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Hey, Dad.
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Boy.
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Hey, Pop,
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I need a favor.
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Son, can I at least get
a sip of tea
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before you start
asking me for favors?
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Yeah.
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Hey, yeah. You do
your thing, man.
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Sip it up.
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(cartoonish voice):
Can you hear this?
(slurps)
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Can you pick the kids
up from school today?
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I have a meeting
with an ad agency
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to direct some spots.
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I thought you told Nina
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that you were gonna stop
chasing that directing dream.
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I said I was going to.
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I didn't put a
hard clock on it.
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Oh, so you lied
to your wife?
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
(chuckles) Never.
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Our entire relationship
is built on complete trust.
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I'm merely protecting her
in case I don't get the job,
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that way I don't have to see
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that disappointed look
in her eyes.
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Oh, your mom had that look.
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It was her only look.
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So, what does the
foam roller king
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think about you taking meetings
on a work day?
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Well, you know, I just tell
J.J. I'm on a sales run,
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I go in and crush my meetings,
back to work, no harm, no foul.
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Well, there is a foul.
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You're stealing time
from your boss.
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Look, Dad.
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I know you guys go way--
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(high-pitched moaning)
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(moaning)
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You good?
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Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
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Look, I know
you guys go way back,
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but I can't stand working
for that dude.
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It's like having
a human hemorrhoid
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for a father-in-law.
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This is true, but
J.J. loaned you money
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to buy that
house next door.
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And he gave you a job
so you can pay him back.
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That's a contract.
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Well, I could pay him
back a lot quicker
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if you bought a couple
hundred of these bad b--
Nope.
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They don't nothing for me.
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Look, I paid
for your film school, son.
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That's it.
Now I support you emotionally.
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Dad, you know
that George Clooney once gave
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15 of his best friends
a million dollars each?
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(blows raspberry)
That's nothing.
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I once gave an enemy
five million dollars.
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Really? Who?
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Your mother. In the divorce.
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She told me it was three.
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That's 'cause she didn't want
to pay for film school.
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(scoffs)
She's the worst.
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(laughs)
That's my mother.
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♪ Poppa's ♪
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♪ House ♪
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♪ Yeah. ♪
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NINA:
Kids, get in the car.
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Seatbelts on,
I'll be there in a minute.
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TREY:
Bye, Dad.
Bye-bye.
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Damon, I've been thinking.
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Uh-oh.
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If you took that management
position Daddy's offering
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and I planned
a few more events,
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we could afford to send
our kids to private school.
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Private school is
overrated and overpriced.
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Babe, if you took
that promotion,
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we could afford Buckingham.
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Yeah, but that promotion
would leave me no time
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for doing what I love.
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Directing short films?
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No. Kissing my short wife.
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(chuckles)
Don't call me short.
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My sweetie petite-y?
Mm, no.
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My little
Halfrican American?
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How about Tiny Bit?
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'Cause that's all
you're gonna get
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if you keep joking
about my height.
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Mm.
(horn honks)
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Oh, right, we have kids.
Yes. Oh.
Right.
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Hey. Don't forget to pick
them up from school.
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Have I ever forgotten?
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They were fine.
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("Across 110th Street"
by Bobby Womack playing)
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♪ Across 110th Street ♪
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♪ A woman trying
to catch a trick... ♪
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All right, New York City,
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we're gonna bring it on home
with a few phone calls.
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Poppa's house, what's poppin'?
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MALE CALLER:
Yo, man,
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why you only play that
old-school Civil Rights music?
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How come you don't rock with
none of that new school rap?
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Because I don't know who any
of these new school rappers are.
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They're all named "baby."
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You got Lil Baby, Da Baby,
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Yung Baby, NewBorn Baby.
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These men need to grow up
and get some real names.
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Till then, I plays what I play,
playa, ya dig?
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You don't like it, kick rocks.
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Poppa's house, holla at ya boy.
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FEMALE CALLER:
Is this the Poppa?
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The one and only, never lonely.
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Right. Why do you reduce
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every conversation you have
with a woman to sex?
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Oh, it's not me.
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It's my dang-a-lang.
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(chuckles)
There you go again.
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Another reflexively
asinine comment.
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First of all, my ass
ain't a nine, it's a ten.
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And secondly,
I thought we wasn't
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talking about sex, honey dip.
