Join Adam and friends Chidi Ajufo and Zach Grashin as they take a non political exploration through the world of film and media highlighting Chidi’s and Zach’s recent movies, their acting careers and their unwavering love for the movies.
EP005: Let’s Make A Movie
Join Adam and friends Chidi Ajufo and Zach Grashin as they take a non political exploration through the world of film and media highlighting Chidi’s and Zach’s recent movies, their acting careers and their unwavering love for the movies.
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Speaker 1
I'd like to welcome everybody to the Adam King show. I am your host, Adam King. And I'm joined, as always, by my wonderful sidekick, Rog Breath. How you doing?
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Speaker 2
I'm doing fantastic. Adam, how are you?
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Speaker 1
It's been good, man. It's been the Jewish holidays. It's been a while since we did a show. I'm glad to be back. Glad to be here.
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Speaker 2
I don't mean it. Our holiday or you go further. I got to ask you about your shirt. What what is that? And what does it mean?
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Speaker 1
Oh, my shirt. Oh, so this is an organization that I founded with two unbelievable security experts in the Jewish community in L.A. And we handle a whole variety of emergency management and emergency response disaster relief liaison ship for the police department, for the Jewish community in Los Angeles and more. Actually, yeah, actually, for the holidays, we actually arranged for there to be worse security.
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Speaker 1
I actually got some pictures of it. Let me share. We have we had security. The police came on horseback. As you can see here. You can see that. So they said up people.
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Speaker 3
That.
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Speaker 1
Our organization coordinated it with LAPD not give in. And the kids were there to, to, uh, to go up and talk to the horses and pet the horses. And as you see in the back, they had their mobile command center out. And this is what LAPD does to secure the Jewish community, you know, in the holidays. And you saw people come up and pet the horses.
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Speaker 1
It was really nice. And this is, um, I believe, Sergeant Sig. Officer Sig, this, this wonderful officer and here you go. The horse is sticking with their tongue out, and that's great.
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Speaker 2
That's a great motto. Yeah. Adam, you never cease to amaze me.
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Speaker 1
You know, we we started this organization on what I called the night of the Democrat Rides of 2020. We showed up in the street with about 75 volunteers, and we locked down the block and made sure that no Jews in the neighborhood or non-Jews who live in the Jewish neighborhood were hurt or affected by the riots. And our organization is called Maggie Beam.
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Speaker 1
It actually means first responders in Hebrew and you can go to our website and join us, get prepared and fantastic. Make donations. We'll have to make a.
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Speaker 2
Link to that to our website, add on. We'll put that on our website as well.
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Speaker 1
I think that's a great idea. I think that's a great idea. Anyways, without further ado, I want to get into our show because we got an awesome, awesome, awesome show scheduled today. But as always, before we get into our show, I got some funny as hell names I got to go over with.
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Speaker 3
You hit me.
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Speaker 1
Okay. First I want to honor my mother because she sent me a non funny meme, but this is it. Let's root for each other and grow together.
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Speaker 3
Oh.
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Speaker 1
I like it. That's positivity. Here we go. Kramer, what's going on in there? And you can see Seinfeld. Look at him.
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Speaker 3
By his.
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Speaker 1
Groove against Jerry.
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Speaker 2
That's great.
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Speaker 3
That's a good one. Let's hear it.
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Speaker 1
I get them all on the Internet. You could see on the very bottom this is forbidden. Means that forbidden means he's a he's a is a real good one. Here we go. The real Mickey Mouse.
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Speaker 2
Smoking a cigaret.
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Speaker 1
Saudi Arabia. We're cutting back on oil production. Joe Biden.
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Speaker 3
Russia and.
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Speaker 2
Yours. I love your sense of humor.
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Speaker 1
It's funny, man. You got to make yourself laugh in these.
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Speaker 3
That is. It's funny. I wouldn't run it.
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Speaker 1
This one really hit me hard. The highest paid female athlete in the WNBA, $231,000 a year. The yearly salary for the Denver Nuggets mascot 625.
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Speaker 2
And that's a joke. You're making that up?
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Speaker 1
I don't know. This is going around the Internet. It could be real. It could be fake. Maybe it's fake news. I hope we don't get cancer.
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Speaker 2
And end up a can of worms here.
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Speaker 1
You know what? I want to see comments in the thread. I want to see our fans prove or disprove this one.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 1
This one. It has to be my favorite ad that most Americans don't even know what this province is. We don't.
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Speaker 3
That's.
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Speaker 2
That's not it.
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Speaker 1
This one is great. Openly gay animals is one of the funniest. The Instagram memes, their Instagram feeds there are the universe is experiencing itself to get a little spiritual on you God orchestrating everything from behind the scenes pedophiles and rapists before please get in my van. I have free candy. And now we run the government vote for me.
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Speaker 3
They're too much.
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Speaker 2
And that's great. I got a real quick I got to tell you a quick story. A friend of mine's renting an apartment. They had someone call, they have a dog and it's a Rottweiler and they said they didn't want ride loads. This person claimed them to be racist. My friend is now racist because he doesn't want a rottweiler in his apartment.
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Speaker 2
So he's racist towards the dog.
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Speaker 1
Okay. On that note, since you went, I'm going to put a couple more means because. Because that was too funny.
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Speaker 2
I'm sorry I had to.
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Speaker 1
I'm going to just do a couple more means there on our audience because this week, earlier this week, the Internet killed it needing need an abortion. Try the COVID vaccine.
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Speaker 2
Oh, no, that's terrible. Oh, that.
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Speaker 1
In relation to Tulsi Gabbard leaving the Democratic Party, what's up with her World Economic Forum connection? Look at all these guys that they got clobbered by the news that Justin Trudeau, Ivanka Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Mark Zuckerberg, they were all the same graduating class. We're being sad.
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Speaker 2
Yeah that's great classes the teacher.
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Speaker 1
I wonder if they could bring this is really a harsh harsh thing and I'm going to for sure receive backlash for this and I hopefully I do. They rewarded the victims of Alex, some of the victims of the Sandy Hook. The Alex Jones is was was required to pay 120 million to 1 family from Sandy Hook. And I just want to know and we say, of course, of course, you know, they would trade the money in for their kids any day.
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Speaker 1
But if if they could bring back the kids, how many of them would be a little bit hesitant to give up that 120 million?
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Speaker 2
Well, that's that's tough. That's a tough thing to say.
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Speaker 1
And in honor of Columbus Day, we have this one.
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Speaker 3
You know, I really.
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Speaker 2
I can't believe this stuff is being.
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Speaker 1
And as COVID is leaving nuclear Armageddon, as stepping in the door.
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Speaker 2
Of course, they got to have something now to put in front of us.
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Speaker 1
All right. That's going to end.
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Speaker 3
Adam, those were fantastic.
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Speaker 2
I can't believe you come up with some of the greatest stuff. Thank you. I appreciate you sharing that with me.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, of course. Now. And we got a great show tonight. I'm going to let in our guests.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, please.
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Speaker 1
And Rock, you're going to be in the background, hopefully. That's right. Yep. Thank you. Thank you for all you do for the show. And I'll see you soon, my friend.
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Speaker 2
My pleasure. Have a great show, Adam.
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Speaker 1
Thanks.
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Speaker 1
All right. And we have our guests returning writer, comedian, genius Zac Rations and first time on the show, one of my longtime friends and phenomenal, phenomenal actor. Killing it on Netflix right now, Nigerian superstar Chiti Ejiofor. Welcome to the show, guys.
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Speaker 4
Hey, thanks for.
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Speaker 3
Having me, man. Yeah, great to be back.
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Speaker 1
Good to be back, Ryan. It's good to be on the show. It's good to be put material out there with some entertainment people who know what it's like to get the word out. So welcome, guys. I wanted to do a different show because so much of the shows that I do are always so political or hot, and I just want to do a show about art.
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Speaker 1
So Chitti, you're blowing up on Netflix right now. When did it start for you? How did it how you're on like you're soon you're going to land a lead role, without a doubt, because you have backup roles in so many films that hit the top ten charts on Netflix. It's inevitable.
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Speaker 4
It is. I feel so. I feel that's the that's part of the goal. And when did it start? I think when I met you, I was still playing basketball.
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Speaker 1
You're a professional basketball player?
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Speaker 4
Yeah. Yeah, I played basketball. And and for our.
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Speaker 1
Audience, Chiti is the most. He's about six, seven, eight.
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Speaker 4
Seven.
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Speaker 1
He is a small power forward, but he kicks ass in the power forward.
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Speaker 3
Yeah. And I'm not.
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Speaker 1
Even going to tell the story. We're going to leave that for the record books Between You and me.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Let's talk about Moscow right?
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Speaker 4
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That was that was the first time that I think that was the first movie that I was in when I had to leave that basketball team to go to Moscow to to shoot. And this was what, 2017, I believe 2016, 2017, 26, 2016, I think. Yeah. And listen, from then on, you know, it's it's just, you know, it's been moving up from there.
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Speaker 4
And, you know, I'm here now.
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Speaker 1
That we had a minor league professional basketball team that we ran for charity in this tournament called the basketball tournament on ESPN. And we all the team in there and Ginny was on the team.
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Speaker 5
Yeah, that's.
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Speaker 1
Right. We had David Blue, we had Corey Reeder from the Clippers. No, Sam Clancey from the Clippers.
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Speaker 4
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Corey Ridder was no, Clancy was on the clip on the 70 Sixers. Corey Reeder was on the Clippers. These are these are like Benchwarmers. But they're like, you know.
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Speaker 4
These are bench forwards. You get paid at least three plus million.
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Speaker 3
I know, right. I'll be there any day.
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Speaker 5
Any day.
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Speaker 3
Exactly.
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Speaker 5
Did you grow up. Did you grow up in the UK.
