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Jamie Foxx

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“You transformed into a character. People know it. We're moved by it and hopefully. If it all works out, it'll be a great opportunity to look back and see, like, wow, man, look at the things that you were able to do in America”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then it's Ray Charles. And then it's a jungle you know they love him very well Jungle So the Jango experience you know working with Quentin Tarantino which was mind-blowing to be able to go in and read for that and I didn't know about that part I thought Will Smith was going to do it I was like whoa Will Smith and Quentin Turner incredible It didn't work out that way. I meet with Quentin Tarantino. I told him I understand the script and I said not only that I have my own horse and so I ended up riding my own horse in Django and I knew that that was going to be another character that's going to change the game and so they'll look at that so they'll say Django and then hopefully if everything goes right Mike Tyson will sit with those characters so that you'll be able to after a while look at it At a career where”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was Willie Beaman any given Sunday. My name is Willie. Willie Beaman, I keep the ladies screaming. Then it's Ray Charles. No, it's Bundini Brown from Ali. Muhammad Ali is a prophet. How you going to be God? Jonah come out of the garage and beat number two. So, Bundini Brown. And then it's it.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire, and Martin Scorsese, who's going to direct it, who hasn't directed a film about boxing since Raging Bull. So fingers crossed, if it all goes together, we'll be able to see Mike Tyson in a different way, and we'll be able to transform to where I want to be so good that it's Mike Tyson that I look so much like him when I walk into his house, his kids would acknowledge me as a father. And then I want to be able to sit back and reflect. And here's where I'm trying to do with a career. Is establish characters in living color. It was Wanda. Hey, for real though, I rock your world.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be able to grasp is that when we show Mike Tyson older and I called Mike and I said, Mike, how are you? I'll pray this to Allah, my brother. I'm happy. How are you? Something good, Mike. You know, what's up? What's going on? I'm just happy. I'm happy because I don't have any money anymore. So I'm happy. I was like, Mike, what does that mean? No, it's just all the vultures that were around me the whole time. It was always after my money, so I don't have any money. So nobody wants anything from me. So I'm just so happy. And if you notice his speaking voice, like what I told you with Bill Cosby, it's completely different from when he's on stage, when he's getting ready to fight. So he was like, I'm just so happy. And I could tell, I said, Mike, that's the person we need to tell. That's the story. We always see the person who rises to the mountaintop, but we don't see the other side of the mountain and all the jagged edges and all the things. And you're about to slip off of that mountain. So Terry Winter, who wrote, you know,”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it was great to see him during the times and it was tough to see him when he went through what he went through. And then when we finally decided to do this movie, this is the Mike Tyson that I think people really...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the guy yells out. Mike said, do the joke. And that shit better be funny. I was like, oh, shit. So I do the joke. It's a standing ovation. I come off stage and Mike goes, there he is. I want to talk to you. You're so funny. Come, come hang out with me. You're funny, motherfucker. Go after. Come on, get in the car with me. And we take off. And I started hanging out with Mike Tyson at 21 years old. It was the most incredible thing in the world. Mike was bigger than Michael Jackson at that time. He was the biggest person, biggest star in the world. Mike would be in a club, see a girl, and say, hi, how are you? Like BMWs? They're like, huh? Do you like being? Do you like Carth? Yeah, he would go open up the BMW dealership. He'll buy a car for a girl. That's how dope he was. And then all of his boys would go to all the different cities and pick up the cars that he bought for girls and say, yo, come on. Get the keys back. You know he's playing.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going to say it like this because now that I'm about to do the movie, to do the Mike Tyson impersonation. be a little disservice what I would say is that I met Mike when I was 21 years old I went on stage and I was doing my joke and I was getting into my Mike Tyson joke and I went into it and no one laughed because Mike was in the audience a guy was in the audience where Mike had said yo Mike is in here motherfucker I was like oh man the black girls in the front was like what you gonna do Jamie you gonna tell your jokes you scared of Mike Tyson this is what Mike Tyson was knocking people out for nothing”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. I think Justin Beaver was supposed to do that song first. And we were lucky enough to get it. But Baby's in love, Kid Ink is on there. So, you know, we got some good stuff going. And then later on, sleepless nights will be out at some point, and then we'll start work on the Mike Tyson bio. And that's it. And then the stand-up comedy is coming because, like I said, I got a lot of stuff that, you know, I got to get off my chest. That's it.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we just shot the in love by now video with George Lopez is the priest. I get stood up at the altar. George Lopez is the priest. Nicole Schrezinger. And we all know her from the Pussycat Dolls, but also her solo career and everything. She plays my love interest, which is great because she's a good friend. And so we were able to really get into some, they don't do old school videos anymore. Like, this actually has a bit of a story. My man Tank is in it, and then all of my friends, my daughter's in it, my little daughter's in it. And my mom and dad is in it. So it's kind of cool.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She sort of made me do. She's like, listen, stop with the club stuff. Stop with, and that's my oldest daughter's funny. She said, stop with the club joints. Stop. You're trying to be too young. Like even she'd even, like, I had on some shoes one day that she thought was just, I had too young of a shoe. She's like, Dad, what is that on your feet? I said, What a new style, baby. Giuseppe's. You know, it's a new style. I had a zipper on it and a buckle in my name engraved. She was like, stop it. She said, Dad, you have old feet. I said, what does it mean? You have old feet. Like you have feet for marching, like a civil rights. You have a civil rights feet. But she said, do a song that we know that is from you. And it's true, because I'm supposed to be in love by now. And so that and jumping out of the window.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The latest album is called Hollywood Story of a Dozen Roses. I don't care how you get it. You can download it, bootleg it, steal it from a friend. I don't care. I just want you to hear the music. The song that's out right now is I'm supposed to be in love by now. I'm supposed to be in love by now. It's been so long for me I don't know how drowning in the sea of broken vows. I'm supposed to be in love by love. I've been chasing my dream, now I'm chasing you running hard by my legs feel weak. I don't played every part, I done played a fool write the movie of Bioli. I'm supposed to be in love by love. Girl you stole my heart to take about In love by now Make sure you And love by nails out. It's a song that my daughter made me.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would tell my forty old self grow up in your mind but not in your body necessarily. Meaning stay young in your body, but certain parts of your life you have to grow up and be grown about things. Because now you got another kid, your other child is 21 now, which is past year. But she was, you know. 1314 when I was 40. But now you got to start living, you would always live your life 100% for you. But now that you have your kids in a certain age, it's got to be... 30 to 40 percent 60 to 7% what you're going to leave for them and how you're going to leave them because like I said it's it's flying and that's it”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“40 they're they're going to be tough decisions that you have to make when it comes to business because in your 40 when you're 40 in my business the window is closing on certain things so you have to be able to open those windows to other things and some of the people that you've gone to to battle with till you're 40 may not be the ones that you will battle and do business with towards 50 and take a little bit of your personal feelings out of it because I'm very personal meaning like I would stay with someone even if I feel that they're not up to part business wise but you know we have history take a little bit of the personal out of it still remain friends if you can with that person because now it's really pending like 50 about to be here you know what I'm saying so it's like you know and uh”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you're 30, you got a kid and you're in my business and in any business, all businesses are going to, especially when you make my businesses about me. So I have to be careful in my decisions socially and plan for the future. It's not going to be, I remember doing my television show and it went five years went fast. And I would tell the people on my television show, it's going to go fast, man. And if you finish at 35, but you live till 70. So you have to really think about the future.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gonna go fast, the time is gonna go fast, so just make sure that you uh You start now planning For your future, and not only is it going to go fast, but don't spend all your money. Don't buy the jacket that's $12,000. You know, relax. Just relax it because it's good. And 40 is going to come so fast and you don't think that it is, but it's going to come so fast.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“20s. I had my daughter twenty six So, the advice I would give me was calm down. You know, it was like calm down and just, you know. Make sure you're paying attention. Your daughter and to the daughter's mom. 20s was tough because I just got to LA. I was just, you know, man, the whole world was opening up. So I'm like, man, I'm trying to do all of it. And while I was like, calm down. And luckily, it was 26, so moving into 30, I was on my way to calming, if that makes sense.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then he won't understand why some days he'll just be like this. So I had to stop, and it was tough because I had to have coffee every day and I drank like double espresso. You know, I was like, I had to have the up. Now I know how to go get it inside of my, you know, I know how to go get it inside.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's Yeah, because what I tell people all the time to drink coffee after a while, you keep hitting that same muscle in your brain to where you, I know people right now who could drink four cups of coffee and go to”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I do 15 first, 15 pull-ups. This is what it is. I do 15 pull-ups 50 push-ups, 100 sit-ups. Then I go back and I do 15 different So that'll get me to 30, another 50 push ups that gets me to 100 push ups. I'm done with the push ups. And then I do 10 and 10 back to the first grip. You don't have to do it every single day, you can do it every other day. And then what you notice is the pull-up bar, and Tyron kept telling me this. Well, I got a homie, Tyron. He played Kane in Minnesota Society, and I kept wondering, how is he always in shape? He says, man, I'm trying to tell you the pull-up bars of everything. So that and then just make the calls on what I need to get done and make sure I'm in the right position.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just send them encouraging, like, you know, there's a few, you know. People that just, you know, really mean a lot to me want to let them know I'm thinking about them hold on. And then it varies, man. Sometimes I'd be like, okay, I put some work in. So I put in eight days. So maybe these two days I could chill, I do the just on the physical part, I get my 50 pull-ups in 100 sit-ups, you know, maybe 100 crunches. And it's easy. I used to not be able to do it. My boy Tyran turned.