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Speaker 1: Sha Shay. I am your whole Shannon Sharp. I'm also

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Speaker 1: the way to La just this morning, stand up comedian,

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Speaker 1: TV host, actor, writer, author, philanthropist, executive producer, taught, rated

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Speaker 1: that's okay, Ricky's Boley. What's up? We were talking earlier.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to finally be phase to phase yea with

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Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing good man? Give me Ricky Smiley

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Speaker 1: doubs what three thirty? No alarm clock ever? Three thirty? Uh,

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Speaker 1: So it goes by like that. It's nothing. Your comedian

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Speaker 1: and he's like, Rick, you need to nah na na.

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Speaker 1: So he said, hey, how are you gonna pay for it?

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Speaker 1: stage with a suit on. I said, I need a mic,

422
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Speaker 1: staying like you dog you open up? Ice cut me

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Speaker 1: in the lynch mob. I excuse the lynch mob, all

424
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Speaker 1: the dog rappers, and it stuck. Man. They booed me

425
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Speaker 1: so hard. Come on, man, they boomed me. It was ugly.

426
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Speaker 1: And I walked back stage. Ice Cube now they would

427
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Speaker 1: make eye contact with me. No, no, little man going

428
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Speaker 1: over there, don't bring the energy over here. I got

429
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Speaker 1: booed really bad. I got booed up the apolo too, shouldn't, huh.

430
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Speaker 1: I got booed on Short Time at the Apolo and

431
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Speaker 1: I hadn't even told a joke when they said Birmingham, Alabam.

432
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Speaker 1: Mark Curry was the host. When they say from Birmingham, Alabama,

433
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Speaker 1: they were like boot, they boot. So when I was

434
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Speaker 1: coming on stage, Mark Curry, who was the host at

435
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Speaker 1: the time, he said, do your jokes. Played to the camera.

436
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Speaker 1: He said, your ish gonna air. He said, don't worry

437
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Speaker 1: about it. I did. I did five minutes of comedy

438
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 1: while they was booing and throwing stuff and played to

439
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Speaker 1: the cameras trying to think of my joke. So I

440
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Speaker 1: didn't tell nobody. I was on Short Time the Apolo, right,

441
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Speaker 1: so it comes on TV at then your apolo, you

442
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Speaker 1: know on Sunday we watched your apolom But bro go

443
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Speaker 1: to the scale ring, right, come on, sho't be with me,

444
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Speaker 1: all right, coach, we ain't go there. Way, I ain't

445
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Speaker 1: go there. I couldn't. I can't skate rink. Everybody with

446
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: a skate rink on Sunday. We'll argue about that later, okay. Anyway,

447
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: so I didn't tell anybody. So they took an audience

448
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 1: that was laughing at another comedian and spice it up

449
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: right laughing. All of a sudden, it was no self

450
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Speaker 1: on some My phone was ringing, my phone was blowing up.

451
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: I'll started getting bookings or whatever. When I actually got boomed, Wow,

452
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: true story, show time with the Apollo. But that's what

453
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Speaker 1: is that feeling? Like, I mean, you don't argue. You

454
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 1: have to get boo. I mean, so, so how did

455
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Speaker 1: how do you remain confident? Like I'm sticky with I

456
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 1: don't care what y'all say. Y'all they laugh at these

457
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Speaker 1: jokes to but y'all gonna laugh tomorrow. Yea. Back then,

458
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: back then, Uh, you would just kind of go on,

459
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: try to do your routine. Now if you boo me,

460
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 1: I would turn all the lights on and step off

461
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Speaker 1: stage and go through the audience and roast every last one.

462
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: I give it to him like I don't care because

463
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Speaker 1: something wrong with everybody? Right, I don't care how good

464
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,920
Speaker 1: you look. I can find something wrong with you. I'll

465
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Speaker 1: make you anxious, right, Okay, you want to boot me?

466
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Speaker 1: I had to. I had to get my son. My

467
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: son came home from college. I was sitting in the

468
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Speaker 1: kitchen every time I passed by, getting ready to go

469
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Speaker 1: to Uh you know the frat me right. You know

470
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Speaker 1: I heard somebody giggling or whatever. I'm wearing something like this.

471
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Speaker 1: I'm just age appropriate, right, exactly. Nothing to win those

472
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: tights with a hoodie. I ain't wearing no chrome hard

473
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Speaker 1: gene that called eight thousand days. Come on, man, I'm

474
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Speaker 1: about to be double nickel. And then you know, you

475
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Speaker 1: know by me being a damn my son, I guess

476
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Speaker 1: got what I do for a living. Yeah, if you

477
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Speaker 1: want a roast, I went in and cleared that kitchen.

478
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: It was spinning kool aid everywhere, like, yeah, you got

479
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: you get on yourself like that. What you're trying to

480
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Speaker 1: roast me in front of your friends from college? Uh? Yeah,

481
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: you know my son on the basketball right in the

482
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Speaker 1: Alabama state right now, okay or whatever, shout out the

483
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Speaker 1: miligu smiling, but you know it's trying to roast, right,

484
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Speaker 1: So I got junker. I do this for a living.

485
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 1: I'm not just your dad, ni yeah right right now,

486
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Speaker 1: I'm a comedian. I'll be dead at the minute's go.

487
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Speaker 1: Was like, get your friends laughing that you of them? Yeah,

488
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Speaker 1: open for the ghettos? How how do you how's there's

489
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Speaker 1: a comedian. I don't know. I've never been to a

490
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Speaker 1: concert where a comedian opened up for people that's gonna

491
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: sing or rap. Well, at that time, Shannon, they started

492
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: doing they was having comedians open up all the shows. Okay,

493
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Speaker 1: because now mind, I had a great show when I

494
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Speaker 1: opened up for Will Downing, King Cohn and Jennifer Holiday. Okay, yeah,

495
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and uh mister Cooper, Michael Cooper. Yeah, I

496
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Speaker 1: opened up for Michael Cooper. Okay. You know, Joe Cribbs

497
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Speaker 1: put me on my first big show, okay, running back

498
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Speaker 1: Ruffalo Bills, Yes, sir, he became a promoter. Okay, put

499
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Speaker 1: me on my first big show. Okay, little running back

500
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Speaker 1: from Auburn. Man. I love him to this day and

501
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: thank thankful for the opportunity. But Joe Cribbs saw talent

502
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Speaker 1: in me and had me open up for Michael Cooper,

503
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Speaker 1: which meant a lot. So so they was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: we can have you open up for the ice Cube

505
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: and the Lynch Bob and the Ghetto Boy. You thought

506
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: that would be a good idea. Who's shark was on

507
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: that show? Oh? Man? I got the pictures, Yeah, I

508
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 1: got boomed. I had a suit, I had a three

509
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: piece suit. I was dressed like the Jackson Southern theres.

510
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: We don't need to talk about this the Will Smith incident,

511
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: but we saw something out here at the Hollywood Bowl

512
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: with Dave Chappelle and somebody ran on stage. Are you

513
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: afraid now you say that if people start bowling, you're

514
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: gonna cut the lights on and you're gonna clear it out. Yeah?

515
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Speaker 1: Are you do you get afraid now of telling a

516
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Speaker 1: joke that might offend someone or you like, I'm ricking,

517
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: this is what I do. I don't you came here

518
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: so you don't get it. If you don't, if you're

519
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 1: not appropriate, Shannon, I don't care. If you sensitive, don't

520
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: come to my show, stay at home. Right, society is

521
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: too sensitive. Now. You can't say nothing. You can't correct.

522
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: You can't if somebody doing something that affects you. You

523
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: can't even correct them when they're what they're doing affect you. Yeah,

524
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, hey, I'm fitted for it is what it is.

525
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say what I need to say, especially if

526
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: it directly affects me. Right, I'm offended. I'm offended that

527
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: you're affecting I'm offended that I have to correct you right,

528
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: how about that? But they get offended that you offended? Right? Right?

529
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: All of this so, uh, culture and all that kind

530
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm gonna do my jokes or whatever I

531
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: talk about everybody, I talk about myself, right or whatever.

532
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're black, white, fat, skinny or whatever.

533
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: Everybody gonna get a little bit right. And most of

534
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: my comedy is relatable and and it's it's done with love.

535
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: It's not mean spirited. That's a difference that comedy is

536
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: not mean spirit So you know when you got Comic

537
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: View and Death Comedy Jam, how did that change your life? Well,

538
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: hosting Coming View changed my life. Your money definitely changed

539
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: for your appearance, Uh Deaf Comedy Jam. Martin Lawrence was

540
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: the host, So I started. I did a joke about

541
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Speaker 1: the queues in the Aka, so I started getting book

542
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: for colleges. Right. So, but when I became the host

543
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: of b ET Coming View, that means you're on TV

544
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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, number one show. That was a highest

545
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Speaker 1: rated season of Comic View on b ET and uh

546
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: and I was also the host in two thousand and four.

547
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: Right then Bat gave me a show the year after that,

548
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Speaker 1: So That was a real staple in my career and

549
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: even now. And that was two thousand. My tickets it's

550
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty three now. My ticket sales has

551
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: been consistent for twenty three years. It actually started out

552
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: in ninety seven with Little Darren. Right, if I did

553
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: a Little Darrel, I've been selling out since ninety seven.

554
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: So you can you still do that joke even though

555
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: you're talking about maybe a special needs I mean, do

556
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: you have to do you have to? Oh? Yeah, I

557
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: do it. They like it, the special needs. Right, Little

558
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: Darren bought out all the special needs uh kids right,

559
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: not necessarily kids, but specially an adults. Yeah, they all

560
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: came to my show and I they would not let

561
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: you leave on stage unless you did. How did you come?

562
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: How did you come up with that? It's true? I

563
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: had we had Uh he went to our church, right

564
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: and uh he would get up there and say, it's

565
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: it's a speech, right Shannon, And uh it was. It

566
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: was one of those situations where you couldn't laugh, right,

567
00:27:54,359 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: and your mama looking at you like yeah, So in

568
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: situations where you're not supposed to be laughing, that's when

569
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: things are extra funny. Correct. So he Little Darrell would

570
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: be out there saying this Easter speech and we would

571
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: be in the cross stand with a straight face, with

572
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: tears coming down, eyes right on the leavel can't laugh

573
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: just like you pledged, right then not laugh while you're online, right,

574
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: So I just simply and and Saturday Entertainer, actually I

575
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: told said the story is said, Saturday Entertainer helped me

576
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: write the joke and do it a certain way. And

577
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Speaker 1: when I did it the way said taught me how

578
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: to do it, it blew up on BT and I

579
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: was My career took off. That was it. It was

580
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: in the seventy nine cutlers driving down Peach Street. He

581
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: had got right in front of that Chick fil a Yeah,

582
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: and said, said I had it was another name, but

583
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: said it said Little Darrel, said, said my name Little Darryl,

584
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: and said started doing it. We didn't hear my colors.