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Speaker 4
Oh I spent I was born in England. Yeah. And I moved to LA by five years old and moved to Nigeria with the family for ten years. So I was in Nigeria from 5 to 15 and back in England, carried on my education, got a scholarship. When I played basketball to come here, I went to college, UC Santa Barbara, and as was the Pacific Max.
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Speaker 5
You are the second person today that told me that they played sports out of the Pacific.
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Speaker 4
Really?
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Speaker 3
Yeah. Wow.
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Speaker 5
If I. He played football. He played football there.
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Speaker 4
You remember what year he graduate?
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Speaker 5
No, but I can ask him.
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Speaker 3
Did you like that?
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Speaker 1
And that's heating up at the sorority houses together, right? Football team versus basketball team. Who can break it in the most?
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Speaker 4
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in basketball and football, I mean, we were all cool with each other back in Zaza when I first moved to America, they said there was always a competition with which team is the top, you know, is it a basketball players? Is it the football players? And when I go to Santa Barbara, they were like, This is great for you, Charlie, because there's no football team.
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Speaker 4
And I'm like, What does that mean? I don't. I don't in England, we don't care about this stuff. You know, these things. And I get to design, you know, or cool or friends funny.
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Speaker 5
These are Pacific fact. I was I was applying to potentially teach screenwriting there. And they make you sort of sign as a potential staff member that you kind of accept the revelation of Christ and and that he is the Lord and Savior and like and I was and I was like tempted to sign and you're allowed to put it known as like to say like, well, I believe, like, you know, in one lord and savior for all people.
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Speaker 5
And I'm happy to teach. You know, I taught in religious schools quite often, and I've taught in public schools about religious topics. And, you know, I can and in the end, I didn't I didn't need to apply there. But it was interesting. I encounter that. I was like, Oh, that's kind of cool. But yeah, so those are all my is is a specific backstory that I.
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Speaker 1
That I am yes I am just now recognizing your backdrop that is epic. I'm going to signal so much bird.
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Speaker 5
You mean I found it way less offensive, more my style type of type of thing. First, that that was still pertinent to your show. You know what I mean? Like, if we could pretend that we're going to talk about our but we're definitely going to dip in there, you know? I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So enough as it was a specific let's get into the art guys. That's why you're here. I want to I got two really brilliant artists different in Film City. You're you're an actor.
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Speaker 5
Great question. I have a question. Yeah, I have a question.
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Speaker 3
For you.
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Speaker 5
Because are you familiar, Adam, with the fact that the rabbis or the rabbinate recently came out and said that the Igbo people from Nigeria are part of the last tribe of.
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Speaker 1
This? I did know this idea. I know of all Nigerian.
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Speaker 5
My question now is, no, they're not. So my question actually was because I've known, I don't know, a few.
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Speaker 1
Legal Chetty.
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Speaker 3
I know.
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Speaker 5
I only learn of that term. So recently.
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Speaker 1
JD Beginning is like when two Jews are are out and about and they see one guy sees it, another one is Jewish and he's like, Hey, so you like soup or something like that, you know.
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Speaker 3
Like, are you Igbo?
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Speaker 4
I'm Igbo. Yeah, I.
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Speaker 5
Am. There you go. There. Yeah. See?
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So that's to Nigeria. You know, I love the veto man. He is one of the best Nigerian.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah. He's nice. He's your about but he's, he's he's very good at what he's.
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Speaker 1
Nigerian, right?
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Speaker 4
Yeah. Yeah, but you're right.
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Speaker 1
You follow you they.
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Speaker 5
About.
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Speaker 3
Your family follow you got around in love with you. Yeah. Are you.
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Speaker 1
Done talking.
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Speaker 3
Baby? Are you done talking? Yeah. Oh, you know, you don't get to that.
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Speaker 5
I realize I didn't realize it was that kind of a show.
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Speaker 1
And it's about our man. I'm telling you, I.
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Speaker 3
Got.
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Speaker 5
To know her well and.
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Speaker 1
The balladeer. So I would. I would have the veto on the show in a second, man. That would be.
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Speaker 3
Nice if you can. You should be all right. What were you going to say?
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Speaker 1
There's actually.
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Speaker 3
Really. No, I was there.
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Speaker 1
It was just Nigeria. I appreciate you that bringing that up because Nigeria actually has a thriving film market this season.
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Speaker 4
Let me not speak. Let me stop, start speaking of Nigeria, because I want to see some stuff in Nigeria. You know, the thing is that Nigeria so, you know, number one leading market is Hollywood. We know that. And I think too was Bollywood. But now Nollywood is actually number two right. So the know I've.
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Speaker 1
Seen some pretty dope films from Nigeria.
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Speaker 4
Yeah. There's a bunch of them on Netflix that's the thing and things I to watch everyone you know the algorithm just keeps going to a bunch more. For example.
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Speaker 5
Best.
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Speaker 4
Of watch called King of Boys King of movie Yeah King of Boys. It's a long boy. We are movie boys so fricking good.
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Speaker 1
I will watch that. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
King is great. Everything is great. I was like, this is like an American movie.
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Speaker 1
Amazing.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, I love.
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Speaker 3
It.
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Speaker 1
So do you have any play on in Nigeria?
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Speaker 4
Play?
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Like, do you get, like, hit up for roles and stuff because you get like this whole I mean, you could do so many roles with your British accent in Nigeria when you're.
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Speaker 4
American going, I do.
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Speaker 1
Not. There's so much you can play there.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, it's I've been hit up a few times, but it's, you know, small projects. Nothing major. Nothing major.
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Speaker 1
Like not yet.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, not yet. Not yet. That was small projects.
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Speaker 1
And Zach, did you see narco states?
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Speaker 5
I have not yet.
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Speaker 1
That was his latest that he was in. He was the bodyguard for the main evil guy. Yeah. And the highlight is this epic fight scene at the end where JT actually gets killed. But, you.
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Speaker 3
Know, but he puts up a good puts up a.
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Speaker 1
Good fight against the fight.
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Speaker 3
And right out of nowhere just gave it away. Oh, no. Oh, I want you to be the main character. So, yeah.
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Speaker 5
Let me show you. Let me tell you, everybody who dies in the movie that I made before you watch it, okay, exactly.
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Speaker 4
But it's a six part.
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Speaker 3
You know.
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Speaker 4
It happens, right? Okay. So six.
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Speaker 5
So right. Okay. Well, no, I mean, no, definitely. I'm excited. And I've had I've had a few Nigerian friends and romantic friends where honestly, they've been the most Jewish like people. But I didn't know so much about the film market and that's pretty interesting. I have a real cool story that's.
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Speaker 1
Going to become one of those things that the Jews on the film industry now because.
00:17:44:02 - 00:17:45:10
Speaker 3
You know, they build Hollywood.
00:17:45:20 - 00:18:07:18
Speaker 5
You know, never go. That's hilarious. And it could be. But what? Oh, man, I have so many questions about it because I'm like a story person. I'm like a story minor and like, I just like to mine a whole bunch of stories, like in terms of I guess the big picture history of maybe the country. Like what are are there like.
00:18:07:18 - 00:18:08:09
Speaker 3
Huge.
00:18:09:24 - 00:18:37:10
Speaker 5
Like meta narratives? They're like here in America, you know, slavery and civil rights, Vietnam, you know, crack and then gay, you know, like, like there's like kind of big trope narratives. And then there's like the American dream type stuff and then and then action westerns, you know what I mean? Like, what are the what are the story types there?
00:18:37:10 - 00:18:42:24
Speaker 5
Or either historical or just like, I don't know, cultural that are unique to that.
00:18:43:09 - 00:18:47:13
Speaker 4
The thing is, so Nigeria has 150 different tribes.
00:18:47:13 - 00:18:48:06
Speaker 5
Yeah, yes.
00:18:48:15 - 00:19:17:14
Speaker 4
Yeah. In Nigeria, obviously the three main ones are the eyeballs, Yoruba and houses. There's so many, there's so many stories, there's, you know, for example, the in the sixties, right. Nigeria gained independence 1960 a few years after that is when the Biafran war happened. The brief war where, you know, the Igbos were being ostracized into a kid. And so a bunch of Igbos fled Nigeria to go to England, which is part of the reason why my parents met in England.
00:19:17:14 - 00:19:36:12
Speaker 4
They got married in England because it was during the times they were running away from Nigeria. So, you know, that's one story. It was a big tribal war. They were killing a bunch of Igbos and taking all their money and everything so interesting, which is why there's a lot more Igbos than any other Nigerian tribe in England then.
00:19:37:00 - 00:19:37:06
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:19:38:12 - 00:19:46:03
Speaker 5
Okay. Interesting. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's, that's, that's kind of okay. So it's like 1960. Yeah. It's like a big, big turning point.
00:19:46:03 - 00:19:47:00
Speaker 3
So, yeah, I used to.
00:19:47:00 - 00:19:47:24
Speaker 1
Hang with this school.
00:19:48:01 - 00:19:48:19
Speaker 4
Let us go.
00:19:49:02 - 00:19:52:20
Speaker 1
Are you staying with these crew in New York? They call themselves the Biafra Boys.
00:19:53:05 - 00:19:53:19
Speaker 4
Oh.
00:19:55:06 - 00:19:58:06
Speaker 3
They were interesting. Yeah.
00:19:58:23 - 00:20:16:20
Speaker 1
I had a couple incarnations. Guys, this dog will not stop walking on the camera. She just wants to say what you could say. What's up to the world? I'm going to say this is mademoiselle is just all up on my lap while I'm filming. So you've got your phone to go over there.
00:20:17:04 - 00:20:37:11
Speaker 5
I got more questions. Should what if you are now? This is more about you than if you had. What's what's the dream like? What's the. I know this is not it's really like a podcast thing, but I'm just curious because we're meeting for the first time in as out of touch probably anybody like I went to your MTV.
