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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Cedric the Entertainer and His Debut Novel, ‘Flipping Boxcars’

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by comedy legend Cedric the Entertainer to dig into his debut novel, ‘Flipping Boxcars,’ and the inspiration behind the story (4:05). Plus, they discuss his new series, ‘Kings of BBQ,’ and the celebration of all things grilled (13:46). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Cedric the Entertainer Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

And welcome to another episode of the

0:16.0

McCarty Cellis Podcast.

0:18.0

Today we have somebody who I feel like I've known my entire life

0:21.0

from comic view to everything that we love, none other than Cedric the

0:26.0

entertainer. How you feeling today man? My brother good man all is well man.

0:31.7

You've been playing it you've been playing any golf lately every time I see you online

0:34.8

look like you at a golf tournament of something. Yeah I've been doing a lot of tournaments

0:38.3

mainly I actually held mine a couple weeks ago in Cab where everybody came down it was fun and then I played it Derek

0:45.8

Fisher as a DJ Callits. I've been all around Anthony Anderson's so I've been and then I played a couple of times on my own just trying to get the game a little bit better man, but it's golf.

0:55.6

Yeah, I'm Tiger in the woods so I get you. Yeah, that's where he's fine.

1:02.0

I'm trying to raise money but I'm at your just to put for me losing so many golf balls.

1:08.0

Well, look, we usually have our, we start our show by having our guests walk us through the arc of their careers, but we know about your career and we know you and you're a friend of the show, but before we get into our book and we'll talk about your new book project and your barbecue project.

1:23.2

Let's talk about your perspective on the writer and actor strike right now and break it

1:28.1

down for folks if you can.

1:30.8

Is there an end in sight? You know, it's really tough because there's a lot of things

1:35.0

have really about the transparency of our business

1:38.0

that that's really the issue right now

1:41.0

and it's mainly kind of came from the streaming side, you know, once

1:45.8

companies like Netflix and Amazon who were considered technology companies

1:50.4

and not broadcast companies started to grow grow they were able to kind of create a model that they didn't have to reveal certain numbers and you know because of it because of that you, the model in which they pay people changed.

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