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I directed a documentary call beat Trims in Light the
travels of a Tribe col Quest, and people still still
talk about it to this day. I am sharing some
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never ever said, never ever shared secrets about the making,
the history, the reality of that fantastic documentary that I
had the privilege of directing. Plus Draymond Green got his
feelings hurt by Dylan Brooks and one night in Boston,
the New York Knickerbocker's took down the evil empire of
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got any comments, things you like, things you do not like,
let me know so much to discuss. This is a great,
great time of year for sports fans, particularly NBA fans,
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even wa NBA fans, college basketball, female fans. I was
watching this documentary on ESPN. It's like a four part
documentary covering last season in the women's NCAA basketball world.
And I never thought I never ever thought I would
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sit here or even sit down and watch something regarding
women's basketball. Yet here we are. But I really enjoy
that little documentary that they got on there. What is
it called? It is called you know what I got
my phone here, I'm gonna check. It is called Full
Court Press, Full Court Press on ESPN. And I really
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these girls are fun, man. Was I was talking to
Frank Isola and Brian Scalabrini about what I like about
this documentary, what I like about the women and the
girls on this documentary. They're young girls in eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one. Call them women and be respectful, young ladies.
They're so themselves, which is really something that I like
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watching Flage and the other girls that they covered. They're
just themselves and they're not jaded, and they're not like
debutants like so many of the NBA players are like contrived,
very very aware of themselves, very very aware of the
sort of persona they want to carve out. And I
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was discussing that in relation to the Celtic City documentary
on HBO, which again I think is very very good,
whether you like the Celtics or not. And we're going
to get into how much I can't stand the Celtics
and the Nicks and the Celtics are duking it out
in the second round right now. But one of the
things that's great about the documentary Celtic City, where they
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talk about Robert Parrish, Kevin McHale, Larry Bird, the Danny Ainge,
the Paul Pierce, lend Bias to Kevin Garnett, the Ray Allen,
every single thing that has to do with the Celtics.
They cover it. But whether you liked Larry Bird, McHale
and the Celtics or not, you didn't know much about them.
You thought you had an idea of what they were like,
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and you thought you understood what kind of people they
were and what the dynamic was of the team, but
there wasn't access to them the way there's access to
players now. So it makes it It makes it interesting,
whether you're a Celtics fan or not, to sort of
uncover these iconic teams, because those teams were iconic with
so many iconic players and Robert Parrish in particularly, you
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didn't know anything about them, but you really get to
get a sense of Robert parrishon what he meant to
that team and the dynamic of the team. And it's
just very good. The Celtics City thing is very good,
and so is the little documentary on ESPN, the four
part documentary about the women NCAAA girls. It covers four girls.
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But the afore me, Oh, it's a lot of Boston
stuff we're gonna talk about today because Bill Belichick, I
don't know how I haven't really deep dived into your
sick fucking ask Bill Belichick, Leader of Men, Bill Belichick
lead you know, I'm gonna start with Bill Belichick, leader
of Men, super Bowl champion, arguably the greatest coach in
NFL history? Were you were you the greatest coach in
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NFL history? Like, what the fuck is your deal, Bill Belichick?
What is your story? Man? Man? I mean talk about
tarnishing your image, Bill Belichick. I never liked you. I
never liked the way you presented yourself. I never liked
your mumbly humbly like oh bojo. I'm just here and
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I'm just aftering the quest. I actually got in trouble
years ago. I was on ESPN. I was doing something
on ESPN Old ESPN in Connecticut at the ESPN studio.
That show I was co hosting with Jamel Hill, and
I refer to Bill Belichick as a I said, he's
up there with all right, we could probably gotta bleep
that because he can't say that word. And this is
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before that word became even more taboo than it is now,
although they're saying that the word is back. I don't
want no problem. I got enough problems. I don't need
to go down with the R word ship. But I said,
you know, I can't stand Bill Belichick and his whole
routine and his mumbly and I'm just you know, I'm
just here and you know, and I'm I'm so complicated
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and I'm so involved with my football thoughts and ideas
and my football schemes and plans and all that stuff.
I'm just a football guy, so I'm just oppressed. It
just it freaks me out. I'm I'm gonna answer the
questions and I don't know, and I have to talk
to Tom and we're just gonna go out there and bullshit.
I thought it was bullshit then Bill Belichick, and I
feel like it's even more bullshit now. And this is
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coming off a season where I softened No Bruno, I
softened No Diddy for Bill Belichick, watching him with Eli
and Peyton Man, watching him on Inside the NFL. NFL
was like I could get behind this Bill Belichick. I
love how much he loved football. I love when he
talks about football, but his persona as a coach while
he was coaching the New England Patriots, this guy I
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don't like. I think he's hiding something. And you're only
as sick as your secrets, Bill Belichick. You're only as
sick as your secrets. You sick, old, nasty. What's your story, man,
unless you've been hiding under a football rock. For the
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past few weeks, everybody has seen Bill Belichick, who's on
a book tour for his book where he doesn't talk
about Aaron Hernandez, he doesn't talk about the Flakegate, doesn't
really talk about Robert Kraft, doesn't talk about any of
the controversial fun things that we the fans want to know.
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Just just talk to all football, just talk about ball. Well,
you know what, Bill Belichick, if you're not gonna talk
about Aaron or Nandaz, you're not gonna talk about the
flate Gate. You're not gonna talk about spy Kate. You're
not gonna talk about any of the things that we
want to talk about that are a part of your legacy,
whether you like it or not, Bill Belichick, the flate Gate, Spygate,
the owner Robert Kraft, who's another a rub and tug guy.
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You're not gonna talk about any about anything about that.
You're gonna show up to do press, Bill Belichick. You're
gonna show up to do press for your book tour
with your twenty four year old girlfriend. Now listen, I
get it, Bill Belichick, he's seventy four. This is as
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old as time. Older men successful, you always want to
get your hands on a younger woman. That's just that's
just the way it is. Now. The fact that it's
a woman who's fifty years you know, can't get somebody
in your thirties, okay, like okay, like thirty for thirty.
You got a twenty four year old who Bill Belichick
allegedly met this woman when she was twenty on a plane.
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So you were sniffing around this twenty year old. And
for those of you who who don't know, Bill Belichick
was married for forty years. Great, he's got three kids.
Forty years, three kids, fantastic. Then he was in another
relationship for sixteen years. And then somehow Someway Jordan got
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her hands on old man Bill Belichick, and she is
turning him out. This young girl Jordan is turning Bill
Belichick out. Leader of men, the guy who you know
was too grumpy to speak to the press, the guy
that was too curmudgety to give interviews whether they won
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or lost games, and he was just too complicated and
he was too much of a mystery guy. He was
too much of a football mind to speak to the press.
Is now on social media on ig on the Gram.
Bill Belichick is on the Gram with his twenty four
year old girl. She's dressed up like a mermaid. They're
doing poses. They're lovey dovey, they're kissy whissy, But you
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couldn't talk to the press all those years when you
were winning chip after chip after chip. You're like everybody
else on social media now with your young twenty four
year old girl, Bill Bell, you're a sick fuck. You're
fifty years older than this school. And some people say,
Mike crab if you were seventy four and you get
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your hands on some a twenty four year old girl,
some if you get your hands on a twenty four
year old girl, you would do it too. I'm not
saying I wouldn't, But hold your head, Bill Belichick, how
do you let some this is a stranger, pretty much
a stranger come into your life and just turn you
all out upside down. I think I have an idea
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of what she's doing to them. I think I have
a pretty good idea of what Bill Belichick is into
and what Jordan is doing to him. And Jordan apparently is,
you know, from a very a fun, loving, free, open family.
Her mother allegedly owns a sex shop. And I think
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that Jordan brings home toy after toy and scrub after scrub,
and lotion and lube after lube and I think her
and old man Belichick are having a good old time
and you know what, do your thing. It would be
fine if you were retired. But Bill Belichick is now
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the head coach of a college football team UNC and
we haven't seen it yet, but he is again supposed
to be the leader of men. But how can you
be the leader of men when you are getting led
around by a twenty four year old chippy. She's showing
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up at his interviews, she's starting the interviews. She's interrupting
the universe. This CBS interview that he gave the other
day for his book tour, for the book where he
doesn't talk about Aaron Hernandez, Spygate, deflate Gate, or any
of the gates that he was involved with. She was
on the sidelines, you know, like, oh, we're not gonna
talk about this, We're gonna stop the interview. We're not
gonna do the Yo. You're supposed to be the leader
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of man. Man, you can't control the interview yourself, Bill
belk you got what's happened to you? Man? And she's
not only doing his personal life and his persona. Bill
Belichick was at a spring practice and the girl was
on the sidelines talking to coaches and adjusting his pants.
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Did you see the video of her adjusting his bitness
is a football coach. We're not in an old age home.
This is in Thanksgiving. We're not home for the holidays.
You don't need to be adjusting his pants. This is
supposed to be a football coach, the greatest football coach
of all time. You got a twenty four year old
chippy fixing you up on the sidelines during football practice.
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What the fuck happened to you? Bill Belichick? What happened
to you? Man? I'm telling you I have a pretty
good idea that this girl is turning him out, turning
him out real nice and real proper with lubes, lotions.
I think she's pinging, progging and pegging this guy and
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he likes it, and he's like, fucking, I'm seventy four.
I'm gonna let my freak flag fly. Forget these championship banners.
I'm letting my freak flag fly all over the place.
But I have a feeling this is not going to
end well. And I have a feeling it's not going
to go well when you're trying to be the head
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coach of a college football team. It's way out there.
And I know I know that Tom Brady, Julian Elleman
and all the all the players that Bill Belichick coach.
I know they're probably like this fucking guy. I know
they're seeing a side of Bill Belichick that they never
got to see. He was, you know, tough and rough
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and gruff, and now you're letting some twenty four year
old chippy control your life. I know Julian Lleman and
Tom Brady like, what the fuck is going on out here?
But Bill Belichick, I see you. I see you, my man.
I see you. Get control of your life. Man. Podcast.
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Draymond Green, who's got his podcast? I mean, podcasts these
days are like they're like assholes. Everybody has one. They're
not even like opinions. Podcasts are like assholes. Every single
person has one. Draymond's podcast is good. Draymond's great. The
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twenty twenty five Hustle Player of the Year. We got
to congratulate Draymond Green. He won the twenty twenty five
NBA Hustle Player of the not Defensive Player of the Year,
but he did win the NBA Hustle Player of the Year.
After the Golden State Warriors beat It wasn't easy, but
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they beat the Houston Rockets in a game seven seven games.
It took took everything to beat them. They were tough,
they were long, no Bruno, and they're They're a team
that's got a lot to a lot going for them
in the future. Of course, Draymond Green did a podcast
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and he talked about Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks apparently allegedly
after the Warriors beat the Rockets, Dylan Brooks didn't shake
hands with any of the Warrior players. And this wasn't
in the news. This wasn't on the news. But Draymond
Green made it newsworthy, and of course if he makes
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it newsworthy, and he talks about it in his podcast,
every other podcast, including me the World's Most Disruptive Podcast,
I have to also speak about this. No one was
talking about this, Draymond Green until you brought it up.
But Dylan the villain, Dylan the villain, Brooks who's hard,
too hard to like, similar to Draymond Green. I think
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Draymond Green sees a lot of himself in Dylan Brooks.
As Dylan Brooks as good as Draymond Green. No, but
essentially those are guys that you only like if they're
on your team. And throughout this series and throughout their history,
Draymond Green has talked he's he's talked crazy to Dylan Brooks.
He's talked to him on the court, He's talked crazy
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to him in press conferences, He's talked crazy to him
throughout their career playing against each other before he was
a Rocket and Jimmy Butler, he also said I can't
and he said, I hate Dylan Brooks. I don't respect him.
He's a pussy, he's a bitch, and a few other things.
And he said, I can't stand them. I don't like them.
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So after the series, if you know that the Golden
say worries think this of you because they're comfortable saying
I hate this motherfucker. I can't stand this motherfucker. He's
this that. And the third, why would he shake hands?
I say, if I'm Dylan Brooks. Fuck, if these guys
don't like me, they don't respect me, they say they
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don't like me, they say, don't they don't respect me?
Why should I shake their fucking hands? And Draymond Green
went on his podcast and told the story about Dylan
Brooks leaving the court and not shaking hands, and he
called him a sucker. He's a sucker, And I'm thinking
to myself, he's a sucker. You sucker punched your teammate,
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you kick people in the dick, you stomp on people's chest,
you bully, bully, bully, you talk shit, and then after
the games you huggy huggy. I get it. Sportsmanship. I
like that. I like that, But some people might be like, yo,
fuck it, fuck you, fuck you Draymond fuck the Warriors,
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fuck you, Jimmy Butler. Me personally, i'd give you five.
But you know, Draymond Green, I'm surprised anybody shakes your hand.
You're abusive to the refs, you're abusive to other players
in the league. And then when somebody's like, yo, fuck it,
I'm not shaking here, you get your feelings hurt and
you say he's a sucker. Da da da da da.
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I mean, listen, I think Dylan Brooks, he's a needed
player and he's done an incredible job of carving out
an NBA career with very little skills. But if he
doesn't want to shake your hand because you guys say
I hate him, I don't respect him. You should at
least respect that he's doing the same thing that you
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do to everybody else, except for afterwards, you hug, you kiss,
and all that shit. I'm surprised to the Houston Rockets
that young kid Sagoon who he was elbowing, he was pushing,
he was cheap shotting the entire series. I wouldn't shake
this fucking guy's hand either. You're a dirty player, dirty Draymond.
I mean, what do you guys think if the Golden
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State Warriors say I hate this fucking guy, Jimmy Butler's
say I hate this fucking guy, Draymond Greens. I can't
stand this guy. I can't stand him. I don't respect him.
Why shake his hand after the game? Why subject yourself
to that? Why look somebody in the face and shake
the hand because of the brotherhood, Because it's uh, you know,
it's the right thing to do. The way Draymond Green
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treats his opponents is certainly not the right way to
treat your opponents. He's abusive. He's he's literally physically abusive
and verbally abusive to other players and the referees. So
when you get somebody who's saying, yo, I know how
you feel about me, I know how I feel about you.
We're not shaking hands. I'll see you next season. I
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like it. I like it. I saw some online stuff
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about the award winning tribe called Quest documentary that I
had the privilege of directing Beat Tribes in Life, The
Travels of a Tribe, call Quest. If you haven't seen
Beat Tribes in Life, The Travels of a Tribe, call Quest.
Or you have seen it, you could stream it on
all your streaming platforms. Great documentary that I had the
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privilege of directing. And every now and then something will
come up about that film in the gossipy sort of way.
The film, obviously it was documented, how challenging it was
to make, how frustrating it was to make, you know,
within the group. Shout out to the late great five Dog,
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shout out to q tip Ali, Shahid Mohammad and Jerobi
for signing off on the film. But I saw something
on YouTube about this, that and the third about the film.
Let me let me just tell some some things about
the film that I directed. Award winning Producer Guild Award.
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That ain't nothing to scaf at we want. It's looked
at it as one of the greatest music documentaries ever.
And you're only as good as your subject. But I
did direct it. I did direct it. But let me
let me just give a little clarity, a little history
of some facts about beats, rhymes in life, travels of
a tribe called Quest, the film that I directed, which
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again you could stream on many of your streaming platforms,
and I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.
It's a great journey about one of the most important
musical groups. I don't even call them just hip hop,
the most important musical groups of the last fifty years,
the rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Iconic, a tribe
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called Quest. But that film came about because I went
to one of the last tribe called Quest concerts and
I started thinking about that in the nineties and then
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. I'm not
great with dates. I don't fact check. They did a
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show in la and after the show, I was backstage
with Fife, I was backstage with Alis Shahid Muhammad. I
was backstage with Q Tip again shout out to the
late great Fife Dog, the late great Fifth Dog. And
I said something about doing a documentary about a Tribe
call Quest said it again years later and Q Tip said,
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you should do it, because I said, I think, I said,
and I quote, somebody should do a documentary about you guys,
and he said, you should do it. Well, lo and behold,
I did it. They were performing shows in the summer,
and I found out very late in the game. I
had no idea that they were performing shows in the summer,
because for me, tribeical Quest performing shows, I'm like, where
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when I'm going. I found out like a few days
before they were doing the shows, and I reached out
to Q Chip said I want to do a documentary.
He said cool. He said, reach out to Ali. Reach
out to Ali. I said, I want to do a documentary.
He said cool, and then I reached out the Fight.
The night before I spoke the Fife the Friday night
before their Saturday show, or the Saturday night before the
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Sunday show. I believe it was a Saturday, I can't remember.
A long time ago, and that was the first time
I spoke to Fife and he said, let's do it.
Went and bought cameras, bought equipment with my own money,
bought cameras, bought equipment with my own money, got together
a crew to shoot that concert at Rock the Bells
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in California. Can't remember the name of the venue, and
three years later we finally, finally were able to finish
the film. When I started doing Beatrums in Life, a
travels of a Tribal coal Quest, I thought it was
going to be sort of a retrospective about the group
coming back together and cover all the songs and all
the fun and all the history of the group, and
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the film has a lot of that, but it also
got into a deeper, deeper, more serious storyline of the
group's brotherhood and brotherhood and relationships, especially between guys. It's
not always perfect, even though a tribe represented peace, love,
and you know, they're human beings. They're human beings, and
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it started to get into, you know, the sort of
the friction at times within the group, and I didn't
know anything about the friction at times within the group,
but again, they are human and it started to cover that.
And then of course the surprise that I had I
knew nothing about. I knew Fife was diabetic, but I
had no idea that it was as serious as it
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turned out. Obviously, diabetes was the main thing that wound
up taking his life way too young again. May his
memory be a blessing fife dog Malik Taylor. But we
covered that, We covered the kidney transplant that his wife,
you know, gave him, and it made for a great compelling,
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emotional special documentary film. Beat Tribes in life are travels
of a tribe called Christ. But along the way there
was pushing, was pulling. There was friction within the group.
Five like this, Qtub didn't like this. Q Tib like this,
fIF didn't like this. Ali Shahid Muhammad like this, he
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didn't like it. And I'm sort of making this film
trying to appease these three guys along with Jarobi, and
each one of them has a point of view of
their story that I'm trying to tell as respectfully and
as honestly as possible. But each one of them has opinions.
Don't put that in there, put too much of this?
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Why you put that in there? Add this? Did he
say this? Did he say that? And I'm becoming like this,
almost like therapist while I'm making the film. And this
is part for the course. You know, there's plenty of
other documentary filmmakers, especially musical documentaries, that have gone through
this and talked about it. But when you're going through
it and you're talking about it, especially that was the
first film that I had ever made, you're like, oh shit.
