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What up

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everybody, it's your man Bill Bellamy. This

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you down when it comes to these episodes. We

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conversation that's engaging, entertaining,

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and also insightful. Today

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I have a wonderful young

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talent in the game, producer,

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entrepreneur, HBCU

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representative, Mo House in the building, let's

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talk about it. But I

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want to introduce my Top Billin'

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audience to Steven, Dr. Love,

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everybody. Make some noise in the

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building. Let's

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talk man, welcome to the show bro.

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What's up man? When you came

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in you was like damn

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man I can't believe I'm here. Yeah you can,

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you worked hard for it baby. I appreciate

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that man, I damn sure did. But also

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man, we gotta give you your flowers dog.

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I'm sure everybody quotes your other

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filmography, but my favorite is Cousin Skeeter.

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Ah you the Cousin Skeeter! That's

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my generation man. Yes sir, Nickelodeon.

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Yeah, Cousin Skeeter, that

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project was just so much fun because I had never

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had an opportunity to do a project

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that was for the kids, you know what I'm saying? And

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I got a chance to put my personality

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in a puppet which worked out. And people

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end up finding out I was Cousin Skeeter later. Same,

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I did. You found out later? Yeah, I

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was the wrong man when I figured it out. Well

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welcome to the show Steven, and it is

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a pleasure to have you man.

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You remind me of another young

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talented guy, you know, director

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Cal Matic. That's my dog. And what I love

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about you guys is you guys are young, you

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guys are visionaries, and you are in the storytelling

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business. How did you get started being a producer

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and writer?

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Yeah, yeah. I mean honestly the producing...

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came from being in the country of South Carolina.

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It was like an app school program taught us how to use

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handy cans and upload to iMovie. And

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I fell in love with it doing that. And then honestly,

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I've always been a hustler. So I was like, how

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do I make money doing this? Not like in the future,

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but at 12. Right now. At 12. At 12.

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So I just started like a video art free company, man, and

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filming my dad's church services and whatever. I could

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get my hands on and sell them. But I'll keep bootlegging

2:25

the sermons. See that, I mean, sell them. Yeah, y'all want to

2:27

get Jesus, you can watch him at night. You could

2:29

make the service. Anytime

2:29

you want him, you're right on time. You

2:32

got $10, you can get a take. So

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that was the vibe. But yeah, man, I just

2:37

fell in love with it. And it just kind of evolved into

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going

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to Morehouse, study business, not film.

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We didn't have a film program at that point. But we helped

2:44

start one while I was there and then went to SC

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for grad school. And I've been at it ever since. I came

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to LA. And I was like,

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I got to make it out, so I'm going back to the farm. Yeah,

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I love that LA thing, man. A

2:56

lot of us have been inspired. Myself,

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I always thought,

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this is where all the stars come,

3:02

from all over the world to be here. And

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this is where the movies get made. This

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is where they make the commercials and the videos and stuff.

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So this is like the Super Bowl of

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what we want to do. And so when

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you got here, what was the first thing you

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wanted to do? Like, oh, man, just be

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honest. Tell me what was the first thing you wanted to do. This

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is real black of me, but I wanted to

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go to Roscoe. So that's all I wanted to do. I

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was just like, I got up full of the

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Roscoe. That's on point, though. Yeah,

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Roscoe and the swap beat. And the swap

3:32

beat, because I didn't know what it was. I didn't either.

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I just heard about it in songs. Early,

3:37

Nipsey Hussle, all that. I was like, I

3:39

hear about the swap beat in that music. I got to go pull up.

3:42

Yeah. And the Roscoe was the fool. What

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was one of the first things that you did that

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you were like, OK, this is

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proof that I'm meant to do this? What was the first thing?

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Yeah, I think the first thing, honestly, it

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was my freshman year at Morehouse. It

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was right after that.

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I was trying to find an internship. You

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know, when you first getting out of the country,

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so to speak, and then you go to the big city, which was

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Atlanta at that time, you're thinking, if

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I'm going to do an internship, there's got to be some big place.

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There's got to be real fancy or whatever. And

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I applied to a bunch of stuff, and everybody said, oh, you're too young.

