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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in Steve j Envy, Jesselirich,

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Speaker 2: Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club Justice, all

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Speaker 2: maternity leave so long a Rosa is feeling in and

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Speaker 2: we got a special guest in the.

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Speaker 3: Building about to mess up. So many people had because

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Speaker 3: they're gonna be in their call. Like am I listening

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Speaker 3: to the right station?

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Speaker 4: You got the brother Ricky Smiley here.

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Speaker 1: Welcome brother, man, Thank you for having me. Man. How

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Speaker 1: you feeling man, I'm feeling good man. It's a dream

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Speaker 1: to be here, stopping. Bride lay in the bed and

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Speaker 1: I sit here and I just scroll and watch all

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Speaker 1: y'all videos. I've been a fan for years.

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Speaker 3: I want to say something before we get started with

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Speaker 3: the conversation. I saw Ricky a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: I saw him in New Orleans at the Inspired No

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Speaker 3: Lo event, and I went up to him and I

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Speaker 3: said something that I'm gonna say now. I want to

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Speaker 3: publicly apologize. I was just about to ask to Ricky

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Speaker 3: Smiley because several years ago I gave Ricky Smiley Donkey

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Speaker 3: of Today because a radio executive asked me to. And

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Speaker 3: you didn't deserve that, brother. So I told when I

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Speaker 3: saw you, I told you that, you know, And I

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Speaker 3: wanted to say that again publicly because I feel like

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Speaker 3: if you if you do something to somebody publicly that

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Speaker 3: you don't agree with, you should publicly apologize for it.

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Speaker 3: So I want to. I want to say that to everybody,

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Speaker 3: all our listeners. I want to. I want them to

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Speaker 3: hear me say that you didn't deserve that.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: I want to apologize to you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that man the first time when when you

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Speaker 1: walked up on me. Man, your energy, man, the love

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Speaker 1: and the respect it takes a you know, a big person.

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Speaker 1: I know that it was all part of the game

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Speaker 1: because we have a mutual Uh. One of your employees

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Speaker 1: is one of my mentees, big man Mac.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as an intern.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's as an intern.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, got to he is.

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Speaker 1: Well, I put him on stage. I'm the first one

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Speaker 1: to put him on stage. We'll talk about that, uhcause

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Speaker 1: I put a lot of them on stage, gave a

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Speaker 1: lot of comics their start or whatever. I've been in

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Speaker 1: the game thirty five years. But I really appreciate that, man,

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Speaker 1: and and don't feel no kind of way about it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't take it personally. But you know, it takes

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Speaker 1: a special kind of person to apologize and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: I thought nothing because if I thought anything bad, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't even be here. You know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 1: I love you. I appreciate you, man. I think you're

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Speaker 1: doing a factorous job. I met you at the White House.

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Speaker 1: I was excited about that, and I hear you in

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Speaker 1: Florida all the time.

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Speaker 5: We see each other on the road every once.

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Speaker 1: In a while.

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Speaker 6: A pleasure me you.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna start that, but now we even got

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Speaker 2: to go there because I was gonna ask it. One

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Speaker 2: time everybody was stolen shots and I was like, I'm

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Speaker 3: I know everybody it was shot back to.

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Speaker 1: From the South. We can go outside and just wrestle.

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Speaker 6: At this big age.

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Speaker 3: Might have called wrest somebody might.

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Speaker 1: Not get up. Yeah, I might pull on something that

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Speaker 3: So many people, you know what I'm saying, whether mister Harvey,

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Speaker 3: whether it's little du Ball, it's back. So it's just

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we're getting older. We don't have time.

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Speaker 2: Well, you got a new book out right now, it's

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Speaker 2: some side show sideshow talk about what?

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Speaker 4: What's what's what side show about?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know the song that your parents, uh, everybody parents,

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Speaker 1: Let the side show begin, Harry herds about a sad clown. Right.

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Speaker 1: My job as a professional comedians to go on stage

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Speaker 1: Because if I worked at you know, Amazon, lifting boxes

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: See the man with a broken heart. You can see

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Speaker 1: a clown in a circus, performing but dealing with stuff

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Speaker 3: I've watched you grieve out loud online and the only

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Speaker 3: reason I don't like that. Have nothing to do with

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Speaker 3: how you feel. I know how people react. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: then they come at you. How did that? How do

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Speaker 1: Oh? No, it didn't bother me, Charlemagne. My job was

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Speaker 1: So my son was thirty two, but this couple sitting

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Speaker 5: How do you still believe? In New Orleans? Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: You talk about losing your father at the age of six, right,

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Speaker 7: Were you afraid that when you got back on stage

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Speaker 7: that first time that, like you just it wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: You want something to laugh at, especially in the trauma.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when your ass hit that stage, man, them jokes,

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Speaker 1: And you know I was coming, but I've been in therapy.

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Speaker 1: prepared to go on stage again. My son died on

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Speaker 1: a That Wednesday, I was back on the radio, and

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Speaker 1: they said, take as much time as you need. Well,

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Speaker 1: do your morning show and go do your radio show.

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Speaker 1: Because all the mothers in Chicago and in Columbia, and

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Speaker 1: in Charleston and in Atlanta, all over the country, their

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Speaker 1: kids died too much. As given much as required, you

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Speaker 1: can't cancel the show. God put you in this position

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Speaker 1: It's a test. Our pastor has been teaching us that

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Speaker 2: You know a lot of times people you know, we've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my granddad never talked about it. My dad died.

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Speaker 1: stand in the corner and go do that little right there.

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00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,920
Speaker 1: I would to make sure those legs and those cats,

439
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I didn't. By the time

440
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,440
Speaker 1: I started getting tough on him, it was time for

441
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 1: him to go off to college, you know. But the

442
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,920
Speaker 1: other kids, like Malik went to military school then he

443
00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,200
Speaker 1: went to IMG Academy, would say he had a military mindset.