585
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: We didn't setting nine colors driving the uptown coming to club.

586
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm one behind the Houston, yeah, said And I did

587
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: the opening week right, you know it's earthquakes old club. Yeah.

588
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: And he told me how to do it and helped

589
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: me form it and formulate the joke. And when I

590
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: did it on B ANDT. I came out Stay at

591
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: Zoo man Bruce Bruce and comedians like, I'm like, what

592
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: what happened? It was like, man, he said, when this air,

593
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: all the commedians they circled me. I thought, something's wrong, right,

594
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: like man, your life in the change? They said that

595
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: was funny because Mike Epps and Kat Williams was on

596
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: that episode the kind of as well, Wow he was

597
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: he went on this Alley Cat and Mike Epps had

598
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys Jersey. I'll never forget it. The

599
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: audience was dead. It was midnight. It was the last

600
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: show they had been taping all day, and here I

601
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: came doing Little Darrel or whatever, and it blew up.

602
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: Shannon right, U, No, lie when you say when you

603
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,719
Speaker 1: travel and you were doing it like you do now

604
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: and all these comedians, how difficult is it because you

605
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: hear the laughter, you know you back there, you hear

606
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah, and you like, Dan, what do

607
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: you ever think your head? What are you saying? Not

608
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: behind the uh uh? Lavelle Crawford, I'm not I'd been

609
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: damn If I'm going behind him, I don't care. I

610
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: would give a promoter, every dying back, He's not gonna

611
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: hey listen, Now, I can almost follow anybody, right, But

612
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: what I did a show with Lavelle Crawford in DC

613
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: for New Year's I'm glad that I went first. I

614
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: saw him standing in one spot with a suit on

615
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: and a bow tie and totally destroy audience. And I

616
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: just never seen somebody standing one. I'm talking about back

617
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Speaker 1: to me, how do you follow that? Right? But I

618
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: had to follow Danniell Rawlins one time. Yeah, in Atlanta,

619
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Speaker 1: right at the Philips Arena, sold out on the Martin tour.

620
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Speaker 1: He got a standing ovation and guess who's next me?

621
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Speaker 1: So I had to go to my playbook. Yeah, I

622
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: pulled out, had to go deep. I had to go

623
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: deep in the playbook. But thank god I'm on the

624
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: radio because I think they gave me a little left.

625
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: So by the time I came on and say, they're like, yeah,

626
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Speaker 1: this is our guy. We listened to the morning show

627
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Speaker 1: and I was, but they gave me a little cushion

628
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: and so I just I put on a good show

629
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Speaker 1: that night. Also, but that was scary. Give me, give

630
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Speaker 1: me your your mount rushmore of death comedy jam Comedians.

631
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Speaker 1: That's been on death comedy jams, Oh my God, and

632
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Speaker 1: then I want the one the death mount rushmore comic View,

633
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: oh Man, Deaf Comedy Jam. Of course you have to

634
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Speaker 1: start with Martin ham Burger Burger Burger. Uh. You know

635
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Speaker 1: Bill Bellamy came out with Booty Call Ye And of

636
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Speaker 1: course you can't talk about that if you don't say

637
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: Bernie mca ain't scared of you. That was the hottest

638
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: a they'll givens the weal and the ticktock. Ady'll givens

639
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: Bernie mack uh who had a good set like with

640
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Speaker 1: ripped Death Comedy Jam up Hucky Doug Uh what shocking

641
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Speaker 1: Duck was big on b on BT comany. That's when

642
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: Rack rack when he blew up. But all of those

643
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Speaker 1: coming JB Smooth from Death Coming Baby Smooth, Sleep on

644
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: my Couch with Sharyl London, wouldn't coming view or death

645
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Speaker 1: Comedies don't come again? Okay she can she she class

646
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: of ninety four. Right, I did Deaf Jam in ninety three,

647
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: but Saryl Underwood and all of them they came in

648
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: ninety four like a year later. Henry Watch had a

649
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: real good set. Uh. He does shows with Mike Epps.

650
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: One of the funniest comedians in the country. But uh yeah,

651
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: now b et uh b et you got on ja

652
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: Ja killed it on on on Deaf Comedy. Yeah as well.

653
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Speaker 1: H Gary Owen earthquake, earthquake. Wait, that's a dog. That's

654
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, U earthquake? Uh some more, Yeah,

655
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: you know, and all of the guy luster Berry, all

656
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: of the guys that hosted County said was the second

657
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: host d O Hughley was he original host of Beet Comedy. Yeah,

658
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: so you had a lot of talent that uh you

659
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: know to come from from the et comtedy. So yeah,

660
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: those are some of the goats. Do you think there'll

661
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,239
Speaker 1: ever be another comic view or deaf comedy jam? Uh,

662
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. Sh It'll have to die

663
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: down because comedy is so sometimes it feels oversaturated, h

664
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: or whatever. In order for it to be special, it

665
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: have to kind of die down for a minute in

666
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: boom kind of like all the movies and stuff, right

667
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: thinking during the remake, yes or whatever, it would. It

668
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: would be hard because now you got phones, people have

669
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: more options than they had back then. But you know what,

670
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: it's hard or not. Now that you mentioned that, it's

671
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: harder to tell a joke more than once because everything

672
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: is recorded. Yeah, so now you know I'll be used

673
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: to get away. You could do it. Yeah, you just

674
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: added I still do Little Darrel right now and then,

675
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: but I do it different, right, So I mentioned Little

676
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: Darren as a recap, right, and then put a spin

677
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: on it and then do something totally different using the

678
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: same character that they love. You mentioned earlier that you're

679
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: about to do a Netflix special. Is that kind of direction?

680
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: Because Chappelle came back in twenty sixteen. I think he

681
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: signed a deal. Yeah, it was reported. I don't know

682
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: how true it is that Eddie Murphy has signed a

683
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: deal with Netflix. He's gonna do a series on Netflix.

684
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: Earthquake had one which was spot was fired. Yeah if

685
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: that kind oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah. By

686
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: the way, Dean Cole, I gave Dan Cole his first job,

687
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: his first writing job, and Dean Cole we used to

688
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: do colleges together back in the day. It's it's crazy

689
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: because everybody was in this van. I remember Dan Cole

690
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: sitting in the backseat of the van, said in the

691
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: front of the van, and everybody's like famous now, right,

692
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: and it's just so amazing to me. But uh yeah,

693
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: I haven't done it special. I did a BT special

694
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: alive stand up on Beet called Open Casking Sharp, but

695
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: it was like thirteen years ago. So now it's time

696
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: to come back with some new heats, you know, some flavor.

697
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: You know, I still got it cause I kind of

698
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: settled in the radio, but I still perform low key, right,

699
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: So just to kind of put something out that people

700
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: have been asking me to do. Do you write your

701
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: own material? Do you have some writers? I have writers

702
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: for this special to help me punch up the material

703
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: that I have. Uh, David Arnold was helping me before

704
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: he passed away. Chris Chris Spencer is gonna be helping

705
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: me out. Comedian LaVar Walker Special k other guys helping

706
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: me put it together. So I got basic stuff, but

707
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: they're just gonna take the stuff that I have and

708
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: punch it up, punch it up and make it really funny.

709
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: Do you think it's harder or easier now for comedians

710
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: to get on harder? Really? Even with all the avenues

711
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: you got social media, because you see a lot of

712
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: these guys they kind of get their start on social

713
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: Young DC, Young Fly. Yeah. See haha, Davis. And you

714
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: see like Dasy Banks is like flooded. Oh yeah, Well,

715
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: if you get on social media and you do some

716
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: good sketches, yes, some funny sketches or whatever that would

717
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: get you on. But you're doing sketches, right, but you

718
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: have to catch up in the comedy club. Yeah, because

719
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: you can't dottch, you can't do the sketches. You gotta

720
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: learn how to perform, right. So I think, uh, we

721
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: had to learn how to perform first and then catch

722
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: up with social media, right as with day Banks now

723
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: they blew up on social media and they had to

724
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: catch up and get a rhythm on stage as to

725
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: how to perform right. And they're really doing a good job.

726
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: I just did some shows with be Simone, just hilarious. Yeah.

727
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: D Ray who who who? I don't get along with.

728
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: I do a lot of shows. D I don't know

729
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: why the Dray David? Yeah, he bothers me. It why

730
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: he bothers you? Just annoying? He because he got life,

731
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: get he got good yeah, Hazel live stuff. And then

732
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: he always in my dressing room making fun of my

733
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: clothes and my outfit. He'd be like, you know, like

734
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: the last time I we did a show like, man,

735
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: I wear this on the plane, you know. Yeah, yeah,

736
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: I like my outfit that I'm talking down to your

737
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: get up down about my outfit, like dyah. He texts

738
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: me he has harassed me. I blocked him on several numbers.

739
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't know how, and he just but that's that's

740
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: that's you know, there's two people. I don't like him,

741
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: d Ray Davids, both of 'em. Ricky, why did you

742
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: stay in the South? You had, you had an opportunity.

743
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: You did a couple of movies. Weren't talking about peaches,

744
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: the peaches, peaches pages. I knew you were talking the

745
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: one to Grow on the tree. Yeah, no, you ain't

746
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: talking if you know what Seth Bell. But there I

747
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: hear not. They're not as good as you. Like neighborhoods.

748
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: I like neighborhoods whatever. But in Alabama, and man, let

749
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: me tell you about the South. Man, I don't know, man,

750
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: it's just it's different. You can come to LA and

751
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: you can go to New York. Ain't nothing like simplicity, right,

752
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: A quiet like people speaking, tell your people nice, how

753
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: you're doing? Good food? Chef. I'm a hell of a cook.

754
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,720
Speaker 1: Man you know what you want some chicken and dumplings.

755
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: You told me that you want some time I see you, know,

756
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: I follow you every time. I see you, always cooking something. Always.

757
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: You ain't got that many people in your eyes to

758
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: be cooking like that. You cook like you got family

759
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 1: reunions I have. I have four kids, and then I

760
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: raised a lot of nieces in this I know. Yeah.

761
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: I had a house fool my chicken and dumplings, my green,

762
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: my sauteed greens. I had a cooking show on Fox,

763
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: on Fox Soul. I had a cooking show. Absolutely, shan

764
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: I get down in it. Okay, what what's what's your

765
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: what's the chicken? Chicken and dumblings? Everybody liked the chicken

766
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: and your grandma made him right. Yeah, I know it.

