that right there.

SPEAKER_03 31:43

Beat that, man. For the next one. Yeah, MJ or Prince?

SPEAKER_01 31:49

I was about to say, why is Kobe nut on the list?

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Uh I'm gonna go MJ.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

I'm gonna go Michael Jackson. Yeah, yeah. I feel like you gotta go Michael Jackson, but like Prince is so under. I feel like if you asked Tiger, he would say Prince.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

But it's also like it's not to take away from Prince, neither. Prince is Prince. Prince is okay. He's his own person.

SPEAKER_05 32:05

Yeah, I almost hate the question because it's like for me personally. Whereas both of them musically are so sound, but then Mike is gonna dance. And Prince Prince will play that guitar.

SPEAKER_03 32:20

I think Mike took it to another another level, and he had that longevity, yeah, and he just did so much more, but that doesn't take any way, anything away from Prince's talent. Prince is like Princess Prince, Mike is my own.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

I ain't gonna lie, the or is the ores both of them or Prince's or actually because you said at the beginning, I hate the MJ versus uh versus LeBron question. Oh, yeah or Kobe or anything, because like no, we get it.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

There's really I can't stand, I'll die on this hill. It's Kobe all day. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:58

Who wanna fight me? Okay, no, that's that's real. That's real. But like if we're talking about MJ versus LeBron, like to me, there's no debate. Like it's it's MJ. Like, I don't really care what anybody says. Like, at the end of the day, yeah, eras, oh, they played against a bunch of plumbers. No, bro. Competition was yeah, right. Competition was what it was back then. That's why people won games and people lost games. Like, you could say people weren't talented, but the competition level was where it was at for a reason. There were certain people that exceled just like there are certain people that excel today. So that argument's out. To me, why Michael Jordan is better than LeBron James is because adversity. And I know people are like, oh, but LeBron James had all the things stacked against him. Yeah, but look at how he acted when they were stacked against him. Look at the moves he made, the places he went, the people he depended on. Whereas Jordan, although they did have a great team, had less to depend on. Where it was like, to me, we're talking about basketball, if we're talking about sports, how you define greatness. It's very simple. Five seconds left on the clock, all 19,000 people in the building know who is going to take the shot. So I take this shot with everybody knowing I'm about to take a shot, and I make it, I'm great. When it's five seconds left, I don't know what brauit to do with that shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 34:14

I just feel like it's not close. With with I feel like it's not close. I feel like it's brawn and it's not close. Oh, you're insane. What? You're entertained. I think it's brawn and it's brawn. I'm gonna be real, I won't even entertain. That's like the first time I heard you say that. I won't entertain Kobe. No, that's where it's not entertaining. And that would be I can't entertain Kobe.

SPEAKER_01 34:33

You can't entertain the conversation between Kobe versus LeBron?

SPEAKER_03 34:37

Yeah, I can't, bro. I can't entertain that. I can't enter that.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Oh, bro.

SPEAKER_05 34:43

Wait, talk about it. Talking about before the fisticuffs, why?

unknown 34:48

Like, how is that?

SPEAKER_03 34:49

I think I think before we get into it, yeah, we can talk about every criteria, every metric that you want to measure. Objectively, LeBron is better. Now, if we want to talk about art, we want to talk about Mamba mentality, we want to talk about taking the last shot. You like all that stuff, all that stuff is all that stuff is like how you feel. That's emotion. Like, oh, Kobe was a dog. Kobe was a dog. Yeah, facts. But in every measurable metric, LeBron is and was better. And see, this is my even even if you want to go to fourth quarter clutchness, fourth quarter shots, game winning shots, he he like like objectively, he was better. Like this is on the internet.

SPEAKER_05 35:29

But see, but this thing, this is this is where I get into our because obviously, you know, I go to the barbershop once every two weeks. And and this before you continue. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:41

When it happened with that belly, we should have got that belly. Before you continue, I feel like the barbershop is the worst place to have this conversation.

