Angie Martinez IRL - Idris Elba’s Mindset: Discipline, Romance & Balance

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Speaker 1: So what is your definition of romance. I like being encouraging to my wife. You know what I'm saying. I love when she has moments of doubts. I like being not that year to be like, yo, you've got this, you know, and just reinforce that she can do what she wants to do, and to me that you know, when she does that for me, that's romance. Like she buys me, flowers great, but she just hugs me and like, Yo, you're doing your thing home words of affirmation. Yeah, you know what I mean. Just that's romantic to me. That's that's yeah, that's romantic to me. Thanks for watching, guys.

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Speaker 2: Today's episode is brought to you by boost Mobile. So this episode is going to be a little bit different today. It's not the traditional long form interview and I have an amazing guest, somebody who's a friend and a tremendous talent and just an overall lovely human being. Isdri's elbow.

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Speaker 1: Will be here.

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot going on in the world. Idris feels it. He shared how he's kind of navigating and staying positive and happy throughout that we talk about this season of the year. This is like the time of the year, like all the goals we set for ourselves in twenty twenty six, maybe they're not hitting like we thought they would be hitting, or maybe people kind of get off their ritual that they tried to do at the top of the year. So he talks about navigating that and discipline and goals and how we stick to them. But also with Valentine's Day around the corner, it is the season of love, so we're talking about romance and what that means to him and his marriage and his life. So plenty to learn from Drocel. But he's gonna pop in and then we're gonna hit the bowl. We're gonna hit the IRL Bowl, and we're going to hit a voice note and I, by the way, I want to encourage people to check in. If you have any questions or comments, you can always send them to our Instagram page. You dm us at Angiebuartinez IRL and that's how we find you.

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Speaker 1: So without further ado Itriselba. What are you doing? Cutaways? What are you doing? Are you really doing? You know about the cutaways? Why are you man looking great? What's going you know? Life lives?

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Speaker 3: Mmmm?

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Speaker 1: You know what a time to be alive though, man, Like we just take a moment to take a deep breath and just say.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it. Give me, give me this, set it up, set up, give me the scene.

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Speaker 1: Seriously though, Like, you know, what we get to do is you know, entertainers and entertainment discussing life, discussing living from a perspective where we get to absorb stuff. You know, when you really think about this time of where we are, what's happening in the world, and what we are absorbing. Man, I have to sit down and sometimes and be like, I'm just so lucky to be here and witness what we're seeing, you know what I mean to live through it, to be able to wake up in the morning and be like, wow, I survived another day.

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Speaker 4: Because we are not surviving, it's in a crazy state. How you how do you manage that?

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Speaker 1: I'm taking a moment to absorb because we get hit every day and new news, you know, family, we get hit with stuff all the time, right and by the time you've been hit with one thing, you haven't even had a chance to figure out what you're doing without how to react to that, what the impact is on you. You already moved on to the next what I have to do, and I have to do it is absorbed. I have to sit still for a second. But like, whoa, I'm an only child, so I'm used to sitting quietly because you just had no choice, right, And if I don't do that, I get overwhelmed. I get very overwhelmed. And honestly, like just the news cycle, good news does not sell. All we hear is network. You're very ambitious and creative.

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Speaker 2: I told you, I don't mean for the sales.

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Speaker 1: I mean for the humanity of it all. Well, it's funny you say that, because I see part of my job as an actor as part of that good news energy.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I love that because I feel like I get to, you know, give people an escape piss through, you know, via there in my donation by characters, I get to play, I get to talk to you, and we get to examine and talk about this stuff. I mean that's like, yeah, that's good news.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I know you jumped in here because I just give you, like an introduction, just just started talking.

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Speaker 1: That's how we do all the time, I know, but sometimes you have to let like the host like introduce you. Sorry, I forgot it's the host. I'm the host. Our guest today has lived many lives as.