00:20:37:15 - 00:21:00:10
Speaker 5
You know, like I said, I saw the gentleman like I was excited because I was I really like lock stock and two smoking barrels and snatch those were like amazing. And I've watched movies my whole life. Like, this is the only reason I would ever live in L.A. But you've done some really cool stuff. And what, like, I don't know, what's the what's the dream?
00:21:00:10 - 00:21:01:02
Speaker 5
Dream, what's.
00:21:01:02 - 00:21:01:11
Speaker 4
The end goal.
00:21:01:20 - 00:21:01:23
Speaker 5
Or.
00:21:02:02 - 00:21:02:21
Speaker 3
Not? I know.
00:21:02:21 - 00:21:04:11
Speaker 5
So angle like was like, what is.
00:21:04:24 - 00:21:06:00
Speaker 3
It if you already let it.
00:21:06:00 - 00:21:22:23
Speaker 1
Out before you answer that question, we covered narco saying the gentleman give us a list of like your top movies that you did and then let's play a clip from the gentleman and then we'll get into that question. So we set the mood right of where Clea Duvall wants to take his career.
00:21:23:00 - 00:21:31:01
Speaker 4
Okay. But the top movies, well, gentlemen, is obviously a great one. I actually like this guy McConaughey.
00:21:31:08 - 00:21:34:24
Speaker 1
I mean, gentlemen, was that McConaughey? What was that like being with McConaughey on set?
00:21:35:02 - 00:21:38:12
Speaker 4
It was only I didn't meet him much. I met McConaughey twice.
00:21:39:13 - 00:21:43:09
Speaker 1
Because in the movie you all seemed really close.
00:21:43:09 - 00:22:02:23
Speaker 4
We I spend more time with Charlie Hunnam than anyone else. So I met McConaughey twice. He was a cool guy. He was very, you know, on points with his work, very focused. Charlie Hunnam was cool as hell. We we spent a lot of time together because we had a lot scenes together. So I spent quite a few weeks with with Charlie than anyone else.
00:22:03:18 - 00:22:06:00
Speaker 4
I met Hugh Grant twice as well.
00:22:06:16 - 00:22:07:10
Speaker 1
He was pregnant.
00:22:07:22 - 00:22:08:24
Speaker 5
He was amazing in it.
00:22:09:03 - 00:22:09:23
Speaker 1
Was he pregnant?
00:22:10:07 - 00:22:11:00
Speaker 4
Hugh Grant.
00:22:11:23 - 00:22:12:00
Speaker 3
Was.
00:22:12:02 - 00:22:12:12
Speaker 1
Kidding.
00:22:12:18 - 00:22:13:11
Speaker 3
You guys for the.
00:22:13:11 - 00:22:17:01
Speaker 1
Movie where he was the first man to get.
00:22:17:01 - 00:22:17:22
Speaker 3
Pregnant. Yeah.
00:22:18:24 - 00:22:27:15
Speaker 4
So, yeah, it was. It was great, man. It was great working with them. The thing is that, you know, I just got called a couple of days ago about the gentlemen TV series, so we're going to.
00:22:27:15 - 00:22:28:08
Speaker 1
Make a series.
00:22:28:11 - 00:22:34:10
Speaker 4
Yeah, they're making a series. I believe it's Amazon. There's the planning on. It's going to be on Amazon.
00:22:34:16 - 00:22:37:19
Speaker 1
Listen, I thought that was one of the best movies I've ever seen.
00:22:38:03 - 00:22:38:13
Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:22:39:08 - 00:22:40:15
Speaker 3
Yeah. It was so good.
00:22:40:15 - 00:22:41:20
Speaker 4
How high or.
00:22:42:18 - 00:23:02:13
Speaker 1
You know, it was so different because it was like European royalty in growing weed under your castle, you know, like I went to college, everybody grew weed in their closet. And here these dudes are making a fortune growing weed underneath their castles. Yeah. You know, it was like it was. It set a really cool backdrop for a really phenomenal production.
00:23:02:13 - 00:23:07:00
Speaker 1
And Zach is a director. I'm sure that's the. The type of set that you just need up.
00:23:07:15 - 00:23:12:12
Speaker 5
Oh, I loved it. Although it was my favorite Hugh Grant movie for sure.
00:23:12:14 - 00:23:14:23
Speaker 4
I was impressed because, well, I was like, he.
00:23:14:23 - 00:23:15:18
Speaker 3
Was, you know.
00:23:16:05 - 00:23:35:11
Speaker 5
I know he. Yeah, like, you know, Rock was telling you and I agree with them. I love people who say a lot like not having to say a lot, you know? But when someone who's kind of used to being like the pretty boy, it can kind of like bring themselves down and just be totally like, yeah, he was.
00:23:35:11 - 00:23:55:04
Speaker 5
He was really. I was like, damn, he he because I'm normally not into it and he really frickin nailed it. That's why, that's why I that was a big reason why I like it. And yeah, it was, it was good. It was, it was a return to Guy Ritchie and it was cool for I'm sure for you, I'm guessing, to be a part of it.
00:23:56:05 - 00:23:56:14
Speaker 4
It was.
00:23:56:17 - 00:23:57:01
Speaker 5
Like.
00:23:57:12 - 00:23:59:24
Speaker 1
I'm going to play a scene from that movie. Hold on, let's. Good.
00:24:00:06 - 00:25:19:14
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah. It's a little smoking smoke plus one starring one of those he's been doing this is is very funny you more sequences I think they're probably get a little more some of the flashback I've seen I saw I forgot to watch about of course so but sorry gov.
00:25:20:01 - 00:25:20:14
Speaker 1
I love it.
00:25:20:22 - 00:25:21:15
Speaker 4
Sorry gov.
00:25:22:05 - 00:25:28:20
Speaker 1
That must've been an epic thing to do. I mean, like, you have so many people packed on that one scene.
00:25:28:20 - 00:25:42:23
Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was pretty cool, man. And that was a real buddy I was carrying. And that was not no fake nonsense. That guy was heavy. He was a heavy handed. I was like, Oh, gosh, I have to hold this up and speak, you know?
00:25:42:24 - 00:26:03:17
Speaker 1
Like, that's why they cast you just for that role, because they knew you could handle it. But actually, the gentlemen, I think, was one of the coolest because I did not know you were in that movie. And I saw Matthew McConaughey in some British pop movie and and as a habitual pot smoker, I was I was all in and here, my boy titties up on the screen, like in every scene.
00:26:03:17 - 00:26:06:09
Speaker 1
And then it just made the movie classic and timeless for me.
00:26:07:17 - 00:26:08:16
Speaker 4
Thanks. I appreciate that.
00:26:09:10 - 00:26:10:22
Speaker 5
Do you do you live in L.A. now?
00:26:11:09 - 00:26:12:15
Speaker 4
Yeah, I live in L.A., yeah.
00:26:12:18 - 00:26:13:19
Speaker 5
Oh, yeah.
00:26:13:22 - 00:26:15:10
Speaker 4
What about you in L.A. as well?
00:26:15:10 - 00:26:16:14
Speaker 5
I am in L.A..
00:26:16:17 - 00:26:17:04
Speaker 4
Okay.
00:26:17:04 - 00:26:19:21
Speaker 3
Nice, nice and dynamic.
00:26:20:03 - 00:26:28:20
Speaker 4
I see. I see. I just. I haven't seen your work, Zach. Well, I just saw I try to watch a bit of the trailer. I've seen the pictures, you know, I was like, That should be me in the front cover, you know.
00:26:30:10 - 00:26:32:07
Speaker 3
What I mean? We got a we got we got a lot.
00:26:32:07 - 00:26:36:02
Speaker 5
To talk about, but not necessarily on this show. But yeah, I know. That's cool.
00:26:36:12 - 00:26:45:06
Speaker 1
You know, since we since Charlie brought it up, let's play Zach's trailer. Then Zach made a movie called Knife Corp. You want to give us a little background about your movie before I play the trailer?
00:26:45:06 - 00:26:50:19
Speaker 5
Zach Let's play the trailer and then we'll talk about the movie. Okay? I'm here that way.
00:26:51:15 - 00:26:52:05
Speaker 1
Okay.
00:26:52:22 - 00:26:55:10
Speaker 5
I want it was.
00:26:55:13 - 00:26:56:00
Speaker 1
Here we go.
00:26:56:13 - 00:26:56:24
Speaker 3
Well.
00:26:57:14 - 00:27:01:12
Speaker 5
Thank you, Charlie.
00:27:01:12 - 00:27:45:22
Speaker 3
Girl, we don't sell not the seller. So, you know, when I look out at the room, recent high school graduates from grade one. Can I help you with that? Hold up. This is from me. First thing is, you know. Okay, but what specifically emerging holding. I see sales people and sales women because I see business owners. I want to renew.
00:27:47:00 - 00:28:18:13
Speaker 3
I see the future leaders of this generation and not a door and only explain situation worse in my experience of the biggest that Jared Kushner.
00:28:19:12 - 00:28:20:07
Speaker 5
Sound cut out.
00:28:22:07 - 00:28:22:12
Speaker 3
One.
00:28:26:22 - 00:28:27:22
Speaker 4
Traffic's exclude the.
00:28:33:21 - 00:28:34:02
Speaker 3
House.
00:28:35:04 - 00:28:37:12
Speaker 5
Now I don't really hear it nice finally.
00:28:38:00 - 00:28:40:12
Speaker 4
Hey Jack, this is an impressive one.
00:28:42:01 - 00:28:42:12
Speaker 5
Oh, yeah.
00:28:44:06 - 00:28:46:00
Speaker 3
Real quick, let me come back.
00:28:46:00 - 00:28:56:09
Speaker 6
You can't you're not.
