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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transition to
a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Thomaz.
I audition every rapper from Biggias Balls to Tupac, and
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I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Ye from The
Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I
also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel
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I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for
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meditation of the day. Never judge a book by its cover.
Mind your business. I grew up at a time when
we used to visit our family all the time, have
family reunions and get togethers, and all the women would
gravitate into the kitchen to gossip. Now I's six years old,
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I love hanging out with my aunts and my grandmother,
and I remember that even if the gossip wasn't true,
it made these women feel good about themselves while really
tearing down and making others feel bad, even though the
others may not have known. Stay in your business because
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you don't have time for anyone else's business but your own. Today,
I will mind my business before we get started. I'd
like to remind everyone to look out for my new show,
Inside the Black Box. I'll be co hosting with the
great Joe Morton. Will be on Crackle Network real soon.
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I'll keep you posted. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast
with me Tracy Moore. I hope you have some tissue
today because you know this is gonna be a dynamic
show filled with jewels and pearls. You feel that treasure chest, yes,
and you're gonna hear about something that baby new to
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you that's so powerful And I'm so proud of this gentleman.
But aside from all of that, this man is one
of the most important people in my life. And there
are moments in your life that you capture, and some
capture them in movies and books, and but this person
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is so captured in my heart and soul and so
much gratitude and love towards him that even when we
got there, we still know us there. So that's the
cool friend. We always pick up where we left off.
Ladies and gentlemen, please put my hands together for the
talented comedian John Last. Welcome, my friend. I'm so honored
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to be here. I'm so happy to have you here, John,
because I want to spend a majority of the time
talking about this new endeavor, this new app that he has.
You guys, we we all need to support and I
know that that you have a lot of support out there,
so I'm really happy. But I'm hold on. I want
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to give you guys some story first. So John is,
in my opinion and pretty much all around the world,
one of the most successful best comedians in this industry.
You guys and for me. You know, when people transition
into a TV and film, John, which you have, I
think that models and comedians have the easier transition in
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a sense that models don't have words, but they're able
to sell something, So how are they able to convince
me to go buy a pack of Newports? You know
what I'm saying. There's something when they had Newports posters,
but you know what I mean, like they had an
attitude or something that made you have this urge to buy.
And then with comedians, you have a responsibility with all
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of these emotions and the audience to sort of bring
them together in laughter. And you don't know these people.
And I think that's such an amazing power that you
guys have when you step out of For me, the
first time I went to your show, I stepped out
of the casting director and stepped into like just a
person enjoying and was like everybody was laughing and just
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and then after the joke, we repeated the joke. That's
the power. How do you do that? How do you
capture those things? I think it's um, it's pleasure and pain.
I mean, we're looking for the pleasure and we find
it through the pain. Um in a microcosm, you know. So,
I mean, if you bomb enough times, you're like, you
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know what, I need to come up with something, Bunney,
Because before they was laughing, they was walking booing and
uh and not booking you. So yeah, you gotta find it.
But um, yeah, it is it is. Um it is unique.
You know when you when you put it like that,
that you are getting a bunch of strangers on the
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same page. I actually had somebody one time say to me,
asked me, you know what it is that comedians do
versus other people? And there was a woman walking toward us,
and I said, just imagine if that woman fell. She
slid right, and her wig fell off in her bag.
She was okay, but we were happy as friends, like,
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oh my god, afy help her up. You see the
slid in her wig? Foul and whatever and uh and
she said, oh my god. Yeah, And I said, well,
imagine doing that if the woman wasn't there, because we
have to come on stage and create that person, yes,
create that setting, and then tell you what's funny about it?
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That's right. And it's such a short time. Oh yeah,
you get there's each joke nineties seconds before the crowd judges, hey,
this person is really good or not. There's a very
short window, you know, unless you're a celebrity. If you're
celebrity is happy to be in the room with you, yeah,
but I don't. I don't have that luxury, so yeah,
you really aren't paying and then applying, you know whatever,
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your perspective on why that's funny in a very very
short period of time, and it takes years to figure
out how well you know what? I want you to
just say some words to these aspiring comedians or working
commedi dance artists because what I'm finding and currently we
are casting this Aretha respect musical Elsa and I it
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is horrific, John, Like you could get some really great
material off these self tapes. It's like, I can't. You
can't make up a woman actually singing in the shower.
You can't make up somebody like, No, this is serious.
This is serious. And this woman the other day looked
like she was on a submarine and I was like,
elso we'll tell you. I was like, I was why
she was submarine? Why? Then Elsa was like, uh so
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what it happened was Tracy I had said to email
and told you she was on a cruise she was
on a cruise ship. I was like, when it looked
like she was in the up like dawned in the
submarine engine room, That's what it looked like right, But
I'm just saying you cannot make these things up. And
my takeaway from all of it is that I can never,
ever ever stop teaching because people don't train so as
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a comedian, because I know a lot people who asked me, Jeezy,
can you let me at one of your comedian friends
because I want to be a comedian and not because
somebody's laughing at you at the family re union. That
does not prove your stamina and longevity in this business? Right?
Did you give them some tips please? You know? And unfortunately,
it's funny that you mentioned the family reunion because that
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goes back to the example that I gave. But we're
all laughing at something that we're sitting around watching, you know.
And the other thing about comedy too is, unfortunately, and
I bet you acting it's very similar to this too,
is it's not because in my former life I was
a ball player, so I could jump, I could win
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mill dunk. There was one time on a fast break
I literally jumped over somebody. Crowd went crazy. But I'm
saying all those people watching knew they couldn't do that.
You watch comedy, A lot of people think I made
someone laugh. I could do that. You know it's a
movie and you say, oh, they're just reading the lines.
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I could memorize the lines. I could be an actor.
They don't realize that the reason that it looks like
anyone could do it is because we've worked on it, right,
You know, they don't understand you gotta put in so
much work to make it look that way that you
forgot that I was acting, got that I've been working
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at this comedy thing. You don't just get stumble on
stage and make people laugh from all parts of the
country and all over the world at the same time.
You know, you gotta do the work, like you said,
And it's one day at a time. I tell new
comedians all the time, you know who are like, oh, yeah, John,
I just want to get funny you do TV, or
I want to get funny and not work anymore. And
I'm like, um, that that work is put in a
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day at a time. You know what I mean. If
you have TV habits, you'll eventually be on TV. Right habits,
If you have the work ethic of those films, and
you don't have to wait until you have a movie
to have those habits. You got to up in the
morning and put the work it and the rest of
it will call and ladies and gentlemen. I have had
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the pleasure of being on John's journey and started out
you know and casting auditioning him and um. He would
always threaten me that he was going to take my
classes and he was taking the prime to sessions and
I'd be like, yo, okay, come on. And then but then,
you guys, we we lived in the same neighborhood, right,
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so one time I randed him. It was like it
was like crazy, I'll tell you, but maybe walked along
his way. He couldn't avoid because we just kept running
into each other. We lived in this I was, you know,
like right around the corner from you. So finally he said,
I'm gonna take a class and then, you guys, it
was a whirlwind journey. It was beautiful. It was beautiful
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watching him just you know, do the work as an actor,
put in the time, do the exercises like he would
do the work. And that's why when he uh Carl
Webber was the first film. Oh I'm so sorry. Uh
no more, Mr nice guy, more, Mr nice guy, No more,
Mr nice guy. Ladies and gentlemen, and I produced the film.