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Like you're not ready yet. You got to wait until you're a

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junior. And then there was this one joint

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in South Carolina for South Carolina Educational

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Television. And I kind of felt

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like, oh, I'm going to ETV. Like,

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that ain't really what I was hoping. That ain't

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like the studio studio. Man,

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it was a blessing. I got there, and

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they just really didn't have time to dig into

4:34

this civil rights documentary thing they wanted to do

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as a segment of a bigger doc. And

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they're like, hey, intern, you can try it out.

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Like, work a little research, whatever. And by the

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time they were able to free up and come back

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to me, I had already done all the research.

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I had booked the interviews. I had to talk to people. I'm

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like, yeah, so we shoot on this day, that day. They're

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like, what you mean we shoot? I'm like, we ain't sanctioning

4:54

that. You know what I'm saying? But I had

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already done the work, and ultimately, it made me a social

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producer on that as an intern. Putting

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the pieces together. And that's what I want

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people to know too, as there's

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so many elements behind the scenes that

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contribute to the success of a film

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or a TV show, or even a short,

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or even just the making of a video,

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right? Being a producer

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is really a managerial

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kind of job. You are like grabbing all

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the pieces,

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the talent. You're finding

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the information. You're hiring

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the camera guys, the DPs. You're

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like, okay, I want to work with this guy. He did a great job

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on this. I got a vision for how

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I want my movie or my

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film to look, right? Who

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are some of the people that inspired you

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at this point in your career to want to be a producer?

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Or, you know, because I could see you directing and doing everything

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too. I see you. I see it's the

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song. It's right there. Man, you know, it's crazy

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you say that. People have told me that. I have no

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interest

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in doing anything other than producing, but

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God's plan might not be that different. So,

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but, I mean, as far as inspiration, it was. early,

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early days it was this

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guy named Larry Terman who, rest of the piece,

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just passed away a few weeks ago.

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But Larry produced The Graduate, he

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produced American History X

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and he's got a bunch of other movies that are like that. The

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thing, that horror movie, he's

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had some classic hits. But my

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favorite of those that he made was Booty Call.

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He produced The

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Graduate and he was like, oh yeah, and

6:28

that and Kingdom Come. He's an old, 90

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something year old white brother but

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he made those movies too. And

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I told him, man, you don't realize

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Booty Call was actually about promoting

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safe sex. It was a funny

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way to do it. And Kingdom Come is

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my mom's favorite movie so you get the points for that.

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But he wrote this book called So You Want to Be a Producer that I read.

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That's what led me to come to USC

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for a producer program as he ran that program. But

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him and then Will Packer, that

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was one of my first internships when he was still at Rainforest

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in Atlanta. Wow, Will is such

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a good dude. Yeah, man, that was an intern with

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Will and Devon Franklin.

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I bugged him like crazy on the

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email

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trying to get in and telling

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him, hey man, I'm coming to LA. I'm black. Let

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me out. Let me tap in. Yeah,

7:13

yeah. So him and Charles King, there's a bunch

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of people like that who really took me

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under their wings when I first got to LA and

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let me just come to see their feet and learn.

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Well, the thing I feel for me

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right now is just you're driving your energy

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and that's what it takes sometimes. You have to be

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tenacious. You have to have

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this sort of blind confidence

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about it. I could do it. You don't have

7:40

to know. Everybody think they got to know how. You

7:42

just got to know what you want. You know

7:44

what I mean? And I feel like the energy that

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you have for something will make

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the frequency high enough to draw it to

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you. I believe that. Do you know what

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I mean? And so now we're in this thing

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where we're

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in the middle of a strike,

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right?

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after the writers strike,

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we're all in solidarity, and we're

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all creatives, right? So

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how does that affect you now as

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a producer, wanting to go on to the next,

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and now we all like at a sort of like a pause?

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Yeah, for sure, for sure. I mean, as a producer,

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I don't have anything to produce if the writers don't write

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it, right? And even if the writers write

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it, I don't have anything to produce if the actors

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don't act in it. Right. You know what

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I mean? So it's like, you know, we

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have to be in solidarity because there's only

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one word to describe any of the strikes and it's necessary.