00:28:56:09 - 00:28:59:04
Speaker 1
There you go. Those guys.
00:28:59:04 - 00:28:59:23
Speaker 3
Were.
00:29:01:01 - 00:29:01:12
Speaker 5
Nice.
00:29:02:05 - 00:29:07:23
Speaker 4
But me. This all started with, like, selling knives or something, and then it became more like a so yeah.
00:29:07:23 - 00:29:27:06
Speaker 5
So okay. So yeah. The backstory this nice more fun I think to watch it having to the backstory so in America anyway there's this company called CATCo and it's like really popular. When kids turn 18, they, they sell these knives and like they do this demonstration where they cut a penny and and I had a friend, actually, his name is Akiva friend.
00:29:27:24 - 00:29:47:07
Speaker 5
And he was like he started making tons of money anyways after he got his like he was wearing like these fancy suits and he was, you know, and, but he was like the said and then my friend here, Ali, who's also friends with that and we were recently at a screening of his most recent film I'll Plug It, let virtually go check it out whenever it comes out in the future.
00:29:48:03 - 00:29:49:14
Speaker 1
But one is going to slash.
00:29:50:03 - 00:30:14:07
Speaker 5
Yeah, but so he had written a script called Nice Carp. And, you know, Ali's like really funny is really talented musician. He's he's a good director. And we were like, I was like, you know, I love the idea of, like, spoofing this kind of thing, but let's just trap someone in a house, make it go horribly wrong, and and then, you know, make it really funny because he's he's funny.
00:30:14:07 - 00:30:39:19
Speaker 5
We're pretty funny. Yeah. And we're very ruthless about our comedy. When we're around each other, it's like you don't want to be in between the knives being thrown in. So we wrote it with like and we're like, we could also theoretically produce this ourselves. If no one gave us money. We kind of wrote it in the summer of, I think it was 2018, and we made it January 2019 and it was like a crazy, you know, bootstrap project.
00:30:39:19 - 00:30:58:20
Speaker 5
But, you know, the guy himself who zips up his vest at the end is a guy I met here. He helped me do a stunt for for a project a while back. And and he's hilarious. He's a great actor and he's a really good stunt guy. And our stunt said it was just one of those things where everyone came together.
00:30:58:20 - 00:31:18:06
Speaker 5
Peter, who was in the same we didn't get to show today he was like, you know, he took a character that was probably the worst written on the page. And everyone's like, Oh, he's, he's so funny, man. And like, and a, you know, a lot of people die, but at least you care about him. And so it's it was funny.
00:31:18:20 - 00:31:20:07
Speaker 5
Yeah. Yeah. It's common.
00:31:21:02 - 00:31:23:08
Speaker 1
To the. Have you done comedy?
00:31:23:08 - 00:31:25:11
Speaker 4
Have I done comedy? Yeah, I've done comedy. I started.
00:31:25:12 - 00:31:26:12
Speaker 5
Gentlemen like.
00:31:26:12 - 00:31:27:23
Speaker 4
Yeah, the gentleman kind of.
00:31:29:04 - 00:31:33:05
Speaker 1
Well they didn't, they didn't cast you in a comedic role like. Oh never had like a set.
00:31:33:09 - 00:31:56:07
Speaker 4
Well this is before what a gentleman, you know, like YouTube stuff. I've done some a little bit of comedy, you know, most of my some of my friends that, like, you should do more comedy. I'm like, Yeah, I need to get hired for more comedy stuff, you know? But we'll see. We'll see. I did an independent film in England actually in 2020 September is called On the Other Foot.
00:31:56:13 - 00:32:33:12
Speaker 4
That's a comedy. It's it's even though I wasn't I wasn't hired as a comedian as well. And that one, I was playing the lead. But the story's about, you know, it's my character was dating my character's black British Caribbean, and he was dating a white lady and her dad was racist. He just didn't approve. So what she did is that she took him to an African church to kind of like see what other culture is like, see what the culture is like in suburban London in the sense and some juju happened that he ended up becoming a black guy for three days.
00:32:34:23 - 00:32:35:18
Speaker 4
So during that time.
00:32:36:00 - 00:32:38:04
Speaker 1
Is that like Freaky Friday.
00:32:39:01 - 00:32:57:14
Speaker 4
Kind of like freaky sounds like freaky is similar in a sense. So he ends up being a black guy for three days and me and a few other guys show him the black culture in London, in the UK, see what it's like, you know, from the barbershop to the African food, Caribbean food. And he also gets arrested, you know, and treated differently.
00:32:57:14 - 00:32:58:17
Speaker 1
Got to get arrested.
00:32:58:24 - 00:33:03:12
Speaker 4
Yeah. So it was a it was a little independent film on the comedy end.
00:33:03:17 - 00:33:05:04
Speaker 1
Where what's it called and where can they.
00:33:05:13 - 00:33:06:22
Speaker 4
Call it? On the other foot.
00:33:07:08 - 00:33:07:20
Speaker 3
On the other.
00:33:07:20 - 00:33:09:12
Speaker 4
Foot. On the other foot. Yeah.
00:33:09:12 - 00:33:10:02
Speaker 3
We have some.
00:33:10:03 - 00:33:10:23
Speaker 1
People find that.
00:33:11:11 - 00:33:21:09
Speaker 4
It's on Amazon. You have to purchase an Amazon and we have randomly we have a pizza Andre on down if you remember Peter Andre Yes. He sang.
00:33:22:05 - 00:33:25:12
Speaker 3
Mysterious Girl. I want to get close to you.
00:33:25:14 - 00:33:26:07
Speaker 4
You know, I remember that.
00:33:26:22 - 00:33:27:02
Speaker 3
Back.
00:33:27:02 - 00:33:27:13
Speaker 4
In the day.
00:33:29:04 - 00:33:29:16
Speaker 3
You guys, how.
00:33:29:16 - 00:33:31:02
Speaker 1
Does the rest go? Keep going. I want.
00:33:31:02 - 00:33:32:18
Speaker 3
To marry the man.
00:33:32:19 - 00:33:33:16
Speaker 1
You started. You got.
00:33:33:17 - 00:33:34:20
Speaker 3
Oh, yeah.
00:33:35:10 - 00:33:36:16
Speaker 5
You almost. Alice.
00:33:36:16 - 00:33:37:08
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:38:18 - 00:33:56:09
Speaker 4
Yeah, we have. He's a he's a British. Well I think he's originally. What is he from Australia. Yeah. He's originally Australia like born and raised but Greek and yeah he did Mysterious Girl, which was a big hit like till today. This is like over 20 years later, he still sings that song.
00:33:56:24 - 00:33:57:14
Speaker 1
That's funny.
00:33:57:15 - 00:34:00:03
Speaker 4
It shows in England. They're still doing well. It's one of them. All right.
00:34:00:03 - 00:34:20:12
Speaker 1
Guys, I want to pivot. Pivot subjects now. Narco saints, it it was such an interesting movie because I feel like Asian film encapsulates the Zac was talking earlier about Nigerian themes versus American themes like.
00:34:20:12 - 00:34:21:12
Speaker 3
Asian versus.
00:34:22:22 - 00:34:23:10
Speaker 1
Asian.
00:34:23:19 - 00:34:24:06
Speaker 5
Or South.
00:34:25:08 - 00:34:48:22
Speaker 1
Asian themes. They kind of have like this certain film directing. I don't know how you'd call it a but but style. It's a it's a certain style. And narco scenes reminded me of an Akira Kurosawa film. Now, I don't know if you guys know Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Asian filmmaker.
00:34:49:15 - 00:34:50:03
Speaker 5
Japanese.
00:34:50:11 - 00:34:50:21
Speaker 3
Japanese.
00:34:51:08 - 00:34:56:10
Speaker 4
Japanese. Generalize of Asian.
00:34:56:10 - 00:34:59:16
Speaker 1
I could say some pretty crazy things, but in.
00:34:59:16 - 00:35:00:16
Speaker 5
General, I think.
00:35:02:03 - 00:35:03:19
Speaker 1
In the words of Hillary Clinton.
00:35:04:09 - 00:35:05:15
Speaker 3
Just keep, you.
00:35:06:22 - 00:35:12:09
Speaker 5
Know, I mean, but specifically, I mean, his movies are extremely Japanese. This Japanese.
00:35:12:09 - 00:35:19:04
Speaker 1
They were they were they were iconic. And I felt that Nakao san's kind of had that same you know, you had your your protagonist.
00:35:19:04 - 00:35:21:04
Speaker 5
Wake Up West. Is it like a Western style?
00:35:21:04 - 00:35:37:17
Speaker 1
It is kind of like a Western style, not a Western, but it's like there's the protagonist is like a really good human being who gets caught up in like a disastrous situation and then ends up and it's funny because he's in like every single fight scene and he's always wearing his glasses, you know?
00:35:37:17 - 00:35:41:07
Speaker 3
And I'm like, Yeah.
00:35:41:07 - 00:35:44:17
Speaker 4
And the funny thing is that, you know, it's a true story.
00:35:44:20 - 00:35:46:07
Speaker 1
Well, that's a true story.
00:35:46:16 - 00:35:56:18
Speaker 4
It's a true story. Broke true story. You know, and the is that the original guy he's still alive still today. He came back home to his family and told the story and nobody believed him.
00:35:57:24 - 00:36:00:10
Speaker 1
And did he get reaction from the film?
00:36:00:10 - 00:36:03:05
Speaker 4
He sold the film for 50 grand. He sold the story.
00:36:03:15 - 00:36:06:00
Speaker 1
This that film got sold for 50 grand.
00:36:06:03 - 00:36:06:23
Speaker 5
Now, the rights to the.
00:36:06:24 - 00:36:08:00
Speaker 1
Story, millions, the.
00:36:08:00 - 00:36:12:21
Speaker 4
Rights to the story. And they the budget for the for the series was $34 million.
