Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are, you
Speaker 1: are tuned in to the Vitamin D Podcast with your
Speaker 1: host a Dawn Day, and we're here to get you
Speaker 1: excited about your life. We want you to feel good,
Speaker 1: live life on purpose and for a purpose. But as
Speaker 1: life goes, there are ups and downs. So what happens
Speaker 1: when life hits you hard? You know, sometimes it's like
Speaker 1: that continuous slow and then you get that one hit
Speaker 1: that just feels like it just knocks the wind out
Speaker 1: of you. Now, I'm not talking about losing your keys,
Speaker 1: your phone, you can't find your parking spot. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about those big losses like a loss of a loved one,
Speaker 1: a friend, a career, a bad health diagnosis, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. We're living in a series of a
Speaker 1: crisis worldwide. It's causing us to open our eyes and
Speaker 1: to see what's going on around us. So today I
Speaker 1: want to focus on the positive that can come out
Speaker 1: of pain. Because while pain is inevitable, suffering isn't. While
Speaker 1: we will be hurt by major losses in our lives,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to rule us out. While we may
Speaker 1: be hurt by the major losses in our lives, we
Speaker 1: don't have to be ruled by them. You know, I
Speaker 1: came across this broat and it goes. If you feel
Speaker 1: like you're losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves
Speaker 1: every year, and yet they stand tall and wait for
Speaker 1: better days to come. Let me say that again. If
Speaker 1: you feel like you're losing everything, remember that trees lose
Speaker 1: their leaves every year, and yet they stand tall and
Speaker 1: wait for better days to come. You are going to
Speaker 1: have to stand tall for better days to come to
Speaker 1: that end. I'm talking to a friend, a mentor, a colleague,
Speaker 1: and too many known as your favorite play cousin from
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show and Mr Kid Junior Space.
Speaker 1: You don't know I've almost died seven times. I'm almost
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit about his life here.
Speaker 1: Has been in the comedy world for over twenty years.
Speaker 1: He's traveled with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Keith Sweat,
Speaker 1: and even Steve Harvey. I mean, the list truly goes
Speaker 1: on and on. But what you may not know from
Speaker 1: Kiras that in eighteen he found his best friend dead
Speaker 1: in an hotel room. It talks about how he overcame
Speaker 1: that he also talks about how Steve Harve you invested
Speaker 1: in his acorn. I'm telling you this conversation is riveting.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of inside six on pool
Speaker 1: at your heart strings. But guess what, you are going
Speaker 1: to walk out feeling excited about your life. So, without
Speaker 1: further ado, it's time for your dogs vitamin dam right
Speaker 1: with me and get excited about what's happening. How are
Speaker 1: you doing? Good? My best life? I can tell you
Speaker 1: all your future so bright they'll starnish shames on boys stall.
Speaker 1: I just walking the house. I just got half I've
Speaker 1: been at all day like that, I've been been in
Speaker 1: these I just walked in the house, got all my laptop. Look,
Speaker 1: you're done, date doing thank gird. I know, girl, how
Speaker 1: many studio days I've seen you in all kinds of
Speaker 1: shapes and forms. You've seen it from the but get
Speaker 1: into right. The first person I saw with it a
Speaker 1: contra tattoo in your mouth, I was like, get out
Speaker 1: of here now, black panther, go, oh my god. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that it is in there? And you know
Speaker 1: what it says? Life? Because I speak life. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, speaking life forever? What kind of baby, yeah,
Speaker 1: what kind of what ever? We just you know, this
Speaker 1: goes right in the topic because talking about Chadwick Boseman
Speaker 1: and rest in peace to him. But this going signs
Speaker 1: with that of why you gotta live your best life.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you. Vitamin D is a pun
Speaker 1: off my name. You get vitamin D from the sun.
Speaker 1: So I shed light into your life three podcast. Uh
Speaker 1: huh huh. So what we're gonna talk about today is
Speaker 1: just everyday life of what you've been through. And I
Speaker 1: want people that here, you on the radio, watch you
Speaker 1: on TV, go to your comedy specials to know a
Speaker 1: little bit about you and like, oh K did it?
Speaker 1: So can? I absolutely absolutely all of that is feasible people, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at that, look at that mean, look
Speaker 1: at that leader, look at that mentor you know, the
Speaker 1: confortence of me and Mrs Harvey had or the reason
Speaker 1: why you think about your entire existence, not just your
Speaker 1: life but Geren types isn't because to me, one person
Speaker 1: who can project you to another didition. What I mean,
Speaker 1: my whole life that I have been living before him
Speaker 1: was just to meet this one person who could change
Speaker 1: the projection of my entire existence. That's what Harvey is.
Speaker 1: That's what you have to acknowledge because not only did
Speaker 1: he jam my lifetime, but but whatever situations I've been
Speaker 1: going through, and we talk about these things, this is
Speaker 1: a public part. This is this is not about this
Speaker 1: is a private part. This is things we talk about
Speaker 1: that I know I've said to him, and trying to
Speaker 1: move through so many different things in life. And see,
Speaker 1: I didn't have a father like that, I didn't have
Speaker 1: a friend like that. You know, you know you was
Speaker 1: there when when my my friend died, the one I had,
Speaker 1: Brian Look died and then I had Harvey, and Harvey
Speaker 1: what people know when I was at the lowest at
Speaker 1: that point in time, Mr Harvey called me every day
Speaker 1: and he just kept saying words of encouragement, like, Man,
Speaker 1: we need you. Then is showing the same without you
Speaker 1: on it? Man, I'm trying to move past the situation
Speaker 1: that I was not prepared for. Nobody's prepared to lose
Speaker 1: their best friend. You ain't prepared for that part. And
Speaker 1: and as much as you're trying to think about it,
Speaker 1: what it could have felt like, it knocked the wind
Speaker 1: out of you. You know it's gonna it's gonna take everything, man,
Speaker 1: because I had never been to a situation like that.
Speaker 1: You're not prepared for what Brian had gave me. And
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody earlier about Brian today actually,
Speaker 1: but when he when he had gave me was a
Speaker 1: sense of you belong where. You don't get that all
Speaker 1: the time. And just because when I first started telling
Speaker 1: Joe's Bryan was dude over there since day one and
Speaker 1: then God snatched him. Are you trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how do you make it pass like this? With everything
Speaker 1: else you got going on? I just wish I had
Speaker 1: him back, man, because he was a sense of base.
Speaker 1: He gave me a base. He gave me a base
Speaker 1: about everything. We talked, talked about some man different things
Speaker 1: about how I handled this whole startom how do you
Speaker 1: handle this and that? And hey man, you just gotta
Speaker 1: continue to be in you. But the way he was
Speaker 1: saying it different days and we would laugh at all
Speaker 1: these different things, and then that's gone. And you're not
Speaker 1: gonna attest to that because because you met him toil,
Speaker 1: you know, it was around when I first started. He
Speaker 1: always talked so highly of you, and he said, how
Speaker 1: y'all went way back and started in the business and
Speaker 1: how he said. He was like, that's my boy. He
Speaker 1: was like, I believe in my boy. I'm a stand
Speaker 1: by my boy no matter what. The first fan I
Speaker 1: ever had. So when your first fan you ever had
Speaker 1: get slashed away from you, it's very difficult. Because when
Speaker 1: I couldn't see he had the vision, I couldn't see
Speaker 1: that far because I was like, yo, dude, I'm tired
Speaker 1: of this. He's like, hey, man, you can be tired.
Speaker 1: You can't stop you, but you can't out stop. But
Speaker 1: he would say you can be tired talking about I'm
Speaker 1: here for I'm here to hold you up. And he
Speaker 1: would do that, and we and and in the the places
Speaker 1: we had been and the and the the the when
Speaker 1: we were doing the things we were doing and I
Speaker 1: was trying to make a name for myself. He was
Speaker 1: there at every stage, at every point, Like when I
Speaker 1: would come off from opening up for Frankie Beverly and Maids.
Speaker 1: He he was right there. When I open up for
Speaker 1: Keith Sweat, he was right there on the side. When
Speaker 1: I came off for BB King, he was on the
Speaker 1: side when I opened for Bretha Franklin. He was on
Speaker 1: the side Anita Baker. He was right down the side.
Speaker 1: That was the dude that would turn to. But he
Speaker 1: taught me so much about encouragement, which led me to
Speaker 1: keep going on the mission. And then when we got
Speaker 1: to the morning show, when I got the news that
Speaker 1: Steve was gonna hiring me, He's the first person I
Speaker 1: called and he was the happiest. He was like, what
Speaker 1: did I tell you? You had a real chill leader,
Speaker 1: somebody that was down for you. I had, but he
Speaker 1: was like, what did I tell you? And then I
Speaker 1: appreciate it more on that day, because there was the
Speaker 1: day we were talking about. See what I'm saying. We
Speaker 1: drove everywhere, we were flying. He was driving across to
Speaker 1: from from Houston, from Texas to Birmingham to Virginia to
Speaker 1: uh North Dakota to Arizona to New Mexico. We was
Speaker 1: driving all of these places. So he used you mentioned.
Speaker 1: So just for those who are unaware what happened with Brian,
Speaker 1: how did Brian pass? In Atlanta? Um? We had went
Speaker 1: to uh Sear City Club six one seven that night,
Speaker 1: I went to dinner, you know, just you know, because
Speaker 1: we was living in California and just just places when
Speaker 1: I was living here before, we just frequent these spots.
Speaker 1: We go there, we had a couple of cigars. You know,
Speaker 1: Brian never drank, but we just from the cigar. He
Speaker 1: just enjoyed from cigars. Ain't we're gonna go here, we
Speaker 1: gonna smoke here, never drinking in at that. So we're
Speaker 1: at six one seven. He was about eleven o'clock and
Speaker 1: I was asking was he good? I said, man, you're good.
Speaker 1: And for some reason, Brian was moving to slow motion
Speaker 1: like everything else was at regular speed, but his head
Speaker 1: and on was so slow. He was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: this ain't normally What's stop going on? Because I'm looking
Speaker 1: at everything else. But I was like, why is this too?
Speaker 1: Moving in slow motion? This dude is what is he doing?
Speaker 1: And so we get back to hotel about twelve something,
Speaker 1: about twelve fifteen, he on the sixth floor. I'm on
Speaker 1: the third floor of the w here in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, man, see the morning. His last
Speaker 1: words was, hey man, don't be late. Twelve o'clock. Car
Speaker 1: be here to pick us up. Go back to the airport.