444
00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,200
Speaker 1: I think this, But I tried to do that for

445
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 1: Brandon because I sent him to the National Guard, you

446
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,399
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So my son served. He had

447
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,960
Speaker 1: a flag drake off his because he served our country.

448
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,640
Speaker 1: But I just think I caught on him a little

449
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 1: too much, and he just loved on him. And he

450
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,480
Speaker 1: was the one I loved on, hugged on, you know,

451
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,360
Speaker 1: and just up under me all the time.

452
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. It's hard when you're a parent now

453
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,159
Speaker 3: did Like I said, who the air? We grew up

454
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 3: and I'll be talking to my nine year old like

455
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,959
Speaker 3: she a basketball player, like, but you wouldn't have survived

456
00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:01,840
Speaker 3: in the nineties with my grandma and my mom and Daddy.

457
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,679
Speaker 1: Was going to be right. But the key is it's

458
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: good that you talked to her with that coach, boys,

459
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 1: because we have to give kids, more of what we

460
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,760
Speaker 1: had as opposed to what we didn't have. You know

461
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, You like who you are. You like

462
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: how you turned out right get that same thing.

463
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,159
Speaker 5: To your kids and the evall version of you.

464
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 3: I'm sure in through therapy, I've learned to love every

465
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 3: version of me. That's what you got to do in life,

466
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,440
Speaker 3: you know, like every version of you served the purpose absolutely.

467
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 7: In chapter twelve year book, It's let the Tears Fall,

468
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,119
Speaker 7: you said that it took you a year for all

469
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 7: of this to really like hit you. Yeah, what was

470
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 7: that day like when you were like, I'm feeling it

471
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 7: like that first time?

472
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,639
Speaker 1: That one year anniversary. A few days before that one

473
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:47,240
Speaker 1: year anniversary, Man, it hit me like he had just died.

474
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 1: And I was sitting I had just got off the air.

475
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,360
Speaker 1: I was down in South Florida because I didn't want

476
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,439
Speaker 1: to be in the house, but that one year anniversary,

477
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 1: I just wanted to go get away, and man, it

478
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: hit me, man, and I was I did some crying,

479
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: and I I think I think it was a bad

480
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: mistake for me to be there by myself. But I

481
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 1: just kind of sat on the couch and just cried

482
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: pretty much for a couple of days, like like really

483
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: cried because the only difference was I didn't have a

484
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 1: casket and some flowers and some condolences. Right, I had

485
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: all of that to keep me distracted doing when it

486
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 1: actually happened, I had to protect everybody. But that one

487
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: year came in and uh, it was like it was terrible.

488
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 3: What about the chapter when the addiction chases the bloodline?

489
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 3: Was that difficult to write because you know, you got

490
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 3: to go through your whole generational lineage with that. Was

491
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 3: that a difficult chapter right now?

492
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 1: It wouldn't. It was just being being open and honest.

493
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 1: My dad struggled, my mom struggled. I had wonderful grandparents.

494
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,920
Speaker 1: My granddad talked to me every day church, Sunday, school.

495
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: You know, hey, here's a trumpet, play that, here's some

496
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: PMO lessons. Let's go do that a little from little

497
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: I did trumpet, little football, did it all. My grandparents

498
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 1: kept me busy with the splending instruction, talk to me

499
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 1: every day so I didn't have to. I didn't have

500
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: those issues. And then he always talked about how my

501
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: dad died, so don't do this. So I just stuck

502
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,680
Speaker 1: with it, and to this day, I don't drink or smoke.

503
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 3: I always wonder how grief impacts people who lost their

504
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 3: parents at a very, very very young age. Does it

505
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 3: hit you later in life? You see somebody out with

506
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 3: their parents and it hits you, like, what is it?

507
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: It did when I was when I was a kid.

508
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: But what hurt me about my dad's death was watching

509
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 1: my grandparents cry like that on the front row. I'm

510
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: in therapy for that. That comes up in therapy. That

511
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: wipes me out. Wow, that wipes me out more than

512
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: my son's death. Why I'm a grandmama's baby, like you

513
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 1: understand you from the South, like watching my grandparents cry

514
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: like that on their front row. Man, I can't get

515
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: over it. Even when my grandparents died, the only thing

516
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: I could think about. Their casket was in the same

517
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: spot my dad's castle. Well, the only thing I could

518
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: think about was them crying on that front April the eleventh,

519
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,479
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Wow, I will never forget it, man,

520
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: It just it tears my soul out of my body.

521
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,360
Speaker 1: I can deal with my son and death. But that's

522
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: that's what I struggled with more than anything. Wow. And

523
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: that's why I didn't cry at my son, you know,

524
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: because my granddaughter was watching.

525
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 3: Man, I don't even want to traumatize her like that. Like, man,

526
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 3: dang boy, yeah, life is mother.

527
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,400
Speaker 1: Listening up there talking about it because about.

528
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 3: But that's what I understand about that. That's why that's

529
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 3: why I noticed, like just putting this out there to

530
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 3: the world and having to relive all these stories and

531
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 3: retell these stories, is it therapeutic or does it feel

532
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 3: like you open it up?

533
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: Man? This is therapy because if I go and get

534
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: in that car and start crying, that is helpful. It

535
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 1: is helpful to cry. It was helpful for me your

536
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: CRD this morning. You understand. I'm good.

537
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: But I also think what you're doing is helping people

538
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: that don't know how to deal with it and can't

539
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 2: talk about it because now they have a friend in

540
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: you in this book and they're saying, well, let me

541
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 2: see how Ricky dealt with it.

542
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 5: Let me see what the troubles he's going through. It

543
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 5: is normal.

544
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 2: I can feel this way because a lot of times

545
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 2: people feel like they're on their own, yeah, and they

546
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 2: don't have those feelings.

547
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 4: So that's that's one amazing thing about this this book.