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Yeah. Right, because really,

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there's a lot more than money at stake, and I think people

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are finally starting to realize that. There's a lot more than money at stake.

8:39

Right now, there's longevity

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in livelihood, right?

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There's also just morality, you

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know, like the idea of AI

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is not evil,

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right? It's how you use it and using

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it responsibly. And I think that's all the people are asking for

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right now. Yeah, and I agree with you. I

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feel like it sounds, you know,

8:58

very intimidating to the industry at

9:00

this moment. Yeah, yeah. And

9:02

we have so many things that

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we need to secure because let's say 10

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years from now, 15 years now, it might be a whole

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new different game. We got a plan for the future,

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right? 20 years ago when I came in the

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game, the game was so different. Like we didn't know

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about streaming.

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There was no streaming. There was no streaming. We just had

9:20

cable. Yeah. And we only had one. It was

9:22

MTV and HBO, right? And now there's

9:24

multitudes of cable. There's

9:27

multitudes of opportunities

9:29

for actors to work, right? And

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that's the upside to the game.

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That now is about equality.

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It is about, you know, like you said, morality. Like

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let's just do what's right for people. Like we

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want to work and do a good job. We're

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not trying to go back and be treated

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unfairly, you know, wage wise or,

9:50

you know, when it comes to residuals and things of that

9:52

nature, we're talented people. We

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provide a service. We hopefully

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we make art. Hopefully we make

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something that.

9:59

that lands for the people. That's

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my whole thing. Like I always want to do something that

10:04

I think will make the culture thrive.

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Like, do you feel like that? I do feel like that,

10:09

but I'm gonna ask you a question next. Go ahead. Do

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you think that the institutions

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know what the culture wants more

10:17

than the culture does? No. So

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why are our business models

10:23

created in a way where the decisions

10:25

not being made by the culture?

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Well, that's a very, very, very good

10:28

question. The

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thing about it is a lot of

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the things that are in place are old.

10:35

Right, thanks. Like, it would

10:37

be the perfect example. It's like, how could

10:39

you have imagined what hip hop would

10:41

become in 50 years? Hip

10:43

hop was supposed to be a summer or two. You

10:46

know, oh, it's a little fast. It's

10:48

a little fad right now, catches it scratching

10:50

in the park, but it'll be gone by next summer.

10:53

No, it ain't. There's a couple more

10:55

summers kept coming and more people start digging

10:57

and then filling it and then all of a sudden the

10:59

styles is driving the culture and people

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are spending money to wear these types of

11:04

styles of clothes and people listening to

11:06

this kind of hip hop. Now we're

11:09

at the point where the culture is dictating

11:11

the flow. The culture is

11:13

top billing. Like, that's what we do. We

11:16

are dictating what is cool. We are

11:18

dictating what people are wearing. We're

11:20

dictating how we move, right? And

11:22

that's worldwide. So that

11:25

has to be incorporated within the

11:28

structures of the

11:29

way we move forward, I feel. I agree. I

11:31

agree. You know, I think it's part of the reason

11:33

I'm building what I'm building right now, because I realized,

11:36

you know, years ago, like

11:38

it's not that we don't have to be in a contentious situation

11:40

right now, right? Equity

11:43

can exist and does exist in some situations

11:45

when it comes to creating stories and then profiting

11:47

off of those, but you have to do it as a collective,

11:49

right? Absolutely. It can't be that one entity does and the

11:51

other one and the other group, other people in the group don't. And

11:54

so, you know, what we're building, hopefully we're going to talk

11:56

about it soon, but what we're building right now is really

11:58

the ability to tell these stories. outside

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the system

12:02

and then sell it back to the system at a premium, right?

12:04

But do it in a way where it's the culture

12:07

driving the storytelling, not the

12:09

system driving the storytelling, right? And then it just

12:11

sort of back doors in that way. Yeah,

12:16

I feel like now moving forward

12:19

for your generation, I feel

12:21

like you guys have no ceilings when

12:23

it comes to creativity, because the technology

12:26

that you guys have, the types of cameras

12:28

that are available are bonkers, like,

12:30

oh my God. You mean you can edit a film

12:32

on your phone. You can edit, if you got a

12:34

laptop, you could go, you could produce a record

12:36

in two days, stuff like that. But

12:39

here's the thing, what

12:41

we gotta do is own

12:44

our stuff. That's right. See, to me,

12:46

that's now 30 years,

12:48

it'll be 30 years in the game for me.