Speaker 1: I was like, dog one am I ever late? You know,
Speaker 1: just being me just well, I'm an ever late, don't
Speaker 1: I ain't knowing late damn well and be downstairs at
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock. He was like, hey man, I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you twelve o'clock. They said, I love you man. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey man, what you too. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know that was on the last time we spoke. And
Speaker 1: then I woke up that ext morning and I was
Speaker 1: downstairs and eating breakfast for the friend of mine about
Speaker 1: a business preposition. We're talking about this, and I just
Speaker 1: called him. I said, hey, you know, come down breakfast.
Speaker 1: Let's to eat breakfast because we gotta leave. And he
Speaker 1: never showed up. And then about twelve something two months later,
Speaker 1: when they came to me and said, hey, you might
Speaker 1: want to come see this. I never ran so fast
Speaker 1: in my life. And I knew that I knew what
Speaker 1: it was. I knew that he was having I knew
Speaker 1: he had problems with seizures and stuff. I knew because
Speaker 1: it was the one that so I ran to the womb.
Speaker 1: I rolled him over and it just was what it was.
Speaker 1: And it was like I was asking him to get up.
Speaker 1: I asked him, coll Man, we gotta go, we gotta
Speaker 1: fight the KTCH, we gotta go. And it was like
Speaker 1: when need you leave? The room. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not leaving room. I was about bed friend, did y'all leave?
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving him? And that's when I realized that
Speaker 1: my first cheerleader was gone. I realized he was just
Speaker 1: he was just gone. You know. It was just one
Speaker 1: of the thing we realized, like, hey, for the first
Speaker 1: time in my life, I never felt so alarm. And
Speaker 1: then you know tim z videos and yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: I hated. I hated that part about my life. I
Speaker 1: hated because the hardest thing was to call his parents
Speaker 1: and say, Hey, your son's gone. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I never gave them any details about what I saw
Speaker 1: in the room, and I knew somebody, you know, Joel,
Speaker 1: had sold the story, and I just couldn't believe people
Speaker 1: could be like that in a very private moment, extremely
Speaker 1: private moments. How long did you stay in there with him? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: there was the longest day of my life. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: probably only in the room about fifteen minutes because they
Speaker 1: they had to the fourth beam the room and then
Speaker 1: I just remember going outside his room, was on my knees,
Speaker 1: just bawling. But the assess for that day for the
Speaker 1: corner to come all the types of it was a
Speaker 1: it was a whole day process. It was one of
Speaker 1: those things like you really are getting the fact that
Speaker 1: he was going. So Mr Harvey was in Atlanta to
Speaker 1: at that time. He didn't come to the hotel because
Speaker 1: it has been a new story. But we talked about it.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, I can't come, I said, Harve, I
Speaker 1: don't want you to come. He said, but I'll sit
Speaker 1: in Blue And Blue came. Uncle Harvey's want his friend.
Speaker 1: He came. Blue came and helped me through the whole
Speaker 1: situation because you don't know how to deal with somebody dying,
Speaker 1: like I don't know how to find the body. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I know corner, nothing about that. And Blue
Speaker 1: helped me and assisted me for that whole day because
Speaker 1: I had to worry about all those different things. You know,
Speaker 1: I just knew that I didn't even get I didn't
Speaker 1: even I don't know how they got the better that
Speaker 1: I didn't have to see it. This just just the
Speaker 1: thing was just you didn't want to see it. A lot, Loan,
Speaker 1: you don't even know if you're really there and seeing
Speaker 1: what you're saying, What are you hearing? What is everybody
Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, everybody was talking all these different things,
Speaker 1: you know, and they were saying all these different things,
Speaker 1: and you can hear the conversations. I just was in
Speaker 1: a corner. There's one Atlanta police officers set with me
Speaker 1: for the whole day and I can't remember his name,
Speaker 1: but this officer sat with me for the entire that
Speaker 1: he came at twelve. He lead to ten something because
Speaker 1: they took about ten hours from as to be over. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to get Brian's parents. His dad
Speaker 1: came down, and his sister came down because she didn't
Speaker 1: want her dad to be alarmed. So the ways everybody
Speaker 1: got there, everybody had a hotel room. It's one of
Speaker 1: the day. It was just a long, long day. It's
Speaker 1: one of the hardest things. But I learned so much
Speaker 1: during that day about what your tolerance is. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: have to look at what's the stress level, Like everybody
Speaker 1: has a stress level. You've got one level you're at,
Speaker 1: and so you look at what Brian Sting was, like,
Speaker 1: what's the breaking point? You know, what is your breaking point?
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know where the breaking point
Speaker 1: is because they have not put at that level. Well,
Speaker 1: that day, I learned that my my stress level is
Speaker 1: this part my breaking point is this high on, way
Speaker 1: above my stress level, because I had to experience something
Speaker 1: that showed me that how much you really can tolerate,
Speaker 1: even as other as it is, you know as it is,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm sidday go by that I
Speaker 1: don't think about the first person that I had as
Speaker 1: a fan and a friend. You know, you know, spar
Speaker 1: from friends. You was sixteen, you know the end of that.
Speaker 1: So he said, that's my boy, he he said, that's
Speaker 1: he said. I always got his bad a lot of
Speaker 1: times when I was on stage. I was point, I'll
Speaker 1: just performing for him because we would we would be
Speaker 1: riding in the car, right kneed jokes and like Dog
Speaker 1: Washington do this tonight? Won to say it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say we talked about on this little five hour ride.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, and he could like say it,
Speaker 1: say it and it would go just like we're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, it would go just like we're playing. And
Speaker 1: then I just learned so much from that one loss
Speaker 1: about who I was as a person. It's funny that
Speaker 1: you can lose something and discover something about yourself. What
Speaker 1: you say, say that again? I lost something that was important.
Speaker 1: But what I learned was in the process was how
Speaker 1: big of a person I was through the loss doing wrong.
Speaker 1: The hurt is there still there. It's a daily hurt.
Speaker 1: What I found out was I can absolutely respect the
Speaker 1: fact that he meant that much and he showed me
Speaker 1: exactly who I was by the loss, not by while
Speaker 1: he was here. C he was just my dude. We
Speaker 1: were running together. I went to other he was gone,
Speaker 1: that I realized how much he taught me and by
Speaker 1: how much I was of a person. If I never
Speaker 1: would have lost him, I never wouldn't realize with all.
Speaker 1: And so God has a way of giving you something
Speaker 1: to build up to, and then you lose it, and
Speaker 1: you can realize that in that loss, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm way much stronger than I am. Come on, but
Speaker 1: one person it was. It was the one person that
Speaker 1: gave me the most. And and then you lose that part. Well, well,
Speaker 1: well I gonna have those experiences. That's just what life.
Speaker 1: You are blessed enough to have a relationship like yours.
Speaker 1: Whoever you love the most, think about the day they're
Speaker 1: gonna be gone. It's not it's not they on you
Speaker 1: thinking about like what This is what I loved about
Speaker 1: this person. This is what I appreciated about this person.
Speaker 1: This is what this person actually showed me. And then
Speaker 1: I think everything I did from Brian, I take it
Speaker 1: and I get to invest it in a new person. See,
Speaker 1: now I found somebody else. The lessons that Brian taught me,
Speaker 1: I get to invest because I didn't look at everything
Speaker 1: the way Brian looked at everything. Some stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: just for just for Drine, I just I was just
Speaker 1: selfish by some things. For Brian, part was quit being
Speaker 1: self That was his response, quip, being selfish, don't this
Speaker 1: is what you do? This is it? Is it? Hey man?
Speaker 1: Look at this. I was like, hey man, you're right
Speaker 1: because when you start this journey out, you're selfish because
Speaker 1: you only had you um and you started this journey
Speaker 1: over twenty years ago. Yeah, I started this journey out.
Speaker 1: We're just looking for how I can be one thing
Speaker 1: that don't go no different for for for actors, you
Speaker 1: don't got different for for for comedians, don't go to musicians.
Speaker 1: All of us started out as a selfish journey. That's
Speaker 1: how the journey starts. There ain't nobody to say, hey man,
Speaker 1: no matter what my family going through I must do X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z. But then you guys a body on
Speaker 1: the journey with you, and they show you that, hey, dog,
Speaker 1: you have messitioned now that it ain't about you no more.
Speaker 1: Now it's about X, Y and Z. And this is
Speaker 1: how you want to help other people. This is why
Speaker 1: you're gonna do this thing. This is why you're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, This is why you're gonna do that. And
Speaker 1: that was a constant thing for a purpose. Why I
Speaker 1: became a bitter person because I lost something that told
Speaker 1: me that it ain't about you no more. The first
Speaker 1: five years about me. I can't get that how you feel.
Speaker 1: I'm not get somewhere. I'm trying to get out of poverty.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna see w Priorty being on your way.
Speaker 1: It's don't you damn what you're going through all out?
Speaker 1: I want altum give me out now, Hey man, you
Speaker 1: need to do you need you need to do this
Speaker 1: that Hey, hey, hey, I want out. I don't have
Speaker 1: no time for nothing. El I'm sick it is. I
Speaker 1: was sick of it. I'm sick of sleeping at wrist stops.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting driving four hundred miles for two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: then all this dome. Well what got you started and
Speaker 1: doing it? The dream? The vision? You just you already
Speaker 1: knew that. If I'm a little kid, you said, I
Speaker 1: want to be a comedian, I want to be funny, Like,
Speaker 1: how did that happen? I probably have about fourteen, about
Speaker 1: fourteen years old, and I knew this is just what
Speaker 1: I was gonna be doing. But it's one thing to say,
Speaker 1: you know what you'ven be doing, what you're gonna do,
Speaker 1: what it take to get there is a whole another.
Speaker 1: What you say. I was just talking too J about
Speaker 1: that had a dream done? You can have the dream,
Speaker 1: Come on, you can have it. So Katy, have a dream.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I'm like, nobody different. It's okay for
Speaker 1: God to tap you and show you exactly what you're
Speaker 1: gonna be doing. God tap me in fourteen just like this. Hey,
Speaker 1: oh God, that's what I'm doing because I love doing it.
Speaker 1: I love watching this. I'm watching depth coming jam. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna TV. He's like, you're gonna be doing I
Speaker 1: was like, oh God, that's great. What it took to
Speaker 1: get there? Hey guy, are you sure this? Mate? I
Speaker 1: don't you know, Um, can we backtracked? Because I think
Speaker 1: that being uh this person would be great for me.