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Speaker 2: An actor, a DJ, a producer, a global icon and father, an entrepreneur, a wonderful human being. He's played all kinds of things, from a king to a crook, to a president to a sea lion. He's done all the things. He is now back on our screens with season two of Hijack on Apple TV. A career like this doesn't just take talent. It takes dedication and reinvention and discipline and all the things that we can learn from.

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Speaker 1: So it's yourselfless.

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Speaker 4: Our guests today, I'm I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: We did the intro right. It felt like something about pretty good. When you said the sea lion. I was like worried a second. You were a sea lion. I was a sea lion. It's all inside of you. Yeah. We did dive in and I was sort of just you know, shedding, It's good seeing I love talking to you. You are you know that, But you know, we just dived straight into life life, the life of life thing.

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Speaker 2: He just in this a lot of people season of life right now because we're at the top of the year. We were talking about this when you came in January. Everybody likes to twenty twenty six. Now all that shit we were twenty twenty five. It's brand new, new energy.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do this.

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Speaker 2: We have all these goals, we have big to do lists, ambition. And then I was reading something like by middle of January, sometimes February, it's gone, ninety percent of that shit falls apart from people.

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Speaker 1: So I wonder from you is we talk about?

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Speaker 2: And it's true what I said in the intro, like, you cannot have a career like yours without discipline, without goals that you stick to. And so I asked your advice, and that for everybody who was kind of like on the new venture of twenty twenty six and the greater version of themselves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you do it? Listen? First of all, you know people's you know, we mark you know, the annuals by a date, right, it's sturdy. First, the first is the annual, your birthday is your new New year. Right. But the truth is those are not real times, they're not real schedules, they're not real cycles of time. You know, essentially you are conceived nine months before you're born, and even before that, you're alive somehow in some form. Right, So when I think about my time and so for example, you know I start my New Year's resolutions midway between the new year. I start my New Year's resolutions in July. Why because it takes time to get to your new you. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, It takes practice, it takes discipline, and the fun fact, a new habit doesn't really start forming unless you do it twenty one days consecutively, no breaks. So like if you want to get to the gym, you have to do it twenty one days, no off Sundays. You have to get up at five am every morning for twenty one days, and then your body starts to get used to that. Do you do that? No? But it's as I wish, I thought we were learning from you. But the idea, the idea of you know, the ingestion period. You know, being longer is important to accept. But you've set disciplines in your life. You probably have. You probably have some rituals. I mean, you stay. I've never seen you out of shape. I have never really I wear baggy clothes. No, but you take care of yourself.

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Speaker 2: You Yes, you're disciplined about that, about taking care.

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Speaker 1: Of I think partly is that I was. I was a kid that had egmar asthma. I was in that hospital when I was five, six seven, you know, and my parents, my mom, my parents were very strict on what I ate. Anything that would trigger me getting sick was sort of in doctrin into me really early. So, if I'm really honest, a lot of it is to do my discipline on the diet. They don't want to get ill and maybe I'll overkill I was. I think my career is super demanding, you know what I'm saying, Like I sort of live between someone that uses their brain and someone uses their bodies. You know, an athlete uses their bodies every single day. As an actor, sometimes you get up in the morning to run in a scene, you have to think like an athlete, and in your brain you're you're absorbing and dispelling a lot of information that you have to learn quickly. It's like being a professor or a teacher, you know what I'm saying, Not saying that's what I do, but just saying it's that sort of brain power. So I think having the habitual aspect of doing this sort of stuff keeps me in decent shape.

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Speaker 1: WI always consider that people have big goals.

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Speaker 2: I want to do this one day, But do you really think about what kind of conditioning you need to be able to execute that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly exactly I mean, but you know, it always goes down to the basic principles of preparation. You know what I'm saying and intention? What is that? You know? Like, Okay, Like let's say and you I'm coming to eat on Saturday. You're like, You're coming, cool, Okay, I've said it, but between now and Saturday, there's a few things that you're going to have to do. What I did. That is how you do it. Set it up. But you're going to prepare, You're going to think about the menu, You're going to think about the money you have to spend on that. There's all these variables that you prepare, prepare you for that meal. Yeah, it's the same in life in my opinion. You know what I'm saying, Like people can do anything they want to do, But are they did they go and do the shopping list? Do they check out the ingredients? Do they know how they're going to cook this? How long? What times everyone eating? How many food? That sort of level of thinking is what you have to apply to everything. Yeah, you do it when you're prepping the show. Yeah, everyone here, you're like, okay, this is what I need to achieve. Yeah, you already cut the edit in your head before you even hear you know it. You don't do that.