12:51

I feel like the most important thing is, is

12:53

ownership of your content, right? Producing

12:56

things that you wanna do. Like you said, all

12:59

right, you know what? I don't need

13:01

to have that meeting with y'all, so y'all could tell me what

13:03

I see in my mind. How about this? I'm gonna

13:05

shoot it, show it to you and sell it to

13:07

you.

13:08

Now, you

13:10

have the IP, you own it

13:12

and you license it. See, that's the game.

13:15

That's the game. That's the game. That's the game.

13:17

That's the game. That's free game too. Free

13:19

game. I charged 42,000 for that, that's free. Now in fact,

13:21

that's exactly right, man.

13:25

That's

13:27

what I'm on right now. A lot of

13:29

us, even Chuck, we've been talking about the same thing, like

13:32

Calmatic.

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It's a whole class of us that realize

13:35

that, because we've sat at the feet

13:38

of the legends, you know what I mean? Like you, but also

13:40

just

13:41

watched how it's been done. And to

13:43

your point, a lot of the rules that exist

13:45

today are old ones, right? Yeah, like laws.

13:47

Yeah, like laws. I mean, speaking of laws, I tell my

13:49

lawyers all the time, like look,

13:51

you can't tell me that film

13:54

is on one hand, the youngest art

13:56

form of all art forms. Music is way older.

13:59

Right. and word is way older, literature is way

14:01

older, right? It's the youngest art, one of the youngest

14:03

art forms, right? It's been over,

14:06

you know, existing for like a little over a hundred years.

14:08

So

14:08

you can tell me that the youngest art form can't

14:11

change the way that the business of that art form is done.

14:14

Yeah. No, no. So like, let's

14:17

break the mold. Like,

14:19

why not? You know, and I think, I think that

14:21

is the sort of bottleneck we're feeling right now with the strike and

14:23

just in general, the unrest we're feeling in general,

14:26

but honestly, it's exciting, man, because

14:28

where there is chaos, there's also opportunity. And so I

14:30

think

14:31

that's what people are realizing now. And, you

14:33

know, it'll all get resolved. Both sides will

14:35

find a way to come to an even

14:37

ground. But ultimately, man, I'm excited

14:40

just about the energy that's happening.

14:42

Yeah, man, I feel like people are awake. I

14:44

feel like people are passionate about

14:46

something right now and people are looking

14:48

towards the future to make it better. And that's the part

14:50

that I like about, you know, people

14:53

standing for something where you go, okay, well,

14:55

okay, well, we're not going for that, but we want

14:57

an opportunity to be able to do this, and

15:00

that as well. That's like, yeah, that's gangster.

15:02

Because like you said, all that's going to create

15:04

something. Something's good going to happen. And

15:06

those who are ready in position, you can fly.

15:09

And that's why I love having my own podcast,

15:12

because I get an opportunity to interview

15:14

different types of artists, right? And

15:16

that's what Top Billing is about. It's like, you

15:18

know, we all want to be Top Billing. We want to be the

15:21

best in our lane. We want

15:23

to be recognized as one of the

15:25

greats or somebody that made a difference,

15:27

right? What I like about you is

15:29

that you're young and you

15:31

see it already. That's so invigorating.

15:33

Like, you know, I always wonder about the next generation,

15:35

like the next, you know, the next, you know, Bill

15:37

Bellamy, or the next, you know, Scorsese

15:40

coming up. Are they going to be innovative? Are

15:42

they going to bring something to the game the game's never seen

15:44

before? That's exciting. Yeah, we tapped

15:47

in, man. I mean, I think even with the stories

15:49

that I picked to choose to produce, like a lot of

15:51

them are

15:52

very much so creating

15:55

the cop, right? Like, there is, like,

15:57

I just got a movie coming out right now.