Speaker 1: I think that would be uh. I go. You gotta continue,
Speaker 1: get continue to path, you gettat. You got to be
Speaker 1: on it. You gotta be on it. Why why I
Speaker 1: got to be on it? Because because you know what
Speaker 1: this ain't. I'm time to sleep at risk stop. I'm
Speaker 1: tied to uh it. But I'm I'm wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I'm sick of all this stuff because this ain't what
Speaker 1: I had playing for my life. Lord, I'm only twenty six.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to Hey, hey, trust me, It's gonna pay
Speaker 1: out in the end. You gotta keep going, well, God,
Speaker 1: to keep going parties, but you keep going with I
Speaker 1: don't really carefully. To to to be going and keep going
Speaker 1: is tough because I don't have anything to show for it.
Speaker 1: All you got is that feeling in the vision to
Speaker 1: know that it's yours and nobody can identify with that
Speaker 1: feeling that you have. But then you're you're talking about,
Speaker 1: Oh god, I'm I'm tired of doing this party, this party,
Speaker 1: this is really uh gotta lee man, I'm look God,
Speaker 1: I'm on I twenty in the middle of uh Jas
Speaker 1: and Mississippi, or you're in you're the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: in the middle you have these conversations in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. You sure because I can't see it, but
Speaker 1: that one little voice of it, Yes, keep going, just
Speaker 1: keep going. Yeah, I promise you. I probably you don't
Speaker 1: see it today, but hey, hey, hey, hold on, I'm
Speaker 1: going down here for sevi five dollars of them. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get seventi five dollars. I'm gonna drive this far.
Speaker 1: It's the middle of the night, it's two in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rest stop, I'm gonna driving this other far.
Speaker 1: And you're telling me it's all right, yeah, yeah, trust me,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be good. Yeah, trust me.
Speaker 1: You can't see it right now. I'm telling well, this
Speaker 1: is years of those conversations. God, I'm I'm onna sixty
Speaker 1: five ninety five. I'm only God, I'm just tying. I'm tying.
Speaker 1: Just see why I just go back and beat No, No,
Speaker 1: it's not. You have to go down because guess what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. And then you start realizing the other part
Speaker 1: when you get there, like this that happen You're gonna
Speaker 1: help uh, so many people once I get you where
Speaker 1: you're going, But I need you to go through a
Speaker 1: lot of different things that you're not gonna be comfortable with,
Speaker 1: but the impact you're gonna have, and when you get there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see that I had to have you go
Speaker 1: through all these different things so you're tough enough. And
Speaker 1: then when you get there, watch the thank yous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: watch the thank you You're gonna get watched. And so
Speaker 1: gets what I get the experience today, all of the
Speaker 1: thank you is I get all the thank you is
Speaker 1: not just for being on the morning show, but the
Speaker 1: thank you of thank you for helping me tell the
Speaker 1: story about Signal Selle, thank you for being an authentic person.
Speaker 1: Thank you for reaching out to me, thank you for
Speaker 1: helping me with this, thank you for donating to this.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that I don't even know you just
Speaker 1: gonna help me with so all of the thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh I keep going on. I do it for all
Speaker 1: of the thank you, Like all the thank you is
Speaker 1: like getting now. Uh, I wasn't getting twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Whom twenty years ago, I was just actually having a comment. God,
Speaker 1: I'm so tired. This this is come on. Now, I
Speaker 1: can't do another rest. I got twenty five dollars. I
Speaker 1: got to side between food and gas. Well, um, I
Speaker 1: ain't got to be over here to this date and
Speaker 1: do this part. Okay, so if I get see that's
Speaker 1: why I think McDonald for the dollar menu, I had everything.
Speaker 1: Come on, no, people understand that dollar mean you mean
Speaker 1: a lot. And then I sent cheeseburger, n sent fries
Speaker 1: and a night ninth cent. So for three dollars, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna eat. Probably not the healthiest choice, but I'm gonna eat,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make it to the next des amation.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the way I gotta go. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this is the best way I can. I did
Speaker 1: that for years and then what happens? How did you
Speaker 1: and how did you mean? Harvey? How in the world?
Speaker 1: How in the world this brother is out on the
Speaker 1: road sleeping the rust stops driving for seventy five and
Speaker 1: maybe that was a good night. How do you get
Speaker 1: in the room with Mr Steve Harvey? Men, Harvey for
Speaker 1: the first time? This is why I loved by heart.
Speaker 1: Harvard been the same dude so eighteen years ago, I
Speaker 1: meant the same dude he's been the same. I'm telling something.
Speaker 1: Harvey been the same cat Harvey been. I'm just laughing
Speaker 1: because hard Be the same dude that I met that
Speaker 1: we get to hear every more. But but I met
Speaker 1: this dude. He was a Richard Kings of comedy all that.
Speaker 1: He was a comedian like you know, like he was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I started I started doing Coming nine and nine. So
Speaker 1: three years later I meet Hard So I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this dude is like oh. I was saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: what happened? Are you at the club? What are you at.
Speaker 1: I've seen the Mike Tyson I joke, I've seen the
Speaker 1: Kings of Coming, you know, I seen out all that
Speaker 1: I said, and I'm a fan. I first meet Harder
Speaker 1: because Rushan McDonald all this stuff from Sean Talk Houston,
Speaker 1: and he was man just Steve at the time, and
Speaker 1: Sean McDonald was having they were at Steve's company was
Speaker 1: having a showcase. But because I knew Sean McDonald, they
Speaker 1: called me like, Yo, come down to l A. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do the showcase. This is what we're doing. We're
Speaker 1: showing off to NBC, ABC, CBS, WB Young Talent. So
Speaker 1: that that was the showcase. He was push back. That
Speaker 1: sounds like an upfront or something like that. Yeah, something
Speaker 1: like that, you know, But I don't know all these terms.
Speaker 1: I'm just oh, I'm glad they asked. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna see Steve. I don't know that Sean
Speaker 1: had come down there because we were the only group.
Speaker 1: Uh that was me and Al Freeman, was only two
Speaker 1: people outside of Los Angeles. I was coming from musing
Speaker 1: to come down there. So I was standing with Sean
Speaker 1: McDonald in his house in l A. And we go
Speaker 1: there to Sherman Oaks, to the theater where we were
Speaker 1: rehearsing it and stuff like that. Like I didn't even know.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen Steve. Since this is two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen Steve yet. One day Steve content of rehearsing,
Speaker 1: he was doing them. He was just finishing up his
Speaker 1: business on his day job radio show, all this type
Speaker 1: of stuff. I am saying that, man, I going to
Speaker 1: rehearsal one day and Steve is sitting in there. So
Speaker 1: Steve was so fly then everybody knew who the hell
Speaker 1: that was. That's like, it's like, I ain't no guessing.
Speaker 1: That's why I'll be laughing because at Hard Hard ain't
Speaker 1: no guessing. When you walk in the room, you'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's see her, like it ain't know, Um, that's so
Speaker 1: and so. No, you say that's that's Steve Hard. You
Speaker 1: know he's sitting there cool. I'm talking about cool. He
Speaker 1: had on his blue silk suit. I don't silk, but
Speaker 1: it was shiny. It was like like' just so now
Speaker 1: I'm a fan again, like little cheese at its fine. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god. He's actually watching the talent.
Speaker 1: He's got in there for nothing else. He's actually studying
Speaker 1: and seeing what the project is, what they're doing. See,
Speaker 1: he wasn't about him. He was in there trying to
Speaker 1: help us. So I watched this do us like, you know,
Speaker 1: I was so young then, you know, I gotta say
Speaker 1: I was like twenty two, twenty years. I was like
Speaker 1: twenty years. I was like, but when I walking that,
Speaker 1: I was such a fan. I was like, oh and
Speaker 1: stay was so cool. That's all just like oh it's
Speaker 1: so good. Hey man, just did out man? You good?
Speaker 1: Na not good? It's you. Oh my guys. Then if
Speaker 1: you know I'm at lunch with Steve, then you go
Speaker 1: to lunch, went to the Rainforest Cafe. Off of being
Speaker 1: through bulletbar. Exactly what I said over here having lunch
Speaker 1: with Steve her, I can't believe I'm calling. I'm on
Speaker 1: the phone calling my mom Mom. Now I'm not whispering.
Speaker 1: He's sitting across me. Mom, you ain't gonna be home
Speaker 1: sitting and having lux spit. Who Steve Harder So hear
Speaker 1: his name all goddamn. Then two hours later he was
Speaker 1: getting ready. It was a Wednesday. We would getting ready
Speaker 1: for him to do go do the l Ray theater.
Speaker 1: He would do the l Ray on Wednesdays for like
Speaker 1: they're there, showtime deal, Paulo night. So we go to
Speaker 1: his penthouse in Beverly Hills. So in one day with
Speaker 1: the lunch with Steve, I saw a rehearsal and now
Speaker 1: I'm at the penthouse in Beverly Hills overlooking the Pacific.
Speaker 1: Oh what? And one day I'm like, you got you
Speaker 1: got to stop, said the ben hoouse. He goes back
Speaker 1: in the back, he got the blue suit, put on
Speaker 1: this nice little gray suit with the white. He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's roll. So we go back downstairs on ste four
Speaker 1: the penthouses. But I had to note beside I started
Speaker 1: learning how to dream. There's only four apartments on top
Speaker 1: of his his building in Beverly Hills. On four apartments.
Speaker 1: They all look out over the over the Pacific. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is what this is how you live?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, like that. Don't even worry about that.
Speaker 1: Get back downstairs. This is pre talk show Steve. This
Speaker 1: is pre and lazy Steed. This is pretty little big
Speaker 1: shot Steed is pretty Steve maybe a long long time.
Speaker 1: I've been staying the dude since and so he was
Speaker 1: always his clud. So then he takes me to the
Speaker 1: l A Theater where it's sold out. We're going to
Speaker 1: the back of the l Ray Theater in l A.
