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I wanted to say officially my first celebrity friend. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.480 He was my first celebrity friend in Los Angeles and 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.079 I moved to Los Angeles and nineteen ninety the next 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.960 Guest performed every weekend five shows, Standing Up, Common Shows, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.120 There is a Day on Venice Beach from nineteen eighty 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.760 six to nineteen ninety five. I moved out to l 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.680 a in ninteen ninety and was rightfully dubbed the King 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.519 of Venice Beach. He's built an exciting acting resume that 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.280 includes Blackish House Party three, nor Bit. He was funny 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.600 as Heck at Norbit, the Prince of the Frog, and 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.640 his role as Mr. Whittaker on the classic hit television 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.240 series Martin. He's coming on the show to talk about 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.200 his career and it's very funny. Third book, Michael Gold's 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.880 Motivational Please Welcome to Money Being Conversations. My man, Michael, 0:02:53.919 --> 0:03:01.440 call you, Michael, call you. You know um, you know this, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.919 It's it's it's nothing but happiness and memories about our relationship. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.480 Or you helped me launch my comedy club in Houston 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.480 and two when you come down there and perform one 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.400 of the big names I was able to convince to 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.080 come to Houston, Texas and headline my show and and 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.040 just but You've always been a giving guy. And when 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.160 I read your read your book, I understand I can 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.440 understand where it came from. The nature of growing up 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.280 in Chicago and and having less but given more. That 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:37.080 was that seemed to be the signal of your whole life. Correct, Yeah, yeah, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.640 I mean, I really believe that it's all about giving. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.800 You know, if you want to have something, you gotta 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.960 learn to give all to all. If you give everything 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.600 to everybody, you don't have so much stuff, you don't 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.280 have no place to put it. Man, and you didn't. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.280 And so lets let's break down your family dynamic. You know, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.640 your father, you know, let's talk about this book. First 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.760 of all, the book I'm talking about as Michael Golds Motivational. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.200 It's the third book and it's a very honest book. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.520 You talk about your mom relationship with your father, which 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.800 off the time was physical, but your mom was really 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.200 the physical person in that domestic relationship. You talk about 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.280 being wolf. They were get into battles, to get into battles. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.520 You talk about it was get into battles because of 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.440 the alcoholism, you know, and and and that's something that 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.280 carried over to our lives, to me and my brothers. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.560 You know, we all end up having some types of addiction. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.320 And our addiction began came honestly, you know, because my 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.040 dad was an addict and his addiction with alcoholism. And 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.400 he was just a beautiful man that we just absolutely loved. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.320 But he loved that bottle man, you know. And I 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.599 mean he could he stick his thing and that bottle. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.920 That bottle was his thing, you know. And and and 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.479 my mother loved him. But he drink up all the profits. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.599 So you know, he'd come home and we wouldn't have nothing. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.280 He'd be bubbling and he were one of them happy 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.799 drunks to those the kind of did he just drink 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.320 for herself, but he wants to treat everybody else. So 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.680 we'd be at sitting at the whole out break broke. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.200 My mom and them would get into a fight. But 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.600 like I said, she would she wouldn't really fight her. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.320 She'd fight him, and she was five for even he 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.120 was six ft three. She would attack him, you know, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.279 and he would never fight it. He hold up getting hurt, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.280 but she just she just really loved him. Go ahead, 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.960 I'm sorry to go ahead. Oh no, no, Mike, this 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.240 is your moment with Myra on my show Money Making 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.960 Conversation because it's your book and I want to promote 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.600 the book. I read the book. Everything's very fresh in 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.200 my mind because it's a very vivid book. You know. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.400 Let me just some things that just stood out for me. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.320 You know, seven years old, you know as Star foods. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.960 You know those forty ounces that you would uh, you know, 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.720 taken to the house first. That was your first household. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.760 Your second hustle was Columbia Records Club. I'll tell you 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.120 some man, you broke back so many memories. Man, I 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:53.560 forgot about Columbia Records. Man. You remember jus Man, when 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.240 you when I was reading your book and you came 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.240 up to Columbia Records Club, I went, oh my god, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.600 I remember that you joined. They see you all these albums, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.039 and then it was for like eleven cents or something 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.360 like that wasleven cent for eleven albums. Man, it was unbelievable, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.080 you know. And then at each time I would send 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.120 for him, I just changed my name because you know, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.159 I was sending for the eleven albums and then I 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.720 take them across the street and sell them at at 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.839 the grade. School didn't teach us for like three dollars each, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.440 so I was I was cleaning up. And then after 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.200 I told the first time, I'd come back and changed 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.320 my name. So first I do with Michael Kaye, then 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.040 Michael Keith, then Keith Michaels, and Keith then Kaya Michaels 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.280 that I changed the letters around to raylock and let 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.280 them relock. I did about eleven times before they finally 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.720 caught on, and they kept sending package in to the 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.720 same address and it's like, uh, we would cut that off. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.200 But what a great hustle that was, brother. But this 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.920 is why I so enjoyed your book, because of the 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.400 fact that it was just bringing back you know, your 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:57.960 your your your car beartless saber Man, Yeah sixty seven. Brother. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.360 It was like, you know, I I in the help 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.800 with just keep smiling when I keep getting the different 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.320 sections of the book, and I was going like, man, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.520 this like memory lane, just talking to this and you 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.040 was in Chicago and I grew up in Houston, but 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.960 we were basically the same age, but we were still 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.560 living the life and enjoying moments. You know, hot water, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.200 corn bread, butter milk, tim teas only thing I took 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.840 a fence on in your book, Man, your daddy loved 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:28.360 butter milk. I love butter milk. I couldn't do butter milk. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.840 Ain't butter milk, spoiled milk. It doesn't matter. You put 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:36.320 some sugar, that bad boy. You put some sugar that 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:41.200 my dad corn bread in that butter milk, and you 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:42.840 would have thought he was a kid in the ice 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.240 cream store. He was just happy if he could see. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.040 I was like, I'm not having no butter milk. Now, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.760 what about low on the hall did eat? I'm just 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.240 the peak feet on the hoghead cheese. See, I'm just chicklings. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.360 See Michael, I'm just a but I love the hog 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:07.640 heead cheese good. Maybe a little bit worse than I 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.680 can still the childlings today. But I can't mess with 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.320 and crackers. I can't even mess with that. No boy 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.200 was come in with pigfy and apparently you had to 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.400 purchase some bad the pair so he would come in 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.160 with hairs and the hair would still be on, and 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.720 that he would have him wrapped in newspaper. It wasn't 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.520 even like it wasn't even like Brown Butcher's paper. It 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.120 was just newspaper. They wrapped on me in and he's 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.440 come and lay him on the front room floor and 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.440 unopened the paper like he was opening a wonderful floral kill. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.080 And it would be like four or five sets of pify. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:44.959 I just run away from home. I just go. I 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.319 just run it though, and start running. You know, I 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.800 wouldn't come back to it, couldn't eating them, know. You know, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.960 my daddy always said my brothers to come and catch 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.560 me because I was always running west thinking I was 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.160 coming to Hollywood, but I really just going west on 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.360 for the third street, you know, and they always just 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.360 go west on pointy third. You'll get it. My brother 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.400 come and pick me up. Bringing home. I take my 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.400 wooman in week Call of the Day. That was so fun, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.720 you said, because it's just an inch on the map. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:15.040 So I thought, I from Chicago to California Hollywood the map, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:22.080 I mean three thousand miles. Ma, mie Man this book. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.760 I was just letting everybody know I'm talking to Michael Car. Youre, uh, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.760 the famous Michael Car. Yeah, the Venice beating King Michael Car. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.840 You gave his donations when they won Star Trek, A 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.920 Star Wars Stars A Star Surgeon Michael car Um, Michael, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.959 you know when I when I look at our relationship, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.600 I would just get personal right now. When I met 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.280 Michael car Michael Carr, you basically took me on his 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.319 wings because my car was famous. When I met him, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.320 he was famous. Okay. He would walk up to all 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.199 the agencies and he he walked me in there with him, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.880 and I could I was and after I kind of 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.839 like learned a lot of things how to how the 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.120 skills that I learned later on as a man as 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.800 you're in doing contractors. When I was with him and 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.200 he would just talk and here and I just see 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.000 the agents and how they would react to him. I 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.640 was how they would put projects together. And it was 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.640 really inspirational just to see what you were accomplishing and 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.040 you was doing it. You were just doing it from 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.640 a guy who had a vision who came from Chicago 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.120 and started performing on the beach. And that idea came 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.079 from some guys that you was watching in Chicago who 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.160 was doing street performing and you saw them getting money. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.120 You said hey, because at the time you said you 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.000 never tell jokes on the street. But you saw those 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.400 two guys performing and the checks they were getting or 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.520 the cash they were getting, that changed your mind. Correct 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.280 in Chicago, exactly exactly. And then I mean because I 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.160 was on stages, I was getting on a little bit 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.000 the stages, making third outs here before it ours there, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:45.360 and they was like, oh, you should come out in 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.960 the street and do street performance. I was like, dude, 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.440 I ain't no damn street public on the street big 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.280 and people to give me money. And then I still 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.120 watched them one day and they filled this little brown 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.800 bag up with money. I was like, oh lord, I 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.680 got the least trotted know and it changed my entire life. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.120 That was nineteen, that was five, and it changed my 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.360 life because immediately I became one of the best street 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.400 performers in Chicago, and I made so much money. Then, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.760 you know, winter came and when nobody's trying to hit 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.560 no jokes on State Street in December, you know. So 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.640 that's what encouraged me to go to California. I thought 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.520 it was warm all year round, and I found Venice 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:28.760 beach Man, and I mean those nine years defined me 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:33.439 as a human being. The actually defined let's let's describe 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.400 exactly for people to know what was going on here. Okay, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.400 it wasn't like a small crowd. You know at Venice 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.120 Beach and Venice Beach if you go there, if you 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.959 go to California, gotta go to Venice Beach. It is 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.840 like a walking entertainment. And anything that you have heard 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.400 about Venice Beach, the Muscle Beach is still there. Okay. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.800 Women walking around Scanton clad in bikinis they do that. Okay, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.840 they roller skating down on in bikinis, they do that. Okay, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:10.720 thongs they do that. And you women and so so 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.760 so imagine me, you know, this big, huge crowd I'm 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.560 talking about. I would have to say anywhere from three 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.680 or four hundred people, just in a big crowd, and 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.600 he had this young man, young man in the middle 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.040 of them, just entertaining them. And I mean, for that 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.520 said what you said was about anywhere about forty minutes, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.200 wasn't it, Michael, that you was out there eight show 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.560 was an hour. I would do forty minutes of comedy 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.040 and then twenty minutes to get my money. Absolutely, that's right. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.760 And then he had the little the little you know, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.600 like hit. He was funny. The money grab what you're 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.040 like the little you know, when you walk around, you 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.920 pick up trash off the off the ground. He had that, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.800 I remember, Mike, and I would I would look at 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.880 this guy, Wow, how could he do that? Because I'm 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.600 talking about this has been as beach, so beautiful sunshine, 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.640 you know, and people have stopped what they were doing, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.040 and he held them. I mean he said, come on 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.360 a round, come a roight ground, and all of a 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.800 sudden the crowd ground, and then more people will come, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.920 and then then the end he got his money and 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.920 he went on by this business, Michael, how did you 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.120 do it? Man? What the amount of concentration you had 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.440 to have to be able to perform like that in 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:25.880 any event where Sunny's Guys, pretty women, muscle, beach food, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.800 live music, other competitors out there performing on the streets. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.839 How did you pull it off? And then here's the 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.480 funny point, I would asked mikeel Micael, because you have 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:35.959 to get your spot, and he had he had the 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.959 same spot all the time because so he said, no, no, Shane, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.959 I paid somebody they come there and get my spot earlier, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.480 so it's secure. I mostly came early on my own, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.040 you know. I wish I could have done that one. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.920 I wish I could have paid somebody. I was too 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.040 stupid for that. I would come early enough, and because 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.320 of a funny story about that, and like just to 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.600 give a quick recap of him, I would go every 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.280 Saturday and Sunday, and I'd worked from noon until five pm, 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.800 roughly five when our shows, I'd be surrounded by anywhere 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.440 from three to seven dred people. And I did it 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.160 through necessity, because when I got to California, I thought 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.040 I was gonna hit clubs and make money, and that 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.959 wasnot And then I went to us as beach and 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.040 white folks will come up and put money right in 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.840 the basket, and I had to steal nothing. I had 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.240 to cheat, to tell a couple of jokes. And so 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.760 I started out trying to go every single day. I 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.600 tried to do every day after but I discovered from 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.280 working it that the money was only there on the weekend, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.480 and the money was really only there from noon until five, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.840 because after five o'clock, uh, all the white folks left 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.720 and took their money with him, and the brothers and 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.760 Hispanics would come out with bad attitudes, and so it 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.440 wasn't really no need to stay there after that, and 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:53.160 then folks didn't show up until new coming. Now go ahead. Now, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.160 I was just I was just I was enjoying because 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.760 you're taking me back down because of the fact that 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.280 everything he's said, like I said, I didn't and then 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.920 that seven number was not a lie all. It was 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.800 like people were peeping over over a people sitting the 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.960 top of each other's shoulders so they can see the show. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.680 Because he was he was just surrounded and he had 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.800 enough space to be able to entertain himself. And then 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.720 sometimes now then sometimes you offer like wouldn't let other 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.480 people perform, and sometimes to do your set sometimes because 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.280 you you be not and then another artist would come along, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.040 even the great Charlie Burnett, who was a great street 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.480 performer in New York. He came out and did it once. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.440 There's two kids to your comic guys named Seymour, you 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.440 can think the other guy's name. And they went on 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.160 and they're really famous. The in Vegas now doing comedy 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.240 and people would come through, but you know a lot 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.360 of people was working in this beast. Then R Kelly 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.960 came out there for about six months before he made 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.000 his big hit. The boys became famous while they were 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.200 out there, and you know, so a lot of artists 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.520 came out and did their thing, and you know, but 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.440 the thing was to be able to stay, to be 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.120 able to stick with it and go year after year 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.000 after year. So the first year I was sort of 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:03.760 figuring it out. But at the end of the first year, 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.880 I was teaching other people how to do it, how 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.680 to get their money, you know, how to collect money 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.320 as well as to do the work. And they didn't 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.840 show business, you know what I'm saying about. If you 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.520 ain't getting paid and you just out there, it's a craft, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.200 just not a job. But for me, it was a job. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.160 So I had to also make the money, you know. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.240 And I would get people to compete with each other 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.120 to pay me. So I would go group by group 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.200 and I say, when I say up, up, you put 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.400 your money in the air and scream ye old, And 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.200 I'm gonna take this money, grab on, gonna pull the 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.800 money out. And now if you get a bat out 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.520 of people, gonna plause, if you could attend, we don't cheer. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.920 If you give me a point, we're gonna go crazy. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.600 So people would pull out bigger and bigger bills to 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.000 get more recognition. Then I go to the second group, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.080 I say, I know you're not gonna take this off 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.400 of them. I know y'all will do better than them. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.200 So they would try to beat each other. It would 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.280 come times when sometimes crips and the blood would come 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.480 out and they would take different sides and try to 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.240 outspend each other. They start to see who could put 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.680 the most money in the basket. So it became a 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.200 phenomenal game, and every time I was the well because 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.840 I went on with you know. And the thing is 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.679 that this summer, I'm going back out hopefully in June, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.280 to shoot it as the one I was special. I'm 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.639 building a stage for myself that looks like a king's crown, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.000 stand in the middle of that crown, and I'm gonna 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.840 do a one hour comedy show called The King of 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.760 Usness Beach. So right now we're in the process of 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.360 seeking folks to help actually come up with that funding. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.399 But it's gonna happen, and I'm shooting that. You know 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.720 that that's going to be special. 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