00:36:12:21 - 00:36:14:16
Speaker 1
That's stupid.
00:36:15:17 - 00:36:15:23
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:36:16:02 - 00:36:17:10
Speaker 5
Hollywood, baby.
00:36:17:13 - 00:36:18:24
Speaker 4
Yeah, that's Hollywood, man. That's the business.
00:36:18:24 - 00:36:20:13
Speaker 1
What's your favorite scene in the movie?
00:36:21:03 - 00:36:22:01
Speaker 4
My favorite scene?
00:36:22:08 - 00:36:23:01
Speaker 3
Yeah, of course.
00:36:23:09 - 00:36:26:02
Speaker 4
It's a six part movie. Yeah, I would say this.
00:36:26:03 - 00:36:27:19
Speaker 1
Is the six hour movie.
00:36:27:20 - 00:36:36:03
Speaker 4
Yeah. Um, I really liked my fight scene. I was. I was actually glad when I got through it, I was like, yes. I mean, what's the most now?
00:36:36:05 - 00:36:39:14
Speaker 1
You know, it was really cool watching your Instagram while you guys were filming.
00:36:39:23 - 00:36:40:04
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:36:41:01 - 00:36:42:02
Speaker 4
That seems to be right.
00:36:42:09 - 00:36:42:17
Speaker 1
I like.
00:36:42:17 - 00:36:42:24
Speaker 3
That.
00:36:43:07 - 00:36:43:17
Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:36:44:04 - 00:36:48:24
Speaker 1
What was it like to be in those houses, though? Those houses were it was really filmed in.
00:36:49:09 - 00:36:49:20
Speaker 4
Well.
00:36:50:03 - 00:36:51:04
Speaker 3
Where did you do the filming?
00:36:51:16 - 00:37:02:24
Speaker 4
It was it was it was a set. So, you know, they they built those houses. They literally built them there. You know, even the even Chinatown. You see, Chinatown.
00:37:03:03 - 00:37:04:01
Speaker 1
Chinatown was.
00:37:04:01 - 00:37:04:13
Speaker 3
Built.
00:37:05:00 - 00:37:11:06
Speaker 4
They built where? In the middle of Broadway. In the middle of the jungle. And they built this set just in the middle of the forest.
00:37:11:11 - 00:37:14:21
Speaker 5
Where where did you come in South Korea. Hello?
00:37:15:00 - 00:37:18:17
Speaker 4
In South Korea. We're there for six months. South Korean, Dominican Republic.
00:37:18:18 - 00:37:26:02
Speaker 1
That was so intricate. That was such an intricate. There's that.
00:37:26:04 - 00:37:37:05
Speaker 4
Hills scrub. I walked around Chinatown, one of those empty desert. And I just I was like this one street of just like everything is built in the front. And of course, the back is empty. There's nothing in the back of.
00:37:37:05 - 00:37:38:01
Speaker 3
The whole crazy.
00:37:38:05 - 00:37:40:24
Speaker 4
Pack like you should see it. Zach, it was beautiful.
00:37:41:09 - 00:37:45:23
Speaker 5
I'm going to. I'm going to watch. I'm going to. It wasn't. It wasn't that I wasn't trying to lie.
00:37:46:05 - 00:37:46:13
Speaker 4
No, no, no.
00:37:47:16 - 00:37:49:14
Speaker 3
No. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:49:14 - 00:37:52:07
Speaker 4
But I'm not pull you out like you know.
00:37:53:01 - 00:38:05:22
Speaker 5
I want to watch it for sure. And especially it's it's so Adam's point earlier, it's so fun to watch something when you know someone who was involved like you know, a writer or an actor, you know, it's like it makes it makes everything back here.
00:38:06:03 - 00:38:10:11
Speaker 1
I found the texture of the the Chinatown.
00:38:10:12 - 00:38:14:02
Speaker 5
Oh, how cool is Seoul, by the way? The like the city.
00:38:14:07 - 00:38:17:01
Speaker 4
So Seoul is like, say so.
00:38:17:11 - 00:38:28:02
Speaker 1
Yeah, I want to time I want to look at this. Look at this. Look at this scene. This is Chinatown. This is the only picture city you say.
00:38:28:04 - 00:38:33:04
Speaker 4
But that's not even that's not that's someone's house. That's not even the streets.
00:38:33:22 - 00:38:35:16
Speaker 3
That's a better pictures.
00:38:36:24 - 00:38:42:06
Speaker 1
Let me try to find and I'll try to find something you talk about just now. So let me find some other pictures.
00:38:42:06 - 00:38:48:15
Speaker 4
Yeah. So it a beautiful place. I mean, Seoul reminded me of like San Francisco and New York mix.
00:38:49:02 - 00:38:55:21
Speaker 5
Wow. Yeah. And it was just the way it operates. It's like the food is good. Like the transportation is so good, people.
00:38:56:04 - 00:38:56:14
Speaker 3
You know?
00:38:56:16 - 00:38:58:14
Speaker 5
Nathan Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:58:15 - 00:38:58:20
Speaker 3
Well.
00:38:59:16 - 00:39:04:20
Speaker 4
I left my phone somewhere and came back about half an hour is still there now.
00:39:04:20 - 00:39:05:13
Speaker 5
They're there.
00:39:05:22 - 00:39:06:02
Speaker 1
So.
00:39:06:02 - 00:39:12:07
Speaker 4
Fast. You walk into a restaurant and literally at the front there's charges. Everyone can leave the phone and charge your phone.
00:39:12:08 - 00:39:17:08
Speaker 1
It just I want to just say I love Korean people. I think there some of the most nasty people in the world.
00:39:18:00 - 00:39:18:20
Speaker 5
I love people.
00:39:19:05 - 00:39:22:13
Speaker 3
So. Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. They're very.
00:39:22:16 - 00:39:26:19
Speaker 1
Advanced society. The Korean Koreans are very advanced people.
00:39:28:00 - 00:39:29:16
Speaker 4
Technology. Yeah, they're very smart.
00:39:29:16 - 00:39:36:05
Speaker 1
Even talking about your class civil structure, they're just like a very well-to-do, well built society.
00:39:36:08 - 00:39:38:18
Speaker 4
I also thought I was like when I was in Seoul, I was like.
00:39:38:18 - 00:39:40:02
Speaker 3
You know.
00:39:40:02 - 00:39:46:14
Speaker 4
Why is everyone? And they're very hard working. Very hard working like almost to the end of personality. Like even.
00:39:46:16 - 00:39:47:16
Speaker 3
Don't my job they don't.
00:39:47:16 - 00:39:52:01
Speaker 5
Have their kids don't stop for summer they don't know. I think this is.
00:39:52:01 - 00:39:56:02
Speaker 4
What I heard this is what I heard when I got to Korea they said is because of the war.
00:39:57:06 - 00:39:57:23
Speaker 3
Yeah, because.
00:39:57:23 - 00:40:09:21
Speaker 4
The war that happened and they had to rebuild quick. So they were like bomb rebuild. It's like, you know, they, they work their asses off, they drink and everyone's on heavy vitamins, everyone's unhealthy vitamins.
00:40:09:24 - 00:40:15:07
Speaker 1
There are no Gangnam Style over there.
00:40:15:07 - 00:40:15:11
Speaker 3
Well.
00:40:15:23 - 00:40:26:07
Speaker 4
Grow them Korea. As a hardworking man, I haven't seen any group of people are as hard working as Koreans. And it was very it was it was impressive to see. At the same time, it was.
00:40:26:11 - 00:40:28:00
Speaker 1
What is their film industry like?
00:40:28:14 - 00:40:44:06
Speaker 5
Amazed. They're talking about the biggest merger. I mean, he won the are I mean what's name yeah parasite won but he made Snowpiercer he made I mean, he made a lot of good films and their shows are the biggest shows probably in the world right now.
00:40:46:11 - 00:40:48:01
Speaker 5
I haven't seen them but the.
00:40:48:01 - 00:40:48:19
Speaker 4
Series by.
00:40:48:19 - 00:40:49:12
Speaker 5
Amazon and stuff.
00:40:49:20 - 00:40:58:00
Speaker 4
Yeah. What is my I yeah I guess I don't want to compare it to Walking Dead, but it's really good. It's, it's impressive. It's not.
00:40:58:05 - 00:40:59:15
Speaker 5
Fire shots fired.
00:41:00:00 - 00:41:02:01
Speaker 3
Because it's, it's, it's.
00:41:02:08 - 00:41:06:23
Speaker 4
It's a zombie movie. So I don't want to compare it, but honestly, I prefer it.
00:41:06:23 - 00:41:08:10
Speaker 5
Kingdom Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:08:16 - 00:41:09:05
Speaker 3
Well, a lot.
00:41:09:05 - 00:41:17:06
Speaker 5
Of, a lot of the horror type genre in Japan and Korea, like we just America steals it, you know what I mean? Like the ring and.
00:41:17:12 - 00:41:20:23
Speaker 4
Yeah, exactly the ring and it shatter, remember. Shall I.
00:41:20:23 - 00:41:21:24
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:22:21 - 00:41:41:22
Speaker 5
I mean, they're storytelling. That's, they're, they're good at it and they have a tradition, you know what I mean? Like, that's, that's, that's why I, that's why it's interesting to find out, like, all places in the world, because everybody, it's all essentially the same, but then it's the different way. Characteristics that make it really, really, really funny.
00:41:42:15 - 00:41:45:06
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:41:45:06 - 00:41:46:00
Speaker 5
Yeah. Okay, so.
00:41:46:23 - 00:41:58:13
Speaker 1
Let's take a look at of all the films that have impacted your career. I want to hear this from both of you guys. We'll start with Zach. What in what what set you on the path that made you want to take this career?