Speaker 1: Steve walks out on stage and walking the back door,
Speaker 1: walking back on stage and he does this show like
Speaker 1: the Apollo, but it was in l A. And he
Speaker 1: does his show and it shows like two and a
Speaker 1: half hours, right, Steve, like that killing him. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about I'm on the side stage walking now. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I have no name, nobody nothing. The question becomes at
Speaker 1: that moment, why are you here? Why are you getting
Speaker 1: to see this? What is what? What is what is
Speaker 1: your role in this? Whole procest and you know, I
Speaker 1: was just thinking, and why did he take a liking
Speaker 1: to you? I don't know. There's nothing fact that he
Speaker 1: took it like it. It's very very when he showed me,
Speaker 1: come on, he just showed me something that I had
Speaker 1: no clue about. So in the middle of a plaque
Speaker 1: and cheered all that, I said, what you doing here?
Speaker 1: M all the people everybody in this country? Why are
Speaker 1: you this close? Have you ever thought about that part
Speaker 1: for your own life? Sometimes you'll be so up close
Speaker 1: to the fire that you can you forget the ass?
Speaker 1: Why ain't lit it? WHOA? First of all, you know
Speaker 1: white here. Don't be coming out here spending these gems
Speaker 1: like that because in the minute I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: bring out a pen and paper. Why are you hanging
Speaker 1: around with all these people to fire and you ain't
Speaker 1: lit you? Why you ain't let it? Oh? I just
Speaker 1: had enough sense to know, I enough since to know
Speaker 1: why I was there. You can recognize I get it,
Speaker 1: And guess what favorite ain't fair? Come on, say a
Speaker 1: favorite ain't fair? Sometimes you're in positions in your life
Speaker 1: because they you need to get the lesson. Harvey showed
Speaker 1: me something now I was, yeah, stand I was twenty
Speaker 1: one years old. So then when people say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: where you come from, I've been here the whole time.
Speaker 1: If saying, oh my god, you we love you, where
Speaker 1: you come from? I've been here the whole time. You
Speaker 1: ain't come out of nowhere, done you ain't come out nowhere.
Speaker 1: I ain't come out nowhere. He's been here the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's just the focus shifted. What's that's it? So now
Speaker 1: you're gonna at me and he's like, oh my god, um,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we love you, Junry. No, I've been
Speaker 1: here the whole time, though. What's the difference between cre
Speaker 1: space and nothing? Ain'tnohing? Same dude, same dude, same exact person,
Speaker 1: same exactly, everything, same exactly, And ain't nothing shifted. I've
Speaker 1: been here the whole time. People telling how how did
Speaker 1: you Harvey find you? Don't nobody know that me Harvey
Speaker 1: men in two thousand two mm, because you know, I
Speaker 1: was just listening on the show the other day. He said,
Speaker 1: you're the youngest on the show, and the youngest on
Speaker 1: the show by age, and how long you've been on
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, exactly, I've been on the show nine years. Now,
Speaker 1: But I've been to Harvey. Harvey didn't hire me on
Speaker 1: the ratio to two thousand eleven. I've been to Harvest's
Speaker 1: to tell them too. So what happened in the nine years?
Speaker 1: What happened in those nine years? You tell me what
Speaker 1: did you have to get to deserve that seat? I
Speaker 1: went did comedy, I went and did plays. I want
Speaker 1: about my career. All of a sudden, I get a
Speaker 1: phone call um and to sell and ten to open
Speaker 1: up for Harvey in Miami. Right, So Harvey calls me,
Speaker 1: his people called mean j T. Hit me up. Hey, Yo,
Speaker 1: Harvey want to know if you want to open up
Speaker 1: for him in Miami at the bis Can with the
Speaker 1: with the Marriat connects to it bis Can Theater in Miami.
Speaker 1: I get the phone cars like, um, why is he
Speaker 1: asking me? Do I want to want the obvious answer? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But here's my question? Who all said no? Right? That
Speaker 1: even gotta be a question? Yeah, I asked who all
Speaker 1: said no? Because y'all reach your way down here to
Speaker 1: find a cat like me to open up for Harvey
Speaker 1: in Miami. He got said, d L burning Matt. You
Speaker 1: think about all these people he can call, So you
Speaker 1: can't come. What the hell did you reaching back to Houston,
Speaker 1: Texas but to find me? But okay, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna do it. So I get to
Speaker 1: Miami after Harvey and my Ami and I've seen him
Speaker 1: over the year and being just talk but I see him.
Speaker 1: You know who I am. I mean, we have a
Speaker 1: cordial relationship at this point. Hard what Julian what sad? Man?
Speaker 1: Ain't the man? What's going on with Man? Now? I
Speaker 1: let you man? Lady two is back people breakfast film,
Speaker 1: we eat breakfast, munch and get did we go to
Speaker 1: the show in the same hotels? Right about six thirty?
Speaker 1: I get my stuff together, I'll go over to the venue.
Speaker 1: Show started eight. I love this damn crown on fire
Speaker 1: Man just set five. Harvard was on the side of
Speaker 1: stage when I come on stay. He said, Man, what
Speaker 1: the fund is you saying? No, I don't come in
Speaker 1: montressing room for nobody. Wow, your ways out here saying
Speaker 1: I heard all this noise. I had to come see.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Man, we're just at telling jump Hard That's
Speaker 1: all I'm doing. So when I live in Miami, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: you want to do Philly Love Philly? Hey, man, you
Speaker 1: want to do Oklahoma City, hert Olahoma City, you want
Speaker 1: to do duns Live, O'Dell, you want to street Port.
Speaker 1: Harvey was touring, so he was paying me beating all
Speaker 1: the show. So in five weeks I had made by
Speaker 1: sometimes what mind you just the same brother that was
Speaker 1: driving at two o'clock in the morning for seventy five dollars?
Speaker 1: What you say? And that's why for me and Harvey
Speaker 1: relationship and you've seen it, you know, hard relationship is
Speaker 1: where it is. And I get a call one day
Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven, in August and two thousand eleven,
Speaker 1: sure enough, I say, this is per Steve Harvey. Uh,
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey would like to uh help you with your career. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's it wasn't a job, he said, it's with your career.
Speaker 1: And that's when I knew that two thousand and ten
Speaker 1: I was gonna grow that. Then to Donard Living, he
Speaker 1: gave you a job, and that's how Junior became to be.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting, and I guess, you know, I just
Speaker 1: I just get worked up Tomes because I just think
Speaker 1: about how you just gotta live your life and pursue
Speaker 1: your dream and to hear you say this, and this
Speaker 1: is you know, if you're listening, go check out this
Speaker 1: YouTube video where Harvey put up and he talked about
Speaker 1: how you gotta find somebody to invest in your acorn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he invested in your acorn. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 1: I was actually that's acolutely true. That was um, that's
Speaker 1: actually I know it was with me him. This is
Speaker 1: why it's hard to pigeonhole this man in one way,
Speaker 1: because he does so many things because because he had
Speaker 1: invested in me, then all things that he cared about,
Speaker 1: I invest in them too, because he just just because
Speaker 1: he just took a chance. So I'm never not busy
Speaker 1: to go down there to the mintering camp. I mean, man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have fun anyway. So I go down to
Speaker 1: the mentoring camp and I hang out with those kids
Speaker 1: I see down You know, we don't publicize any of
Speaker 1: these things that we do. The thing about it is
Speaker 1: that because he invested in me, and I invest in
Speaker 1: other people. So you may run across people you be
Speaker 1: like they may sending like, oh my god, Junior invested
Speaker 1: in you. You shouldn't be shocked because you be like,
Speaker 1: it's some people are in this business because she gonn
Speaker 1: run across the people like, oh my god, I've been
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. I've been doing the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't do anything uh differently than
Speaker 1: what I'm doing now, you know, I just I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody focuses on the position. We just focused on the
Speaker 1: word M. So Harvard said something to me one time.
Speaker 1: He was like, he asked me a question. This is
Speaker 1: when I first started working. I probably had been working
Speaker 1: for hard Fain about six months and we're sitting in
Speaker 1: the studio in Atlanta, and he says, hey, man, why
Speaker 1: are you doing this now? Probably right remembers that. But
Speaker 1: he was generally asked me a question because he was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what my intent was, because a
Speaker 1: man just look making people admount to say, man, that's
Speaker 1: all good what you're doing this The focus was he
Speaker 1: was trying to get me to say, because I want
Speaker 1: to build a better life in my family. And I
Speaker 1: was just over here, just dedicated to the fact that
Speaker 1: you gave me a job to give it up too.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, that name of the folks. See
Speaker 1: the folks ain't to be famous. The focus is to
Speaker 1: build a better life for your family. Which spoke to
Speaker 1: why he does everything he does and why he does that,
Speaker 1: why he does it. I was so caught up on
Speaker 1: hey man, I was so glad to have a job.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, no, no, you're missing the point.
Speaker 1: And he taught me that five months as I started working,
Speaker 1: that the focus is to build a better life for
Speaker 1: your family. And that's for any man, that's for anybody working.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. Don't get caught up
Speaker 1: in the fame of the position, which was the liston
Speaker 1: he taught me within the first three months of working
Speaker 1: for him. We're not doing this for fame, though, We're
Speaker 1: doing this to build a bit of life. Five families.
Speaker 1: Any hard working man or woman wants to build a
Speaker 1: bit of life. And so I was young at that point,
Speaker 1: I didn't understand what he was saying. I was thirty
Speaker 1: three years old. I had no clue. But now that
Speaker 1: i'm what you too, I can see there and say
Speaker 1: I get it. I know why I do the work.