15:59

Jamie Foxx and Tiana Paris and

16:02

John Brieger and like,

16:04

it's a sci-fi mystery comedy. Those three

16:06

words don't go together. And

16:09

it is backbones in the center of it. And

16:11

so like stuff like that, man, it gets me excited

16:14

because it means, yes, it's going to be harder to

16:16

get those joints done because there's no comp

16:18

for the system to point to and

16:20

say, okay, it's like this, we'll give you that

16:22

same amount of money to make it. But

16:24

I like that. That means that after we make

16:26

something, then now there's an example of other people

16:29

can point to after. Absolutely.

16:31

My whole thing is like, whatever I'm doing, try to

16:33

leave it better than I found it. Who are

16:36

some of the people that influenced

16:38

you as a youngster coming up in the film

16:40

game? Yeah, I mean, actually

16:42

people,

16:43

people that influenced me in the film game, people that were

16:45

outside of film game for the most part, with the

16:47

exception of Spike Lee. So

16:50

obviously Morehouse, man, but

16:52

he pulled up to Morehouse

16:54

so many times and people was like,

16:56

look, you scared of Spike. Yeah. Just

16:59

because he a legend, you know what I mean? He kind of float on

17:01

water low key, you know, but he also like, he

17:03

like, Spike

17:07

just an intense creative, you know, he just is.

17:09

So, so people kind of be like kind of shy. And

17:11

so I walked up to him and gave him the same energy he was

17:13

giving, he was getting everybody else. He

17:15

was like, what's your name? Right. And so after

17:17

that, man, we just, he just trying to help us get the

17:19

film program going. But, but, but he became

17:22

a sort of mentor during that time and wrote

17:24

my recommendation letter to get into grad school and everything.

17:26

But like that, he very much so his work

17:29

was even more impactful on me than his

17:31

actual product, his actual like person,

17:33

right? Like the Malcolm X movie

17:35

was life changing for me as a kid, you

17:38

know, watching, watching Bamboozled

17:40

was life changing for me as a kid, right? But

17:43

then watching him go from that and also

17:45

to go do Inside Man, like stuff like that, like that

17:47

really, it really took it for a flip for a flip.

17:49

But, but outside of that, man, it was, it was people

17:52

in, in music really that they got

17:54

me, they got me excited. So when you,

17:56

when you think of, because you are hip hop, like,

17:59

like I feel like.

17:59

You

18:02

remind me of my boy Lil Russell. Like Lil

18:04

Russell. Oh man, I love him man. I

18:07

love this kid man. He up in the bay

18:09

man. The dude is dope. It's

18:11

like y'all embody so much swag

18:14

and just coolness about it. Appreciate it, bro.

18:17

Who you rocking right now? Who's your top

18:19

five young and hip hop right now? Right

18:22

now, right now, J.

18:24

Cole for sure, Carolina boy. Come on man.

18:26

Got to, number one. Got to, number one. Stop playing with me.

18:29

J.

18:29

Cole. Also,

18:33

Khloe LaRae. Khloe LaRae. She

18:35

cold. She cold. A lot of people

18:37

ain't talking. That's a heat seeker right there. She

18:40

cold. I give you another woman too,

18:42

Flau'jae.

18:44

I don't know. Flau'jae is, she

18:47

was on like rap game back today in American Got Talent,

18:49

but she's a star basketball player

18:51

on the LSU team, but she also the cold

18:53

rapper. Her dad was camouflage. No

18:56

way. The basketball years ago, which was where she was born. She's

18:59

cold, right? I really drawn to like

19:01

rappers who got something to say and

19:04

had some substance, but also like doing it with so much swag that

19:06

you don't feel like it's worked when you listen to it. You know what

19:08

I'm saying? Like,

19:10

like, your cold got some tracks where it's just like, all right, I got

19:12

to study this joint. You know what I'm saying? But for the most

19:14

part, he giving you some, some relationship with some

19:16

sauce. I don't even understand

19:18

what lane you could put J. Cole in. J.

19:21

Cole is one of my favorite. He's actually,

19:23

he's actually my top five. And what I love

19:25

most about J. Cole is like, he's so

19:27

J. Cole. He don't sound like nobody

19:30

else. He, his whole thing

19:32

is just him. I don't know if this is

19:34

the South Carolina in him. It's

19:37

his work ethic. It's his thought

19:39

process. You

19:40

know, I love his wordplay. You know what I'm

19:42

saying? The things he says and how he puts it together.

19:45

He hit you with some shit. His metaphors,

19:47

you just be like, cause the king of the metaphors

19:49

is Lil Wayne to me. I agree. I mean,

19:52

Wayne say stuff. If you was high, you

19:54

got to be like, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up,

19:56

hold up. Let me play that back. What did

19:58

he say? I

20:01

remember Wayne said something, he said I was so

20:04

high I could vomit on a comet. I'm like, goddamn,

20:06

how high you wanna be? Damn. Pretty

20:10

much how high you wanna be. Yeah, that's

20:12

pretty much how high you wanna be. I

20:14

don't wanna be much higher than a comet. But

20:18

also too, brother, I just wanna

20:20

know, like you come from a very,

20:22

very religious background working in the church and

20:24

stuff like that. And you know, dad,

20:26

a pastor, you know, was there any resistance

20:28

to you wanting to be an entertainment

20:29

gang coming from a religious family? There was

20:32

no resistance, man. I think it's interesting, like when

20:34

I tell people in Hollywood if my pops

20:36

is, you

20:37

know, a Southern black preacher, you know what I

20:39

mean? They assume like, oh, you grew up real restricted.

20:42

And it was just like, you know, like not at all,

20:44

really. You know, like there was certain stuff I just

20:46

knew not to do. You ain't doing that. I ain't even

20:48

gonna say it. You ain't even gotta say it. You ain't gotta say

20:50

it. I ain't even gonna try. You know, this is a respect

20:52

thing. But nah, I mean,

20:54

the only resistance really was my mom.

20:57

She was like,

20:58

that's 3,000 miles away. We ain't got

21:00

no people out there. Oh, no, nobody out there. You know

21:02

what I'm saying? The only person I had out there at the time, out here in

21:05

LA was the time, was my cousin, Lee Thompson

21:07

Young, who's famous J. Jackson. And

21:09

that was the only, you know, and you know, the rest of the piece is Lee, but

21:13

he was the only person in LA, you know? And

21:15

so they were like, we don't know, want to

21:17

know about LA. What you gonna do when you get out there?

21:19

So I tell you that the advice that my pops gave

21:21

me, what he said, my mom and my pops gave me,

21:23

they said, whatever you do, don't

21:27

sell your soul and don't sell

21:29

your butt. I was

21:33

like, okay. I

21:35

knew. That's easy. I'm good on both of those.

21:38

I'm good on both of those. Thank you. You know what

21:40

I'm saying? Oh my God. I

21:42

remember the first time you just reminded me, when

21:44

I told my mom, I was gonna move

21:46

to LA. She's like,

21:49

boy, be careful. They do a lot of cocaine

21:51

out there. Like cocaine is on the

21:53

street. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everywhere you

21:55

go, you just getting cocaine thrown in your pocket. Yeah,

21:58

you're pick for a treat. I'm like, man.

21:59

What up, big dog? What up? But

22:04

you out here, man. And I love it.

22:06

I love, I love you being here. I love what you're

22:08

trying to do. I love what you're doing and what you shall

22:10

continue to do. If you were able

22:12

to, this is just a fun part on the show that I

22:14

love to have with my young talented people. All right,

22:17

all facts, all facts on

22:19

top billing, all facts on top billing with

22:21

Steven, Dr. Love. All

22:24

right, you get five artists right now.

22:26

Five artists to open up for your

22:28

next movie project. Y'all

22:31

having an after party, but before that, J get to perform

22:33

at your next project. Which artists

22:36

and why? Go. First one's the easiest,

22:39

Erica Badu. Oh. Badu

22:41

was in my very first movie back in the day.

22:44

She blessed me with that.

22:45

And she actually, Easter egg, put

22:47

a song in the new movie that we just dropped. Okay, okay,

22:49

okay. Boom, bam. So Badu.

22:52

Gotta have Erica. Gotta have her.