767
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: So you like chicken and dumb Yeah, next time you

768
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: come to the South, I'll meet you in Atlanta, Okay,

769
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: and I'll bring you a pot of chicken and dumblings.

770
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 1: People go, they square bine. I put celery and carrots

771
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: in there. Well that's chicken dumble. I hope you put

772
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: that in the rig. Yeah, absolutely, okay, I make the

773
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: best chicken and dumblings. Okay, what else I have a

774
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: good fried chicken recipe, my collar greens. I do a

775
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: great thing. I make a good corn bread dressing, not

776
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: stuffing dressing, right, I make good dressing, good turkey wings,

777
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 1: anything anything southern I have. I take a cooking class. Okay,

778
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: so I can do gumbo. I can do shrimp at

779
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: the face. I also can cook Italian. I make my

780
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: own tomato sauce from scratch. I will boiled tomatoes a

781
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: big pot of tomatoes for three hours, make a sauce pans,

782
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: put a sauce pan with my butter, my wine, my seasonally.

783
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: I have a food processor and put it off, and

784
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: I draw all of my stuff up. So when I

785
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: make Lazegna spaghetti, I made my own song from scratch. Shunning, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't,

786
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: don't come on here and try to No. No, I'm

787
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: just sasition your questions. No, no, no, no, I didn't

788
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: know I have doubt in your mind. Shutting. I'm sorry

789
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: for the surprise of my voice. Okay, Shannon, you act

790
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: like what you're not married. I was what happened twelve

791
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: years career took off, and uh, you ain't gonna brab me.

792
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: You when you would nobody when you were driving that

793
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: seventy nine colors, she was righting that with you when

794
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: you read it. When you was the problem, she wouldn't

795
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: help me dry. That's that's one of the things that

796
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: actually stick out of my mind. Hey baby, can you

797
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: get the wheel for an hour? I got to perform

798
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: and and oh man, that was before they started doing this,

799
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: before they started grabbing there. Yeah. Man, it's just hard

800
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: to have a relationship, man, you all over the place.

801
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: I just from me, Shannon and Jesus Christ himself. Gonna

802
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: have to walk her up on the porter, said Ricky.

803
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: She is now Jay. I dated Juicy for a little while.

804
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: That didn't work out. Juicy just from the morning from

805
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: the Little Women at Lanta. No you didn't. Yeah, just

806
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,919
Speaker 1: for a hot knit it didn't. We went to Appa

807
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: Bees and that was that was that was. That was

808
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,959
Speaker 1: a short relationship. Was that didn't left. I ain't gonna

809
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: do I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. You're saying,

810
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: you say, nope, nope, no, no. We went question I

811
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: first date the Apper Bees and the lady bought a

812
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: coloring book and crayons over there. It did what happened

813
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: but as a grown woman, man, you capable, and they

814
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: didn't know that. They didn't know you should have. I

815
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: tried to explain that the lady started crying because she

816
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: felt like she offended her. She did, yes, she did.

817
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: But then everybody standing in the APPA bes wonder when

818
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: I was putting in the baby car seat, take her

819
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: back home, then you go with your food. But I

820
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: heard you said. I don't know if it's true. It

821
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: was reported that you said, I don't want to be

822
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,479
Speaker 1: as big as Kevin Hart because, yeah, I like my life.

823
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: I like the simplicity of my life. Now I'm I'm

824
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: happy for Kevin Hard, Chris rock Nation. I just couldn't imagine. Yeah,

825
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: the pressure, the pressure to deliver right in the work schedule,

826
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: the workload. I mean, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta

827
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: a crazy schedule. Kevin Hart is in every commercial, every movie,

828
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: on the radio. Yeah, he gotta he got his uh,

829
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: he got his his podcast, Yeah, cold his balls, he's

830
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: doing this thing, uh something, but la husband everything. Yeah, yeah,

831
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: shutting shutting up for me. Man, you know, I'm fifty four.

832
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: I was on the road every weekend for years. I've

833
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: been performing for thirty three years. Right, I feel like

834
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: I don't have anything else to prove. I want to

835
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: do it if I enjoy doing it. I just don't

836
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: want the pressure. I just want to sit back in

837
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: the show. I want to go to a football game.

838
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: I want to go, you know, go to an Alabama State,

839
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: Alabama A and the Magic City Classic. You know, go

840
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: watch Alabama and Auburn. Do you travel with security? Nah?

841
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: But thank God for the COVID masks, because boy it works.

842
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: I can get in and up and I got the

843
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: one with the fisherman. Weare around the next Yeah, I

844
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: pull it all the way up the right here and

845
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: have my hat pulled down. I can go anywhere. You

846
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: got that from Friday next Friday, Friday after next. All

847
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: I needed to set across added on the white wood. Yeah.

848
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: But uh, that actually worked. Man. That that has allowed

849
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: me unbelievable freedom to go anywhere, anywhere and not be

850
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: not be noticed. That's on days if I don't want to, right,

851
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: if I'm just trying to have some products, right or whatever.

852
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: But man, I enjoy a fishing man. I know she

853
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: told me I would sitting on the beach. I get

854
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: off the air at eight thirty in the morning, if

855
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: I do the morning shop from for a lad of

856
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: Dale and we'll sit on the beach all day for

857
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 1: a week, every single day drive over the Beminy you know, uh,

858
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: because I'm a I'm a boat captain, right, and I

859
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: drive over to the Muhammas across the ocean. I went

860
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: through storms. I'm talking about where you getting like four

861
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: to five foot way he's coming at your boat and

862
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: just having to the state of course and make it

863
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: to an island or try to make it back to

864
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: the United States or whatever. Man, i'd be out there

865
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: doing some adventures stuff. I've been taking flying lessons so

866
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: I can fly boat captain. Just just I'm just having

867
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: some nice relaxing experiences. Well you always disadventurous, and well

868
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: you disadventurous as a child, or did you just become

869
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: this way when I when I became an adult, I

870
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: started getting no, we started getting money stuff you got

871
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: to call money to have a boat. Well, well, even

872
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: as a child, man, I played nine different instruments. I

873
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: played the bass, guitar, I played a drum, I played

874
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: the trumpet, the baritone in the Frenchman of the two book,

875
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: the piano and the organ. And I read music so

876
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm a musician. Wow, so I could sit at the piano.

877
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: I was a numbers of music at a church for years.

878
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: I played basketball. Didn't make the basketball team, but a

879
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: damn sure made the football team. You see, I did

880
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: sit down football. Why we gotta come back while we

881
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: gotta played? Doing so good? The interview with you ask anybody,

882
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: ask anybody in him I played football or Shannon. The

883
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: interview was going so well. It was Floyd beautiful. It's

884
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: still I love the way we were transitioning, getting in

885
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: and out of topic. We're in a sports building. Go

886
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: get a football right now, Go round a dead route

887
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: and watch when you turn around, it's in your chest.

888
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: Go round a post corner, run a post, hit that corner,

889
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: turn around. I promise you it will be right there. Ricky,

890
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: you fifty four, you don't mind throw a football to

891
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: thirty years. I'm a son that played college ball. Not you.

892
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: You don't play collegeball. He does, You don't throw the football?

893
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: I do. I do, Shannon, I still Shannon when I'm backstage.

894
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: Before I go on stage before him, guess one of

895
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: my rituals warming up with a football. Mike Epps said,

896
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: I get you ready to go on the stage, Mike

897
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: it because it's just get me loose. Mike ELPs DC

898
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: Young Flying. We had to pick up flag football game

899
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: backstage before a show in Houston. Mike Ether was like, damn,

900
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: ain't know you could throw like this and know you

901
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: had an arm like this. I have an arm. Don't

902
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 1: get a football, but stop talking about it. We ain't

903
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: got no footballs here. Yes, your dude, we're in the

904
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: spot all all these shows, y'all ever in the Fox build.

905
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: You have Fox Studio football downstairs, and you are at

906
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: the RAMS facility. We don't have football here. We have

907
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: the cameras, we have microphones. Do get a college football.

908
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: I'll show you can't throw the NFL ball, but I

909
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: can throw the college football. You stole the show in

910
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: Friday after then Friday after next? Yeah, how was that expelled?

911
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: Why we go through this? Man? Brothers? I believe we

912
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: were related, But go ahead. You're originally supposed to play

913
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: Kat Williams character. Yes, and Kat Williams supposed to play

914
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: Mike character, and somebody said no, we want you to

915
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: play mikelau right, and then yeah, because Kat william was

916
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: gonna be the Santa Claus, right, and then uh, and

917
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: they switched it over, right, because I when I auditioned,

918
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: I auditioned for Mighty Mike. Right. You know what when

919
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: I went in there to audition, I'm at the toilet

920
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: when when Kat Williams to use the bath room, that

921
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: was that was That's the line I had to use

922
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: the audition. So they switched it up. So I'm like, yeah,

923
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: I could do this Santa Claus role Friday. Uh you know,

924
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: but I didn't know that because I did my role

925
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: like in four days, right, they shot all my stuff

926
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: in four days. I went back to Birmingham came back

927
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: out because they changed the ending. Did you know that? No?

928
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: I didn't know, you know, the ending, but they got

929
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: the fighting or whatever. The ending was me giving out

930
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: Santa Claus giving out presents to his kids. So the

931
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: test audists didn't like the way it ended, so they

932
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: changed the ending, so I had to come back. The

933
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: scariest thing was laying down in front of that limousine

934
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: and you better hope and pray that he got it

935
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: on dry and not reversed, because that was real. But

936
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: I had to really lay there while that limousine peeled off.

937
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: So they they allowed me to get up about three

938
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: or four times to go and look at it to

939
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: make sure. I said, go up, I put in reverse.

940
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: I said, put it in dry. I put it in

941
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: verta time. I got comfortable, I said, okay, let's go

942
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: and say, hey, we're gonna do this one time. One time.

943
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: So they actually did it twice and that was scary.

944
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 1: And the part where the Santa Claus got with the

945
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: clothes line right when we were laying on the ground.

946
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: We was in a real backyard somewhere south of La Shannon.

947
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: Why was maggots in the dirt when was somebody's backyard

948
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: for real? The dirt was infested with maggots, like real talk.

949
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: I had to lay down there, right. So that was

950
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: a stunt man that did the clothes line the fall,

951
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: but I had to pick up where he was already down.

952
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: And I'm laying down and I'm looking and I see

953
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: maggots in the dirt. True story, it was disgusting. Did

954
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: you know you had hit it out the part when

955
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: you did this role? I had no idea, never seen

956
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: the movie, never read the whole script. Friday after next

957
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: come out, I get my kids. Where we going? We're

958
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: going into the movies we're going to see Friday after next.