Speaker 1: I know why I get up in the mornings, I
Speaker 1: know what the y it is. It's a bit of
Speaker 1: a bit of life for my family. That's the enjoyment
Speaker 1: we get out of what we do you ain't doing
Speaker 1: this done on this podcast and talking all the people
Speaker 1: just could have done one talk. You're build a bit
Speaker 1: of life for your family, That's what we're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was telling Carla that and she's like, you know, darn,
Speaker 1: you know taking easy. I do think there's a level
Speaker 1: of balance. But I was like, Carla, there's so much
Speaker 1: I want to see and just like that thing that
Speaker 1: you talked about, that voice that's saying there is more
Speaker 1: to travel the world to have these experiences. And the
Speaker 1: plus is that I get to inspire people like, come on,
Speaker 1: how how dope is your purpose when it gives to
Speaker 1: other people? Stop playing with me? No, I told to
Speaker 1: get it. I mean I can see up and say, man,
Speaker 1: sometimes they get the quiet moments when I wake up
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Well, I said, there's that. I'm just like, yo,
Speaker 1: for real, for real, real, let's just admit, let's just
Speaker 1: all just admit you got a dope ass, Like dude, Wow,
Speaker 1: I was sitting back to stay Yeah, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: pretty dope. I mean, just to be honest, in those
Speaker 1: quiet moments, you have to take that in. But you
Speaker 1: guess one though, at least recognize the journey that you've
Speaker 1: been on and how far you come? At least recognize
Speaker 1: that every now and then it's okay to say, hey, godly,
Speaker 1: look how far we come? Hello, it's your girl, bro
Speaker 1: supermodel his lyrics cross representing all my Curry girls out there. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? And you are tuned into Vitamin D That
Speaker 1: don Jay Captive. I don't care who you are as
Speaker 1: a person. I don't care if you used to work
Speaker 1: on fries and own the McDonald's. Just look at the
Speaker 1: journey man. It's okay a little best that man. Look
Speaker 1: how are we calling? If used to be the mechanic
Speaker 1: and you own the dealership, let's just say, man, used
Speaker 1: to be the janitor and now you own the build man,
Speaker 1: It's okay to look back and say, Kyle Lee, I
Speaker 1: had a pretty dope life because the process, the process
Speaker 1: is what you look forward to. The process is what
Speaker 1: you are um um smiling about the process of you
Speaker 1: getting from point A to point B. And then you
Speaker 1: ain't even through. It ain't even through. You're just looking
Speaker 1: at the process because one thing you do, the one
Speaker 1: thing you do, you do it. But guess what everything
Speaker 1: that got you from point where me keep replicating it
Speaker 1: and you'll be. You would never never say it once
Speaker 1: you got to the phone. For success, which is very simple.
Speaker 1: The form of successor that keep doing the same thing
Speaker 1: you've been doing. You got to keep doing. You have
Speaker 1: to keep the see the success part. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: when I knew I was successful. This is when I
Speaker 1: knew I was successful. I was very successful way before
Speaker 1: I realized, before the morning show, I was already successful
Speaker 1: because I had done for the things I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Give it to me what you do I'm saying it didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't take me being on the Steve Harry Morning
Speaker 1: Show for me that we already a successful I hear you,
Speaker 1: I hear you. I was already successful in my mind.
Speaker 1: I kept chasing something because guess what, I looked back
Speaker 1: over a long period time, all of them driving in
Speaker 1: the rest stops for seving five, and you was already
Speaker 1: successful because you were producing something that most people cannot produce,
Speaker 1: a chet and sacrifice. At the same time, it didn't
Speaker 1: take me get into the c Hard Morning Show to
Speaker 1: say you successful. I had to realize that I had
Speaker 1: already been successful in two thousand and six because my
Speaker 1: work ethic and my attitude was already in the successful position.
Speaker 1: Who now had manifested was the dollars. That was it.
Speaker 1: I already had the work ethic that with Steve came
Speaker 1: around of manifest for me was the dollars. But I
Speaker 1: didn't owe anybody. I don't owe anybody seat at the table.
Speaker 1: I had to come to table say shoot, so lad
Speaker 1: I'm here, Steve. I want to show I'm successful. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I had already been successful because I sacrificed already to
Speaker 1: get to this position. And is that everything that you
Speaker 1: thought it would be? I had already done everything. What
Speaker 1: I learned from being on the morning show was you
Speaker 1: don't stop here. There's more, you know. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny done and it's just fun of the state where
Speaker 1: you just sit back and laugh. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things just just in your grant. It's funny to land
Speaker 1: in Chicago and hear your voice on the radio. It's
Speaker 1: funny to go to New York and you and then
Speaker 1: you need the car to ar It was like like
Speaker 1: like an to go to d C and hear your
Speaker 1: voice on the radio for a commercial, you know, and
Speaker 1: they're like I'm here for real, Like I literally am
Speaker 1: across the Country. Yes all because the one dude, but
Speaker 1: all the commercials, I'll be gooding. It's funny to go
Speaker 1: to Birmingham, or to go to Sreeport, or to Montgomery
Speaker 1: or Detroit, Detroit. You get it mixed thing two point three.
Speaker 1: All that you get in the car closing out and
Speaker 1: then heyybody, I'd be like, that is me, that's that
Speaker 1: boy Jr. That all across It's just one of those highs,
Speaker 1: like I'd be laughing. I'd be like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: To the point where I go Atlanta trying the radio.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter Savannah, Charlotte Jackson, Nashville, Memphis, people City,
Speaker 1: we ain't on it because just then you get in
Speaker 1: the car, you got the airport and they're listening, and
Speaker 1: you'd be like, that's me. That's to me. Oh you
Speaker 1: get you get the car and you get the morning show,
Speaker 1: and it's just like one of things like at one
Speaker 1: point in time that was not even possible. So now
Speaker 1: you get to enjoy it two point where like you're know,
Speaker 1: you just be like, I just be laughing. I've been
Speaker 1: I've been in the back seat with Ubers and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I would be like, way, it's so funny,
Speaker 1: and he don't know that's me. The hein't got no
Speaker 1: clue that's me. They don't even know that part, you know,
Speaker 1: and you get to you get to experience, Uh, all
Speaker 1: of those euphori is just say hey man, hey man,
Speaker 1: No matter what happens at this point, going somebody after
Speaker 1: I'm long gone gonna stay. I remember when, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna say my name hello. Here's the thing too. You've
Speaker 1: talked about your journey, You've talked about the successes, and
Speaker 1: even with the recent passing with Chadwick Boseman, you realize
Speaker 1: that this brother was battling stage three kids and for
Speaker 1: the past four years of its life. To highlight because
Speaker 1: I thought about Chadwick because it's so crazy, I put
Speaker 1: them on my pages. But even when he was battling
Speaker 1: those things, when he came on on Steve Talk Show,
Speaker 1: I went down there and and met him and taught
Speaker 1: to him, and I went down there as a fan
Speaker 1: and and really dating a friend. He was you know,
Speaker 1: the creep from about like it's so crazy, but like
Speaker 1: he enjoyed his craft, right, he enjoyed the acting part.
Speaker 1: You could see in his one But when you see
Speaker 1: the person and you meet him as a person, he
Speaker 1: was so humbly. I was like, dude, you black panther,
Speaker 1: what did you boring to me for? Like old dog,
Speaker 1: what's you doing? But I mean, I can't out here
Speaker 1: him meet you. And he was open up. He was like, man,
Speaker 1: he was glad to meet you. He was that open
Speaker 1: and he was that charing. And I just remember all
Speaker 1: the conversations we had the three times we met up,
Speaker 1: the conversation he was having, and just all I can
Speaker 1: remember is the laughing, Like we laughed so hard. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey man, somebody come get Chad. Chad crazy.
Speaker 1: Chad was that ignorant, he was that funny as a
Speaker 1: person though, but he was there promote give him giving
Speaker 1: the world was but you know he was sharing his
Speaker 1: art and you know, giving somebody a mode to escape.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's why it's so important the
Speaker 1: job that you do, because on any any given night,
Speaker 1: you could be saving countless of lies. Somebody that said,
Speaker 1: oh it's over, You didn't put a smile on their
Speaker 1: face talking about your family, something that you've experienced, laughing
Speaker 1: at your pain, and it's something that I even think
Speaker 1: about because you look at you like you're saying, here
Speaker 1: he is humble. You don't even know his brother is
Speaker 1: experiencing a fight. And I think about your talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that how you lost your best friend, how
Speaker 1: you on the road trying to make it work. My god,
Speaker 1: come into the realization that you are in the room,
Speaker 1: and Steve Harvey is saying, I'm taking a liking to
Speaker 1: you dealing with those pressures on top of the fact
Speaker 1: that you battle with sickle cell. Yeah, tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about that, because you have a foundation. And
Speaker 1: I don't know the first time I ever heard about
Speaker 1: sickle cell when I was a kid, was probably looking
Speaker 1: on listening to TLC and t BOS would always talk
Speaker 1: about her battle. But I'm not sure people really understand
Speaker 1: what it is because she had signal cells as well.
Speaker 1: We weren't played together long time ago, but the I
Speaker 1: focused more on and just this did not go for
Speaker 1: every single cell warrior. This does not go for all
Speaker 1: of us. You know, It's it's just the way the
Speaker 1: carpets ruled out. It's just the cards you dealt Okay,
Speaker 1: So I was born with sickle celle. Their parents didn't
Speaker 1: know what's wrong with me. I wasn't diagnosed till I
Speaker 1: was eight years old, seven years old, and so they said,
Speaker 1: get your son had sickle sales and your parents don't
Speaker 1: understand what what was going on with you? Well, I
Speaker 1: was in the in the paying crisis, and you know
Speaker 1: they thought it was all ordered to milk, oatmeal, all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. So you couldn't walk. Your head was
Speaker 1: hurting walk. He was in paint. It just couldn't touch me,
Speaker 1: none of that thing we're going on. You know, you
Speaker 1: got a kid that's been doing it since he was born.
Speaker 1: You know, five coca cola, all types of stuff. It's
Speaker 1: all these different things that happened. And then and a
Speaker 1: doctor diagnoses you at seven years old. The reason why
Speaker 1: you don't don't understand because your son had signal stell.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot going on. And then the doctor
Speaker 1: and to your parents said hey, well prepare to die.
Speaker 1: The letter whoa stopping eleven? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Every kid was. It's funny because we all make fun
Speaker 1: of it, but every kid was sickle ass Like hey,
Speaker 1: just like a running joke in the in the sick like, hey,
Speaker 1: what was your death date? They say twelve nine three.
Speaker 1: Everybody got one. Mine was a letter. So my parents
Speaker 1: allowed me to go out and do everything I want
Speaker 1: to do because at one point in time they ever
Speaker 1: believe that I was going to be going to a
Speaker 1: living so I was trying to leaven and then it happened.
Speaker 1: So they're like twilve and like this here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the truth. Like they were really somber,
Speaker 1: like everybody tiptoeing around you, like we have to be
Speaker 1: nice because you believe turned thirteen. Okay, hold on, my mother, Mom,
Speaker 1: wa go to diney world. We're going the world something
Speaker 1: they think the man, you're not gonna be he man.
Speaker 1: Everybody tempting around you, right, but I'm sure you got
Speaker 1: a lot what you wanted. Oh. I was just saying
Speaker 1: I didn't know that they were doing it at the time.
Speaker 1: I just looked there. Only I know why they were
Speaker 1: doing it, because she was telling me, like, who's doing
Speaker 1: to think? Because well, he said to you to diet.