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But inevitably the film turned out great. But I want
to explain a couple of things about how the film
got made. Number One, I put my money over one
hundred thousand dollars. I put my own money over one
hundred thousand dollars into the start of making Beat Trymes
in Life, The Travels of a Tribe Colquest. I'll say
it one more time. I put my own money over
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one hundred thousand dollars into that film. To this day,
I haven't made any of it back zero point zero,
and I could give a shit. I'm so proud of
that film. I'm so happy we got it made. But
I put my money where my mouth is. I bought
the cameras, I hired the editor, I hired the producers.
I'm paying them all at first. Fortunately I got with
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some other partners later and they put their money where
their mouth is into making Beat Trimes in Life, A
Travels of a Tribe col Quest. When we started the film,
like I said, it started very organically, y'all, want to
do a doc. The group said, cool. Next thing I know,
I'm buying a camera. I'm shooting. And as we go
along and they're starting to see footage and they're starting
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to see these scenes. The group is starting, you know,
they're having their problems. They're kicking ass, they're having their problems.
They're having their problems. They're kicking as they like the film,
they hate the film, Fight loves the film, five hates
a film, QTIB loves a film, Cutub hats a film,
and so forth and so on. At leash you hi MOhm,
it's same thing. But while we were making the film,
they said, we want to be producers of the film.
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And I'm thinking to myself, but you guys aren't producing
the film. And we had this discussion back and forth,
back and forth, and they got lawyers and they're like, well,
if we're not producers of the film, we're gonna shut
it down. I fuck it. You guys could be producers
of the film even though you're not producing it. In
a lot of ways, you're unproducing it because you know
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they're not being helpful. Then they are being helpful. Then
they're not being helpful. Then they are being helpful, but
producers supposed to be all in. They want to be producers. Okay, cool. Finally,
maybe you guys will be totally helpful. We give them
producer credits. See the producer credits are executive producer credits,
obviously giving me the blessing to do the film. In
a way, there producers of the film, but that's not
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how we started. A year and a half into production,
they say they want to be producers. Finally we say, fine,
you could be producers. This is when again I had
put up my money. At this point I got partners,
they put up their own money, and we're all doing
this because we love Tribe Coquisse. This is true blue
independent filmmaking. We're haggling, We're hassling. We're haggling. We're hassling.
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And along with the fact that they want to be
producers of the film, although at times I felt like
they were unproducing the film, they say we want final
cut approval. The group wants final cut approval of the movie,
which is sacrilegious as a filmmaker. It's also sacrilegious. Now
we're talking two years, maybe two plus years into the
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making of a Tribe call Quest documentary bet Tribes in Life.
They say, we want final cut approval, and I'm thinking,
what kind of it independent filmmaker am I? You know,
I grew up, you know, around Sundance. I grew up
loving John Cassavetti's I grew up loving Martin Scorsese. I
grew up going to the Sundance Film festal that's where
my first film Zebrahead showed, And it's all about you know,
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the vision, the vision, the vision, and you can never
give up your vision. You never want to compromise your vision.
And if I give up final cut approval to a
tribe call Quest and they don't get along, what kind
of a fucking filmmaker am I? But again wind up
giving them final cut approval, which essentially means they, as
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individuals and as a group, have to sign off on
the final picture, the final product. Betrims in Life, the
travels of a tribe call Quest. I don't think anyone
has ever said that are omitted that, but we gave them.
I gave them final cut approval. And it wasn't easy
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to get them to sign off because I gave them
a cut and they were like, I don't like that.
And then Fife would be like, I do like that,
and then q Tub would be like, I don't like that,
and I'll we would be like I like that, and
then I'd be like, well five said this, q Tub
said this, Jerobi said this. And I'm trying to appease
and make everybody happy that I can tell the best
story from my point of view about their life. And finally,
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after hemming and hogging and fuck you's and fuck you's,
and you're this and You're dead and fuck you's everybody,
fuck everybody's, fuck you, fucking everybody's, this is we should
have documented the making of the documentary because the making
of Beatrium's in Life the Travels of a Tribalal Quest
was certainly as entertaining, if not more entertaining, than the
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actual film. But after all that, after giving signing off
reluctantly on the group having approval of the final cut,
they the group a Tribe co Quest says cool, this
is it. We agree to this final cut that is
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going to be seen out in the public. And to
this day, although the film has had great success and
it's seen all over the world and is still streaming,
with the amount of money that went into making the film,
the music clearances, the archival clearances. To this day, I
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have and the financers and the other producers have not
made any money off this movie, zero point zero. And
I put in over one hundred thousand dollars of my
own money. I don't care. I'm so happy that I
made the movie. But if there's any complaints about the
final cut of Beats Rhymes in Life are travels of
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a tribe called Quest, talk to the group. Don't talk
to me, talk to the group. If he didn't like it,
talk to them because they had final cut approval. If
you loved it, you should also pat them on the
back because they had final cut approval. So anybody who
didn't like it, and any podcasts and YouTuber saying this
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that and the third about the way the film turned
out and this was left in and this was left out.
You approved the film. You approved the film. The group,
their management, their lawyers approved Beat Rhymes in Life. The
travels of a tribe call Quest. And you could always
go and make your own tribe called Quest movie. You
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could always go and make your own tribe called Quest movie.
The Rolling Stones have many documentaries made about them. They're
that prolific where they're the tribe coal Quest is worthy
of multiple documentaries. Make another one yourself. But when I
tell you, it ain't as easy as just going out
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there and doing it. It ain't as easy as just
going out there and doing it. But anybody he's got
problems with the final cut, what should have been in,
what shouldn't have been in, what could have been taken out,
what should have been added. It wasn't just me, because
the group themselves, their management, their lawyers also had final
cut approval of the finished product that I was so
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happy to hand over. That being said, I'm so proud
of the film. I'm so glad we got it done.
I'm so glad we got it done during that time.
The film is honest, it's emotional, and we captured a
time that the group was going through something. And you know,
with the passing of five dog Malik Taylor, the late
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great funky diabetic, what a mitzvah, What a blessing that
we were able to get it done even with all
the turmoil. But what I just said about the making
of Beach RUMs in life, the travels of a tribe
Coquest is all fact, it's all documented, and it's all
on paper anyway, I'm done. Came so disrupted, came saw disrupted.
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let me know so much to discuss. This is a great,
great time of year for sports fans, particularly NBA fans,
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even wa NBA fans, college basketball, female fans. I was
watching this documentary on ESPN. It's like a four part
documentary covering last season in the women's NCAA basketball world.
And I never thought I never ever thought I would
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sit here or even sit down and watch something regarding
women's basketball. Yet here we are. But I really enjoy
that little documentary that they got on there. What is
it called? It is called you know what I got
my phone here, I'm gonna check. It is called Full
Court Press, Full Court Press on ESPN. And I really
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these girls are fun, man. Was I was talking to
Frank Isola and Brian Scalabrini about what I like about
this documentary, what I like about the women and the
girls on this documentary. They're young girls in eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one. Call them women and be respectful, young ladies.
They're so themselves, which is really something that I like
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watching Flage and the other girls that they covered. They're
just themselves and they're not jaded, and they're not like
debutants like so many of the NBA players are like contrived,
very very aware of themselves, very very aware of the
sort of persona they want to carve out. And I
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was discussing that in relation to the Celtic City documentary
on HBO, which again I think is very very good,
whether you like the Celtics or not. And we're going
to get into how much I can't stand the Celtics
and the Nicks and the Celtics are duking it out
in the second round right now. But one of the
things that's great about the documentary Celtic City, where they
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talk about Robert Parrish, Kevin McHale, Larry Bird, the Danny Ainge,
the Paul Pierce, lend Bias to Kevin Garnett, the Ray Allen,
every single thing that has to do with the Celtics.
They cover it. But whether you liked Larry Bird, McHale
and the Celtics or not, you didn't know much about them.
You thought you had an idea of what they were like,
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and you thought you understood what kind of people they
were and what the dynamic was of the team, but
there wasn't access to them the way there's access to
players now. So it makes it It makes it interesting,
whether you're a Celtics fan or not, to sort of
uncover these iconic teams, because those teams were iconic with
so many iconic players and Robert Parrish in particularly, you
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didn't know anything about them, but you really get to
get a sense of Robert parrishon what he meant to
that team and the dynamic of the team. And it's
just very good. The Celtics City thing is very good,
and so is the little documentary on ESPN, the four
part documentary about the women NCAAA girls. It covers four girls.
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But the afore me, Oh, it's a lot of Boston
stuff we're gonna talk about today because Bill Belichick, I
don't know how I haven't really deep dived into your
sick fucking ask Bill Belichick, Leader of Men, Bill Belichick
lead you know, I'm gonna start with Bill Belichick, leader
of Men, super Bowl champion, arguably the greatest coach in
NFL history? Were you were you the greatest coach in
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NFL history? Like, what the fuck is your deal, Bill Belichick?
What is your story? Man? Man? I mean talk about
tarnishing your image, Bill Belichick. I never liked you. I
never liked the way you presented yourself. I never liked
your mumbly humbly like oh bojo. I'm just here and
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I'm just aftering the quest. I actually got in trouble
years ago. I was on ESPN. I was doing something
on ESPN Old ESPN in Connecticut at the ESPN studio.
That show I was co hosting with Jamel Hill, and
I refer to Bill Belichick as a I said, he's
up there with all right, we could probably gotta bleep
that because he can't say that word. And this is
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before that word became even more taboo than it is now,
although they're saying that the word is back. I don't
want no problem. I got enough problems. I don't need
to go down with the R word ship. But I said,
you know, I can't stand Bill Belichick and his whole
routine and his mumbly and I'm just you know, I'm
just here and you know, and I'm I'm so complicated
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and I'm so involved with my football thoughts and ideas
and my football schemes and plans and all that stuff.
I'm just a football guy, so I'm just oppressed. It
just it freaks me out. I'm I'm gonna answer the
questions and I don't know, and I have to talk
to Tom and we're just gonna go out there and bullshit.
I thought it was bullshit then Bill Belichick, and I
feel like it's even more bullshit now. And this is
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coming off a season where I softened No Bruno, I
softened No Diddy for Bill Belichick, watching him with Eli
and Peyton Man, watching him on Inside the NFL. NFL
was like I could get behind this Bill Belichick. I
love how much he loved football. I love when he
talks about football, but his persona as a coach while
he was coaching the New England Patriots, this guy I
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don't like. I think he's hiding something. And you're only
as sick as your secrets, Bill Belichick. You're only as
sick as your secrets. You sick, old, nasty. What's your story, man,
unless you've been hiding under a football rock. For the
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past few weeks, everybody has seen Bill Belichick, who's on
a book tour for his book where he doesn't talk
about Aaron Hernandez, he doesn't talk about the Flakegate, doesn't
really talk about Robert Kraft, doesn't talk about any of
the controversial fun things that we the fans want to know.
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Just just talk to all football, just talk about ball. Well,
you know what, Bill Belichick, if you're not gonna talk
about Aaron or Nandaz, you're not gonna talk about the
flate Gate. You're not gonna talk about spy Kate. You're
not gonna talk about any of the things that we
want to talk about that are a part of your legacy,
whether you like it or not, Bill Belichick, the flate Gate, Spygate,
the owner Robert Kraft, who's another a rub and tug guy.
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You're not gonna talk about any about anything about that.
You're gonna show up to do press, Bill Belichick. You're
gonna show up to do press for your book tour
with your twenty four year old girlfriend. Now listen, I
get it, Bill Belichick, he's seventy four. This is as
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old as time. Older men successful, you always want to
get your hands on a younger woman. That's just that's
just the way it is. Now. The fact that it's
a woman who's fifty years you know, can't get somebody
in your thirties, okay, like okay, like thirty for thirty.
You got a twenty four year old who Bill Belichick
allegedly met this woman when she was twenty on a plane.
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So you were sniffing around this twenty year old. And
for those of you who who don't know, Bill Belichick
was married for forty years. Great, he's got three kids.
Forty years, three kids, fantastic. Then he was in another
relationship for sixteen years. And then somehow Someway Jordan got
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her hands on old man Bill Belichick, and she is
turning him out. This young girl Jordan is turning Bill
Belichick out. Leader of men, the guy who you know
was too grumpy to speak to the press, the guy
that was too curmudgety to give interviews whether they won
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or lost games, and he was just too complicated and
he was too much of a mystery guy. He was
too much of a football mind to speak to the press.