959
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: I have a small role in the movie the movie

960
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,439
Speaker 1: Come On, and it starts out with me right first

961
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: of all, to see some more name on the screen

962
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: done DC Curry and then Ricky smiling, and people in

963
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: the theater store clapped because we're in Birmingham, but they

964
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: didn't know I was in the theater right. And the

965
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: movie go on. Santa Claus get hit by the car

966
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: and my kids started crying. I had to take them

967
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: out side tell him that I was okay, right, and

968
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: and then everybody realized I was in the theater showing

969
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: right and start clapping. Everybody was proud. That was the

970
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: first big movie. Then I end up doing uh first

971
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: Sunday yep H with David E. Talbert and I actually

972
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: was in the movie with Ice cuping Mike else all

973
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: about the Benjamin. They cut the card out because they

974
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: rewrote it right. But I was snitch Mitch in that

975
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: movie when you did you? Did you freestyle any lines

976
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: because you like Cube saying I have you in this

977
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 1: movie because I just want Ricky smiling. I want you

978
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: to be you. But here's the base, here's what you

979
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: need to say. Here's what's happening. You're robbing them, right,

980
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: he said, don't talk over each other. Everybody just stopped

981
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: talking over each other, like, and once we got it together,

982
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: we shot it a couple of times, running down the

983
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: alley all that stuff or whatever, so it was it

984
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: was easy. What made you hit the don cause you

985
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: hit the d man. I was a fan of that. Oh,

986
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: I was a fan. I've been doing that since, even

987
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: doing it right, you know what I'm saying, Like, like

988
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: the guys do the grit like I go on stage

989
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: right now, I do the gritty right I come on stage, man,

990
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: I'll be killing that gritty like like when I'm like,

991
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: I thought, you say you appropriate. My son is a

992
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: college athlete. I can do the gritty. I can do

993
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: the gritty. I'm not gonna do the prep. I'm not

994
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: gonna be washing machine. I can do the duggy. I

995
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: would kill the duggy right now. I had no rick.

996
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: But you that's saying appropriate, Shun. You still got to

997
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: be be relatable in help. I'm I'm fifty four, but

998
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: fifty four it's not old you until you beginning to

999
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: have my shirt tuned to my pants have an adult

1000
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: diaper home na, I don't care about the adult diving,

1001
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: but you should have one jeans and hard about Stacy Adams. No, sir,

1002
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: come up, you know what? Okay, First of all, I

1003
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: changed clothing in your dressing room. You did. I just

1004
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: see one pair of Stacy Adams in your dressing room. Nah?

1005
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: You so I saw your shoes. Yeah, so don't play

1006
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 1: with me. Say keep it moving. You see y'all see

1007
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: money over here? Trying to do I keep people out

1008
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 1: of my dress. He got shut. I saw your shoes. Okay, okay,

1009
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave it at that. I mean it was

1010
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: one pair of ninety clouds of joy. Their shoes in there,

1011
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,319
Speaker 1: those square toe gamers. No, none of that stuff. All

1012
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 1: of those shoes was full gossip. Yeah, okay, yeah, the

1013
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: residual checks. Do you do you want to do any

1014
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 1: more movies? Would you like to do any more movies?

1015
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,439
Speaker 1: Or you like I'm done? I didn't have my share.

1016
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's a situation where I could get

1017
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: in and out, like like when I was in baggage plane, right,

1018
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: I threw the la and shot that and one day

1019
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: and got on the plane and left, and the way

1020
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: David E. Talbot and land Talbert was some of the

1021
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: best producers in the in the in La they spread

1022
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: it out through the whole movie. Right, So I like

1023
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: to like situation where I can get in, shoot, do

1024
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: what I have to do. But but sitting in a

1025
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: trailer all day every day. It don't mix with a

1026
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: D H D. Right, because I had it right though.

1027
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, you Bean, You know how

1028
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: you'd be talking to somebody talking to you too long?

1029
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: Your brain, your brain go to commercial. Yeah, you talking

1030
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: to liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty, got you, you know, yeah,

1031
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: talking to me over two minute like e moo e

1032
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: moo and Doug, I'm looking at you. In First Sunday,

1033
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: Ice c Tracy Morgan can't Waga Hall, the Redder, Divine,

1034
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 1: Red Grand I went, I played football, Red Red Grand

1035
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: was on the team of State. Yeah yeah, shout out

1036
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: of the Red Grand, Red Grand Happy belated Founders Day.

1037
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: You know Red Grand and Capel Yeah he capit Yeah, yeah,

1038
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Red Grand is running from may in Dyeah.

1039
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: That's one of the good yes bag you claiming with

1040
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: Paula Patton, Laura Lunn and Jail Scott Christy and A Milliard.

1041
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: I mean boys, kJ chens J. I mean, bro, I

1042
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: mean you don't want to play football. This man here.

1043
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,879
Speaker 1: We just won't give it up her because you won't

1044
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: let it. I want you to respect the fact. See,

1045
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: you just respect the fact that I can throw a football.

1046
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: Still I stopped talking. Okay, well you know what you boy?

1047
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: You okay, okay, okay. You know when you you interview

1048
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: Dan y'all went on the football I gotta workout video

1049
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: with Kevin Ridley when he was playing that Bama. I

1050
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,439
Speaker 1: went to the side plays like, yeah, you're kidding. I said, okay,

1051
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 1: do a five and out. He's turning around that balls

1052
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: like that. I got the video on my Instagram. I

1053
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: show it to you. You No, I'm good. You know

1054
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: I was a comedian you know before I played football. Yea,

1055
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: I did stand up where the same place you played football.

1056
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: In my mind, hold on, I'm gonna send you to

1057
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: pay I got your I'm gonna send you the picture. Okay,

1058
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you you do all about the Benjamins.

1059
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: He was like, you guys are people over there laughing

1060
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: your staff people, people, people Hollywood over there laughing by people,

1061
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: and you're boy from St. Louis over here, your people, man,

1062
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: they go ahead, shan. So when they told you that,

1063
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: but you guy, you already got paid. I mean obviously

1064
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: you wanted to be in there, but they had them

1065
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: cut the checks. So you straight when they cut you

1066
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: out of all of my the benjaments, Oh yeah, yeah,

1067
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: that was a good opportunity to be with icequ Yeah.

1068
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: It wasn't nothing personal right against me. They rewrote, so

1069
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: my part didn't make sense. But Q was like, rick,

1070
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: I got something else for you. And then I end

1071
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 1: up doing uh first Sunday. But you know what I'm saying.

1072
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: I had a sitcom too on TV one with Ray Jr.

1073
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: So I had that show, and then I had a

1074
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: reality show that was six seasons I called Ricky Smiling

1075
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: for Real with my Morning showing my kids. So I

1076
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: had a lot of a lot of stuff. I still

1077
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: don't understand how you find all the time to do

1078
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: all this shout up. I just do I do. I

1079
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: consolidate and compartmentalize. Okay, that's so important. I get the

1080
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: compartmentalization of it, yes, but but but I just kind

1081
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 1: of do everything like January February marks, right, those are

1082
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,720
Speaker 1: your those are your busy months. I will grind okay,

1083
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: none stop okay, But a lot of people don't understand.

1084
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: When I get off the air man, I'll take a

1085
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: three hour nap. Right, I'll go back home and get

1086
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: in the bed, let the blinds down, get under the

1087
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: cover and go to sleep. Right, turn the phone off.

1088
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: I don't do this cell phone, my cell phone never,

1089
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: and my ring will stay off twenty four seven. Right,

1090
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: I got my phone set, so my mama call, or

1091
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: my son in college call whatever, it'll ring or whatever.

1092
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: But let's just be cash up with them college. I

1093
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: have a daughter at bell or a son at Alabamas.

1094
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: I got two scenes. I got two born in college.

1095
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: But I have the discipline to say no, right. I

1096
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: have a discipline to create space for myself, to give

1097
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: me time to think. And sometime I wake up, I

1098
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: go through my text messages and respond from important to

1099
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: less important, from how you during the day, just checking

1100
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: on you, to hey I need an answer right now

1101
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: this that and we need to make a decision. That's

1102
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: how I do. I'd be going through by texts are

1103
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: like kay, hey, yeah, yeah, man, you know exactly all

1104
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: that all that like, no, I ain't been no text,

1105
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: No I can't I just yeah, it'd be too much. Bro.

1106
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:24,800
Speaker 1: Yeah you like group chat? No I don't either. No, No,

1107
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 1: it's too because see, now you're getting all this spense,

1108
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: especially when yeah, brom that you don't know. Yeah, I'm

1109
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: talking to you. I ain't trying to get everybody in

1110
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: all these people in the all people do the people

1111
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: in their sixties the group group text. Only people in

1112
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: their sixties and seventies do stuff like that. What do

1113
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: you like more? Radio? Stand up movies, reality TV? Sitcom?

1114
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: Because you've been in all, You've been in them all. Well,

1115
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: you know I do like reality TV because you like drama. Nah,

1116
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: I didn't you see I didn't need the feel it

1117
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: on my show. I didn't see the sitcom because I

1118
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: was about to ask you, are you like Housewives of Atlanta? Uh?

1119
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Shannon, You're gonna cringe. My favorite

1120
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: TV show that I watched all day. Yeah, first forty eight,

1121
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: I like the first forty and two. I can't snippy

1122
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 1: snitch Y'll be dry snitching like mug. It be well

1123
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: chieved Burger. They'd be telling him everything. In churches that

1124
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: it'd be that damn that damn hunted biscuit churches that.

1125
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: You know, I had had churches chicken since eighty since

1126
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,839
Speaker 1: eighty two. Yeah, I don't think I've had church of Chicken.

1127
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm gonna your chicken out, I'm probably

1128
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: gonna be Krispy Chicken. I like Chrispy Chicken. Christma Chicken

1129
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: is good. I like the papers have been public. You

1130
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: want public chicken down and chicken that they fight sh

1131
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: and the cakes and they and they desserts and they

1132
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: they bakery, yeah, off the chain. But they got chris

1133
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: Chicken la. Anybody know they got Chrispy Chick out. But

1134
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: when my granddad's sister, my grandfather's sister died, yea, they

1135
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: had a church's chicken head just can't was banging in

1136
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: the eighties, and uh it was that repath yeah, and

1137
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: the lady was like, do you want this piece or

1138
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: that piece? I said that piece. Back then they wasn't

1139
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: wearing rubber gloves. Yeah. And later had a fringdom missing,

1140
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: and the old lady had a little dark spot right

1141
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: there and she grabbed a chicken like that and she

1142
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 1: put it on my plate and it's and it's all

1143
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: I saw you done with you you done with church

1144
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: and sleep that night but I didn't eat that chicken,

1145
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: and I hadn't had a sense because every time I

1146
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: see churches chicken, it's all I see coming back. You

1147
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: roll for this man, You're roll of all the impressions

1148
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: that you've done. What is your favorite one? Uh? I

1149
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: have this character little Dad Joe Willie. Joe was my

1150
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: favorite Joe Willie, Joe Willie in the Du the Roumannaires.