548
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about something else for a thing you

549
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 3: put on a lot of comedians, Ricky, and I think

550
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 3: that coming from the South, right, people don't. I don't

551
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 3: think people realize how big you are sometimes like this,

552
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't think they

553
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 3: realize how how much money you got number one, but

554
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 3: rich you are, and just how big you are. And

555
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 3: I think it's it's almost a stigma with comedians from

556
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 3: the South, like they don't get the respect that they deserve.

557
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I just do it for the love

558
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,719
Speaker 1: of the art. Charlemagne Envy. I remember cussing d Ray

559
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: Davis out snatching a drink out of his hand because

560
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: he was too young to be drinking. Hey give me that.

561
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 1: You know. I had a little comedy club back in Birmingham,

562
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: the comber Zoon, So I would I would have like

563
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: d Ray Corey holcom Cory Hoakan was like, hey, man,

564
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: I ain't never been outside of Chicago. I'm like, okay, cool,

565
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 1: let's go on the road. You know, I would take

566
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 1: those guys on the road. Corey holc them, d Ray Davis,

567
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: h a lot of them, man, that Tyler. Some of

568
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: them have passed away. You know. I would just take

569
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: him on the road to help him, because that's what

570
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: Steve did for me. You know, nobody have to don't

571
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: nobody have the food. You know what I'm saying. Some

572
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: people can just ignore you. Steve was one of those

573
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 1: guys man that was helping and training company down I

574
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: started November thirteenth, nineteen eighty nine. Wow, that's the first

575
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: time I went on stage. I met Steve before he

576
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: did show Time of the Apollo and then tell you

577
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: a story I wrote about it in my first book,

578
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: and just talk about the discipline and the structure of comedy.

579
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: I was dressed like a like flavor flave because I

580
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: thought that was the thing I'm doing the show with Steve.

581
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: And Steve was like, listen, he said, people pay money

582
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: to see us perform. Your outfit is nice, he said,

583
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: but tomorrow I want you to come dress better. I

584
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: want you to dress he said, I want you to

585
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: dress nice. You know. Bruce, as the owner, was standing

586
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: in the door watching. I was embarrassed. I felt bad.

587
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: I felt like my career was over. You know, my

588
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: feelings were hurt. I was like, oh shit, you know,

589
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to blow an opportunity with Steve Harvey Man.

590
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: He said, you can go ahead and introduce me. He said,

591
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: but tomorrow, let's get it together. Say yes, sir, you know,

592
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: because you can't say nothing nowadays. You can't correct nowadays

593
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: because everybody says it. I said, y'all give it up

594
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: and show your love right now. But Steve Harvey, queen,

595
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: I'll never get a queen the tea to come on

596
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: for the love of money, off that New Jack City

597
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: soundtrash and he came up. I'm talking about. It was

598
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: electric and I wanted to stay there and watch man.

599
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: I ran out that damn comedy club door. I jumped

600
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: in my nineteen seventy nine to YO the Corolla Force Speed.

601
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: I peeled out of that company club driving. I drove

602
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 1: all o way across town, ran in my apartment, put

603
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: on a suit I had mare from Jeans West because

604
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: I used to work at Jeans West, you know. Put

605
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: my suit on boom time and I'm running driving back.

606
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: I made it back to the country club just in time.

607
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: When I walked back in the day, he was like,

608
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: all right, y'all been for god man show. My name

609
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: is Steve Harvey. Peace. When I walked back up there

610
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: and had that suit on, no nigga, not tomorrow tonight.

611
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 5: That's what's up right now.

612
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: What Steve said to you when he saw so.

613
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: You damped me up and he you know how you do?

614
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: You let me up and down? And he said, Si,

615
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you after the show.

616
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 3: I said, yes, sir, And Steve's annoying man.

617
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

618
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 3: Now o'kay with nobody, you know.

619
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: After the show? He said, follow, he said, following this

620
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: car right here. I followed him back to the hotel room.

621
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: I sat on the edge of the bed and took

622
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: a little notepad in the pencil, and he lectured me

623
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: for about two hours, and me and another comedian sat

624
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: on the edge of the bed and wrote notes, how

625
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: to do this? Why not do this? You did this

626
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: joke wrong? Why are you cussing on stage? Why are

627
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: you dressed like this? T A T and T is

628
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: in the audience? You need to do this da da day.

629
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: I took all that stuff. I took it serious because

630
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: I wanted to be great. I wanted to be better

631
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: at at what I did, and I ended up opening

632
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: up for the Kings of Company. I did some shows

633
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: where I did a few dates with the Kings of Company.

634
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: You had to ride with Steve. You don't get your

635
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: own limousine. You have to ride with him. So you

636
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: have to be disciplined. Get into the limousine, keep your

637
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: mouth closed, slide all the way up, put your back

638
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: to the driver. Speak when spoken to. Had to share

639
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: a dressing room for Steve. We frant brothers. But I'm

640
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: not ever comfortable enough just because you're a que and

641
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: I'm a cue. I'm finna come in here like I'm entitled.

642
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: Be quiet and speak when spoken to. That's discipline I

643
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: got from my grandparents.

644
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 5: Who's the other comedian on the bed with you?

645
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: I was probably is Sir walk Yeah, a comedian that

646
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: lives in Burningham, Sir Walt, and he was mentoring a

647
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: lot of us, but he was really into teaching. Come

648
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: on with him sitting down. I mean we're sitting there.

649
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: He's standing up, walking back and forth, and he's talking

650
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: to us. And I remember a couple of times I

651
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: was about to nod because I was so sleepy, because

652
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: I go to bed really and but that that was

653
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: something that was life changing.

654
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: Well you still like that. I changed the title Little

655
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,239
Speaker 3: my first book cause of Steve. I was gonna name

656
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 3: my book I Don't give a Fuck and neither should

657
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 3: you a self help guide or how not to give

658
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 3: a fuck. And we was driving around in a ranch

659
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 3: in Georgia and I told him that title. He looked

660
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 3: at me and he said, I gave you anough no

661
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 3: playing that, ain't it. He said, that's the problem with y'all.