Is now on social media on ig on the Gram.
Bill Belichick is on the Gram with his twenty four
year old girl. She's dressed up like a mermaid. They're
doing poses. They're lovey dovey, they're kissy whissy, But you
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couldn't talk to the press all those years when you
were winning chip after chip after chip. You're like everybody
else on social media now with your young twenty four
year old girl, Bill Bell, you're a sick fuck. You're
fifty years older than this school. And some people say,
Mike crab if you were seventy four and you get
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your hands on some a twenty four year old girl,
some if you get your hands on a twenty four
year old girl, you would do it too. I'm not
saying I wouldn't, But hold your head, Bill Belichick, how
do you let some this is a stranger, pretty much
a stranger come into your life and just turn you
all out upside down. I think I have an idea
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of what she's doing to them. I think I have
a pretty good idea of what Bill Belichick is into
and what Jordan is doing to him. And Jordan apparently is,
you know, from a very a fun, loving, free, open family.
Her mother allegedly owns a sex shop. And I think
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that Jordan brings home toy after toy and scrub after scrub,
and lotion and lube after lube and I think her
and old man Belichick are having a good old time
and you know what, do your thing. It would be
fine if you were retired. But Bill Belichick is now
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the head coach of a college football team UNC and
we haven't seen it yet, but he is again supposed
to be the leader of men. But how can you
be the leader of men when you are getting led
around by a twenty four year old chippy. She's showing
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up at his interviews, she's starting the interviews. She's interrupting
the universe. This CBS interview that he gave the other
day for his book tour, for the book where he
doesn't talk about Aaron Hernandez, Spygate, deflate Gate, or any
of the gates that he was involved with. She was
on the sidelines, you know, like, oh, we're not gonna
talk about this, We're gonna stop the interview. We're not
gonna do the Yo. You're supposed to be the leader
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of man. Man, you can't control the interview yourself, Bill
belk you got what's happened to you? Man? And she's
not only doing his personal life and his persona. Bill
Belichick was at a spring practice and the girl was
on the sidelines talking to coaches and adjusting his pants.
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Did you see the video of her adjusting his bitness
is a football coach. We're not in an old age home.
This is in Thanksgiving. We're not home for the holidays.
You don't need to be adjusting his pants. This is
supposed to be a football coach, the greatest football coach
of all time. You got a twenty four year old
chippy fixing you up on the sidelines during football practice.
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What the fuck happened to you? Bill Belichick? What happened
to you? Man? I'm telling you I have a pretty
good idea that this girl is turning him out, turning
him out real nice and real proper with lubes, lotions.
I think she's pinging, progging and pegging this guy and
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he likes it, and he's like, fucking, I'm seventy four.
I'm gonna let my freak flag fly. Forget these championship banners.
I'm letting my freak flag fly all over the place.
But I have a feeling this is not going to
end well. And I have a feeling it's not going
to go well when you're trying to be the head
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coach of a college football team. It's way out there.
And I know I know that Tom Brady, Julian Elleman
and all the all the players that Bill Belichick coach.
I know they're probably like this fucking guy. I know
they're seeing a side of Bill Belichick that they never
got to see. He was, you know, tough and rough
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and gruff, and now you're letting some twenty four year
old chippy control your life. I know Julian Lleman and
Tom Brady like, what the fuck is going on out here?
But Bill Belichick, I see you. I see you, my man.
I see you. Get control of your life. Man. Podcast.
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Draymond Green, who's got his podcast? I mean, podcasts these
days are like they're like assholes. Everybody has one. They're
not even like opinions. Podcasts are like assholes. Every single
person has one. Draymond's podcast is good. Draymond's great. The
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twenty twenty five Hustle Player of the Year. We got
to congratulate Draymond Green. He won the twenty twenty five
NBA Hustle Player of the not Defensive Player of the Year,
but he did win the NBA Hustle Player of the Year.
After the Golden State Warriors beat It wasn't easy, but
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they beat the Houston Rockets in a game seven seven games.
It took took everything to beat them. They were tough,
they were long, no Bruno, and they're They're a team
that's got a lot to a lot going for them
in the future. Of course, Draymond Green did a podcast
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and he talked about Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks apparently allegedly
after the Warriors beat the Rockets, Dylan Brooks didn't shake
hands with any of the Warrior players. And this wasn't
in the news. This wasn't on the news. But Draymond
Green made it newsworthy, and of course if he makes
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it newsworthy, and he talks about it in his podcast,
every other podcast, including me the World's Most Disruptive Podcast,
I have to also speak about this. No one was
talking about this, Draymond Green until you brought it up.
But Dylan the villain, Dylan the villain, Brooks who's hard,
too hard to like, similar to Draymond Green. I think
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Draymond Green sees a lot of himself in Dylan Brooks.
As Dylan Brooks as good as Draymond Green. No, but
essentially those are guys that you only like if they're
on your team. And throughout this series and throughout their history,
Draymond Green has talked he's he's talked crazy to Dylan Brooks.
He's talked to him on the court, He's talked crazy
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to him in press conferences, He's talked crazy to him
throughout their career playing against each other before he was
a Rocket and Jimmy Butler, he also said I can't
and he said, I hate Dylan Brooks. I don't respect him.
He's a pussy, he's a bitch, and a few other things.
And he said, I can't stand them. I don't like them.
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So after the series, if you know that the Golden
say worries think this of you because they're comfortable saying
I hate this motherfucker. I can't stand this motherfucker. He's
this that. And the third, why would he shake hands?
I say, if I'm Dylan Brooks. Fuck, if these guys
don't like me, they don't respect me, they say they
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don't like me, they say, don't they don't respect me?
Why should I shake their fucking hands? And Draymond Green
went on his podcast and told the story about Dylan
Brooks leaving the court and not shaking hands, and he
called him a sucker. He's a sucker, And I'm thinking
to myself, he's a sucker. You sucker punched your teammate,
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you kick people in the dick, you stomp on people's chest,
you bully, bully, bully, you talk shit, and then after
the games you huggy huggy. I get it. Sportsmanship. I
like that. I like that, But some people might be like, yo,
fuck it, fuck you, fuck you Draymond fuck the Warriors,
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fuck you, Jimmy Butler. Me personally, i'd give you five.
But you know, Draymond Green, I'm surprised anybody shakes your hand.