00:42:00:05 - 00:42:23:17
Speaker 5
So I will. The honest truth is, I don't think was a film, but I will tell you the first on the movie impact. But the story goes when I was born in Anchorage, Alaska, I didn't cry. My eyes were just wide open. I was looking at the doctor, the nurse, my grandmother, my mom and I was just like like reading the room, you know, like, not like the actor, more like the director, I think.
00:42:23:17 - 00:42:48:05
Speaker 5
And then like I was entertaining people from a very young age and then, but the movie that I remember seeing in the theater that I was like, like that, like made me just everything, you know, everything was allowed. And for sure that watching that in the theater was like the magic carpet ride of the genie. Because, like Robin Williams, like, I mean, the song, it was just like mind blowing.
00:42:49:08 - 00:43:02:11
Speaker 5
And, you know, I was like a critic from a young age. So like when people to pass off the Power Rangers as the Ninja Turtles, to me, even in first grade, I was like, nah, like you're not going to ever to hang out with your kid just because, like, Oh, he got the new show. It's like, No, no, no.
00:43:02:22 - 00:43:25:01
Speaker 5
So I had my I had my tastes and my sensibilities that definitely Aladdin was like the thing I remember, but I watched my parents were cool. Like they would let me watch if it didn't have like a lot of drugs or a lot of sex, you know, if it was just like an action or had a lot of, you know, swearing, like as a kid, they were kind of cool with that, especially being the youngest in my family.
00:43:25:01 - 00:43:34:20
Speaker 5
So I got to see like some good action movies. And so then I could go on and go on about other areas. But that's the first year King of Aladdin.
00:43:35:13 - 00:43:42:10
Speaker 4
Just so you know. Zack For Two Winters I did. I played the Genie Theater in Aladdin.
00:43:42:10 - 00:43:43:24
Speaker 3
Nice. You have a.
00:43:43:24 - 00:43:45:15
Speaker 1
Theater background also. Yeah.
00:43:45:15 - 00:43:52:00
Speaker 4
I was the Genie in Aladdin, in Middlesbrough, in England, in Yorkshire and in Manchester as well. So that was quite.
00:43:52:18 - 00:43:53:03
Speaker 5
So.
00:43:53:13 - 00:43:55:14
Speaker 1
Taking your place with Robin Williams and Willy.
00:43:55:14 - 00:44:03:01
Speaker 4
So I wasn't doing much singing though. You know, they what which movie impact.
00:44:03:02 - 00:44:26:19
Speaker 1
What impacted you? First of all, what set you on this path to become an actor and what on the path what, what and what movies and work inspired you to become better and to really concentrate? I remember when you left, you know, we all tell the story. We actually had Chitty flew out and had to choose between pro-basketball with us.
00:44:27:00 - 00:44:34:00
Speaker 1
And because I was actually on the team, by the way, Guy, I had one season as a professional basketball player.
00:44:34:06 - 00:44:34:13
Speaker 3
It was.
00:44:34:13 - 00:44:34:20
Speaker 1
There.
00:44:35:00 - 00:44:35:21
Speaker 3
I only knew that.
00:44:36:06 - 00:44:54:11
Speaker 1
I own the team. I put myself on the roster, bucket list, item, but we were professional athletes, so he actually left our team to go do this first movie in Moscow, you know, like comes with sacrifice, you know? So like what was it that kept you inspired, kept you going, kept made, you know, that this was your path that you had to take?
00:44:55:08 - 00:45:17:12
Speaker 4
Um, well, one is that I was getting old for basketball, so even at the time you met me, I think I was in my early thirties and it was like, okay, I need to find another career. Since I know this is not going to be forever, I've been inspired with acting from some childhood. I loved action movies, you know, I grew up I'm the six kids, you know, six got five other siblings.
00:45:17:19 - 00:45:35:11
Speaker 4
I'm the youngest boy. So, you know, me and my brothers always used to play fight. We always used to wrestle, you know, an action movies from the Chuck Norris movies to, oh, yeah, Steven Seagal and Van Damme. I was a big fan, so I always wanted to do action stuff. I remember when I was a kid, I said, When I grow up, I'm going to be an action man.
00:45:35:16 - 00:45:38:13
Speaker 4
That's all it was. I'm just going to be a, you know, whatever that well, you.
00:45:38:13 - 00:45:42:11
Speaker 5
Grew up you grew to be the right fit for an action man.
00:45:42:11 - 00:45:44:15
Speaker 3
Like I said, yeah.
00:45:45:02 - 00:45:49:23
Speaker 1
I actually can see that. I feel like a lot of young boys, that young man.
00:45:49:24 - 00:45:52:08
Speaker 4
I actually met exactly the typical Nigerian.
00:45:52:08 - 00:45:57:01
Speaker 3
Accent action man. What I love the option, whatever.
00:45:57:18 - 00:45:58:12
Speaker 4
You listen once.
00:45:58:12 - 00:45:59:13
Speaker 3
I get to hang out with a lot.
00:45:59:13 - 00:46:05:01
Speaker 4
Of and once I get a few if you will roll around it. It's over, bro. It's over.
00:46:05:12 - 00:46:18:15
Speaker 5
We're going to make it happen. We're going to make that happen. I got no doubt. I mean, you're already making it happen. I think we both are. But we're going to. I have I mean, I got I don't know if it's specifically Nigerian, but I got I got a I got a dope story already.
00:46:18:24 - 00:46:23:04
Speaker 1
But before that, I want him to finish. What was the movie? That one movie that. Really.
00:46:23:06 - 00:46:24:06
Speaker 5
Yeah. Yeah. Give us the movie.
00:46:24:15 - 00:46:43:24
Speaker 4
Well, the movie that really inspired which one really inspired me this thing is are all action movies that are good inspired me into the Dragon was one of them from back in the day because of the action and because of the drama as well. You know, Bruce Lee was just kicking ass everywhere and I was like, yeah, what is right?
00:46:43:24 - 00:47:01:18
Speaker 4
I did a bit of karate when I was a kid. You know, I wrestled with my brothers. So I'll say for now, from when I was a kid, the dragon inspired me. And as an adult, there's more kind of deeper. Denzel Movies like John Q was a great movie. I loved.
00:47:02:01 - 00:47:02:07
Speaker 3
You know.
00:47:02:22 - 00:47:16:00
Speaker 4
In John Q And so, you know, his acting, it really does inspire me to dig deeper within myself. Whereas the, you know, the fun, entertaining action stuff just allows me to be more athletic.
00:47:16:00 - 00:47:22:02
Speaker 1
I'll tell you, my favorite Denzel movie is American Gangster and American Gangster. And that's one of the great thing.
00:47:22:02 - 00:47:25:21
Speaker 4
What about a man on first? What's the one man on fire.
00:47:26:19 - 00:47:38:16
Speaker 5
So yeah well because that was like that was like, all right, Denzel is here to kick ass. And that's I love a movie that knows what it's meant to be. And Denzel is always going to bring a good performance because his you.
00:47:38:19 - 00:47:39:17
Speaker 3
Know, you know what I like.
00:47:40:01 - 00:47:56:16
Speaker 4
Especially. What was it? What's his name was talking about Rock was talking about how, you know, it's it's, you know, good acting, the silent one, you know. And, you know, when Denzel does those where he doesn't talk much, Denzel has done it. And so did Matt Damon in identity. He didn't talk.
00:47:56:16 - 00:47:57:00
Speaker 3
Much.
00:47:57:14 - 00:48:04:05
Speaker 4
Everything is just. Just moving, just acting, and everything's in the face. He's not really talking much, but he's acting. I love those.
00:48:04:11 - 00:48:27:23
Speaker 5
I got, I got to make a shout out because we're talking to action movies and and Adam was driving that huge swath across all Asian film. But I think perhaps the best action movie of the last I don't know. I don't remember when it came out. But I want to say, like last ten, 15 years was this I think it was Malaysian film or Indonesian Indonesian called the Raid Redemption.
00:48:27:23 - 00:48:28:19
Speaker 5
Did you see that one?
00:48:29:04 - 00:48:35:00
Speaker 3
That I did. There was no this.
00:48:35:00 - 00:48:36:00
Speaker 4
Is I tried to think I was.
00:48:36:00 - 00:48:38:07
Speaker 3
Like, how did they do this?
00:48:38:20 - 00:48:41:22
Speaker 4
I caught the choreography. It's just it.
00:48:41:22 - 00:48:57:08
Speaker 5
Looks like they actually kill Adam, like 300 people. And they look and and none of them look like actors or some people because they just look like people. They just took off the street, like, and they're like, hey, we need you to run right into this knife and like, it just there. And then because I remember I was like, someone told me to watch it.
00:48:57:08 - 00:49:05:07
Speaker 5
I was like, all right. It was I was like at some hotel, I was going to go to sleep. And then I was like, All right, I'll watch 20 minutes, I'll go to sleep. And I was like, Oh, no, you're not for this.
00:49:06:09 - 00:49:08:10
Speaker 3
Oh, man. What's it called? The raid.
00:49:08:10 - 00:49:10:10
Speaker 4
The raid is about one, two and three.
00:49:10:18 - 00:49:14:17
Speaker 1
Okay, the raid. I got to see what was the first one that I got to see.
00:49:16:04 - 00:49:17:22
Speaker 5
You got a Lincoln Adam in the by.
00:49:18:01 - 00:49:20:07
Speaker 1
The Nigerians action film said at the beginning.
00:49:20:07 - 00:49:21:04
Speaker 4
Oh king of boys.
00:49:21:08 - 00:49:21:20
Speaker 3
The boys.
00:49:21:21 - 00:49:24:06
Speaker 1
The raid king of boys. What else do you.
00:49:24:06 - 00:49:24:14
Speaker 4
Know, boys?