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's out of my hands, it's out of my hands. I'll get a better crack at it tomorrow. Colin Powell says something incredible. He said, I always feel like in the morning I got a brand new channel. Now I'm paraphrasing, in the morning. He said, I love getting to the morning because it's a new opportunity. But really take the time for yourself, you know, relax, chill, whatever it is that you believe in. If it's God, Buddha, Allah, Hindu, all of them, whatever it is to get you on that, okay, I did what I'm supposed to do. Let me relax now. And then tomorrow, the next day, get another start.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You could see things coming to fruition, and that takes 70% of your worrying away. Because you did give it your all. And then the last part of it is reflect. Sit still for a minute. Because when you're working, working, working, working, working, working, working, working. I got this. I got to. That will strain you as well. So you got to be able to decompress. You just got to be able to chill whatever it is that you chill with. If it's your home, it's your friends, whatever. Take time out to be like, you know what?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's two things hustle, teach your hustle. Your hustle muscle is the hustle muscle is the most important thing when you hustle and you go get it. A lot of times that alleviates your problems. When you don't hustle or you leave it the chance, when you leave things to chance and you didn't give it all that day, now you start to argue or wonder about things, bills, fuck, I got to get that done. Oh, my relationship is how did that? But if you hustle for one, it's going to take up a lot more of your time. So you don't have time to concentrate on just. The worrying if I put the work in and I got my check. I put it. And your check doesn't have to be monetary. It could be anything. It could be, I put the work in at the charity and this happened because of the charity. But whatever it is, put that hard work in. And now”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because of the way we're set up like this. So it's like you have to get the education. I would bypass get the education of people all the world. And then the last couple of things would be history. No, history. Know why we're here, why this, especially when it comes to rules and legislation and things like that, know why we vote why we don't vote. If you think about it, this wonderful country runs on just like a human brain. We only use a little bit of it when it comes to the voting market. You got to vote. Get out there and be active in that. A lot of times we just, hey, man, whoever's the president is the president, whoever's this way. So that. And then the last part that I would teach is...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Interact with people from all over the world because you become narrow when you're just all about my block and just being about your block in today's world is going to hurt us because people don't understand global. We don't understand global market. We don't understand global things that how does something in the Middle East affect me in North Dakota?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, they're on their. They're on their cell phones, such that as much as you can interact with people because people... The best interaction because there's all types. There's discretion when it comes to people. Like there's no discretion when it comes to thumbs and what you can say on the internet. And that's why you get drugged down by it. Because it doesn't take anything if it's an anonymous person and they say you're ugly and you're this and you're that and you're this, there's no discretion there. So they can sort of get the venom off. I said when If we're in a surrounding, I may feel something about something, but I want to save that. I don't want to hurt somebody's feelings. I don't want to have to hurt my feelings. So that's the one thing. Interact with people. The second thing is.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like I said, it would have to be different tiered. It's a ninth grader of today. I would teach him as much as you can interact with actual humans. You know, the toughest thing in the world is like looking at my daughter and we're in Paris and there are.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It would be the bill with sham. Ball out, dog. Have a great time. Go to church. Love somebody. Teach somebody. Get angry a little bit. It would just change, you know, because, you know, these guys know me. I'm all about having, and at the end of the last one, be have as much fun as you can. Because in a blink of an eye, all be gone 100 years compared to infinity is nothing i talk to my sister all the time why she'd be like what's wrong i said girl you better get you better start having some fun we're gonna be gone in a minute you're gonna look back and say shit i should have been laughing and now i'm dead So, yeah, my billboard would change constantly because I think we all change.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's when Harrison Act because, well, we don't want that. But because of that, Harrison Act, with the jurisdiction of a cop, That plays into a little bit of what we're dealing with today. Because it was sort of set that way in a time where it was commonplace to see slaves. It was commonplace to see blacks as second or third class citizens. And it's not to incite anything. It's not to make you feel anything angry. It's just appearing into someone's genesis to see where we are today so that you can understand or try to have the compassion for all of all of us who live here in this country. Because like I said, it's the best in the world.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you get it, like I said, when you get a chance to see cultures and history, you understand what's going on today. And this is the last little factory. If you get a chance, pull up the Harrison Act. The Harrison Act was an act about taking drugs off the street and making them illegal because at a time in our culture, we were able to use whatever drugs that was out there was available. But the government sort of didn't know how to get it off the street. So they ran a story. Black man gets high on cocaine and fights cops. And people were like, so we got to get rid of drugs. People were like, fuck that. I'm getting rid of our drugs. Get bigger guns. Give cops more jurisdiction. Finally, they run a story Black Man gets high on cocaine rapes and kills Caucasian women.”