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It's "Doctor."
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(gasps) Oh... Doctor?
Like doctor-doctor?
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So, if someone's having
a heart attack on a plane,
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you raise your hand?
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No, not that kind of doctor.
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Then not really a doctor,
nah-mean?
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I have a PhD in psychology
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and I know men like you.
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Really? Could you put one
of them on the phone?
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'Cause I'm bored
talking with you.
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You're probably sitting there
with your goofy baseball cap
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cocked to the side,
in your manopause cardigan,
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thinking that your scruffy beard
makes you look cool,
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but it really just makes you
look like a ghetto Poppa Smurf.
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Ha. You couldn't be
more wrong about me.
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New York, that's my time,
I'm Audi.
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♪ Oh, oh... ♪
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There he is,
Big Poppa Fulton!
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Allen. What's our system?
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I need to knock.
And then what do I say?
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Go away.
And then what do you do?
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I go away.
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So why are you in my studio?
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Corporate has some ideas.
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(groans)
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Mm, mm, mm.
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Why are they messing
with my number one show?
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Number two show.
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We've taken a hit with
our female demographic.
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So corporate thinks
it might be cool
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to add a female
presence in studio.
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Sorry, but a woman would
change the entire culture.
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Entire?
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It's just you.
That's right.
I'm the culture.
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And you guys keep
trying to change that.
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See, I like sitting
in my studio,
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playing my kind of music,
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eating boiled eggs,
drinking coffee
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while I fart it
up in there.
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That's my happy
place, Allen.
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Hello.
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Dr. Ivy Reed.
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Nice hat.
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So, the call was coming
from inside the house?
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You've probably heard
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Dr. Reed's podcast,
Just Like a Woman.
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Or maybe not.
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I don't do podcasts.
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Here's the hierarchy:
you got movies,
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TV, recording artists,
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radio personality,
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mime,
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organ grinder monkey,
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podcasts.
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Listen, I'm here
to bring the fun
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to get us back
to number one
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'cause if I don't,
son, you're done.
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Your rhyme is wack,
that's a fact.
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Me and you together,
I ain't having that.
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So don't get comfortable
and try to unpack,
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'cause Ray Charles said it best,
"Hit the road, Jack."
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Make that go away.
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♪ ♪
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Man, I hope your day
went better than mine.
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You know, they tried to jam me
with a female cohost?
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What? Who comes
to "Poppa's House"
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for the female
perspective?
Right?
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I mean, I don't pick up Cosmo
to see if the Knicks won.
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They didn't, by the way.
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Yeah, they never do.
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Oh, hey, uh, Dad...
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Uh...
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Uh, that ad agency
loved my ideas.
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Awesome.
Yeah.
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There was one, um,
slight problem, though.
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What's that?
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Well, the meeting,
it went long,
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and I-I kind of missed
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a very important sales pitch
to a top foam roller client.
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Ooh, J.J. must have
went cray-cray
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when he heard about
your day-day.
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Cray-cray like Kanye-ye.
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He fired me.
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Are you serious?
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And what did Nina say?
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Well, I haven't
told her yet.
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Junior, I'm gonna kill you.
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♪ ♪
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So I say we need money
for private school,
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and you get fired.
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Well, context missing,
but correct.
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Babe, I had a meeting
with a top ad agency.
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Why didn't you tell me?
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We don't lie
in this relationship.
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We're supposed to tell
each other everything.
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This job could pay
for private school.
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Daddy gave you a job offer
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that would have paid
for private school,
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and you threw it away.
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He said that's the third meeting
you've missed in two months.
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Those are just the
ones he knows about.
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Babe, this is my calling.
I know it. I'm so close.
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But you have been "so close"
for so long, Damon.
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You're 35, babe.
With a family.
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Babe, I need you
to believe in me.
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I do believe in you.
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But I also want
the best for our kids.
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Maybe now's not
the time for dreaming.
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Well, then you shouldn't
be so damn dreamy.
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Sorry, it was cuter
when you had a job.
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Thank God you're still alive.
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I thought I'd come back
to a chalk outline.
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She's like a reverse Hulk.
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She gets angry,
she gets smaller.
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Why can't she understand
how much directing means to me?
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Son, don't put this
all on her. Sit down.
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Let me tell you a story.
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When I first
started out in radio,
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I was working
at the station mailroom.