00:49:24:14 - 00:49:30:11
Speaker 1
When I don't have to see. Must these for the audience? The raid boys?
00:49:32:10 - 00:49:33:11
Speaker 3
I don't remember the other ones.
00:49:34:04 - 00:49:34:20
Speaker 5
The gentleman.
00:49:36:06 - 00:49:36:21
Speaker 4
Ice core.
00:49:37:08 - 00:49:37:14
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:49:38:01 - 00:49:40:09
Speaker 5
Well, yeah, you got to check that out. I know.
00:49:40:20 - 00:49:40:23
Speaker 4
It's.
00:49:40:23 - 00:49:43:08
Speaker 5
On Netflix. I go to science.
00:49:43:08 - 00:49:45:06
Speaker 1
So, Zach, you never did acting, did you?
00:49:45:19 - 00:49:49:04
Speaker 5
I did. I did. Yeah. And I and I. Then when.
00:49:49:04 - 00:49:51:14
Speaker 1
Did you make the transition from writing, directing.
00:49:51:22 - 00:50:12:24
Speaker 5
It wasn't a transition. It was always part of it. But it was more like my decision to write. I mean, do you want the story? Story? You can keep a relatively short. So I mean, again, always I would write like even in high school, like if we had to write a short story, I was like, I'm going to write something that's going to be just on the line of like my teacher saying, You can't do it, but it's going to be good enough.
00:50:12:24 - 00:50:33:04
Speaker 5
But they're going to be like, Oh shit, that was like kind of good. So I was like, I would write super violent or creepy or like weird stuff, like for short stories and and it would, you know, it would do well and then, but it was always, I knew like I in kindergarten, I actually tried to put together the play of Aladdin and I told my buddy I was like, Just say no, you're going to have to like kiss Jasmine when we get there.
00:50:33:04 - 00:50:36:14
Speaker 5
You know, I was like, we were six years old, so I was doing that in.
00:50:36:21 - 00:50:39:00
Speaker 1
Order to make out with Jasmine. But yeah.
00:50:39:24 - 00:51:14:04
Speaker 5
They did date in high school those two. But anyway, really, when I, when I got serious was in high school, my brother, who was a really popular cool kid, he was two years above me. He passed away yesterday was his was his 20th anniversary of his passing as your eyesight and is so and yeah and my I had a really cool teacher Ari Ari no I'm Ben Dvorak on an Ari no I'm crashing but he you know, he was like I'll say there's about 2000 people at his funeral.
00:51:14:04 - 00:51:34:22
Speaker 5
He's only 16 years old. You know, like he kind of made a big impact. He was a great athlete. He played he played basketball at our Jewish school, but also like in the in the rec center where, I mean, he he put on a show for people when he were a basketball. Keep it like, oh, shit. You know, they they took him very seriously because he had, you know, he had the skills.
00:51:34:22 - 00:51:51:03
Speaker 5
But anyway, around middle high school, like I wrote, I wrote a piece about him, like for it for an assignment. And then my parents are like, you got to get out of this art collective. It's not really doing any good. So I was like, All right, I asked this teacher I really, really liked. I was like, Can you help me work on my writing?
00:51:51:03 - 00:52:09:16
Speaker 5
I entered a writing competition. I got this piece about my brother is the last day of his life published, and I was like, Oh shit. I like got a nice scholarship. And I was like I was like, you know, my friend pointed out to me because it was like I worked so hard on, like, such a small piece that was really frickin intense and it felt like kind of numb at the end.
00:52:09:16 - 00:52:26:15
Speaker 5
And I was like, but I was like, cool. Like is the story of my brother. But my friend was like, you know, millions of people read this magazine. Someone may actually get inspiration and actually, you know, learn a lesson. I was like, oh, okay, that's like click for me that. That was always the thing that I wanted to do, but that was like why it actually meant something.
00:52:26:15 - 00:52:43:05
Speaker 5
And so then from then, like in college, I just did some competitions, but I was always kind of, you know, doing it. I wouldn't say on my own because I always would build a team because I like collaborating, but really, you know, publishing that. And then that teacher kind of inspired me to get my masters at this really cool, unique program.
00:52:43:05 - 00:52:45:24
Speaker 5
And, you know, the stories are more of a.
00:52:45:24 - 00:52:46:22
Speaker 1
Masters in film.
00:52:47:19 - 00:53:07:23
Speaker 5
Screenwriting or creative writing technically. But so I was exposed to a bunch of different types. And then, you know, the stories I'm writing now range from pretty heavy civil rights pieces that people have hired me to go through. And also like historical fiction of, you know, we mentioned Matthew McConaughey and he's being mentioned right now and in a really cool project.
00:53:08:05 - 00:53:16:24
Speaker 5
You know, it's super preliminary. I'm not going to pretend like it's signed, but the people who he works with are, you know, it's really cool that people trust their stories.
00:53:16:24 - 00:53:28:06
Speaker 3
People call. Yes, yeah, yeah. Well, book it. That's my client wants $10 million. That's your new show. He's got the money to give me the money. You got it?
00:53:29:16 - 00:53:30:08
Speaker 5
Figured it out.
00:53:30:13 - 00:53:32:22
Speaker 1
That's perfect. Do I get the part? I get the part.
00:53:33:18 - 00:53:44:23
Speaker 5
You do, but no. The real time. You got to make that into like like kings calls and then you just, like, pick up the phone. It's like, all right, we got to move on. And then you're just hanging out, and it's like, I don't know, that's. That's a great little piece.
00:53:45:01 - 00:53:57:16
Speaker 1
We're getting a call from the audience. Yeah. Okay. Stacey from Alabama wants to know Cherry, have you ever done screenwriting before?
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Speaker 3
This was.
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Speaker 4
Zach. You know, this is I mean, there's some stuff. I guess we'll talk more, but this is stuff I would like to collaborate with you on is a lot of stories I want to tell and I need a good writer.
00:54:06:24 - 00:54:08:16
Speaker 5
So this is we're going to we're we're going to talk.
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Speaker 1
So you've not done you haven't done screenwriting?
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Speaker 4
No, I haven't done that.
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Speaker 1
So this is a great match.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, it.
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Speaker 1
Is. It's a shit out.
00:54:16:16 - 00:54:17:04
Speaker 4
Of a lot.
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Speaker 5
Of I mean, I like I like I like good people. I like good people who we just love. You know, it's like you. Yeah. So I like when Adam showed me, I was like, Oh, cool. I was like, I've seen this is you got. Yeah, it's cool. You know what I mean? Like some people, you just.
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Speaker 3
I really get.
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Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, that's what I like. I don't think narco obviously narcos, things didn't get to capture your genius. They were very much monolithic in what what they were able to do. Exactly. They really wanted to showcase the Korean. Yeah. And I felt that it was actually a shame for the movie because there was a lot of other people that could have had some, you know, greater talking roles that I felt could have made the piece more rich.
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Speaker 1
But all in all, narco sense was brilliant. But, but the the other movie that you did was like.
00:55:09:16 - 00:55:11:22
Speaker 4
Oh, well, the gentleman, the gentleman.
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Speaker 1
And well, before we end the show, I want to touch on the vampire movie, you know, because that was actually number one on the Netflix list. Correct. So but the gentleman like it really captured your acting like in that in that like the scene that we showed, like there were just so many, you know, like there's it really takes a good actor to make a film believable, you know, like, that's not who the guy is.
00:55:34:00 - 00:55:48:14
Speaker 1
They're faking it. They're an actor, you know, they have to really become that role. And in the gentleman, you really became that role. It was very, very compelling acting. But what was the other one you did? Let's I want to touch on that because we haven't even brought it up. It was number one on Netflix and.
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Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, Blood Red Sky is is pretty bloody and gory. I think there's a there's a few of those scenes in my in my trailer it was number one on Netflix is a German and English movie it's a movie about this girl who's trying to find a cure for some disease that she had. So she's flying from Germany to New York to meet a doctor, a special doctor to find if.
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Speaker 3
You foresee.
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Speaker 4
A doctor party. Exactly.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
00:56:15:18 - 00:56:16:12
Speaker 4
No politics.
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Speaker 3
Remember.
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Speaker 5
If I'm asking how long I'm going to put my mask on everything, I really, really intimate.
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Speaker 4
So as you fly to New York to find a cure and it just so I she's there with her son and it just so happens that there's these guys that get on the plane, on the flight for some reason, they that they're hijackers. Basically, it's five or six of the hijackers. And I'm one of them. And the lead is well, the main hijacker is Dominic Purcell.
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Speaker 4
I don't know if you remember Dominic Purcell in prisoners.
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Speaker 5
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4
Love of the big guy with the president.
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Speaker 1
Of course.
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Speaker 4
So he's he's one of the he's the main, Heidi. He's a.
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Speaker 1
Phenomenal, phenomenal.
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Speaker 4
Actor. Yeah. Yeah. So he hires me and a few other guys to assist them in this mission. The mission in the end, the mission is never told. You never know what the mission is. Yeah. Because it was told to hijack this plane and we're going to get a bunch of millions and all that kind of stuff and you know, stuff's going to go down.
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Speaker 4
But we never we never end up knowing what happened, why, you know, everyone's assuming it's human stuff. And basically one of our guys ends up kind of going rogue and becomes too aggressive and, you know, ends up anyway, the girl ends up turned into a vampire on the flight and now all hell breaks loose. People get in violence, blood, gore.
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Speaker 4
You know.
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Speaker 1
I saw it.
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Speaker 4
On a plane.
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Speaker 1
It's a really dark film. I got to be honest. Like, if you guys if there's one scene where she gets her foot stuck in the chairs and puts leg in the chairs, you guys got to be dead, man.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, like this.
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Speaker 4
It's not typical back seat for blood. It's not. It's more of a story of one. It's, you know, the woman is playing the lead, which is it was a big deal for a vampire film. And two, it was about the love of a woman and her that she has.
