Valuetainment - March 18, 2026


“I Dodged A Bullet” - Terrence Howard Reflects On Hollywood’s Dark Temptations

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Length

6 minutes

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168.22

Word count

1,083

Sentence count

43

People

Also mentioned:
Epstein Kevin Spacey Chris Tucker

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the Diddy/Ebony and Ivory scandal, the 50 Cent/Diddy beef, the Epstein scandal, and more. We also discuss Denzel's new movie, Denzel vs Kevin Spacey.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Last time we were together, I don't know how Diddy conversation came up.
00:00:05.680 That went everywhere.
00:00:06.440 You remember that when we talked about the Diddy conversation where I think he wants to.
00:00:11.720 Yeah, I think he's trying to better deal you.
00:00:14.760 And then afterwards, he obviously went to prison, court, all that stuff has been done.
00:00:20.580 And I don't know if you had a chance to watch the 50 Cent documentary.
00:00:23.380 Yeah, I saw it.
00:00:23.940 What did you think about it?
00:00:27.780 50 went in.
00:00:28.720 he went all the way in but it's like when you start judging people for the choices that they've
00:00:36.940 made you don't know the conditions and the circumstances that they were put under
00:00:41.140 you know like i think about those girls that did that to me when i was four where did they learn it 1.00
00:00:48.780 from who did what to them that made them think it was normal to carry this thing out
00:00:58.080 And, you know, I think that a lot of us get caught up in habits that was passed down to us that aren't necessarily innate from us, but they get passed on to us.
00:01:12.540 So I've got to look at him, you know, with compassion because you've got to remember he's still us.
00:01:19.800 You look in his eyes, it's the same light of God that's shining back.
00:01:24.340 It's just another wave of the universe looking at us.
00:01:27.400 Diddy, you know, even Epstein, all of them, what one human being does, all human beings are doing because we're just really, what happens in the sea over here, we don't say this wave just crashed.
00:01:39.900 What an interesting thing to say, when what, if one human being does, so, meaning someone taught Epstein, someone taught Diddy, when I had Suge Knight on, Suge Knight said, who did he say, Rob, that taught Diddy?
00:01:54.780 he gave a name uh quincy no was it clive clive davis yeah he said clive davis clive davis yeah
00:02:01.440 he talked about that what clive did early on and um and then so probably somebody taught clive and
00:02:08.460 this thing keeps the the did you hear any stories about epstein in hollywood or he wasn't a holly
00:02:14.700 no i mean not hell i when i would hear about chris ducker and people hopping on the hopping
00:02:21.120 on the plane to go there I didn't I didn't know that Epstein was you know the bad guy that he is
00:02:28.120 now but I was like damn I would love to go you know I didn't know what was happening no one
00:02:33.500 talked about it no nobody Harvey they did but not Epstein they didn't talk about Epstein I didn't 0.95
00:02:38.600 know but hell I could have easily ended up over there if he had invited me over there because you
00:02:44.820 You think, okay, I'm going with the Hollywood move.
00:02:48.500 That's how you get there.
00:02:50.120 Like, I wasn't invited to the puffy parties.
00:02:52.400 I wasn't invited to any of those things.
00:02:55.460 So that's, there's a part of me that's so grateful that I wasn't invited.
00:03:02.100 But back then, I felt excluded.
00:03:04.500 Back then, I felt like, oh, I must be doing something wrong.
00:03:08.940 You know, I wish I had participated in some of the druggery, you know, and then wouldn't have alienated people that were good friends with my, that could have been good friends, you know, because I still ended up participating in the druggery when I got older.
00:03:25.860 but at the time at the time I just didn't want to do it because you know I had these other things
00:03:31.860 that were pressing upon me now I didn't get stuck into druggery you know but yeah it would have been
00:03:38.660 nice to take some walks you know when I look back you know in my 30s it could have ended nasty it
00:03:44.660 could have been the fact that you didn't is probably a better thing so the universe places
00:03:49.100 you you can't really regret anything you know but there's still parts of me that's like wow
00:03:54.440 I dodged a bullet with Epstein.
00:03:56.400 I dodged a bullet because I wasn't invited to those places.
00:04:00.260 But at the time, I didn't see it.
00:04:02.320 I heard Denzel say once how he used to be so upset about Kevin Spacey.
00:04:07.660 Kevin Spacey was getting everything.
00:04:09.960 He had all these beautiful opportunities that even him, after everything he had done, he wasn't getting what he needed.
00:04:16.160 But I remember him saying, I wouldn't want to be Kevin Spacey now.
00:04:20.140 so he was upset that kevin was getting the opportunities yeah i'm sure he's he used to
00:04:27.640 really want because kevin got a lot of great challenging stuff and it was just in and i'm
00:04:34.200 not completely sure of the full context but hearing him say that hearing that that statement
00:04:40.060 and it was something he said in an interview that made me rethink yeah i'm so glad that i didn't have
00:04:50.060 those opportunities that I thought I needed
00:04:52.080 and wanted at the time.
00:04:54.600 Denzel seems like he had influence over you
00:04:56.240 in your career.
00:04:57.160 Yeah.
00:04:58.080 Yeah, he did.
00:04:59.840 Honorable man?
00:05:01.040 Yeah, he gave me some other advice once.
00:05:03.680 I did this table read, and I got loud,
00:05:06.540 and then he took me outside.
00:05:08.740 He said, listen, say you're walking down an alley,
00:05:12.880 dark alley, and there's somebody at the end 1.00
00:05:15.300 of the alley talking about, I'm going to kill you, 1.00
00:05:17.800 you mother, I'm going to kill you. 1.00
00:05:20.060 And, you know, he may be serious, but he said, how afraid of them are you? 0.99
00:05:26.400 He's all the way at the end of the alley.
00:05:28.660 He said, but if someone comes up to you and they say, I'm going to cut your throat, which one are you more afraid of?
00:05:36.860 The one yelling or the one whispering?
00:05:41.340 And so it made me stop being obnoxious in my acting.
00:05:47.760 Wow.
00:05:48.120 you know what a what a powerful advice to give sometimes the lowest tone can be scarier than
00:05:57.380 you having to scream that's the power god whispers god never yells hi everyone my name is terrence
00:06:06.220 howard i'm an actor um but in the field of science also so if you would like to connect with me you
00:06:13.160 You can connect with me on Manect.
00:06:16.000 The QR code is down below.
00:06:18.420 And let's have a great conversation.
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