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Okay? My big break came
when the night DJ got sick.
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I sat in for a month.
I got rave reviews.
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'Cause you're the man.
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Yeah, I thought I was.
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I quit my mailroom job.
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And then the DJ recovered
and came back to work.
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And I was out of two jobs.
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I mean,
things got bad, son.
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So bad that we were
eating rice and beans every day.
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You had to wear
my T-shirts as diapers.
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You owe me a Public Enemy one.
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And I felt like
a complete failure.
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Because I let my dream
become my family's nightmare.
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So I ended up taking a job
on a sanitation truck
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in the middle of winter
just to provide for us.
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And that's why your fingers
smelled like that?
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00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:08,909
I never knew that, D.
254
00:10:09,009 --> 00:10:10,744
Yeah, well,
here's what I learned.
255
00:10:10,844 --> 00:10:13,781
A man's got to do
what a man's got to do
256
00:10:13,881 --> 00:10:16,684
until he can do
what he wants to do.
257
00:10:18,218 --> 00:10:19,787
You're right, Pop.
258
00:10:19,887 --> 00:10:21,755
So how do I get my job back?
259
00:10:22,856 --> 00:10:24,291
I don't know,
I guess we'll invite
260
00:10:24,391 --> 00:10:26,225
the human hemorrhoid over here,
261
00:10:26,226 --> 00:10:29,496
we'll, um, open up a nice,
expensive bottle of wine,
262
00:10:29,596 --> 00:10:32,399
couple of glasses,
he'll say yes to anything.
263
00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:34,935
He's just like his daughter.
264
00:10:36,036 --> 00:10:38,171
♪ ♪
265
00:10:42,442 --> 00:10:44,311
Allen, when I said,
266
00:10:44,444 --> 00:10:46,046
"Make this go away," you heard,
267
00:10:46,146 --> 00:10:48,481
"Get her a chair
and a microphone."
268
00:10:48,615 --> 00:10:50,917
I couldn't sell it upstairs.
Corporate.
269
00:10:50,918 --> 00:10:52,285
What's with the candle?
270
00:10:52,419 --> 00:10:53,954
Oh, had to light it.
271
00:10:54,054 --> 00:10:57,124
It smelled like someone had sex
with a boiled egg in here.
272
00:10:58,458 --> 00:10:59,659
Where is my lava lamp?
273
00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,594
Oh, had to make room
for the monitors.
274
00:11:01,695 --> 00:11:03,130
Monitors? For what?
275
00:11:03,263 --> 00:11:04,597
And why are these cameras
in here?
276
00:11:04,698 --> 00:11:06,098
For the streaming video.
277
00:11:06,099 --> 00:11:08,668
Corporate loves how they do it
on Dr. Reed's pod.
278
00:11:08,769 --> 00:11:10,403
Yeah, well,
we're not doing cameras.
279
00:11:10,503 --> 00:11:11,905
Do they intimidate you?
280
00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:14,641
Me? Intimidated? (laughs)
281
00:11:14,742 --> 00:11:17,410
Hey, is my head
really that small?
282
00:11:18,245 --> 00:11:20,447
Like a baby pigeon.
283
00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:26,486
I'm not doing cameras,
I'm sorry.
284
00:11:26,586 --> 00:11:28,155
You have to.
You've got a contract.
285
00:11:28,255 --> 00:11:31,358
Contracts were made
to be broken. I quit.
286
00:11:31,491 --> 00:11:34,661
Poppa. Poppa, come back.
287
00:11:36,629 --> 00:11:39,766
Listen, I refuse to
let them change my show.
288
00:11:39,767 --> 00:11:42,101
I'd rather retire,
kick back, relax,
289
00:11:42,102 --> 00:11:43,635
spend up all that
inheritance money
290
00:11:43,636 --> 00:11:45,438
you think you gonna get.
291
00:11:46,506 --> 00:11:48,141
Hey, what happened
with your ad agency?
292
00:11:48,241 --> 00:11:49,609
Uh, haven't heard anything yet.
293
00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:51,778
And no news is bad news
in show business.
294
00:11:51,779 --> 00:11:53,981
(doorbell rings)
Well, here's some good news:
295
00:11:54,081 --> 00:11:57,617
we gonna try and get you
that job that you hate back.