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I bought up John. John came in and you know,
of course he lands the role. But the thing that
was so um gratifying and just a blessing is that
not only did he get the role, but they embellished
the role. They created the role to be bigger than
what it originally was, based on John's work and based
on his performance. So that right there and then he
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had his own trailer. I still have my pictures of
you in the trailer because at a big trailer, you guys,
because like, and I remember you say, John, like, I
would get a trailer like that because they would give
you the one banger, and a one banger literally is
for one person two people is too proud of it there,
like you know, So how was it for you, John, Um?
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What was the transition like going from you know, just
transitioning into that film and TV UM. I would if
I had to summing up in one world, I would
say intimidating. You know. It's it's um, you know, and
a lot of fear keeps people out of doing a
lot of things. So just know that the first step
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is to be intimidated, to be scared, to be nervous.
That's part of the that's literally part of the You
could write that down with auditioning and then I get something,
I'm gonna be intimidated. I'm gonna be scared. It's literally
part of the process. So it's very intimidating. It's intimidating
when you are the master of your domain and then
someone says, hey, come over to this other domain where
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no one knows you and no one cares about you,
and you are the lowest person on the tone of ball.
So it's very intimidating. But by the grace of God,
I had you there, and you are always smoothing over uh,
running over the details. There's nowhere in the world out
of got that film without you, So you just ran
over that like, oh, John was so great, nor I wasn't.
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No hell you got you got rolled to get my
feet web nowhere. I'd have had that trailer, I would
have been sitting in the garage with everybody else. Everybody
was a Carl Webber's garage. He was just starting out.
So yes, eating Celery, Yes we were he was doing
John and I go back to we go back to
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the early stages of family business BT. Carl Webber like
I was one of his first producing partners and did
that's where I did the Man in three B, the
Preacher's son and the choir director, which was the whole
I mean it just once John did once he met Carl.
Then because John was out in l A, he was
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on that set, so he did that and then went
into No More Mr n I I Scott. John said something
really important in the beginning, right, He talked about how
like the good and the Bad or no, you said
joy and pain, you said something out paint right, Okay.
So this is the thing that I've always felt about
comedians is that comedians, to me, are the only ones
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who can take a bad situation and put a twist
on it where you can laugh, right, Like. I feel
like y'all have that freedom, and it's just an instinct.
It's something right because you know, because you have to
write it. You write your jokes. So you guys, when
my son got hit by a car, and one of
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the first people I called was John and John was
on the road. He was he had just finished his
show in Philadelphia, and John was like, Tracy, I'm coming
back and I'm coming to the hospital. It was already midnight, John, Right,
John gets there maybe about two o'clock in the morning
and he's sitting with me, and you know, and in
my head I said to myself, I said, I don't know,
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how ever, ever, ever, laugh again, I don't know if
anything is going to ever be funny to me. Damn right,
because that was you know, John ding Kerman, the hl
and jokes like. You know, John was very solemn and
and spiritual. He was there for me as a friend,
you guys. And John got up, he said, I I'm
gonna go get some food, you guys. And he went
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to the vending machine and he came back with all
of these assortment of you know, Cheetos and you know
vending machine food. And there was a small table and um,
he had his back towards us as he was, you know,
putting us. I thought he was just putting you know,
things on the table, you guys. When John cleared the view,
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it was set up like craft service, you guys. It
was like Cheetos were lined up, but tend you lined up.
Puck was line like. I was like, and I looked
over and I laughed. I laughed at a time where
the doctors had just left and said, we don't know,
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we don't know. If he is gonna make it, if
he makes it through the next thirty minutes, and and
that cray and that to me, like it's our friendship
was already solidified, but it was the family that was solidified.
It was the family that was so solidified. In that moment,
I was like, Yo, this optack a bullet for John
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left a son. That's my do Like yeah, it was.
It was like that. And then I just remember after that,
like it's gonna be okay, It's gonna be okay. I
can laugh, I can I can still incorporate that through
this time to get through this time. So that is
why John is like one of the most important people
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in my life because that's what he did for me.
So I want the world to know that thank you. Yeah,
that was a dark time, but we we made the
best of it. I was and you guys we have
jokes about it. I know, like, no, I'm not going
to Helen I like that. I'm just saying, like when
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John says we've got all the best, like you guys,
we have, John, we do. We absolutely we were there
because we were there for a long time. It was
weeks and weeks on thirty thirty five days at King's
County and then fifty one days at m y U
rehab weeks and weeks. Then yeah we do. Yeah Yeah.
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John was there. John was there every single moment he
could be there. He would show up after comedy shows
like it was. It was. It was amazing, you guys,
It was really amazing. So that's my heart. So John, please,
this is uh, you know, John is the other thing
is you guys. John has a serious, serious Wall Street background,
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Sun Sun Sun, like all the versatility in the student
right here. So John, tell us how you transition to
your new endeavor right now? Let them know. I want
you to tell Yeah, you know what, So I have
an to support black owned businesses. I think there's over
fifty thou businesses on there now and yeah, and people
ask me all the time, Hey, doesn't work in Dallas,
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doesn't work in Phoenix. I live in Cali. It works
around the world, so it doesn't matter what city, what town.
And then the app works. A lot of people ask
how did that come about? And I saw a guy
get choked to death right in front of me, you know,
watching George Floyd. You know, me and George Floyd are
the exact same height, exact same weight, exact same skin color.
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Literally we're both six four to fifteen things. It was
almost like watching myself die in real time. I was
an economics major, so I understood way back from college
the value of the circulation of the dollar. So, you know,
I was out marching on Eastern Parkway with the people
yelling no justice, no peace, and it just hit me,
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this isn't sustainable. You know, when this is over with,
these people are gonna go back to their privileged whatever whatever,
and we're gonna be stuck in the same boat. Um.
So I made a phone called a Silicon Valley Long
story short, um I got good help from a friend
of mine named Margot Matt my boy Boba Tune that
you know, Baba Tune Black and Latino Film Coalition, and
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we went to work and and to be honest with you,
you know, Tracy, you and I are huge law of
attraction people. It really couldn't have happened without the lockdown
because I wasn't working. You know, I'm a busy person.
I just got off a flight from Las Vegas just
you know, just now. So I move around and I'm
always hustling. So without that downtime the club's being closed.
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I don't know that I would have been able to
create it, but it's it's only move. Now. We just
crossed thirty five thousand downloads yesterday and breaking news. They
just hit me up about doing the Tonight Show today.
Oh my god, oh my congratulations exclusive y'all. Oh oh John, Oh,
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it looks like we'll be doing. It's not you know,
nothing is setence stone in this business and to listen.
But they did call and they did say, hey, hold
these dates in these times, So it looks like, yeah,
it looks like it's gonna happen. It looks like Tonight
Show for a black And you know, once you go
on as seen on, it's done. Even if you get
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one percent of the audience. Just think, I mean a
hundred million people watch the show. Just think that worldwide, right,
just five of that. Yeah, then you're in a I
mean even the branding, because anything that you do after that,
even if you don't get all that that night, just
as seen on it tonight, you know what I mean?