1151
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: So this is poking fun at the gospel group, the

1152
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: male male course, like when you and I grew up. Yeah,

1153
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: I host a male chorus convention in Augusta, Georgia, every

1154
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: year every ye at the Bell Auditorium. And Joe Willie

1155
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: and the Du the Romans. Joe Willard is a big

1156
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: guy that is real physical. Yeah, but I but all

1157
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: the other singers are real all men, right, they're in

1158
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: their seventies and eighties in real in real lifefe. Okay,

1159
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: but I can sing a little bit, but they sing

1160
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: in background and it actually sound good. Right. But Joe

1161
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: Willie kind of like in a big suit, kind of

1162
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: got got gray hair, got the kind of like professor

1163
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: clump a little bit. Okay, but he's moving, he moving,

1164
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: he jumping, he's spinning, he doing all this stuff. But

1165
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: Joe Willie is my favorite character. That's the one I

1166
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: have the most fun with. Right. You you mentioned that

1167
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: you could you play like seven instruments. You can play

1168
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: the piano. You mentioned that you played the piano, You

1169
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: played the organ in the church. You play a lot

1170
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: of different instruments. Yeah. Have you ever thought about did

1171
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: you ever think about doing anything in music? Yeah? My

1172
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 1: goal was shunning the be a musician. But I would

1173
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: do a comedy show at choir rehearsal. I would get

1174
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars to play at a small church right

1175
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: in Birmingham and end up doing doing imperson nations of

1176
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: the pastor or somebody in the church or whatever in

1177
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: a comedian name. Uh, Chuckie Jenkins took me over to

1178
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: the comedy club one night to watch him right, and

1179
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: I was like, I can I think I can do

1180
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: that cause I'm funny. Right, everybody said all was funny,

1181
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: And I went back a couple of months later and

1182
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: then open mic night, right, and then I end up

1183
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: opening up for George Wallace. Okay, so that was the

1184
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: first person I opened up for, right, and then UH

1185
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: just kind of just kind of went from there. But

1186
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 1: but yeah, I wanted to be a gospel musician, classical pianists.

1187
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: I enjoyed playing the instrument. I've been taking lessons since

1188
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 1: the third grade, and I learned how to play by

1189
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: ear when I got to Alabama State because I was

1190
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: minoring in music, right or whatever, so I had took

1191
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: all these applied piano classes, applied trumpet class or whatever.

1192
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: So I was. I was really into me and I

1193
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: still am. You know, I'm a big soft rock fan,

1194
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: so Stilly Dan, the Eagles, Fleetwood Man. I go to

1195
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: every Elton John concert. Sometimes I take off to go

1196
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: see Elton John, right or whatever. But but I am

1197
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: a big Frankie Beverly and Maids, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder

1198
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: or whatever. I love music. Were you funny as a kid?

1199
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: I mean, cause a lot of people getting getting the comedy,

1200
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: you know, so kids don't make fun of them me.

1201
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: I talked with a list, So me, I make jokes,

1202
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: I have get somebody, I make jokes about somebody else

1203
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: who the kids start laughing at them, leave me alone.

1204
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: So were you naturally funny as a kid? I was

1205
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: a laugher. Okay, yeah, I was a laugher, But I

1206
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: started learning how to be funny, so I would watch

1207
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: the ones that was actually funny, right, and they still

1208
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: funny to this day because we all still hang together.

1209
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: I got folks, I hang with that we go back

1210
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: to elementary school. Okay, So I'm trying, you know, it

1211
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out how can I put this

1212
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: on stage? Because I'm doing plays in piano, so so

1213
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: being on stage was nothing for me, right, So let

1214
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: me figure out how to be funny on stage? Right? Yeah,

1215
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: when all these prank calls, did you ever get in

1216
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: trouble for doing making me prank calls? Well? Back then,

1217
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:00,560
Speaker 1: before caller ID, we usually have the phone book, right,

1218
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: you know, you spend it out of your cousin house,

1219
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: had a phone book open. I got in trouble one time.

1220
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: I called my neighbor and taught him and his dad.

1221
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: They had won some some tickets to see the Commodoors,

1222
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: but they have to be at the radio station thirty minutes.

1223
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: And when the summer on the front porch and Washington

1224
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: run out of the house, hill out of the driveway.

1225
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: But they came back real slope. They came back real slope. Man,

1226
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: did they ever know it? Did they know what you did.

1227
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 1: They do now they now they know now, But back

1228
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't say nothing because I ain't want to

1229
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: get a whipping. Well why do you think, why why

1230
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: do you think you're so relatable, especially the black woman

1231
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: Bernie's Jenkins, that voice. Why is it so relatable to

1232
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: the black community. Uh cause everybody have a Bernie's Jenkin,

1233
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: a Miss Janey or whatever. Everybody knows somebody, right, So

1234
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: when you do church annwncing. We grew up in the church.

1235
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: You know you had the lady to go up there

1236
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: and do the church. Now you read it, man come right,

1237
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: so to take the church anoun and just make him

1238
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: funny or whatever. And uh, you know, you're just talking

1239
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: about what people know about and we tried to read

1240
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: probably be getting every last all of them. Govern yourself,

1241
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: what according to you? Look at Tyler Perry and what

1242
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: he's been able to do in Atlanta. Did you look

1243
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: at how he got started doing media as a play Hollywood?

1244
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: Now we good puts his own money up, becomes a billionaire,

1245
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: build this big studio, state of the art rival anything

1246
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: to have out here in Hollywood. Yeah, he did. And uh,

1247
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: I just saw the the overview of his home that

1248
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: he built, not in Douglas. Yeah. Yeah, you think Queen

1249
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: Elizabeth got something. He got something, he got something. Yeah,

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01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: how do you know, Tyler? How surprised are you that

1251
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: he was able to do that in such a short

1252
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: amount of time, because it's not like Tyler's not that.

1253
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: I mean, we're probably about the same major maybe give

1254
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: U take a year or two. He might be. He

1255
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: actually younger than ugh Y. I met Tyler Perry in

1256
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 1: baggage claim at LaGuardia Airport. That had to be many

1257
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: many years ago because he didn't know nothing about nobody

1258
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 1: or claim. It was some years ago. Tyler Perry and

1259
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: I and Earthquake, Yea and Niss Nash. We was we

1260
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: had a pilot on Fox called The Kings of Comedy.

1261
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: It was a sketch show like Saturday Night Line. And uh,

1262
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, uh he recognized me from Comic View.

1263
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: He said, he I'll just say I'm Tyler Perry. He said,

1264
01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: I do plays. I said, nice to meet you, and uh,

1265
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 1: he said, how are you getting to the hotel or whatever.

1266
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: I said, I'm just gonna catch He said, you can

1267
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: ride with me. So he had a car, right, So

1268
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:40,959
Speaker 1: I jumped in the car. It was just Tyler Perry

1269
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: and I. We were just talking. So he telling me

1270
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: about this charty. He said, man, you'd be doing Bernie jinging,

1271
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 1: but I do this character named Medea. So Tyler Perry

1272
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: was telling me all of this stuff. And there is

1273
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: a sketch that wants to Latham has with Tyler Perry

1274
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: doing Mdea and I'm doing Bernie's Jenkin with Niss Nash

1275
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: called the You. It's supposed to be making fun of

1276
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: the view. Right. We did a sketch called the Pew

1277
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: and it didn't get picked up. They picked this show

1278
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: that said did said entertainer did or whatever, but it

1279
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: didn't get green lit. But we shot the pilot. We

1280
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: stayed in New York City for a couple of months,

1281
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: right to dinner every night, right, and I knew he

1282
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,400
Speaker 1: was gonna be big or whatever because he was talking business.

1283
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: I wasn't business savvy back then, but sitting in that

1284
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: car with him, uh, Tyler Perry and Nis Nash, earthquake myself.

1285
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: We went to dinner every night or whatever, but he

1286
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:34,439
Speaker 1: was staying over in that the only thing that caught

1287
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: my eye. I knew he had money. He had money then,

1288
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: because we're standing in this this fancy hotel across from

1289
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: uh Central Park or whatever. You know that rif Caughton. No,

1290
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: it's something else, but it's real or whatever. It's real expensive.

1291
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: But I recently stayed there. I left because it's decorated

1292
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: like a funeral and and uh, I mean it's set

1293
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: up like like when you make funeral rights, like they

1294
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 1: have a bituary. Right. I couldn't stay. I had to

1295
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 1: go to something modern, right when. I made a whole

1296
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: video on Instagram about that. But I knew he was

1297
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 1: gonna make it. And I am so proud of him.

1298
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: He has given so many people jobs and opportunities and stuff. Man,

1299
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: I absolutely, I'm I am a huge fan. People like

1300
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 1: well the Munday, I'm like, listen man, then Chris Fatim

1301
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 1: coming man, A man shouldn't be wearing no dress man,

1302
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: Listen he did he listen? Okay? Nobody well beat I

1303
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: wear bikini with being all I will right? Ain't nobody

1304
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: said nothing nothing? When when Jamie Foxx do, wonder when

1305
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: Mark Lawrence do or whatever? Man people have the name?

1306
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: When people have taken all that? Rob Williams started out

1307
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: with missed out fire right, right before that Flip Wilson,

1308
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: Flip Wisson dead, Geraldine come on now and then Benny Hill.

1309
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 1: Yeah you know so man, people do something that you

1310
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: do it for the comedy, right. People have over sexualized

1311
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: and I want too much sometimes yeah, yeah they're reading

1312
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: in the stuff and yeah or whatever, man, but the

1313
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 1: stuff if it made people laugh. Our job as comedians,

1314
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 1: right is to make people laugh. And then now people

1315
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 1: want me to do the character now, I don't want

1316
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: to do it right because you get criticized, right, right

1317
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know what I'm saying, because I know

1318
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: who I am, right, you know, as a person. Yep.

1319
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: And I liked Tyler because there no matter what my deal,

1320
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:20,720
Speaker 1: what you think, there's a message and everything that she's

1321
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: and it's funny. It is period, point blank. You and

1322
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: I both waived. My grandmother raised me. And you talk

1323
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: about your grandmother and the influence that she had in

1324
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: your life. Oh yeah, skill that yeah, man, Shannon. My

1325
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: grandmother's lived across the street from each other. That's how

1326
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: my mom and dad met. Okay. My mom and dad

1327
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 1: were musicians. They both played snare drunk okay, and they

1328
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 1: graduated high school and had me a year later. Okay.

1329
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: And I had my grandparents and my mom's mom and

1330
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,720
Speaker 1: my dad's mom and dad or whatever they was wanted

1331
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: from my life. And I had grandparents on Shannon, I

1332
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: have touched every last month of my great grandparents. I

1333
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 1: met my grandmamma, mom and dad, at I met my

1334
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 1: granddad mom and dad. I met my other grandmama dad,

1335
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 1: and I met my other uh my granddad's mom. Most

1336
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: of my great grandparents. I have touched and had relationship

1337
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: with my grandmother. My great grandmother was a hundred and

1338
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 1: six years old when she died or whatever. And I

1339
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 1: had ever last one of my uh my grandparents, and uh,

1340
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: they've been a blessing to my life. My grandfather, my

1341
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,080
Speaker 1: dad died. My dad got killed when I was about

1342
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:31,919
Speaker 1: six seven years old. You can't make for Vietnam, right, yeah?

1343
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: And I mean if we think about that, you go

1344
01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: to Vietnam and you survived that only to come back

1345
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: here right and lose your life, lose your life? How

1346
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 1: much of that do you remember? Then I can tell you.

1347
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: I can tell you more about my dad's funeral at

1348
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: at seven years old, and I can tell you about

1349
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: about my grandparents funeral who just recently my granddad who

1350
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 1: just died three years ago. I can tell you where

1351
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: everybody sat, where everybody had on. Uh. I think that

1352
01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: was seventy three or seventy four April v eleventh, when

1353
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 1: my dad died. I'll never forget it. You know, that

1354
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 1: was that was something that It's probably one of the

1355
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: only things that made me cry to this day as

1356
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: a fifty four year old man, because when I think

1357
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 1: about watching my grandparents sit over here on this front row,

1358
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 1: crime like they crying that they that tear me up

1359
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: to this date and to this day or whatever. Uh.

1360
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 1: My grandparents had a chance to see me on beet.

1361
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:33,759
Speaker 1: They had a chance to see me do some movie

1362
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 1: and TV stuff. They saw me on death jam. I

1363
01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: made him proud. They get They gave me everything with nothing,

1364
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. My granddad worked at still Plant,

1365
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: my grandma worked at the airport or whatever. They taught

1366
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:48,919
Speaker 1: the class. They taught me table manners, good home training, respect,

1367
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:52,280
Speaker 1: good morning, good evening, Yes ma'am, no ma'am, Which ain't

1368
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with this generation. Try to say that yes

1369
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:57,639
Speaker 1: ma'am and no ma'am. It sounds slavish, and that's a problem.

1370
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: It's respect or whatever. And I just appreciate everything that

1371
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 1: they taught me because now that the discipline now that

1372
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: I use with my granddad. Well, I'm not gonna wake

1373
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 1: you up for school. No, No, we don't use alarm

1374
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 1: clocks in this house because if you go to bed

1375
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: with your job on your mind, you're gonna wake up.

1376
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: So take your ass to bed early and then you

1377
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: you won't miss the bus. Right, And now I don't

1378
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: use an alarm clock to get up and do radio,

1379
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 1: which the show starts at five. That mean you have

1380
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: to be up at three thirty. And we'll go to

1381
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,920
Speaker 1: bed right six thirty, seven thirty. I'm in the bed,

1382
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: lights off, TV, off, sleep at six thirties, you know,

1383
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:32,839
Speaker 1: start getting dark in the fall. Yeah, yeah, I understand

1384
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 1: it shouldn't I be just like this. You put your

1385
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: hands together. You put your hand right there and crush

1386
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 1: Shannon Shannon at six thirty. I don't care about if

1387
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: I got a company or whatever. Somebody's somebody rolled through.

1388
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:54,599
Speaker 1: It's gonna be early, like even gonna be early. Okay,

1389
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: you go go to bed to night this early? You

1390
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: were shot? Oh yeah, uh what transpired? Oh my beeper

1391
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 1: went off? Okay, okay, this this this ninety five, My

1392
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,639
Speaker 1: beeper went off. So I stopped at the pay phone

1393
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: because somebody hit uh. I think, what is it? Four

1394
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 1: one one with nine one one nine one when l

1395
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:19,360
Speaker 1: O V E? When you turn it upside down or whatever.

1396
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: So I go to the payphone. No, four one one

1397
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: one something like that. Whatever that's how you text back.

1398
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: Then Yeah, well I thought the nine one one't been

1399
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: of the emergency. That's why you would pull over and

1400
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 1: call no. But I think if you text shale or

1401
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: something like that means like like love or something whatever,

1402
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 1: certain certain numbers, they'll put it in. If you're turning

1403
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: the beeper upside down, it'll read something else. Okay. So

1404
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: I went to the pay phone, and so they was

1405
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: robbing this other guy my friends Journey that was at

1406
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:49,439
Speaker 1: the pay phone, and it was like get up. He's like,

1407
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 1: I don't have nothing. It was like boom, sitting, I

1408
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 1: get up. They shot me to make him get it up,

1409
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: to let him know that they were serious on that.

1410
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 1: You can laughing. You want to talk about got wo

1411
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 1: whoa I got that to do it? That man, get out.

1412
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:08,840
Speaker 1: Shannon sawed off twelve gauge point blank. He said hold

1413
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 1: on second, you should say, hold on just a second.

1414
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,639
Speaker 1: I get you a party. Nah, I rang in there.

1415
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: He didn't give me. I was about to run if

1416
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 1: you'd waited one most second. I was about the jet

1417
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 1: because if it would happened. Already got hit by a car,

1418
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: almost got hit by a car running across the street

1419
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 1: after I got shot, right, I still shot. As a

1420
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I still have them see that in

1421
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: the elbow. Yeah, see those buckshot? Yeah, sawed off twelve

1422
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: gauge man like real talk. And you're going to be

1423
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:38,559
Speaker 1: laid in the hospital. What's going through your mind? Well?

1424
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 1: I was in Uh, I wore you at the time.

1425
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: You don't mind me. I had to me about twenty one, okay,

1426
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 1: twenty one twenty two. I had already did death coming

1427
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: to jam Wow think I think yeah or something on

1428
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 1: b et the old kind of get what they were

1429
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 1: to calm cam yeah or something. Uh so, Uh, I'm

1430
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 1: in the hospital and I'm in ICU. I got all

1431
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 1: these two the things is poop poo, And I look

1432
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: up at the TV and I see all these uh

1433
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 1: police cars chasing a white Bronco. I got shot that night.

1434
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,639
Speaker 1: You got shot the same night that oj was supposed

1435
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:12,759
Speaker 1: to turn himself here. I got shot when they found

1436
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: Nicole Brown Simpson and run Goldman. Okay, I got shot

1437
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: that night. You got shot that night. So when I

1438
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 1: went to surgery, when I came, when I woke up,

1439
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: I saw a police officers chasing a white Bronco. Wow,

1440
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: that's great. And I'm laying there in intensive care of

1441
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: watching this and I'm seeing the whole O. J. Simpson

1442
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: right right, uh so. Uh but yeah, I was in

1443
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: a hospital man for a couple of weeks, and that

1444
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 1: was crazy. It was It was scary. I could have died. Yes,

1445
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: I remember the guy the ambulance said, hey man, I said,

1446
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: am I gonna be okay? And he was holding my hand.

1447
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: I said just hold my hand. And I don't never

1448
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: forget that man the ambulance he was he was like, Rick,

1449
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: you did they catch the guy they shot you? Okay,

1450
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 1: that's a whole story. The guy, the guy that shot me, uh,

1451
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 1: got caught, went to prison for did twenty five years.

1452
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 1: They called me for a parole hearing. So I went

1453
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: in there with the attitude, Nah, I wanted him to

1454
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: do the rest of his time. Yeah, he violated my

1455
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: life and I got in there, I saw his mother

1456
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: sitting over there, and then you know, you can look

1457
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: and tell people, you know that people struggling. His lady

1458
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: probably been going to prison ever since he's been in there.

1459
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: She's been going, She'm been going. You feeling sorry for

1460
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:29,840
Speaker 1: his mother. Then I started breaking down, like, Okay, hey,

1461
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: my life is good. God is good. Let me get

1462
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: this lady back to do what I can to get

1463
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: this lady get a son back to her. But I

1464
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: could go on with my life and they could go

1465
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 1: on with daylife. Right. And he eventually got out and

1466
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 1: he got killed drag racing. He got killed two months

1467
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: after he got out of prison. Then I was taking

1468
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:53,760
Speaker 1: my mom some black eyed peas. I had made some

1469
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: black eyed peas that I'm famous for taking my mom

1470
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:59,839
Speaker 1: some black eyed peas. Coincidentally, somebody hit me on Facebook

1471
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:02,160
Speaker 1: and told me that the guy had got killed and

1472
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 1: where the funerals at. Coincidentally, I'm driving down Birmingham. Version

1473
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:10,840
Speaker 1: of Peach Tree is called First Avenue. Okay, so that's

1474
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 1: our main street that go through Birmingham. So I'm driving

1475
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: down through Birmingham and run across his funeral procession because

1476
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: I saw him coming out of the funeral home and

1477
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jeep with the doors off Rubicon And that

1478
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: was more morbid than the ninety shot. That scared me

1479
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 1: more than anything. The guy that shot you, almost took

1480
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:36,040
Speaker 1: your life is in this hearse passing by. That. That

1481
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 1: gave me chills. I didn't sleep for two months. Wow. Unfortunately,

1482
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 1: your daughter was in a situation where she was in

1483
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: a road rage at incident and she got shot. Yeah,

1484
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 1: where were you when you got the call? And what's

1485
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 1: going through your mind? I was on the air. I

1486
01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: was at the radio station. Okay, I was on the air.

1487
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: My daughter's mom hit me on the cellphone, Hey, call

1488
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 1: me emergency. I was like, okay, let me do all right,

1489
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: y'all ricks By the morning show. Fifteen after the hour,

1490
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about blah blah blah. Then look

1491
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: at it and then the next text, meister said Aaron

1492
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:13,720
Speaker 1: was shot. And so I just hit I just hit

1493
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: the phone to down what she said, Yeah, Aaron got shot.

1494
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:18,840
Speaker 1: I said, how my daughter get shot? My daughter is

1495
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:22,720
Speaker 1: a straight age student, right, my daughter attends Beller University. Right,

1496
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:26,559
Speaker 1: but mohamma daughter gets shot. She said she was at

1497
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: a red light and some guys on this side of

1498
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: her and this side of her started shooting back and

1499
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: forth and she got hit twice. And so this in

1500
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: the in the beginning of COVID, Shannon, So I had

1501
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:45,439
Speaker 1: to figure out a flight. So I had to fly

1502
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 1: from Birmingham to Dallas df W Airport, get in a

1503
01:15:49,320 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: car and drive from DFW Airport to love Field Airport

1504
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: to get on Southwest Airline to fly to Houston. Only

1505
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: did get to Houston and can't go in the hospital

1506
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 1: because it's COVID, right, So that was that was trauma.

1507
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: It brought back all of my trauma and UH, to

1508
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 1: this day, I'm still in therapy because it brought back

1509
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,640
Speaker 1: up all my old trauma. You getting shot, the men

1510
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: getting shot at ninety five and it and and that

1511
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: was trauma itself because your daughter got shot, right and shutting.

1512
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 1: I was on the on the air UH a week

1513
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 1: and a half later after she got out to the hospital,

1514
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 1: because when she got out to the hospital, people had

1515
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:34,920
Speaker 1: sent food, turkey leg hunt, UH, the mayor, the city council,

1516
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: of the police sheet. It was a lot of flowers

1517
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: in the house and it was that Saturday, so it

1518
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: felt like a repass. Yeah, the only difference is your

1519
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: daughter is sitting right here, right or whatever. So I

1520
01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: flew back to Dallas. I'm on the air, moving on

1521
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: my daughter's Okay, I never forget I was playing. I

1522
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: was talking over the intro fifty cent in the club.

1523
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:57,599
Speaker 1: So don't don't go go all right, you'll rica slide

1524
01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: in the morning show. You're it's been shot and I

1525
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:04,640
Speaker 1: lost it. I was laid out on the floor in

1526
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,640
Speaker 1: the studio. A week and a half later, they had

1527
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 1: to walk me out to my car. I couldn't even

1528
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: do the rest of the show, Like it took that

1529
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: long for it to hit me that my dog. I

1530
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: knew she had got shot, but it didn't hit me

1531
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:20,760
Speaker 1: because I went into I got to get my kids here.

1532
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 1: I got to get her Phari and see, I got

1533
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,400
Speaker 1: to get my parents here. We got to get to Houston.

1534
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: How did we get up to the room and see

1535
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: the door that I just went into action, right, And

1536
01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't process. You have it. You didn't

1537
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: grieve properly. I didn't grieve properly. Yeah that's how I

1538
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 1: do now. Yeah. That was that was That was crazy,

1539
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: and that was scared. But she's a senior now at

1540
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: Belle University, and she's scheduled to graduate in May. My

1541
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: son is scheduled to graduate in May, also at the

1542
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: Alabama State University, which always beat Savannah State. No, they don't.

1543
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:51,640
Speaker 1: Always don't do that, always don't do That's I know,

1544
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: y'a wouldn't be the one I was there. I don't

1545
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 1: know what to happened now, but all I know in

1546
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,560
Speaker 1: the whole team, did y'all be Alabama State? Every we

1547
01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: didn't play played Alabama A and L. We played like,

1548
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: did y'all beat them? No? We didn't, Okay, go on,

1549
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 1: go on, next question that that we didn't be Jenn,

1550
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 1: you couldn't catch the ball and throw the ball and

1551
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 1: dolay defense. I didn't, Okay. I was the wide receiver.

1552
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 1: I was hell too. I'm looking at it. You raise

1553
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 1: your kids, but you raise your nieces, your nephews. You

1554
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: raised almost fifteen kids, played for them to go to football,

1555
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: go to a college. Kids playing football and basketball, something

1556
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 1: that you couldn't do. Why did you do? Why are

1557
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:27,439
Speaker 1: you doing this? The college? Shannon? I knew whether it

1558
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 1: was like to grow up without a father. Huh. Most

1559
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 1: of them didn't have a father, right, I had no choice, right,

1560
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: I did when I had to do. Some of 'em

1561
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and some of 'em didn't. Some of 'em

1562
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: I talked to, and some of 'em I don't. Some

1563
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 1: of 'em I haven't talked to in years. Hold On,

1564
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: it'd be like that, even after you've done everything that

1565
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:47,120
Speaker 1: you've done, bru, it'd be like that, the wrong person

1566
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,120
Speaker 1: getting on a child here against you or whatever. It's

1567
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:52,800
Speaker 1: just that white people be naturally jealous, right. And I

1568
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: don't know what you're jealous of, because I share everything

1569
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:57,799
Speaker 1: that I had with you. But I had a nephew,

1570
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:02,679
Speaker 1: Terrail that played Uh. I had, uh, three college athletes

1571
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:04,800
Speaker 1: come out of my house when I played basketball from

1572
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:08,720
Speaker 1: my house. College nephew Terrell, who was a running back

1573
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:10,600
Speaker 1: coach at wool On High School, play running back for

1574
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:14,599
Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee State University, and then my son Malika Alabama State.

1575
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 1: So I had a college athletes to come out of

1576
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 1: the house and stuff, and uh, you know, and and

1577
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,840
Speaker 1: all of the nieces and nephew wasn't biological. Some of them,

1578
01:19:22,880 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 1: Shannon just didn't have nothing and nowhere to go. And

1579
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: I had to help them. And they're off doing good

1580
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 1: and doing big things. Now, nephew that has this doctor degree.

1581
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: My nephew Deltrick, got some Greeks in the house. My

1582
01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: daughter's at Aka, you know, couple of cues in the

1583
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 1: house or whatever, and a capita. So I we got

1584
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 1: degrees on the wall. Education matter. Uh, sent a couple

1585
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 1: of kids at IMG Academy that's where my son went

1586
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: or whatever. So I performed, Man, just why I can

1587
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: educate and give them an opportunity because I don't need anything, right,

1588
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 1: I'm what are some of the child? Just being a

1589
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: single father and then in the process of becoming a

1590
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: single father, how rewarding is it when you see the

1591
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:13,639
Speaker 1: manifestation of your work. Uh. The challenging part is especially

1592
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:16,920
Speaker 1: with your with your life. Yeah, well well it wasn't

1593
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: really that challenge and being a single father, because I

1594
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:20,600
Speaker 1: had to help you hiring somebody. I had laid it

1595
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: from my church. Right, name is Pat. Okay, it's Pat,

1596
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: no nonsense, she don't play, she'll knock him out, she'll

1597
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 1: cuss him out or whatever, and she holding in and down.

1598
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 1: It's Pat. And before miss Pat, Miss Bishop would help

1599
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: me out with that. So I can easily jump on

1600
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 1: the plane and go out of town and do what

1601
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: I need to do. I had I had had a

1602
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 1: support system or whatever. And what was the second question

1603
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: that the manifests and the seed that your hard work?

1604
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 1: Paul Shannon uh to lay in the hotel room and

1605
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:55,960
Speaker 1: watch my nephew playing for Nettle Tennessee State University right

1606
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:58,840
Speaker 1: run up and run a touchdown. And I'm sitting in

1607
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: the bed and I remember him sitting in my left

1608
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:05,800
Speaker 1: crying because his father got killed. His father was my

1609
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,719
Speaker 1: one of my best friends, my friend brother. I remember

1610
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: you told me that you raised him. Yeah, man, and

1611
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. Two days before Christmas, he came in

1612
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:15,519
Speaker 1: my room. He had that look in his face and

1613
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,720
Speaker 1: he started crying, and he's setting my left man and

1614
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 1: had his head on my shoulder. I said, listen, man,

1615
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay. I said, I know how you feel. Man.

1616
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: My dad died too, and we talked about it. I said,

1617
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:28,800
Speaker 1: but you will smile. I said, you will smile. Now

1618
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,479
Speaker 1: he's helping other kids that don't have fathers twenty six

1619
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 1: years or graduated college in high school running back coach.

1620
01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: But to see them kids on TV, to see my

1621
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: son on the big screen at Alabama state and he's

1622
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 1: getting ready to go into law school, right, you know.

1623
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: And to see what my daughter's doing in all the

1624
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: degrees on the wall, all of the kids that we've helped, Shannon,

1625
01:21:50,840 --> 01:21:53,960
Speaker 1: it's been a that's the reward, I don't I just

1626
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 1: want them to do good and I wanted them to

1627
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: have a chance or whatever because I had uncles step

1628
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: up to the plate, and I know how important that is, right,

1629
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: So to have an uncle Ricky or somebody that's gonna

1630
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:07,519
Speaker 1: hold you accountable to step up to the plate and

1631
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: be there for you and for you to become something,

1632
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,560
Speaker 1: it's everything. Was it important for you to break the

1633
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: statement that black men aren't in their kid's life? Absolutely? Yeah,

1634
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 1: we are. We absolutely. I went through that and we

1635
01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 1: want to be here, damn right, and they ain't going nowhere.

1636
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: I went through that with my oldest son, you know,

1637
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: having a hard time seeing him that all work worked

1638
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:33,160
Speaker 1: out or whatever. I've been through the court system. I've

1639
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: had judges that wasn't fair. A judge in Alabama said, Uh,

1640
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:41,519
Speaker 1: the reason I don't award men because they are their kids,

1641
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 1: because I've never seen a cow follow his pappy. That

1642
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: was quoted by a judge in the state of Alabama.

1643
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 1: Now that the laws are changing, they have father Father's

1644
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 1: Rights movement. Men do hair, I mean my daughter. I

1645
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 1: do them. Little dog dog on U two little ampro puffs.

1646
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:01,639
Speaker 1: I know how to put that part down the middle

1647
01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 1: and get that pink old moisturizing rubbing in my daughter head.

1648
01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: Dropped that part down the middle, put them two little

1649
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: things and in them little autfro puss ye on. The

1650
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: mistake I made was sending her to school and then

1651
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 1: some pajamas because I thought it was an outfit from

1652
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: Limited Too. But I thought it was an outfit, but

1653
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 1: I didn't know that it was a pajama. But she

1654
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: thought she was gonna get fuss that, so she didn't

1655
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: say anything. And I get a phone call from the

1656
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,320
Speaker 1: school and said my daughter was at school crying because

1657
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 1: she didn't want to go to class because she had

1658
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 1: on pajama. I said, it's not jumps, that's a brand

1659
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 1: new outfit. I had just bought it from Limited Too, Right,

1660
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:33,600
Speaker 1: what kind of find out It was pajama but I

1661
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 1: thought it was an outfit, so it was jama outfit.