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Speaker 1
To tell you. The best female vampire lead I ever saw the name.
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Speaker 4
On the world.
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Speaker 1
Queen of the Damned.
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Speaker 4
Oh, Queen of the Queen of the Damned.
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Speaker 3
Interesting.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. I cried at the end of Queen.
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Speaker 4
I was.
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Speaker 1
Not kidding.
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Speaker 4
Almost a name.
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Speaker 1
The musician.
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Speaker 3
Olivia.
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Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3
I had.
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Speaker 5
Deep cut.
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Speaker 4
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. And she. And I'm telling you, the reason I love Queen of the Damned is because it was like they got to live forever and have love forever, you know? It was like you see vampire films and it's always like, so brutal, the vampires that the cast is these evil people. But Queen of the damned like.
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Speaker 4
Hit on him.
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Speaker 1
He really hit me. I mean, it was like vampires need love to you know.
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Speaker 4
They do.
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Speaker 3
Do.
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Speaker 1
So so.
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Speaker 4
Yeah that was that's what blood race guys still on Netflix now you know it's good film.
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Speaker 1
So you about how many films have hit number top ten on Netflix how many films have hit number one on Netflix.
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Speaker 4
That I've been on yeah blood red sky was the is the only film that has hit number one for me.
00:59:08:20 - 00:59:09:19
Speaker 1
Shows Gilmore.
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Speaker 4
Shows Narcos Saints hit number three in the U.S. Netflix. But it hit number one everywhere else, like in Asia and Eastern Europe. It was number one.
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Speaker 1
If America wasn't a racist country, it would have been number one.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So and then what about the gentleman.
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Speaker 4
Oh, the gentleman as well. I forgot. Yeah. Gentleman was.
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Speaker 5
Behind.
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Speaker 1
That hit number one that had the UK that did not hit number.
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Speaker 4
One. It did. It did.
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Speaker 5
Hit. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
Yeah it did.
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Speaker 5
It was big.
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Speaker 1
So was that number one for anything?
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Speaker 4
Is that a gentleman? Even those two gentlemen is done by Miramax in 66. So it was went straight to the theaters. Yeah. And it goes I think it goes on Amazon after that and it goes on Netflix. So it just got on Netflix lost last winter.
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Speaker 3
Cool.
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Speaker 4
So even though it came out 2020, it got to Netflix last winter and it became number one on Netflix and also went.
01:00:07:21 - 01:00:08:04
Speaker 5
On to.
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Speaker 4
Latin America. So.
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Speaker 1
You know, in the last segment I want to just like, yeah, this is really great. I, I just wanted to ask you, like, because you worked through COVID, you had the whole, you know, you got you were very active during COVID, right?
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Speaker 4
Yeah, I was busy not having an idea of the.
01:00:27:21 - 01:00:36:00
Speaker 1
Future is the future is bright Virginia due for but like what was it like working on set during COVID? Because I know that the film industry.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Very very arms up.
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Speaker 4
It was it was they were very strict. Yeah. And I think there were, there were a strict not really because of us as human beings but more finances you almost against food and all that kind of stuff. And so we I'm Blood Red Sky, the Netflix movie, we were the first group of people to start filming because I think when we were filming Blood Red Sky, they said, there's only two other productions in the whole world that are filming right now.
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Speaker 4
Wow, you're one of them. You know, you're a guinea pig. I say this was June 2020, June 2020. You know, this is wow. Lockdown was in March, April, mountaineering stuff. So yeah. So it was pretty strict. We filmed in Czech Republic in Prague and we were there for two and a half months filming.
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Speaker 1
And out of all the countries you filmed in, what is your favorite, favorite country that you've got to be? Walk around and tell cute girls, Hey, I'm filming a movie here.
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Speaker 4
There was never one of those. But, um, I think Korea because South Korea, I spent the longest time there, six months was a long time. So I kind of got accustomed to the lifestyle and I stood out a sore thumb, of course, six or seven black guy, you know.
01:01:54:06 - 01:01:54:15
Speaker 3
I mean.
01:01:54:15 - 01:01:57:04
Speaker 5
I stand out there and I'm not six, seven and.
01:01:57:11 - 01:01:59:03
Speaker 3
You know. Exactly. Yeah.
01:01:59:16 - 01:02:07:05
Speaker 4
So South Prague was really, really nice. I liked Prague. I guess the culture is so rich and the history.
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Speaker 1
What did you film in Prague?
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Speaker 4
Pardon?
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Speaker 1
What did you film in Prague?
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Speaker 4
Blood Red Sky. We filmed Blood. It's nice in Prague. Yeah. And because it's, it's history was still there, you know, they never really went like the war was never there. It was, that was the middle ground for, you know, the east and west fighting. So the history, all the bridges, the castles have been different time, whereas, you know, England has been bombed.
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Speaker 4
You know, all these other countries have been bombed. The Czech Republic had it. So these things have this artifacts, these castles, buildings, this the architecture is just so beautiful and unique. So I enjoyed exploring Prague during the time I was there, even though it's still heavy.
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Speaker 1
That's very cool.
01:02:48:14 - 01:02:53:13
Speaker 4
Yeah, South Africa was another good place. I mean, there's many places. Matt Vietnam. I went to Vietnam. You know.
01:02:54:03 - 01:02:57:24
Speaker 1
The real question I have is, where are you going to film your movie together?
01:02:57:24 - 01:02:59:08
Speaker 4
Exactly. Zach, what's up, man?
01:02:59:08 - 01:03:02:05
Speaker 3
Where are you going? To give me the lead. But what if I don't.
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Speaker 5
Know, we're going to film it. That'll be. That'll be based on tax benefits for sure.
01:03:06:06 - 01:03:06:21
Speaker 4
Yeah, for.
01:03:07:04 - 01:03:07:14
Speaker 5
Now.
01:03:07:14 - 01:03:09:07
Speaker 1
But again, into that nitty gritty.
01:03:09:18 - 01:03:10:21
Speaker 5
We're going to we're going to find out what.
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Speaker 4
Your appropriate cause is. But tax benefits over there.
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Speaker 3
So well.
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Speaker 4
It's good film in Nigeria. No tax benefits.
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Speaker 3
Is okay for all. Yeah, yeah. I'm down.
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Speaker 1
Boys. United.
01:03:27:24 - 01:03:35:10
Speaker 5
Definitely down for that. Right? Well, that's analyst Carlos Watson. We'll make a movie now just as well.
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Speaker 1
It's that simple. Listen, I'm going to start bringing all sorts of people making matches on the show. Let's see if I can get some real estate projects done. This was easy. And on that note, I'm going to end it up. Guys, I want to thank you so much. Usually I play a song as we go out. I forgot to prepare one.
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Speaker 1
Let's see. Do I have one that I could play?
01:03:59:05 - 01:04:05:09
Speaker 4
Let's let me play one for you. It's okay. Let's bring some nice job in here a little bit there.
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Speaker 1
Oh, we should play some of the video. We should go out to the video.
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Speaker 4
Let's give some music.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I want to play some.
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Speaker 3
Oh, yeah.
01:04:15:08 - 01:04:17:24
Speaker 1
I'm going to play the video. We're going to go out to the video.
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Speaker 3
Hold on. I'll pull up another big photo shoot.
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Speaker 4
You feel sorry? I didn't hear.
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Speaker 1
Who's. Who is that? Who's the music video?
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Speaker 4
It's called A Move by Bad Boy Timmons.
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Speaker 1
Okay, hold on. I'm blowing up on you today.
01:04:33:10 - 01:04:34:11
Speaker 4
I am the.
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Speaker 1
Coronation. Okay, hold on. It's called what?
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Speaker 4
Move. And the artist name is Bad Boy ten times.
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Speaker 3
Okay, it's.
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Speaker 1
Called This is going to be our credits today. We are going to play the official bad boy movie music video as we go out. And so before we do that, I want to just say thank you to my guests. Thank you to rock press for everything you do for the show. Thank you to everybody that participated. This is a really great show.
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Speaker 1
CHIDEYA Duflo, I am the exact reason IMDB, you guys are superstars on that. No, please, bad boy.
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Speaker 3
You take us out. We want to get you on the dial so that we.
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Speaker 6
Don't need to lose you.
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Speaker 3
Oh.
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Speaker 5
Shalom, y'all.
01:05:43:08 - 01:05:46:09
Speaker 4
All right, you guys take care, man. Adam, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1
Stick around till after the song.
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Speaker 3
Okay? Kevin. Kevin, know again is a moment.
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Speaker 6
The 99 samples we look at the moment, you can sequence what you're feeling. It goes. It does look like we both go do that easy. Yeah, I just him attempted to because I feel.
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Speaker 3
Like he wanted.
01:06:32:22 - 01:06:35:21
Speaker 6
Me to do.
01:06:38:01 - 01:06:44:21
Speaker 3
Fucking mad man. What are you doing, man?
01:06:44:21 - 01:06:47:09
Speaker 2
You know, I'm cutting short. I'm old.
01:06:47:18 - 01:06:52:05
Speaker 3
Man.
01:06:52:05 - 01:06:53:14
Speaker 6
Similar to the.
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Speaker 3
Adam. You're too much.
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Speaker 6
Fun to see, like. Well, yeah, that is.
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Speaker 3
That is a gentleman attempting.
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Speaker 6
To to the Beastie Boys. So.
01:07:23:02 - 01:07:25:05
Speaker 3
Yeah, the film. That was fucking great.
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Speaker 6
Many, many, many moments ago. Me.
01:07:32:09 - 01:07:52:09
Speaker 2
You from there are too much.
01:07:52:11 - 01:07:57:16
Speaker 1
I'm Adam King, everybody. Thank you so much. And have a wonderful, wonderful night forever.