 It was gonna take the role in coming to America too. Yeah. But you decided not to go that route. What was the reasoning behind it? I just didn't like the script. I love Eddie Murphy. I just was a little scarred with other things I've done and I wanted to not play a bunch of people's sons. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. You know, and that's why I can't say what Cat Williams talking about black content and how we need to get it to come up. He had a whole run with Tubi. The money he makes on one show could have funded a thousand Tubi movies. I see Tubi movies making for $5,000, $10,000. Yeah, but how do you get the information to where you, cause he's a sharp dude, but how do you make that bridge? You gotta listen. Gotta listen. You know, good. It's hard to get somebody to listen with money, man. Well, there you go. Just being real. But that's not, that's- But it's real. But that's personal choice. Yeah. If you want the pulse of the culture, which he is, and you know, and that's why I got my new book called producer state of mind, producer state of mind, and actor state of mind is already out and producer state of mind. I knew about it. You know what I'm saying? Does Tubi ever get to a point where it's competing with what Hollywood has established? What do you mean it is Hollywood? I know it, but I mean it. But it's coming up a different way. Shout out to Adam Lewis and who produced Big Mama's House. Shout out to Adam Lewis and who produced two of my movies, who's the executive over at Tubi. So he comes straight. It's the same thing. Same thing, I get it. People. That's hard. But I had a producer came on here and he's actually- Shout out to all my Heather. Thank you so much for being my deal. Shout out to all my white friends. Love you all so much. That's real. And he said that the so-called bootleg movies, the worst looking movies get more views than the- Who said that? Someone else who actually have a film on Tubi. Really? He said they got, what's his name? He's from Arkansas, isn't it? What's your name? Yeah, but that's great for viewership. But the- Oh, C. James. Yeah, C. James. C. James, yeah. C. James, he said that the worst ones get way more views. Cause he had good quality and he was upset cause he did that whole movie on his own, independent. It looks great. It does, but then there's branding. But then there's branding. Fox, Tubi had a Super Bowl commercial. They don't wanna be branded as the ghetto network. And no offense, I love those movies cause I'm from Detroit, I understand it. But I'm like, it's just corporate advertising. Then there becomes financial instruments, which I talk about in my book. Man, I gotta ask you- They don't need, they just need enough. Yeah. Say it like that, cause I don't wanna talk to anyone. They just need enough. They need enough viewership and then you can bring in financial instruments. Hold on, I gotta ask you, like did you, what made you not, you was gonna take the role in coming to America too. Yeah. But you decided not to go that route. What was the reasoning behind it? I just didn't like the script. I love Eddie Murphy. I just was a little scarred with other things I've done and I wanted to not play a bunch of people's sons. So, that's it. It was just something to worry. Okay, so you know, leaving that, you know how important it is when you go into a role, how it affects you later on. Now that you've been through the stuff that you've been through. I'm Lyle Ritchie here. That's right. I'm Big Mama's from Percy, all this stuff. I got it. I see the spirituality attached to it and I, you know, I just look at it and go, okay, how does this look, okay, blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, prayerfully, you know how to see the internet, being like, yo, y'all, they just changed the script. Cause I know what it means. I know what it is. Yeah, yeah. So it's only spirituality only in that aspect you're talking about, it affects you, it doesn't affect you as in getting future roles. Is it affects you personally, like, with the roles that you're picking, why you're not picking certain roles? I mean, you realize they reproduced to what, like Denzel always been Denzel because he made a pathway for that. Me, they will always look at me for the be the guy who's gonna do this thing because I made a pathway for that. I'm changing my pathway. Not saying it's gonna be perfect, but I'm changing my pathway and that's where they're, that's why we're doing these interviews. Right, and not many can do that because I know that I remember seeing an interview with that gentleman on Jamie Foxx show. Which one? The square, I call him the square, the light skin, what's his name again? Braxton. And he said that he went in, yeah, he went in to an audition and his biggest pet peeve is when you go into an audition and the person sitting there interviewing you, looking at you as Braxton, he's calling you Braxton like, hello, that's not what I'm coming in here for. Yeah, well he defined that character and he's a really good actor. I