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Speaker 2: Even when you came in, I was like, I'll put the intro first and then I'll move that on the port. I already told you you're going to be a good director. It's so funny. Thank you for believing me. You know, I just tried it for my first time. It kicked my ass real bad. It was very challenging, yes, very challenging. Yes, because we did it on a small budget and I did There's a lot of things I didn't anticipate.

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Speaker 1: But it's great. I can't wait to do it again because I like anticipate. Yeah, that's the thing that didn't anticipate, the work, the tall the tiredness, the things that might go wrong. And it's applicable to life generally. I think you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So what are your goals for this year? Like you, what could you possibly be chasing at this point? Already I've already done so much, my friend.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to just be healthy, be happy, love and be loved. I mean, I'm serious. These are the things that I really value. Like, I like doing what I do for a living, and I'm very thankful for it. But I would I would not swap my health or my happiness just to keep acting or keep doing stuff. Because from a simple base of health and happiness and contentment, that's really important. I can do anything, you know what I'm saying, Like, you could take it all away from me. If I've still got my health, I've got some sort of positivity as in happiness, and I'm content with just all right, this is what I've got. I can go out and make another hundred bucks. I mean, but if I don't have those three or version of I don't think I can do anything. I can't do that. Yeah, So I'm not really chasing anything special. I'm just you know, I'm blessed. Man, I'm lucky. I'm so lucky, and I get to do it again. I have an in real life ball brought to you by Walden University. These are questions about real life. Would you go into the ball, oh man, and pick out a question? Do I have to be honest? Yes? Always? Are you an honest man? Yes, I'm guarded though I'm guarded.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Like in an interview, like with the cameras on, do you sometimes say too much? It depends on who's an interviewing me. Have you sent so much with me before? No? I don't think so. No. You and I when we talk outside of the cameras, we talk deep. Yeah, what I'm saying, and sometimes we might not agree on stuff we don't want to air that, Yeah, and that's good though not disagree disagreeing is fun. You want to go walk around with people, learn from someone that I disagree with, because if they can articulate why they feel the way they feel, please, So I've got to pick something, read it out, and then speak on it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some real life questions. There's nothing dramatic or do you have a sound relation? No, but would you like me to adding it's gonna be your voice doing that exact thing. But has now become the voice of the anti Martinez I r L bowl and it's gonna.

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Speaker 1: Go all right. So here's my question. I hope it's good. What is your go to self care ritual when burnt out? Oh, burnt out? Do you have self care ritual to define burned out? For me, right to be burnt out is when I I don't want to speak to anyone. I mean literally, I just don't want to see no one and speak to anyone. I am very tired, and when I'm burnt out, I get grumpy, short tempered, hundred I felt for that. I get grumpy, short tempered, and just short with people. That's my definition of burnout. My go to ritual for that is to literally just be by myself, just go somewhere where quiet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, quiet, Cilensio, you're a married man. You can't always be How does that work in marriage?

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Speaker 1: It's tough play the wife. Hey, no you can. I mean I feel like my wife and I have that rapport. She has five siblings, I have none, so she understands that I don't get it when I say I don't want to be around you lot. I'm good. She's like, yeah, but that's so extreme. I'm like, no, no, no, no, it's not. I just need to be by myself because you're an only child. I am an only child too, so I understand before you came up, was sitting in the room by myself really, and is a ritual for.

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Speaker 2: You sometimes if I feel a little over, I'm just sleaning a minute by myself, that's quiet, and think about what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: But you don't get grumpyche I'm.

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Speaker 2: I have some real life questions for you ready, Since you're this is like speed round in real life, speed round in real life?

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Speaker 1: What are you most proud of about yourself? Let's go right in. Damn yeah, I am proud that. I'm very proud that. I don't really get bothered by you know, criticism, opinions and such. It does bother me. I'm a human being, but I don't let it derail me. What do people ever say bad about you? Oh cool man? Like? You know, I can be fatiguing to people because I'm always trying to overachieve. That's that can be annoying to people. I'm a positive person, like I'll always look on the bright side, and that can be annoying. To some people. I'm a British actor that made it in America. That is annoying to some people. There's annoying to some people recently though. Really, man, but they didn't know, they didn't know, they didn't know.

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Speaker 2: We never would have thought a stringer bell had an English accent.

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Speaker 4: The thing I always really confused us my granddad. We don't know for it right now?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think. No, there's there's a big culture divide at the moment. That's is a bit painful to watch. But my granddad was American, Kansas City. So suck it. You've been waiting to say that all day. I haven't.

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Speaker 2: It's very hard to do in real life. Questions in a fast round, But I'm going to do it again in real life. What is your guilty pleasure?

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Speaker 1: So are we telling the truth? Yes? The truth? Only facts only? Uh? Guilty pleasure?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 2: We just had, we had, we just had, Jill, she said, She said, She said, Shawan and Blue Face the storyline, it's.

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Speaker 1: Her guilty pleasure. That's what Jill said.

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Speaker 6: I happened to love. I'm not proud I happen to love the drama between Blue Face and Christian Rock.

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Speaker 3: I love it. I know, I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: Now what is it about this said situation? I know that does it for you? What does it bring up for you?

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Speaker 3: I think that then that that's a pill, and I think I think that's a that's a pill. And I think that.

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Speaker 1: She caught up you see pleasure. Okay, I'm just gonna be like, I'll be watching those Nigerian comedy skits. Yeah, where the guy, the skinny guy is always after the girl with the big hips and he's trying to wash outside and she's just right in the garden. Then his wife comes along and he's doing something else and they always do these sound effects. Oh Jesus yo, I'd be bossing up. That's pretty good, way too much. I have not gone down that rabbit hole. Yeah, it's a rabbit hole. Nigerian humor is very funny to me. I'm going I'm going to do that. What is in real life?

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Speaker 2: What is a habit that you have that this goes in theme with our resolutions and discipline? What is a habit that you are proud of? In a habit that you are currently trying to break?

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Speaker 1: The bad habit I'm really trying to break is that I go to bed way too late, and I get just wait, not enough sleep. Yeah, Like I will be up until one or two in the morning, knowing I have to get up at five. You have the orr Ringer, doesn't it tell you? Yeah? I got this for Christmas and and I'm starting to learn some shit. R E M. I didn't get that much. You know, I'm really getting into that. Good for you, But that's a habit I'm definitely trying to break. I'm a night out. I don't really love getting up early, but I can't go to bed early. Have you conquered any recently habits? Uh? I no habits any good new habits, good new habits. I'm being disciplined around not losing my temper getting grumpy. This is really a theme it is. I find that I suppress that urge to be like the fuck up man all the time. I suppress it, Yeah, because I get irritable, and I'm better at it now. It's come up a couple of times today. I feel like this is something you're really battling well, you know what I mean. Like, I don't want to say it's like a relationship thing or anything, but I just find myself that older you get not the smartest person in the room, but you've just been there. And when someone hasn't been there and they're giving you advice, it's just like, listen, shut up. Don't you want a grumpy old man when you get older? Do you think, no, I won't to be grumpy, but I feel like you might be going into you don't feel like a grump? Do I feel like a grump?

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Speaker 2: I strive to be that though. I strive to be that person that's like, not grumpy, but just.

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Speaker 1: No fucks straight all the way. I want that, no fucks. I think that's a healthy place to be, right. I think in a world where everyone's bullshitting each other, be straight as to die.

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Speaker 2: And also, I think once you get to a certain age, you kind of earned that right to your point of like, you've experienced enough, you've seen enough, you earned the right too be a straight shooter.

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Speaker 1: All exactly, you know, even if it offends or or insult people. And also, even though I said earlier I don't care about people's opinions, I find myself getting a little consumed when I don't understand what you're saying. Yeah, like, come break it down with me. What and only to want to tell you to shut up, shut up? What about it work? What about in challenges?

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Speaker 2: Do you still get that feeling of like wanting something to perform well, leading something to perform well, anxiety of how something's going to be received, even it's season two, going to be received like season one, Like, do you.

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Speaker 1: Have that type of pressure? Yeah, definitely. I'm always calibrating and figuring out, you know, is what I work so hard for going to be received? Of the steps towards that, some of it is out of my hands.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I put a film up, you know, a hijacked twos coming. I don't know if it's going to do as well as the first I did the work, I don't know how it's going to perform. Now you can get bogged down with the minutia. Are trying to be in the weeds. I find that very dangerous, especially when I'm an executive producer on the show and an actor. So it's a bit of a weird place to be when you're trying to make sure that the health of the distribution of the show is done well to your taste. Oftentimes it's out of my hands, you know what I'm saying. So I do find myself doing that, but I think you should always you know, having good output is impressive. Everybody's impressed when someone dresses up nice or really good at what they do. Everyone's impressed by that. And actually it's good. It's good that the world values their output, you know what I'm saying. And it's good. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So I don't feel bad about that pressure. But yeah, but you do put the pressure on yourself. I do, I imagine I do, and I don't do it in a way that is about, you know, performative. I just want to be consistent. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't like doing things that.

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Speaker 1: Oh why did you do that? It wasn't that great? Why did you do it? I don't. I hate that. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You would have to be that to have this sad belong.

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Speaker 2: I think anybody who has like the longevity that you've had and be able to have a career, you have to shoot for greatness all the time, right, You're never shooting to be average or basic or for something to be Okay.

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Speaker 1: I just assume that this is my last job. I might not work again. Really Yeah, Still, it's that crazy it is crazy. I mean, yeah, you have that fear and that fire still. I can't remember I was twenty nine thirty when I got the wire, you know what I mean. For thirty years I was broke and not hitting you know that output. And so you know, I'm fifty three now, and you know, I feel like I'm just getting into my stride. I don't want to let it go. I still have that that mentality of like I don't wanted to let it go.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to, you know, diversify. I do a lot of different things, so I'm trying to diversify my talent. So right now my day job is being an actor. I do director, right, but I'm going to just spread that out a little bit further. I don't want to have to be in front of the camera all the time. Director, you didn't notice, I see, I see what's happening here. I feel like that's part of the next stage. Is kind of taking that. He's so good at it. I like, I love directing. This is like, you know, you get to sit in the seat that talks to everybody as opposed to the seat that everyone talks to you as the actor. So more behind the scenes, more behind the scenes. I'm doing quite a bit of work with Elbow Hope and the charity work, which has been amazing because you get again, I'm in sectors that have nothing to do with entertainment, but I have real life, you know, implications, real life outcomes, especially where in Africa, in Siri and in Ghana, where the things I'm working for impacting lives. You know, there's a young generation over there who have never been to a cinema. I can build a cinema. I can build things out. This is that what you're doing there? I'm trying to Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, what about love? Valentine's Day is upon us? Is it IDUs? Yes? That's why water is red sweater? Do you have a Valentine's Day for all the lovely? We have a very high a lot of women high women demographic.

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Speaker 2: On the I r L Podcast, Ladies, would you like to send the message of love to the love?

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Speaker 1: Wife always says to me, I am not romantic. She's like, she's just what you are going to break the hearts of everyone right now? I try, I definitely try. She'll say, you do try, but it's not natural to me. I'm tough love. And how do you receive that?

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Speaker 2: Do you receive that as an opportunity to try harder when you know?