The validity of to skyrocket yes, yes, and then draw
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that traffic like this is the thing. And I'm happy
that you said the law of attraction because this really
is this really is how it works. You know, Um,
I remind myself it's something that's in your soul. It's
not something you read the book one time, because John
and are big book people. To law of attraction, power
of power of now for agreements, you know, you have
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to change your mind to what this society in this
world has brainwashed and consistently and repetitively taught your mind.
So we would always you know, that's the balance of
our friendship too, because you know we were there in
balancing that law of attraction. We never not not believe
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that never was an issue. You know, it's just the
outside noise that you have to keep, you know, just
sort of blowing sprinkled dust and okay, no judgment, that's you.
But that's not how I live my life. So I'm
so you guys, when I tell you this dude is
so well deserving, so so well deserving. I want you
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to give all of us the information. You know, everyone
you have to down. Oh this is what I want
to tell you that. So I have a festivoti Okay, okay,
So we used black in Oakland, California, and went to
a store called Oakland Dish and we bought T shirts,
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hats such a fierce store, like you know the T shirts.
One of the T shirts is um um. It says dope.
You know. It's just you know, Millennial, you know, Miles.
It's Miles and Radios type of store. But it's my
store too. So we found that and we went to
the store. So I just want everybody to know it works.
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I mean, of course it works, but the store man,
we would have never gone to that store, John, if
we didn't use the app. And you know what, when
I hear that, it makes my heart sing, you know,
and hear people using the app. I was at work
the other day. This guy almost brings me to tears.
You know. We're down at the comedy seller. The guy
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comes running up on me and he's nervous, you know,
And I thought he was gonna say, oh my god,
you're so funny whatever. And I had the black logo on.
If you know anyone that works at that company, tell him,
I said, thank you. He said business was going under
because of the pandemic. He said, I got He said,
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I'm a lawyer in Fort Worth and I just got
a client that you know. They gave me a retainer
for two years. He said, it's five thousand dollars a month.
He said, I don't know what five thousand dollars a
month looks. You know, it's to you. You look like
you're doing good, you work at this club whatever. And
I said, no, it's He said, so if you know
anyone who works at that company, and I said, hey, man,
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it's my app. And then he gets choked up and
he said, man, I gotta give you something. You save me.
But those are the things that wake me up in
the morning and let me know, hey, it's working. I mean,
part of me was about to cry because I was thinking,
I'm not making no money off this app yet. Yeah,
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part of me was about to cry, like, how you
making money? I'm not making money. I'm right, uh, but
though just joking, I mean it. It's a reminder that
there are untold sums of money. The first time I
used the app, I went to UM. I went to
a liquor store down the street my friend's birthday. I said,
I'm gonna get you some bottles of wine. There's a
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wine store physically for me and and she said, why
don't you use your app? All I have was a
prototype back then so I just want to say work.
We had a wine icon on there. I hit it.
There's a liquor store three blocks down. I come. I
buyed two bottles of wine fifty bucks. I walk out
and just it finally hit me. I just started crying
because all of the work that I had been doing
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on the app was screens and where do we put
this button that button? But the money going in that register.
And I thought to myself, Wow, if I could get
a million people on this app and they only used
it one time in their whole life, and they never
touched the app again, that would be fifty million dollars
if they did what I did, million people, get a
million people on and they only did but I did
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one time and never ever touched or looked at the
app again for the rest of their lives. That's what
would have been a fifty million dollar fundraiser. And that's
when it dawned on me the scale that we of
good that we could do. So that store that you
went to write in Oakland, and that's you know, we're
talking about thirty people on that How many customers could
that story? Yes, not to mention people just heard about
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that store right now on this podcast. Yes, you could
keep that going and we have a billion listeners, one billion,
be as in boy boy, And I'm gonna tell you,
if anybody has been to Oakland, California, and especially since
the pandemic, downtown is like a ghost town. I swear
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to you like it's the aerious feeling because nobody there's
not a lot of traffic at all because the only
businesses that survived were the office buildings and the companies,
So those are the only people you see scattered or
there's a Burger King or something, but like emporiums, the
bigger stores, all of them have closed down in downtown.
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So seriously, I would never ever shot downtown Oakland because
there's nothing there. So then I said I have John's Appea, yes,
and there it was, and that's how and I was
like and we were like, yo, we were just like
it works like this is so I'm not gonna lie.
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I was, you know, the first time I used it,
I was shocked. I was like, then we just started
putting it in everything, you know, restaurants, everything you know
in San Francisco. Stefan Stefan Curry's wife has Alicia. She
has a restaurant in San Francisco. Yeah, it's going really well.
The new stuff that's going into add Black two point
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or what should be. You guys should be able to
see it. I'm starting to see parts of it, but
the everyone else will see it. Should be uploaded to
the app in the play store probably. This is another exclusive.
I haven't told anyone else this either. When you will
now have the ability to put your own profile in there,
so you can put a profile in there, start following
your friends, and then you'll have a top five places
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that you recommend. So for while I was just in Vegas,
I got a comedy friend out there. His name is
Chris Clark. If we had had the profiles in there,
when I got to Vegas, I just went to his page,
saw the places he recommended, and then went to those
restaurants he lives there. I might as well just take
his advice, you know, I mean, why am I gonna
take it out in the dark. I still need to
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go eat lunch. I found a joint down the street,
you know what I mean, and hit that was unbelievably good.
But once these profiles go in and you can say
and there's a lot of celebrities already on black, which
is gonna be shocked. They start seeing these profiles and
you can start following some of the stuff that people
you trust recommend, but that should be in there in
the next ten days or some Oh my god, there's
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I mean really. The other thing is the sky is
the limit, John. I mean, you know when you talk
about ownership of things and you know the span of
where this can continue to grow, it's like it's unbelievable.
You'll you'll you'll be like, where have I go put
all this? Getting the door? Because the money's at the door.
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Oh yeah, yeah, there's there's tons of goods that needs
to be done out here. I'll tell you what the
good news is. I know that the black community won't
have to worry about me burning all the money up
on jewelry or cars, because yeah, I'm not that dude.
We have Well, you've already helped them, you know what
I mean, just by listing them, you have helped them.
Because immediately when I was making the purchase, the salesperson
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was like, we were talking about how great a store was,
and he was like, are you from here? And I said, well,
technically I lived in New York, but I was born
and raised in San Francisco, but I you know, we
never had a store like this unless you went to
hate Ashbury, right. So it was the tourist aspect as well,
because the other people that were in the store, they
were tourists and there was a UK family that was
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in there. So I thought too. I was like, Yo,
not only is he let us go, but it's like
San Francisco is a huge tourist attraction. So I thought
that was brilliant. John, Like I for the first time,
I felt like a tourist in my own home. Yeah,
Travel and Leisure did something on black perfect because they
always have people that are moving around, Like this is
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a great tool, you know, because obviously when you're out
of town you don't know, so you may as well
hit that. But like I said, once those profiles go
in there, not only will it tell you where the
black women, it'll tell you places that people you know recommend,
and then it's gonna go yeah that way, and we'll
start the community of black out once that goes in there.
So John, you know, I want everybody, seriously, I see
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your T shirt. It probably won't reflect them the zoom,
but you got where can we get that t shirt.
Though if you download the app there is there will
be a new bar on the bottom so you can
just hit products and we have black merch is actually
the first icon on there for the online because you know,
Black also has online shopping. So there's all black businesses
that you can you can support online, but merch is
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also you know, the Black Store is also one of
those businesses, the Black owned merch Store. So you guys,
please support John Laster and Black. All of you guys
need to have this on your phone. And you know
there's so many Dynamic stores in the New York in
the Tri State area as well if you live here,
and it's wonderful, I'm telling you. And for me, it's
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apt friendly because I'm like, if I have to jump
through loops or anything, huh. You know, when we first
started putting this thing together, Tracy, that was the first
thing I said, if it's not simple, let's not do this.
Because I'm very tech savvy. So we use a geo
located Google Base map, so all you have to do
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is open it up no matter where you're sitting, it'll
tell you what's right. You don't have to do no thinking,
you don't happy to do it yet I love it.
I do because you know Soria's shapes me. She's like, all, Grandma,
you don't know this, and it's like, stop shaming me,
but this she can't shame me on and she bought
some stuff too, so she had a good time. You guys,
I want you to hold tight because we're getting ready
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to Class in Session and John Laster is still going
to be here and bless us John. The other thing
is is I really want to stress to all of
you guys too. We always talk about I mtv dot com.
I need you guys to go to I mtv dot
com and see all his credits. The Tonight Show called
him for a reason, read his credits and seen on that.
(31:58):
We'll be back but this. You're in an actor podcast
with me Tracy Moore for Class in Session. Welcome back
to the Spirited Actor Podcasts with me and my spiritual brother,
Comedian extraordinaire John Laster. Yeah you here, You guys know
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this is what we do here. We showcase actors. And
I'm gonna turn it over to Elsa Lathan because she
cast for a Class in Session and she willed toroduce
her spirit actor alumna Elsa. Hello, hello everyone, great interview, John,
thank you. Today we are happily introducing miss Alanda Vett,
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one of our spirited actor alumna, and she will be
doing a mom love for us today. So welcome Amanda. Everybody. Hey, Okay, So, okay,
is it alumni or alumni like I didn't go to
h Brady is an alumna. Alanda is an alumna. She's
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won one female all right, Elsa. Anyways, John, We're gonna
start with Alonta introducing her monologue the title, and then
Alanta just go and we got you. Okay, okay, hello again.
My name is Alonda Chavets from Ohio and I will
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be doing Dog Anxiety by Joseph Arnone. She had asked
me to watch her puppy Oscar. I said, sure, I mean,
how bad could it be to watch your innocent, harmless,
cute little puppy? Right? Right wrong? It was a nightmare.
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Look at me? Do you see the bags under my eyes?
I look like I went twelve wrongs with Muhammed Ali.
I look forward and she's gonna ask me like it's
no big deal. She said, Sarah, would you mind why
chick my puppy for me for three days. I said, sure,
no problem, no problem. This dog has not stopped barking.
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His tiny squeaky boys didn't stop working for the entire
night like a wolf howling at the night kept me up.
I tossed and I turned. Then I tossed and turned somewhere.
I felt like a nineteen eighties break dancer and finally, Okay,
it's time for me to go to work. I was
actually excited to go to work for once in my life. Somehow,
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work seemed like a better option than staying at home.
I guess what when I stepped foot onto my kitchen,
I found myself flatting all the way across the kitchen
and flat dead on my back. I got bruises the
size of boulders. Dog peep, I stop. That dog is
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messed up. Cheryl is so messed up for suckering me,
and they're watching that that I don't even have any
more insults for that. Oh I had it. He tore
up my my couch when I came from home from working.
My couch. Then when I just recently purchased from the
Vett's great deal by the way, it's destroyed and where
it was Oscar Oscar the expert trapeze artist positioned himself
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on top of my kitchen cabinets. Did I mention how
small this puppy is the size of my foot. I
don't know how the hell he got up on my
kitchen cabinets. Miracle god. Anyways, the genius couldn't get down,
and rightfully so, by the way, But mind you, there
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was a load of pooh and p to go around
spread all over my cabinet. See all right, thank you,
thank you so John, whatever feedback you want to give
her notes, I thought it was great. I mean, first
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of all, I thought it was great. Kind of I
thought it first of all, Like I said, I thought
it was great. If there any notes, I would say,
going back to the story you were telling Tracy in
the hospital or the worst of conditions, you can still
have a good time. I think you've been a little
more playful with you know, like watching a little dog.
Couldn't be that bad, right, right, wrong? This was hell.
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But I mean, kind of sell us that all little dog?
You know, it was her look cute little dog. Horrible, No,
this this was the devil. But yeah, so sometimes I
think you can play with in the even when you're angered.
You can still you know, you can still think it
with it. But other than that, I thought it was phenomenal. Wow,
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thank you, I agree, I agree, and like, that's what
I love about comedians is that when you guys tell
stories like you said, you you give us the whole
structure to the point where you actually feel like you
smell the popcorn. John virtually my friend, and listen, let's
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let's do it this week. Let's I mean, I know
you're traveling, but I got you, brother, I got you.
I'm in town. Okay, all right, and Miles did his
show excellent, So yeah, we'll just do a big celebration tonight.
Show Buffalo soldiers. That's what open. Ladies and gentlemen. I
want all of you to get out of your seats,
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one billion of you. I want you, as you applaud,
make sure when you spit down that you put your
hand on an app store and go to Black and
Down London and then tell ten friends so they can
sew on and go on like the Fabry j commercial.
Y'all know nothing about except ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, John,
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and thank you, and we will be back with the
Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore, and I'm so
excited to give you love, and now it's time to
give love. When I started coaching celebrities, I truly respected
their privacy. It's golden. I learned to appreciate of the
peace that I had in my life. One of my
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celebrities had a horrible rumor that had started about them,
and I saw the pain that that rumor caused them,
especially since the rumor wasn't true. You never know how
fragile people are or their souls. So I learned a
(38:50):
valuable lesson and all of my twenty six years of
teaching and coaching. Stay in your lane are not always true,
and mind your business, don't forget to look out for us.
On our new show Inside the black Box, my co
(39:13):
host will be Joe the Legend Morton. It's going to
be The Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids. Will be streaming
on the Crackle network. I'll keep you posted. Thank you
for joining us on the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Tracy Moore. I look forward to our next Spirited Podcast.
Thank you,
Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and
TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transition to
a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New
Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Thomaz.
I audition every rapper from Biggias Balls to Tupac, and
(00:24):
I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help
transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from
Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Ye from The
Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I
also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel
(00:45):
I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director,
I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an
acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in
that room. Now I know, I know actors want to
get the job. I get that, but being remembered by
casting director that is powerful. And now it's time for
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meditation of the day. Never judge a book by its cover.