662
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: Y'all don't give a fuck. We need y'all need to

663
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 3: give a fuck. All people need to give a fuck.

664
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 3: Same thing. Lecture me for about an hour, and I'm like,

665
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 3: all right, I got it.

666
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, big brother Mentor. I was supposed to be on

667
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: his morning show and we had a big argument sitting

668
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: in this truck, and then Rashaan got on the phone said, no,

669
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 1: you need to do your own thing. We're gonna use

670
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: nephew Tommy. He said, you go over here. If it

671
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: don't work out, you can come be on the show

672
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: with us. Wow.

673
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 3: So hold on, You're supposed to be a co host

674
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: on Steve Harvey show.

675
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: So Steve was gonna give me. When Steve left Radio one,

676
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: they said, who do you think? They said, He said,

677
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: Ricky smileing. So I went down there to do the

678
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:59,239
Speaker 1: morning show with Steve for two weeks so he can gradually, Hey,

679
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: turn the show over the list, Hey, I'm gonna be

680
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: going in two weeks, but Ricky Smiley gonna be taken over.

681
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: The chemistry was so good and we were so fun.

682
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: I was just throwing them all kind of ally oops,

683
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: making him recycle jokes, and we were just so funny

684
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: on the air together. Were looking at each other like,

685
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: hey man, we need to we need to, you know,

686
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: and me and Steve had it. We was like, Okay,

687
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna stick together. I'm gonna go to

688
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: New York with you, and we got in the car. Rashaan,

689
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: our other frat brother with Steve, managed that, you know.

690
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: Ra Sean said hell no, He said, no, you know,

691
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: I just have this idea that you should go over here.

692
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring in you tell me and if it

693
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: don't work out, you can always come back. But let's

694
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: give this a try and see how you do.

695
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 6: Was that tough to hear that?

696
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 7: Because you because think about it, like you go to

697
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 7: New York with Steve Harvey. It's like you say, what

698
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 7: do you think? Was it hard to accept that? And no,

699
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 7: you should not it wasn't.

700
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: Because once Steve gave me that look when he did

701
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: the fun and he just kind of you know that look,

702
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: you know, look when you give you that that big

703
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: brother look like Okay, we're gonna go ahead. You're not

704
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: gonna argue with him, right, Who do you do that

705
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: for that?

706
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 7: Because you talk a lot about people that you mentor

707
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 7: and and you help, but like, who's somebody that you

708
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 7: do that for that? Like we might not know about

709
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 7: that might have started in your clubs or just unknown,

710
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 7: and now it's like taking over comedy wise.

711
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: Oh man, little duvall with somebody that I that I

712
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: have a real good relationship with that I was doing

713
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: some you know, mentorship because remember I was the host

714
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: of Company View in two thousands with a lot of

715
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: people mentored just by being on that show, right right,

716
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: that's what That's what eighty five they told me. So

717
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: that I'm tripping, like like Carlos Miller was like, bru,

718
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I met you when I was fourteen years old. You

719
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: was in a hotel. I got excited. I'm hearing these

720
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: stories and stuff. Man, not realizing the impact on company

721
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: because I'm on beet Monday through Saturday. Like when when

722
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: Comedy View really blew up. It was in Atlanta, and

723
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: then I hosted again Charlotmane in two thousand and four,

724
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: and then the year after two thousand and two thousand

725
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: and one, I had my own little TV show, The

726
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: Way We Do It Us Time, you know, and I

727
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: was doing all these characters and all these voices and

728
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, And so when comics needed

729
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: help and needed mentorship, I would always, you know, hey,

730
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,239
Speaker 1: dress nice, Hey, stop cursing. Does that curse word make

731
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: that joke funny? Are you cursing just to be cursing?

732
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: That's a real thing. I just had that conversation with

733
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: a comic. I say, hey, man, you curse too much.

734
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: The cursing is not making the joke funnier. But if

735
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: the curse word is a part of the punchline, then

736
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: use it, I said. Because it's like I give the

737
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: onion example, Like, like you eat an onion, it's nasty,

738
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: but if you take it and chop it up in

739
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: sawteed and get some flour on it, and you're still

740
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: eating an onion, but you can't taste it. It's just

741
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: an analogy that I use with comics, and I make

742
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: them redo the joke, and I say, damn, you did

743
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: the same joke and got the same laugh, got a

744
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: bigger laugh because people are not offended. You know what

745
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know it's no training and stand

746
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: up anymore. You know. Back then, in the eighties, late eighties, nineties,

747
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 1: comics go pull you to other side, Mark curry them.

748
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: They would pull. George Wallace got on my ass so

749
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: bad one night.

750
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 3: Why you was bombing?

751
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: What? No man? I did some jokes behind him after

752
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: he closed it, after he headlined the show. I didn't

753
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: know any better. He said, you don't do them, damn

754
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: joke temping me. God, damnit, I make what phone call

755
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: your career open? Damn motherfucker. I said, I'm sorry. He said, yeah,

756
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: you said good night, read the announcement, and bring your

757
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: hands back to morrow. I said, yes, sir, and I

758
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: came on back. He was nice to me the next night,

759
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: and he won't admit it to this day. I said, Joey,

760
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: you remember me said I didn't do it, shut up,

761
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: but it was good. I needed that shit. If I

762
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: got a boogie in my nose, tell me, don't let

763
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 1: me be out here bad. Pull me to the side.

764
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: And help me.

765
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 3: But you can't even do it. You feel like you

766
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 3: do that nowadays and somebody will be like, oh man,

767
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 3: he threatened me, hurt my feeling. He hate me, hating

768
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 3: so to be offended me.

769
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: It's like what man, I tell comics man, because that's

770
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: the only with asked Corey Hokerman asked Dray Davis. I

771
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: used to get at them all the time about little stuff. Man.

