WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Deon Cole 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.600 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeart Radio. Eight 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:05.160 Days of. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.440 Lazy Jones, Eight motherfucking days. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:20.800 Welcome to This is our fourth annual U Shaka Khan episode. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.840 If you're celebrating Hanakah Kwanza. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.120 Chanaka Chaaka is smoking Robins or China. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:32.320 Yeah, I'm about to say smoky Robinson pronounced it. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.760 Kah. That's all Jams and Steve. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.280 Who's that? 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.960 Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones and the dad Kings. Oh wow, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.000 eight days of. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:50.000 That only Honakkah was actually that funky and soulful. I'd 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:50.800 be a happy guy. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.440 Well, you know, now's now's the now's the time to 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.480 reverse that. Now that's one of my favorites. I like 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.720 that record. Yeah, man, this is uh. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.319 Oh we we should uh before we get started, give 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.960 a shout out to our good friends Belviani. Got very 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:16.240 familiar with them this year, extremely familiar. Yeah, and uh, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.840 you know it's Belviani that's handcrafted to be enjoyed responsibly, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.720 So you know, give them a shout out. But also 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.640 let people know that they should drink responsibly and uh, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.120 you know, because we know that this could be you know, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.400 a celebration for some people can be uh, not too 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.040 celebratory for other people. Yeah, our guest today is a 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.039 friend of the show. I gotta say that one of 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.679 the biggest surprises of twenty twenty was actually how good 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:47.560 of a DJ? 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:50.400 This? 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:51.160 This is real? 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:51.480 Man? 0:01:51.840 --> 0:02:00.920 YoY yo, Like, dude, I had zero clue that you 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.480 were this serious on turntables. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:08.040 Yeah, welcome Dion cole course superior. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.919 Yeah that's just sha ka Khan. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:12.560 Edition. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:18.040 Yeah, what's going on, man, king? What's going on? Brother? 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.120 How y'all doing? Everybody doing? Everybody good? 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:21.680 We're good, brother, We're good. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:22.119 Yeah. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.040 I didn't think I did. I was thinking. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.880 I was like, man, I didn't think that Dion was 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.160 such a big house head. But then I realized, I'm 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:29.079 like shitty from Chicago. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.840 Of course he's out head. Like okay. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:36.560 So that's the thing though, Like, if you are, if 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.799 you're of age in Chicago, especially in the eighties and 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:45.640 the nineties when this is blossoming, I mean, am I 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.600 to assume that that's house Music's almost like a birthright, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:53.880 Like everyone is indulged in in house music culture if 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:54.880 you're from Chicago. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.800 Yeah, especially back then, Like back then, it was like everybody, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.400 everybody was engulfed in like it was it was something 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.400 that was our own. It was almost like almost like 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.560 a secret, like it was like our thing that we 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.640 was doing. And then if you really, like like I 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.280 was my age, you wasn't thinking about the world and 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.920 them hearing it. You was just happy that it was 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.560 like like how almost like how hip hop was our 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.640 hip hop just came and it just was something that 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.239 we felt like was ours, even like in Chicago, I 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.840 remember HBK underground hip hop stations. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.280 It was just something that was just ours and we just, 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.360 I don't know, we just embraced it. But everybody was. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:47.760 Everybody was into it, like everybody thugs, gangsters, pimps, everybody. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.200 Like That's what I'm saying. I would I would have 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.600 thought it was just a niche like kind of a 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.120 select if you were into this as an underground. But 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:02.600 I slowly realized how damn near every person from Chicago, 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.400 even Common's knowledge of house music history ran deep. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:08.320 So I didn't know that. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.760 Yeah, cam Com always come on the page and be 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.000 requested songs for me to play, like just always playing 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.560 uh put. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:19.160 Us under. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:21.279 Take request? 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:22.400 Is it all over my face? 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:24.880 Is it all over my face? 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.560 Sometime I do, Yeah, like he'll come on there, like 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.120 he'll like text me or something and be like, yo, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:31.840 play this, and I'd be like, all right, now, I 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.520 look it up and I'll play it definitely. But yeah, like, man, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.839 our days go back, even back in the day, Common 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.839 me everybody used to be at this place called the 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.240 Bizmark when we used to get down the music box 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:51.440 a kas all disco and I'm talking like vice lords, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:58.800 disciples folks. Yeah, man, Common Common was a common was 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.960 a mo a vice little and still to this day 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.400 he got a little vice lord on them, you know 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:12.640 how much of it. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.000 But that's crazy because no matter how hard you was, 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:17.960 you still dance. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.359 To the music still. And that's and that's the point 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:21.080 I was getting to. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.599 You're being there with like straight thugs with guns everything 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.880 jamming like jamming the house because it was a spiritual vibe. Man, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.120 it was. It was almost tribal what it was, and 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.960 it was something that we all got along with. And 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:44.760 not only gangsters. We're talking like gay people, gangsters, regular people, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:52.240 everybody in the same room, politicians, uh prepastors, everybody. Because 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:58.720 it was the disco era that ended and made it 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.320 underground and it made people gravitate to it because it 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.320 was you couldn't hear it on the radio no more 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.479 once the disco era, and you can't really end on 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.359 radio like that. So it was all these underground places 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.760 that play music. And there was a place called the 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.040 Warehouse where Frankie Knuckles used to be. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.560 Frank were you around for the were you around for 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.400 like the Ron Hardy? Was that before your time? 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.200 Or was that? Okay, man, let me. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.480 Tell you about Ron Ron? Yeah, yo, Ron. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.039 See Frankie Knuckles was like he was the one that 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.560 was like it was like sophisticated house when Frankie would 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.720 do it, and there would be mostly gay too, it 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:43.440 would be like mostly gay sophisticated scene. But when Ron, yeah, 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.560 all Jamie principal, all them. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:47.080 Yeah. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.159 But then but then when but when when Ron started 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.120 when when they was ending the warehouse, then the music 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.440 box opened up and that's when Ron came in. And 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.560 Ron took the music from being sophisticated to like taking 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.920 chances with it, like you'll hear music that you ain't 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.680 never really heard before, and your hear music looped in. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.800 A way that you thought it was a whole new 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.160 song that you just didn't hear. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.360 And he had this thing where he'll play a song 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.840 and then he would have a real to real, real 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.320 to real, and he would blend in the real, the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.520 real from the turntable, but the real to realid be 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.600 going backwards and. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.280 He would play and he would play the song backwards 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:33.600 on the. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:38.720 Real the reel, and you will be dancing to it, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:44.760 going bserk that he's playing this track backwards and the 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.560 track being played backwards sound. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.200 Like a whole new track. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.960 Then used to just like just zone out. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.480 And the sound system was like no sound system I've 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.000 ever heard still to this day. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:03.920 And it came from uh, what's that place? Larry Levigne us. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.920 Garage, the dude who did the sound system in Paradise 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.280 Garage did the sound system at the warehouse at Chicago, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:13.080 and it. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:18.320 Was yo, there it is and and never never. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.440 Heard nothing like that. To this day, I haven't heard 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.840 the sound system like that. And he used to thump 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:29.040 like through your soul dumb. So yeah, man, that that 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.400 house scene was big. And the music that Rod that 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.080 Frankie and them used to play at the warehouse, you 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.520 couldn't really get it nowhere. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.680 It was exclusive. So what they would do they would 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.200 make tapes and sell them. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.439 At the Wear at this this uh at this record 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.640 company in High Park and they and they used to 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.800 sell like the music. The people would go there and 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.000 be like, yo, let me get some of that warehouse music. Yo, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.880 let me get that warehouse music. And after while they 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.360 took the musica, they took the wearoff of it. It 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.440 was just like, let me get some of the house music. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:01.920 Whatever. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.400 Oh So that's that's the derivation of how uh. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:12.240 Chicago get salty When other cities started calling their ship house, I. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.880 Was gonna say, what's your relationship with Detroit? Because in Jersey, even. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.760 In Baltimore, No, I think that they always respected that 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.199 it came from Chicago. From that I know of, they 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.480 always respected it, respected that, but they knew that that's 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:27.240 what that music. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.560 It came from Chicago, and that's what we called it, 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:30.720 and that's just what it was. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.200 And then they started adapting it, adapting the two which 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.240 was always love like I don't want nobody in Chicago 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.960 never was against Baltimore Jersey. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:45.480 Or Baltimore had to respect Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.760 So it was it was it was just love like, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.600 ain't nobody I've never heard nobody in Chicago tripping over 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.880 it like that, you know, But it's always been a 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:59.600 part of our culture, man, and especially like then it 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:00.800 was it was, it was. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.959 It was a hybrid because hip hop was. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:08.520 Like coming there raw and hard too, so it was 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:09.599 like between. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.040 Both of them. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.600 It was just music heaven in Chicago at the time. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.720 When I go to Chicago, like I always find out, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.200 like when I go to the cities and figure out, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.959 like what the national anthem of that particular club culture is. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:32.000 So what is the my eyes Don't Cry of Detroit? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.640 I was about to say, I know the answer is, Baby, 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.800 I'm Scared of You by Woolmack and Womack. But now 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.720 I'm also thinking about stepping culture, like how does stepping 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.280 culture is that different than house culture as well? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:47.800 Or did it? 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.439 Yeah, stepping culture is a whole other culture of Chicago. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.640 Stepping culture is also back in disco era, taking a 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.760 lot of that music and and just the seventies itself. Man, 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.960 it was great music. Curtis Mayfield, all of them. They 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.600 have music that had this certain rhythm and there's certain 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.680 this certain beat pattern that was considered like a music 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.560 that you can dance to with your woman and not 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.160 slow dance, but not fast dance. But it was something 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.319 cool that you could just move to because a lot 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.520 of players, they ain't want to mess their shoes up, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.040 they ain't want to get all sweaty, and so it 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.360 was a nice way to just be cool and just 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.160 groove seven right, that's kind of yeah yeah, yeah, so 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.160 you were groove and it was able for you to 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.440 not not be sweaty, but groove, be with your lady, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.800 be tight coas to HRD. And it was just a 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.560 good way of just grooving or whatever. So a lot 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.200 of pimps used to do that, a lot of players, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.199 and uh that was a good way that they used 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:47.520 to do it. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.960 And it was just it was just it just stuck around. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.080 It just always was a thing, you know, from back 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.320 in the day, like my father, my. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.080 Mother, everybody used to step. Like to this day, people 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.520 steps like championship level stepping tournaments. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.720 Yeah, all of that, like tournaments like like practicing all 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.120 year long, going from party to party, practicing and then 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.680 at the end of the year you you get into 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:12.960 a stepping tournament. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:17.280 Like if you listening is the ultimate stepping teacher. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.160 Uh me and my wife we stepped we Uh I 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:24.959 got her into it. I've been doing it for a 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.400 couple of years kind of before we got together, but 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.439 then I got her into it, and. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.839 So Tovid kind of stopped it because you. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.440 Know, we ain't get to, you know, be doing it 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.240 like we used to. But we'll still we'll be in 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:36.680 the kitchen. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:37.320 We're living. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.319 Everybody what everybody ain't patient? You trying to. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.000 You know because from various people, I hear that like 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.800 Woo and Woo, Max Mayby, I'm scared of you. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:56.600 And then the that's Jeffrey, uh making love is gonna last. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.280 That's that's more stepping with this name Jeffrey something God 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:00.600 his name. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.000 But yeah, I know you're talking about. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.720 Right, So like what what are those like Chicago only 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:11.920 records that like of that era at least. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.360 Well when it like anything by the moments of the 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.280 shotlights like some some cools, it's like. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.320 Yo stepping groog. But like I said, it's just a. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:31.960 Temples, Nah, come on, sexy mamas, not a fast Yeah, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.599 it's that tempo if you're in that tempo, because I 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.880 tell you somebody, who's who people get because we we 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.480 stepped to Earth win the Fire like Earth in the 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.480 Fire is like a great great group. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.640 But I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you who 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.160 people love. It's Kim like Chicago. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.320 Yeah yeah, man. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:55.600 Look. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.880 God, no, no, no disrespecting Kim, no different, but just 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.040 the way he pops up on this the way he 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.320 pops up on this podcast. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:13.520 I need to want to properly explain the power of Kim. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:17.640 I'm gonna tell you, Kim is just cool, Yo, It's 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.280 just it's just a cool. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:20.000 Look. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:25.760 We don't know him personally, We don't know him personally, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.120 but the music just gott a. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:33.080 Groove, a sophistic like a cool pimp sophistication type thing 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.640 that people love in Chicago. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.800 Man, everybody, everybody get. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:43.240 Maybe everybody I know in's Chicago. Yo, Kim you you. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.880 Roll listen, Yo, Kim is one of them artists, bro, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.720 Like for real, Kim is one of them artists that 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.120 like nobody claims to like. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.880 But this nigga puts up numbers on the board. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.200 So it's like, listen, some of our niggas is lying 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.360 cuz these records are not buying themselves, you know what 0:14:59.360 --> 0:14:59.720 I mean. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:01.440 Niggas fuck with Kim. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:08.200 Do this concert and trench coats and. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:18.000 Mustache, Like, yeah, I learned I learned the power of 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.240 Kim on a drive to New Orleans. I was driving 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.280 while I was riding with my aunts from New Orleans 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.920 to well, from Atlanta, New Orleans. We're going New Orleans 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.240 from Mardi Gras and Nigga. When I tell you, it 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.360 was a chemthon for six hours. That was when I 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.680 got school. I was like, Okay, I get it. He 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.960 he is the Auntie Whisperer Frankie. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:40.520 For real. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.640 Wait, wait, I gotta I gotta clear something else because 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:43.840 I ain't trying to get a little showing. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:44.320 No more. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:53.120 Yeah, no disrespect, disrespect to Kim. I just simply I'm 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.400 not that familiar with Kim's discography. But again, I recognize 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.920 he puts numbers on the boards open up shows for 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.280 him in stadiums at like. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.400 Eighteen thousand Cedar. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.560 He Jill Scott opening for Kim, you know, damn near 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:14.360 sixteen thousand Cedar in Philadelphia, Like he does the numbers. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.240 I just I've never studied him. And yes, as a 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.840 casual listener, you might dismissively say, oh, okay, that's just 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:28.600 algio whatever, But now I get so, Yeah, that was it. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.400 See the whole thing about Kim from I don't. I 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.400 don't know his history and none of that need. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.240 All I knew was it was homeless. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.680 He got a deal and he blew up and it 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.160 made people go wow, look at look at that and 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:43.400 look at this guy's. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.600 Voice is amazing. He was homeless. Yo, we rock His 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.440 story is crazy. Yeah, we rocking with We rock away. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.960 So that's okay, let's get Kim on the show. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.600 We gotta do al black first. But as soon as 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:02.960 you get. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.359 A black first, No, but you're some stepping on, some 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.960 stepping you throw some kim on. You could be in 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.399 the middle of a fight you throw some Kimo. Mother's 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.840 gonna be like, I better not see your ass around here. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:18.240 No more. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.879 Man, So, how how long have you been DJing? Just 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:39.159 all your life? For a new pandemic skill? Like? 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:41.240 Just no? 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.080 Really, I was just talking about this the other day. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.000 I sung to a friend and I said. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.359 Can you believe I have not DJ a year yet? 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.119 What I'm not so congression. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.399 I don't even know how to DJ on on CDJ. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.359 Wait, you saw the writing on the wall, got you 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.919 some DJ equipment in March and then. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:08.520 DJ. No. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:13.159 No, I've had the equipment for three years and I 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.200 had it sitting there. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:15.920 I was living in another house. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.120 I had it sitting there and I tried to use it, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.800 and I didn't have the time to practice. 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.480 I had a catalog of music. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.000 I always had a catalog music because I just love 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.280 collective music and especially disco music. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.119 That's my thing. So I always had music. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.119 But I had the equipment, and I never had time 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.840 to do it. At the time I was filming Blackish, Grownish, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:45.960 Angi Tribeca man Conan, I was. I had no time, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.760 and so it just sat there, dusty everything, and I 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.240 just never did nothing with it. Moved to my new 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.720 place and still never did nothing with it. It was 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.960 just sitting up in the box. And when the pandemic 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.639 and I saw D Nice. I saw d Nice and 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.760 I was like, and I was on d nice page. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:07.040 This one. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.640 D Nice had like one hundred and twelve people listening 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:15.960 to him. So we was over there, you know, just 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.600 just checking them out, and I just just like, man, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:19.840 it ain't nothing to do. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.679 I was like, man, I should I should. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.040 Pull out my equipment and just see if I can 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.920 just try try to do it. And I just did 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.200 it and was playing around and people was like, don't 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.760 quit your day job, and you're horrible and stick. 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.840 To comedy and where's the joke? Said? They just kept 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:40.119 doing it. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.119 And I was joking with him too, because I was like, yeah, 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.600 I am horrible. Definitely, my blends are horrible and all 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.680 of that. But I remember Ron Hardy in Chicago. Ron 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.320 Hardy wasn't no great blend dude. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:54.880 What he what? 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.679 It's what he played that was amazing. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:19:59.320 He was a selector. 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.239 Yeah, So I just always had that in mind, and 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.480 I was like, you know what, but I got some 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:06.560 music people don't know about. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.199 Like, I got some music, and so I just was like, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:10.440 let me just try it. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.560 And then I started thinking, you know what, it'd be 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.960 hilarious if I learned how to DJ right in front 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.920 of everybody's face, and I just I just didn't care 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.600 and just did it and see to see what happened, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.320 and and plus let this music out that I got 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.159 that people don't know about, that people don't know about. 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:29.480 I'm going to tell. 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.479 You if you you've been like Emir, yeah, man, I've 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.639 been doing this for about seventeen years. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.360 Eighteen I do a world class digit. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:43.840 You now have. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:45.560 You? 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.600 You you have an amazing toofer where now like I 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.840 expect you to be your own after party DJ, after 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:54.960 your comments. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.760 Two chicks, that's what that's that's what I want to do. 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:00.480 Sing. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:02.960 Yeah, that's why I want. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.840 That's why I wouldn't call myself and I still don't. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.440 I don't be calling myself the DJ because I just don't. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.560 I feel like I feel like that's what I do, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.159 That's what i'd be doing. But I don't feel like 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.800 I went through the trenches to call myself a DJ 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.840 like that. Like I don't even I bag off of 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.879 anybody even saying that. Sometimes I just be like, I 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.360 don't think. I think I'm not, but I just think 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:27.920 I play music that. 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:29.639 But you have got requests for gigs. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:30.920 I bet man. 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:35.359 I did the Chosen Few, which is crazy. 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.040 I did Chosen Few this year. I did Rock the Vote. 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.760 I did Rock the Vote with Louis Vega and DJ Spinner, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:48.840 and I did uh uh souling the horn. 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:56.280 I just did that. That sounds like. 0:21:55.240 --> 0:22:00.280 Forget from one imposter syndrome to an other. 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.200 Just accept it. Like we think you're a DJ, you're 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.400 a DJ. Trust me on this one. 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.400 When you're sweating while you're DJing, is that still nerves 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:10.480 or is it hot in there. 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:16.199 Man, I got air condition, I got I got I 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.960 got air condition. No, I just be I just be 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:20.640 kind of like losing it. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.359 This is what I do when I put a playlist together. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:29.240 I don't listen to it loud. I listened to it. 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:33.359 It was very low speakers, and I just I just 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.200 listened to the blends of it. I don't even really 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.160 listen to the whole song because I know the song, 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.000 or if it's a new song that I hear, I 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.159 listen to it, but I won't listen to it loud. 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:45.800 And I listened to it a couple of times. 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.960 But the experience is when I'm playing it loud for 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:53.560 the first time, everybody listening to it, and. 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:56.479 I'm on, I'm on these, I'm on, I'm on these 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.359 boys right here, these speakers, these and. 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.760 Loud you last your music, Yo, I blast. 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:03.280 Look at this. This is. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:09.919 Off my speaker, the size of. 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:17.720 No, I be rattling, rattling, this whole joint be rap. 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:19.600 You feel it through the screen when you're watching them. 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.640 That's why I asked, oh yeah, and that joint too 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:26.320 up there, like I be radling, rattling, and. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.160 So yo, I be feeling it. 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:32.720 Man, I just be like, I feel music, man, I 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.880 feel it. Like I always was saying to myself too, 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:39.080 I was like, if I wasn't a comedian, I'll. 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:41.080 Probably be an A and R somewhere. Man, Like, I 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:45.240 just love music. And maybe I'm just maybe I don't 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.199 know the ends and out of an R, but I 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.520 just thought that. But I just love music, man, I 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:51.919 just love feeling. Now. 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:53.960 I think that's what comes through in your sets because 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.960 you know the records. And that's the thing now with 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.480 when I tell when I talk, the cats coming up, whatever, 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:02.960 it's like with DJing like a mirror can give you 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.920 his hard drive right and just you know twenty thousand songs. 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:10.600 But if you don't know the songs, if you don't know, okay, 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:12.879 this is the part, that's the break to play do 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:14.720 with these into this. Yeah, if you don't know what 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:16.560 to do with it, that shit is just files on 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:17.160 the laptop. 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:17.960 It means nothing. 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:20.680 But if you know the records, that's what makes you 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:22.880 good DJ because you know how to play them right. 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:24.360 Like like even like request. 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:26.760 The thing the thing that like like request is that 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:33.320 certain like you can hear DJs play music and that's cool, 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.960 But then you got DJs who play music where you 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:40.119 want to know the origin of this music. 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.600 You want to know who made it. You want to 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:44.520 know who's selling. You want to know. 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:47.840 You you want to know history of music just from 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:49.199 the way somebody play it. 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:50.280 You know what I mean? 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:53.800 And Man, as many times many nights haven't been on 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:54.280 your page. 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:56.480 Listen to you. Man, I've sat there. 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:02.800 Like with another computer, Man, just like yo, what is it? 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:04.040 But that's why I do it. I do it so 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:05.960 cats can exam it and learn it. 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:08.760 But that's what I'm saying, Like what you're doing and 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:13.680 with your nariety and your popularity, Like even I have 0:25:13.760 --> 0:25:19.919 a deeper respect for disco culture and house music culture 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:25.360 that I thought I had. But with you, I see 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:29.679 that almost as an education. Like that definitely keep Sunday 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:33.320 Service even when we quote stop wearing our masks and 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:34.040 get out. 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:34.440 Into the water. 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:38.800 Nah, we need to make Sunday service a thing, Sunday 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:43.920 afternoon service, you know, from wherever you are in LA 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:45.400 or that sort of thing. 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:46.120 Thank you, man. 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:48.679 And that's the goal, Man, to keep rocking with it, 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:51.600 going from some different cities, man and coming through and 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:52.920 get down and get down. 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:55.399 With some other great cats. Man and we just have 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:58.600 a night of it. Man. It just just make it happen. 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:02.720 Man, it just just played good music man, and and uh, 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:05.640 you know, excite each other, you know, because that's what 0:26:05.680 --> 0:26:09.040 it is. Man, that's exciting each other too. And uh, 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:13.879 you know, just shining shining light on something because it 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.040 it'd be so many people that come to my page 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:20.119 and they'd be like, I love this and never heard. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:23.680 It, never heard life. They'd be like like, where did 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:24.440 this come from? 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:25.399 Existed? 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:28.400 Never even knew it existed, and be like what is 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:34.040 this music? It's called black white and they and they, 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:36.439 and more importantly, they'd be like, I remember this woman 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:38.679 was like, I don't know why I feel I feel 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:39.000 this way. 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:42.840 She said, I feel stupid sometimes like feeling good about this. 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:45.640 She was like it's weird. And I was like, wow, 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.240 that was important. When she said that, I was like, man, 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:48.879 that's good. 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:52.280 And that just drives you to just keep searching for 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:54.480 music and pulling up music and all. 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:57.400 People ain't used to music just moving their bodies before 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:58.480 it even hit their minds. 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:02.119 Yeah, that's true and a big you know, and a 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:06.240 big part of it is also, you know, now's the 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:11.919 time for taste makers to sort of grab the brass 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:16.800 ring again because you know, previously those who are leading 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:17.960 in DJs were just. 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:21.000 Basically doing this pump shit yeah, for the sake of, 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:24.960 you know, their own popularity and their own but not music. 0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:27.159 They feel like all the times DJs tell me like, yo, 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:29.399 man I just I wish I could do what you do. 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:33.840 Like you just do what you want to do. You 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:32.280 can make. 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:37.760 You know, so hopefully now somebody told me that they 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:41.040 was like, man, I wish I could play play the 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:43.399 music like you play. And I was like, why can't 0:27:43.440 --> 0:27:46.520 you because, like you know, you just got to play 0:27:46.520 --> 0:27:47.080 with the people. 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.960 And I'm like, I don't agree. 0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:55.840 With that because they they they only get It's to me, 0:27:57.160 --> 0:27:58.960 it's kind of odd for you to get out the car, 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:01.359 listen to the radio, going to a party and then 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:04.119 hear what you heard on the radio, right, you know what. 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:06.280 I could have kept my ass in the car. 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:10.080 I could have got my ass in the car. I 0:28:10.080 --> 0:28:11.200 could have got my ass to the car. 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:15.040 So no, it's for you to like break new music. 0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:17.760 And yeah, I definitely understand you got to get to 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:20.280 people what they want. They love to sing some stuff, 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:22.919 but it's just it's just a mixture. Man, it's just 0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:28.400 a mixture of of new, old and old that's new 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:30.119 to you. You know, if you ain't never heard it, 0:28:30.119 --> 0:28:30.520 it's new. 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:31.760 Yeah. 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.000 Okay, you think you with with you doing the like 0:28:35.040 --> 0:28:37.480 your DJ sets, you say you pretty much were learning 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:40.080 how to DJ live like in front of an audience. 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.120 Do you think was that same kind of mentality as 0:28:42.120 --> 0:28:44.400 that what led you to do your comedy, Like when 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:46.560 you put out your like I think the one hour 0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:48.440 set you put out of just you working stuff out. 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:51.600 Yeah, we're working it out. It's it's yeah, it's like 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:56.560 it's taking chances, man, that's all it is. And it's like, 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:58.800 you know, you had these thoughts in your head of 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:01.840 what you think and you don't know until you know. 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:05.600 You know, Hell, I could probably be the best astronaut 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:08.040 in the world. I don't know because I ain't never 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:10.000 go up. But if you send me to the movie, 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:12.960 I'm like, I might do some cool shit up there. 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:15.040 I just don't know, you know, until I know. 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:17.600 And shit, you know. So that's that's how I feel like. 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:20.680 I was like, man with my with my my working 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:23.440 it out comedy special thing, I was like, man, it'd 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:27.959 be cool if I gave people material that I was 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:32.120 not throwing away but wasn't used, and make a special 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:34.720 out of material that I wasn't using. Because if people 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:38.080 like this, wait till they see what I kept. 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:41.120 So you're seeing your your Stevie Wonders story is a 0:29:41.120 --> 0:29:42.040 throwaway story. 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:43.400 It was. 0:29:43.600 --> 0:29:46.840 It was a story that I told before, but I 0:29:46.920 --> 0:29:50.480 didn't but I didn't use, but I didn't use in. 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:51.440 My stand up like that. 0:29:51.560 --> 0:29:54.320 It'd be a story that I would just tell if 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:56.880 people were talking about stories, I tell the story now 0:29:56.920 --> 0:29:59.720 I had as I had it as a joke before, 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:02.280 and I did it as a joke before, but I 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:08.720 think people. The funny thing was people wouldn't believe me, 0:30:09.360 --> 0:30:13.440 and so they thought that it was just fake, and so. 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:19.520 I instantly believed that. 0:30:19.720 --> 0:30:23.440 Stevie a forty nine paragraph text. 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:30.080 Anybody watching this right now, if you don't have a 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:34.320 text from Quest love you, you don't know what texting is. 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:44.520 Here. It's not about technical use. Quest text got fade 0:30:44.560 --> 0:30:56.080 in in the corners. Like I laughed. 0:30:56.160 --> 0:30:58.160 I've never laughed so hard a routine in my life, 0:30:58.200 --> 0:31:03.520 because yeah, I know that no one wants to believe you. 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:04.520 And so so I quit doing it. 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:07.640 But people was legendary. 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:09.240 People were kind. 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:12.400 Of like, man, don't talk about Stevie like that. And 0:31:12.480 --> 0:31:14.880 so I did the joke and then I just let 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:17.680 it die down. And then when I was doing my special, 0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:20.160 I was like, I should bring this back up. And 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:22.000 then I was like, you know what, I ain't gonna 0:31:22.000 --> 0:31:23.720 bring it back up, but I'm gonna tell people the 0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:28.640 story to fill time in the room because I couldn't 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:31.800 think of no more new material I wanted to work on, 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:34.040 so I just told the story at the same time. 0:31:34.680 --> 0:31:36.640 So when I was editing the special, I was like, 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:37.240 I should. 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.440 Throw this story in that, and I just was like, 0:31:39.520 --> 0:31:40.400 let me throw it in there. 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:41.160 And give it to the people. 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:45.400 And man, on I think Facebook alone, that story alone, 0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:50.160 just that story alone, that like one point eight million views. 0:31:53.200 --> 0:31:53.840 That's crazy. 0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:57.160 Have you heard anything recently since it's been out, since 0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:58.120 the special has been up? 0:31:58.640 --> 0:32:03.080 Oh no, I've heard nothing from his camp. Like there's 0:32:03.120 --> 0:32:05.120 this one girl from his camp. She used to always 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:08.840 be like, take that down, don't do this, but she'd 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:11.400 be cool though it wasn't no dish, she would be cool, 0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:13.000 she would be cool about it. 0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:15.560 But now I haven't heard nothing else from from them 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:18.680 at all. But I see Stevie. 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.680 Every now and then in La like I'll pop up 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:23.240 somewhere and I'll be somewhere like that's what happened before. 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:26.120 I was at this bar chilling and his boy came 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:28.240 over and tapped me on the shoulder and was like, hey, 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:32.040 Stevie in the corner, like, come on, you want to 0:32:32.040 --> 0:32:32.480 talk to you. 0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:34.800 And I was like, I ain't going over there. 0:32:39.240 --> 0:32:39.640 This boy. 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:41.440 Come see what Stevie want. 0:32:41.520 --> 0:32:44.560 I'm like, no, man, I ain't going over there, Like dude, 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:45.240 get over here. 0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:45.480 Man. 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:50.400 I won't get into the specifics, but I got one time. 0:32:50.440 --> 0:32:51.600 I got what was. 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:54.240 It called when you when you're left holding the bag? 0:32:54.680 --> 0:32:57.960 I got scapegoated into having. 0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:01.440 To be a bad guy about a musical decision that 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:04.440 impacted him and. 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:07.680 He was kind of left with the impression that that 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:11.280 was a mirror's call or mir's fault that that happened. 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:15.840 And this was at another event and I came to 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:20.000 work to the Tonight Show the next week, the next Monday, 0:33:20.040 --> 0:33:23.960 and he was the guest on the show and instantly 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:28.040 like to know my production manager, Keith, Like he, Keith, 0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:30.280 you got that one person in your life. 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:31.920 That lives for telling you bad news. 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:35.360 You know, like the day I got in trouble with 0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:39.320 Michelle Bachman, it was like, you're wanted in Lauren Lauren 0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:42.280 Michael's office, like which is basically you're about to get 0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:44.760 fired right now, like that sort of like he lives 0:33:44.760 --> 0:33:45.000 with that. 0:33:45.320 --> 0:33:47.960 She's like, it's important, Stevie Wonder wants to talk to 0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:48.520 you right now. 0:33:48.760 --> 0:33:52.440 And I'm like, wait, why you know I guess about 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:55.760 last Friday, And I was like, that wasn't my fault. 0:33:55.880 --> 0:33:58.400 Well, he won't talk to you, just like he lives 0:33:58.400 --> 0:33:58.640 for that. 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:04.800 And the whole thing was it was it was like 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:08.400 somehow the Godfather where The thing I was amazed that 0:34:08.600 --> 0:34:11.239 was that he was sitting at a table and I 0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:13.279 guess he was warming up his voice because we were 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:16.919 about to sound check, and he had these two scalding 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:21.680 hot like crafts of tea, but they were sitting on 0:34:21.719 --> 0:34:23.240 the edge of the table. 0:34:24.040 --> 0:34:26.000 And it's only me and him in the group, me 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:26.759 and him in the room. 0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:30.239 And on top of that, he has like a bag 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:35.160 of muffins and butter and different jams and jelly, and 0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:37.800 I'm watching him just navigate like it's normal. 0:34:37.880 --> 0:34:41.560 But he's also like reaching his arm over ever so. 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:44.200 Slightly to that hot craft of hot Tea and I'm 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:46.760 on the receiving end, so it's like you could almost 0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:50.240 like like that sort of thing. And at one point 0:34:50.320 --> 0:34:52.680 he reached out too, like he was reaching for like 0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:55.760 more butter, and reached his arm out and I grabbed 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:56.120 the craft. 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:57.520 He said, no, no, no, no, I know where it is. 0:34:57.560 --> 0:34:57.920 I got it. 0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:01.439 I got it. Oh do you know what I'm doing 0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:09.399 right now? But the whole people knowing, man, yo, man, 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:10.360 he knows. 0:35:10.600 --> 0:35:18.320 And the whole time he was like, yeah, so uh Friday, uh, 0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:22.879 And I'm like, I try to play it off like yeah, man, 0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:25.239 it was so much fun, Like I really try to. 0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:28.080 She's no man's you know. I just want to make 0:35:28.080 --> 0:35:29.400 sure we cool, you know. 0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:32.279 And then I just had to play dumb like I 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:34.120 didn't know what happened, like I had to cut this 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:36.440 song short or some ship you know that sort of 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:38.520 thing and get him off the stage or whatever. 0:35:39.200 --> 0:35:42.319 Yeah, you know, you know, like when you're doing that 0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:43.320 high Boys ship. 0:35:52.880 --> 0:36:00.000 Problem. But I knew. 0:36:00.640 --> 0:36:02.880 I was like, Yo, he's going to he's going to 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:09.480 spell this call and hot Tea on your lap. He's well, 0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:11.560 I guess at some point we should say since this 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:14.040 is the Christmas episode Happy Holidays. 0:36:19.000 --> 0:36:26.840 I was like, I'm happy. I'm celebrating my holiday. 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:32.000 What you're doing for ally Bro? What you're doing. 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:36.560 Thaniel? Nothing? 0:36:36.680 --> 0:36:39.480 I know, Like, is it really Christmas? 0:36:38.760 --> 0:36:41.520 Is this is? 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:44.640 I'm so happy to not have the pressure or the 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:46.360 just the stress of traveling. 0:36:47.120 --> 0:36:47.480 Nigga. 0:36:48.640 --> 0:36:50.800 You got kids, and I'm certain they want a p 0:36:51.000 --> 0:36:51.399 S five. 0:36:51.520 --> 0:36:51.560 No. 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:55.560 Yeah, with my son, he want the Xbox. 0:36:55.920 --> 0:37:00.759 And what's the difference because I'm talking to a bunch 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:03.280 of kids that are like, I want an Xbox? 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:07.239 Like what, so what is it like? It's like smartphone 0:37:07.320 --> 0:37:11.440 versus Apple, like versus It's not necessarily that. It's more 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:15.160 sort thing of like with a particularly my son. So 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.000 the way games are now, like gaming is basically just 0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:21.279 a whole another social network. And so if you're if 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:24.759 you have an Xbox, then you know you can chop 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:26.080 it up with aut your homies on Xbox. 0:37:26.120 --> 0:37:27.920 If you got PS five, then you know you can 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:28.479 do it as well. 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:37.120 And so for my son, he's fifteen, I listen, keep 0:37:37.160 --> 0:37:37.680 on slipping. 0:37:38.239 --> 0:37:39.480 Yeah, so he's fifteen nine. 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:41.840 So a lot of his homies they like be running 0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:44.279 two K and his kind of social network is all 0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:45.080 on the Xbox. 0:37:45.480 --> 0:37:48.040 So it's really a social thing for them. 0:37:48.360 --> 0:37:52.439 So to me, I'm a PS five guy, but I'm 0:37:52.440 --> 0:37:54.680 not a social gamer. Like my game is just solo. 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.440 I'm not you know, talking to people online. I'm just playing. 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:01.600 But for the younger kids, it's a social aspects O Xbox. 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:04.440 From what I see, that seems to be where most 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:06.600 of the youngest that's what they that's where they get 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:06.959 it in. 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:08.319 At God got it? God? 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:12.400 Is there a world for me, like, you know, a 0:38:12.480 --> 0:38:15.799 world where I can fit in and just play like 0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:22.439 my regular two D games and whatnot, or I think 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:24.520 you could if you come from the PS five. They 0:38:24.560 --> 0:38:30.080 got games that like you could it's like a yeah, 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:34.680 ship you might get a man. Well, they do got 0:38:34.719 --> 0:38:37.440 all those simulators. So now they got all the simulators. 0:38:37.440 --> 0:38:41.000 You can get the Nintendo simulators, you can get them. 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:45.120 And they got like all the game some games and yeah. 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:48.400 What's a good what's a good virtual game? 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:51.680 That's a good question like that that they have. 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:55.840 Yeah, the VR, I mean that's not really something I 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:58.719 get into, but they but all the systems have them. 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:01.800 I was running and U I was running Resident Evil 0:39:02.120 --> 0:39:05.239 seven I think like like two years ago, and it's 0:39:05.280 --> 0:39:06.719 like a survival horror joint. 0:39:06.840 --> 0:39:10.600 Oh I used all the time, nigga. 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:12.640 And with the virtue Nigga. That ship is a whole 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:14.560 nother spirit. I was like, no, I don't want this smoke. 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:19.120 Blowing my mind right now. 0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:23.759 You're saying that they got it for virtual Uh yeah, yeah, 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:24.200 you can. 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:28.080 Get the like that this headset or whatever like I speak, 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:31.319 but Resident Evil seven bro, you can have that joint. 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:36.320 I was like, man, right there, yeah, it's really like, 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:38.920 oh no, I gotta do that. 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:42.719 I gotta watch that. I gotta get that. I used 0:39:42.760 --> 0:39:43.799 to always play that. 0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:45.200 Well. 0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:48.879 I don't know, man, it doesn't not that it doesn't 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:51.680 feel like Christmas, but I don't know it is not. 0:39:52.520 --> 0:39:54.879 It is the most Christmas I feel. 0:39:55.719 --> 0:39:57.440 I've been bought no gifts for nobody. 0:39:57.480 --> 0:40:01.160 I've been bought nothing for nobody, even myself whole entire year, 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:02.560 like nothing. 0:40:02.360 --> 0:40:07.560 Like on a birthday, not a not a nothing, nothing not. 0:40:07.880 --> 0:40:10.640 I just I bartered DJ gigs. I'll be like, yeah, DJ, 0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:11.600 you're party for an hour. 0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:12.760 So that's. 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:17.840 Because I think the thing is I think just this year, 0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:20.360 like it really just causts us to slow down and stop. 0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:24.440 And you know, it's like you would give people gifts 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:27.600 for them to use, you know, outside of their homes, 0:40:27.680 --> 0:40:29.400 Like Yo, I'm gonna sing you on a trip somewhere. 0:40:29.560 --> 0:40:32.319 I'm an and it's just like Nigga, we all in 0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:33.319 the house, Like so I. 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:35.880 Go to Jordans. I can't do massages. 0:40:35.320 --> 0:40:39.560 And days at the spa ship like that. I would 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:41.040 give my wife to the spa all the time. 0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:44.040 But that's why Amazon is killing the game. 0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:46.279 I thought, yeah, I mean they killing the game. 0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:48.640 But you know, you buy a gift for somebody, it's 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:55.879 the wrong size, Like it ain't even worth it. It's like, 0:40:56.360 --> 0:41:01.040 everybody just chill this whole year. When next year come around, 0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:02.759 we're gonna make up for all of this. We're gonna 0:41:02.800 --> 0:41:05.920 make up for all our birthday, all our birthday parties. 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:10.600 We're gonna make birthday. I know I'm gonna have a. 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:17.120 Birthday party twice next year. Rt, I'm having two birthday parties. 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:20.520 I'm going hard. I'm gonna double up on everything. But 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:22.000 right now, we just gotta chill. 0:41:22.080 --> 0:41:26.400 It's like everybody, it ain't not next year, babe, twenty two. 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:30.480 Twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two, so we gotta triple up. 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:32.280 Then let's see. 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:34.439 July and August of twenty twenty one. 0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:38.600 No, bab, I think it's gonna take at least a 0:41:38.719 --> 0:41:42.319 year for the vaccine everybody to kind of make the 0:41:42.440 --> 0:41:43.440 round take it to. 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:47.200 Because we gotta find We gotta find out how long 0:41:47.280 --> 0:41:50.200 it lasts. Don't nobody know that. We don't know if 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:52.080 it's forever or if it's for a year. 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:54.160 I think it's for you'll there, to be honest, they haven't. 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.360 They haven't decided yet. If it's gonna better, you got 0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:58.759 to keep taking They haven't decided yet. It's just like 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:00.640 take it and we figure it out. Right now, you 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:02.960 are on your face, like, my man, you know what 0:42:03.000 --> 0:42:03.560 I'm saying. 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:08.760 Figure out? Ball player dude. 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:11.240 Yeah, he fell on his face because he had COVID 0:42:11.280 --> 0:42:14.760 months before. My doctor, my doctor friend was just breaking 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:16.040 it down to me because he was like with people, 0:42:18.120 --> 0:42:19.719 I think it's yes. 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:21.000 People don't understand that. 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.560 Like once you have covidus with your heart and the 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:24.600 shape of your heart. 0:42:24.440 --> 0:42:26.680 And it changes the shape of your heart, you. 0:42:26.680 --> 0:42:28.759 Said, like, yeah, it has something to do with this SI. 0:42:28.960 --> 0:42:29.360 It does. 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:31.520 After it's over and out of your body, it does. 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:32.520 It fucks with your heart. 0:42:33.040 --> 0:42:38.000 Yeah, man, Wow, that's my man, Terry Hannah DJ Terry Hannah, 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:39.600 he got Yeah, that's the home. 0:42:39.680 --> 0:42:44.520 Yeah, Yeah, Terry got it. Terry got it. Wow, Terry 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:45.040 got it. 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:48.840 And Deebo when Deebo rest in piece to Deebo, Deebo 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:52.600 had he had it before he got over COVID. 0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.800 That's the ended up catching it again. 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:58.720 Same thing with the young Wow he had. 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:01.400 It a minute ago, app and he caught it again 0:43:01.640 --> 0:43:03.000 and that's how Debo died. 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:04.640 Wow. 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:06.439 So I didn't know that was his cause of death. 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:10.720 Of Even so, even so everybody talking about they catching 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:13.719 it and they cool after they catch. 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:15.320 It or they are mun Now I ain't. 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:16.920 I am legend. 0:43:17.040 --> 0:43:19.680 We still don't know the long term We still don't 0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:21.319 know the long term effects of I think they're gonna 0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:23.680 be studying this ship for the next decade. Man, Like, 0:43:23.960 --> 0:43:26.719 we still don't know. Even if you quote unquote get 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:30.160 over it, we still don't know what getting over it 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:31.200 completely looks like. 0:43:31.680 --> 0:43:32.080 Yeah. 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.680 What we do know is by by the fall of 0:43:34.719 --> 0:43:38.600 twenty twenty one will probably if we're lucky, we're fifty masks, 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:41.640 but we're not maskless until twenty twenty two. 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:45.640 Fall twenty twenty one, people gonna we're gonna have We're 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:49.120 gonna be able to be like, Okay, we can see 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:51.040 how long this is going to affect people. 0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:53.600 They're gonna know more about it. 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:56.160 If we should take a shot of the year nah, 0:43:56.640 --> 0:44:00.279 because they they tested people months earlier prior to this. 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:04.120 So around the fall, that's gonna let us know if 0:44:04.160 --> 0:44:06.240 it wear off, if it doesn't or whatever. 0:44:06.600 --> 0:44:09.160 Dey'all was lucky that y'all got to get blackish out 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:09.600 a little bit. 0:44:09.719 --> 0:44:11.800 Most people know they getting shut down. 0:44:12.160 --> 0:44:14.640 Hey, we're still shooting and it is I'm gonna tell 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:15.239 you something, man. 0:44:15.320 --> 0:44:18.799 So yeah, what's the protocol of shooting a television show 0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:19.960 now during this period? 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:22.480 Like what's take me through your day? Like how early 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:24.480 do you have to get up? And what's testing? 0:44:24.560 --> 0:44:26.240 Like? Yo, let me tell you. 0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:30.200 So I get tested every day even if I'm not filming, 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:33.600 because if if they have to they want to know. 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:37.120 Also if they have to move a scene around, I'll 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:40.360 be ready. So they make sure they make sure that 0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:43.000 you test like every day our day. 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:44.920 Now it's way longer. 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:48.880 So if it take us if it take us six 0:44:49.000 --> 0:44:52.160 hours to shoot the scene, now it take us like nine, 0:44:52.920 --> 0:44:57.120 well eight, After every scene we got to leave out, 0:44:57.360 --> 0:45:00.920 They got to disinfect, then we come back in and 0:45:01.080 --> 0:45:03.520 they got to move the cameras around. Everybody got to 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:06.839 leave out. It's like a whole whole process, man. 0:45:07.680 --> 0:45:13.520 So question all right, because I don't know how what 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:17.319 child labor laws are or whatever, and plus children now 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:18.360 they're teenagers. 0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:23.120 Yeah, but does that does that also change? In Hollywood? 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:24.280 The uh? 0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:26.720 I know that there's a four to five hour limit 0:45:26.840 --> 0:45:31.200 for like actors under I think fourteen or fifteen or whatever. 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:33.919 Does that also change? Does this also change that rule 0:45:34.520 --> 0:45:35.080 as well? 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:37.480 I'm not I'm not sure, but I do know this. 0:45:37.640 --> 0:45:40.239 They get those kids in and out. They get them, 0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:42.840 They get them in and out, like definitely, Like like 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.520 if you got a scene with one of the kids, 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:48.800 you it's gonna move a little bit. It's still longer, 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:50.919 but it's gonna move a little bit more faster because 0:45:50.920 --> 0:45:52.920 they're gonna get them in and out. So they do 0:45:53.000 --> 0:45:57.759 everything that they possibly can do in order to make 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:01.279 sure everybody's cool or whatever. But but it's totally it's 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:02.359 totally different now. 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:02.600 Man. 0:46:02.680 --> 0:46:07.960 You you have to mask everywhere where everybody in the 0:46:08.080 --> 0:46:12.080 individual trailers, and it's just nerve wracking because you got 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:15.920 so many people. Because another thing too, when you do makeup, 0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:16.800 you can't put. 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:17.279 A mask on. 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:20.160 You got to put one of the plastic things on 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:23.080 your face, and hopefully nobody's in six feet there. 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:24.799 You you stay away. 0:46:24.520 --> 0:46:26.239 From them because if you put a mask on, it's 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:27.440 gonna mess your makeup up. 0:46:27.560 --> 0:46:29.279 And uh so you. 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:32.320 Gotta just stay away from everybody as much as possible. 0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:34.160 Man, And you know it. 0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:36.920 And does that give does that give enough time for 0:46:38.280 --> 0:46:40.000 I mean, I don't know what the protocol is, but 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:43.280 I assume that, like you guys have to like rehearse 0:46:43.360 --> 0:46:44.760 lines and rehearse the rhythm. 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:48.399 And so we come in and we rehearse and then 0:46:48.440 --> 0:46:50.799 we go back and we change and then we come 0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:51.680 back and we shoot it. 0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:55.680 But we rehearse with our mask on. Yeah, we do that. 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:58.960 But uh yeah, it's it's it's it's it's so it's 0:46:59.360 --> 0:47:00.680 very tedious. 0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:03.640 It's very tedious. But we at the. 0:47:03.640 --> 0:47:08.000 Same token were working, and uh a lot of people 0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:10.399 wish they could be working, and. 0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:13.200 A lot of people losing their homes, you know. 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:16.120 With l a right because it's such it's the industry. 0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:17.720 So y'all know, I mean, I don't know if everybody 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:20.000 knows this but like a lot of these sets and stuff, 0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:22.960 these are essential services, Like the state has now said that, 0:47:23.040 --> 0:47:26.640 like movie sets are essential because this town will die. 0:47:27.080 --> 0:47:31.960 It will die, manole. It was and it was doing that. 0:47:32.080 --> 0:47:35.600 People were losing their ship left and right, and they 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:36.800 still are and they. 0:47:36.719 --> 0:47:41.000 Still are, Like Hollywood is like, wow, right now you are. 0:47:41.000 --> 0:47:41.560 Tom Cruise. 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:45.120 I was gonna ask you and when to cruise? 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:49.279 Ran taking y'all, y'all on my mama. I felt that, 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:54.360 y'all in real life, in real life. 0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:57.360 I was like, Yo, it's Tom, Like, dude, do you 0:47:57.480 --> 0:47:59.319 know how many people shut. 0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:01.759 The fuck down and y'all got the opportunity to make 0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:02.560 it work. 0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:07.320 Y'all sitting around here bullshitting and walking around and whispering 0:48:07.400 --> 0:48:08.240 to each other. 0:48:08.040 --> 0:48:10.080 And ship already got shut down. 0:48:11.320 --> 0:48:14.839 Yeah, Like, man, what are you doing whispering to a motherfucker? 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:23.440 Like the worst way to communicate with a nigga during 0:48:23.480 --> 0:48:24.080 the during. 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:27.760 The pandemic, right, I snacked out of here, you whispering 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:29.439 through a sound like. 0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:33.400 Just text tomorrow? 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:33.719 Yo. 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:38.520 Tom was mad, like I'm a producer, like. 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:39.319 I thought I thought. 0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:41.640 I heard him say nigga a few times. 0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:45.040 Around with you. 0:48:45.120 --> 0:48:46.320 Niggas, y'all, better. 0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:52.960 Tom, Yeah, Tom, Tom, Tom letting it out the way 0:48:53.000 --> 0:48:54.240 that it was. 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:56.719 Supposed to be let out. Man, But it is, it's 0:48:56.840 --> 0:48:58.760 it's uh, it's it's tedious stuff. 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:02.920 So like when y'all shoot, like, I guess I'm not 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:05.480 a love scene, but like, is it no physical like 0:49:05.520 --> 0:49:08.440 if if Anthony has the kiss Tracy or something like, 0:49:08.520 --> 0:49:09.120 is it none of that? 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:10.719 You know, none of. 0:49:10.760 --> 0:49:13.759 That if you if you look at this season of Blackish, 0:49:14.040 --> 0:49:18.960 we are especially the office scenes that we do, where 0:49:18.239 --> 0:49:22.480 we we nine times out of ten we are not 0:49:22.600 --> 0:49:25.319 in the office no more. We in a breakroom, but 0:49:25.440 --> 0:49:27.839 we can like spread out and we don't have to. 0:49:28.040 --> 0:49:29.439 Sit right next to each other. 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:32.400 So we got a couple episodes where we're in the breakroom, 0:49:32.440 --> 0:49:35.600 but the majority of the season we we I mean, 0:49:35.880 --> 0:49:38.040 I mean a couple episodes where were in the office together, 0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:40.960 but the majority of season we're in the breakroom where 0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:42.200 we can stretch. 0:49:41.960 --> 0:49:42.800 Out out or whatever. 0:49:42.880 --> 0:49:47.000 But yeah, everybody kind of spaced out, definitely, definitely mentally. 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:49.680 So how does that affect when you plan the scene? 0:49:50.080 --> 0:49:53.640 You know, when you know you're in a scene where 0:49:53.640 --> 0:49:57.560 you have to you know, ostensibly assumed it or portrayed it. 0:49:57.600 --> 0:50:00.640 Everything is fine or we're joking, we're laughing, but in 0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:02.640 your mind, you know, like nigga, it's a whole lass 0:50:02.680 --> 0:50:06.600 plague we try not to catch. How do you disassociate 0:50:06.640 --> 0:50:06.960 from that? 0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:09.640 I take a deep breath before I say my lines 0:50:09.680 --> 0:50:10.040 and then. 0:50:10.200 --> 0:50:10.880 Hold your breath. 0:50:13.880 --> 0:50:14.560 Ship. 0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:16.960 I was like, and if you're talking to Laurence Fishburn 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:18.880 and Jennifer like you really. 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:25.160 Yeah want boy, I'll be hold my breathna be your 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:29.240 Navy seal right now, dude, way I know my breath. 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:35.560 I turn on, I turn around, do my lines, and 0:50:36.200 --> 0:50:37.279 somewhere in the quarner. 0:50:40.760 --> 0:50:44.920 Man I thought I was the only one that did that. Serious. 0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:47.160 Lauren's up in the bubble wrap. Y'all make sure. 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:52.919 They're good, lad, Lawrence, don't be playing Lawrence. Jennifer, both 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:56.399 of them, they boy, they serious. They they will get 0:50:56.480 --> 0:50:59.840 on your ass. Laurence fish Burnt laws be like it 0:51:00.120 --> 0:51:02.839 in that calm voice. Mun't be like you must do 0:51:03.120 --> 0:51:07.640 what you're supposed to do in order for everyone to 0:51:07.680 --> 0:51:12.080 get through this. You want to stand, you'd be like this, yes, sir, 0:51:12.600 --> 0:51:16.600 I just stopped just talking my shirt saying for no reason. 0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:22.319 Yeah, I don't think you have to tell older black people. 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:24.279 No oh no, no, no, no, no. 0:51:24.480 --> 0:51:25.959 You younger people that. 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:28.439 Are like feel invincible and ship. 0:51:28.560 --> 0:51:31.200 Yeah they yeah, they killing us, young people killing us. Man, 0:51:31.440 --> 0:51:34.240 I like to shorten it. That's what it is, young people. 0:51:34.640 --> 0:51:35.839 Niggas crackers. 0:51:37.560 --> 0:51:38.400 Uh tips. 0:51:39.160 --> 0:51:41.680 No, it's saying, oh the tip board, the tips is 0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:47.360 tipping the tips, the tips is they did you. 0:51:46.440 --> 0:51:50.239 Here today's black contract speech? There was? 0:51:50.800 --> 0:51:52.880 Yeah? Yeah, Q made a speech? 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:55.520 Oh man, yeah what was? 0:51:55.600 --> 0:51:55.960 What was? 0:51:56.280 --> 0:52:01.080 What was in today's more black? I mean, like, Biden's 0:52:01.120 --> 0:52:03.520 not in office yet, like you can't. 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:05.760 He's he's demanding, he's giving his demand. 0:52:05.880 --> 0:52:08.120 Yeah, and I'm like, let him get on. 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:11.279 It's okay, Biden said, let people demand from him that 0:52:11.600 --> 0:52:13.960 feel like they have added to, you know, bringing him 0:52:13.960 --> 0:52:14.399 to that place. 0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:15.680 Biden's okay, don't worry about it. 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:18.360 A mirror, He's I know, not for that. 0:52:18.520 --> 0:52:18.719 Look. 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:22.200 I love Cube, man, that's my guy. We all do. 0:52:22.360 --> 0:52:22.839 Man, Like. 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:30.480 I don't know, I just just just generally from anybody 0:52:30.640 --> 0:52:32.359 like that wants to give a hot take. 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:34.600 I need them. I need to feel like they really 0:52:34.640 --> 0:52:37.640 know what the political process is first, where you just 0:52:37.680 --> 0:52:38.359 walk in the door. 0:52:38.560 --> 0:52:42.600 My whole thing is this though, I'm like this regardless 0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:46.480 if he knows, if he doesn't know, at least at 0:52:46.560 --> 0:52:50.839 least he's doing something like I don't see nobody else 0:52:50.920 --> 0:52:55.000 doing ship and so and and this is what I'm saying, 0:52:55.120 --> 0:52:58.560 Like I'd rather take something I believe the right place 0:52:58.640 --> 0:53:05.759 than nothing. Yes, I rather got something to nothing, nothing. 0:53:07.200 --> 0:53:08.480 Reading the wrong. 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:15.919 Thing, something right right? I ran nothing again, Cubert, it's 0:53:16.000 --> 0:53:22.720 like Judo, all your work. Oh you talking about the game, Cuba. 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:26.960 I was thinking about the actual Cubert. Djqban got the 0:53:27.040 --> 0:53:28.000 all the way funk out of. 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:34.239 Here, Cuban watching me again. I just I just I 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:36.840 don't know. I just respect what Cue did. Man, And 0:53:37.920 --> 0:53:38.439 I'm like. 0:53:38.600 --> 0:53:42.720 Just making I acknowledge his heart was in the right place. 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:44.719 Yes he if he was gonna do that ship to me, 0:53:44.800 --> 0:53:47.080 you should have did that ship in twenty six like 0:53:47.440 --> 0:53:48.839 because it's you know what I'm saying, because it's one 0:53:48.880 --> 0:53:51.600 thing to say, Hey, listen, I didn't vote for this motherfucker, 0:53:51.880 --> 0:53:53.520 but listen, this is what we got. 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:55.040 Let's try to work with what we got. 0:53:55.640 --> 0:53:57.840 You say that in twenty sixteen, top of twenty seventeen, 0:53:57.960 --> 0:53:58.719 nobody's mad. 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:00.920 It's like, all right, well, let's let's see. 0:54:01.000 --> 0:54:04.719 But pulling this ship down, you know them three weeks, 0:54:04.719 --> 0:54:05.800 three weeks primary. 0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:08.880 It's like like, nigga, come on, but look, let me 0:54:08.880 --> 0:54:12.040 ask you this though, Like if he if he came 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:15.680 to the table with no agenda as far as I mean, 0:54:16.000 --> 0:54:18.040 I ain't saying no agenda, but if he came to 0:54:18.080 --> 0:54:21.320 the table and he wasn't biased, and he wasn't towards 0:54:21.880 --> 0:54:28.600 being a Democrat, he wasn't a Republican. He just came 0:54:28.920 --> 0:54:31.560 to the plan going, who's gonna help up black people 0:54:31.600 --> 0:54:34.440 with this? And the Republicans go, man, we want to 0:54:34.480 --> 0:54:36.719 do it or we want to see it, and he 0:54:36.840 --> 0:54:38.200 go all I find cool? 0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:41.839 Like, Like though, is. 0:54:41.800 --> 0:54:47.960 That if I'm paying attention and a leopard, don't change 0:54:47.960 --> 0:54:49.120 the stripes like that. 0:54:49.520 --> 0:54:51.799 And they gonna change that ship three weeks for y'all 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:53.000 niggas get ready to go vote. 0:54:53.040 --> 0:54:55.560 And the thing is is that I would have already 0:54:55.640 --> 0:55:00.319 known coming in from the door that this this is 0:55:00.360 --> 0:55:04.799 more about a photo opportunity or bragging right opportunity for 0:55:06.200 --> 0:55:08.799 Trump than it is about helping. 0:55:09.600 --> 0:55:12.000 You're not you should negotiate with a fucking scammer dog 0:55:12.520 --> 0:55:14.560 right right? 0:55:13.840 --> 0:55:17.760 I mean, the contract it's very long. I'm curious if niggas. 0:55:17.800 --> 0:55:20.000 I haven't said much because I ain't read the contract 0:55:20.000 --> 0:55:20.480 to comment. 0:55:20.880 --> 0:55:22.560 I do, but I'm just curious. 0:55:22.239 --> 0:55:25.319 That I did. I went through I went through this 0:55:25.400 --> 0:55:26.440 and so what it was. 0:55:26.640 --> 0:55:27.840 I read a little bit of it. 0:55:28.280 --> 0:55:32.000 Absolutely not not enough to not enough to say like 0:55:32.120 --> 0:55:34.120 it's horrible or it's not, but I read. 0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:35.920 I read through a little bit of it. But like 0:55:35.960 --> 0:55:37.440 I said, I've always just gave. 0:55:37.320 --> 0:55:41.520 Him credit for at least bringing the idea up because 0:55:41.560 --> 0:55:44.680 prior to him doing that, I can't recollec I can't 0:55:44.719 --> 0:55:50.120 recall anybody talking about them helping out black areas and 0:55:50.160 --> 0:55:52.759 black people and ship like that. 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:55.440 I just black lives matter, but not like a celebrity. 0:55:56.280 --> 0:55:59.839 Yes, I always gave you love for that. 0:56:01.200 --> 0:56:02.080 I think it's celebrities. 0:56:02.160 --> 0:56:04.279 You have to use your voice, like if you're want to, 0:56:04.680 --> 0:56:06.439 you know, if you want to, you know, use your. 0:56:06.360 --> 0:56:06.879 Voice and commit. 0:56:07.239 --> 0:56:09.960 I would say, use your voice to like amplify the 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:12.239 people that actually do the work in the community, you 0:56:12.280 --> 0:56:14.600 know what I'm saying, People that know policy, people that 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:18.040 like put your money behind that they actually do the 0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:20.400 work right into the political processing. 0:56:20.560 --> 0:56:21.799 But what are those people doing? 0:56:22.760 --> 0:56:25.800 Yeah, but moving with progress? I mean in comparison. 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:27.920 There are people doing it, but you got to be 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:31.680 actively you have to be actively active. I'm sorry, you 0:56:31.680 --> 0:56:34.560 have to be actively informed or who's doing the work. 0:56:34.560 --> 0:56:37.520 There are people on the ground doing the work. Of course, 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:42.200 all news Georgia, the Stacy Abrams or whatever. But it's 0:56:42.280 --> 0:56:45.640 just like, you know, I'm not saying that, I'm not 0:56:45.680 --> 0:56:47.240 saying that Cubans trying to be performed. 0:56:47.360 --> 0:56:48.160 No, no, no, listen. 0:56:49.040 --> 0:56:51.160 And you know he clapped back at me on one post. 0:56:51.600 --> 0:56:54.440 I'm not thinking that Cubans trying to be performative. I 0:56:54.520 --> 0:56:57.560 believe that his heart is in the right place. But 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:05.680 last I checked, absolutely, this entire administration is not. 0:57:05.760 --> 0:57:08.800 About the advancement of black people at all. 0:57:09.040 --> 0:57:11.400 A matter at all and just by even you taking 0:57:11.400 --> 0:57:14.040 that cont like because the thing is, because here's the thing. 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:15.520 Let me just be a humpre sent clear, Like we 0:57:15.600 --> 0:57:18.360 love c Cuba's hip hop, Like say what you want 0:57:18.360 --> 0:57:21.720 about this shit he doing now, but Nigga Cube was 0:57:21.760 --> 0:57:24.520 one of my favorite like ever, you know what I'm saying. 0:57:24.560 --> 0:57:25.560 Deaf certificate is one of it. 0:57:25.800 --> 0:57:27.920 But the thing about it, you know that people that 0:57:28.000 --> 0:57:30.280 we were trying to understand is like listen, we're not 0:57:30.600 --> 0:57:35.760 ashamed or disappointed in Cube that he tried. We're disappointed 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:38.040 that he didn't see the fucking game to begin with. 0:57:38.440 --> 0:57:39.080 You know what I'm saying. 0:57:39.120 --> 0:57:41.880 It's like, nigga, you you got fucking scam, bro, you 0:57:41.960 --> 0:57:43.960 know what I mean. Like they were never gonna give 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:46.200 you a real shot. You were never gonna have a 0:57:46.240 --> 0:57:48.840 real conversation with Trump or any of them niggas. 0:57:48.880 --> 0:57:50.720 They were just he was above that. 0:57:51.040 --> 0:57:52.800 He might have thought he was the one, just like 0:57:52.840 --> 0:57:55.440 Steve Harvey thought he was the one, Like you know, 0:57:55.560 --> 0:57:56.640 it's a certain level of. 0:57:57.440 --> 0:57:59.880 But that that's the thing, like the thing that I 0:58:00.120 --> 0:58:02.880 knew that it's exhausting. And I brought this up before 0:58:03.000 --> 0:58:05.560 with people like, ah, man, I can't, I can't watch 0:58:05.560 --> 0:58:05.960 the news. 0:58:05.960 --> 0:58:08.160 I can't. And even this year, I stopped watching the. 0:58:08.200 --> 0:58:12.320 News as obsessive as obsessively as I used to. But 0:58:12.440 --> 0:58:17.040 it's like since twenty sixteen, Since January twenty twenty sixteen, 0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:22.520 I've never I've not shut my eyes once. I mean sure, 0:58:22.600 --> 0:58:26.400 I was abreast on everything that was happening. And that's 0:58:26.920 --> 0:58:28.640 forward too. We don't have that luxury no more. 0:58:29.320 --> 0:58:32.800 Yah, Yeah, that's that's definitely true. Man, Like I said, Man, 0:58:32.840 --> 0:58:37.480 we don't. We don't know the blueprint to none of 0:58:37.480 --> 0:58:40.280 this shit. We we sitting up trying to figure this 0:58:40.640 --> 0:58:43.840 out as it goes along, and nobody got the answers 0:58:43.880 --> 0:58:48.160 to nothing. So the way I feel is, if anybody 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:51.320 come with anything, I'm going that's cool. I'll let you 0:58:51.360 --> 0:58:52.960 know how I feel about it. But I'm glad you 0:58:53.000 --> 0:58:55.680 did something. Now let's keep it moving. Now what we're 0:58:55.680 --> 0:58:56.040 gonna do? 0:58:56.360 --> 0:58:58.640 Okay, So that was so this is what they tried 0:58:58.680 --> 0:59:01.240 to do. Okay, Now just look at the let's look at. 0:59:01.120 --> 0:59:03.520 The black contract, and let's see how we really can 0:59:03.560 --> 0:59:06.440 all come behind this and make it happen and come together. 0:59:06.520 --> 0:59:08.320 But we need we need a place to come together. 0:59:08.600 --> 0:59:10.360 We ain't ain't got no place to come together. But 0:59:10.400 --> 0:59:13.440 we ain't got nobody to talk to. We ain't got 0:59:13.440 --> 0:59:16.920 nobody to power with. Because he get if we if 0:59:16.960 --> 0:59:20.880 we had that kind of organization and that type of togetherness. 0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:23.720 Then he could have could have came to the to the. 0:59:23.720 --> 0:59:26.840 Table with a group of people that's over our kind 0:59:26.920 --> 0:59:29.200 or whatever, you know, just like when when Nick Cannon, 0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:32.080 when Nick Cannon did that ship, they had Nick Cannon 0:59:32.120 --> 0:59:38.920 talk to like the head of the Jewish community. 0:59:37.840 --> 0:59:40.360 Who they talked to. For we ain't got man, We 0:59:40.400 --> 0:59:43.520 ain't got a We ain't got a nigga to talk to. 0:59:43.840 --> 0:59:46.560 Not one had they had, They had talk to Charlamagne, 0:59:46.600 --> 0:59:50.760 you know what I know. 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:53.640 And that's crazy, but that's what I'm saying, Like we 0:59:53.640 --> 0:59:56.360 we gotta come together and we all gotta stand out 0:59:56.440 --> 0:59:59.000 something and have a place to go to, have a 0:59:59.000 --> 1:00:01.880 place to talk type, a place to pow wow, and 1:00:01.920 --> 1:00:03.160 we and we don't even have that. 1:00:03.320 --> 1:00:05.840 So if he got something and he like, man, let 1:00:05.840 --> 1:00:06.640 me just bring it up. 1:00:08.120 --> 1:00:10.520 Honestly, I think I agree with just Indyan. I just 1:00:10.520 --> 1:00:12.840 think that we have to have those conversations. I think 1:00:12.880 --> 1:00:15.800 we just have to have those conversations privately. Think a 1:00:15.960 --> 1:00:21.760 big problem like social media like Twitter, Instagram, white people 1:00:21.800 --> 1:00:25.960 have never had unfettered access to the thoughts of niggas, 1:00:26.320 --> 1:00:29.400 and that is not necessarily always a good thing, you 1:00:29.400 --> 1:00:30.440 know what I mean, Like they. 1:00:30.360 --> 1:00:32.800 Know too much. Like when you see all these you know, 1:00:32.880 --> 1:00:34.280 all these damn you know. 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:37.880 People that got caught blackfishing, like the chick from the 1:00:38.000 --> 1:00:41.880 chick that was at that school and Rachel Docal and yeah, 1:00:42.000 --> 1:00:44.160 all the yeah, all the all the all them white 1:00:44.160 --> 1:00:45.400 women that was pretending to be. 1:00:48.400 --> 1:00:49.040 And that was like. 1:00:51.200 --> 1:00:54.080 Jessica whatever, the chick, the Jewish chick that was pretending 1:00:54.080 --> 1:00:57.160 to be black, Like I think much of that. 1:01:00.520 --> 1:01:03.160 Yeah, yeah, man, yeah, the bitch of scamming like a motherfucker. 1:01:03.480 --> 1:01:06.640 But like, yeah, so I just think like we're seeing 1:01:07.840 --> 1:01:10.760 they're they're able to like put on that costume so 1:01:11.040 --> 1:01:15.000 readily easily, because never before in the history of this 1:01:15.080 --> 1:01:18.760 fucking country have you been able to see like our language, 1:01:19.200 --> 1:01:22.480 like our inside jokes, like what they call aa ve 1:01:22.640 --> 1:01:24.600 e whatever, like all the just. 1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:26.400 Our cultural shorthand that we have. 1:01:27.280 --> 1:01:30.040 Nigga, they see that shit, right, they can pick it 1:01:30.120 --> 1:01:32.440 up and you know, learn it and apply it. 1:01:32.720 --> 1:01:35.160 But how but how can they when we don't know 1:01:35.200 --> 1:01:37.880 what we want? We gotta know what we want. 1:01:38.840 --> 1:01:40.240 As much as a cliche it is. 1:01:40.840 --> 1:01:42.680 You know, when I first heard this term on like 1:01:42.920 --> 1:01:44.920 news programs, news pundits saying. 1:01:44.920 --> 1:01:46.840 We are not a mon oflift. We're not a mon oflift. 1:01:47.240 --> 1:01:49.520 I believe that now more than ever because I didn't 1:01:49.560 --> 1:01:54.880 realize one how conservative a lot of us are. I 1:01:54.920 --> 1:01:59.760 didn't realize how, you know, like there's like six to seven. 1:02:00.160 --> 1:02:01.200 We got apartments. 1:02:02.040 --> 1:02:06.480 Yeah, the thoughts of black people that aren't as unified 1:02:06.560 --> 1:02:07.280 as I thought. 1:02:07.320 --> 1:02:10.480 We were not at all, bro y'all. 1:02:10.560 --> 1:02:13.800 We're so not unified that that contract that ice Cube 1:02:13.800 --> 1:02:14.120 put out. 1:02:14.120 --> 1:02:17.200 I briefly ran through it, y'all. Black Lives. 1:02:19.040 --> 1:02:21.800 Matter manifesto from five years ago. And if the nigga 1:02:21.800 --> 1:02:24.040 would have read that ship and God would him sorry, 1:02:24.040 --> 1:02:28.200 no shade, but nigga would attitude that ship, maybe we 1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:29.680 could get at least get together on that. 1:02:30.080 --> 1:02:32.680 But that's what I'm saying. We gotta know what we want. 1:02:32.720 --> 1:02:36.160 Black people don't come together as many shades as it is. 1:02:36.200 --> 1:02:39.400 Of us as it is, there's been many different kind. 1:02:39.240 --> 1:02:42.720 Of different ideologies, ya, So we. 1:02:42.320 --> 1:02:44.840 We gotta come together. We gotta come together on what 1:02:44.880 --> 1:02:49.040 we want to be called. We gotta be we gotta 1:02:49.120 --> 1:02:49.800 come together. 1:02:51.160 --> 1:02:53.920 We don't we some niggas, some niggas school would be 1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:55.360 a nigga some nigga school would be. 1:02:56.560 --> 1:02:58.920 We gotta come together on what we're gonna be called. 1:02:59.520 --> 1:03:01.760 We gotta come together on what we're gonna take a 1:03:01.880 --> 1:03:04.160 stand on. We can't just be taking the stand on 1:03:04.200 --> 1:03:05.960 some ship for a hot man and then that's out. 1:03:06.040 --> 1:03:09.520 I remember everybody was like fuck Starbucks. Three months later, 1:03:09.640 --> 1:03:12.000 niggas was whipped cream the fuck out around us. 1:03:14.480 --> 1:03:18.320 Oh, everybody was muffing latte. They up the ass, that's 1:03:18.320 --> 1:03:22.240 what they was. Mother fucking Gucci. Fuck Gucci. Next thing, 1:03:22.280 --> 1:03:27.800 you know, Wonder War Show. Later, niggas was geez the 1:03:27.880 --> 1:03:30.640 fuck up. We got to know what we want. I'm 1:03:30.720 --> 1:03:31.560 telling you, look, look. 1:03:31.440 --> 1:03:34.680 We we We was with Gucci for a second. 1:03:34.840 --> 1:03:37.959 Yeah, look we so we so fucked up in the head. 1:03:38.080 --> 1:03:38.240 YO. 1:03:38.840 --> 1:03:41.800 As far as black people, that's why we don't have 1:03:41.880 --> 1:03:46.440 no long term black designers. You know why because black people. 1:03:46.760 --> 1:03:50.600 Because black people don't want to support ship. They think 1:03:50.680 --> 1:03:53.160 everything played the fuck out. They don't want to come 1:03:53.200 --> 1:03:55.360 together and be like, this is the brand that we're 1:03:55.400 --> 1:03:58.280 gonna have and now we're gonna rock. Fuck how you 1:03:58.320 --> 1:04:00.680 think it's played out and not we need. That's why 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:03.200 we don't have long term black designers. 1:04:03.200 --> 1:04:05.560 We don't got no no motherfucking. 1:04:05.400 --> 1:04:09.600 Perry Yellois, no mother Ralph Lauren because niggas feel like 1:04:09.640 --> 1:04:12.160 it's played out and don't want to wear it. Instead 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:18.880 of instead of motherfucking respecting ship and representing ship like 1:04:18.880 --> 1:04:21.120 like we should, we don't come together on that ship. 1:04:22.040 --> 1:04:24.240 I think I think that ideology is changing. 1:04:24.480 --> 1:04:29.320 I'm supporting like all gear, I'm rock and now and 1:04:29.360 --> 1:04:30.040 that's love. 1:04:30.240 --> 1:04:35.080 And always don't just wear it for the moment. 1:04:36.080 --> 1:04:37.120 Not just February. 1:04:37.880 --> 1:04:41.200 Always wear it because that's what why folks do. White 1:04:41.200 --> 1:04:45.200 folks when they when they when they fuck with Michael Cores, motherfucker, 1:04:45.200 --> 1:04:46.920 they gonna they're gonna wear that ship. 1:04:47.840 --> 1:04:50.440 They're gonna wear that. 1:04:52.280 --> 1:04:52.560 Michael. 1:04:54.720 --> 1:04:57.480 Black people. Black people be like, yeah, Cross Colors was cool. 1:04:57.520 --> 1:04:59.400 We out that ship, fucked us ship. 1:04:59.160 --> 1:05:01.720 Because it didn't keep Yeah, you're gonna go buy some 1:05:01.760 --> 1:05:02.560 footboom right now. 1:05:04.000 --> 1:05:06.560 They have to evolve too, I guess. I guess they 1:05:06.600 --> 1:05:09.320 have to evolve too. You know what I give you 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:12.960 that they gotta evolve too. But it's up for us 1:05:13.000 --> 1:05:14.360 to let them know that as well. 1:05:14.480 --> 1:05:16.960 Like Yo, but we gotta stick with these companies. We 1:05:17.040 --> 1:05:21.960 gotta some of them try to us. Some I'm gonna 1:05:21.960 --> 1:05:24.480 try to evolve, but people just don't fuck with them 1:05:24.520 --> 1:05:24.800 no more. 1:05:24.880 --> 1:05:26.160 People be like But I think. 1:05:26.120 --> 1:05:27.880 I think a lot of that has to do with 1:05:28.040 --> 1:05:30.240 I mean, I think what there's some truth what you're saying. 1:05:30.560 --> 1:05:32.400 I think that's kind of just the gift in the 1:05:32.480 --> 1:05:36.120 curse of black people is that we because we are 1:05:36.800 --> 1:05:39.960 the most creative, the most kind of forward thinking in terms. 1:05:39.760 --> 1:05:42.680 Of just the stuff we create. We're always thinking forward. 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:45.040 And so if you even look at music, right, if 1:05:45.080 --> 1:05:49.040 you look at every every art form of music, like 1:05:49.080 --> 1:05:52.120 every class of music black people we have, they have 1:05:52.200 --> 1:05:55.880 the same pattern. We create it, we'll nurture it, we 1:05:56.040 --> 1:06:01.000 elevate it, and then we abandon it. Yeah, gospel, blue's jazz, 1:06:01.680 --> 1:06:04.320 like I mean hip hop to some degree, you know 1:06:04.320 --> 1:06:06.480 what I mean. And so I think that's just kind 1:06:06.480 --> 1:06:09.160 of who we are. It's like we just make these 1:06:09.200 --> 1:06:12.480 things that we think are fantastic and the great, and 1:06:12.520 --> 1:06:14.160 then we're like, all right, I made that, Okay, onto 1:06:14.200 --> 1:06:17.560 the next ship. Meanwhile, white folks are looking at the 1:06:17.560 --> 1:06:20.160 ship that we're done left behind, like, oh my god, nigga, 1:06:20.240 --> 1:06:21.760 Like these niggas left this behind. 1:06:21.800 --> 1:06:26.080 They realize how much they sell it back to us. 1:06:27.760 --> 1:06:30.600 I get it, Like how they niggas selling that ship 1:06:30.680 --> 1:06:31.120 back to us. 1:06:31.400 --> 1:06:35.680 Let's give light to uh limblin, Let's give shots to uh. 1:06:36.400 --> 1:06:40.919 I mean, is is fifty dollars on or off? 1:06:41.080 --> 1:06:41.160 Like? 1:06:41.520 --> 1:06:44.960 Are we still on Virgil Virgin Virgil? Is he back 1:06:45.000 --> 1:06:49.200 in the house or not? Is Virgil back in the 1:06:49.200 --> 1:06:49.640 house off? 1:06:49.720 --> 1:06:58.400 White Virgil was kicked out the house for a seconded 1:06:58.440 --> 1:07:04.400 him out the house for there's I'm Preston uh Victor LeMond. 1:07:04.920 --> 1:07:07.920 I think shout out, shout. 1:07:07.040 --> 1:07:10.880 Out to my man, a collective thoughts in Chicago. Also 1:07:11.040 --> 1:07:13.440 my man, uh dirty. 1:07:13.080 --> 1:07:16.160 Milk, my man, Daniel Daniel, he got dirty milk and 1:07:16.280 --> 1:07:25.360 uh we Yeah, those are some great brands, right, Definitely Gucci. 1:07:25.840 --> 1:07:29.720 All right, there's celebrities. She's coming up in the world 1:07:29.720 --> 1:07:32.960 and Romeo Hunt. So there's But I think. 1:07:33.000 --> 1:07:35.480 I think the gold is not just to wear this stuff, 1:07:35.520 --> 1:07:38.000 but rock with them as long as you can and 1:07:38.240 --> 1:07:41.920 hold them accountable, to evolved and rock with them and 1:07:42.000 --> 1:07:43.520 let these people be the voice. 1:07:43.680 --> 1:07:45.080 Let let them speak. 1:07:44.760 --> 1:07:48.400 For us as long as other clothing designers come along, man, 1:07:48.480 --> 1:07:49.200 because right. 1:07:49.080 --> 1:07:51.480 Now it's just sad to me that we don't have 1:07:51.600 --> 1:07:53.920 no long term black clothes and designer take. 1:07:53.840 --> 1:07:55.320 Doesn't even think of none. I felt bad. 1:07:59.520 --> 1:07:59.760 A lot. 1:07:59.880 --> 1:08:05.720 You No, no, no, you're not old school. No no, no, 1:08:05.760 --> 1:08:09.280 I'm thinking of all the ones that passed like that 1:08:09.400 --> 1:08:09.880 was another one. 1:08:09.880 --> 1:08:10.960 I was thinking of college. 1:08:12.400 --> 1:08:15.760 All of that, you know. 1:08:17.040 --> 1:08:20.800 Not but it's another tracy yeah yeah, no, like no, 1:08:21.800 --> 1:08:24.280 and if it is one, I don't know about it, 1:08:24.360 --> 1:08:25.040 and I should. 1:08:25.280 --> 1:08:27.320 I don't even think we make a good shoe ship. 1:08:28.280 --> 1:08:30.960 Nothing because because like you know what you remember, you 1:08:31.000 --> 1:08:32.200 remember when Timberland. 1:08:32.920 --> 1:08:35.639 Timberland was like, we don't make our shoes from folks. 1:08:36.040 --> 1:08:39.639 Everybody went crazy, like, fuck Timberland, I ain't wearing that ship. 1:08:40.520 --> 1:08:43.840 I was personally, yeah, niggas. 1:08:43.880 --> 1:08:47.799 Like I told you before about the Starbucks, niggas be like, yeah. 1:08:47.600 --> 1:08:49.400 Fuck that ship, but then they go right back to it. 1:08:49.720 --> 1:08:52.720 But at the same token, when Timberland said that not 1:08:53.240 --> 1:08:56.320 hid the same thing, and I mean low key, I 1:08:56.400 --> 1:08:58.400 was like, I kid. 1:08:58.400 --> 1:09:02.439 It because I kind of get it. Because you don't 1:09:02.439 --> 1:09:03.400 want niggas. 1:09:03.040 --> 1:09:06.080 Coming through rock of your ship saying this played out 1:09:06.680 --> 1:09:12.400 and then the case because when niggas say it's played out, 1:09:12.439 --> 1:09:13.240 it's played out. 1:09:13.439 --> 1:09:16.320 Just as just as I'm not Dutch and true religion. 1:09:19.080 --> 1:09:20.040 Okay, so I'm not. 1:09:20.280 --> 1:09:23.960 I'm not I'm not too hip to the shoe game 1:09:24.000 --> 1:09:26.240 as I am the fashion game. But definitely there's there's 1:09:26.240 --> 1:09:30.439 some designers to look out for. J. J. Gray Uh. 1:09:29.840 --> 1:09:31.320 Okay, yev Rauh. 1:09:31.960 --> 1:09:36.559 There's a brother of Ellis and these are like high end. 1:09:37.080 --> 1:09:37.240 Uh. 1:09:37.760 --> 1:09:41.759 There's one l F l S like father like sons shoes, 1:09:42.360 --> 1:09:48.000 uh Keanna Barnes, Stella Hughes and these are like high. 1:09:48.240 --> 1:09:51.200 No, man, there's there's I'm telling you this. 1:09:51.200 --> 1:09:55.080 This could be the paradigm shift where you know, I'm 1:09:55.080 --> 1:10:01.360 definitely more uh you know, aware of black businesses then 1:10:02.640 --> 1:10:07.519 I was not previously or using my dollar for that. 1:10:07.680 --> 1:10:10.000 So that's what everybody's doing for the holiday season too. 1:10:10.240 --> 1:10:12.120 If you notice, it's been a lot of promotion about 1:10:12.240 --> 1:10:15.680 around small businesses, black business, like make sure you you 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:16.679 know so. 1:10:16.720 --> 1:10:18.160 Ets he got a black business store. 1:10:18.200 --> 1:10:21.240 Everybody, I mean even Steve got a black business Christmas 1:10:21.280 --> 1:10:23.080 sweatshirt on with What. 1:10:22.960 --> 1:10:26.680 About my man, my man, my man Rich Fresh too. 1:10:26.760 --> 1:10:29.800 Rich Fresh Trush in the list we should actually you know. 1:10:30.200 --> 1:10:34.400 Rich Rush, he do clothes for everybody. Man do it 1:10:34.439 --> 1:10:37.479 for like black design? A cool dude. 1:10:38.720 --> 1:10:42.800 You do a lot of stuff for Layla Way that 1:10:42.920 --> 1:10:47.400 stuff she bear with the spring with the strike with 1:10:47.439 --> 1:10:50.720 like the yellow and black stripe, that's that's yeah, that's 1:10:50.840 --> 1:10:53.519 Rich Fresh Rich Fresh black design. And he called too, 1:10:53.800 --> 1:10:58.479 you do the only way uh everybody? Man, So yeah, 1:10:58.479 --> 1:10:59.000 shut out to. 1:10:59.040 --> 1:11:07.439 Rich definitely shut up. Wait a minute, this is weird. 1:11:07.800 --> 1:11:11.000 This is the the one episode where I had so 1:11:11.040 --> 1:11:13.599 many craft questions about your comedy that we didn't talk 1:11:14.120 --> 1:11:20.920 anything about your comedy setup. All right, so wait before 1:11:21.000 --> 1:11:24.519 we wrap, I do want to know how does one 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:30.559 stay sharp when you don't have an audience to sort 1:11:30.560 --> 1:11:31.240 of work this on. 1:11:31.960 --> 1:11:35.760 So, like Dave Chappelle and a couple other comments, they've 1:11:35.760 --> 1:11:39.720 been doing shows, they've been going on, they've been doing show. Yeah, yeah, 1:11:39.720 --> 1:11:44.040 they've been doing that, and that's cool. You know you 1:11:44.080 --> 1:11:47.800 feel comfortable enough to do that, and that's love. Me personally, 1:11:48.160 --> 1:11:51.599 I'm not sharp. I have not performed since February, and 1:11:51.640 --> 1:11:55.920 that is like a no no. I am terrified to 1:11:56.040 --> 1:11:58.240 get on stay to a lot of people don't know that. 1:11:58.360 --> 1:12:01.519 I am terrified to even perform right now. I've been 1:12:01.640 --> 1:12:05.640 stock stockpile of material left and right. That's why I 1:12:05.720 --> 1:12:09.720 dropped working working it out because I knew I haven't performed, 1:12:09.720 --> 1:12:11.240 and I was like, I want to get a people 1:12:11.320 --> 1:12:14.800 something until you know I can get back out there. 1:12:14.880 --> 1:12:18.360 But me going on stage, when I get back on stage, 1:12:18.360 --> 1:12:22.519 it's going to be something that I must record because 1:12:22.640 --> 1:12:28.040 I'm going to be terrify and I'm going to be unsure, 1:12:28.640 --> 1:12:32.640 no confidence, I'm gonna be scared shitless. All of that 1:12:33.040 --> 1:12:35.840 and so I am very nervous and I think about 1:12:35.840 --> 1:12:37.839 it at least three times a day. 1:12:37.880 --> 1:12:40.880 About me getting back on stage. And I have it 1:12:40.920 --> 1:12:42.839 because I know I'm not sharp, no more. 1:12:43.280 --> 1:12:45.240 So pre pre March twenty twenty. 1:12:46.360 --> 1:12:47.280 What not? 1:12:47.360 --> 1:12:48.799 What was your regiment? Okay? 1:12:49.160 --> 1:12:51.840 I know about the AVI spots like going to uh 1:12:52.520 --> 1:12:59.280 not comedy seller, the comedy store, But where's where's like 1:12:59.360 --> 1:13:02.160 a secret spot where you work shit out? Like is 1:13:02.200 --> 1:13:05.920 the Comedy Act theater still the thing like where Robin 1:13:05.920 --> 1:13:07.840 Harris and all those guys used to work out. 1:13:07.720 --> 1:13:09.960 Like noah, nah, it's not a thing. 1:13:10.040 --> 1:13:13.040 No more, Comedy Act used to be real dope. Shout 1:13:13.040 --> 1:13:16.560 out to Mike Williams on that. But uh, me personally, 1:13:17.360 --> 1:13:21.920 I would perform at the improv called the Lab and 1:13:21.960 --> 1:13:25.040 the lab room only seats forty people. 1:13:25.160 --> 1:13:26.879 That's where I got. 1:13:26.640 --> 1:13:30.400 The material from to put together for working it out. Okay, 1:13:31.040 --> 1:13:34.920 forty people in this room and work out there. 1:13:35.320 --> 1:13:38.360 That's it. That's that was my ideal spot to do. That. 1:13:39.320 --> 1:13:42.960 Do some open mics every now and then, pop in places, 1:13:43.280 --> 1:13:47.880 but that would be it for me personally because a 1:13:47.920 --> 1:13:50.360 lot of times when you perform in LA it's so 1:13:51.520 --> 1:13:54.160 Hollywood and the ain't no telling who in the audience, 1:13:54.240 --> 1:13:56.920 And when you get on stage, your mind is set 1:13:56.960 --> 1:13:59.120 to do one thing, but then it changes up because 1:13:59.120 --> 1:14:00.680 you're about to go and stay, and right before you 1:14:00.720 --> 1:14:03.080 go on, they go, oh, Ray Ramino is gonna do 1:14:03.160 --> 1:14:05.080 five in front of you, and then you gotta wait, 1:14:05.080 --> 1:14:07.519 and then Ray go on and kill it. So now 1:14:07.600 --> 1:14:09.519 what you had in mind to do, you can't do 1:14:09.640 --> 1:14:11.200 no more. And then you go up and you do 1:14:11.280 --> 1:14:14.160 your old shit, your greatest hits, yeah, your greatest his 1:14:14.320 --> 1:14:16.760 because you want to follow Ray Ramondo and it's all 1:14:16.800 --> 1:14:20.920 fucked up. So I personally go to small rooms and 1:14:21.000 --> 1:14:23.120 try to just work it out like that. Oh, I 1:14:23.120 --> 1:14:26.360 don't even tell people I'm coming, so I can keep 1:14:26.400 --> 1:14:30.400 the fan fit, keep people's expectations for people coming to 1:14:30.439 --> 1:14:30.800 see me. 1:14:31.320 --> 1:14:33.519 I don't want them to see me until I'll work 1:14:33.560 --> 1:14:33.880 it out. 1:14:34.240 --> 1:14:36.519 Has it been easier or harder to write the funny 1:14:36.920 --> 1:14:38.080 in these this year? 1:14:39.280 --> 1:14:40.160 You know what's odd? 1:14:40.960 --> 1:14:45.519 It's still comedy, right, I mean yeah, but when it 1:14:45.560 --> 1:14:48.200 comes to writing, you don't want to write with everybody 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:51.200 else writing that's me, And I think of a joke 1:14:51.240 --> 1:14:53.639 that's too that I'd be like, I know everybody gonna 1:14:53.680 --> 1:14:57.200 do a joke about COVID and mask and this and that, 1:14:57.320 --> 1:14:59.080 and then I try to think about how can I 1:14:59.120 --> 1:15:01.880 say it this different? And then I go, well, I 1:15:01.920 --> 1:15:03.800 don't know, I think somebody gonna think like that. 1:15:03.840 --> 1:15:07.360 And sometimes I overthink myself. But I was talking to. 1:15:09.120 --> 1:15:11.760 I was talking to Chris Rock one day, and Chris 1:15:11.840 --> 1:15:16.400 Rock was like, don't underestimate yourself on how quick you 1:15:16.439 --> 1:15:19.760 write a joke. It was like, because Prince, it took 1:15:19.800 --> 1:15:22.799 Prince three months to write a song and then someday 1:15:23.200 --> 1:15:26.120 it took him an hour to come up with a hit. 1:15:26.720 --> 1:15:29.559 It was like, so if something come to you that easy, 1:15:30.160 --> 1:15:33.639 don't dismiss it like it's just maybe it just came 1:15:33.680 --> 1:15:37.040 to you easy that way, right, And so I'm learning 1:15:37.080 --> 1:15:40.439 to do that because I've thrown away so much material. 1:15:41.120 --> 1:15:43.439 Good Karen jokes that you were like everyone's telling the 1:15:43.479 --> 1:15:44.240 Karen jokes. 1:15:44.160 --> 1:15:46.559 When when nobody thought of it the way that I did, 1:15:47.600 --> 1:15:50.840 but I thought, but I thought that they did. And 1:15:50.880 --> 1:15:54.679 so I keep forgetting that I'm different, and. 1:15:54.640 --> 1:15:57.320 People do that. People think like, you keep forgetting that 1:15:58.479 --> 1:15:59.559 you're something else. 1:16:00.120 --> 1:16:02.240 This is something you're the difference. It's not the joke 1:16:02.280 --> 1:16:05.040 that's you. 1:16:05.040 --> 1:16:07.240 You that people need. 1:16:07.160 --> 1:16:09.200 To say, it's so busy, you're so busy trying to 1:16:09.200 --> 1:16:11.800 write the joke, you leave you out of it. And 1:16:11.800 --> 1:16:14.960 by you leaving you out of it, you dismissed the 1:16:15.080 --> 1:16:15.800 joke because it's. 1:16:16.640 --> 1:16:20.240 Kills the joke. Yeah, so that's what I've been learning. 1:16:20.320 --> 1:16:23.640 I've been learning to just go to trust myself and 1:16:24.040 --> 1:16:26.559 stockpile as much as possible, and then when it's time 1:16:26.600 --> 1:16:28.880 for me to finally get on stage and go rock, 1:16:29.600 --> 1:16:31.960 go rock, and just go do it. But I can't 1:16:31.960 --> 1:16:33.840 wait till that day man where I can get on 1:16:33.880 --> 1:16:35.680 stage and I can just stretch you out and just 1:16:36.360 --> 1:16:38.400 I know wherever I'm going, I'm going somewhere where I 1:16:38.439 --> 1:16:40.400 could do two hours straight no interruption. 1:16:41.560 --> 1:16:44.680 Just do you do you stockpile by like post it 1:16:45.120 --> 1:16:48.640 or just your phone, my phone. 1:16:48.439 --> 1:16:52.200 I voice record or just jotted down or whatever. And 1:16:52.360 --> 1:16:55.519 uh yeah, I just stockpil put it all together and 1:16:55.680 --> 1:16:56.720 put it all together. 1:16:56.479 --> 1:16:59.639 And it's no order, there's no nothing. I just got 1:16:59.680 --> 1:17:03.479 it all written down. So yeah, I can't wait to 1:17:03.520 --> 1:17:06.559 get up to finally go do it, though, But as 1:17:06.600 --> 1:17:09.519 of right now, somebody called me recently was like, Yo, 1:17:10.400 --> 1:17:11.439 we're doing the show. 1:17:11.840 --> 1:17:14.439 It's gonna be a virtual thing. It's gonna be forty 1:17:14.479 --> 1:17:15.200 thousand people. 1:17:15.320 --> 1:17:20.800 I was like, nope, really, somebody offered me some big 1:17:20.840 --> 1:17:22.920 money and I said, nope. 1:17:23.680 --> 1:17:26.840 Really you didn't want to take the risk on. 1:17:30.040 --> 1:17:33.519 I haven't tried it. I have to go buy it. 1:17:34.120 --> 1:17:36.200 Okay, I have This might put you on the spot. 1:17:36.200 --> 1:17:42.200 But I always wanted to know, only because Gerrod produced 1:17:42.200 --> 1:17:47.320 this special and I never got to ask or gage 1:17:47.320 --> 1:17:52.480 a comedian what they thought of Drew Michael's audience list 1:17:52.760 --> 1:17:54.080 comedy show at his joint. 1:17:54.240 --> 1:17:56.920 Yeah, we had Michelle wolf on. She hated it. She 1:17:57.000 --> 1:17:57.400 hated it. 1:17:57.439 --> 1:18:00.439 She was like Michelle wolf I asked Michelle about that 1:18:00.680 --> 1:18:05.160 about it was Drew Michael. 1:18:05.800 --> 1:18:08.320 Drew Michael did an HBO special where he did a 1:18:08.360 --> 1:18:14.959 comedy show with no audience and you know, you're right, Michelle. 1:18:15.000 --> 1:18:17.320 And I asked Dave about it as well, and you know, 1:18:18.560 --> 1:18:20.400 he said, yeah. The first thing I said to him 1:18:20.479 --> 1:18:22.200 was like, I hated it. But it was almost like 1:18:23.320 --> 1:18:27.200 it was almost like watching somebody that grew up on 1:18:27.320 --> 1:18:30.000 like East Coast Illmatic and. 1:18:31.520 --> 1:18:33.559 You know, like try call quests. 1:18:34.200 --> 1:18:36.599 It's like asking them what they think of the new 1:18:36.760 --> 1:18:39.559 like Migos or Little Baby album. 1:18:40.080 --> 1:18:41.639 You know, where. 1:18:43.160 --> 1:18:46.040 You know it's it was definitely weird to watch, like 1:18:46.320 --> 1:18:51.320 to watch somebody do comedy with no audience whatsoever, But. 1:18:51.439 --> 1:18:53.639 Clearly that shit predict itself. 1:18:54.360 --> 1:18:58.880 Yeah, but clearly I think you know, the sign of 1:18:58.920 --> 1:19:03.040 true art is when something that you're not supposed to 1:19:03.080 --> 1:19:05.840 do becomes the norm. 1:19:06.040 --> 1:19:06.560 Yeah. 1:19:06.600 --> 1:19:10.519 So, but I mean, would you I've never I've went 1:19:10.560 --> 1:19:14.519 online and done jokes with no audience just to camera. 1:19:14.760 --> 1:19:18.160 They're like fifteen minutes. I've done that before, but just 1:19:18.640 --> 1:19:20.519 trying out new material stuff. 1:19:20.520 --> 1:19:22.760 But to go up and to film a. 1:19:22.800 --> 1:19:26.559 Special with no audience, to me personally, I get it. 1:19:26.840 --> 1:19:29.400 You want to you want to flip the script, do 1:19:29.520 --> 1:19:33.200 something different, see push if it sticks or whatever. 1:19:33.280 --> 1:19:33.639 I get. 1:19:33.720 --> 1:19:36.240 I commend them on that. I haven't seen it. I 1:19:36.520 --> 1:19:38.479 didn't even know what it was. I haven't seen it, 1:19:38.520 --> 1:19:42.360 but I commend him for trying something. But me personally, man, 1:19:42.640 --> 1:19:46.720 that's like, that's like, that's like masturbation. 1:19:49.040 --> 1:19:49.559 It's like. 1:19:51.400 --> 1:19:54.639 It was like he masturbated, you know. 1:19:55.160 --> 1:19:55.320 Like. 1:19:57.760 --> 1:20:01.920 Everybody you need, you need, you need an audience. 1:20:02.680 --> 1:20:05.519 Yeah, I think because I think specifically for stand up. 1:20:05.439 --> 1:20:06.280 Woman need a man. 1:20:06.360 --> 1:20:08.960 A man need a woman in order to make this 1:20:09.000 --> 1:20:12.200 thing happen to do that, but for stand up, if 1:20:12.200 --> 1:20:15.600 you out there by yourself and no audience. Me personally, 1:20:15.800 --> 1:20:21.160 I thrive off of that. I thrive off of hearing 1:20:21.760 --> 1:20:26.920 an audience. That's why I'd rather a person boo rather 1:20:27.000 --> 1:20:31.599 than don't say nothing at all, because that quietness kills me. 1:20:31.960 --> 1:20:35.240 I can't. I can't take the quiet like that. I rether. 1:20:35.800 --> 1:20:38.360 I gotta have some noise or something. But I can 1:20:38.439 --> 1:20:40.800 play off of that or something. I can play off 1:20:40.840 --> 1:20:43.840 of it something. I mean, I don't want to be 1:20:43.920 --> 1:20:47.479 booed at all. Yeah, because the thing is with silence. 1:20:47.920 --> 1:20:50.520 But silence I think for like a for a comedian 1:20:50.640 --> 1:20:52.640 like I would compare it as an EMC is like 1:20:53.400 --> 1:20:56.280 silence is like a three mic rating in the source, 1:20:56.320 --> 1:20:58.479 like when the source us the source right, It's like 1:20:58.560 --> 1:20:59.440 three mics. 1:20:59.280 --> 1:20:59.759 Is like idio. 1:21:00.720 --> 1:21:04.160 It's kind of inn and like I'd rather either if 1:21:04.280 --> 1:21:07.479 niggas ain't just laughing, you know, out their seats, which 1:21:07.479 --> 1:21:10.160 would be like a five mic, or if they booing you, 1:21:10.200 --> 1:21:12.240 which is a one mic like you kind of I 1:21:12.360 --> 1:21:15.600 enjoy being on those ends because at least that no 1:21:15.720 --> 1:21:19.160 you would listen, you listen to a real reaction, just. 1:21:19.160 --> 1:21:23.240 That middle of the road ship. She ain't doing nothing. 1:21:23.240 --> 1:21:25.400 I'll tell you this though to Steve Harvey taught me 1:21:25.439 --> 1:21:27.760 this as well. Though it all depends on how you 1:21:27.800 --> 1:21:30.800 play siting. Silence can work good too, like if you 1:21:30.800 --> 1:21:33.479 can make a whole room, if you can make a 1:21:33.600 --> 1:21:37.599 whole room silent, that's just as good as a laugh too, 1:21:37.760 --> 1:21:38.880 because they engaged. 1:21:39.439 --> 1:21:41.519 So it it all depends on how you play with 1:21:41.560 --> 1:21:44.639 that silence. And I just thought about that too, Like if. 1:21:44.520 --> 1:21:46.080 I can go into a room full of people and 1:21:46.120 --> 1:21:49.120 I can go you know what, I do that on 1:21:49.200 --> 1:21:52.719 purpose to lie, just to I act like I'm thinking, 1:21:52.880 --> 1:21:55.760 but I'm actually listening to see how quiet it is, 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:58.080 to see if I got everybody, and then I go 1:21:58.160 --> 1:22:01.160 into a joke or whatever. It's a control the time 1:22:01.200 --> 1:22:03.960 of life like that, like a timment. But like I 1:22:04.160 --> 1:22:06.720 do that a lot, just to kind of test the 1:22:06.800 --> 1:22:09.120 room or whatever, just to see who's engaged and who 1:22:09.240 --> 1:22:11.760 not or itever. But when it comes to like doing 1:22:11.800 --> 1:22:13.800 the joke and the joke don't work, you can give 1:22:13.800 --> 1:22:14.960 me silence at first. 1:22:15.200 --> 1:22:17.559 But if I do three jokes in the role and 1:22:17.600 --> 1:22:18.880 they not working, and you. 1:22:19.000 --> 1:22:22.880 Silent, like I'm gonna need somebody to go bring your 1:22:22.920 --> 1:22:24.719 nigga something somebody else. 1:22:26.560 --> 1:22:28.719 Nobody got going I want. 1:22:28.600 --> 1:22:33.560 My money back or something money something, tell me something, niggas. 1:22:33.640 --> 1:22:37.160 That's pressure though, Like right now, right now, at the 1:22:37.200 --> 1:22:40.920 tonight show, we're allowed by the state to have ten 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:42.160 people in the audience. 1:22:42.880 --> 1:22:45.320 Yes, So it's like. 1:22:46.320 --> 1:22:49.280 Uh, the thing is I liked I liked. 1:22:49.400 --> 1:22:53.720 Doing the show when it was just us with ourselves. 1:22:54.360 --> 1:22:58.120 It felt like a public access show. It's like Wayne's World, 1:22:59.000 --> 1:23:03.240 and when jokes didn't work, then we just laugh at 1:23:03.240 --> 1:23:06.960 each other and it was actually funnier than if the 1:23:07.040 --> 1:23:09.760 joke work. But it's a different thing when you have 1:23:09.840 --> 1:23:12.720 ten people in the audience because it's like we're kind 1:23:12.760 --> 1:23:15.559 of using the old model of what the show used 1:23:15.560 --> 1:23:19.080 to be, but only for ten people. And like if 1:23:19.120 --> 1:23:22.800 something doesn't work and it's a slow laugh, then it's 1:23:22.920 --> 1:23:26.120 like it's just harder to navigate. 1:23:25.960 --> 1:23:30.120 When you post that way. Employees like Wendy do we do. 1:23:30.200 --> 1:23:34.680 Like we oh, it's it's half employees. 1:23:35.200 --> 1:23:37.000 Well, I mean because thirty Rocks is such a big 1:23:37.000 --> 1:23:40.360 building that you know, there's other shows, so like like today, uh, 1:23:41.520 --> 1:23:44.439 Lawrence Scalliot who does traffic in the morning on NBC, 1:23:44.600 --> 1:23:46.840 like she was part of the audience, so like people 1:23:46.840 --> 1:23:49.960 will come in on their lunch break from like MSNBC, 1:23:50.000 --> 1:23:51.439 c NBC like those. 1:23:51.280 --> 1:23:53.519 Those they're not worried about losing their jobs. You need 1:23:53.560 --> 1:23:54.840 people's staff. 1:23:57.880 --> 1:23:58.200 Like. 1:24:00.800 --> 1:24:01.719 They get it up. 1:24:03.200 --> 1:24:03.559 Acting. 1:24:03.680 --> 1:24:04.400 I see what you mean. 1:24:04.400 --> 1:24:05.360 Now, yes it is. 1:24:06.840 --> 1:24:09.639 I have a question. No it's Steve. 1:24:13.960 --> 1:24:15.759 Yeah, Steve, you're no Hanigha stories. 1:24:16.080 --> 1:24:16.280 Yeah. 1:24:16.800 --> 1:24:19.120 We ain't talked about the holidays, clear Stee. I'm sorry. 1:24:19.360 --> 1:24:22.120 So with regards to this like stockpile of jokes that 1:24:22.160 --> 1:24:25.800 you've been writing, presumably since February or March and haven't 1:24:25.800 --> 1:24:28.800 been able to are you worried about any of it, 1:24:28.880 --> 1:24:31.360 like being dated by the time you get to tell 1:24:31.400 --> 1:24:33.640 it on stage, or like you know, or or you 1:24:33.680 --> 1:24:36.760 specifically like trying to write stuff that will still make sense, 1:24:37.320 --> 1:24:39.679 you know, whenever you get to go back on stage. 1:24:40.080 --> 1:24:44.920 Oh well that's that's that's that's the beauty of how 1:24:44.960 --> 1:24:48.160 long it takes me to write. I don't you know, 1:24:48.640 --> 1:24:50.840 I can't just write some ship like that, Like I 1:24:50.880 --> 1:24:53.080 was just telling you, like, if I think a joke 1:24:53.160 --> 1:24:55.519 too simple, I ain't fucking with it, like I just 1:24:55.680 --> 1:24:58.080 I just if I feel like I think people thinking 1:24:58.920 --> 1:25:01.000 like that that they're gonna come up with something like that. 1:25:01.120 --> 1:25:03.040 I'm just I'm just not gonna fuck with it. So 1:25:03.479 --> 1:25:06.639 what I write is evergreen, sure, and I make sure 1:25:07.000 --> 1:25:09.719 I try to make sure everything I write is ever green. 1:25:09.800 --> 1:25:10.439 My shit be. 1:25:10.439 --> 1:25:13.840 Simple, my should be like, my shit be My shit 1:25:13.960 --> 1:25:16.360 is like I was talking to Jamie Fox one time 1:25:16.400 --> 1:25:19.160 and Jamie told me he was going to do a special, 1:25:19.240 --> 1:25:21.479 but after seeing my special, he was like. 1:25:22.160 --> 1:25:25.799 I threw my shit away. He was like, because damn 1:25:25.920 --> 1:25:26.360 I don't. 1:25:26.400 --> 1:25:31.080 He said, I don't want to be Jamie Fox, the celebrity. 1:25:31.760 --> 1:25:35.960 He said, I want to be the motherfucker that's relatable. 1:25:36.320 --> 1:25:38.519 And he was like, and that's what cole harted was 1:25:38.600 --> 1:25:41.200 to me, it was relatable and I was like, I 1:25:41.320 --> 1:25:42.599 was like, yeah, like. 1:25:42.520 --> 1:25:46.080 My shit, I was talking about, man, you ever get 1:25:46.240 --> 1:25:48.040 god glory for a parking space? 1:25:48.520 --> 1:25:49.880 Like like you know what I mean? 1:25:50.000 --> 1:25:56.920 Like my shit is like simplistic, like where everybody can get. 1:25:56.960 --> 1:26:00.280 It wasn't no celebrity shit, but none of it. 1:26:00.280 --> 1:26:05.320 It was like parking space, do you ever motherfucker don't 1:26:05.320 --> 1:26:08.080 want to pay the bill? Like it was like like 1:26:08.400 --> 1:26:13.519 very simple ship that that everybody can relate to. And 1:26:13.920 --> 1:26:17.560 that was a lane that I knewdn't didn't. 1:26:17.240 --> 1:26:23.280 Really didn't exist. So that's how I write, and I 1:26:23.320 --> 1:26:26.000 write like that to this day. Simplicity is key with me, 1:26:26.120 --> 1:26:26.320 you know. 1:26:26.439 --> 1:26:30.120 So as far as writing all this COVID shit and 1:26:30.400 --> 1:26:32.680 Black Lives Matter shit, do I have that? 1:26:32.840 --> 1:26:34.720 I got? I do have some of that. 1:26:35.080 --> 1:26:37.640 But my job and what I'm going to do is 1:26:37.680 --> 1:26:39.960 when I do hit the stage, I'm gonna spend every 1:26:40.080 --> 1:26:43.320 bit of fucking seven minutes on that ship and I'm 1:26:43.400 --> 1:26:43.960 off of it. 1:26:44.360 --> 1:26:49.360 And it's the same way I look at the same 1:26:49.400 --> 1:26:50.320 way with being an MC. 1:26:50.520 --> 1:26:53.840 It's like, if you're writing rhymes, yeah, you could go 1:26:53.920 --> 1:26:56.360 on Twitter and look at the trending topics or whatever 1:26:56.439 --> 1:26:59.639 and just make that shit rhyme and it'll be hot today, 1:27:00.760 --> 1:27:05.040 you know what I'm saying. But after that, like, yeah, 1:27:05.080 --> 1:27:07.000 you have to write stuff this ever green. 1:27:07.400 --> 1:27:08.920 Yeah, you don't want to do that. 1:27:09.120 --> 1:27:11.400 So the stuff that I write, man, and that's why 1:27:11.439 --> 1:27:13.960 I take me so so loan to write. It's like 1:27:14.080 --> 1:27:18.040 the stuff that I'm doing is like like I got 1:27:18.040 --> 1:27:22.360 a new bit that I'm working on now about women's 1:27:22.479 --> 1:27:25.640 needs and ship you know, just how they how I'm 1:27:25.720 --> 1:27:27.559 quite sure they miss him, But. 1:27:27.600 --> 1:27:33.080 I ain't gonna go no, first he's okay, yes, like like. 1:27:34.640 --> 1:27:44.080 D s no, older women needs just that. But but yeah, 1:27:44.120 --> 1:27:46.040 like I said, topics like. 1:27:46.040 --> 1:27:49.680 That, I ever agree, a women's need is gonna go 1:27:49.720 --> 1:27:52.559 out all the time and there's gonna be something that 1:27:52.640 --> 1:27:55.160 you can always use at all time. I talk about 1:27:55.680 --> 1:27:59.080 classic bags when when they throw the motherfuckers away? 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:02.360 How big you got a closet full of the motherfuckers 1:28:02.479 --> 1:28:05.439 when you're gonna throw them away? Or how to use them? 1:28:05.520 --> 1:28:11.519 So it's so so y never right, So no, all 1:28:11.640 --> 1:28:16.720 right where it's ever green, you know, and it'll be 1:28:16.760 --> 1:28:19.960 and it'll be around for a while. So yeah, I'm 1:28:20.000 --> 1:28:23.160 not worried about I'm not worried about that at all. 1:28:23.320 --> 1:28:25.800 You know, I didn't think you're worried. I just wanted 1:28:25.800 --> 1:28:27.960 to ask you. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, 1:28:28.000 --> 1:28:31.320 not at all. I kid. I'm just saying, yeah, I don't. 1:28:31.920 --> 1:28:35.640 Anytime I think it's something that's funny, that's like in 1:28:35.680 --> 1:28:40.160 the moment, I probably try to make a video for 1:28:40.600 --> 1:28:44.000 the text it, tweet it out or whatever and put 1:28:44.040 --> 1:28:47.040 it out like that. But as far as materials concerned, 1:28:47.360 --> 1:28:49.200 I got a few of them jokes that I'm going 1:28:49.280 --> 1:28:53.080 to do definitely, But After seven minutes of that, I'm 1:28:53.120 --> 1:28:56.839 off of it. How do you like even with my special, 1:28:56.960 --> 1:28:59.320 even when my comedy is special, I ain't talk about 1:28:59.320 --> 1:29:02.920 no politics, I ain't talk about none of that ship. 1:29:03.000 --> 1:29:04.800 I ain't talking about none, none of it. 1:29:04.880 --> 1:29:07.960 My ship is like on the whole, it's everything is 1:29:08.040 --> 1:29:10.880 just really simple, simple and basic. I ain't say one 1:29:10.920 --> 1:29:15.519 thing about no organizations, no politics. 1:29:15.120 --> 1:29:16.800 Ain't contracts, no food, no. 1:29:19.280 --> 1:29:19.639 Nothing. 1:29:19.720 --> 1:29:21.400 So how do you are you? 1:29:22.200 --> 1:29:26.920 How leary are you in going to these spots, especially 1:29:27.000 --> 1:29:30.640 in Hollywood, where I'm almost certain that it's easy for 1:29:30.760 --> 1:29:32.320 someone like is biting? 1:29:32.400 --> 1:29:32.719 Still? 1:29:33.680 --> 1:29:37.160 Is that a thing that comedians have to worry? Indeed? 1:29:37.439 --> 1:29:38.439 Man, it is. 1:29:38.479 --> 1:29:42.519 That's that's just so, that's just so terrible in the game, man, 1:29:42.800 --> 1:29:43.960 they bite that ship. 1:29:44.000 --> 1:29:46.400 So people are like intentionally biting and joking like. 1:29:46.840 --> 1:29:49.120 Absolutely, And let me say this too, because I don't 1:29:49.160 --> 1:29:51.800 want to be missical, screwed or whatever. Those that do 1:29:51.800 --> 1:29:55.719 do current events stuff like that, man, and the ones 1:29:55.760 --> 1:29:58.840 that do it great man, love to them, and they 1:29:58.880 --> 1:29:59.719 do it amazing. 1:29:59.800 --> 1:30:02.320 I'm not saying that that is the wrong way to 1:30:02.400 --> 1:30:03.000 do it at all. 1:30:03.080 --> 1:30:05.560 I'm just saying the way that I write, like I 1:30:05.600 --> 1:30:09.679 I can't write like that, But I don't, yeah, because 1:30:09.680 --> 1:30:13.960 it's great, like ship Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle should be 1:30:14.120 --> 1:30:16.760 like top of cool as hell, and that motherfucker be 1:30:17.320 --> 1:30:20.160 crushing that ship the way that he put it out there, 1:30:20.360 --> 1:30:23.160 you know. But it's for the moment, it's for the time, 1:30:23.280 --> 1:30:25.519 and and but you can listen to it forever. 1:30:26.120 --> 1:30:28.519 That's that's the genius. That's the genius about there. 1:30:28.640 --> 1:30:31.360 You can listen to that ship forever and remember that 1:30:31.400 --> 1:30:32.120 moment in time. 1:30:32.760 --> 1:30:36.639 So I'm never knocking that on people who do that. 1:30:36.760 --> 1:30:36.960 You know. 1:30:37.000 --> 1:30:38.720 It's comics that do a lot of ship that I 1:30:38.760 --> 1:30:42.120 can't do. Corey holcom is one of the most ignorant, 1:30:42.240 --> 1:30:44.800 ignorant motherfuckers you ever go see do it, but. 1:30:45.640 --> 1:30:50.080 As hell more ignorant than neighbors. 1:30:49.720 --> 1:30:51.120 Or I don't know about them. 1:30:51.240 --> 1:30:57.919 But Cory Cory a wild boy, who's this Cory CORYL 1:30:58.640 --> 1:30:59.720 Cory holkme. 1:30:59.479 --> 1:31:03.720 Is the most clever, funny motherfucker you. I can't do 1:31:03.840 --> 1:31:05.160 what Corey do. Well. 1:31:05.479 --> 1:31:07.360 Corey had a joke, he had it on his special. 1:31:07.439 --> 1:31:10.880 He opened up this guy. It wasn't even a joke, 1:31:10.960 --> 1:31:13.160 it was just he just opened up and his first 1:31:13.200 --> 1:31:15.639 thing got his mouth. Shout out all the fat bitches 1:31:15.680 --> 1:31:28.920 riding dick with T shirts like I was like, Yo. 1:31:25.560 --> 1:31:32.559 Cory, Cory be ignorantly dope, clever, fucking funny ship y'all. 1:31:32.880 --> 1:31:37.160 I can't do that, but man, what he could do 1:31:37.200 --> 1:31:39.280 that ship wear with his eyes closed. 1:31:39.320 --> 1:31:41.920 And that's why he one of the fucking goats in 1:31:42.000 --> 1:31:42.479 this game. 1:31:42.560 --> 1:31:45.640 Man. Shout out to Corey too, got a special. 1:31:45.400 --> 1:31:56.200 Now called COVID. I got one day ago. What the fu? Yeah, 1:31:56.439 --> 1:31:56.800 my boy? 1:31:56.840 --> 1:31:59.439 We saw Hookham at at Charlie Good Nights, this club 1:31:59.479 --> 1:32:03.479 down out here Raley last ye year for the last. 1:32:03.320 --> 1:32:06.720 Week and Corey started together in Chicago. Shout out to. 1:32:08.920 --> 1:32:10.599 Is there a way? Not for nothing? Since we talked 1:32:10.600 --> 1:32:12.280 about this and it is COVID. It's interesting. 1:32:12.360 --> 1:32:15.760 Everybody ain't at Dion's dad is like, how are the 1:32:16.080 --> 1:32:19.320 comedians doing as used to? Like touring, and like, how 1:32:19.360 --> 1:32:22.600 do you support your favorite comedian in these times? 1:32:22.640 --> 1:32:26.120 Like, man, it's hard, man, it's hard on everybody. Man, 1:32:26.320 --> 1:32:32.000 it's hard. I don't I don't understand really how it's 1:32:32.080 --> 1:32:36.400 working for a lot of people. Man, you know I 1:32:36.439 --> 1:32:39.040 think about that a lot too. I'll be thinking like, man. 1:32:39.400 --> 1:32:41.640 It ain't no music matters for comedians. 1:32:41.640 --> 1:32:43.360 It ain't no like what is no R and B 1:32:43.600 --> 1:32:46.960 foundation like residuals. 1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:49.800 You ain't been in nothing, you know what I'm saying. 1:32:49.840 --> 1:32:52.720 The red states that are open though, like Florida is 1:32:52.960 --> 1:32:54.840 open for business, Atlanta is open. 1:32:55.560 --> 1:32:58.120 Yeah, in a. 1:32:58.240 --> 1:33:02.000 Club with people laughing and your face, risk your. 1:33:02.000 --> 1:33:06.639 Life life like, but what do you to do though? Too? 1:33:06.920 --> 1:33:08.920 You know you got to make a living. You gotta 1:33:08.960 --> 1:33:11.000 make money. It's like, you know, you gotta do what 1:33:11.000 --> 1:33:11.960 you got to do whatever. 1:33:12.000 --> 1:33:14.280 And now I don't knock nobody doing what they got 1:33:14.320 --> 1:33:15.439 to do in order to get. 1:33:15.320 --> 1:33:16.680 It, but it is hard out here. 1:33:16.760 --> 1:33:20.080 It's hard, man, because I'm quite sure if they had 1:33:20.160 --> 1:33:22.960 other options they were using, you know, so you know, 1:33:23.000 --> 1:33:25.360 shut out to all the comics that still grinding and 1:33:25.600 --> 1:33:27.599 stay safe, man, stay safe. 1:33:28.520 --> 1:33:30.479 Do you do you miss late night life at all? 1:33:30.880 --> 1:33:35.080 Or was that just a nice experience you had? You 1:33:35.280 --> 1:33:39.080 was talking about late late nights as far as writing 1:33:39.120 --> 1:33:40.559 for television, writing for Cony. 1:33:40.840 --> 1:33:43.800 You know what, there's moments when I'm missing in this 1:33:44.000 --> 1:33:47.240 moments that I don't me being the only black writer 1:33:47.360 --> 1:33:51.120 for Coning and probably the fourth black writer in the 1:33:51.200 --> 1:33:54.000 history of late night That shit was like, that was 1:33:54.040 --> 1:33:54.960 the part that I. 1:33:54.920 --> 1:33:58.320 Really I wasn't. I wasn't feeling that shit at all, 1:33:58.920 --> 1:33:59.200 you know. 1:33:59.320 --> 1:34:03.120 But my story was so crazy because those that kind 1:34:03.120 --> 1:34:05.120 of shitted on me, they ended up happening to write 1:34:05.120 --> 1:34:05.360 for me. 1:34:06.080 --> 1:34:07.760 So I flipped that. 1:34:08.240 --> 1:34:10.479 I flipped the game on them, Like I went from 1:34:10.479 --> 1:34:13.920 trying to write like them to them writing for me 1:34:14.120 --> 1:34:16.840 for Coning, and so that's what I was saying, for 1:34:17.280 --> 1:34:20.320 like Coning and shit like they had to write bits 1:34:20.320 --> 1:34:22.160 for me and shit, you know, and they had to 1:34:22.160 --> 1:34:24.519 write it in my voice, which is the same voice 1:34:24.560 --> 1:34:26.880 that I was trying to write. And the get go 1:34:27.080 --> 1:34:29.200 that they was shitting on me about when I was 1:34:29.200 --> 1:34:30.240 trying to get it to Coning. 1:34:30.400 --> 1:34:33.599 So I don't miss that kind of shit, you know. 1:34:33.720 --> 1:34:37.439 But I do miss I do miss the excitement of 1:34:37.680 --> 1:34:41.240 having a great show and certain guests come through. You'd 1:34:41.280 --> 1:34:44.040 be excited to see him and hang out and shit 1:34:44.240 --> 1:34:44.479 like that. 1:34:44.520 --> 1:34:45.760 Shit was cool too, you know. 1:34:45.880 --> 1:34:49.559 But Late Night was rigorous, man as far as coming 1:34:49.640 --> 1:34:54.840 up with material. Every night, new material, and then it 1:34:54.960 --> 1:34:57.680 was almost like a competition with other writers. You had 1:34:57.720 --> 1:35:00.760 to see if your shit get on TV and come 1:35:00.840 --> 1:35:04.200 up with a bit that was repetitious enough for him 1:35:04.240 --> 1:35:10.160 to use it every every week, every month or whatever. Yeah, 1:35:10.200 --> 1:35:14.200 that was that was grueling, but it made me. It 1:35:14.320 --> 1:35:17.080 helped me to this day to be like just sharp 1:35:17.240 --> 1:35:19.559 like that in order to like come up with something 1:35:19.640 --> 1:35:22.000 quickly because we had to do that for like, I 1:35:22.040 --> 1:35:22.960 wrote for ConA. 1:35:22.720 --> 1:35:27.519 For eight years. So yeah, uh, it definitely sharpened my sword. 1:35:28.560 --> 1:35:29.840 I wanted to ask you to man. 1:35:29.960 --> 1:35:36.800 You you produced the one woman show for my Girlftari. Yeah, yeah, 1:35:36.840 --> 1:35:39.960 man maor we work on the Sherman showcase together and 1:35:40.160 --> 1:35:41.840 we worked and all that. 1:35:42.840 --> 1:35:43.080 Yeah. 1:35:43.120 --> 1:35:45.040 Man, So I was curious, though, is that something you 1:35:45.080 --> 1:35:47.200 look to do more of, maybe like producing more. 1:35:48.840 --> 1:35:49.320 Artists. 1:35:49.360 --> 1:35:56.280 Well, I am switching gears and I would definitely come 1:35:56.320 --> 1:35:58.360 back on here and talk to y'all. And I hate 1:35:58.400 --> 1:36:00.680 I hate niggas. That'd be like, I tell you what 1:36:00.760 --> 1:36:01.160 it is. 1:36:01.800 --> 1:36:05.960 Listen, you walk up your bang, do not up the 1:36:06.040 --> 1:36:07.920 bat big ship like that. 1:36:07.920 --> 1:36:08.479 That's what it's real. 1:36:08.560 --> 1:36:08.800 Bad. 1:36:14.439 --> 1:36:19.040 Yeah I'm doing man, I just dove into something. I 1:36:19.160 --> 1:36:25.000 just produced this film. Executive produced this film and my 1:36:25.080 --> 1:36:29.639 partner Kelly Kelly Kelly, who's a fantastic director, director, and writer. 1:36:30.240 --> 1:36:33.240 We collabed on a couple of scripts that we're doing. Man, 1:36:33.640 --> 1:36:37.920 and uh, it's been amazing journey. Uh we got a 1:36:38.000 --> 1:36:41.719 lot of good stuff coming out. And uh man, that's 1:36:41.800 --> 1:36:43.960 all I can say about that. 1:36:43.960 --> 1:36:46.280 That's all you need to say. Bro, say no. 1:36:47.040 --> 1:36:50.240 I ran. I ran into Marlon Wayne's in the club Man, 1:36:50.360 --> 1:36:53.400 and he changed my whole. 1:36:53.640 --> 1:36:59.880 Thought process as far as like writing content, because people too, 1:37:00.120 --> 1:37:02.559 is he complaining about what they not getting? 1:37:03.120 --> 1:37:04.320 But you're not writing. 1:37:04.000 --> 1:37:06.960 Nothing for yourself. You're not even writing nothing for for 1:37:07.160 --> 1:37:09.519 who you are. Like, you gotta at least write something 1:37:09.760 --> 1:37:12.519 and show people what you what you what you buy. 1:37:12.600 --> 1:37:15.120 I don't care if it's a TV show, talk show, movie, 1:37:15.200 --> 1:37:17.960 whatever it is. If you can't just sit back going, 1:37:18.040 --> 1:37:20.280 I hope they give me something. You gotta show them 1:37:20.280 --> 1:37:23.400 what they gotta give you. So therefore, if you write 1:37:23.439 --> 1:37:25.400 that down and you give it to them, then yo, 1:37:25.439 --> 1:37:26.439 it's gonna be our love. 1:37:27.000 --> 1:37:27.880 I'm in New York. 1:37:28.000 --> 1:37:30.200 I'm at this club right and I'm doing a movie 1:37:30.240 --> 1:37:32.680 for Netflix, this Christmas movie, and I'm out there in 1:37:32.720 --> 1:37:35.519 the club Marlon Wayne's walking crew. 1:37:35.760 --> 1:37:38.679 They all sitting up in this section. I see Marlin. 1:37:38.760 --> 1:37:39.280 I go over there. 1:37:39.320 --> 1:37:41.200 I'm like, Marlon, we hugging it out and all this 1:37:41.280 --> 1:37:43.040 shit Marlin like, yo, what you're doing it? 1:37:43.080 --> 1:37:43.479 And why? 1:37:43.560 --> 1:37:47.320 I'm like, man, doing this movie. And he was like, oh, man, congratulations, 1:37:47.320 --> 1:37:49.960 man your movie. And I said no, no, I'm just 1:37:50.000 --> 1:37:52.839 doing this movie for Netflix. And he was like, okay, 1:37:52.920 --> 1:37:56.439 you produced it. I was like, nah, no, I'm just 1:37:56.760 --> 1:38:00.080 I'm just you know, I'm just starting it. He was like, 1:38:00.120 --> 1:38:01.880 oh you started. It's all you starting. 1:38:01.880 --> 1:38:03.720 And he was like, but you showed it to him, right, 1:38:04.560 --> 1:38:06.640 And I'm like, no, nigga. 1:38:06.479 --> 1:38:11.920 No, I'm just the movie. 1:38:12.640 --> 1:38:18.519 He was like this, Oh okay, he said, but it 1:38:18.560 --> 1:38:19.240 ain't shrure us. 1:38:20.160 --> 1:38:25.240 I'm like, I'm like na. He was like why. He 1:38:25.400 --> 1:38:31.920 was like, so he said, he said, so you just 1:38:31.920 --> 1:38:35.280 gonna keep doing movies for everybody. You're gonna keep being 1:38:35.320 --> 1:38:38.759 funny for everybody and and not and not for you. 1:38:39.200 --> 1:38:43.160 And so I was like, I mean, ship man, I 1:38:43.160 --> 1:38:45.200 mean I hear what you're saying. But he was like, no, 1:38:45.360 --> 1:38:47.040 I don't think you do. He was like, dude, you 1:38:47.120 --> 1:38:48.880 one of the funniest motherfuckers. 1:38:48.439 --> 1:38:51.040 In the game. And he was like, are you still 1:38:51.400 --> 1:38:53.200 making other people funny? 1:38:53.760 --> 1:38:56.200 It was like he was like, dude, if you don't 1:38:56.200 --> 1:38:59.960 write you a movie or a show or something for yourself. Man, 1:39:00.040 --> 1:39:01.840 and he was like, they don't know. You said, they 1:39:01.840 --> 1:39:04.080 can say whatever they want to say about me. He 1:39:04.200 --> 1:39:06.000 was like, they just say my movie is horrible. 1:39:06.160 --> 1:39:06.679 They great. 1:39:06.800 --> 1:39:10.760 He was like, as long as they my movie, I 1:39:10.920 --> 1:39:13.960 rolled on. I produced them a hard that. He was like, 1:39:14.080 --> 1:39:16.880 they mind And he was like, and my budget steadily 1:39:16.960 --> 1:39:21.120 going up constant and I just froze and he was like, 1:39:21.200 --> 1:39:23.360 but yo, man, next time I see you. 1:39:23.439 --> 1:39:23.639 Man. 1:39:23.840 --> 1:39:25.880 He was like, man, I hope I hope you write 1:39:25.920 --> 1:39:28.719 you something. And I said, man, thank you very much. 1:39:28.880 --> 1:39:32.400 Left left his section, went back over to the to 1:39:32.439 --> 1:39:35.960 the to the chicks and and my boy, and was like, 1:39:36.600 --> 1:39:41.880 I'll talk to y'all. Letter hopped in the cab, went 1:39:41.920 --> 1:39:44.839 to my hotel room and just laid there and stared 1:39:44.840 --> 1:39:49.960 at the wall. Yo, and was just like andbarrassed. I 1:39:50.040 --> 1:39:52.800 was a barrassed. I just I didn't even want to 1:39:52.800 --> 1:39:56.479 be out no more. I was embarrassed because motivated what 1:39:57.560 --> 1:40:00.360 from that day I've been writing And. 1:40:00.320 --> 1:40:05.719 So you did that right in this moment, in this moment, 1:40:05.760 --> 1:40:07.280 I mean it for me, but I don't matter. 1:40:07.280 --> 1:40:10.680 But I'm just I don't say that. 1:40:10.920 --> 1:40:13.160 I'm telling you like like when Marlin hit me with 1:40:13.200 --> 1:40:14.799 that Marlon He couldn't. 1:40:15.200 --> 1:40:19.200 He couldn't even fathom. He just kept going, it's yours, right, 1:40:19.439 --> 1:40:23.280 I'm like, no, oh, so you wrote it? No, okay, 1:40:23.280 --> 1:40:27.040 so you produced it. I'm like no, motherfucking no. He 1:40:27.280 --> 1:40:31.720 like like what do you mean? Like what do you mean? 1:40:33.360 --> 1:40:35.560 And some ship and you don't. 1:40:35.560 --> 1:40:38.080 And when and when and when I left Marlin. 1:40:38.200 --> 1:40:41.360 From that day on, I've been right and write write 1:40:41.439 --> 1:40:45.200 these scripts and like right now, we just finished one 1:40:45.240 --> 1:40:48.120 of the movies that we wrote, wet. 1:40:48.160 --> 1:40:51.240 We wrote another one. We got another one on the 1:40:51.240 --> 1:40:53.840 way that we write and get it and we just 1:40:53.880 --> 1:40:55.920 shot one of the movies. We just finished it. 1:40:56.800 --> 1:40:59.920 And that's why I was looking at your page too, 1:41:00.080 --> 1:41:04.879 and I want to congratulate you on your film opening 1:41:04.960 --> 1:41:07.880 up Sundance boy, y'all that's how you got. 1:41:08.160 --> 1:41:19.120 Thanks class, yo, that's how that's how you got to 1:41:19.240 --> 1:41:20.160 do that, dude. 1:41:20.160 --> 1:41:22.320 I'm telling you, Like, when I seen your page, I 1:41:22.439 --> 1:41:25.240 was like, I'm right behind man, I'm right behind you. 1:41:25.360 --> 1:41:27.880 Quest like you got to do it, and you got 1:41:27.920 --> 1:41:29.840 to do it from your point of view and how 1:41:29.880 --> 1:41:31.760 you want to do that? Ship done? You know what 1:41:31.760 --> 1:41:33.000 I mean? Yo? 1:41:33.360 --> 1:41:38.360 Man, this is the greatest subconscious masterclass that I've ever 1:41:38.400 --> 1:41:38.920 been apart. 1:41:42.120 --> 1:41:45.240 I was going to say, like with the way that 1:41:45.800 --> 1:41:51.439 Kenya's popping off all these issues, like surely there's has 1:41:51.439 --> 1:41:54.280 the conversation ever happened with you having your own vehicle 1:41:54.360 --> 1:41:58.880 for a show, So no, no, no, I'm just saying 1:41:58.920 --> 1:42:02.559 that I feel like you're the next You're the fourth 1:42:02.600 --> 1:42:03.920 issue that should be coming. 1:42:04.200 --> 1:42:07.880 So so so Lawrence and Jennifer. They have their spin off, 1:42:07.960 --> 1:42:14.479 Grownish that they shooting right now. Oldest old I'm sorry, 1:42:15.080 --> 1:42:17.200 Oldest Grownish. 1:42:17.360 --> 1:42:17.920 They had me. 1:42:18.600 --> 1:42:21.160 We agreed that I would go to Grownish and we 1:42:21.320 --> 1:42:24.800 kicked the show off and like work with them until 1:42:24.840 --> 1:42:28.720 the show kicked off and then you know, we go 1:42:28.800 --> 1:42:29.240 from there. 1:42:29.320 --> 1:42:30.320 So I was great. 1:42:30.400 --> 1:42:32.439 I was you know, it was great for me to 1:42:32.479 --> 1:42:34.599 work on that show for like three years. But then 1:42:34.600 --> 1:42:36.719 when they hit the fourth year, the kids was graduate, 1:42:37.360 --> 1:42:38.599 so they're not going to be. 1:42:38.520 --> 1:42:41.799 In the school. Me being a dean at the school, 1:42:42.360 --> 1:42:45.400 wasn't that makes sense too much? Some more like that. 1:42:45.560 --> 1:42:48.280 So then I was like, you know what, you know, 1:42:48.320 --> 1:42:52.000 we we I'm an exit or whatever and we're still 1:42:52.120 --> 1:42:54.880 cool or whatever. But as far as my own show 1:42:55.000 --> 1:42:59.160 with Kenya producing, it never never, it never was brought 1:42:59.240 --> 1:43:00.720 up Damn. 1:43:00.680 --> 1:43:02.880 I feel like that's the's a layup. 1:43:03.000 --> 1:43:08.120 Yeah, yeah, no, it was never never brought up. 1:43:08.200 --> 1:43:11.280 It was it was just always like I said, he 1:43:11.360 --> 1:43:13.800 sent me over the Growners to kick Growner shop, and 1:43:13.840 --> 1:43:16.559 then when Gronish stopped flourishing with the kids, was getting 1:43:16.600 --> 1:43:19.840 down on the own, then I departed from there. And 1:43:19.920 --> 1:43:31.160 then yeah, I just all right, well then. 1:43:27.040 --> 1:43:29.360 Interesting because you popped off grown Its like there was 1:43:29.360 --> 1:43:32.520 a reason that Charlie needed to be on campus. 1:43:33.040 --> 1:43:35.080 Yeah, it was a reason why I had to be there, 1:43:35.240 --> 1:43:37.200 you know, so so so it was all good. 1:43:37.240 --> 1:43:39.480 But then once once the chemistry and the kids. 1:43:39.560 --> 1:43:41.920 It's amazing, they got it. Think, yeah, it was you know, 1:43:41.960 --> 1:43:44.080 it was time for me to step off. But uh, 1:43:44.240 --> 1:43:47.679 it was great. It was a great opportunity and all 1:43:47.720 --> 1:43:50.479 of that. And as far as like yeah, but as 1:43:50.479 --> 1:43:53.479 far as like him coming to me going, yo, you 1:43:53.600 --> 1:43:56.640 a spin off show, we never had that conversation. 1:43:57.920 --> 1:44:01.040 All right, well, I'm putting out there he needs his own. 1:44:01.000 --> 1:44:12.240 Marlon, his own don't want to come back here. 1:44:09.600 --> 1:44:10.000 We doing it. 1:44:12.400 --> 1:44:15.240 Yeah, but thank you, Dion, thank you so much. Man. 1:44:15.360 --> 1:44:19.600 This this is his EPISO Educate Edumacational. 1:44:19.520 --> 1:44:22.120 Questions, Episode A mirror. He's family. 1:44:23.840 --> 1:44:25.440 Second, go round and remember. 1:44:25.160 --> 1:44:25.840 And not but nothing. 1:44:25.840 --> 1:44:27.559 I'm trying to remember, but it was nothing one that 1:44:27.600 --> 1:44:29.960 helped us book Dion on the first episode in l. 1:44:30.000 --> 1:44:31.639 A she might have been. 1:44:32.000 --> 1:44:35.679 I think she might have been nothing monster to people 1:44:35.720 --> 1:44:36.320 don't know about. 1:44:37.240 --> 1:44:41.200 Thank you for doing the show. Uh. Oh by the way, Uh, 1:44:41.840 --> 1:44:44.200 this will be on for the holidays. Correct, Yes, the 1:44:44.280 --> 1:44:46.920 holidays show. It's just okay. 1:44:47.000 --> 1:44:52.200 It's the most on holiday holiday show. Send yeah. 1:44:52.200 --> 1:44:56.000 Speaking of holidays, let me remind people that I'm actually 1:44:56.000 --> 1:44:58.280 involved with three movies with the title Soul in it 1:44:58.560 --> 1:45:03.240 and one opens on Christmas Disney plus Soul. I am 1:45:03.240 --> 1:45:07.760 a Pixar character, a real Pixar character, Jamie Fox and 1:45:07.800 --> 1:45:12.479 Tina Fey and dav Diggs and Angela Bassett and Felicia Sad. 1:45:13.160 --> 1:45:16.400 It's it's amazing. I hope you guys enjoyed this show. 1:45:16.439 --> 1:45:20.040 I'm sorry, Go ahead, I'm sorry. 1:45:22.080 --> 1:45:22.320 Yeah. 1:45:22.520 --> 1:45:26.559 And and also shout out to Belvini for a for 1:45:26.720 --> 1:45:28.520 our spirits. 1:45:28.560 --> 1:45:30.920 I drink half of you tonight and I know Steve did. 1:45:31.280 --> 1:45:32.480 Thank you. 1:45:34.280 --> 1:45:37.320 PS big up to Dion who does not who does 1:45:37.400 --> 1:45:39.560 drink responsibly and does not drink. I just wanted to 1:45:39.560 --> 1:45:43.560 pick you up at that funny because there's some little spirits. 1:45:43.160 --> 1:45:50.639 And sober no. 1:45:50.760 --> 1:45:54.120 But you know, let's have a prosperous uh twenty one 1:45:54.320 --> 1:45:57.800 and uh you know and and put we're gonna will 1:45:58.080 --> 1:46:00.200 Dion's empire. 1:46:00.320 --> 1:46:16.200 To the universe appreciate exactly. All right, thank you all many. Hey, 1:46:16.280 --> 1:46:19.320 this is Sugar Steve. Make sure you keep up with 1:46:19.400 --> 1:46:20.680 us on Instagram. 1:46:20.280 --> 1:46:21.559 At q l s. 1:46:22.320 --> 1:46:24.840 Let us know what you think. Who should be next 1:46:24.840 --> 1:46:28.439 to sit down with us? 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