Speaker 1: The doctor said it the whole night. Everybody knows at eleven,
Speaker 1: you're not going to be here because a doctor said it.
Speaker 1: That's the whole thing. A doctor said. It wasn't something
Speaker 1: I said. The doctor said, hey, man, your son will
Speaker 1: not live past eleven. Well, I may eleven my football number,
Speaker 1: my basketball number, wherever that got that right now he
Speaker 1: is right now, thirty one years behind. Not wow, you
Speaker 1: know eleven is a special number. He said that it
Speaker 1: enabled everybody to act a certain way towards you because
Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen I'm talking about they speaking that, are you okay,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling? Yeah, I'm good. What's what's going on?
Speaker 1: They're just expecting you. Yeah. Now, did you ever catch
Speaker 1: any wind or know how sick you were? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I had the crisis that had everything. I
Speaker 1: had all that, all those problems issues, but nothing was
Speaker 1: to death. But then two at the same time, sus
Speaker 1: So it's a very hard disease that people have to
Speaker 1: deal with. Start a lot of information on it, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's very hard to deal with
Speaker 1: because there's no words to explain the type of pain
Speaker 1: that they go through. I can't tell you. So if
Speaker 1: you say, what's it like to be in sickle set prison,
Speaker 1: I can't give you that. But I have to take
Speaker 1: my sickle sell and give it to you. Then you
Speaker 1: get back and said, um, that's enough. Did you be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have an idea. I can't tell you how these
Speaker 1: people survive these things. But one thing about it is
Speaker 1: it builds the character. Uh. Little things that you may
Speaker 1: take in for for branded in your life and little
Speaker 1: things we don't really even look at those as problems. Right,
Speaker 1: It's funny because it's just how it is. Like you know,
Speaker 1: oh my god, they're gonna turn my lights off. Turn
Speaker 1: them off, because fighting for your life is way harder.
Speaker 1: What you say, Come on, you don't know, I've almost
Speaker 1: died seven times? What do you mean? I've always died
Speaker 1: seven times from second so I've almost seemed so killed me,
Speaker 1: almost killed me seven times. What do you mean? What
Speaker 1: I mean? You can't grasp that, come sept because you
Speaker 1: haven't been there. You're looking around somebody, what do you mean? No,
Speaker 1: I mean just what I said, I've almost died seven times. Well,
Speaker 1: you've never been to the point of death and the
Speaker 1: brand of death, So what do you mean is a
Speaker 1: natural response for you because you've never been there? Why
Speaker 1: do you think done? I'm always happy all the time. Right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna come in with a smile and a joke. Nobody,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Why do you think you think
Speaker 1: that's on accident? Throw it up. How do you see it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I've almost died seven times. For my appreciation for life,
Speaker 1: it's way more understandable than the man average person. So
Speaker 1: you come to me and you say they cut your
Speaker 1: lights off. I said, what, what did you do it though? Tuesday? Well,
Speaker 1: damn it, I then did that too. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: You get me laugh at that, But that's just like
Speaker 1: it just there's nothing wrong with that done. It's just
Speaker 1: how it is. There is nothing wrong with that. That's
Speaker 1: the absolutely truth. So while you're talking about almost that
Speaker 1: they cut your lights off, don't cut my life off.
Speaker 1: You gotta just and it just makes you look at
Speaker 1: things and a whole other perspective. And just like how
Speaker 1: you were talking about losing Brian, you you gained something
Speaker 1: the fact that you were just sitting there. You didn't
Speaker 1: know if your life were gonna be off on your life,
Speaker 1: and its press every moment that I'm doing all this
Speaker 1: with no life insurance, no, no no health insurance. So
Speaker 1: they're probably times on the world that you're aching in
Speaker 1: pain on stage and performance crisis gotta be all with
Speaker 1: no health insurance. So when I say everybody believe me,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody I was doing all of that, not
Speaker 1: even I can't even forgot sick. Still, crisis didn't stop
Speaker 1: because I started telling jokes around the company. Stop. None
Speaker 1: of that. All of that happened the way it happened,
Speaker 1: my attitude towards that happened, do what happened. But in
Speaker 1: the end, See, the other reason why I'm so great
Speaker 1: for ris Hard is because I gotta help insurance playing
Speaker 1: Come on, Oh, I can't wait to get sick. I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm early. Oh, I'll be there. I'll bet merged from
Speaker 1: way for what happen there. I could be rotating. You're like,
Speaker 1: where'd yet? Yeah, I got sick, don't worry about I'll
Speaker 1: be back there because they're gonna get ready back. I
Speaker 1: got health insurance. Oh, I want a good bed. I
Speaker 1: want to be picking up. I'll be in that bed.
Speaker 1: Shot me hot down. I need the astra confidence. Can
Speaker 1: I please have my breakfast at its room three open?
Speaker 1: I'll want to get room three please. They got to
Speaker 1: ask some Oh, I'll be oh, I could different, play different.
Speaker 1: So your foundation creous hope is all about, you know,
Speaker 1: just spreading awareness from it, right, because I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that you know, may not have
Speaker 1: no where the resources are. No, no, no, it is um.
Speaker 1: My foundation started back into down the fourtee. It was
Speaker 1: done out of a friend of mine pushing me and said,
Speaker 1: hey man, you have to start foundation. You have to
Speaker 1: do this. You have to show other people how to
Speaker 1: live with sickle cell because as hard as it is,
Speaker 1: a lot of it, a lot of it is um
Speaker 1: mental mental game that you have to play with your
Speaker 1: own life, you know. I mean the hard part about
Speaker 1: is that I know that I process things a lot
Speaker 1: differently than people with no health conditions. They just you
Speaker 1: know too go around and take life ran it. See
Speaker 1: my my weight. When I wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: I do this. I go through the window. When I
Speaker 1: do this, my hand on the window. Because weather plays
Speaker 1: a big factor. So I checked temperatures, I watched I
Speaker 1: watched the weather channels and what's the turning where I'm
Speaker 1: going I'm traveling because as cold weather it's not good
Speaker 1: for us with citizens. Uh you know, co worker, constrict
Speaker 1: your veins, the veins and the blood cells where they're
Speaker 1: shape and everything think gets getting blockage. I can help
Speaker 1: sile crisis. If it's third degrees outside fifty degrees outside
Speaker 1: seety degrees that if it's hot, I'm good. See you
Speaker 1: go swimming in the avenue if you want to, you
Speaker 1: can go jump in the pool swimming. I ain't been
Speaker 1: swimming in the afternoons in years. I've never done. I
Speaker 1: ain't jumped in a pool at five o'clock because I
Speaker 1: was about twelve. Wow. Well if it's twelve o'clock hot noon,
Speaker 1: I'm in there because the water is hot. See, those
Speaker 1: are things that people don't even have to worry about.
Speaker 1: Going to the beach. Oh five o'clock and it you
Speaker 1: gonna run off and just get in the ocean. People
Speaker 1: sire cells. We ain't weren't going out to huh. So
Speaker 1: what's the minute that your temperature get you know? It
Speaker 1: hurts immediately. You asked me if I'm going to Chicago
Speaker 1: in February. You think I'm going? Nope? So I guess what.
Speaker 1: I don't book a show in February in Chicago. That's
Speaker 1: how much sickle Sale has a way all my life.
Speaker 1: I can't go to Chicago in February. I go to
Speaker 1: Chicago in June July, but I ain't going in March.
Speaker 1: I ain't going in February. I ain't going in jailary.
Speaker 1: See those things you don't even worry about. See how
Speaker 1: you're looking at those things. You don't even have to work.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to consider these things. That's not
Speaker 1: something I said that single Sale consue these things all
Speaker 1: the time. You know, my foundation, I do a great
Speaker 1: job of raising awareness and I put a lot of
Speaker 1: money into it, and we do all different things. But
Speaker 1: the families that meet, they understand that I was saying.
Speaker 1: It's like, I know, I helped these families in June,
Speaker 1: in December for christoaller Than because most kids during the
Speaker 1: holidays with single sale or in the hospital. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: I give him a Christmas before they go into the hospital.
Speaker 1: So that's what the foundation does. I sit there, I
Speaker 1: talked to all these families. I take ten families every
Speaker 1: year around the holidays, not by the entire Christmas. Wow. Here,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I'm doing it for the last six years.
Speaker 1: Tears whole foundation. Wow. I go to UM. I've done
Speaker 1: in Austin, I've done in Memphis, I've done it in Dallas.
Speaker 1: I've done in Atlanta. I've done in Charlotte, done DC, Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I just don't matter. Just go. So what's the plan
Speaker 1: for the foundation this year? I am picked the city
Speaker 1: yet I haven't picked the city yet. Then in Chicago,
Speaker 1: I haven't picked the city yet this year. Um, normally
Speaker 1: my daughter kor my foundation Rosaling and she does the
Speaker 1: picking of the cities. Doesn't matter, it's not my job.
Speaker 1: Picked city because I ain't get time to do it it.
Speaker 1: She goes to researches all the needs, all the different things,
Speaker 1: and we do it. But I do that every year.
Speaker 1: And you think about where we are with the morning
Speaker 1: short of that Heartvey just told me to dog, you
Speaker 1: can't get to the top of the mount and not
Speaker 1: reach back and showing how to get up there. So
Speaker 1: that's how I start the foundation. You know, my foundation
Speaker 1: is six years strong. I'm proud of it. My walk
Speaker 1: is on September nineteen, Yes, to run the five k
Speaker 1: run and fun walk in Dallas. You know, check it
Speaker 1: out a register. Oh it's cures Hope dot org. K
Speaker 1: I e r s Hope dot org. And this will
Speaker 1: be my third year. Um, black people don't know that
Speaker 1: in the state of Texas that every month of June
Speaker 1: it's a national holiday for my foundation in the state
Speaker 1: of Texas. Every gym. Here's Hope Month. Here's hope. Um,
Speaker 1: Here's hope. Sign silabaratis month is every gym in the
Speaker 1: state of Texas. Wow, Okay, that's amazing. To Orange Texas
Speaker 1: every month. Here you got all I got all the
Speaker 1: awards on the wall everything. I mean, you know it's funny,
Speaker 1: man too, to see that type of thing. Royce West
Speaker 1: helped that make possible to the the Roychwest states to
Speaker 1: the Roycewest and make that possible. I mean, man, but
Speaker 1: could you believe one guy in Houston, Texas would do
Speaker 1: all these different things? But that was that one guy
Speaker 1: with a big dream. Man, it was one who had
Speaker 1: a y. I mean sometimes I just sit back and
Speaker 1: pitch myself because I'm still the same guy. Man. I
Speaker 1: love it. But at the same time, like I'm looking
Speaker 1: at some stuff like, you know, like I have you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm an Emmy nominated producer. I didn't win an Emmy,
Speaker 1: I still was nominated for people got the whole created,
Speaker 1: I mean, just the invitation along to the Emmy's because
Speaker 1: you didn't see Steve's I'm the same dude that is
Speaker 1: us in Texas, that the same that same damn dude
Speaker 1: let's just be for real, like come on now, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you got to be tripping on some many stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: do you sit back and then you go out on
Speaker 1: the weekends and then you pull up to the comedy
Speaker 1: club and your name is on the marque and then
Speaker 1: you then you come on and say morning everybody. Then
Speaker 1: you're talking about and it's so let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: when did okay? So you know how like singers are performer, right,
Speaker 1: and you know how like you said, oh that when
Speaker 1: I'm in the car and I hear myself on the radio,
Speaker 1: when was the first time like where were you? Where
Speaker 1: were you at that you realize like, quote unquote I
Speaker 1: made it, even though you were already successful in the mindset.
