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Get US based customer service and 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.360 talk to a real person day or night. Discover exceptionally 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:21.840 common sense. Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.920 host with Sean McDonald. It is important to understand that 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.960 everybody travels a different path to success. That is because 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.320 your brain is different. The challenges you face in your 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.440 life are different. So stop reading other people's success stories 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.920 and start writing your own. By Money Making Conversation interviews 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.440 will encourage you to leave with your gifts and never 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.280 use age as an excuse when planning your goals. My 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.480 next guest, Mark Curry rose to television and comedic fame 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.280 when he warned the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition. He 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.280 is a comedian, actor, and writer. He's one of the 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.880 various hosts of the syndicated series is Showtime at the 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.320 Apollo Courage, starting Naked Knight's first ever original live action 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.240 comedy series. See Dad Martin for Fox did Jamie Fox Show? 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.320 Tyler Perris also pain Netflix Family Reunion. He's now co 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.040 starring in new episodes of In the Cut, which airs 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.440 every Wednesday on Bounce TV at a PM Eastern Standard time. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.560 Please work with the money making conversations, the very funny 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.839 Mark Curry, Cleen Clean, clin Clan, Clint Clean, clin Clean. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.440 Make that money, make that money, make that money. But 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.799 are you saving that money? Are you what? Are you? 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.680 Keep keeping up with the Jones. That's what we lose 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.880 all our money trying to keep out with the Jones. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:37.720 We really do, We really do, Mark, we do? You 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.680 know the car the house, you know. When I started 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.160 the show is trying to get everybody side of the story, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.560 you know, because we all have images of what success 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.000 is all about. And I try to bring individuals on 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.880 who has different layers, different stories to tell, and I'll 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.880 try to get that information and and and from in 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.960 an entertaining way so they can take it home and go, Okay, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.639 I hopefully I won't make the mistake or I'm making 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.840 that mistake and I'm gonna do a different based on 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.040 the advice I heard on my show. And so when 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.240 I got the opportunity to bring you on, you know, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.360 your stand up comedian, you know what that we we 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.000 we we we cut our lives on that and then 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.600 the COVID nineteen here in March. How did that affect you? 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.640 And how did how that affect me? We can't even 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:26.600 say effect, yes, a fact and effect effect. I'm sorry 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.959 and I didn't okay, effect, I'm getting deefend and you 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.320 don't want me. I don't know how deep you want 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.160 me to go. And here we gonna go. See it's 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.880 gonna be a bullish compensation bullet It's gonna go bullets. Well, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.960 it affected me because if you look at Indian industry 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.040 that has been affected, the comedy industry has been devastated 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.160 that no industry has been devastated here just think this, sir, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.160 I was doing I was about to do um um. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.040 Let me say, I just did the Oakland College. Seem 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.000 just just just put a perspective. I just did the 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.080 Oakland College them a month before I was just about 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.040 to do Vegas to see in Vegas something all that 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.840 is gone, my residency in Vegas, baby, I was I 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.200 was going, this is for the high rollers in Vegas. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.280 This was the greatest gig in the world because I 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.200 didn't have to sell no tickets. It was just just 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.720 for the high rollers of a certain Casino. I was 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.400 about to start that residency. I was on tour with 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.640 Mike Epps some more, and suddenly all of it is gone, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.920 is gone, It's not coming back. It's done. So here 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.000 I am in the world. Financially. I know that you've 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.400 got to have a diverse portfolio, But my god, who 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.040 ever thought of a portfolio that is you know, adverse? 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.840 So I know, so here I am. I don't know 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.920 what to do, you know, I I panic the first 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.480 couple of months. I panic that this panic. I didn't 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.200 know what to do. And I said, Okay, where do 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.280 I get in? Where do I fit in? It? It's 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:52.120 gonna be virtual, It's gonna be a virtual situation. Uh 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.960 you know what am I gonna do? But I mean, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.520 I've been devastated, devastated. So just let you know. In 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.640 the in the money marketing world, you have to you know, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.159 program yourself for everything. You never know. This is this 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.400 is this is something to talk about. Even if you 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.599 have a diverse before Leo, that may not even work. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.120 You have to rethink the business. So here I am. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.000 I know, I'm a good comedian. I'm like, what damn, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.760 what am I gonna do? I said, well, you know what, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.520 something's gonna come out of this. In any in any situation, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.400 there's a positive. And um, if you look at Madam C. J. Walker, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.839 I think she made her Miriam is doing the depression. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.120 So there was hope. So I was like, okay, where where? 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.839 What am I gonna What's gonna happen? What am I 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.880 gonna do? So I'm thinking virtual comedy is gonna be 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.880 is gonna be the thing, you know, And so I 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.760 just got myself and I just started writing. I said, well, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.800 I think the best comedian is gonna win. So that's 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.960 all I did, you know, the only thing I can do. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.640 And then I had to change in my business. I said, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.719 comedy is no longer a viable business to me to 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.520 make money. So I gotta, I shoot, I don't know. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.680 I started looking at everything. I even looked at marijuana production, right, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.160 I said, well, how much does a cross when you 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.679 dudes be growing this stuff? And I called my boys 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.840 and said, well how much do you make on this thing? 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.279 You know? I called everything I can do? You know? 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.640 Was that tied to like just just three or talk? 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.600 You know, like when the when the pandemic hit, you know, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.320 I would tell you some man it affected me mentally, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.960 you know, it affected my pocket, but affected me mentally 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.120 on how was that? Was it really safe to go 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.240 out in the streets, you know? And you know like 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.200 saying because I went out there with all the equipment, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:35.920 because it was in marching, was still cold because I 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.680 didn't have a mask. I just put a ski mask 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.719 on and uh. And then I went to home depot. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.360 I had my I had my rubber gloves, I had 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.800 my pierrel, I had lights al and I had all 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.320 this stuff. And I got back to the car. I 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.279 didn't I didn't know the protocol. Do I take off 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.920 my gloves? Is my stereit WORL gonna be safe? Did 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.920 it really get into your head? Was I just want 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.720 of those people that just reacted to out of control 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.800 about it? Well, it got into my head. But I 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.640 am a you know, I look at you know, I'm 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.279 almost like a historian. But I said, this is this 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.720 is this is happening, this is gonna this is happening. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.520 And so I accepted it, and I stayed at home. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.960 I didn't go anywhere. I said at my age, I 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.000 said the thing I'm gonna do, I'm not going anywhere. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.080 I'm just gonna stay at home and it mentally mentally 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.680 it affected me. It didn't affect me until later, you know, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.360 till later on. So four or five months later, I'm like, man, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.320 what is going on? Man? This could this could endure 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.239 for a month. You know. I put my faith into 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.200 the American government, the American way of life that we 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.280 we can fight anything. We're America. We have enough money 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.320 to fight anything. So I said, this Q will be 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.400 you know, eradicated. So just hanging there and hanging there 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.600 because America was gonna take care of it. But now 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:58.440 we have devicesness, we have political side this diz. So 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.800 it's political I which is and which is? You can't 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.680 even think about It isn't frustrated. It isn't frustrating. And 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.920 that you hear that, and you know, because just that 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.240 I try to be honest on my show, are allowed 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.160 the interview to go where the interviews are gonna go. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.440 But it is frustrating because we're in an economy that's 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.720 tied to unemployment is at a high rate, and you know, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.960 and it affects minorities, are black and brown people at 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.720 a at a twice rate. And then you have COVID 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.640 ninteen that affects African American community at a high rate. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.600 And then then they tell you that ninety four percent 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.520 of the people who have died from COVID ninteen had 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.760 preconditioned of pre illnesses. So it's like, okay, you know, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.760 it puts you in a position of who to believe in, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.880 who to trust right and where are you at on 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.840 that whole trusting thing, because it does impact how you 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.440 move forward as a comedian, as an entertainment, as a businessman. Well, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.200 I don't trust anybody right now. I just trust myself 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.240 and not trust. I just had a show I was doing. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.080 I was supposed to do a show a matter of fact, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.480 Labor Day in the land I had, you know, I 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.920 sold out shows. But then I was looking at the peak. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.440 I was looking at this disease. I was like, man, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.199 I ain't going I'm not going out there, and so 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.559 I canceled it, you know, And so I I haven't 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.840 worked yet. I'm gonna work at the end of September. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.160 I said, I'm not gonna work until November. But let 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.079 me see. So I don't My thing is this what 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.680 I would like. I would like to know what my 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.360 chances are. And that's your government should tell you that. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.840 I just you should be able to say, okay, blah 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.920 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But we 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.480 don't know, we don't, we don't know. So you have 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.880 to trust yourself. You know who you can't I mean 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.000 you can't. I don't care who you are. You can't 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.440 trust the government. They're not telling me the truth. I mean, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.920 not telling me what I need to know. I'm not 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.520 trying to be political, but my guy, I just want 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:58.440 to know how to stay safe. And that's a very 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.360 simple request, but somehow they can't get answered. How does 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.800 stay safe? Which, in turn, because if you felt safe 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.880 for you have felt safer about getting on that airplane, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.040 traveling to getting off that plane and doing five shows 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.320 in front of the audience, that exactly, and knowing I 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.120 had to call my doctor for the black doctor he's 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.600 a black doctor. Emphasize that because if we have more 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:25.800 black doctors, are child instant rate would probably be higher. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.160 You know, we need more black doctors. And he told me, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.040 he said, man, you know, he said to do that. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.600 He said that, man, it's not good to go. So 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.080 I said, I'm not going. But if I had some 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.079 kind of guideline that I know, you know, some kind 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.880 of We don't. We don't have a guideline. If right 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.720 now you said you're gonna travel to Louisiana, it ain't 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.560 nothing that you can look on and say should I go, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.160 I should not go. There's no guideline. That's that's the 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:59.400 crazy part that scares me. It's really amazing because you know, 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.160 stand up comedy is really interesting because we kind of 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.120 see everything from a different perspective and just twisted put 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.120 I twist them and that that's how and and and 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.080 I'm gonna tell you, man, just from an outside looking 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.959 at you, you've always been uh, a guy that I 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.920 always looked back or I would have never thought of 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.640 that joke you You've always been one of those I 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.920 would have never thought of that joke guy. When I 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.960 look at it. That's and that's how I write, suh. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.000 When I write, I don't write. When I write, I 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.920 write to jump down. And if it sounds like everybody 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.680 else I talked to out, I try to come from 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.560 the different. I ain't gonna you know, you know, almost 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.000 like an investing I would be the one to invest 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.440 in something that somebody said, why are you investing in that? 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.280 Why are you investing in the straps that holds a 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.720 mask together? Right? No one else is doing that because 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.000 no one else is doing right. And so so you know, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.560 and I say that, you know because of the fact 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.439 that you know you know. But one time I felt 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.360 I was one of the top guys out there, and 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.959 I come along and I see you, and I still 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.080 see you, and I go, what is what? What? What 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.320 are you what? I are you looking at stuff through 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:11.240 Mark Curry when you're yeah, what are you know? Like that? 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.440 You know what? You know what I'm saying, you know 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.440 because of the fact that you know we could, we can, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.840 You're I could walk in the room and uh. One 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.520 of the all time you probably remember one of the 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.400 all time funny moments I had with you when we 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.760 was at Denny's Restaurant and me, you George Wallace and 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.719 and we are we're closed down that place, and I 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:32.560 always remember how from an improvisational standpoint, you are incredible, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.319 and I just it is locked in my memory in 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.200 Hollywood us just JF it was Jathony Brown, it was you, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.640 it was me, and it was George Wallace and we 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.960 left that myth that dinner is at four two o'clock 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.800 in the morning, and and and it was just watching 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.920 you sit over there, going he's doing stuff I could 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.040 not do. I can't because you we're in the same Dennis. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.360 Now we're the same We all even the same food, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.800 but you're looking at it through a different eye, Mark Curry. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.600 Why why why are you looking at it from a 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:12.680 different eye? Well, because of this when I do, when 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.520 I do a joke, I don't write the joke. A 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.480 lot of guys write the joke and that's why they 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.600 a lot of times they jokes don't be funny because 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.480 they forced the joke. But what I do is I 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.200 researched the joke, and my material is based on if 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.199 you see anything I say, it's based on facts and research. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.880 So for example, we're talking about whatever the subject is, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:42.040 black people and money, Black people and money. Okay, bam, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.000 you will will do the joke because black people, they'll 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.160 take black people. I want to realize they've been short 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:51.080 change black people. Come back and how much again? When 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.400 I came in the head pointing right, and then I 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.520 got chuck for you because I hold him that I 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.360 putt st a guy. I'm I'm must I must let 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.079 me go back here, but go back? How much with 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.320 than not? I much with the cheese? Let me go 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:12.680 stage mat the white person? No instantly, just a minute? 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.480 How much the tacks on this? What was the three seventeen? 