September 20, 2023 • 7 mins
Actor James Pickens Jr. talks Movember and more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real fun with Mario little Pez ro Brio Lopez joining
me now on zoom from Gray's Anatomy and The Connors.
Actor James Pickens Junior. Welcome to show, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you, thanks Maria, pleasure to be here. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Where are you joining us from?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Right now? I am in my what they call my gathering,
ye role, A nice little little place here that I
got set aside. I do my booms and got a
great picture on back and look at and watch the
humming birds and do the thing on the fountains. It's nice.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Where are you from? Originally, by the way.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm a rousinally from Cleveland, Ohio. Oh okay, yeah, sitting
on the banks of Lake Erie. Hey, there we go.
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're joining me today to talk about an important subject,
prostate cancer Prostate Cancer Awareness months specifically, Why is this
cause in particular important to you?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I have a personal investment in this call. I
had several family members who they're diagnosed with it. One
of those there's my dad and actually several of his brothers,
and so you know, it has been cumbered upon me
to stay on top of my health because it does
tend to be hereditary, and so I wanted to make
(01:15):
sure that not only for personal reasons, but also they
kind of get the word out of the community, especially
among one African American manber to try and get tested
and kind of see where they are in regards to
their health.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know, you're you're it's great for you to raise
awareness level because you're I'm about that age or I'm
on hitting the fifth level this next month.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
What age? Okay, you look good, you look good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Thank you, I appreciate you. Uh what age should we
start getting checked?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah? Yeah, they say right around fifty is a good time,
but I think damn, the murders kind of shifted. They're
now saying even maybe forty five is or so it's
about that age range where we just start making the
part of your angele physical. I started almost thirty years
ago to the half mind check and I actually scheduled
(02:10):
my physical right at my birthday, so it's you know, oh,
I can't remember that now, and so but yeah, right
around twenty five fifty, I think is where they're saying
the general ranges where you should start having it be exammed.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And and forgive me, but I gotta I gotta say
I'm a little nervous. What is the prestige procedure still
as invasive? Have they come with a cool way to
do it, or, like I said, way to do it?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Unfortunately, they haven't found another way to do it. O.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Man, I was hoping they like.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You, kind of got a buckle up there, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I got a buckle up.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh no, what can I tell you? Hey?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know what, I might have a cocktail and it'll
turn out to be a good time, you know that. Okay,
fair enough, fair enough. I'm gonna trust it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, No, doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, that's all I needed in here.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
After where you don't you don't know whether you have
to light a figure.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Or I'm trusting you, James. You said it doesn't hurt,
So I'm trusting you, and I'm sure other men out
there will be trusting you too. Coming up is November.
In November, of course, how big does your mustache get?
I'm sorry, how big does your mustache get?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How big does my mustache get?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Because November is where you're not supposed to let it
that you're supposed to not shave.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh you know what, that's an interesting because you're the
second person. I was not aware of that. And I'll
tell you an interesting aside. My dad when he is alive,
where with a tradition, I believe it was the seventh tradition.
There was something maybe you can go back and look up.
But when one of those brothers would fall ill, they
would grow their beards or their mustache. The family remember
(03:49):
who was not sick. And I remember to asking my dog,
why do you do this? I'm doing I'm going this
for my brother for help. And I don't know if
there's a connection there or not, but I had actually
had I had a full beard. I was doing a
playback East and then I said, well, let me take
some of it off. And that's coincidence, would have it.
It turned out that it was part of the whole
November movement, So I guess I am going there for that.
(04:12):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh that's ironic. That's a great story. Yeah, James, I
remember back in the early eighties you starting to play
with Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. Could you tell
even back then that those guys were going to be superstars? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Man? Yeah, and that was a wonderful time. Yeah. With
the play called the Soldier Slow, which went on to
one of the pulp surpars for the best dramas. But yeah,
it was at the start of our career, and you
kind of had a sense of you definitely kind of
knew that there was a light around Denzil that that
said that now this guy has got something special. And
(04:47):
Sam was just a hard worker, very dedicated, very diligent,
very an avid reader. In between seeing rehearsals stuff, he
would always have a book sitting somewhere, even the book.
But you know, we we we all didn't really know
what the future had had in store for us all
moving on into our careers. But uh, I'm so happy
(05:10):
for those guys, and no one deserves it more than them,
and they truly are you know, the page for us
for for how how you should go about doing this business.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What an incredible cast with you three, Now, that would
have been a real treat to see right there and
great to see that you all a lot of fun
did so well.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is this true?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You have some real cowboys skills, like like roping cattle
and riding eyes.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, folks say, are you a cowboy? I enjoy
the restern lifestyle cowboy of a whole another animal. And
I have nothing but great respect for the cowboy lifestyle.
But I love the resting lifestyle. And yeah I have
I have three horses, and I can so I've been
an added roper now for a man going on thirty years,
and it's a lot of fun. It's a great escape,
(05:56):
even if I'm not roping, if I'm just riding the
trail outside. It's a great way to kind of get
a d get away from the craziness of the business. Uh,
and and trying some solitude and peace out there. But
I've always been a The horse is always one of
my favorite animals. I grew up in the fifties sixties.
For all every there's only three networks, and each network
(06:17):
must have had twenty Westerns on him. My dad was
a big fan of Western so watching my brother and
I with him and yeah, it's all it's that kind
of stuck with me, you know. Oh yeah, I enjoyed
a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I too love Western and uh love love ride. When
I get the opportunity to what's uh, what's a couple
of your favorite westerns?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh my god, there's some of the great movies. Movies, Yeah,
there's Uh. I like Tombstone, that Two Stones, timber One.
I like all of the most of the john Ford. Yeah,
I had Cavalry Trilogy. Was I really enjoyed what he did,
(06:57):
so yeah, there was. I was a big fan of it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Out loud, Josie Wales were all great. Well great Unforgiven
as a modern unforgiven, unforgiven unforgiven? Yes, great, Yeah, there's
so many. Well, it's so nice to talk to you
and catch up and great all the important work you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Uh, mister Pickens.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Go to olimar dot com to find out more about
November and James. Thanks so much for hanging out today.
If I'm gonna get this exam and if it hurts,
I'm gonna come back and look for you, all right,
Thanks a lot, take care of you. Got at Okau
with Mario Lopez
Real fun with Mario little Pez ro Brio Lopez joining
me now on zoom from Gray's Anatomy and The Connors.
Actor James Pickens Junior. Welcome to show, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you, thanks Maria, pleasure to be here. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Where are you joining us from?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Right now? I am in my what they call my gathering,
ye role, A nice little little place here that I
got set aside. I do my booms and got a
great picture on back and look at and watch the
humming birds and do the thing on the fountains. It's nice.
There you go.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Where are you from? Originally, by the way.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm a rousinally from Cleveland, Ohio. Oh okay, yeah, sitting
on the banks of Lake Erie. Hey, there we go.
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You're joining me today to talk about an important subject,
prostate cancer Prostate Cancer Awareness months specifically, Why is this
cause in particular important to you?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, I have a personal investment in this call. I
had several family members who they're diagnosed with it. One
of those there's my dad and actually several of his brothers,
and so you know, it has been cumbered upon me
to stay on top of my health because it does
tend to be hereditary, and so I wanted to make
(01:15):
sure that not only for personal reasons, but also they
kind of get the word out of the community, especially
among one African American manber to try and get tested
and kind of see where they are in regards to
their health.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know, you're you're it's great for you to raise
awareness level because you're I'm about that age or I'm
on hitting the fifth level this next month.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
What age? Okay, you look good, you look good.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Thank you, I appreciate you. Uh what age should we
start getting checked?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah? Yeah, they say right around fifty is a good time,
but I think damn, the murders kind of shifted. They're
now saying even maybe forty five is or so it's
about that age range where we just start making the
part of your angele physical. I started almost thirty years
ago to the half mind check and I actually scheduled
(02:10):
my physical right at my birthday, so it's you know, oh,
I can't remember that now, and so but yeah, right
around twenty five fifty, I think is where they're saying
the general ranges where you should start having it be exammed.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And and forgive me, but I gotta I gotta say
I'm a little nervous. What is the prestige procedure still
as invasive? Have they come with a cool way to
do it, or, like I said, way to do it?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Unfortunately, they haven't found another way to do it. O.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Man, I was hoping they like.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You, kind of got a buckle up there, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I got a buckle up.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh no, what can I tell you? Hey?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know what, I might have a cocktail and it'll
turn out to be a good time, you know that. Okay,
fair enough, fair enough. I'm gonna trust it doesn't hurt.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, No, doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, that's all I needed in here.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
After where you don't you don't know whether you have
to light a figure.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Or I'm trusting you, James. You said it doesn't hurt,
So I'm trusting you, and I'm sure other men out
there will be trusting you too. Coming up is November.
In November, of course, how big does your mustache get?
I'm sorry, how big does your mustache get?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How big does my mustache get?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Because November is where you're not supposed to let it
that you're supposed to not shave.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh you know what, that's an interesting because you're the
second person. I was not aware of that. And I'll
tell you an interesting aside. My dad when he is alive,
where with a tradition, I believe it was the seventh tradition.
There was something maybe you can go back and look up.
But when one of those brothers would fall ill, they
would grow their beards or their mustache. The family remember
(03:49):
who was not sick. And I remember to asking my dog,
why do you do this? I'm doing I'm going this
for my brother for help. And I don't know if
there's a connection there or not, but I had actually
had I had a full beard. I was doing a
playback East and then I said, well, let me take
some of it off. And that's coincidence, would have it.
It turned out that it was part of the whole
November movement, So I guess I am going there for that.
(04:12):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh that's ironic. That's a great story. Yeah, James, I
remember back in the early eighties you starting to play
with Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. Could you tell
even back then that those guys were going to be superstars? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Man? Yeah, and that was a wonderful time. Yeah. With
the play called the Soldier Slow, which went on to
one of the pulp surpars for the best dramas. But yeah,
it was at the start of our career, and you
kind of had a sense of you definitely kind of
knew that there was a light around Denzil that that
said that now this guy has got something special. And
(04:47):
Sam was just a hard worker, very dedicated, very diligent,
very an avid reader. In between seeing rehearsals stuff, he
would always have a book sitting somewhere, even the book.
But you know, we we we all didn't really know
what the future had had in store for us all
moving on into our careers. But uh, I'm so happy
(05:10):
for those guys, and no one deserves it more than them,
and they truly are you know, the page for us
for for how how you should go about doing this business.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What an incredible cast with you three, Now, that would
have been a real treat to see right there and
great to see that you all a lot of fun
did so well.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Is this true?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You have some real cowboys skills, like like roping cattle
and riding eyes.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, folks say, are you a cowboy? I enjoy
the restern lifestyle cowboy of a whole another animal. And
I have nothing but great respect for the cowboy lifestyle.
But I love the resting lifestyle. And yeah I have
I have three horses, and I can so I've been
an added roper now for a man going on thirty years,
and it's a lot of fun. It's a great escape,
(05:56):
even if I'm not roping, if I'm just riding the
trail outside. It's a great way to kind of get
a d get away from the craziness of the business. Uh,
and and trying some solitude and peace out there. But
I've always been a The horse is always one of
my favorite animals. I grew up in the fifties sixties.
For all every there's only three networks, and each network
(06:17):
must have had twenty Westerns on him. My dad was
a big fan of Western so watching my brother and
I with him and yeah, it's all it's that kind
of stuck with me, you know. Oh yeah, I enjoyed
a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I too love Western and uh love love ride. When
I get the opportunity to what's uh, what's a couple
of your favorite westerns?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh my god, there's some of the great movies. Movies, Yeah,
there's Uh. I like Tombstone, that Two Stones, timber One.
I like all of the most of the john Ford. Yeah,
I had Cavalry Trilogy. Was I really enjoyed what he did,
(06:57):
so yeah, there was. I was a big fan of it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Out loud, Josie Wales were all great. Well great Unforgiven
as a modern unforgiven, unforgiven unforgiven? Yes, great, Yeah, there's
so many. Well, it's so nice to talk to you
and catch up and great all the important work you're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Uh, mister Pickens.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Go to olimar dot com to find out more about
November and James. Thanks so much for hanging out today.
If I'm gonna get this exam and if it hurts,
I'm gonna come back and look for you, all right,
Thanks a lot, take care of you. Got at Okau
with Mario Lopez
Host
Mario Lopez
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.