296
00:11:57,717 --> 00:12:01,320
Remember, don't make this about
your stupid rivalry with Daddy.
297
00:12:01,321 --> 00:12:04,456
Hey, if he don't start none,
there won't be none.
298
00:12:04,457 --> 00:12:06,493
How about,
even if he does start some,
299
00:12:06,593 --> 00:12:08,962
there'll still be none?
300
00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:11,663
J.J. What up?
301
00:12:11,664 --> 00:12:13,801
My portfolio.
302
00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:19,072
That's "what up," Mr. DJ.
And you?
303
00:12:19,172 --> 00:12:20,573
Oh, it's all good in my hood.
304
00:12:20,707 --> 00:12:22,209
I wouldn't complain
even if I should.
305
00:12:22,309 --> 00:12:23,343
Oh.
306
00:12:23,443 --> 00:12:25,645
You're still rhyming?
307
00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:27,547
At your age?
308
00:12:28,916 --> 00:12:30,717
How quaint.
309
00:12:30,818 --> 00:12:32,585
Nice coat.
Yeah, it's cashmere.
310
00:12:32,685 --> 00:12:34,988
Don't let it rub up
against any of your stuff.
311
00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:43,730
You'd better pick that up before
I drop you like I did in '78.
312
00:12:43,831 --> 00:12:45,298
Oh, why you bring up '78?
313
00:12:45,398 --> 00:12:46,766
Huh? What about the beatdown
314
00:12:46,867 --> 00:12:48,101
in summer '82?
No.
315
00:12:48,201 --> 00:12:50,070
That don't count,
you had a growth spurt.
316
00:12:50,170 --> 00:12:51,438
Yeah, you should try one.
317
00:12:51,538 --> 00:12:52,405
All right, all right, all right,
318
00:12:52,539 --> 00:12:54,706
daddies, daddies, daddies.
319
00:12:54,707 --> 00:12:58,278
All right, Golden Girls,
we get it, you have history.
320
00:12:58,378 --> 00:12:59,446
Why don't we all sit?
321
00:12:59,546 --> 00:13:01,781
Yes, let's all-- all right.
322
00:13:03,583 --> 00:13:04,784
Let's all sit down.
323
00:13:04,885 --> 00:13:06,119
Oh, right, yes.
Ooh, you sit over there.
324
00:13:06,219 --> 00:13:07,921
Still mad at me. All right.
Yeah.
325
00:13:08,889 --> 00:13:09,756
Well,
326
00:13:09,857 --> 00:13:10,857
here we are.
327
00:13:10,858 --> 00:13:12,191
NINA:
So,
328
00:13:12,192 --> 00:13:13,293
Junior, what's on your mind?
329
00:13:13,393 --> 00:13:14,427
I'll just have a glass of red.
330
00:13:14,561 --> 00:13:16,029
Yeah, not that.
331
00:13:16,129 --> 00:13:17,230
Right, no, yes.
332
00:13:17,330 --> 00:13:18,197
Um...
333
00:13:18,198 --> 00:13:19,565
Dad? Can I call you "Dad"?
334
00:13:19,566 --> 00:13:21,400
No.
Okay.
335
00:13:21,401 --> 00:13:24,104
Mr. Jackson, there is no denying
how much the world
336
00:13:24,204 --> 00:13:26,038
has benefitted
from your brilliant invention.
337
00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:27,540
You started selling
338
00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:28,876
your foam rollers
out of your trunk
339
00:13:28,976 --> 00:13:30,310
and you grew it into...
340
00:13:30,443 --> 00:13:31,979
My empire.
341
00:13:32,112 --> 00:13:34,114
I was gonna say "business,"
but sure.
342
00:13:34,247 --> 00:13:37,450
And I would like to apologize
for missing that meeting.
343
00:13:37,584 --> 00:13:38,818
If you give me
my job back,
344
00:13:38,952 --> 00:13:40,320
I promise you,
345
00:13:40,453 --> 00:13:42,322
this will never, ever
happen again.
346
00:13:42,455 --> 00:13:45,125
Yeah, look, Junior, I-I know
it may not seem like it,
347
00:13:45,225 --> 00:13:48,227
but I don't like you.
348
00:13:48,228 --> 00:13:49,829
I-I mean,
349
00:13:49,930 --> 00:13:52,299
you're a very creative
people person
350
00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:54,001
and a great
communicator
351
00:13:54,101 --> 00:13:55,601
and, uh...