You're abusive to the refs, you're abusive to other players
in the league. And then when somebody's like, yo, fuck it,
I'm not shaking here, you get your feelings hurt and
you say he's a sucker. Da da da da da.
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I mean, listen, I think Dylan Brooks, he's a needed
player and he's done an incredible job of carving out
an NBA career with very little skills. But if he
doesn't want to shake your hand because you guys say
I hate him, I don't respect him. You should at
least respect that he's doing the same thing that you
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do to everybody else, except for afterwards, you hug, you kiss,
and all that shit. I'm surprised to the Houston Rockets
that young kid Sagoon who he was elbowing, he was pushing,
he was cheap shotting the entire series. I wouldn't shake
this fucking guy's hand either. You're a dirty player, dirty Draymond.
I mean, what do you guys think if the Golden
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State Warriors say I hate this fucking guy, Jimmy Butler's
say I hate this fucking guy, Draymond Greens. I can't
stand this guy. I can't stand him. I don't respect him.
Why shake his hand after the game? Why subject yourself
to that? Why look somebody in the face and shake
the hand because of the brotherhood, Because it's uh, you know,
it's the right thing to do. The way Draymond Green
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treats his opponents is certainly not the right way to
treat your opponents. He's abusive. He's he's literally physically abusive
and verbally abusive to other players and the referees. So
when you get somebody who's saying, yo, I know how
you feel about me, I know how I feel about you.
We're not shaking hands. I'll see you next season. I
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like it. I like it. I saw some online stuff
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about the award winning tribe called Quest documentary that I
had the privilege of directing Beat Tribes in Life, The
Travels of a Tribe, call Quest. If you haven't seen
Beat Tribes in Life, The Travels of a Tribe, call Quest.
Or you have seen it, you could stream it on
all your streaming platforms. Great documentary that I had the
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privilege of directing. And every now and then something will
come up about that film in the gossipy sort of way.
The film, obviously it was documented, how challenging it was
to make, how frustrating it was to make, you know,
within the group. Shout out to the late great five Dog,
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shout out to q tip Ali, Shahid Mohammad and Jerobi
for signing off on the film. But I saw something
on YouTube about this, that and the third about the film.
Let me let me just tell some some things about
the film that I directed. Award winning Producer Guild Award.
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That ain't nothing to scaf at we want. It's looked
at it as one of the greatest music documentaries ever.
And you're only as good as your subject. But I
did direct it. I did direct it. But let me
let me just give a little clarity, a little history
of some facts about beats, rhymes in life, travels of
a tribe called Quest, the film that I directed, which
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again you could stream on many of your streaming platforms,
and I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it.
It's a great journey about one of the most important
musical groups. I don't even call them just hip hop,
the most important musical groups of the last fifty years,
the rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Iconic, a tribe
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called Quest. But that film came about because I went
to one of the last tribe called Quest concerts and
I started thinking about that in the nineties and then
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. I'm not
great with dates. I don't fact check. They did a
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show in la and after the show, I was backstage
with Fife, I was backstage with Alis Shahid Muhammad. I
was backstage with Q Tip again shout out to the
late great Fife Dog, the late great Fifth Dog. And
I said something about doing a documentary about a Tribe
call Quest said it again years later and Q Tip said,
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you should do it, because I said, I think, I said,
and I quote, somebody should do a documentary about you guys,
and he said, you should do it. Well, lo and behold,
I did it. They were performing shows in the summer,
and I found out very late in the game. I
had no idea that they were performing shows in the summer,
because for me, tribeical Quest performing shows, I'm like, where
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when I'm going. I found out like a few days
before they were doing the shows, and I reached out
to Q Chip said I want to do a documentary.
He said cool. He said, reach out to Ali. Reach
out to Ali. I said, I want to do a documentary.
He said cool, and then I reached out the Fight.
The night before I spoke the Fife the Friday night
before their Saturday show, or the Saturday night before the
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Sunday show. I believe it was a Saturday, I can't remember.
A long time ago, and that was the first time
I spoke to Fife and he said, let's do it.
Went and bought cameras, bought equipment with my own money,
bought cameras, bought equipment with my own money, got together
a crew to shoot that concert at Rock the Bells
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in California. Can't remember the name of the venue, and
three years later we finally, finally were able to finish
the film. When I started doing Beatrums in Life, a
travels of a Tribal coal Quest, I thought it was
going to be sort of a retrospective about the group
coming back together and cover all the songs and all
the fun and all the history of the group, and
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the film has a lot of that, but it also
got into a deeper, deeper, more serious storyline of the
group's brotherhood and brotherhood and relationships, especially between guys. It's
not always perfect, even though a tribe represented peace, love,
and you know, they're human beings. They're human beings, and
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it started to get into, you know, the sort of
the friction at times within the group, and I didn't
know anything about the friction at times within the group,
but again, they are human and it started to cover that.
And then of course the surprise that I had I
knew nothing about. I knew Fife was diabetic, but I
had no idea that it was as serious as it
(26:26):
turned out. Obviously, diabetes was the main thing that wound
up taking his life way too young again. May his
memory be a blessing fife dog Malik Taylor. But we
covered that, We covered the kidney transplant that his wife,
you know, gave him, and it made for a great compelling,
(26:48):
emotional special documentary film. Beat Tribes in life are travels
of a tribe called Christ. But along the way there
was pushing, was pulling. There was friction within the group.
Five like this, Qtub didn't like this. Q Tib like this,
fIF didn't like this. Ali Shahid Muhammad like this, he
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didn't like it. And I'm sort of making this film
trying to appease these three guys along with Jarobi, and
each one of them has a point of view of
their story that I'm trying to tell as respectfully and
as honestly as possible. But each one of them has opinions.
Don't put that in there, put too much of this?
(27:30):
Why you put that in there? Add this? Did he
say this? Did he say that? And I'm becoming like this,
almost like therapist while I'm making the film. And this
is part for the course. You know, there's plenty of
other documentary filmmakers, especially musical documentaries, that have gone through
this and talked about it. But when you're going through
it and you're talking about it, especially that was the
first film that I had ever made, you're like, oh shit.