mean, that's one of those things where you got, it's hard to shake back then, there wasn't things to shake it, but that's why I do these podcasts. You're like, oh, that's Brandon. Okay, because if I'm not gonna make my name in Hollywood, which I will, the people wouldn't know who I am because I'm defining my story about what I say. Hopefully it's edit right and then it's not a false headline, which I trust the integrity of this boss talk, which that's why I came on here. Well, I'm coming up there whenever you release any moves, like when I went and did that for Jamal Willard down there. I'm coming to Detroit. I wanna help, like when movies are coming out, I be wanting to be in the midst of our people, man, because I have a lot of stuff. We over there, we got DR2 Studio, South Dennis Reed. Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask you, I wanna know the build up. South Dennis Reed. Well, you ain't getting out of the structure and the build up of DR2. I want you to explain to me how you guys even developed it, how it came to be. That's a deeper conversation. I can't talk about it. I'm gonna go, well, we're in the middle of lawyers right now in a good way, in a good way. So we're in a deal, so I wanna talk about what is coming because you don't wanna project, but I'll tell you this, it's some big things coming. Okay. And shout out to all my white friends. Shout out to Sam Horitz. Shout out to, who else? Adam Lewison. Shout out to Heather, who gave me my deal over there. Shout out to Netflix. Shout out to Peacock. Shout out to everybody that's blessing us real quick, just because, I'm not a house-naked girl, but I love you guys, you guys are my friends. I gotta ask you about just the standup, like how therapeutic is, how much does it help you when you go on that stage to talk about the things that you've been through? How much does that push the scale for? Well, it gives you a chance. Jonathan Majors can never say what really happened unless he goes on ABC in the edit a certain way. That scares me. So I'll wish they on stage. I gotta ask you a question. So, how big, okay, being an actor, being a standup comic, doing the things that you've been doing from a young age, how does mental health affect you? Being able to balance your regular life with your work life and actually, like, as you said, being a method actor, shaking all of that off, how does, do you have to see a therapist? Do you, any of that? No, just pray, pray fast, you know, talk to God. God's my therapist. In everything. In everything. I give all glory to the Mosai. I don't care. Listen, y'all can say what y'all want to say. I'm not religious, I'm saying, but I give all glory to the Mosai or the creator or the universe, whatever you want to call it. Everybody got a different name, Brahla, Yahua, Hashem, Jesus, whatever y'all want to call it. The universe, whatever. That's what I give glory to. But, you know, because everybody at one point, no matter even if you believe in God, you still have to deal with mental attacks. Yeah, the Almighty teaches us how to do that. So, give me an example of something that came on you one day and you had to, because there's young kids, there are people who watch these shows and I like to help people through these cameras. How did you deal with it? How did you overcome it? Give me that obstacle. I never had it. So, you never had obstacles at all? No, no, I had a lot of obstacles because of my mental health. It was almost trying to just figure it out. It's like, you know, we don't deny mental health, but I'm saying it was almost trying to, you're going through a journey. And I can't say everyone came from a strong background. I came from, so I can't really not be empathetic, but I will say, turn to what's inside you. Turn to that voice that tells you, you know, the truth on what you should do, that's better, that's an embedment for you. And for me, it comes from the Holy Scriptures. And if you don't have that, there's also a survivalist thing that humans have, that you have to lean on survival, lean on if you want to live, that's your choice. You can't control everything, but what you can do, you can control how you react to everything. And that's what I seem to understand. So as much healthy, if you want that change, some people don't want to change. So you can't just be like, oh, I went through this thing and now I'm sad, you know, how I feel. Okay, now I want to hurt myself, right? Who do I turn to? Okay, you got drugs, alcohol, women, whatever. You said I got to look inside. It's the same thing, you know, these messages been going on for so long with the Wizard of Oz, you know, Dorothy was already home. It means everything inside you, Christ, the Kingdom is in you. You have to choose to bring that thing out inside of you to go to the next level. And that's a personal choice. And that's why you can't interfere, all you can do is inspire. You can't interfere and you can inspire for them to go to that choice, you know? Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk.