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Speaker 1: all right? All my life, the running, all my life, sacrifice, hustle,

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Speaker 1: swat all my life? I've been grinding all my life. Hello,

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Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Club Shaha. I am your

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Speaker 1: The guy that's stopping by for conversation and a drink today.

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Speaker 1: Man he wears a lot of hat He's an actor, comedian,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever read this minute. That's nice

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Speaker 1: two taco bells and two taco yo. See, I thought

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Speaker 1: that was saying taco bells. Of all the things that

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Speaker 1: I read off, what are you most proud of? Uh?

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Speaker 1: is very special, which I had brought your bottle. You know,

427
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Speaker 1: it's like a very special that. Uh it's a great wine, man.

428
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Speaker 1: People enjoy it. It's doing really well, and uh, we're

429
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Speaker 1: actually you know, on our second vintage so we're like

430
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 1: popping off Congress. Yeah, the TV Steve Harvey was your first. Yeah,

431
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 1: then you had your own. Yeah, so that had so

432
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: I wouldn't steal Harvey that had just said The Entertainer Presents. Yeah. Uh,

433
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 1: that was on Fox. Then we went to the soul

434
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: Man yeah. Uh uh and now in the Neighborhood, right so,

435
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: and I had a couple of pilots all in between,

436
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: but those are the ones that ran, like, you know,

437
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: uh syndication, Yeah, big syndication, so Man Syndication, Steve Harvey Show,

438
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we only did one season of

439
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 1: saying the Entertainer Presents and it you know, it's unfortunately

440
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 1: because it's got great, great skits on there. But it

441
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 1: was around at the same time that The Chappelle Show

442
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 1: was propping off too, and uh so it just, you know,

443
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 1: those two things were in competition as far as the

444
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 1: audience goes. I guess, when when you sit down and

445
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: you do TV, what do you what do you? What

446
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: do you What are you trying to get across? What

447
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,119
Speaker 1: do you want the audience to see? What do you

448
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: want them to know? What do you want them to feel? Like?

449
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, like you know, like you said,

450
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,159
Speaker 1: growing up in a small town. My biggest memory of

451
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: watching TV was watching it with my grandmother, you know,

452
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: like that was her thing when she came home and chilled.

453
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 1: As the grandkids, we all kind of gathered around her.

454
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Speaker 1: So I remember shows like he Haw yeah but he

455
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 1: laughing and so the Jeffersons, Good Time, all that stuff. Yeah,

456
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 1: And so it was it was that feeling up knowing

457
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 1: that when people come home, they want to laugh, they

458
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 1: be with each other, and they want to be able

459
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 1: to do something. So that's the same feeling I'm trying

460
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 1: to get when I do a TV show. I'm trying

461
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 1: to tell you a story and allow you to kind

462
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: of come into these people's world that makes you laugh

463
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: and you can sit back and just watch they their

464
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: stuff and have a good time. And that's you know.

465
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 1: And if if every now and then from the Jeffersons

466
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: and from good Times, you learn every now and then

467
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: you can put it in a real message, you can

468
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: say something important. But it ain't a requirement, right, Yeah,

469
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 1: when you're sitting When you were sitting there watching those

470
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 1: did you ever think you would have one of those

471
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: Oh no, now again, you think about being in a

472
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: small town like that in Missouri. That's so far removed,

473
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: that's so far removed, so far away, and even you know,

474
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: once you get to once you get to Hollywood, you

475
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 1: realize how far it is away. I just remember, like,

476
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 1: you know, doing came up on the comic view, really

477
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: getting my popularity. Yes, in the black as as a

478
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: comedian in the black community. Yes, So I remember used

479
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: to really being black famous, right and in people in

480
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: Hollywood had no idea who I was. So I was

481
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: super Like I went to Detroit, dog, I might shut

482
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: this ball down, you know, but you come out here,

483
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: You're going to meeting like ce Drick the interrogator. Oh

484
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: gonna love you love your stuff. See Sault, You're so funny.

485
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: They'd be black. It's Cedric. You have Patty Label on

486
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: your show. She plays your mother. Yes, what's it like

487
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: working with Patty? Did you bring you any pody? Did

488
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: you bring any pody? She mean it was COVID so

489
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: she couldn't bring anything. I was trying to talk her into,

490
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, cooking, because you know, and she's actually made

491
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: food for me before, like so you know, miss Patti

492
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: can get down or she get down, Like yeah, So

493
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: that's like another thing that people don't know, like even

494
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: when she's on tour, she have a whole kitchen come in,

495
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, so she cooks. So but anybod it was kovid.

496
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: We couldn't really do any of these things. But she's

497
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: so great, she's gracious. She actually you know, I do

498
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: a big fundraiser for my mom and Saint Louis, and

499
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: she was one of the first people to say yes

500
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Speaker 1: to come in and perform for that, have a big gala.

501
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: And so she's just great. So when I called her

502
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: to come and play my mother, it just was really

503
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,680
Speaker 1: kind of full circle because that was the only one

504
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: my mother got to see before she passed, was when

505
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: Patty games, right, that was great. So so it was

506
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: like she was the only one lady, I mean, other

507
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: than Gladness night, there was the tool that I wanted

508
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: to be my mama. Like you know, you talked, we

509
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: talked about earlier and like telling jokes, but now said

510
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: we're at a different time. Yeah, things that were funny

511
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: and you could say about different groups. Yeah, you can't

512
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: say as much now, or you can't say at all.

513
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: How do you want that line? Did you go right

514
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: up to it? Because I mean still a Chapelle A Chappelle,

515
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: Ye feels like, Look, I'm a comedian, yeah, and my

516
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: job sometimes the fit I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I'm

517
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: not sorry. I'm gonna say the joke. I'm gonna say

518
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: what needs to be said, and you do with it.

519
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: But I think he's different because Chappelle up, he's walked

520
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: away from Hollywood. Yeah, he said, I don't really need Hollywood.

521
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell these jokes because I can go sell

522
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: my to Netflix and we cool. I'm gonna go do

523
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: stand up and we cool. How do you walk that

524
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,719
Speaker 1: line saying I mean yeah, I mean it's the thing

525
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: that you have to be most aware of. I think

526
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: as a comedian, of course, your job is to be

527
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, a PROVOCATORI orator of the world and where

528
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: you see it. It's important for comedians to be free

529
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: to say things and the way they see it and

530
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: the way they want to say it. So I'm a

531
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 1: big fan of that. And at the same time, I'm

532
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: on CBS, okay, so I pretty much know if I

533
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: say something across the line, it won't necessarily just affect

534
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: my livelihood. But again, having a big TV show means

535
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: that you hire. I probably have, you know, a crew

536
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: and the staff of one hundred and thirty people that

537
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: work for me. And if if I'm willing to just

538
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: fought on the store to some joke and ruin it

539
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: for everybody else, it's not really responsible. So I think

540
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: about it that way as well. So certain things, Yeah,

541
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: you might want to say it and then you decide.

542
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: But I'm on that stand up stage. I feel like

543
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: it's my duty to be free up there. Yeah, so

544
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't try to, you know, temper myself

545
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: too much. And at the same time, you know, my

546
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: brand and who I am in general is not necessarily

547
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: to offend. My joke's gonna have They can be, they

548
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: could be offensive to something, but the message and at

549
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: the end of the day, a comedian job, Yeah, he

550
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: wants to be funny, but he's trying to get a

551
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: message on. He trying to get a lot of things happen. Really,

552
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: you know, these are these the truth that I made funny? Yeah, exactly.

553
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 1: And I always say this too, if you could kind

554
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: of stand in the truth of what you believe, then

555
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: that's that you're gonna You're gonna have your argument. People

556
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: gonna have dissending opinions, so be it, you know what

557
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: I mean. But if I believe I'm really truthful about this,

558
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying something for shock value or just

559
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: to be rude or just to feel like I'm you know,

560
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: being old Andrew Dyce Clay, right, just I'm just contrary

561
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: for the hell of it, right, just gonna be rude

562
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: to people, right like that? Ain't that ain't dope to me?

563
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: So when you look at the fallout, I don't know

564
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: what your feelings are on what you hand transpired at

565
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: the Oscars, But looking at the fallout and aftermath, do

566
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: you believe Will Smith could ever be what he once was?

567
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: I think it'll be tough. I don't. I think that

568
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: really will be a tough call. I know that you

569
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: know that this is a town that is about that

570
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: business of business. And Will Smith has proven to be

571
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: a box office star, you know, has that start being

572
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: damper than them children? So will the people take these chances? Yeah?

573
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: And if he's able to do it again and hit

574
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: when he hit King Richards was out at the time

575
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: that it happened, but it's again a successful movie that

576
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: still plays every day, right, And he won an Oscar

577
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: the night he did the actual deed, and so people

578
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: don't relate them as the same thing for whatever reason. Right,

579
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: there's there's that deed and then King Richard, and you're like, oh,

580
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: I like that movie and I'm willing to watch it,

581
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: maybe because it's about Serena and them in a bigger story,

582
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: but I don't put them in the same category. So

583
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, they're both good dudes to me,

584
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: and so it was it was unfortunate to see it happen,

585
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm two sides of becose. I got

586
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: in trouble for a joke because I felt like, sometimes,

587
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: you know, somebody got to get the ship slapped out

588
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: of me. I ain't saying it's it's but I mean

589
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: people act like that ain't a real thing in life,

590
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: Like that's the thing that people forget because we live

591
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,239
Speaker 1: in this Twitter world and everybody feel like they can

592
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: say what they want to say, and people forget, Oh,

593
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: it's a part of the world. Somebody exists. You might

594
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: get the ship slapped out of here, right, That's all

595
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 1: I'm said. Chris did the apology seem sincere? I mean,

596
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: he's come out. I mean I thought I thought when

597
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: he got up there to accept the ward said, this

598
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: is just me. He apologized to everyone, the academy and

599
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: this one and that one, but not the man he

600
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: had just slay. Was mad that night. He was really mad,

601
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: and like, I don't know exactly what the thing was,

602
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: but what all I tell people, in my opinion, is

603
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: for you to physically get up and go and walk

604
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: twenty in that place, at that place. If you ever

605
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: been in the fight, bro, yeah, you understand like you

606
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: were on that football field, y'all out there grinding you

607
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: to if you get outside yourself for the moment that

608
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: you literally about to fight another person, you're not You're

609
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: not who you are, period. It doesn't. It just don't

610
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: happen unless you are brute. Like if you are brute

611
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: and you walk around thugging people, that's you. But most

612
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: human beings. Dot for me to literally go, I'm gonna

613
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: walk up and slap shit out right, I'm not me

614
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: right now. I'm I'm outside my normal way of being.

615
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: And that's the truth. And because y'all I've had physical

616
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: altercations and I can remember not knowing what happened, why, why,

617
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: what led to it? I just was it was on,

618
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: you said something, you spit on me, You called me there,

619
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: it happened, we went, we went, you know, everything else

620
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: was out the window, all the decorum. Yeah, what about

621
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: the movie? What about the movie? What about? What about

622
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: doing this? Dude walked thirty feet? That you did? You

623
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: don't do that, dog, You don't do that in a

624
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: natural sense of state. That's not a not a human

625
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: reaction to something unless you wake up every day as

626
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: a villain, right, That's that's what villains do. But normal

627
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: person ain't gonna walk thirty feet to go slap somebody.

628
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: You mad? For real? What's going on with the comedians?

629
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: I just saw last week Michael Blackson and Kat Williams beefing.

630
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: Michael blacks and said something about, you know, comedians could

631
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: be forgiven. I think he said that Kat Williams smoke

632
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: crack Cat took offense to that. We see Monique and

633
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: DL was going back and forth. Monique has since to apologize.

634
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: But y'all, y'all like rappers, y'all, can't we just get along?

635
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: What's it? What's up with the comedian? You need dis

636
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: man like rapus man. I would need a little baby change,

637
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I think that again, we live

638
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: in a world where we're definitely more accessible to people,

639
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: and you know, the idea that somebody makes any comment

640
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: about anything, then people can take that, any any sound bite,

641
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: cut it up in a way that makes it an

642
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: offensive statement, right, And if people take that and we

643
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: live in a world where that comes comes to fruition,

644
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: then you have a lot of misunderstanding. You do have

645
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: people jumping on these things for for the idea of

646
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: the fodder of it all, like the idea. So half

647
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: the time, you know, those those incidents don't even you know,

648
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: be real. Like you know, again, people end up apologizing

649
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: because they go like, oh, I didn't even have all

650
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: my facts, you know, Oh I didn't at the time.

651
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I was just mad. And it comes

652
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: off good because we all live in this If I

653
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: put it on my Instagram, then it's true, right, you know.

654
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,719
Speaker 1: So that's that's where I really feel that that's happening

655
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: in the world of comedy now because it is a

656
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: bunch of measurements about who is the best and why

657
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: and who you know, and some people based it on money,

658
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: some people based it on funny, right, so you know,

659
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: like and people started to measure themselves about that kind

660
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: of thing, right, you know. Luckily for me, I'm just

661
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: from a generation where we out the way at least

662
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: for me, like I don't well, I mean you a cat,

663
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: I mean a cat? Say you stole one of his jokes? Yeah,

664
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: Like it was ridiculous, you know what I mean? It

665
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: was like the idea of the joke that he was

666
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: even talking about don't even match up with no timeline.

667
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: So for me, it was one of those things like

668
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: did you have a conversation did you guys sell it?

669
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: Did you have a conversation with Cat? Well? I responded

670
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: to him the way he responded to me, be good.

671
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: But that's what I said as well. I've seen Cat,

672
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: you know, even before then. I've seen this guy thirty times,

673
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: like dog, if you literally was that upset about it,

674
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: like say, nothing like that don't even make sense. This

675
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: is this is some internet ship and that's all I

676
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: can say. So, you know, when I responded to him,

677
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: he didn't respond back to me, and I left it

678
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: at that. Do you feel that, uh, someone else has

679
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: stolen some of your material? Oh that that's a part

680
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: of this business, like you know, and I think that

681
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's intentional, and sometimes it's not like

682
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: you know, like I would say, sometimes people will hear

683
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: a joke or or take a slice of YO material

684
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: and make it their thing. Right, But the origin of

685
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: the joke came from you, and and and so that's happened.

686
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: That's a part of it. That that is, that is

687
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: not a not an uncustomary thing. Right now, everybody knows that. Comedians,

688
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: you know, your job is to write original material. Your

689
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: your job is to have original point of view. So

690
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying that that's not a you know,

691
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: something that can't happen. But this particular thing didn't happen.

692
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: But in general, yes, I've had people take my joke.

693
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: You hear it, didn't make it funny. You have made it.

694
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: I don't. Maybe for them, I'm saying it works for them.

695
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: They put it in. They set right. You don't like

696
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: you hear it like you're like, yo, that's my joke.

697
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: Like you just changed it a little bit, but that's

698
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: my joke. You look at Airy Spears and what I

699
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: want to talk about him and his his thing to

700
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: live on? Was that off limits? Off base? Again, it's

701
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: a branding thing like that's the Airy Spears brand as

702
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, you know what I mean. Like,

703
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: he's a guy that take them kind of chances to

704
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: tell jokes, you know, his sense of humor, that's the

705
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: that's the space he goes to. So you know, for him,

706
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: he was telling the joke. Like for for the media

707
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: and the people they you know, we want to get

708
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: into fat shaming or whatever the topic of the the

709
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: day is, right, So you can't. You can at least

710
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: easily offend anybody at any time. So that's the that's

711
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: the point I think for me, I don't you know,

712
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: I think it's distasteful. It just ain't my taste right.

713
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: But so, but if you make a joke about someone,

714
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: theoretically you can offend. Every joke you tell that have

715
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: to be about someone can be offensive. Whether you talk

716
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: about someone's speech impediment or about the way they walk,

717
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: where they look, So you can offense. If somebody wants

718
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 1: to be offended, they got to be offended by what

719
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: you say. Yeah, I mean, we was talking about this

720
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: the other day because on Kings of Comedy Beat Mac

721
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: late Greg Bernie Mack, he got a whole joke about

722
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, lenge you. You can't say none of that matter, right,

723
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: You couldn't do no part of that joke he called

724
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: the little boy the kids, yeah, and all the kids

725
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: that was growing up. He just needs his nephews called

726
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: the up work. Yeah, like you can't do none of

727
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: that no more. But these things was exactly at that time.

728
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: Consider funny. Right. So if you started to retro people

729
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: or what they said and how they said, what they

730
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: saying in life, and now here we go charging them

731
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 1: for the crime today that is, you know, that's a

732
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: hard thing to do to someone who's supposed to be

733
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: speaking freely. I'm gonna continue on this, but I want

734
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: to go back prior Murphy. Some of the guys and

735
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: the joke that they told back then, how would they

736
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: survive in today's climate? Dude, we watch we watched The

737
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: Delirious the other day. We like, nope, no, nope. We

738
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: used to start counting off jokes like wouldn't be there,

739
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: wouldn't be there. Edie Murphy ain't really that good. You know,

740
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: you find you get you find yourself trapped in that store.

741
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: Like if I had to take off all the jokes,

742
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy couldn't say nowadays you'd be like, yeah, but

743
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: that's the that's the difference, right climate the times we

744
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: live in what's acceptable in society, and we justn't got

745
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: to a point again, we just have a lot more

746
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: exposure to each other, We have a lot more growth

747
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: that's happened as people, so sensitivity awareness about you know,

748
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: things that just wouldn't be acceptable. You know, none of

749
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: the none of the gay culture would be acceptable, you know,

750
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: like back then, you know, none of it all, let

751
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: alone how it's grown into you know, multiple letters, you

752
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that is that's something that

753
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: we just would is you you have to understand this

754
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: is the world that we live in. And then you

755
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: as a as a person growing and accepting and understanding

756
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: that we live in a great, big, wide world. And

757
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: that's the thing. And I think if people literally just

758
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: truly trusted that part, and then you wouldn't you wouldn't

759
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: have to, you know, you know, castigate against anybody that

760
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: was different than you. You don't really care. Tiffany Haddish

761
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 1: says that she lost everything, yeah, because of some old skits,

762
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: because it kind of like she kind of like Airy

763
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: Spears said what he said about lives oh, they went

764
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: back and started dragging up skits that she was involved in,

765
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: and then she kind of got dragged into something that

766
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: she really didn't have anything to do with. And it's like,

767
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: oh but you remember, and you know this came out

768
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: and somebody wanted to sue her, and then the charges

769
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: were dropped, but the damage is already done. Yes, yes,

770
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, and again those are the

771
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: things that you know, Again, we live in accusatory point

772
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: point the finger that you first and then you had

773
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: to it's guilty. I mean it's it's not no longer

774
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: you innocent to a proven guilty. You're guilty into a

775
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: proven innocent. Yeah, and anything, like I said, I could

776
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: throw you the you know, I could throw you anything

777
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: out there in out of context of like how it

778
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: was shot, when it was shot, what it's about. And

779
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: then if you saw it as that thing, bro, you're

780
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh man, that's terrible, which again to

781
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: us today that that particularly joke just was distastful. I

782
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: don't know exactly who would even have shot that, right,

783
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, though that funny any time, But however, you know,

784
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: somebody thought it was funny, right, and they did it right,

785
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: so you know, and now here it is, you know

786
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: this many years later and it you know, adversely affect

787
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: her for real, like it hit her career in a

788
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: real way. Man. So have you talked to her as

789
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: I reached out to her. We text back and forth

790
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: when it first happened. You know. Of course, these not

791
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: the times where people want to just be taking a

792
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: hunted phone calls. But you know, she knows that I

793
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: got loved for and you know, just really just trying

794
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: to make you know, in my you know, just wanting

795
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: you know, wanting the cakes to be of course, if

796
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: if it was really a bad case against her, just

797
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: really rooting for it. That's all, you know. That's that's

798
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: all I can say. Growing up in Saint Louis, I mean,

799
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: you guys have I mean, obviously you got a great

800
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 1: baseball team when you when you know, in the late sixties,

801
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: uh uh with Bob Gibson, Yeah, cars were unbelievable. Brouke, Yes, yes,

802
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: Kurt Flood. Yeah. Now you look at Jason Tatum, you

803
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 1: got Brandley, Bill Ezekiel Elliott. How proud of you for

804
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 1: those guys being from Saint Louis. You're from Saint Louis.

805
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: Yeah you you probably remember, I don't know you're you're

806
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: probably the ages a lot of these guys parents. Yeah yeah,

807
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: and uh so how how how proud of you from

808
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: like I got some home? Is that that made it?

809
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: Do it? Big? Man? I mean it's big. I mean

810
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: because it is you know, Saint Louis. Though it's a

811
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: you know, a big city, it's a small town, right

812
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: like you know, and so that connection is very real.

813
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: So we love, we loved that. You know. You love

814
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: to see you know, people pop off and come represent

815
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: the city. I mean, so you know, it don't even

816
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: matter what team they played for at this point, you

817
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: hold it down for them, right, like you know, like

818
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: we with Saint Louis. We grew up as no Celtics fans.

819
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: But if Jason playing, like we rooting for Celtics, right,

820
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: that's how our whole thing. Ezekiel, you know you can't root.

821
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: That never really happened, That's what I was gonna say.

822
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: I was like Ezekiel, you know, he owned his own

823
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, but yeah, I see you after the game.

824
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Take your jersey off and

825
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: we all meet up, right, put your Saint Louis. Hat

826
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: back home and you're good. Yeah, you know, did you

827
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: know Nellie before you guys blew? I mean before you became,

828
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: said the entertainer, before he became Nellie. Mo, did you

829
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: guys know each other? So, I you know, I was

830
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: I was young, said the entertainer. So I was actually

831
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: popping off. I used to do a comm I used

832
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: to do a variety show, like talent show. Yeah, and

833
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: so I would come back to Saint Louis and do

834
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: this talent show. And you know, Nellie didn't was a

835
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: local with a local hid doing really well. So I

836
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: hired them to be like the final act. Okay, they

837
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: didn't compete. They was just like the person that everybody

838
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: came to see. And that was my first time meeting them,

839
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: and that particular night when I saw the group, there

840
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: was the whole little tics. Nelly was automatically the start

841
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: right and so I just remember when they got they

842
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: deal everybody, you know, they came to me. It was like, yo,

843
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: they wanted to just sign Nellie. We don't we ain't going.

844
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: I said, guys like, y'all need to really like learn

845
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: the truth about yourself. Nelly to start, like if y'all

846
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: and Nelly'll take y'all with him. But y'all can't expect

847
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: to go in there with six people, bro, Like, that's

848
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: not happening in big business. That's small. The group they

849
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: overs old Jonah And remember remember they cut the Jackson

850
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: five to one. It was my see it started out.

851
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: They did it because they was family. Yeah, it was smart.

852
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: They was like, yo, everybody, come on and we got it.

853
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: What the what's the other boy name? Marl Okay, we're

854
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: gonna do that's what that's what they call him in

855
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: the contract. Ye got jacket, We need him Jermaine. He

856
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: writes some song sometimes t don't play the bass. That's good,

857
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: we need him kind of. But then and what's the

858
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: other boy name? You got? Your mom? Jackie Marlin? Still

859
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: come on, Brie Marlin. And then Randy came and he

860
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: was like a cool that's how they signed now, So yeah,

861
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm you. We can't just get Michael. I'm looking at you.

862
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,439
Speaker 1: Your parents. Your parents went to an HBCU Coudo Thinking University. Yeah,

863
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: you graduated from a p W Southwest Missouri state. Why

864
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: did you go Southeast south Southeast bad? Why did you

865
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: go to the HBCU graades. Uh man you made back

866
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: then you can get it. Yeah, yeah, no, no, you

867
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: know what Lincoln at the time when my mother didn't

868
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: went to school, we went to go visit, you know,

869
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: getting HBCUs or they have to fight hard for you know.

870
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: So yeah, funding and it just was a situation where, uh,

871
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: the Southeast Missouri was actually between Carruthersville and Saint Louis.

872
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: So the reason it was attractive to me because that

873
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: was the route that I knew like my whole life.

874
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 1: We kind of came go back to Caruthersville when we

875
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: moved to Saint Louis, we go back. That was our

876
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: little trip. So Cape Girarda where it sat, it just

877
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:24,959
Speaker 1: felt like a place where I knew I was gonna

878
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: be comfortable going away. And so and then at that

879
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: time they were doing a program where they really needed

880
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: minority students, so they gave me the most money. Yeah,

881
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: when you got the situation, so that was it, you know,

882
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: it became a great environment. The financial financial financial was

883
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: a little better South. Yeah, especially if you don't have

884
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: no grades. Did you spend any time at HBC you

885
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: have you? Did you did you go to Lincoln? Did

886
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: your party at Link Oh yeah yeah, yeah, definitely went

887
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: to Lincoln party there. Uh that's an experience. Yeah, I

888
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: think everybody and I tell people, I tell how we

889
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: did all we went to Howard you got you got

890
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: there experience Black College? Yeah, a home coming or a game,

891
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: to see the Battle of the bands, to see the

892
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: make the major rest the drum majors, to go on

893
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: campus and see the step show. Yes, yeah no, they

894
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: go hard like. It was definitely that kind of experience. Yeah,

895
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: for sure, Like and you realize you miss it, like,

896
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 1: you know, because I remember I used to always want

897
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: to go to Grambling like getting you know, okay, then yeah,

898
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: because they marched a band used to be yep, you know.

899
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I don't want to go to Grambling.

900
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: And then he just looked like a fun environment. And

901
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: then of course different world came in and started making

902
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: Black College just look like it was like all the

903
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: babes was there. You're like, yeah, I want to do that.

904
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: You pledge Kappa? Yeah, how why why legacy? I mean

905
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, you know y'all pretty boy. Yeah.

906
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: Then a lot of people miss it when they look

907
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: at me. Yeah, I would get clothed. I say, I

908
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: say you it's the dimple, it's did did you get it?

909
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: Because it's a lot for me to do? But you

910
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: you were you good? Were you good when the king?

911
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: Were you good? I was cold with I was cold

912
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: with the cave that was my room, so you know,

913
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, I was dark Vader. Okay, okay,

914
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: dark Vader. You know so. But my uh my uncle,

915
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: my only, you know, coolest uncle. I mean I got

916
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: several uncles, but my coolest uncle, my mother's favorite brother

917
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: was a copper. So he was the guy that was

918
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: that kind of jar. He is a pretty boy, good

919
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: looking man, always been a good looking dude. But you know,

920
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: he was that he was that family symbolism that I

921
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'm that's that's meek right there. Yo.

922
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: You and Steve Harvey a great friend. Steve is a

923
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: que Yeah you're a copper. How did you guys become

924
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 1: such great friends? I mean really over the time. It's

925
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 1: it was really really interesting. It kind of happened very early.

926
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: I got stuck in Dallas one time. I was supposed

927
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: to perform at a you know, at the All White

928
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: Comedy Club. When I got there, they told me they

929
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: didn't need me. And I was supposed to make three

930
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. I drove down there. I had

931
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars and was gonna make three fifty and

932
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: they told me they didn't need me. So now i'na

933
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: need that two three fifty. Though I understand I'm not

934
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: gonna go on, but I need that three fifty. What

935
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: I need that? Like, all I got is one hundred dollars. Now,

936
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: like I'm that would have been four fifty, right, the

937
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: whole another number. Yeah, fol fifty. I'm talking about who drinking?

938
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: If I got If I got four fifty, I'm walking

939
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 1: into the bar like who drinking? Yeah right, yeah, but

940
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: a hundred that's all I'm drinking. Yeah that's get that

941
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: one and get a single. Get a single. I'm gonna

942
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: be I'm gonna drink it like as hot coffee. Whatever. So,

943
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 1: so what was it What was it about Steve Harvey

944
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: that you said, man, this is a good dude, and uh,

945
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: well he's kind of always been the person that he is,

946
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 1: like very unpreneurs, very kind of go get a a fixer.

947
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: So he was Steve had you know, he was popular

948
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: on the white comedy circuit. But he started a black

949
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: Night in Dallas. So, uh, I went and I was

950
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: down on my luck. I was stuck. And he knew

951
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: who I was through another comedian and then put me

952
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: on stage and so I went up and I rocked it.

953
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: He gave me five minutes. At the end of the night,

954
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: I got a stand ovation. It's just so happens that

955
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: the headliner wasn't really killing it, and he was like, well,

956
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: if you come back every night, I'm gonna talk to

957
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: the owner to see if I can give you a

958
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: little something. So he basically that's what I did. I

959
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: came back every night. He put me on he gave

960
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: me two hundred dollars and that was that was love,

961
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: and then booked me to come back as my own airliner. Right.

962
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: So from then we just connected. We just became friends.

963
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: We had a good vibe with each other. It was

964
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: always you know, cool, and it was you know turned

965
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 1: into this you know, brother's situation. We just became partners man,

966
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: so it was easy. We never you know, try to

967
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: get in each other's way. He do this thing, I

968
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: do mine, and we get together. We kick it and

969
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: that's it. You know, how did you How did you

970
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: become the host of a BT comic View? And Death

971
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: Coming Ye? How did? How did that happen? So? Death

972
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: BT Coming View was again one of those things. I

973
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 1: feel like it was Man and God be looking out

974
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: because I had it. I was back at home. I

975
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: was in Saint Louis. I was like hosting local comedy things.

976
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: But I had written a lot of jokes and I

977
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: wanted to go on television. But I had been on

978
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 1: Deaf comedy jam Uh the season before and they wouldn't

979
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: let me back on. And I had all these jokes

980
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: and I was like, I got to go on TV.

981
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm gonna do Comic View. And

982
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: I remember all my contemporaries like, man, don't go to

983
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: BT after you've been on HBO, Like that's a step down.

984
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: Don't do that. You're gonna mess up your your thing,

985
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: you know. And I was like, oh man, I said,

986
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: I gotta get these jokes off. So it just so

987
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: happened that DL had decided to step down and they

988
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: that year I went. They said we're gonna find a

989
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: new host by a competition. But I was I was

990
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: already a beast. I didn't really I was like on

991
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: some others, and so I won easily and then became

992
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: the host and became a household name like I was,

993
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: you know because at that time, Comic View came on

994
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: every night, so it was like new so you know,

995
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 1: you you you, And that's why I was black famous.

996
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: I was like in black Households. Yeah, I was on

997
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: every time you like I was unbelieving. Yeah, anyway, like

998
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: you say, from the coming you in my era, yeah, yeah,

999
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: the earthquakes when I was holding earthquakes, Sheryl Underwoods, DC Curry, Yeah, yeah.

1000
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: Well Dale came from devth Jack she was and she

1001
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: blew up on death Jack. Chucky Ducky was on the

1002
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: Ducky Jamario Jo Yeah Berger Yeah. Yeah. So many great

1003
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: people came from that that little era. Some more some more. Yes,

1004
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: one of the best, yo, she one of the best.

1005
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: When you did the Steve Harvey Show, did you know

1006
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Show was gonna take off? Like it did?

1007
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: It felt like it. You know, we were when we

1008
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: did it, Steve and I we were, you know, we

1009
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:58,240
Speaker 1: were great friends. It was his show and he asked

1010
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: for me. He wanted me to be on here show,

1011
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: and I actually had a deal to do my own

1012
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: show at that time, and so I thought it was

1013
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: smart to ride because I actually went to go see

1014
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: Steve do as other show Me and the Boys, so

1015
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: he usually have a show Me and the Boys that

1016
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,720
Speaker 1: was dull, and I went to see how it worked,

1017
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: and it got canceled. Right, So when I had a

1018
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: deal to do my own show, I was wise enough

1019
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: to feel like I wanted to ride shotgun first. I

1020
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:27,439
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to be in the driver's seat.

1021
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: I want to ride a shotgun and watch was done

1022
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: and do that. And so that's what I did, and

1023
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: it was great because we was already partners but having

1024
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: a good time. We laugh a lot. And then the

1025
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Kings of Comedy came right like in the third year

1026
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: of it, maybe of doing Steve Harvey shows, and then

1027
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: we blew up even more so, so it was like

1028
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: we just had a great run. That's what I want

1029
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: to ask, Kings of Comedy. How did that group come?

1030
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: It was you dl Steve Harvey. Steve was more of

1031
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: a host in Bernie. Yeah. How did how did they

1032
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: put youth four guys together of all the all the

1033
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: black male comedians, because I think they had a queens

1034
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: of comedy. Also, yeah, yes, how did how did they

1035
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: land on Youth four? Well, I think you know at

1036
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: that time, you know again it was all about who

1037
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: they can who I believe it was all about who

1038
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: the promoter can get that he thought, because you know tickets, right,

1039
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: because Martin was his own thing. He was already gone.

1040
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: He was his own thing. And then it was like

1041
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: Joe Torria took over. Uh, Joe Torria took over def

1042
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: jam after Martin, So he was his own thing. And

1043
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: then you had all the winds and they were they

1044
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: was they was their own bring right, And so Steve

1045
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: was hot. We had to Steve Harvey show, so we

1046
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: had a national TV show. Bernie mac was the IT

1047
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: comedian at the time, and then d L was hot,

1048
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: he had a TV show, So what I think. But

1049
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: the first year we did it, it was just me

1050
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: Bernie and uh, just me Bernie and Steve and Steve

1051
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: closed and Guy Tori was the host. He would m

1052
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 1: see it. I came out first, Bernie win the middle,

1053
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: Steve closed, and then on the then as we got

1054
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 1: into the bigger run of the tour, we brought on DL.

1055
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: Steve went to the host and even though on the

1056
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: special Bernie Clothes. I closed that tour. So I was

1057
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: the last, the last comedian on the live tour. But

1058
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: but on the movie they just cut it. It was

1059
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: better for Bernie to go lives did when you did

1060
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: that tour, did you like, Okay, your boy here now?

1061
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: Oh what you can't you can't you can't hit me

1062
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: dass with the reds. Your boy, your boy landed straight pigeon,

1063
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: tell me straight down. I'm like, dude, this is the

1064
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: first time, like this tour is so big. It's all

1065
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: arenas right, Yeah, so this is rock and roll comedy.

1066
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: This is this is private jets leaving out on the weekend.

1067
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: Get on the private jet, go to the show land.

1068
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: Everybody got their own ms. We got big swedes. It's

1069
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: just it's top of the food chain. You just don't

1070
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: get no bigger than this. And we were like making

1071
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: a lot of money and it was with your boys.

1072
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: We was having a lot of fun. And you know,

1073
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,399
Speaker 1: at the time, I was single, so on the first

1074
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: first Kings of comedy, So I know, I don't know.

1075
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: I don't just leave it. If you want to be

1076
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: singling again, keeps talking out the quick way, Let me

1077
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,360
Speaker 1: ask your quick if they were to do if they

1078
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: were to do a Kings of Comedy right now, four,

1079
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: who could they? I mean, could they do a Kings

1080
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: of Comedy with raw hard Chappelle? Could? Could Could they

1081
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: do a Kings of Comedy for sure? I mean, you

1082
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: know they done shows where they all mistaken didn't rock

1083
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: in Chappelle An Earthquake was over in London at oh

1084
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: two at at the Arena, I think just about a

1085
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: month ago. Yeah, So Chappelle's out on tour, rockets out

1086
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: on tour, uh in London side and so they'll often

1087
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: get together, uh and then they you know, Kevin is here,

1088
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: Kevin is Kevin get ready to start history, start pop around.

1089
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: But if they did, Kevin and Chris did a show

1090
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: in New York and then Chappelle Caine and they went

1091
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 1: on stage together. So that was a big deal. And

1092
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: then Chappelle he you know, he'd been working he produced Quakes,

1093
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: Yeah special, so Quake is you know, rocking with him

1094
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: a lot too. So that's dope. But that's it, you

1095
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean, These guys are the big. I mean,

1096
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:30,359
Speaker 1: people people love kat Williams, people love yeah. Look look

1097
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: so the brandings of those you know, of those particular

1098
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: guys like it's a way if they wanted to do it.

1099
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: But all those guys so stuff like you said, you

1100
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: like you looking like Okay. At the time, Martin was

1101
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: a stand alone guy. Tory was a stand alone and

1102
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys are standing alone. You guys

1103
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: were like, you know, Steve had you were in comedy.

1104
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: Steve was doing his thing, but you guys kind of

1105
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: wasn't to that level that these guys are now. Yeah,

1106
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: yeah not. We were standing alone in theater, right, and

1107
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: that's what made us a package for it A thousand

1108
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: see arenas, that's a different thing it was, and at

1109
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: that time it was just rare. So you had you had,

1110
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: you had, of course Eddie Murphy to do it, and

1111
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: you have Martin. I think Eddie Murphy maybe he don't

1112
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: even think he did a real tour. I don't know

1113
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: he did, like he maybe did a few days. But

1114
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,359
Speaker 1: Martin did a real tour at in Arenas and Dice Clay.

1115
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: These were the kind of people that did arena tours

1116
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 1: and so it was very few people at that time

1117
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: being a doing in Kings of Comedy did the Superfest model, right,

1118
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: you know where we put a lot of people on

1119
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: one show and made it a dope night, and so

1120
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: it was extremely successful. Is it true that Stephen and

1121
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: Bernie Buddet has Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, they

1122
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 1: were the kind of guys that they were both alpha males,

1123
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, like they they both you know, they just

1124
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: saw it different, you know what I'm saying, But at

1125
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: the end of the day, they was able to get

1126
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: through it. You guys, is that one of the reasons

1127
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 1: why you didn't do you did it? You did the

1128
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: first you did the first part, the second part, I

1129
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: don't think. I think you know, of course that was

1130
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: you know, definitely a contributing circumstances, but also the thing

1131
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 1: that it had a lot to do with the promoter

1132
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: on the thing because he got a bigger head than

1133
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: all of us. So the dude that put us put

1134
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: us all together and started to really think it was

1135
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: about him, you know, So it started to be that.

1136
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: So it was a lot of those kind of elements

1137
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: in there where people just sometimes people just ruled a

1138
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: good thing, yeah, just because you know they you know,

1139
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: you know, like y'all would be together if it wasn't

1140
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: for me, Like okay, bruh, nobody one joke, nobuddy coming

1141
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: to see you, right, like, you know, but I didn't

1142
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: tell a joke. Yeah, that was like yeah, that kind

1143
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: of thing. But now you're starting to lend your voice

1144
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: doing voiceover. Yeah, and we see a lot of comedians,

1145
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: we see a lot of people famous, a lot of

1146
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: people actors and actresses doing this. Now. Yeah you Boomdogs,

1147
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: Ice Age, Madagascar, Charlott's Well and you gotta got an

1148
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,479
Speaker 1: NAACP award, every award. Yeah. So what is it about

1149
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 1: the voiceovers that you like so much? Well them in again,

1150
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: man again. We grew up in the area where cartoons

1151
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: were king, you know everything. You only got him on Saturday, right,

1152
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: It ain't like now you watching Mayby, They ain't no fun.

1153
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch cartoons. I want to watch

1154
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: it one day a week, right, exactly Saturday with the

1155
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: serial Let's go Pajamas still long? Yeah, you know, but

1156
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: I think that but you know, like, but yeah, but

1157
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:21,919
Speaker 1: pajamas there we really got Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry

1158
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: I made it throw that out there. People They were like, oh,

1159
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: I wonder what kind of what when you had like no,

1160
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: just braggling T shirts and basketball shorts, you know, it's

1161
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: best we could do so get but no. But you know,

1162
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: like when I started having kids, you know, you start

1163
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,320
Speaker 1: to really think this would be cool for them to

1164
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: hear my voice in the movie, and you know, so

1165
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: that was became a great choice and you know they

1166
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: actually they pay. Well that's the other thing that people

1167
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: don't know, uh about those like those those animated movies

1168
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: end up you'd be quite surprised. I remember Madagascar was

1169
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: one of those, like when you know, when the when

1170
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 1: the checks came in, you was like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, y'all, y'all, y'all,

1171
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: y'all people coming, Yeah exactly. They end up doing three

1172
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: of them, had a TV series. But but I think,

1173
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: but I think the thing you're like to do voice

1174
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: over you need to very distinguishable boys. Well yeah, I

1175
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: mean you know, because I mean you're really only leading

1176
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: with your voice. So the idea is like, what does

1177
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: the voice do? What can you do to kind of

1178
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: bring this character to life? Because most of the time

1179
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: when you're doing animation, they just show you a character

1180
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: a steel drawing, right, and then you can decide what

1181
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: this character sounds like and what you want along with

1182
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: the director who's trying to get you to say, all right, cool,

1183
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: uh we want you know, can you be a little gruffer?

1184
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: Can you have an attitude? Can you be you know

1185
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: those kinds of any time I'm hearing animation, I'm always

1186
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: trying to guess, man, who is who is this? Boys?

1187
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: I know this boys? Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's always

1188
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: the case. And that kind of goes like with you know,

1189
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,959
Speaker 1: doing albums. I remember doing like threats on Jay Z's

1190
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: Black album, right, and a lot of people for many

1191
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: years didn't know that was me because again, it was

1192
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: a character I was doing, and I'd like had a

1193
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: whole different voice for him and everything. So like that

1194
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: was like, you know, that was fun. And then so

1195
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: when people would read the thing, they're like, yeo you

1196
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: threat something like yeah, when you do it, and you

1197
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: do a lot of things and you look the van

1198
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: draws and you you like the old school, you like

1199
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: you like the soul for and I was thinking, I'm like,

1200
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: man said, can really sing? You can sing? For real? Though? Yeah, yeah, man,

1201
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 1: I've been you know, and I record some songs I

1202
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: just never put out of like a put out a

1203
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 1: music project. I didn't wanna do it though, just on

1204
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: just on GP, so I can add it to that list,

1205
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: right right. Yeah. So when you when you go out

1206
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: there and you opened up and has anybody ever told

1207
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: us they said, man, you ought to do a record,

1208
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: bro you ought to go ahead? Oh for sure. You

1209
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: know one of them, you know, one of the biggest

1210
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: fans of Jamie Foxx. He always like, yeah, come on, man,

1211
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: you should do this, you know, because and he's definitely

1212
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: a person that as a comedian has trans you know,

1213
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: transcended it all, like with big hit records and movies,

1214
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: and he's just super talented like that. So but he's

1215
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: one of he's a big fan of like, man, you

1216
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: need to know, you need to sing, said, let's go.

1217
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: You like Broadway, You're gonna I did? I did. I

1218
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: enjoyed Broadway. It was very tough. It was one of

1219
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: the that was one of these things I say it

1220
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: was the most. It was one of the greatest experiences

1221
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: in my career where I grew like, you know, because

1222
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: you get hot and you you know, life is happening

1223
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: and you have really cool things happened to you where

1224
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: you have like you know, money, milestones and stuff like that.

1225
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: But to to as you know, to kind of like

1226
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 1: have your career popping and then do something that truly

1227
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: challenges you and makes you get better. That that was Broadway.

1228
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: It was like it was one of those kind of

1229
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: experiences where I definitely would do it again. But it

1230
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 1: was hard work, it was unique, and you know, I

1231
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: was really glad. It's something something I'm very proud I

1232
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: was able to do because when you look at it,

1233
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: it's different than the movies. It's different than voiceovers because

1234
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of like being a comedian because you're in

1235
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: front of a live audience. Yes, And the thing is

1236
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: that like a comedia, is that you get instant gratification.

1237
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: You know if the jokes funny. Yeah, in a movie,

1238
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: you don't know, you know, man, I think that's gonna

1239
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 1: be good, but I can't wait to get the feedback.

1240
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: The same thing in voice over you but that instant.

1241
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: I mean obviously Broadway they're not clapped, you know, they

1242
01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 1: wait till the end or you know before. What was

1243
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 1: hard for me is that I was doing a dramatic piece,

1244
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 1: so I was actually stretching, right. I did American Buffalo.

1245
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: It's David Mammitt, want of you know, a great American

1246
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,919
Speaker 1: writer writes a lot of words, a lot of word play,

1247
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: and so you gotta learn a lot, and you have

1248
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 1: to kind of deliver these characters, and so without when

1249
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: my natural instinct to be funny with something that I

1250
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: had to I had to bring down. I had to

1251
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: press it down. So the director knew that, you know

1252
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: that he liked the way that I was taking the

1253
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: character where I was gonna get some jokes off. But

1254
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: you don't have in Broadway. You don't have the ability

1255
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: to improv anything right. So you have to do what

1256
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: the playwright wrote right. And that was a big challenge

1257
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: for a comedian because if I see a window where

1258
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: I can get a joke off, then I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: do that. And I don't remember I asked one night

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Speaker 1: because we were doing Broadway with Baroq one and I

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Speaker 1: had a the first time he won, and I had

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Speaker 1: a scene where I have the newspaper and I had

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Speaker 1: this whole idea like it'll be dope if I say,

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Speaker 1: well look at that blaise blah. And you know when

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Speaker 1: I said it in rehearsal, everybody laughed. Whatever I said,

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Speaker 1: it was funny. The director loved it, and then he

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Speaker 1: was like, no, I was because I thought it was

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Speaker 1: about to be Oh, I would kill it right. He's like, nope,

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Speaker 1: give me, said Matt Rushmore. Comedians, Oh man for me?

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Speaker 1: Who Richard pryor George Carlin, Uh the late Robin Harris.

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Speaker 1: Uh uh Chappelle. That's all you get, said I'm about

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Speaker 1: to say, you about to keep going. I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I see, I say exactly why. You probably did go

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Speaker 1: to you know you about name five. It's only four. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I didn't go to a yeah because nae

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Speaker 1: like it's fine. People on that mountain. It ain't number

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Speaker 1: four of them. A lot of people don't know that.

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Speaker 1: What's next for seeing? Uh? Then you know I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to produce, and I'm producing right now. I got

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Speaker 1: a lot of uh new shows that I'm producing for

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Speaker 1: other talent, developing a lot of talent. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll direct more. We we like you said, We're blessed

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Speaker 1: to be in the fifth season of The Neighborhood. I

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Speaker 1: got show coming out. I got two shows on the

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Speaker 1: Bounce network that we produced my company, A Burden of Bear.

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Speaker 1: Uh so we have uh the John Johnson that's on

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Speaker 1: Bounce of about a group of black men in their

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Speaker 1: in their thirties friends and then Finding Happy. It's premiering

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Speaker 1: this Saturday on the twenty fourth of of September, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh that's the second show that we

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Speaker 1: got over there. As Doult just creating, you continue to

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Speaker 1: keep keep trying to push the limit. Man, it seems

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Speaker 1: to me that you're transitioning more behind the camera than

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Speaker 1: in front of the camera, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the movie side. Well, I like that. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: like to be able to create. I think you know,

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Speaker 1: I have to, you know, in the way these contracts

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Speaker 1: are set up. I just have the ability to do

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Speaker 1: more of that because once you on a show like

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Speaker 1: The Neighborhood, we shoot twenty two twenty four episodes a season,

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Speaker 1: so you're locked up for nine months. So in order

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Speaker 1: for me to like stay creative and stay busy, it's

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Speaker 1: easier for me to create stuff for other people. And

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Speaker 1: knowing that I only got three months to get a

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Speaker 1: movie in so usually you know, we'll try to find

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Speaker 1: something to do like in that break and like you know,

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Speaker 1: and try to jump in and pop off. But I

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Speaker 1: can produce two three four TV shows in that time, right,

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Speaker 1: So how much further do you want the neighborhood to go.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to go sixteen yeah, ten years? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think I always love that. Like what I considered legendary sitcoms,

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Speaker 1: they usually go eight to nine, right, you know, of

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01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 1: course you have those anomalies like on them and were

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Speaker 1: friends or something. They go for a long time, but

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Speaker 1: you know, like Si Seinfeld, but they right in the

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Speaker 1: two and a half man, right, they usually right it

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Speaker 1: red nine years eight nine years. Uh, And I think

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Speaker 1: that that'll be a really strong run. I mean as

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Speaker 1: long as the network is loving us the way they are, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and we having a good time. Uh. We

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Speaker 1: got a great cast. I love my cast. And I

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Speaker 1: asked everybody would they want to rock you know, longer,

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01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:26,919
Speaker 1: and they was like, yeah, we're having a good time.

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Speaker 1: So you know that would be the push for me

1325
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,440
Speaker 1: is to try to get you know, and you know

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Speaker 1: Anthony's uh show Black is just rent. They went eight seasons,

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Speaker 1: so I feel like that's the least you get the eighty.

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Speaker 1: You gotta do your re assess where you are after eight. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring some of this yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: know this is a laporte. I named it after you.

1331
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: Know you have after yours, yours after your mom, and

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Speaker 1: I got this after my grandmother. Laporte is a Laporta.

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Speaker 1: It's a family name. Yes, uh, it's loved porter Ran.

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Speaker 1: Where Where's Where's where's knee? It's actually from the region. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's nice. It's got a really nice body to it.

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Speaker 1: Then this is me. This is me drinking learning to

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Speaker 1: drink wine. So now I'm like, okay, it's full buddy,

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Speaker 1: it's up. There's notes of summer and ass whoopington here

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Speaker 1: you say it's the name that your Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I can see you got a little butter Yeah, little butterscotch, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little butterscotching. Yeah. This is a smooth simper right here.

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Speaker 1: What got like a yeah, like a brandy vibe to it?

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Okay that's great. It's beautiful, man. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Appreciate it that you do continue to say. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's hard, thank you man, no problem, just a gift.

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Speaker 1: Yeah oh I was you know, yeah, I really just

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Speaker 1: said it on camera. That makes you I got it

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Speaker 1: giving me the right? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, thank you, man.

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Speaker 1: Leave up all my life and running all my life, sacrifice, hustle,

1350
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Speaker 1: Bay the Price, Wanna slice? Got the rolling dice? That's why.

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Speaker 1: All my life, I've been running all my life, all

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Speaker 1: my life, and running all my life. Sacrifice, hustle, Bay

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01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,599
Speaker 1: the Price and want a slice? Got the rolling dice.

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Speaker 1: That's wait. All my life, I've been running all my

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Speaker 1: life