SPEAKER_05 35:49

Oh no, it can get bad. My barbershop, um, before we switch places, my barbershop actually has two sets of boxing. You got a box. Yeah, no, you got a box. No, swear to God, we're at brother. I swear I have been getting my haircut and I've watched dozens of people. You got a box. Because I've been going to the same barbershop since I was 15. I've watched dozens. Yeah, yeah. Unboxing about brown. Box. Yeah, yeah. You boxing about brown? Unboxing about Kobe. Okay, like it is. But continue, continue. But like, I just feel like that's there's a difference. I think, and and that's fine. There's a difference between people who, you know, uh read the stats and they measure stuff, and there's a difference between people who do that and watch 48 minutes of regulation.

SPEAKER_03 36:30

I I I'm 27.

SPEAKER_05 36:32

Okay. I watched it. You missed a couple Kobe games, and that's why. Because I get it.

SPEAKER_03 36:37

Whoa. Whoa. It's okay. I get why you don't understand. We're talking about the same Kobe that shared the MVP. Kobe Bean Bryant, yes. We're talking about the same one that shared the MVP because Braun has been the best player in the league for the past 20 years. Yeah, yeah. By by far. This is my first time hearing the game. So there's no there's no sharing an MVP with any of Braun's team.

SPEAKER_05 36:57

Here's what I'm gonna say is for me, it's it's it's never about the numbers for me. And I understand the numbers are impressive, bro. LeBron James is is not no slouch at all. He is a GOAT in his own right. I'm not about to discredit him. But like for me, it's the eye test. I watch the game, I love the game. I play, I hoop my whole life. You know what I'm saying? So when I watch those two people play, like there's something different that happens when I watch Kobe.

SPEAKER_03 37:21

I can respect it. Well, are you are you? I can respect my thing is this.

SPEAKER_05 37:24

MJ was your one.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Yeah, MJ. Are you going to MJ Kobe Braun? Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay, I can respect it. If you tell me that it's eye test, this is how you feel. I'm not gonna change your eye test.

SPEAKER_05 37:33

But the matter is, LeBron James' number is shit on it. I mean, yeah. But my thing is everybody else.

SPEAKER_01 37:39

That's like saying Bam is a better player just because he just got the right thing.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Technically, he's like you don't have a number.

SPEAKER_03 37:50

If you tell me if you tell if you tell me, if you tell me Kobe's a more clutch player than LeBron, that's not an eye test thing. That's uh, okay, there's numbers that back up clutch moments, and objectively, one is better than the other. Okay, so if you but if you but if you tell me that it's just eye tests, this is how you feel, Kobe gives you a different feel. I can't change your mind. Yeah, yeah, no, you I get that. But what I can't hear is, oh, Kobe's better than the fourth. No, he's not. Like he's that but you're wrong on it.

SPEAKER_05 38:16

But say this is this is the thing. Here, like you're gonna talk about it. You gotta go Google Sit now. I'm like, but like at the end of the day, we can talk about fourth quarters, but not every fourth quarter matters more than other four quarters. We can talk about regular season four quarters all you want, but if we talk about playoff performances, it's not close, bro. We can go look at that.

SPEAKER_03 38:33

Playoff performances. Yeah, playoff performances. We're talking about three down three-one. You want to talk about clutch? Down three-one to the greatest team ever. Yeah, yeah, no. Down three-one to the greatest team member.

SPEAKER_05 38:41

You know what? That is the year LeBron James fully gained my respect. I was like, I can't say nothing.

SPEAKER_03 38:47

The 51-point game in game one, he kicks to his teammate and he fucking doesn't know what to do with the ball. But wide open. But that's the that's what you said though.

SPEAKER_05 38:55

That's my whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 38:57

But to Kobe, but you're but you're a whooping.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Kobe was so selfish selfish with the ball, he would never let that hit.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

But what doesn't get mentioned is when Shaq was sharing an MVP with him, when Robbie Ory hits a shot, a three-point shot in the finals to save Kobe, when Ron Artest hits a three-point shot to save Kobe, that doesn't get talked about. Ron wouldn't take that shot. But he all knows. He's not even supposed to take that shot. He took that shot. That's what happened. So that doesn't get talked about though. No, it doesn't matter. As a hooper, though, LeBron gets shit on because he doesn't take a lot of shots in the fourth, or he doesn't hoist up a bad shot. He's gonna make the right play. If George Hill makes a free throw in that game, in that game one, the the ball doesn't get kicked out. JR's not even in that situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As a hooper, you're kicking to the wide open player. You expect my sharpshooter, my two guard to make the shot.