Speaker 1: But was it like you saw yourself at the Fox Theater?
Speaker 1: You did used to yourself, you know, where was it?
Speaker 1: And it could be a small time, but you was like, damn,
Speaker 1: it was in Dallas, Texas. It was the first time
Speaker 1: I saw my name on the top of the marquee
Speaker 1: that I'm selling tickets. I'm people are paying. It's great
Speaker 1: because people playing twenty five dollars a ticket to hear
Speaker 1: me come tell jokes. And then I walked out that
Speaker 1: comedy club that weekend. What about I did Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I walked out of about seventeen five? Are you?
Speaker 1: That's when I knew something, because my whole I was like,
Speaker 1: there's no way you saying I ain't never made any
Speaker 1: seventeen five hold on, wait a minute, how old are
Speaker 1: you right now? At this point? At that point, I
Speaker 1: was thirty five. God dog, but I'm telling you, that's
Speaker 1: what what I mean. That's when I know. I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I had made it, but I knew.
Speaker 1: I said, we're definitely in the right neighborhood. I don't
Speaker 1: know my name. And then Harvey was talking about it.
Speaker 1: He said, dog, stop you. You know, he was telling
Speaker 1: that you have no idea what you're about to gonna
Speaker 1: be done. So in Prime in Dallas called me and
Speaker 1: they said they want me to come headline the club
Speaker 1: that weekend. I ain't had no manager and that they
Speaker 1: just say, hey, I'm gonna offer you, uh this much
Speaker 1: money and then if you sell this main tickets, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you this and the this and all the
Speaker 1: types of hurting of this. I'm just glad to go
Speaker 1: down and just do the show. Yeah, okay, I had
Speaker 1: no idea. You know I'm genius. Yeah, all right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's done everything ready, hold night. But on that Sunday,
Speaker 1: when we still up at the club, they gave me
Speaker 1: they gave me ten thousand cash whom they gave me
Speaker 1: seven thousand five hunting in the check. I said, no, dumb,
Speaker 1: I got same time I got. I walked around, UR said,
Speaker 1: and I was hoping I was gonna say, like we
Speaker 1: made a mistake, because I'm sitting here. You gotta said,
Speaker 1: there's ten thousand casts here, then you gotta check. Just
Speaker 1: got to be a mistake where there's got to be
Speaker 1: a mistake. I got ten k here, seven thousand in
Speaker 1: a check, so it's a seven teen Thollard final off.
Speaker 1: Definitely me walk out here. If you never made that
Speaker 1: much money before, that's your natural action. I ain't made
Speaker 1: no seven team five and no one weekend in a weekend.
Speaker 1: That's happened somebody's salary in the year. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is. All I know was I didn't know
Speaker 1: if I'm walking out of here, because this feels like
Speaker 1: I set up. I tolast time leaving done. I said,
Speaker 1: just gotta be see how they get set up on
Speaker 1: first for the eight sting operation going on. It wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna walk out of here, somebody who I gotta get
Speaker 1: back on the plane back to Atlanta. But I'm getting
Speaker 1: on flame with ten k cash and you know you
Speaker 1: always start you can't flying more than ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and you all these things got check. I got the
Speaker 1: sick at the whole non so I got a book bag.
Speaker 1: Talking about book back I got. I've never held my
Speaker 1: book bag tighter that I got. I got this whole
Speaker 1: book back when I put it through that damn u
Speaker 1: X right, we're saying, I waited for that bag to
Speaker 1: come out. I got ten kane here man bag maybe
Speaker 1: un say, I said, Oh, they're gonna stop me because
Speaker 1: they're gonna see that, They're gonna see the money on
Speaker 1: the xtra man that bag, that said agent was trying
Speaker 1: to talk me. I ain't here an there. Give the bag,
Speaker 1: thank you, becoming I'm on the two o'clock I got
Speaker 1: back home and hardly tell you if they're a chart
Speaker 1: to take, he said. The fun thing working. I call
Speaker 1: and I said on I had made and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't yeah, that duce forc to me, wow, And that's
Speaker 1: when I knew that my life was completely different. Oh,
Speaker 1: I had made a couple grand for a weekend. Three
Speaker 1: day I did that. I ain't never went from five
Speaker 1: grand to seventeen five my first weekend telling Joes as
Speaker 1: a headline. I ain't even know. And once I saw that,
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I don't know if I ride. I
Speaker 1: just know we're in the right neighborhood. I'm in the
Speaker 1: right neighborhood. And that's how it started from there. It
Speaker 1: was funny. Why so now that that you accomplished all us,
Speaker 1: what's next? Movies? Movies? I'm gonna do movies? You're working
Speaker 1: on anything right now? In these scripts? Uh not? We
Speaker 1: in co it. You know, soon as over know what
Speaker 1: we're going on, you know we'll get there. It just
Speaker 1: takes time. M You know. Um, I've done a lot
Speaker 1: of plays and stuff like that, but I really like
Speaker 1: to solidify myself on a film. Just see what I
Speaker 1: could do just just from the things that I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just what I want to do. I
Speaker 1: want to do at the acting in plays. I've done that,
Speaker 1: and people in all the plays and they courage Johnson
Speaker 1: plays you know, um, I just want now on the
Speaker 1: next step. I want to gradually. I just want to
Speaker 1: do it. I just want just I just want to
Speaker 1: go through the process. So just because I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta support my what kind of quote unquote tattooed that
Speaker 1: I got before Black Panther came out about speaking life.
Speaker 1: So that's all about the affirmation. So you will have
Speaker 1: this movie. Is it an action movie? Is a comedic movie?
Speaker 1: What is this movie that you're doing. I think the
Speaker 1: movie I was doing was I would like to play
Speaker 1: opposite someone and I want to be a regular day
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood type of film, like how even we
Speaker 1: act in the neighborhood. And I just want to just,
Speaker 1: you know, bring up some of the events that we've
Speaker 1: done and things I've done been a part of, and
Speaker 1: just put those on film and you know, just make
Speaker 1: that funey and it works with some of the greatest
Speaker 1: people that you can work with, who are great at
Speaker 1: these roles. You know, I'm saying I want to do
Speaker 1: I want to do that, but I really want to
Speaker 1: do that part because for one, I want to just
Speaker 1: see want to put your stuff on film. You're gonna
Speaker 1: live forever last ye, it's gonna last every so I
Speaker 1: want to do that part. That's the babies when I
Speaker 1: want to do it. But whatever film it comes, action, comedy,
Speaker 1: a movie like Friday or anything like that, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do all of them. You know, I want to
Speaker 1: do all of it because I just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't really mad, but I said, like, okay, you're
Speaker 1: playing me short, play me short, Just open them the
Speaker 1: camera and let me getn't hear because I'm gona ShW.
Speaker 1: Youre the big food I am. I'm not. And that's all.
Speaker 1: Let me be let me be unerstand. Let's just put
Speaker 1: this out here. All the movies I'm doing, I'm not
Speaker 1: going for oscars. Just so we're clear, let's not get
Speaker 1: any expectations. This, all these movies I'm doing is going
Speaker 1: for this for a goddamn food. That's what the food,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what I'm my roles. I'm doing this
Speaker 1: for crazy, this for damn. That's the rules I'm going for.
Speaker 1: I'm not going for father for I don't none the roles.
Speaker 1: I don't want Father, look at me, you give me Father.
Speaker 1: I'm not one to ask you. I want to be
Speaker 1: in the roles. Uh, just boy crazy, this boy got problem,
Speaker 1: Hey's something wrong with him? A bona five food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all I want, all my roles, it's all one.
Speaker 1: It because I believe in the magic of storyteller. I
Speaker 1: just want. I just wanted. That's what you do that
Speaker 1: all day, every Joe, every script you right in these
Speaker 1: movies that I do, these jokes I tell terming the movies.
Speaker 1: You know, turm into two projects. I was dying laughing
Speaker 1: you were on the stage. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: just talking about when you're dating somebody that snores. I died.
Speaker 1: I would love to see that. You know, a snore
Speaker 1: was the thought of a piece of food that was
Speaker 1: though those type of moments, though type of moments, or
Speaker 1: the one who want to bring um to the to
Speaker 1: the best print. We we want to do those. We
Speaker 1: want to little stories as crazy as they are, there
Speaker 1: are stories to be told behind all those things. I
Speaker 1: get it. So you appreciate it for that. That's for
Speaker 1: sure that you are. You know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I expected from this conversation, but I'll say this that
Speaker 1: I came out a better person. Just I never knew
Speaker 1: your story like that. I didn't know the things that
Speaker 1: meant you. I didn't realize how Harvey invested in you
Speaker 1: like that of just giving the opportunity. And now it
Speaker 1: makes sense. And then this whole thing that you said,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people gotta realize. It's the
Speaker 1: whole thing that the birsteather flock together. And when you
Speaker 1: kept you riding with people that own fire, it's only
Speaker 1: a matter of time when you're gonna get lit. But
Speaker 1: like you said, it's about the work and not the position.
Speaker 1: It's not that I'm absolutely I believe that whole hard.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't get in this to be famous.