772
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, man, you I think d Ray was

773
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty when I bought him to Birmingham. I said,

774
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: you can't drink nothing, you can't have that. Give me

775
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: that fussing at him about little stuff, man. And now

776
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: he's great and we laugh about it all the time.

777
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: He's just gonna always be my little brother or whatever.

778
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: They all come to the house. If you ever come

779
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: to Birmingham, you know you're welcome. I cooked my ass

780
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: off or whatever, sons I wish you're right, y'all always welcome.

781
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 4: Now, there was a rumor that in your contract he

782
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 4: said that you had to wear a dress.

783
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: Oh man, don't pay that stuff.

784
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 3: God, maam, honey, put some fly on.

785
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: And so so so I'm then I started doing comedy

786
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: eighty nine man, you think there's a contract somewhere. I'm

787
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: just I knew that. That didn't bother me. Were bothered me?

788
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: He was People believed it.

789
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, they did, because it's always been that thing

790
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 7: about the wear of the dress. To not wear the

791
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 7: dress to it's comedy.

792
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: Listen, it's comedy. I grew up watching Flip Wilson. Flip

793
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: Wilson is the greatest of all time. And right when

794
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: you landing at Flip Wilson, he turned around to do Geraldine.

795
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: Me and my im wanna sit down and watch that

796
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: with my grandmother. My characters came. Man. I was doing

797
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: prank phone calls on the radio. I was doing Bernie's jinkins.

798
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: And whoever would have thought a character that you do

799
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: on the radio calling funeral homes and all this stuff

800
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: turned into a character and somebody asked you to play

801
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 1: the character in a movie or whatever. You know, it's

802
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,600
Speaker 1: funny that all that stuff is tamboo. Now they do

803
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: that in Philly.

804
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 6: Mother knows they do.

805
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: You ever heard it?

806
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 6: And they do the calls.

807
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 7: I just thought about that when you said that. I

808
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 7: don't know if they got it from you, but mother

809
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 7: knows they call people all the time.

810
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: But that's the thing radio everybody.

811
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: I started. I listened to the Jerky Boys and then

812
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: Craners Mercer, but the characters developed. I do. I do

813
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: a redneck character. I do Beubert, I do Bernie Jingings,

814
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: I do Joe Willie. I have a gospel quartet, Joe

815
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: Willie and the Duderrama Nairs. You know, I do a

816
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: little Darren Precious. I do a lot of characters. I'm

817
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: i'm I'm talented. I played the trumpet, I play the

818
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,439
Speaker 1: French one. I played the bass guitar, I played the tube.

819
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: I'm an organist. I played the beat three hammon at

820
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: church on Sundays. You know what I'm saying. I study music.

821
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: I'm just multi talented, and you can't make everybody like you.

822
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: I have never did anything, had any beat with any kind.

823
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: I had one beat with a coming and it was

824
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: a que beef for twenty years, and that was Arnie's J.

825
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: Me and Arnare's j could not freaking stand each other.

826
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: We have because a show happened, and you know, comments

827
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: get there early and go on first. You know, Artie said,

828
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: got that and didn't do the order or either. Something happened,

829
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: but we had beef. Nobody knew about it, right, And

830
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm shure God worked nobody knew about it. COVID came.

831
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on Delta. I'm in for a lot of

832
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: the airport, getting ready to fly to Atlanta where I

833
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: can drive home, you know, And I see a dude

834
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: getting on a plane with a mask on. He got

835
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: fishing rods Well, who fished? Arn SJ. Lavell Crawford and

836
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: What's my Man? Shadik Houston. Those are the three comics

837
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: that really fish. They fish fish, they go fishing. I said,

838
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 1: it's Ron J. I had spoke to IRONJ in twenty years.

839
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 1: And so I got up and he was sitting right

840
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: next to me, and he sat right next to me.

841
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: I don't say nothing.

842
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 3: That's God.

843
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: I saw as I said, I know that's Ron HJ.

844
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: I hadn't talked to him in twenty years like we had.

845
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: It wouldn't so ugly beef, like I'm gonna kill you,

846
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: just like forget you, forget you or whatever. And you know,

847
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian person. I'm all about resolving and loving

848
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: on people because that's my heart. And I grabbed his

849
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: arm and he did it like that, and I looked.

850
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: I grabbed it and he's like like what, And I

851
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: pulled my mask down. Man. He started laughing. He started laughing.

852
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: So Charlemagne, give me your hand, the other hand, the whole,

853
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole flight. Me and Jay like this

854
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: because when he started telling me that the twenty years,

855
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 1: all the people that passed away, everything that happened him,

856
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: we cried the whole flight from full lot of them

857
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. I said, now I apologize. He said no.

858
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: He said, my wife been trying to get me to

859
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: call you for years, been on me about that. I said, nah,

860
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: you don't have to. It was just love because because

861
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,879
Speaker 1: I had always said, if I see on the show again,

862
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tackle him. I can't Cat. I saw

863
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: Cat one time and he had said some stuff that's

864
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Speaker 1: before the internet came out, and said some stuff, some

865
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Speaker 1: stuff years ago. He was roasting all the comedians that

866
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: wore a dress, that play a character. You know, he

867
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: was roasting I was talking about it on the Fox

868
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: one day and I'm driving down Fourteenth Street in Atlanta.

869
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: I saw Cat walking across the street and I had

870
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Speaker 1: my granddad in the car. Then my ford f one

871
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: pity and Uh, you know, I'm one of the type

872
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: of dudes I'm gonna be carrying. I'm like, hey, Cat

873
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: was up. He was walking the Starbucks. I never forget it.

874
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: He said, come on, have a couple of cough with me,

875
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee with me. So I went over there,

876
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: and before he went the Starbucks, he came around. I said, hey, man,

877
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: Cat Weaven. I said, this is my granddad or whatever.

878
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: My granddad saw you on TV before my Granddadthery said yeah,

879
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: and Cat stood in the door had a conversation with

880
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: my grandfather or whatever. And that was like one of

881
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: the last times I saw him. And there was no

882
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: issue because it's all love or whatever, because you know,

883
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: I don't know why I never did anything to him.