Mind your business. I grew up at a time when
we used to visit our family all the time, have
family reunions and get togethers, and all the women would
gravitate into the kitchen to gossip. Now I's six years old,
(01:28):
I love hanging out with my aunts and my grandmother,
and I remember that even if the gossip wasn't true,
it made these women feel good about themselves while really
tearing down and making others feel bad, even though the
others may not have known. Stay in your business because
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you don't have time for anyone else's business but your own. Today,
I will mind my business before we get started. I'd
like to remind everyone to look out for my new show,
Inside the Black Box. I'll be co hosting with the
great Joe Morton. Will be on Crackle Network real soon.
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I'll keep you posted. Welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast
with me Tracy Moore. I hope you have some tissue
today because you know this is gonna be a dynamic
show filled with jewels and pearls. You feel that treasure chest, yes,
and you're gonna hear about something that baby new to
(02:36):
you that's so powerful And I'm so proud of this gentleman.
But aside from all of that, this man is one
of the most important people in my life. And there
are moments in your life that you capture, and some
capture them in movies and books, and but this person
(03:00):
is so captured in my heart and soul and so
much gratitude and love towards him that even when we
got there, we still know us there. So that's the
cool friend. We always pick up where we left off.
Ladies and gentlemen, please put my hands together for the
talented comedian John Last. Welcome, my friend. I'm so honored
(03:26):
to be here. I'm so happy to have you here, John,
because I want to spend a majority of the time
talking about this new endeavor, this new app that he has.
You guys, we we all need to support and I
know that that you have a lot of support out there,
so I'm really happy. But I'm hold on. I want
(03:46):
to give you guys some story first. So John is,
in my opinion and pretty much all around the world,
one of the most successful best comedians in this industry.
You guys and for me. You know, when people transition
into a TV and film, John, which you have, I
think that models and comedians have the easier transition in
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a sense that models don't have words, but they're able
to sell something, So how are they able to convince
me to go buy a pack of Newports? You know
what I'm saying. There's something when they had Newports posters,
but you know what I mean, like they had an
attitude or something that made you have this urge to buy.
And then with comedians, you have a responsibility with all
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of these emotions and the audience to sort of bring
them together in laughter. And you don't know these people.
And I think that's such an amazing power that you
guys have when you step out of For me, the
first time I went to your show, I stepped out
of the casting director and stepped into like just a
person enjoying and was like everybody was laughing and just
(05:00):
and then after the joke, we repeated the joke. That's
the power. How do you do that? How do you
capture those things? I think it's um, it's pleasure and pain.
I mean, we're looking for the pleasure and we find
it through the pain. Um in a microcosm, you know. So,
I mean, if you bomb enough times, you're like, you
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know what, I need to come up with something, Bunney,
Because before they was laughing, they was walking booing and
uh and not booking you. So yeah, you gotta find it.
But um, yeah, it is it is. Um it is unique.
You know when you when you put it like that,
that you are getting a bunch of strangers on the
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same page. I actually had somebody one time say to me,
asked me, you know what it is that comedians do
versus other people? And there was a woman walking toward us,
and I said, just imagine if that woman fell. She
slid right, and her wig fell off in her bag.
She was okay, but we were happy as friends, like,
(06:01):
oh my god, afy help her up. You see the
slid in her wig? Foul and whatever and uh and
she said, oh my god. Yeah, And I said, well,
imagine doing that if the woman wasn't there, because we
have to come on stage and create that person, yes,
create that setting, and then tell you what's funny about it?
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That's right. And it's such a short time. Oh yeah,
you get there's each joke nineties seconds before the crowd judges, hey,
this person is really good or not. There's a very
short window, you know, unless you're a celebrity. If you're
celebrity is happy to be in the room with you, yeah,
but I don't. I don't have that luxury, so yeah,
you really aren't paying and then applying, you know whatever,
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your perspective on why that's funny in a very very
short period of time, and it takes years to figure
out how well you know what? I want you to
just say some words to these aspiring comedians or working
commedi dance artists because what I'm finding and currently we
are casting this Aretha respect musical Elsa and I it
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is horrific, John, Like you could get some really great
material off these self tapes. It's like, I can't. You
can't make up a woman actually singing in the shower.
You can't make up somebody like, No, this is serious.
This is serious. And this woman the other day looked
like she was on a submarine and I was like,
elso we'll tell you. I was like, I was why
she was submarine? Why? Then Elsa was like, uh so
(07:33):
what it happened was Tracy I had said to email
and told you she was on a cruise she was
on a cruise ship. I was like, when it looked
like she was in the up like dawned in the
submarine engine room, That's what it looked like right, But
I'm just saying you cannot make these things up. And
my takeaway from all of it is that I can never,
ever ever stop teaching because people don't train so as
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a comedian, because I know a lot people who asked me, Jeezy,
can you let me at one of your comedian friends
because I want to be a comedian and not because
somebody's laughing at you at the family re union. That
does not prove your stamina and longevity in this business? Right?
Did you give them some tips please? You know? And unfortunately,
it's funny that you mentioned the family reunion because that
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goes back to the example that I gave. But we're
all laughing at something that we're sitting around watching, you know.
And the other thing about comedy too is, unfortunately, and
I bet you acting it's very similar to this too,
is it's not because in my former life I was
a ball player, so I could jump, I could win
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mill dunk. There was one time on a fast break
I literally jumped over somebody. Crowd went crazy. But I'm
saying all those people watching knew they couldn't do that.
You watch comedy, A lot of people think I made
someone laugh. I could do that. You know it's a
movie and you say, oh, they're just reading the lines.
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I could memorize the lines. I could be an actor.
They don't realize that the reason that it looks like
anyone could do it is because we've worked on it, right,
You know, they don't understand you gotta put in so
much work to make it look that way that you
forgot that I was acting, got that I've been working
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at this comedy thing. You don't just get stumble on
stage and make people laugh from all parts of the
country and all over the world at the same time.
You know, you gotta do the work, like you said,
And it's one day at a time. I tell new
comedians all the time, you know who are like, oh, yeah, John,
I just want to get funny you do TV, or
I want to get funny and not work anymore. And
I'm like, um, that that work is put in a
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day at a time. You know what I mean. If
you have TV habits, you'll eventually be on TV. Right habits,
If you have the work ethic of those films, and
you don't have to wait until you have a movie
to have those habits. You got to up in the
morning and put the work it and the rest of
it will call and ladies and gentlemen. I have had
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the pleasure of being on John's journey and started out
you know and casting auditioning him and um. He would
always threaten me that he was going to take my
classes and he was taking the prime to sessions and
I'd be like, yo, okay, come on. And then but then,
you guys, we we lived in the same neighborhood, right,
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so one time I randed him. It was like it
was like crazy, I'll tell you, but maybe walked along
his way. He couldn't avoid because we just kept running
into each other. We lived in this I was, you know,
like right around the corner from you. So finally he said,
I'm gonna take a class and then, you guys, it
was a whirlwind journey. It was beautiful. It was beautiful
(10:48):
watching him just you know, do the work as an actor,
put in the time, do the exercises like he would
do the work. And that's why when he uh Carl
Webber was the first film. Oh I'm so sorry. Uh
no more, Mr nice guy, more, Mr nice guy, No more,
Mr nice guy. Ladies and gentlemen, and I produced the film.