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But inevitably the film turned out great. But I want
to explain a couple of things about how the film
got made. Number One, I put my money over one
hundred thousand dollars. I put my own money over one
hundred thousand dollars into the start of making Beat Trymes
in Life, The Travels of a Tribe Colquest. I'll say
it one more time. I put my own money over
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one hundred thousand dollars into that film. To this day,
I haven't made any of it back zero point zero,
and I could give a shit. I'm so proud of
that film. I'm so happy we got it made. But
I put my money where my mouth is. I bought
the cameras, I hired the editor, I hired the producers.
I'm paying them all at first. Fortunately I got with
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some other partners later and they put their money where
their mouth is into making Beat Trimes in Life, A
Travels of a Tribe col Quest. When we started the film,
like I said, it started very organically, y'all, want to
do a doc. The group said, cool. Next thing I know,
I'm buying a camera. I'm shooting. And as we go
along and they're starting to see footage and they're starting
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to see these scenes. The group is starting, you know,
they're having their problems. They're kicking ass, they're having their problems.
They're having their problems. They're kicking as they like the film,
they hate the film, Fight loves the film, five hates
a film, QTIB loves a film, Cutub hats a film,
and so forth and so on. At leash you hi MOhm,
it's same thing. But while we were making the film,
they said, we want to be producers of the film.
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And I'm thinking to myself, but you guys aren't producing
the film. And we had this discussion back and forth,
back and forth, and they got lawyers and they're like, well,
if we're not producers of the film, we're gonna shut
it down. I fuck it. You guys could be producers
of the film even though you're not producing it. In
a lot of ways, you're unproducing it because you know
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they're not being helpful. Then they are being helpful. Then
they're not being helpful. Then they are being helpful, but
producers supposed to be all in. They want to be producers. Okay, cool. Finally,
maybe you guys will be totally helpful. We give them
producer credits. See the producer credits are executive producer credits,
obviously giving me the blessing to do the film. In
a way, there producers of the film, but that's not
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how we started. A year and a half into production,
they say they want to be producers. Finally we say, fine,
you could be producers. This is when again I had
put up my money. At this point I got partners,
they put up their own money, and we're all doing
this because we love Tribe Coquisse. This is true blue
independent filmmaking. We're haggling, We're hassling. We're haggling. We're hassling.
(30:27):
And along with the fact that they want to be
producers of the film, although at times I felt like
they were unproducing the film, they say we want final
cut approval. The group wants final cut approval of the movie,
which is sacrilegious as a filmmaker. It's also sacrilegious. Now
we're talking two years, maybe two plus years into the
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making of a Tribe call Quest documentary bet Tribes in Life.
They say, we want final cut approval, and I'm thinking,
what kind of it independent filmmaker am I? You know,
I grew up, you know, around Sundance. I grew up
loving John Cassavetti's I grew up loving Martin Scorsese. I
grew up going to the Sundance Film festal that's where
my first film Zebrahead showed, And it's all about you know,
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the vision, the vision, the vision, and you can never
give up your vision. You never want to compromise your vision.
And if I give up final cut approval to a
tribe call Quest and they don't get along, what kind
of a fucking filmmaker am I? But again wind up
giving them final cut approval, which essentially means they, as
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individuals and as a group, have to sign off on
the final picture, the final product. Betrims in Life, the
travels of a tribe call Quest. I don't think anyone
has ever said that are omitted that, but we gave them.
I gave them final cut approval. And it wasn't easy
(31:54):
to get them to sign off because I gave them
a cut and they were like, I don't like that.
And then Fife would be like, I do like that,
and then q Tub would be like, I don't like that,
and I'll we would be like I like that, and
then I'd be like, well five said this, q Tub
said this, Jerobi said this. And I'm trying to appease
and make everybody happy that I can tell the best
story from my point of view about their life. And finally,
(32:18):
after hemming and hogging and fuck you's and fuck you's,
and you're this and You're dead and fuck you's everybody,
fuck everybody's, fuck you, fucking everybody's, this is we should
have documented the making of the documentary because the making
of Beatrium's in Life the Travels of a Tribalal Quest
was certainly as entertaining, if not more entertaining, than the
(32:42):
actual film. But after all that, after giving signing off
reluctantly on the group having approval of the final cut,
they the group a Tribe co Quest says cool, this
is it. We agree to this final cut that is
(33:06):
going to be seen out in the public. And to
this day, although the film has had great success and
it's seen all over the world and is still streaming,
with the amount of money that went into making the film,
the music clearances, the archival clearances. To this day, I
(33:27):
have and the financers and the other producers have not
made any money off this movie, zero point zero. And
I put in over one hundred thousand dollars of my
own money. I don't care. I'm so happy that I
made the movie. But if there's any complaints about the
final cut of Beats Rhymes in Life are travels of
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a tribe called Quest, talk to the group. Don't talk
to me, talk to the group. If he didn't like it,
talk to them because they had final cut approval. If
you loved it, you should also pat them on the
back because they had final cut approval. So anybody who
didn't like it, and any podcasts and YouTuber saying this
(34:12):
that and the third about the way the film turned
out and this was left in and this was left out.
You approved the film. You approved the film. The group,
their management, their lawyers approved Beat Rhymes in Life. The
travels of a tribe call Quest. And you could always
go and make your own tribe called Quest movie. You
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could always go and make your own tribe called Quest movie.
The Rolling Stones have many documentaries made about them. They're
that prolific where they're the tribe coal Quest is worthy
of multiple documentaries. Make another one yourself. But when I
tell you, it ain't as easy as just going out
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there and doing it. It ain't as easy as just
going out there and doing it. But anybody he's got
problems with the final cut, what should have been in,
what shouldn't have been in, what could have been taken out,
what should have been added. It wasn't just me, because
the group themselves, their management, their lawyers also had final
cut approval of the finished product that I was so
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happy to hand over. That being said, I'm so proud
of the film. I'm so glad we got it done.
I'm so glad we got it done during that time.
The film is honest, it's emotional, and we captured a
time that the group was going through something. And you know,
with the passing of five dog Malik Taylor, the late
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great funky diabetic, what a mitzvah, What a blessing that
we were able to get it done even with all
the turmoil. But what I just said about the making
of Beach RUMs in life, the travels of a tribe
Coquest is all fact, it's all documented, and it's all
on paper anyway, I'm done. Came so disrupted, came saw disrupted.
(36:05):
Tell a friend to tell a friend about the Iron
Rappaport stereo podcast. I's join a k. The Bleach Brothers
aka the Dust Brothers. Take me out of something real nice,
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funky Boom. I'm out.
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