SPEAKER_05 39:45

And I understand. And those are two different brands of basketball where I can I can tell by watching LeBron James play, he genuinely gets a better kick out of passing the ball than scoring. I can tell he's that type of player. I think he's a player right now. I think he's the type of guy. I know for a fact that boy Kobe wants to see that shit go through the thousands. Kobe likes every thousand. Can everybody be clear, please? And and you know, it's at the end of the day, it's just it's what brand of basketball you like more. I personally am into Kobe, uh Michael. And, you know, honestly, bro, LeBron James is third, and this is a hot take, but I'm I'm putting Steph Curry at my four, and I don't care what nobody's doing. Not mad at it. That's valid. Not mad at it. I'm putting Steph Curry at my four, and that's valid.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

You want to talk about impact? Not mad at it. Okay. Yeah, the greatest impact we've seen. Change the whole entire get Magic and Larry out of the top five first. Make room for Steph.

SPEAKER_04 40:34

Make room for Steph. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is something people don't understand about acting?

SPEAKER_05 40:40

Man, um it it does a lot of uh wear and tear on the soul for it. Sorry, that was a natural. The boy does it. It's true, you know what I'm saying? How the soul. The soul, I mean, at the end of the day, like you come to, you know, I'll like, you know, make uh I'll make an analogy. It's like a girl that you love, and like this girl consistently just like says no to you, like over and over and over again, and you don't stop loving her, like you can't stop loving her. And then like that one yes out of the a hundred, you know, it's it's a toxic relationship very toxic, but you that one yes, that's the last you've been waiting for.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

And I'll take a hundred more fucking no's just for her to say yes one more time to me.

SPEAKER_04 41:29

Don Damaco, yes, is how much can you handle that no?

SPEAKER_05 41:33

And I think that's a testament to life and and God. I think that's how we're tested. I genuinely feel like it's about how much you can endure and still remain sane and a good person with a good heart. And I think that's like how you know.

SPEAKER_01 41:49

I think that's where everything, too, because people are quick to quit. He's not talking about it, and so I'm gonna say it for him. This exact question, he has a theory for, a saying for, and it's the long walk home. And it's I think I think that's the thing is every actor faces that long walk home. There's gonna be a project that you super want, you feel like you're so aligned for, the tape was great, the callback was great, the test was great. They act, they said they loved you in the room, it's yours. And then after four days, three weeks of being on hold, they say no, and you don't have it anymore. And everything is gone. You've signed your contract, you knew how much money you were gonna make.

SPEAKER_05 42:26

That's the crazy part. I don't know if y'all know that. This is a good idea. You might not know about acting. Um, there's things called test deals, right? So you go to the audition, then you get a callback, then you go to a producer/slash test deal, where this is where you go, and before you even go in the room, you have negotiated numbers. You've negotiated, you sign your contract before you go in the room to audition. So therefore, after you book it, you can't like negotiate for more or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 42:54

So they could throw, let's just throw a large X amount of numbers.

SPEAKER_01 42:57

Oh no, I'll tell you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you numbers I've seen. 50,000 on a contract.

SPEAKER_05 43:01

Yeah, yeah, 50,000. And then you're going into the room knowing I've signed a contract, you know this before COVID for 1.2 million dollars over the whole season. Like you go in there knowing I do this the right way, I come out with 1.2 million dollars.

SPEAKER_04 43:14

Damn. So on the opposite end that's draining because if you get that no, you know, I just lost 1.2 million dollars. But what's the reason they do it beforehand? Oh, that you can't renegotiate for more.

SPEAKER_05 43:25

Because once you know, you know, it's like more money.

SPEAKER_04 43:29

Now, does it make a difference where, like, all right, you sign 1.2 mil? Like, are you more fueled and motivated to put on that back?

SPEAKER_05 43:36

You're more fueled, you're more motivated, you're more nervous. You're more nervous, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

And you know, once you lose 1.2 million dollars. Tell your family.

SPEAKER_05 43:44

And I don't know about y'all, you know, I'm Haitian, you know. I tell my mom something, the whole family knows that's why we Caribbean too. So yeah, so it's like, you know, the whole fam, like you know what I'm saying? That little cousin thing about her graduation gift. I don't think about a startup face business. And it's like you got all this all this thing riding on you. And then, you know, you you get said, no, what he just said um about the long walk home, I briefly say it's like I I went out for this audition that I was so into, and you know, I I I didn't get it. I went to a bar like bang like four or five IPAs. You know what I'm saying? I was just like, it is what it is, yeah. Yeah, and and and I couldn't drive. And my house was like four miles away, and I was like, you know what? Walk. And it took a long walk home and I cried and and I remember like seeing this homeless dude. And this is gonna sound like this guy's crazy, but like I I started laughing really hard because I thought to myself in my mind, I was like, what if this is how homeless people are created? Like, what if I just never made it home? Just never just stay with him. What if I just kicked him in the room?

SPEAKER_01 44:57

Because of that one audition.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

Like your intro to homelessness?

SPEAKER_05 45:00

Right, yeah. But I was like, what if every homeless person in LA was just an actor that took the long walk home, didn't make it home. But it's like it all starts here.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Like you gotta make it home from those from those nose. You gotta pick yourself back up, you gotta walk back into that door. That's the point. And I mean, like to what you were saying earlier about like people starting out, maybe they ask outside. Anyways, um, make sure you want to do this for the right reasons because this shit will break you. Yeah, it will test you, it will test you to see, like Lofton says, it will either it will drive you crazy and see if you're crazy driven, and you have to be both. Like you have to have some a little bit of insanity to continue with this, but be in it for the right reasons. Don't think there's a shortcut. Don't think like, oh, I'm gonna move to LA and get a show in a year.

SPEAKER_00 45:41

And it could happen.

SPEAKER_01 45:42

It could happen. I'm not saying both.

SPEAKER_05 45:43

Put no energy on anybody.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

But do it for the right reasons. Do it for the longevity, not for some sort of time frame that you feel like if I want to make a biodactive for two years, then I'm gonna go sell crypto. Like, if this is what you want to do. I was just about to say so. It's an option. It is an option. I don't recommend you. Don't do that. Crypto's a lot safer.

SPEAKER_04 46:03

Uh well, we'll end on this. What are your reasons for doing it?

SPEAKER_01 46:07

Um, I think they've changed over time, but uh, the one that's maintained consistent is I truly do feel like I have a calling on my life to entertain the world. Like, I love people. People annoy the fuck out of me sometimes. Get away from me. But like, I truly feel like I have a job to entertain people, to make them feel something through stories. Um and before, like, you know, with acting, you can truly make people feel a full gamut of emotions, sadness, happiness, joy, anything. And so it's like, I want to be able to make people smile, and then with my dramatic work, still be able to hold up a mirror to them and hopefully help them heal through some sort of trauma that they're going to, or at least start the process, the conversation, just looking at themselves and saying, like, there's a way forward. Because I think entertainment and art, film especially, can be uh very informative. I feel like you can pack a lot of information and lessons into this form of entertainment.

SPEAKER_04 46:57

That's the reason we watch movies and TV.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 47:00

For me, I mean, you know, you grow up and you get told Christopher Columbus found America, and then you and then you grow up and you realize like that wasn't what happened. And it's like there's this weird thing with history and religion where it's like we don't know what's real. Whereas you get to a point in your life and you start to make what's real for you. And I think that's what is you know, religion or spirit spirituality. Um, all that to say that I think that film is a part of our history, you know. Like I think that's us making history and giving people the chance to make whatever they feel from watching and and make that into a reality. And I just think that there's a lot of people that wake up every day and don't do what they want to do. You know, people wake up and then go to nine of the someone's life, right? Yeah, and I I think that that's the quickest way to die. You know what I'm saying? And if if you can come home and watch my TV show for an hour and feel something and laugh and smile and create your own reality through that or go to the movies, then I did I did my part. You know what I'm saying? Love that.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

Love that. Honestly, that's the same thing we feel with this podcast. You're watching, we want to make people, it's called Can't I Buy Witch's. We want to want to make people feel good. No, I'm sure they felt good energy from y'all.