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I bought up John. John came in and you know,
of course he lands the role. But the thing that
was so um gratifying and just a blessing is that
not only did he get the role, but they embellished
the role. They created the role to be bigger than
what it originally was, based on John's work and based
on his performance. So that right there and then he
(11:31):
had his own trailer. I still have my pictures of
you in the trailer because at a big trailer, you guys,
because like, and I remember you say, John, like, I
would get a trailer like that because they would give
you the one banger, and a one banger literally is
for one person two people is too proud of it there,
like you know, So how was it for you, John, Um?
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What was the transition like going from you know, just
transitioning into that film and TV UM. I would if
I had to summing up in one world, I would
say intimidating. You know. It's it's um, you know, and
a lot of fear keeps people out of doing a
lot of things. So just know that the first step
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is to be intimidated, to be scared, to be nervous.
That's part of the that's literally part of the You
could write that down with auditioning and then I get something,
I'm gonna be intimidated. I'm gonna be scared. It's literally
part of the process. So it's very intimidating. It's intimidating
when you are the master of your domain and then
someone says, hey, come over to this other domain where
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no one knows you and no one cares about you,
and you are the lowest person on the tone of ball.
So it's very intimidating. But by the grace of God,
I had you there, and you are always smoothing over uh,
running over the details. There's nowhere in the world out
of got that film without you, So you just ran
over that like, oh, John was so great, nor I wasn't.
(12:59):
No hell you got you got rolled to get my
feet web nowhere. I'd have had that trailer, I would
have been sitting in the garage with everybody else. Everybody
was a Carl Webber's garage. He was just starting out.
So yes, eating Celery, Yes we were he was doing
John and I go back to we go back to
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the early stages of family business BT. Carl Webber like
I was one of his first producing partners and did
that's where I did the Man in three B, the
Preacher's son and the choir director, which was the whole
I mean it just once John did once he met Carl.
Then because John was out in l A, he was
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on that set, so he did that and then went
into No More Mr n I I Scott. John said something
really important in the beginning, right, He talked about how
like the good and the Bad or no, you said
joy and pain, you said something out paint right, Okay.
So this is the thing that I've always felt about
comedians is that comedians, to me, are the only ones
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who can take a bad situation and put a twist
on it where you can laugh, right, Like. I feel
like y'all have that freedom, and it's just an instinct.
It's something right because you know, because you have to
write it. You write your jokes. So you guys, when
my son got hit by a car, and one of
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the first people I called was John and John was
on the road. He was he had just finished his
show in Philadelphia, and John was like, Tracy, I'm coming
back and I'm coming to the hospital. It was already midnight, John, Right,
John gets there maybe about two o'clock in the morning
and he's sitting with me, and you know, and in
my head I said to myself, I said, I don't know,
(14:53):
how ever, ever, ever, laugh again, I don't know if
anything is going to ever be funny to me. Damn right,
because that was you know, John ding Kerman, the hl
and jokes like. You know, John was very solemn and
and spiritual. He was there for me as a friend,
you guys. And John got up, he said, I I'm
gonna go get some food, you guys. And he went
(15:14):
to the vending machine and he came back with all
of these assortment of you know, Cheetos and you know
vending machine food. And there was a small table and um,
he had his back towards us as he was, you know,
putting us. I thought he was just putting you know,
things on the table, you guys. When John cleared the view,
(15:35):
it was set up like craft service, you guys. It
was like Cheetos were lined up, but tend you lined up.
Puck was line like. I was like, and I looked
over and I laughed. I laughed at a time where
the doctors had just left and said, we don't know,
(15:58):
we don't know. If he is gonna make it, if
he makes it through the next thirty minutes, and and
that cray and that to me, like it's our friendship
was already solidified, but it was the family that was solidified.
It was the family that was so solidified. In that moment,
I was like, Yo, this optack a bullet for John
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left a son. That's my do Like yeah, it was.
It was like that. And then I just remember after that,
like it's gonna be okay, It's gonna be okay. I
can laugh, I can I can still incorporate that through
this time to get through this time. So that is
why John is like one of the most important people
(16:44):
in my life because that's what he did for me.
So I want the world to know that thank you. Yeah,
that was a dark time, but we we made the
best of it. I was and you guys we have
jokes about it. I know, like, no, I'm not going
to Helen I like that. I'm just saying, like when
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John says we've got all the best, like you guys,
we have, John, we do. We absolutely we were there
because we were there for a long time. It was
weeks and weeks on thirty thirty five days at King's
County and then fifty one days at m y U
rehab weeks and weeks. Then yeah we do. Yeah Yeah.
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John was there. John was there every single moment he
could be there. He would show up after comedy shows
like it was. It was. It was amazing, you guys,
It was really amazing. So that's my heart. So John, please,
this is uh, you know, John is the other thing
is you guys. John has a serious, serious Wall Street background,
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Sun Sun Sun, like all the versatility in the student
right here. So John, tell us how you transition to
your new endeavor right now? Let them know. I want
you to tell Yeah, you know what, So I have
an to support black owned businesses. I think there's over
fifty thou businesses on there now and yeah, and people
ask me all the time, Hey, doesn't work in Dallas,
(18:09):
doesn't work in Phoenix. I live in Cali. It works
around the world, so it doesn't matter what city, what town.
And then the app works. A lot of people ask
how did that come about? And I saw a guy
get choked to death right in front of me, you know,
watching George Floyd. You know, me and George Floyd are
the exact same height, exact same weight, exact same skin color.
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Literally we're both six four to fifteen things. It was
almost like watching myself die in real time. I was
an economics major, so I understood way back from college
the value of the circulation of the dollar. So, you know,
I was out marching on Eastern Parkway with the people
yelling no justice, no peace, and it just hit me,
(18:51):
this isn't sustainable. You know, when this is over with,
these people are gonna go back to their privileged whatever whatever,
and we're gonna be stuck in the same boat. Um.
So I made a phone called a Silicon Valley Long
story short, um I got good help from a friend
of mine named Margot Matt my boy Boba Tune that
you know, Baba Tune Black and Latino Film Coalition, and
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we went to work and and to be honest with you,
you know, Tracy, you and I are huge law of
attraction people. It really couldn't have happened without the lockdown
because I wasn't working. You know, I'm a busy person.
I just got off a flight from Las Vegas just
you know, just now. So I move around and I'm
always hustling. So without that downtime the club's being closed.
(19:35):
I don't know that I would have been able to
create it, but it's it's only move. Now. We just
crossed thirty five thousand downloads yesterday and breaking news. They
just hit me up about doing the Tonight Show today.
Oh my god, oh my congratulations exclusive y'all. Oh oh John, Oh,
(20:01):
it looks like we'll be doing. It's not you know,
nothing is setence stone in this business and to listen.
But they did call and they did say, hey, hold
these dates in these times, So it looks like, yeah,
it looks like it's gonna happen. It looks like Tonight
Show for a black And you know, once you go
on as seen on, it's done. Even if you get
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one percent of the audience. Just think, I mean a
hundred million people watch the show. Just think that worldwide, right,
just five of that. Yeah, then you're in a I
mean even the branding, because anything that you do after that,
even if you don't get all that that night, just
as seen on it tonight, you know what I mean?