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Speaker 1: Yes, because that's how you're supposed to receive it. If your wife says you're not romantic enough, you should receive that as I need to be more romantic. Yes, okay, me put this way right. I mean I come from you know, romance. I wasn't raised in a house that looked at romance in that way. What was romantic to my mom and dad? Is not you know, Valentino and bows and arrows. It was like my dad coming home with you know, food to cook for my wife, my mom and my mom and be like, wow, you got the good meat from the market. So romantic. That was romance.

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Speaker 4: A piece of meat more, you know, you know, putting food on the table and you know it's gonna be a good Friday, eat good.

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Speaker 1: That's romantic? Is that yours? What is your definition of romance? I like, I like being encouraging to my wife. You know what I'm saying. I love when she has moments of doubts. I like being that arm that ar to be like yo, you got this, you know, and just reinforced that she can do what she wants to do. And to me that you know, when she does that for me, that's romance. Like she buys me flowers, break but she just hugs me and like, yo, you're doing your thing. Homes of information. Yeah, you know what I mean. Just that's romantic to me. That's that's yeah, that's romantic to me. Like but the whole you know, hey, a lot of flowers and candy? Guy, I am, I mean I have to Sabrina. Yeah, she lives for it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: But you and the receiving and a romance, so you what you think of it is.

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Speaker 1: Like support and support for the ladies.

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Speaker 2: So who are going to go home to their husbands, this is your advice to them how to take care of you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate when it's kind of like, hey, I know you had this type of week, so I hooked your favorite things, and I know you want to be by yourself, so I hooks up a little studio few you know, there you go. That to me is so thoughtful. That's romance. Like I'm like, oh man, that's amazing. You know what I'm saying.

00:30:45
Speaker 2: I think you're going to do well this Valentine's Day season, and I think Hijack two is going to do amazing on Apple and I can't wait to see. Yeah, I can't wait to see all the work you're gonna do this year.

00:30:57
Speaker 1: I wish I had more time. We will welcome do more. Take one more before you go? There we go. I'm really gonna use that sound effect, but no, you were you get bored by the second time use it?

00:31:09
Speaker 2: Okay, what's it's possible, But for twice it's gonna it's gonna hit all right, I like this question for you, and then we're gonna, I know, we gotta go.

00:31:17
Speaker 1: That's one.

00:31:18
Speaker 2: You take that one, and then I'm gonna find the one I love, and then we're gonna let you get out of here.

00:31:21
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Here's the one that I'm going to do in the interim, which is what do you think is your superpower? My superpower is that I think if you sit down with me long enough, you'll see a version of yourself within my presence. I think that it's a super power to sit with someone and even if they don't look like you don't relate, you know enough culturally different, different gender, that actually when they talk to you and you connect with them, you're actually like, you know what, I feel like that sometimes I could be there. I could do that. It is the only thing that allows me to be transparent as an actor. When people watch my characters, so they like me or not, they'll be like, I kind of believe them in that role. Oh he was good in that. The reason what they're saying is because they see something within the character, within my vessel that they relate to me. That is to me a superpower that's something that I definitely feel like. You know, I can talk to young people in a room, and I pride myself of being able to talk to a bunch of ten year olds who don't relate to me whatsoever. I see my son, my son's eleven, you know, I talk to his friends and we kick it. I love that. And then I'll be able to sit in a room with a head of state who has degrees in social political, you know, management. I have nothing like that, but I can talk on a level about what they might be going through, how to think through things, and that is, to me, is my superpower. Yeah, that's a pretty good one. I think you have the say so. Of course, you've been part of the discussions with some of the most famous people in the world and opened up and given the world a window that no one else could get only through you. Superpower. Thanks man.

00:33:12
Speaker 2: Last question and then go, Okay, I asked this question to everybody on the walkout, so you got to get it.

00:33:20
Speaker 1: To Okay before you go, can you kick a sixteen freestyle off the dumb? Are you going to do that? Okay?

00:33:29
Speaker 2: No, it's not the question, guys, but if I wanted you to, you just worked with the great Slick Rick. If I wanted you to kick a freestyle right now, and you've made your own music, lots of it successful, could you kick a sixteen right now if you had off the dumb?