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“Where it's a book where a guy Documented lynchings. And he would document the lynching. Take and make postcards. Because at that time, see, we go, oof, but at that time it was commonplace. It was a party. So people would get their food. This is where they got picnic from. They would get the food, drinks or whatever, and they would go down and watch the lynching. And so there was a postcard that said, here's the lynching of nigga Charlie. Hope you like it. Hope everything is well. So that was something that was mind-blowing because it was commonplace.”
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“Yeah, it helps build your compassion because you only live in your own world. You know what I'm saying? And unless you get a chance to see what it is, a lot of times your views will be narrow and just watching documentaries like that to open up your views are just amazing. When you look at When you look at the story of, like I said, the story of slavery, there was a book that I just showed these young guys called Without Sanctuary.”
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“And I just went, shit, I didn't know it was like that. I didn't know that. And so, you know, and then when I listened to some of my friends who live in the Middle East and they're going through those things, I said, shit, I didn't know it was like that. So I think anytime you get to watch, get a chance to watch people and where they come from or culture and what they went through, you can even look at whites breaking away from, I mean, the 13 colonies breaking away from England. You go, oh, shit. I didn't know you went through that. So it's like when you do that, you come away with a sense of, okay, I get you now.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think documentaries. On cultures are important. If you get a chance to see any documentary about Jews, what they went through, watch it. Any documentary documentary about Palestinians and what they've gone through? Watch it. Blacks and what they've gone through. Watch it. Women and what they've gone through. Watch it. The reason that I say it is because If we're talking about the human aspect of it, like I didn't get it until I watched, it was actually the pianist.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sometimes I question why is it so tough to get along, you know, which is what Martin Luther King questioned. He said, I just don't get it. And I won't stand by. So, and like I said, I've only thought about like that, you know, here in the past few years after watching Harry Belafonte go on stage before I was supposed to get a lifetime achievement award. And he goes on and says something so prolific. He says They were talking about violence and he said the violence that's happening in America is mostly black violence and you black entertainers sit here mute and we laid all of this groundwork down for you guys and you guys are disrespected and not picking up so you know that's the one reason I said I think more socially.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm Spackle. I get along with all religions, get along with all people, and try to bring them all together. And so that was the, so when I think about it socially, it is the Martin Luther King thing because I think sometimes we overlook that the world is big enough for all of us to live on it. It's big enough for all of us to get along.”
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“Earlier, the Jews and the Palestinians in the student center, you know, the rest of the story was, I'm afriended both of them, and we all became friends because I called myself Spackle, which is the stuff that goes in between the bricks.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's beyond because I look at social issues today, how we're so afraid to step out on anything. Like, oh, my cars and my wealth and my money. And not to say that I've thought this way all my life. Like literally, like, it just happened not too long ago where I was like, we got to step up more socially. We got to be on social, even if some of the people say, oh, fuck it, I ain't going to your movie. Okay, fine. You weren't going to go anyway, but we had to step up a little bit more social wise. And when I went to see where Martin Luther King came from, what he did and how his house was, he actually came from middle class, big, nice house, but it's right across the street from poverty. And it sort of taught him how to deal with other cultures, taught him how to deal with other financial groups. He says, I don't want to see people hurting. He says, I want everybody. So I think like that. I've always thought like even when we talked about...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Completely serious. Serious. I'm more the fun dude. Let's have a good time. When it comes to social consciousness and social issues, that's where I draw from a lot of different people. I think watching Martin Luther King and going to Atlanta and seeing what he did and how he did when he did it, when I look at The bravery of him?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the reason I feel more than Kareem Abdul Jabbar is because magic smiled and it was fun. He was happy. Not to say that Kareem wasn't, but Kareem was a more serious guy. Very serious. You ever met him?”