The validity of to skyrocket yes, yes, and then draw
(20:46):
that traffic like this is the thing. And I'm happy
that you said the law of attraction because this really
is this really is how it works. You know, Um,
I remind myself it's something that's in your soul. It's
not something you read the book one time, because John
and are big book people. To law of attraction, power
of power of now for agreements, you know, you have
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to change your mind to what this society in this
world has brainwashed and consistently and repetitively taught your mind.
So we would always you know, that's the balance of
our friendship too, because you know we were there in
balancing that law of attraction. We never not not believe
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that never was an issue. You know, it's just the
outside noise that you have to keep, you know, just
sort of blowing sprinkled dust and okay, no judgment, that's you.
But that's not how I live my life. So I'm
so you guys, when I tell you this dude is
so well deserving, so so well deserving. I want you
(21:52):
to give all of us the information. You know, everyone
you have to down. Oh this is what I want
to tell you that. So I have a festivoti Okay, okay,
So we used black in Oakland, California, and went to
a store called Oakland Dish and we bought T shirts,
(22:14):
hats such a fierce store, like you know the T shirts.
One of the T shirts is um um. It says dope.
You know. It's just you know, Millennial, you know, Miles.
It's Miles and Radios type of store. But it's my
store too. So we found that and we went to
the store. So I just want everybody to know it works.
(22:35):
I mean, of course it works, but the store man,
we would have never gone to that store, John, if
we didn't use the app. And you know what, when
I hear that, it makes my heart sing, you know,
and hear people using the app. I was at work
the other day. This guy almost brings me to tears.
You know. We're down at the comedy seller. The guy
(22:56):
comes running up on me and he's nervous, you know,
And I thought he was gonna say, oh my god,
you're so funny whatever. And I had the black logo on.
If you know anyone that works at that company, tell him,
I said, thank you. He said business was going under
because of the pandemic. He said, I got He said,
(23:16):
I'm a lawyer in Fort Worth and I just got
a client that you know. They gave me a retainer
for two years. He said, it's five thousand dollars a month.
He said, I don't know what five thousand dollars a
month looks. You know, it's to you. You look like
you're doing good, you work at this club whatever. And
I said, no, it's He said, so if you know
anyone who works at that company, and I said, hey, man,
(23:38):
it's my app. And then he gets choked up and
he said, man, I gotta give you something. You save me.
But those are the things that wake me up in
the morning and let me know, hey, it's working. I mean,
part of me was about to cry because I was thinking,
I'm not making no money off this app yet. Yeah,
(24:01):
part of me was about to cry, like, how you
making money? I'm not making money. I'm right, uh, but
though just joking, I mean it. It's a reminder that
there are untold sums of money. The first time I
used the app, I went to UM. I went to
a liquor store down the street my friend's birthday. I said,
I'm gonna get you some bottles of wine. There's a
(24:23):
wine store physically for me and and she said, why
don't you use your app? All I have was a
prototype back then so I just want to say work.
We had a wine icon on there. I hit it.
There's a liquor store three blocks down. I come. I
buyed two bottles of wine fifty bucks. I walk out
and just it finally hit me. I just started crying
because all of the work that I had been doing
(24:45):
on the app was screens and where do we put
this button that button? But the money going in that register.
And I thought to myself, Wow, if I could get
a million people on this app and they only used
it one time in their whole life, and they never
touched the app again, that would be fifty million dollars
if they did what I did, million people, get a
million people on and they only did but I did
(25:06):
one time and never ever touched or looked at the
app again for the rest of their lives. That's what
would have been a fifty million dollar fundraiser. And that's
when it dawned on me the scale that we of
good that we could do. So that store that you
went to write in Oakland, and that's you know, we're
talking about thirty people on that How many customers could
that story? Yes, not to mention people just heard about
(25:29):
that store right now on this podcast. Yes, you could
keep that going and we have a billion listeners, one billion,
be as in boy boy, And I'm gonna tell you,
if anybody has been to Oakland, California, and especially since
the pandemic, downtown is like a ghost town. I swear
(25:54):
to you like it's the aerious feeling because nobody there's
not a lot of traffic at all because the only
businesses that survived were the office buildings and the companies,
So those are the only people you see scattered or
there's a Burger King or something, but like emporiums, the
bigger stores, all of them have closed down in downtown.
(26:16):
So seriously, I would never ever shot downtown Oakland because
there's nothing there. So then I said I have John's Appea, yes,
and there it was, and that's how and I was
like and we were like, yo, we were just like
it works like this is so I'm not gonna lie.
(26:39):
I was, you know, the first time I used it,
I was shocked. I was like, then we just started
putting it in everything, you know, restaurants, everything you know
in San Francisco. Stefan Stefan Curry's wife has Alicia. She
has a restaurant in San Francisco. Yeah, it's going really well.
The new stuff that's going into add Black two point
(27:00):
or what should be. You guys should be able to
see it. I'm starting to see parts of it, but
the everyone else will see it. Should be uploaded to
the app in the play store probably. This is another exclusive.
I haven't told anyone else this either. When you will
now have the ability to put your own profile in there,
so you can put a profile in there, start following
your friends, and then you'll have a top five places
(27:20):
that you recommend. So for while I was just in Vegas,
I got a comedy friend out there. His name is
Chris Clark. If we had had the profiles in there,
when I got to Vegas, I just went to his page,
saw the places he recommended, and then went to those
restaurants he lives there. I might as well just take
his advice, you know, I mean, why am I gonna
take it out in the dark. I still need to
(27:41):
go eat lunch. I found a joint down the street,
you know what I mean, and hit that was unbelievably good.
But once these profiles go in and you can say
and there's a lot of celebrities already on black, which
is gonna be shocked. They start seeing these profiles and
you can start following some of the stuff that people
you trust recommend, but that should be in there in
the next ten days or some Oh my god, there's
(28:06):
I mean really. The other thing is the sky is
the limit, John. I mean, you know when you talk
about ownership of things and you know the span of
where this can continue to grow, it's like it's unbelievable.
You'll you'll you'll be like, where have I go put
all this? Getting the door? Because the money's at the door.
(28:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's there's tons of goods that needs
to be done out here. I'll tell you what the
good news is. I know that the black community won't
have to worry about me burning all the money up
on jewelry or cars, because yeah, I'm not that dude.
We have Well, you've already helped them, you know what
I mean, just by listing them, you have helped them.
Because immediately when I was making the purchase, the salesperson
(28:57):
was like, we were talking about how great a store was,
and he was like, are you from here? And I said, well,
technically I lived in New York, but I was born
and raised in San Francisco, but I you know, we
never had a store like this unless you went to
hate Ashbury, right. So it was the tourist aspect as well,
because the other people that were in the store, they
were tourists and there was a UK family that was
(29:20):
in there. So I thought too. I was like, Yo,
not only is he let us go, but it's like
San Francisco is a huge tourist attraction. So I thought
that was brilliant. John, Like I for the first time,
I felt like a tourist in my own home. Yeah,
Travel and Leisure did something on black perfect because they
always have people that are moving around, Like this is
(29:43):
a great tool, you know, because obviously when you're out
of town you don't know, so you may as well
hit that. But like I said, once those profiles go
in there, not only will it tell you where the
black women, it'll tell you places that people you know recommend,
and then it's gonna go yeah that way, and we'll
start the community of black out once that goes in there.