884
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: If I did, you know, I'm always open man enough

885
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 1: to apologize.

886
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 3: He felt like he was clearing the record on because

887
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 3: I think he or was it that he was supposed

888
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: to play a role? You said, well, what I did.

889
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 1: When I went out there, I auditioned for that part,

890
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: and uh, that's what I really auditioned for. I didn't

891
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: audition for the Santa Claus. If I'm not mistaken. The

892
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: Santa Claus role was supposed to be for what's his name?

893
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: He played in the First Friday, the comedian that passed away?

894
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: Oh man, that was that was that was on drugs

895
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: and stealing and breaking the people house Johnson. I think A. J.

896
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: Johnson was supposed to play and this is what what

897
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: I heard or whatever, and they put me in that

898
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: role because at that time I was on B E

899
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: T and stuff like that. But I did audition for it.

900
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: That's what I went out there and read for my

901
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: manager at the time, came on the air, cleared that up. DAVIDY.

902
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,439
Speaker 1: Talbert came on on Instagram and cleared up the fact

903
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: that there's no country. He had hired me, uh to

904
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: play my role in the movie first Sunday before he

905
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: hired he cleared he cleared that part of.

906
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 3: But q Q classifier too. You said that you did

907
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 3: audition for money, Mike, but when they saw how you moved,

908
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 3: they thought you'd be better for Santa Claus exactly.

909
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

910
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: And I don't have no have no beep. I love

911
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: everybody if there is an opportunity to resolve, That's why

912
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm the rap beef and stuff with the rappers get killed.

913
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: I don't want comedy to ever come to that. You know,

914
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: that's not what I do. That's not how I was raised.

915
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: You know, we're from the South and we just don't.

916
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: We don't. We don't do that.

917
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 3: I want to talk about some of the revolutionary stuff

918
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 3: I feel like you've done in radio. I feel like

919
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 3: this nation, you know what I'm saying, we had never

920
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 3: seen that before. And I mean, you know, as a radiohead,

921
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 3: to see radio personalities on TV in that era, that

922
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: felt like watching Howard when Howard did it on E right,

923
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,479
Speaker 3: So that was that was a revolutionary thing. And also

924
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 3: making the move to urban ac Yeah, like knowing when

925
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 3: it was I don't know if you knew it was

926
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 3: time or like how that happened.

927
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: It just happened perfectly. We you know, we was on

928
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: hip hop stations and it was great. But we was

929
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: getting older. You know, I'm in I'm almost fifty brat.

930
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: You know, we all in our forties or whatever. We

931
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: ain't got no business playing certain stuff because we just

932
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna naturally age. You just can't, you just

933
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: can't can't be on the radio. We don't even know

934
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: who some of the some of the we didn't know

935
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: who some of the rappers are that were playing like

936
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: who is this? Now? Brat Brat the first female rapper

937
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: sell over me and she's like, who you know? You

938
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: got you got the back seller song this who is

939
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: We're looking over the top of our glasses.

940
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 6: Making funny that I used to watch y'all funny.

941
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but we just naturally got older. And then

942
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: when Tom join her retired, they just slid us over

943
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: and and now we look, we're playing R and B

944
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: songs and now just relaxing in the morning, We just

945
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: we chill.

946
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 6: Whose idea was it to throw or to get Porsch

947
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 6: on the show on this Nation?

948
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that was so good. Well Porsche, uh,

949
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: she would fill in for Brad Porsche Kane did a

950
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: great job and she would fill in for Brat. And

951
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: then they said, hey, you want to do this nation?

952
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: So anybody came in and filled. Then the producing and say, hey,

953
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: we can get you some makeup right quick? Can you

954
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: do this nation? Here's the script and it's nothing, just

955
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: reading a tele prompt and hen talk about what we

956
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: have already talked about on the radio. Then we were

957
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: doing Thisnation while we was on on the air, so

958
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: doing commercial breaks, we would shoot a scene from this nation.

959
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 3: Wow, Oh, I don't know why I thought that was

960
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 3: the show.

961
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: Man we was doing. We was shoot when we first started.

962
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: We was in that damn same room for six hours.

963
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: We was working out, asshole, And what.

964
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 4: Did you What did you know you wanted to do radio?

965
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 4: Because radio was not a job for everybody.

966
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 5: Right.

967
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: People say they love radio, right then when they got

968
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 2: to get there an hour before and two hours after

969
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: and they can't move it, especially with comedians because you

970
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 2: guys are on the road, you might not be able

971
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:51,720
Speaker 2: to go on the road somedays.

972
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 5: So when did you know that I'm gonna stay with

973
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 5: this man?

974
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: I used to listen to these two white dudes named

975
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: Mark and Brian. You remember Mark and Brian Charlamagne. They

976
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: big and la Mark and Brian. They had this big

977
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: ass morning show. But they came from Birmingham. These are

978
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: first dudes I used to hear doing characters and they

979
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: did some prank phone calls. So I used to listen

980
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: to Mark and Brian in high school. They went to

981
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: l A and became famous fame, but they came from Birmingham,

982
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: and uh, I was like, y'all listening to white dudes

983
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: on Kicks one on six. You know, That's how I

984
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: got in the soft rock. That's why I'm set up

985
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: here listening to Fleetwood, Mac and the Eagles and Stilly Dan.

986
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: You know, i'd be on some chill stuff. You have

987
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: to listen to that stuff, you know. But I was

988
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: crazy about radio and I wanted to do it. And

989
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell y'all something I drove. When they put

990
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: up the new station, hip hop station in Birmingham ninety

991
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: five seven. Jam, you know Dasiah Yeah Days came from

992
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: our radio station. Wow, Dasha came from our radio.

993
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 5: She used to be Yeah, she used to be up here.

994
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 5: She's on will list now right?

995
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: Talk about another abou another day? Think about.