Speaker 1: We hinted the work. Um, I'll show you this. I'm
Speaker 1: sure this. This is what i'mnn show you. And if
Speaker 1: we can close it with this, this is if you
Speaker 1: think this is perfect. I was gonna ask you if
Speaker 1: there is a quote or anything that you could leave
Speaker 1: people with, what would it be. Um, I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 1: Is it my life and health, my family, my gratitude
Speaker 1: for God, my life and health, my family, for my relationship.
Speaker 1: We went fast, grateful for the people. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the abundance. Oh amen, you praise them in advance this
Speaker 1: is it. Wow, Lord, I love you God, I will define.
Speaker 1: That's what I read every morning, and a lot of
Speaker 1: things on that list has come to pass. So whatever you,
Speaker 1: whatever your assumption is about me, I have no I
Speaker 1: take no part in that part. But he know exactly
Speaker 1: who his steward is. Well, he's given me how I
Speaker 1: do it. I can't take criticism from anybody who ain't
Speaker 1: doing nothing. I cannot take criticism. I'm sorry. Whatever you're
Speaker 1: here is about me, But what are you doing? Let's see,
Speaker 1: I just showed you my entire gratitude list for God
Speaker 1: that I keep adding to my health, my life, my
Speaker 1: grandmar all the things that we sat here and talked about.
Speaker 1: Someone has passed. Some of the things have not passed,
Speaker 1: still greatful for him. Some things I'm just wishing. That's
Speaker 1: the difference. But what you think you know about me?
Speaker 1: But you don't know. I ain't here. I ain't here
Speaker 1: to impression you. Who are you? Who are you? Who
Speaker 1: are you thinking? I deserve you deserved my attention. I
Speaker 1: ain't here for you. So you weren't nowhere near when
Speaker 1: I was seeming in the wrist stops. See, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: you weren't nowhere around. And I was trying to get
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars, you wouldn't nowhere around. I'm not impressed
Speaker 1: with any of that. I've heard everything, But what do
Speaker 1: you think I ain't heard everything. I've heard everything. I've
Speaker 1: heard it all. I heard everything, how they say about me,
Speaker 1: what they feel about me, from colleagues to family, two friends.
Speaker 1: And you can't disturb what I'm doing. I just showed
Speaker 1: you because my gratitude for God. And guess what, why
Speaker 1: why you keep talking on them? Can't you see publicly
Speaker 1: how He keep blessed me? And you know what I've realized.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact Bible verse, but it gives
Speaker 1: me to the thing of how your enemies will be
Speaker 1: your footstool. Not because I'm gonna stump on you. It's
Speaker 1: because I am obedient. You will have no other choice
Speaker 1: but to uplift men. So I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about raining down on you. It don't matter what you
Speaker 1: So let's get off to do you. It'll serve you better,
Speaker 1: serve you better to talking about me. Man, I'm already
Speaker 1: good about who I am at that they already now
Speaker 1: and and and as I say this and they're probably
Speaker 1: gonna see it on social media any type. So then
Speaker 1: but then no, exactly what I'm talking to they they
Speaker 1: ain't got thought you. I don't know when y'all gonna
Speaker 1: realize that this dude ain't for y'all. I don't need
Speaker 1: your round the blows. I don't need I don't need
Speaker 1: a clap from you. I just need the people to
Speaker 1: clap for me. So I'm keep doing what I'm doing, right.
Speaker 1: I don't do this for you, dude. We're in the
Speaker 1: same business. One surgeon don't watch another surgeon do surgery
Speaker 1: because what you say, the focus, the focus, Well we
Speaker 1: act so yeah, so they you know, they probably look
Speaker 1: at said like, I don't know they say these things
Speaker 1: about me. I get it, So I'm cool. But you
Speaker 1: see the public blessing he keeps now you have never
Speaker 1: stopped to ask yourself how come that keep happening? And
Speaker 1: that's the man of leadership. That's the magic of being
Speaker 1: the right place at the right time, and that's the
Speaker 1: magic of being focused on one mission. I never asked
Speaker 1: God to be famous. I just wanted to ask me,
Speaker 1: give me the gift that I have, let me keep
Speaker 1: it backy, so you can bless it so I can
Speaker 1: change lives through laughter. That's it. And and look what happened,
Speaker 1: care junior spates, ladies and gentlemen, That's what happened. I enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed. Thank you. Let me thank you. I know
Speaker 1: you talked about I'm gonna be on mush, but thank
Speaker 1: you for pouring it to me because you spoke on
Speaker 1: so many ways of just the transition, just my grind,
Speaker 1: like I don't know what's about to happen. I'm just
Speaker 1: going because I know what I feel, and I'm just
Speaker 1: on a prayer that whatever happened, it's gonna work out.
Speaker 1: Has to write, come on, And that's what I try
Speaker 1: to tell me. There, don't care what they say, Stay
Speaker 1: doing done. Girl. Do you know you have no idea,
Speaker 1: you can't have ain't no way, it's not whatever you're done,
Speaker 1: the way, the way you do things, the way you operate,
Speaker 1: the person you are, the light you shine. Do you
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to be positive every day?
Speaker 1: Do you know how hard it is? Of course, I
Speaker 1: know you're positive every day and even when it's not
Speaker 1: well received, you got to show up again and do
Speaker 1: it again the next day. And even when they receiving
Speaker 1: that day, you show up a third day done, you
Speaker 1: have to continue doing that. Guess what it ain't about
Speaker 1: what they're doing, so so what they don't see it,
Speaker 1: it's not for them. Come on, you're not doing all
Speaker 1: of this to impressing anybody. You're doing this to expose
Speaker 1: people about what do positive people have to say? Yes?
Speaker 1: And why it's important? Oh well done? Got to stay.
Speaker 1: This is ain't your thing. That's where they lose at
Speaker 1: stop a even about what you're doing, it's about what
Speaker 1: you're showcasing. And if you can't see what don is showcasing,
Speaker 1: you gotta add to that you're not gonna benefit from
Speaker 1: from the first place because your attitude in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: But for you and end, get all this stuff together
Speaker 1: that take word to take a schedule, coordinating people, but
Speaker 1: don't allow anybody to tell you what your mission is.
Speaker 1: That ain't for them to dictate. If I got time
Speaker 1: to sit up and judge done, what what's she doing?
Speaker 1: I must not have nothing to do? Right, I clearly
Speaker 1: don't have hing to do. You gotta be thinking that
Speaker 1: you gotta be doing something if you've got somebody else's attention,
Speaker 1: If you if I had time to sit here and
Speaker 1: talk about what's gone doing. I a must not be
Speaker 1: doing nothing. You just called and said you're gonna do
Speaker 1: this for me. Yeah, just for the phone talk about
Speaker 1: two minutes. M Yeah, don't do that for it. Thank you?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Care like, okay, So this is what happened.
Speaker 1: You called me. You said, Dawn, you met me. The
Speaker 1: first time I met you, you kept saying how it
Speaker 1: was wonderful and how it was amazing. Listen, I didn't
Speaker 1: take me three and a half almost four years to
Speaker 1: see that, because look at us right now. You can't
Speaker 1: tell me because I knew. I knew, I felt it,
Speaker 1: and when you got somebody that's talking to Brian, I
Speaker 1: felt it and like you said, being humans. So care,
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you for investing in yourself, thank you
Speaker 1: for feeling like you're worth it, and thank you for
Speaker 1: being a beacon. I like the inspiring other people. I
Speaker 1: see you and we'll see you, man. That's what vitamin
Speaker 1: D is about. That's it. How do people follow you?
Speaker 1: How can I get you? What's I you know? You
Speaker 1: can find me on social media? Junior and Junior h
Speaker 1: mess everything, mess find me, how me find me? Timmy
Speaker 1: and messins say what's up? I say, what's up? You
Speaker 1: know I ain't hard to get at. I ain't not
Speaker 1: you know, we just we just wanna keep going, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know what my cousin the right to She
Speaker 1: always tell me tell to hell, Junior, I said, have
Speaker 1: Remember we met her of Sanding so last year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: how she doing. She's doing real good. She's doing good.
Speaker 1: She's gonna love to hear this. Don't care, I said,
Speaker 1: so she can still love me. Sorry, you know, you
Speaker 1: know I love me. This just gonna be going in
Speaker 1: the saying something. You love me. That's just love me.
Speaker 1: Take me go ahead and see how you feel about me.
Speaker 1: I like that, so to see your him and see
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. Listen, let me have I hold. You
Speaker 1: know who she gonna but you can't being started. I
Speaker 1: don't write him, indeed, I don't know. I love myself. Care.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for this opportunity you will. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I expected from Care, but that
Speaker 1: was everything and more and it was right on time.
Speaker 1: And I'm just so grateful that I was here ready
Speaker 1: to receive it and that I can offer it to you.
Speaker 1: And that's the one thing that's so amazing to me
Speaker 1: about vitamin D. When I created it, it was all
Speaker 1: about shutting light to others, and little did I know
Speaker 1: that I was going to receive that on the back
Speaker 1: end as well. And I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: amazing things about gifts and when you're giving and you're
Speaker 1: walking in your purpose, because your purpose not only feeds others,
Speaker 1: but in in turn feeds you. It's like a cycle.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a never ending life cycle that
Speaker 1: continues to pour and fill up, poor and fill up. Now,
Speaker 1: if you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did
Speaker 1: with Kire and you're like, hey, I want to keep
Speaker 1: up with him, you gotta follow him on Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 1: and Twitter at Junior s h M S. And if
Speaker 1: you want to learn more information about his foundation, Cares Hope,
Speaker 1: go ahead and check them out online at cares Hope
Speaker 1: dot org. Now, I want you to remember life is
Speaker 1: for the thing. If you feel like you're losing everything,
Speaker 1: remember that trees lose their leaves every year, and yet
Speaker 1: they stand tall and wait for better days to come.
Speaker 1: Your better days is coming. Peace be still, you know
Speaker 1: in the Bible and the Scripture it says, see, I'm
Speaker 1: doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you
Speaker 1: not perceive it? Well, that's it for your dose to
Speaker 1: vitamin D. As always, you can catch us where you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts every Monday for more inspiring conversations and insights,
Speaker 1: and of course if you're looking to get even more
Speaker 1: vitamin D in your life. You can also follow me
Speaker 1: on all social media at Dawn day Speaks. That's Dawn
Speaker 1: d a I Speaks on all social media. Until next time,
Speaker 1: always remember you are your greatest asset.