SPEAKER_05 48:16

Realistically, I want to say, bro, like I could genuinely sit here, talk to y'all boys. Yeah, I know. If we had the time, we can keep going, bro.

SPEAKER_04 48:23

I know, yeah, yeah. This was great. Part two? Part two on the way, part two on the way. Honestly, we well, you're here now. We be in LA a lot. Yeah, pull up. Shout out to Brit Rap for coordinating.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

Shout out to Brit Rap for real, for real. Shout out to Rap Shit. Real. Alrighty.

SPEAKER_01 48:38

Um, but yeah, anything y'all want to share, promote? Um last thoughts. Mayor of King's Town season five, dropping this fall. And um, be on the lookout for my first directorial debut at Patrick Cage on every social media platform.

SPEAKER_05 48:51

Um go watch Hall and Harper. It's on a streaming service called Movie, M U B I, Me, Mark Ruffalo, Lily Reinhart, and then um catch my movie, Thought She Was the One that's coming. I don't know when it's coming out, but it's premiering this Saturday. Uh directed by TI, starring T.I. Shout out to Tip, man. Um, literally my favorite rapper growing up. King of the South. King of the South. The good King of the South. Genuinely, let them know it's out on all platforms right now. Go, it's an actually fire song. I'm in the barber shop, you know, shooting the. I remember this. Yeah. And I promise you, like, I'm regular day, like, my manager calls me and it's like, hey, did you get the script I just sent you? And I was like, nah, like, I'll I'll read it when I go home. He's like, nah, I need to read it now. I was like, why? He was like, T.I. is about to call you. Hung up. I was like, wait, what? I texted him and I said, T I, like, T.I. Who? Like, is there more to the letters? Like, T I who? He's like, T I about to call you. I get a random number. I don't pick up for random numbers, but he just said, what he said. So I'm like, okay, let me pick up. Picked it up. Right. Hello? He's like, hey, man, it's Chris. I'm like, yeah, he likes, hey, he's like, what going on, man? Man, you know what I'm saying? It's tip, man. Uh, you got the script. I was like, yeah. He was like, did you read it? I was like, nah, I ain't gonna cap ride it. I didn't read it. He was like, I'm gonna need you to read that, bro. Get to me, bro. You know what I'm saying? We want you to do this movie. It it happened so like randomly. And I read the script. Really, really funny. It is a it's a it's a comedy about a group of friends and family that go to a cabin. There's love triangles involved. Terrence J is in it, DC Young Fly. Oh, I think I shot it. Yeah, I shot homies out.

SPEAKER_04 50:26

Oh you said the cat. I'm like, I'm like, this, I gotta see this. Yeah, it's it's a meeting you, I'm like, yeah, we're gonna get it.

SPEAKER_05 50:31

It's a it's a crazy one, man. So yeah, just and um, I don't know if it's his directorial debut, but I know this is one of his first um, you know, uh time directing, and he did a really, really great job. Yeah, the cast is really great. One of my cast mates is out there, Chameleon. Shout out Millie, yeah, yeah. She's on next. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She plays my girlfriend in the movie, man. She's great. Um, but yeah, that's it, man. Okay. Catch it when you catch it.

SPEAKER_04 50:53

Uh, where can we find it after the ABF? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

I don't know if I'm gonna watch it.

SPEAKER_05 51:01

On the screening at 8 p.m. Um Saturday at 6 30 p.m. That's all I know. You know, I'm an actor, that's it.

SPEAKER_04 51:08

I just say I appreciate y'all how much. Appreciate y'all.

SPEAKER_05 51:20

I need a I need another bellini. We need a little bit of a bellini.

SPEAKER_00 51:25

We need a little bellini.

SPEAKER_04 51:27

Appreciate it.