So John, you know, I want everybody, seriously, I see
(30:06):
your T shirt. It probably won't reflect them the zoom,
but you got where can we get that t shirt.
Though if you download the app there is there will
be a new bar on the bottom so you can
just hit products and we have black merch is actually
the first icon on there for the online because you know,
Black also has online shopping. So there's all black businesses
that you can you can support online, but merch is
(30:29):
also you know, the Black Store is also one of
those businesses, the Black owned merch Store. So you guys,
please support John Laster and Black. All of you guys
need to have this on your phone. And you know
there's so many Dynamic stores in the New York in
the Tri State area as well if you live here,
and it's wonderful, I'm telling you. And for me, it's
(30:52):
apt friendly because I'm like, if I have to jump
through loops or anything, huh. You know, when we first
started putting this thing together, Tracy, that was the first
thing I said, if it's not simple, let's not do this.
Because I'm very tech savvy. So we use a geo
located Google Base map, so all you have to do
(31:15):
is open it up no matter where you're sitting, it'll
tell you what's right. You don't have to do no thinking,
you don't happy to do it yet I love it.
I do because you know Soria's shapes me. She's like, all, Grandma,
you don't know this, and it's like, stop shaming me,
but this she can't shame me on and she bought
some stuff too, so she had a good time. You guys,
I want you to hold tight because we're getting ready
(31:37):
to Class in Session and John Laster is still going
to be here and bless us John. The other thing
is is I really want to stress to all of
you guys too. We always talk about I mtv dot com.
I need you guys to go to I mtv dot
com and see all his credits. The Tonight Show called
him for a reason, read his credits and seen on that.
(31:58):
We'll be back but this. You're in an actor podcast
with me Tracy Moore for Class in Session. Welcome back
to the Spirited Actor Podcasts with me and my spiritual brother,
Comedian extraordinaire John Laster. Yeah you here, You guys know
(32:19):
this is what we do here. We showcase actors. And
I'm gonna turn it over to Elsa Lathan because she
cast for a Class in Session and she willed toroduce
her spirit actor alumna Elsa. Hello, hello everyone, great interview, John,
thank you. Today we are happily introducing miss Alanda Vett,
(32:42):
one of our spirited actor alumna, and she will be
doing a mom love for us today. So welcome Amanda. Everybody. Hey, Okay, So, okay,
is it alumni or alumni like I didn't go to
h Brady is an alumna. Alanda is an alumna. She's
(33:05):
won one female all right, Elsa. Anyways, John, We're gonna
start with Alonta introducing her monologue the title, and then
Alanta just go and we got you. Okay, okay, hello again.
My name is Alonda Chavets from Ohio and I will
(33:26):
be doing Dog Anxiety by Joseph Arnone. She had asked
me to watch her puppy Oscar. I said, sure, I mean,
how bad could it be to watch your innocent, harmless,
cute little puppy? Right? Right wrong? It was a nightmare.
(33:47):
Look at me? Do you see the bags under my eyes?
I look like I went twelve wrongs with Muhammed Ali.
I look forward and she's gonna ask me like it's
no big deal. She said, Sarah, would you mind why
chick my puppy for me for three days. I said, sure,
no problem, no problem. This dog has not stopped barking.
(34:07):
His tiny squeaky boys didn't stop working for the entire
night like a wolf howling at the night kept me up.
I tossed and I turned. Then I tossed and turned somewhere.
I felt like a nineteen eighties break dancer and finally, Okay,
it's time for me to go to work. I was
actually excited to go to work for once in my life. Somehow,
(34:31):
work seemed like a better option than staying at home.
I guess what when I stepped foot onto my kitchen,
I found myself flatting all the way across the kitchen
and flat dead on my back. I got bruises the
size of boulders. Dog peep, I stop. That dog is
(35:00):
messed up. Cheryl is so messed up for suckering me,
and they're watching that that I don't even have any
more insults for that. Oh I had it. He tore
up my my couch when I came from home from working.
My couch. Then when I just recently purchased from the
Vett's great deal by the way, it's destroyed and where
it was Oscar Oscar the expert trapeze artist positioned himself
(35:24):
on top of my kitchen cabinets. Did I mention how
small this puppy is the size of my foot. I
don't know how the hell he got up on my
kitchen cabinets. Miracle god. Anyways, the genius couldn't get down,
and rightfully so, by the way, But mind you, there
(35:46):
was a load of pooh and p to go around
spread all over my cabinet. See all right, thank you,
thank you so John, whatever feedback you want to give
her notes, I thought it was great. I mean, first
(36:12):
of all, I thought it was great. Kind of I
thought it first of all, Like I said, I thought
it was great. If there any notes, I would say,
going back to the story you were telling Tracy in
the hospital or the worst of conditions, you can still
have a good time. I think you've been a little
more playful with you know, like watching a little dog.
Couldn't be that bad, right, right, wrong? This was hell.
(36:39):
But I mean, kind of sell us that all little dog?
You know, it was her look cute little dog. Horrible, No,
this this was the devil. But yeah, so sometimes I
think you can play with in the even when you're angered.
You can still you know, you can still think it
with it. But other than that, I thought it was phenomenal. Wow,
(37:00):
thank you, I agree, I agree, and like, that's what
I love about comedians is that when you guys tell
stories like you said, you you give us the whole
structure to the point where you actually feel like you
smell the popcorn. John virtually my friend, and listen, let's
(37:21):
let's do it this week. Let's I mean, I know
you're traveling, but I got you, brother, I got you.
I'm in town. Okay, all right, and Miles did his
show excellent, So yeah, we'll just do a big celebration tonight.
Show Buffalo soldiers. That's what open. Ladies and gentlemen. I
want all of you to get out of your seats,
(37:42):
one billion of you. I want you, as you applaud,
make sure when you spit down that you put your
hand on an app store and go to Black and
Down London and then tell ten friends so they can
sew on and go on like the Fabry j commercial.
Y'all know nothing about except ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, John,
(38:08):
and thank you, and we will be back with the
Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore, and I'm so
excited to give you love, and now it's time to
give love. When I started coaching celebrities, I truly respected
their privacy. It's golden. I learned to appreciate of the
peace that I had in my life. One of my
(38:29):
celebrities had a horrible rumor that had started about them,
and I saw the pain that that rumor caused them,
especially since the rumor wasn't true. You never know how
fragile people are or their souls. So I learned a
(38:50):
valuable lesson and all of my twenty six years of
teaching and coaching. Stay in your lane are not always true,
and mind your business, don't forget to look out for us.
On our new show Inside the black Box, my co
(39:13):
host will be Joe the Legend Morton. It's going to
be The Spirited Actor Podcast on Steroids. Will be streaming
on the Crackle network. I'll keep you posted. Thank you
for joining us on the Spirited Actor Podcast with me
Tracy Moore. I look forward to our next Spirited Podcast.
Thank you,
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