996
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's on with Kelly and that TV show whatever.

997
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 3: Kelly and He used to be Ryan and Kelly.

998
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: Right, she's on that. And then Roy Wood Jr. Came

999
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: from We All come from w b HJ ninety five seven. Jam.

1000
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: I drove sixty miles every morning just for the opportunity

1001
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: to be on the radio, and I got paid nothing.

1002
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: I was hungry and I wondered. Steve used to tell me, Hey,

1003
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: get on the radio. That keep your name out there.

1004
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: They keep your brand out there. So now, Charlotte Man,

1005
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: I do my comedy shows during the week I don't

1006
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: do comedy clubs on weekend. So I do a show.

1007
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: I just go do a seven o'clock show at the

1008
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: Emprov and I do the Emprov Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

1009
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: That's my four shows and get it in like that.

1010
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: I'm in bed at nine o'clock. Show start at seven.

1011
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: I'm back at the hotel sleep and uh, and I

1012
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: have my weekends off.

1013
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 3: You want to seven?

1014
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: No, no, you said the show started. I want to

1015
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: show start at five.

1016
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 3: When you said, David, I don't know why I thought

1017
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 3: of Egypt with Dajah Wood. She is she used to

1018
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 3: be Earthquake co host on b LS.

1019
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: Yeah with the short haircuta.

1020
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 3: She DJ on right Kelly and whatever. Kelly's Kelly and Ryan.

1021
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 3: I think no Ryan left to do Wheel of Fortune.

1022
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so yeah, man, we we had that was

1023
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 1: a great station. We won, took down the number one

1024
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 1: station and uh and just doing good radio morning show

1025
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: boot camp, learning about breaks and timing and all that stuff.

1026
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: I take Radio serious Man show to rep air checks,

1027
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, listening to yourself playing it back like I

1028
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: take it serious and if you're not serious about but that's.

1029
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 4: A lost start.

1030
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a lost start.

1031
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 2: Doing radio the proper way, absolutely, air checks, doing when

1032
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: to go into breaks, teasing, looking at clocks, that is

1033
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 2: a lost start.

1034
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you better hit that fifty three better? You know

1035
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 1: about that fifty three?

1036
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 3: What do you what do you love more? Standable radio?

1037
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:52,919
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh god, damn, that's a good question. Radio don't

1038
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: give you butterflies. Radio is just sitting in here, like

1039
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: right now, I'm comfortable, it's cool or whatever. Stand up

1040
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: gives you a little bit of nzie because you got

1041
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: to perform. You got to go out there. People paid

1042
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: money to see you perform. But my stand up is

1043
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: being great. I'm I'm probably funnier than not ever being.

1044
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: I got a special coming out. We in negotiation with

1045
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart right now to release a comedy special. Oh yeah,

1046
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: I haven't done done a comedy special in like twelve years.

1047
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: But it's funny as hell. It's probably my Dave Talbert.

1048
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: He directed it, him and his wife Lynn. They directed it.

1049
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: It looked good. It's gonna be funny.

1050
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 6: It's gonna be all over the place, recently shot stuff.

1051
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just recently shot it. Okay, Yeah, I paid

1052
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: for it myself and I just went on stage and

1053
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: killed the ass. So I'm really excited about that.

1054
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 6: And what made you?

1055
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 7: I mean, Kevin Heart's Kevin Hart. But a lot of

1056
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 7: people go to Netflix too, like, how did you decide

1057
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 7: where you were gonna? Who was gonna house it?

1058
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna, We're gonna see we in negotiation now

1059
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: because I just did an interview with Kevin Hart and

1060
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: he asked me about the like I just shot one.

1061
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: I said, you wanna you want to present it?

1062
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 6: Okay, so I started started that.

1063
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's a good friend of mine. I absolutely

1064
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: love him. Great dude, a great dude, Kevin Man, Jamie Fox,

1065
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: all of them have been good to need my whole career.

1066
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know Eddie Murphy was a fan

1067
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 1: that I met Eddie Murphy at his house or whatever.

1068
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: Went over there one day. I had a meeting with

1069
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: Tracy Edmonds I think they were dating at the time,

1070
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: and she said, ed play your prank phone calls the line,

1071
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: I look like you lying? You are you serious? And

1072
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: I ended up going over there and there's some comments

1073
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: over there and we had barbecue chicken, collar, greens, cornbread,

1074
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: macaroni and cheese. It was like we had some real soap.

1075
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: And that was my first time to meeting Eddie Murphy. Man,

1076
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: that was that was a pleasure. So that when you

1077
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: get to do stuff like that. And I'm on tour

1078
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: with Martin Lawrence right now, so that's my big brother.

1079
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 3: So the funny thing is you talk like you not

1080
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 3: wanted you not wanted them you in a conversation.

1081
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: I'm just just humble, man. I'm still like, I kind

1082
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: of still feel like I'm kind of like just still

1083
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: young and in the game because I feel young and

1084
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: in the game, and I know I'm a little older

1085
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: and up and trying to coach younger comics and I

1086
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: just kind of sit back and not try to do

1087
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: too much. But I just try to make sure when

1088
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: I do do something that is special and that is

1089
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: awesome and that is funny. And my karaoke nights uh

1090
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: uh be sold out. My karaoke I see my karaoke

1091
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,719
Speaker 1: nights sell out faster than my comedy shows. My co

1092
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: host has down syndrome. What my co host, Big Chris

1093
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: has down syndrome and he is the funniest damn person.

1094
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: If you look at my huh, you can see no I.

1095
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 6: Would seeing her trying to laugh, I was gonna ask you,

1096
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 6: like call me last night.

1097
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: All you have to do. All you have to do

1098
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: is look up.

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00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 6: I'm looking at it and Big Chris and that was

1100
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 6: it was the he know all the song.

1101
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: He gets up there and he's saying you can't get

1102
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: them off stay. I said, hey, Chris, you're not getting

1103
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: payd you need to chill. Okay, I have to calm

1104
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: him down.