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“Oh man, that's great. And then there's other sides of me too. So like the sports side, like I was a magic Johnson, like, you know, the person who loved being competitive would also want to get everybody else involved and, you know, the way he played basketball. When it comes to social consciousness.”
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“Who do I identify with historically? When it comes to entertainment, Sammy Davis Jr. is a person that I look at all the time who I go on the internet and watch him play the drums or watch him sing or watch him dance or watch him do jokes or watch him do a movie or watch him spend guns to me. He was just the ultimate entertainer.”
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“I go to commercial, my phone lines light up with all black people saying that we will not vote for this guy just because he's black. Don't treat us that way. So we ended up educating everybody about him. He's the nomination and he goes on and he wins. And to me, it was all odds against him. And I thought that type of success, regardless of where you come from, like I said, whatever side you stand on, to me, that was something monumental. When we talk about where this country has come from, when you talk about the greatness of America evolving and evolving to that type of freedom and him taking advantage of being in America and becoming a president to me, that's just success that he redefined what it is.”
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“And the reason that it means so much to me to see an African American man do that. And literally when he was, this was interesting. And this is how we connected. When he was 30 points down for the nomination, 30 points down. No one knew who he was. I get a call from Oprah Winfrey. Hi, Jamie Fox. It's Oprah. Hi, Jamie. I was like... Jamie, it's Norman Lear. The Senate is on fire. So who is he? Senator Obama, but he's 30 points down. I said, what nobody knows. The reason they're calling me is because we have a radio show that was reaching everybody, especially the huge urban market. So I go on my show and I say, I'm voting for this guy named Senator Obama because he's black. And I go to commercial.”
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“On the bigger picture Because I witnessed this in two thousand eight. To see President Obama become president to me. 2008 Not talking about after he became president because everyone will have the views on that. I know what it meant to me. To see him stand up there and put his hand on that Bible and say, you know, and become the president of the United States. That is success in so many different ways. And it also, it jars you. For every person that says, Oh man, just because I'm black, I'm sorry. Maybe you can't use that all the time because this man now showed you. And whatever side you end up on, because it's not a political thing. To see that.”
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“The fact that everybody lives in my house, the fact that my mom, my dad lives here, my two sisters, my dad still dates, you know, and my mom is going on his side of the house when he has a date, you know, just assessing just being in a way like, oh, hey, I didn't know you had company, George. I mean, just, and now they've turned into kids. So, you know, my dad had come to my room. Could you tell her not to come on my side of the house when I got a date? And I'm like, now parents. So, you know, it's.”
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“It's just some funny stuff. It's some funny stuff. And that's what any comedian will tell you that it's hard to be funny when there's nothing funny happening. But there's been so much funny shit happening for like my mom who, you know, adopted and who gave me up for adoption in seven months and she comes back to live with me. And as she's living with me, she walks down the first day she's here. She walks down the steps and says, I want a phantom. I'm like, bitch of the opera, what are you talking about? She's talking about a phantom Rolls Royce, right? And it was just funny to just certain things that.”
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“I'm going to do another comedy tour, but I'm going to start it organically like maybe 100 people, 200 people started organically and just sort of grow it. I got some great jokes. And that's the thing. Like when you're a comedian, it's like you have to pray that the jokes will open up. So I got some great jokes that people will get and understand. And then just the stuff that's been going on with me, you know, you know, getting older, you know, not realizing you the OG, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, the young hip-hop guy. What's up, OG? Damn, that's right.”
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“Does anything around you change because the people are living the way they want to live as long as they're not breaking the laws? Like, you know what? You made great points. She went on to my radio show and talked about it. So we are in a new day. What we got to do, though, is we got to stop. I said, like I was telling Justine, I said, we got to make shirts that say, let's put media out of business. We quit allowing them to control the narrative. Those people, like with Quentin Tarantino or the Black Lives Matter or people that speak up on something that is broken or that is wrong. you don't give them a chance by painting them in a bad situation”
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