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Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. You're all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalamey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. Laurel Roses here as well. We got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. We got Chris Lofton, we got Isaac Keys, and we got Joseph Saccara. Welcome, gentlemen. How are you feeling, man? How's every day? Fantastic. You saw that at first episode. It dropped us heavy. Last week, that's right. Set it up for the rest of the season. it's going to be fire season. How do y'all approach doing a final season? Like, how does that even make y'all feel?

Is it bittersweet?

Like, what is, how do you approach? it up for the rest of the season, it's going to be fire season. How do y'all approach doing a final season?

Like, how did that even make y'all feel?

Is it bittersweet?

Like, what is, how do you approach it?

I think, like you just said, bittersweet. But, you know, I think once we know it's the final season, I think it makes us a little harder. You know what I mean? the scene's a little bit more intense.

I think the writing room did the same thing

is just making sure that every episode had a main factor to it.

And as actors, you know, we're gonna put our best foot forward

and I think we did a main factor to it.

And, you know, as actors, you know, we're like, we're going to put our best foot forward.

And I think we did a great job doing that.

Is it always that feeling like the last show would be so amazing, but like, yeah, we just can't end it like that. We got to do another one or another one. Is that ever a feeling? Or you're like, nah, this is a rap. well i think that uh gary and i just wanted to make sure that we um gave chicago chicago's do a big thing was is that i didn't produce the first season just the second and the third season and a big thing for

me was getting chicago better you know a little bit more realistic like even the power show is kind of like

new york adjacent but we wanted to be chicago, but it's like it's a real place.

We wanted to show the diversity within the diversity.

Like I think it was kind of like a globular south side of Chicago, a globular west side.

And I just mean that there was no specificity or details.

And we do a lot more detail-oriented stuff in the third season.

And I think that the city is really going to bless this show for this final season. What did you do to do that? What was your research like leaving the season? Well, yeah, you know, I moved to New York 26 years ago. So it was like, you know, I went back early and I met with cops and robbers and asked and learned more about the city because when I was there there was really it was

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