00:33:44
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:33:44
Speaker 7: No.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: Could you kick a pre written sixteen? I could kick. I could kick a pre written But I don't write rhymes. When I rhyme, I have to weirdly enough. Yeah, but I don't write them down. You want to make this spit of verse about my nople, I do not. Okay, Okay, they're fine. They just read the question. If God were to text you right now, what would he say? What would it say if you got that big text, that big text? Ah wow? I think he would say something like or she would say something like, it's okay, go ahead, close your eyes and just let it out. Which I would interpret interpretate is you know, for example, when press runs right, you're thinking about your answers. You sort of like you have to be presentable, going on Kelly Clarkson and Andrew Martinez. I have to give something, but sometimes it's better just to shut your I just speak from your heart, you know what I mean? And I think that's what he would say. I love that.

00:35:07
Speaker 2: I think you did that today. So yeah, yeah, eighty percent of it and I'll cut it. I'll edit the other twenty.

00:35:17
Speaker 1: The boring stuff like the sound effects and all of that. We keeping that. We love you, just love you all minds. So good to be here. Thank you so much. Yoga and pro. You're going I'm going pro. You are going pro and you are going to direct? Okay, perfect, get yourself in real life? Hey, what's up? This is in yoursella in real life?

00:35:43
Speaker 2: All right, guys, so it is now Angie Martinez in real life. So we do have a segment on the show and it's the voice notes presented by boost Mobile. Will you guys get to call in or you send a comment, send a question, And I'm going to try to do more of these so that we can have a little bit more interact with each other. So again, go to the Edge Martinez IRL page and then you can follow there, subscribe and send questions or comments. And if you're like a regular, we'll put in the stories like who's coming up, We'll tease what guests are coming up. And if you're a fan of any of them or you have a question for any of them, then you can send us messages that way, So that's how we'll communicate. But we have a voice note right now. This one's for me right letter.

00:36:22
Speaker 1: It Hi Angie.

00:36:23
Speaker 8: I'm an on air personality and I just launched my own podcast where I interview different guests, and I'm really trying to stand out from the crowd. You know, they say everyone has a podcast. What's the difference between a good interview and a memorable one?

00:36:38
Speaker 2: Listen, it depends what your standards are, Like a lot of people, how many people watched it as a good interview? For me, I think, you know, sometimes a good interview is just a good conversation and people like it and they don't feel like they wasted their time watching it, and maybe you learn something about the guest and the conversation stays flowing and interesting. I think that's a good A good interview one that stays with you, that's really meaningful. That really matters is when somebody shares something or you learn something that long after you've watched the interview, that that stays with you. Like I was talking to gab Union about this. She's a fan of the podcast, and she was saying that she watched Lauren London's interview and then had to reach out to her and they had long form conversation after that. Or sometimes I meet people in the street and say, you know, when this person said this, I needed to hear it.

00:37:29
Speaker 1: In that moment.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: To me, those are the meaningful ones when people share stories that we actually use or that just stay with you, just stay with you.

00:37:37
Speaker 1: In your life.

00:37:37
Speaker 2: There's so many moments, little moments with people that I have all the time that stay with me, and I'm so grateful for that. So I'm always chasing that. So to me, I think that's a separation for me, but I guess for everybody else is different. But ultimately, you want to learn something and you want to take away something from every conversation. And so I think as an interviewer, to answer your question, when you have somebody coming in you're about to interview them, think about that in like, what inspires you about this person? What is interesting or to be learned from their life or their experience, And I think you start your question asking from there.

00:38:09
Speaker 1: And then also once.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: You're in the interview and you're in the conversation, listen to your guests because sometimes they will take you to a place you're not even expecting them to go, and you have to be present to be able to let them go. There, So being prepared, having a perspective and idea of what you think the conversation should be like, and then being free enough to be in the moment and let something happen.

00:38:35
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of the sweet spot. So good luck to you. Thank you for your question. Hey guys, thanks for watching.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: Make sure you subscribe, like comments, and check out all of the other episodes we have on Edge.

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