352
00:13:55,602 --> 00:13:57,804
Oh, man, my daughter
is making me say all this stuff.
353
00:13:57,905 --> 00:13:59,506
Daddy.
No, I'm sorry,
princess,
354
00:13:59,606 --> 00:14:01,274
but I told you
I couldn't fake it.
355
00:14:01,374 --> 00:14:03,543
Now, listen, Junior,
you're just wasting your time
356
00:14:03,643 --> 00:14:05,512
with that silly directing dream.
357
00:14:05,612 --> 00:14:07,113
Now, if you want to work
for my company,
358
00:14:07,114 --> 00:14:09,182
I'm gonna need you
on the management track,
359
00:14:09,282 --> 00:14:12,152
12 hours a day,
shoulder-to-shoulder with me.
360
00:14:12,252 --> 00:14:13,386
So,
361
00:14:13,486 --> 00:14:17,524
are you all in
or are you all out?
362
00:14:18,926 --> 00:14:22,362
Hey, foam is where the heart is.
363
00:14:23,163 --> 00:14:24,464
"Foam is where the heart..."
364
00:14:24,564 --> 00:14:25,932
(chuckles)
See what I did there?
365
00:14:25,933 --> 00:14:28,501
It's like "home,"
but it's like, "nah, foam."
366
00:14:28,635 --> 00:14:31,171
That's my next catalogue title
right there.
367
00:14:31,271 --> 00:14:33,139
Well done, son.
I think...
Thank you.
368
00:14:33,140 --> 00:14:35,008
...you're finally growing up.
POPPA:
Mm.
369
00:14:35,108 --> 00:14:36,543
Growing up.
Ain't it great?
370
00:14:36,676 --> 00:14:38,011
Yeah, you should
try it sometime.
371
00:14:38,111 --> 00:14:39,212
See? Why'd you...
372
00:14:39,312 --> 00:14:41,548
Guys, guys...
Give it to me.
373
00:14:45,618 --> 00:14:48,055
So, now that I got the
job that I hate back,
374
00:14:48,155 --> 00:14:49,957
what are we gonna do
about the job that you love?
375
00:14:50,057 --> 00:14:52,259
You know, I'm not sure
I love it anymore.
376
00:14:52,359 --> 00:14:53,994
What? Look, Dad, forget about
377
00:14:54,127 --> 00:14:56,429
corporate and the cameras
and Dr. Reed.
378
00:14:56,529 --> 00:14:59,599
What made you fall in love
with radio in the first place?
379
00:15:00,833 --> 00:15:02,335
It was about community.
380
00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:05,138
I'd play a song
by Bill Withers or Al Green
381
00:15:05,272 --> 00:15:07,474
and then I'd talk
about the memories
382
00:15:07,607 --> 00:15:09,942
it brought up for me
growing up in New York.
383
00:15:09,943 --> 00:15:11,611
Mm.
And then the listeners
would call in
384
00:15:11,711 --> 00:15:13,346
and they'd share
their memories.
385
00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,482
And that's what it became,
like, this beautiful
386
00:15:15,615 --> 00:15:17,484
shared experience.
387
00:15:17,584 --> 00:15:18,750
Couldn't it still be that?
388
00:15:18,751 --> 00:15:20,020
No, because it's not about
389
00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,321
the listener anymore.
390
00:15:21,421 --> 00:15:24,824
Corporate is chasing data
and demographics,
391
00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:26,159
and in the process,
392
00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:28,728
they're killing everything
that's good and real.
393
00:15:28,828 --> 00:15:30,063
I can't do the cameras, son.
394
00:15:30,163 --> 00:15:32,165
They make me nervous
and insecure.
395
00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:34,367
'Cause of your little head?
396
00:15:37,037 --> 00:15:38,838
Is it really that small?
397
00:15:38,938 --> 00:15:41,708
Look, Dad, if you want
to relax on camera,
398
00:15:41,808 --> 00:15:44,211
I tell my actors
these three things, all right?
399
00:15:44,344 --> 00:15:46,879
Quiet hands, always smile
400
00:15:46,980 --> 00:15:48,515
and never look in the camera.
401
00:15:48,615 --> 00:15:50,883
That's it? Nothing else?
That's it.
402
00:15:51,018 --> 00:15:54,354
Well, let Dr. Reed know
whose house she's in.
403
00:15:54,487 --> 00:15:55,422
What do you mean?
404
00:15:55,522 --> 00:15:59,092
Whose house is Dr. Reed in?
405
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:01,328
(softly):
My house?
406
00:16:01,428 --> 00:16:04,130
Get up. Say it.
Poppa's house. Say it.
407
00:16:04,131 --> 00:16:05,398
She in Poppa house.
408
00:16:05,498 --> 00:16:07,300
Whose house is Dr. Reed in?
409
00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,702
She in my house.
410
00:16:10,537 --> 00:16:12,039
She in your house
411
00:16:12,139 --> 00:16:14,007
and she's trespassing.
That's right.
412
00:16:14,107 --> 00:16:15,307
That's right.
The living legend.
413
00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:17,710
Six-time
Marconi Radio Award winner.
414
00:16:17,844 --> 00:16:19,311
Seven-time.
Seven-time
415
00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:21,248
Marconi Radio Award winner.
416
00:16:21,381 --> 00:16:23,316
The Master of the Mic.
417
00:16:23,416 --> 00:16:24,717
The King of the Commute.
418
00:16:24,817 --> 00:16:27,387
The Adonis of Audio.
419
00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:29,089
The MJ of the Airwaves.
420
00:16:29,222 --> 00:16:30,623
Ooh! I like that.
Yeah.
421
00:16:30,723 --> 00:16:31,591
Give me that LeBron.
422
00:16:31,724 --> 00:16:33,060
(rhythmic grunting)
423
00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,961
Hairline.
Hairline.
424
00:16:40,867 --> 00:16:42,368
Okay.
425
00:16:42,369 --> 00:16:44,336
It's love action time.
426
00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:46,073
Right here in the living room?
427
00:16:46,173 --> 00:16:49,609
Therapist said we got to
when there's unresolved anger.
428
00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:53,113
Okay, let's do it.
429
00:16:54,047 --> 00:16:56,383
(grunts)
430
00:16:56,483 --> 00:16:58,618
I'm sorry I didn't tell
you about the meeting.
431
00:16:58,718 --> 00:16:59,986
I'm sorry
if I made you feel
432
00:17:00,087 --> 00:17:02,521
you couldn't share
everything with me.
433
00:17:02,522 --> 00:17:03,823
You know,
434
00:17:03,923 --> 00:17:05,225
it's so painful
when they say no.
435
00:17:05,325 --> 00:17:07,427
I didn't want you
to feel that again.
436
00:17:07,527 --> 00:17:09,729
That's why I'm here, silly.
437
00:17:09,829 --> 00:17:12,265
For better or for worse.
438
00:17:12,399 --> 00:17:15,302
I love you,
and I believe in you.
439
00:17:15,402 --> 00:17:17,804
I know, it's just...
440
00:17:17,937 --> 00:17:20,539
my dream can't be
my family's nightmare.
441
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,809
Well, my dream
is that my children
442
00:17:22,909 --> 00:17:24,811
grow up with a happy father.
443
00:17:24,911 --> 00:17:26,545
I know you're a great director,
444
00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:28,815
and everyone else
is gonna know it soon, too.
445
00:17:28,948 --> 00:17:31,951
So we need to make time
for your dream.
446
00:17:32,085 --> 00:17:35,322
Happy spouse, happy house.
447
00:17:35,422 --> 00:17:37,357
I love you, sweetie petite-y.
448
00:17:37,457 --> 00:17:39,226
(laughs)
Give me a kiss.
449
00:17:39,326 --> 00:17:41,893
Give me-- mm, mm, mwah.
450
00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:44,730
You ready for that Tiny Bit,
Mr. Love Action?
451
00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:46,499
Ooh, I'll give you
some love action.
452
00:17:46,633 --> 00:17:49,068
Mm.
About two-and-a-half minute.
453
00:17:50,237 --> 00:17:51,738
♪ ♪
454
00:17:51,838 --> 00:17:53,473
♪ Come here, sister ♪
455
00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:57,009
♪ Papa's in the swing ♪
456
00:17:58,811 --> 00:18:01,013
♪ He ain't too hip ♪
457
00:18:02,014 --> 00:18:04,884
♪ About that new breed, babe ♪
458
00:18:05,685 --> 00:18:08,488
♪ He ain't no drag ♪
459
00:18:09,456 --> 00:18:12,325
♪ Papa's got
a brand-new bag... ♪
460
00:18:13,460 --> 00:18:16,163
So, you're here to
honor your contract?
461
00:18:16,296 --> 00:18:18,498
Allen, what's our system?
462
00:18:18,598 --> 00:18:20,333
Have a great show.
463
00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:25,471
(whistling)
464
00:18:25,472 --> 00:18:27,973
Did you dye your beard?
465
00:18:27,974 --> 00:18:29,342
No.
466
00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:31,944
I woke up like this.
467
00:18:35,482 --> 00:18:36,849
And we're on.
468
00:18:36,983 --> 00:18:40,152
Hey, New York City,
what's crack-a-lackin'?
469
00:18:40,153 --> 00:18:41,854
It's your boy Big Poppa,
470
00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:43,856
still a little crowded
up in here
471
00:18:43,956 --> 00:18:47,293
with, uh, Dr. Ivy Reed
overstaying her welcome
472
00:18:47,294 --> 00:18:50,997
to the party
she was not invited to.
473
00:18:51,097 --> 00:18:53,200
You're right, I wasn't invited.
474
00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:56,703
I was begged.
"Please come save this show."
475
00:18:56,803 --> 00:18:59,572
And yet, you were available.
476
00:19:00,873 --> 00:19:04,076
Because I had just finished
writing my best-selling book.
477
00:19:04,211 --> 00:19:07,680
What's it called,
No, Not that Kind of Doctor?
478
00:19:08,815 --> 00:19:12,719
It's called
Tiny Head, Tiny Mind.
479
00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:15,555
You're such a hater.
480
00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:17,424
Yeah, and you know
what I hate most?
481
00:19:17,557 --> 00:19:20,927
That my idol has become
a cantankerous cynic.
482
00:19:21,828 --> 00:19:23,930
Idol? Me?
483
00:19:24,030 --> 00:19:25,898
That's all you heard?
484
00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,068
I used to listen to you
every morning in college,
485
00:19:29,202 --> 00:19:34,073
and back then, you were always
so uplifting, positive and fun.
486
00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:36,842
You got me through some
really tough times and then,
487
00:19:36,843 --> 00:19:39,912
you got a divorce and you
changed into this curmudgeon.
488
00:19:40,046 --> 00:19:43,215
And I refuse to let
you go out like that.
489
00:19:43,216 --> 00:19:46,386
So, I'm here to give back
some of what you gave me.
490
00:19:46,486 --> 00:19:48,221
What's that?
491
00:19:48,321 --> 00:19:53,360
Motivation.
To fight for what you love.
492
00:19:55,595 --> 00:19:58,063
(sniffles, exhales)
493
00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:01,968
Okay, New York,
let's take a call.
494
00:20:02,068 --> 00:20:04,304
Poppa's house,
what's good in your hood?
495
00:20:04,404 --> 00:20:06,072
CALLER:
Hey, if I wanted to listen
496
00:20:06,172 --> 00:20:07,974
to an old married couple bicker,
497
00:20:08,107 --> 00:20:09,642
I'd talk to my wife.
498
00:20:09,742 --> 00:20:11,678
Play some damn music.
499
00:20:12,545 --> 00:20:13,646
You got it, my man.
500
00:20:13,746 --> 00:20:16,182
Can I choose the song?
No.
501
00:20:17,284 --> 00:20:19,519
("Respect" by Aretha Franklin
playing)
502
00:20:29,662 --> 00:20:31,464
♪ Your rhymes is wack, though
you're cute in the front ♪
503
00:20:31,564 --> 00:20:33,433
♪ And you might be stacked ♪
504
00:20:33,533 --> 00:20:34,734
♪ But check this out ♪
505
00:20:34,834 --> 00:20:36,235
♪ You ain't working with me. ♪
506
00:20:36,336 --> 00:20:38,170
(laughter)
507
00:20:38,971 --> 00:20:40,840
They do nothing for me.
508
00:20:41,941 --> 00:20:43,476
You just orgasmed.
509
00:20:43,610 --> 00:20:44,911
Yeah, I finished and I'm done.
510
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I don't want to see it anymore.
511
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Ah. Ah...
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(laughing)
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