1105
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 3: I know how to that I did come about? Like,

1106
00:50:58,200 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 3: how did that?

1107
00:50:58,800 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: How did that idea?

1108
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 6: He smiling Big Chris?

1109
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 3: You're so messy Chris, not even what's all he be doing?

1110
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: Man?

1111
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 6: What you made him?

1112
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 3: Saying you never didn't know he cut your grandma.

1113
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: Now I'm going you really can't risk go on, here

1114
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: we go.

1115
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 6: I haven't say this is big Chris.

1116
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, big Chris, Chris doing his thing.

1117
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 5: Man, that's my call, Chris.

1118
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 3: Though you better pay double. He only make down payments.

1119
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny as hell. So so he like the

1120
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: bring ladies on stage and sitting in the chair and

1121
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: play a R. Kelly song and he serenate them like

1122
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: the capitals. I got.

1123
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 6: Down on one stage.

1124
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: You just got the one out there. I got this

1125
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: white the audience out. I take him on the road

1126
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: with me. We do we do the im proving for

1127
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 1: a lot of the in Daniel Beach selling out as

1128
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: a set. He just I bring him on stage in

1129
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: the middle of carry and I have to keep have

1130
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: to set boundaries for him. And he he loved y'all. Oh,

1131
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 1: he loved y'all. He watched y'all all the time. He

1132
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: always he got his phone.

1133
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 3: I bought him Chris Man.

1134
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: Yeah. He always showing me something that y'all. Hey, he

1135
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: wants to come on back. When I come back, I.

1136
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 3: Would come on, you come for the special.

1137
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 5: Bring him up here.

1138
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, someone of my special come out, will come

1139
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: up here to promote. I bring big Chris. That'll be

1140
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: my gift to your ass because because see we had

1141
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: the same kind of here, because we laugh at the

1142
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: same Chris took me to the cemetery. I think you

1143
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: had a cousin and died, and this particular cemetery. You

1144
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: go there. You have to follow this red line. It's

1145
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: in Birmingham. He followed the red line. He was at

1146
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: the grave crying and I looked up at it. It

1147
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: was all Bear Brown was a former head coach of

1148
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: Alabama back in the seventies. I said, and I didn't

1149
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: tell him that. See, you ain't ship what you said.

1150
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 6: He took you to the cemetery.

1151
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: Somebody had died and it was at the wrong grade.

1152
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: But I just let him let him. I didn't want

1153
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,919
Speaker 1: to tell him that he was at at Paul Briant Gray.

1154
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: So I had to get him back to the car,

1155
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: took him and got got him something to even take

1156
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: him home.

1157
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 5: Fricky smiling, ladies and gentlemen.

1158
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 3: Brief is grief, man, he got it out.

1159
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 1: Show is out right now.

1160
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 5: My god, you appreciate you for joining us. Bro a

1161
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 5: stranger man. You could come up here any time. You

1162
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 5: would tell those radio politics and we want.

1163
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 4: You to come.

1164
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 1: Look if y'all ever in Miami. I have a boat.

1165
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 1: I'm a boat camping. I go to the Bahamas every

1166
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: fucking weekend in the summer. I dare you to take

1167
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: a weekend off and we broadcast on the boat. You

1168
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: as anybody asked Jeff Johnson, as David Talbot, we go.

1169
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: I tell I drive all the way across the ocean

1170
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: to them and the Bahamas it's only fifty five miles

1171
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: off the coast of four out of there, and I

1172
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 1: drive my boat. We go all the way to the Bahamas.

1173
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: I have a house that I rent. You are more

1174
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: than what If you just get the full out of that,

1175
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about ship.

1176
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 6: I got you be there too. You said the boundaries

1177
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 6: on the boat, don't you don't, Chris?

1178
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: Did you see what I had them to do on

1179
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 1: the front of the boat.

1180
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 3: Hold on, hope you ain't had them like a phantom emblem.

1181
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: You're finished, scream bro Let me.

1182
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 6: Let me let me uh no picture this is Instagram

1183
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:43,760
Speaker 6: or TikTok.

1184
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: Let me see. I can't hear. It's just slow because

1185
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: I don't I couldn't get to figure out that Wi Fi.

1186
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. You've been a screen

1187
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: when you see Christal on these Okay, here we go. Ahead.

1188
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: When I tell you you're gonna you're gonna follow down

1189
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: when you see this video, I can get to it.

1190
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: Where is it?

1191
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:08,479
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a me going on social media?

1192
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, because he's been saying, here we go, Here we go.

1193
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: You ready watching them?

1194
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 3: Watch you gotta put this in the video?

1195
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: Man?

1196
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 6: Cut it out, man, I can't laugh at that.

1197
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 3: Cut it out.

1198
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 6: I cannot laugh. Is somebody holding it?

1199
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: That is not funny? Man.

1200
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 3: You gotta like the fan even know when you think

1201
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 3: about the Phantom, what's that called in you?

1202
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: The Phantom one?

1203
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 3: The Rose Ray stuff, and he got a list in

1204
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 3: front of man. Man, you stupid man.

1205
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,479
Speaker 1: The spirit that's in the video.

1206
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Ricky Smiley.

1207
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: Bring Chris and she's looking.

1208
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 7: You're surprised, right, uh yeah, m hmm I thirty two, mhm.

1209
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: That my head.

1210
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 6: I still sitting You're right, Big Chris. Back to Big Chris.

1211
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: I saw some video on somebody was trying to get

1212
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: at you, was trying to get at you. I watched

1213
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: that the baby was the baby was Halloween? No, the

1214
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: baby Babby.

1215
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 6: That didn't work out, work out, They didn't go past

1216
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 6: the interview. Where was it going.

1217
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: Not?

1218
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 6: You sit back down.

1219
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 3: Side right now. And it's the Breakfast Club.

1220
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 5: Good morning, Wake that ass up in the morning.

1221
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club