22:54

I already saw you, J. Cole's my favorite. So

22:57

just on GP and like, just

22:59

to be selfish, I gotta have Cole pull up so I can meet

23:01

the brother. Yeah, okay. So J. Cole. J.

23:03

Cole.

23:05

Nas. You know, definitely

23:08

gotta have an OG. Legendary. Gotta have an OG. Method

23:11

Man. Another legend. Yeah,

23:13

Method Man actually is in the movie

23:16

that I got coming out next year. Like, and dude was

23:18

in Columbia with me for four months shooting this movie,

23:20

man. It was, that dude is amazing.

23:22

The amazing actor, amazing rapper. So gotta have that.

23:24

Shout out to Meth. All right, so we got the South.

23:27

We got New York. We

23:30

got Texas. We got Texas. All right,

23:32

so West Coast. I'm gonna go West Coast. I'm gonna go West

23:34

Coast auto.

23:35

You gotta give me West

23:37

Side Boogie. Oh! Young

23:39

Cat. Man, West Side Boogie, Cole. If

23:42

y'all ain't heard of me. I didn't see that coming. He

23:44

Cole. Okay. All right, all right,

23:46

all right. And then I'm gonna go OG. I'm gonna

23:48

go OG West Coast. Let's

23:51

get Dre to pull up. You want Dre? I

23:53

want Dre. Hell yeah. He gonna

23:55

bring all his homies. You know what I mean? Oh my God,

23:57

man. I, um, I, one.

23:59

One more question I want to ask you are all

24:02

facts with Steven Dr.

24:04

Love. Five movies that

24:06

you saw as a youngster, five

24:09

movies that changed your life. All right,

24:11

here we go.

24:12

Your favorite, it could be your favorite, it was crazy,

24:15

whatever. Lion King. Lion King.

24:17

I know it's animated, but it changed my life. You have

24:19

a sensitive life. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. The

24:21

Lion King. The Lion King. Okay,

24:24

go ahead, next. Malcolm X. Facts.

24:27

Shawshank Redemption. Ooh, monster.

24:30

Definitely Shawshank Redemption.

24:32

Godfather II, specifically. Why?

24:34

Specifically Godfather II. Godfather I was cool, but

24:37

Godfather III, they could have kept

24:38

it. Too hard bodied. It was hard.

24:40

Hard bodied. Not questions. It

24:43

was hard. So what's that, that four? Four, one

24:45

more. One more. Oh, the

24:48

one that movie that absolutely

24:50

changed my life in a way that inspired

24:53

me as a kid to want to be creative

24:55

was this movie called Pay It Forward. This

24:58

movie, man, it's really about... I saw that,

25:01

my man,

25:02

Hailey Joel Osment, Helen Hunt. It's

25:04

just about this little kid who gets an assignment in

25:06

class to come up with an idea

25:09

to change the world. So all the other kids got

25:11

resources. They got some money, whatever. So their parents

25:13

have to make a really cool looking project. He

25:15

didn't have that. So all he took was a piece of chalk

25:17

to the board and drew,

25:19

like if I can help three people with one thing that

25:21

will change their lives and they can't repay me

25:23

except for doing it for somebody else, then

25:26

eventually he had a pyramid of

25:28

people that he had helped change their life.

25:31

And it was all for my idea. And I'm like, man, this kid

25:33

changed the world with an idea. I want to do that.

25:36

That was it.

25:37

That's gangsta. That was it. Ladies

25:39

and gentlemen, we are here, top billing, with

25:41

one of the most talented

25:43

producer, writer. This guy

25:46

is bananas. You

25:48

will not stop hearing about Steven Dr.

25:50

Love. I don't know why he

25:52

a doctor. You gonna figure out later maybe

25:54

he a dentist, maybe he do his optometrist. I

25:57

don't know, but he got flyshades on. Let's

25:59

get around.

25:59

for our special guest today, everybody. Steve and

26:02

Dr. Love in the building. Let's get it.

26:04

Appreciate it. Appreciate it, man. Thanks, man. Oh!

26:07

Oh! Oh! Oh! I

26:09

always throw a rut while in when I can. I love

26:11

it. Oh!