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.680 I had three of them? Right? That should have been 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.640 a fortnite. Yeah. I think some somethings are wrong here. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:33.520 Oh okay, okay, Mark, Okay, that's funny, though it's true. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.800 That's what I'm laughing because again you've taken my engineer. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.480 He laughing too, you know, in the other side of 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.560 the room, and he's shaking his head, was laughing because 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.560 you know it's true, because it's through that lens that 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.600 you are are sitting there and and observing and and that, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.200 like I said, in that Denny's restaurant, you know, we're 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.720 all were being served the same food. But I'm just 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.800 looking at your craze behind, going how did you see that? 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.120 Because when I when I see something, I immediately size 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.280 it up as a joke. So I look at it 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.920 and I break it down different ways. Yeah, I'm not educated, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.880 but I'm the Internet guy. So if I'm if I'm searching, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.080 if we're talking about money, I'm gonna go on the 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.840 internet and and and find facts that I may not 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.760 repeat them, but it will help me with my facts. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.760 For example, I'll look up black people and money, the 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.080 first Black people with money in eighteen hundreds. And then 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.480 I'll look at black institutions, black owned banks, so blood 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.640 of the So when I have a prethra of all 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.640 kinds of material that I may not use, but at 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.400 least my attitude and and what I'm talking about is 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.880 based on some kind of facts. And then I'll say 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.640 a little fact because you know, black people, we didn't 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.160 we didn't have banks back then. What the hell did 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.000 we do? We couldn't go to the bank. Think about 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.720 about that. Black people can't go to the bank the 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:08.160 nineteen seventy. Think about that nineteen seventy. And when you 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:09.960 walk in the steel that that you crazy because they 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.880 look at you crazy. Right now. Don't walk into a 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.840 Beverly Hills bank right now, they just get you like 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.360 you can we help you? This is the bank, and 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.600 that feels that can't be healthy. Imagine banking back then, 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.120 banking back then was nine existed. You gave me the the money. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.680 They we don't happen no more? What happened to it? 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.240 It's gone. Nothing you can do, do you look at 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.160 things kind of thing, nothing you can do. So you know, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.280 that's what my comedy I tried to be. I try 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.960 to come from a different angle makes me yeah, and 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.720 I try to be agitated. I try not to be stereotypic. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.600 I try not to hurt another race as we're talking about, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.080 because you gotta look at people who pay their money. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.960 White people pay their money, Black people, Filipino, Chinese. If 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.240 I want to go to any commedian, don't give who 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.160 it is. He said something about some black people, I'm done. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.880 I don't care. I'm just interested in him. I want 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.240 to go. I want to go, just like that Asian 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.720 person would say the same thing, Just like that white person. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.240 You go to a black show, and black comedians make 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.240 the white people oh my no, that this week. You know, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:25.359 even when Bush, for example, when Bush was in, I 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.080 have to talk about but I have to find a 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.879 way to talk about but but for my white patrons 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.640 that paid that money also, so they wouldn't feel uncomfortable. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.880 It's finally here, the season of celebration, and no matter 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.120 how you celebrate with family and friends, whether you're preparing 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.800 for rays magos or Karamu lighting the Manura are going 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.760 to midnight mass. Coals has just what you need to 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.560 make those traditions special. 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I'm gonna start at a 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.760 comedy club that's outside two days at the end of September, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.679 like September twenty six seven time E t s in 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.320 um Danville. I think I'm gonna just I'm not gonna 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.679 just gonna go up and just I don't know what 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.440 I'm gonna talk about because I don't I don't have 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.600 I don't want to talk about this corona. I just don't. 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.000 I don't even want to talk about I don't want 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.879 to hear that. I want to talk about something socially, 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.520 a whole new start. So I'm gonna go in and 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.160 get my head right and come up with a whole 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.679 new When I say a whole new way of thanking, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.560 for example, presidency, I'm gonna run for presidents, and so 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.960 I want you to ask me, what if I'm if 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.639 I'm running for presidents asking me the question that you 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.520 would ask the president, because I'm gonna I think I'm 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.520 gonna do a new special on that. So right now, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.560 this is I'm Mark Curry. I'm here, this is live, 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:07.800 this is non scripted. Mark Mark. I hear you running 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:12.280 for president. I'm just gonna ask you right now. Um um, 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.879 some some people don't want to wear a mask? Should 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:19.560 we wear a mask? Mark Curry? Does a mask? Yes, sir? 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.240