1662
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 1: It was pajama bed and not class. But but yeah, man,

1663
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, Shannon, it was fun man, Uh being

1664
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 1: an uncle being in the house, screaming up the steps. Hey,

1665
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:53,640
Speaker 1: stop jumping on running up the steps, going up there

1666
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,840
Speaker 1: with the belt popping. Everybody oncet and sit down, sit down,

1667
01:23:57,160 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: sit down, nobody crying the lynks. Then hurt, you know,

1668
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,639
Speaker 1: go to bed, Go to bed, go to bed, take

1669
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:05,240
Speaker 1: a shower. Haven't you had him? Man? That was fun, right,

1670
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: the whole highlight of my life. You know, Dad's gonna

1671
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: do nothing but this. Hey, don't maybe come out there.

1672
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: That's it. You don't have to say, don't make me

1673
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: come up there. You're just hey. Then the stomping stop.

1674
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: So I have so I have my grandson there now, Yeah,

1675
01:24:19,760 --> 01:24:22,880
Speaker 1: you adopted your grandson. Yeah, so I'm I just became

1676
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: a first time grandfather. Yeah so let me so, so

1677
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:28,760
Speaker 1: give me, give me some pointers. What what what did

1678
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 1: the grandson call you? Pop? Pop? Pop pop? I don't.

1679
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of it. I won't if somebody

1680
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: can give me something, help. I like geepop. Now my

1681
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:40,800
Speaker 1: granddaughters something to start trying to train them to start

1682
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: saying geepop because they got a little swag, a little swag.

1683
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:47,080
Speaker 1: So popa is still there. P o p Yeah, but

1684
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,640
Speaker 1: gee pop right. You know what I'm saying now. My

1685
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:53,760
Speaker 1: grandson called it pop pop pop pope. But I'm trying

1686
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 1: to I'm gonna be Papa Shake oh Man, pop pop

1687
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: Papa Rick, Papa Rick Shannon. I'm for real, you're laughing,

1688
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: but I'm dead. But you're gonna be Papa Shame Papa

1689
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: brand baby here yet, yes here? Okay? How two weeks? Okay,

1690
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 1: my granddaughter. That was just boring. Congratulations first of all,

1691
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 1: congret broh girl, a boy boy, let me tell you something.

1692
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Oh, I can sit back,

1693
01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 1: I can cross my legs on this one. I already

1694
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: have told him. I'm gonna have a kid just like

1695
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,080
Speaker 1: just like you were. When I bring him back to you,

1696
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:29,840
Speaker 1: he gonna be just like you were when you came

1697
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:33,360
Speaker 1: to me. No more, nothing less, nothing more, nothing less.

1698
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: You think you loved your kid when that boy looking

1699
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,560
Speaker 1: you in the eye and smile and you calming his

1700
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 1: hair to the side. I got all the video. Yeah

1701
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 1: that's what I do. I have his hair like mine. Yeah, yeah,

1702
01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: with the old school part. Then I I did that.

1703
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 1: I did that on Facebook. Blew up just in there.

1704
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:54,280
Speaker 1: You know, people get bad at me on favor because

1705
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: I talk heavy to him. Let's to make him tough, right,

1706
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:58,080
Speaker 1: so when they go out in the real way, he

1707
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 1: ain't sensitive. Right. I talked to him and our coach

1708
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:03,680
Speaker 1: tone like my granddad taught to me work. Yes, So

1709
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:07,479
Speaker 1: my grandson right now is tough. It's tough as nails,

1710
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: because I don't care about the curly hair, right, I

1711
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: don't care about the cut, and it's all of them

1712
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: cute right until they become fifteen sixty. Can't do nothing

1713
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 1: with him, that's right. That's let you tell my kids.

1714
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 1: I said, if now, if you're gonna stay your side,

1715
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 1: if you're gonna stay like seven to eight, I'll let

1716
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 1: you run them up. Right. But at some point in time,

1717
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:26,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a teenager, you're gonna be an adult, right,

1718
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden that I ain't gonna be

1719
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:32,639
Speaker 1: cute right, right? But but man pushing my grandson teaching

1720
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:36,599
Speaker 1: My grandson just turned six and can swim the length

1721
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: of the pool and with no life jacket. My granddaughter

1722
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: is jumping in the deep end of the pool now

1723
01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 1: and she's only three. Wow, teaching him to swim, shouting

1724
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: you out to see him throw a football. At six,

1725
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: we get in the living room. You ain't teaching that?

1726
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: Who you got to working with him? Me? I mean,

1727
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:56,920
Speaker 1: I know you're Alabama fans, So Bryce, you don't come over?

1728
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: No me, Shannon, what about Mac Jones? Dayla hurt? Don't

1729
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: don't don't don't. Ask Cavin Ridley called Cavin Ridley. Ask

1730
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: Caven Ridley asking. It's say you and I both fifty

1731
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: four ms. Only give me some tips on dating. You

1732
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:15,560
Speaker 1: like fifth you like you? Let me see fifty to

1733
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:19,240
Speaker 1: fifty five, you're like forty five to fifty. You're like

1734
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: forty to forty five. I'll take like thirty to forty,

1735
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take thirty eight to fifty, thirty eight,

1736
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty slam sexy but genuine, genuine and sincere.

1737
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:37,719
Speaker 1: Now I need sexiness. I have to have it because

1738
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:39,600
Speaker 1: I can't be with you just because you you're a

1739
01:27:39,680 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 1: good person. You gotta be sexy too. You see what

1740
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:49,599
Speaker 1: I'm saying you you can't be you know the land

1741
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 1: they tried to come on that who who tried to

1742
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: hook They tried to hook you up with? Who with

1743
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 1: what a check? That was on my six hundred pound

1744
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 1: life says, she's a good she has a good hard

1745
01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:03,320
Speaker 1: Uh but I wouldn't even do it. Well, you might

1746
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 1: need to donate that, but I'm talking about you trying

1747
01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: to be with me. I mean, I'm needing more than hard.

1748
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: I need, I need, I need sexy. Yeah, you know

1749
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: your walk off got to be fire. Yeah, you're walked

1750
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: by I got to be fired. Yeah, you're walked by

1751
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: Aaron got to smell like name the markers. I mean

1752
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 1: you you so you wanted them? Ways you walked by

1753
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:24,360
Speaker 1: every time? Can that keep you out the street? Yeah?

1754
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Okay, what about so okay,

1755
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:29,599
Speaker 1: what about twenty eight to thirty five? Now I can't

1756
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 1: do nothing that twin to come my daughter twenty okay, okay,

1757
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: what about thirty five? I'm thirty, thirty to thirty thirty

1758
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:39,720
Speaker 1: to thirty five now not thirty but thirty. I'm two

1759
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: or thirty five, And I don't mind. Yea, I have

1760
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 1: a kid, A kid. I ain't never mind that. I

1761
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:45,960
Speaker 1: don't care nothing about that. You know what I'm saying. Actually,

1762
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: my first my college girlfriend had a kid, right right,

1763
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: Because unless you know what I noticed, ain't nobody want them.

1764
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: I saw that girl. I saw man got me to five.

1765
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 1: I won. But here's the thing. I saw Walk. He

1766
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:00,760
Speaker 1: was on campus because we we'll first. You know, we

1767
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: went football players. We went to school. We practiced first

1768
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: right before they before they the regular students got back.

1769
01:29:06,120 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 1: We already had a game, right So I saw Walk

1770
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:11,479
Speaker 1: across that camp. But for three weeks straight. Yeah, I

1771
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 1: told my roommate, I said, I'm gonna make that girl

1772
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:15,679
Speaker 1: with my girlfriend. I said, that's gonna be my girlfriend.

1773
01:29:15,760 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 1: You know back then we just said that's gonna be

1774
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 1: the wife. Yeah, walked by, walked by one day. I said,

1775
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: I said, uh, you mind if I walk into your dorm.

1776
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:25,400
Speaker 1: She's like yeah. We started talking, carried on. I saw

1777
01:29:25,439 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 1: in the hallway. Next day class we started talking. I

1778
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, you know, get dob moment,

1779
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: dob moment. They see me talk to this. Everybody, Hey

1780
01:29:36,800 --> 01:29:39,639
Speaker 1: got big. No, everybody tried to talk to that dude.

1781
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:42,120
Speaker 1: I let y'all have three weeks. Every I let y'all

1782
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: have a three weeks. Everything start three. It ain't nobody

1783
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,120
Speaker 1: Walter until I started talking with her. But that couldn't

1784
01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 1: beat my time, Like my greatest I had to laid

1785
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:53,600
Speaker 1: down a blistering time. It was over for you. I

1786
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:57,840
Speaker 1: put out a blistering time. Oh my mama ain't do nothing,

1787
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:02,720
Speaker 1: so she hipped him pole. Oh admitted. But anyway, that's

1788
01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:06,000
Speaker 1: out here, So give me some data advice, Uh, dating advice.

1789
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:09,759
Speaker 1: Man shouting for real man, finding somebody that's genuine, sincere

1790
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:13,439
Speaker 1: and kind and fair attention. How you I don't know

1791
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:15,240
Speaker 1: about I don't know about La, but I tell you

1792
01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 1: a good dating pool. Uh you want to find a

1793
01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 1: man Dallas. I've had the best relationships in Dallas, Texas. Man.

1794
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: Not not Houston, Houston if you in your thirties, but man,

1795
01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,880
Speaker 1: if you're in your forties and fifties, man, Dallas, Texas. Man,

1796
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:33,400
Speaker 1: have some nice, beautiful, genuinely sincere. You got Bishop Jake's

1797
01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 1: Church there, you got past the Haynes shirts there. It's

1798
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Bible Belt is Midwest with

1799
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:43,120
Speaker 1: a Southern feel to it. Classy them them little Erica

1800
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 1: Bay dude, h natural outfro be wearing that little African

1801
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 1: awe and sexy gonna make sure you're make sure you.

1802
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the chicks that's gonna make sure you straight. Yeah,

1803
01:30:53,920 --> 01:30:57,920
Speaker 1: cause cause see, I don't need your money. Right. If

1804
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 1: you have a job in a career, that's fine, right,

1805
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 1: But man, if if you can help me organize my

1806
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:07,680
Speaker 1: life with Margie, Marjorie did for Steve, right, that's what

1807
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:11,080
Speaker 1: I want, right, man, man, man, man, listen, when Steve

1808
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:13,439
Speaker 1: got with Marjorie, Man, I see a whole different not

1809
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:17,280
Speaker 1: only in his happiness, his career. Okay, that type and

1810
01:31:17,320 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 1: then you know March bow leg too. I was walking

1811
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: up behind Marjorie in the airport. Man, I'm getting ready.

1812
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 1: While I was walking up on I said, oh my god,

1813
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: I did. She looked at me. She said, oh, I said,

1814
01:31:30,280 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna holler at you. But I ain't know

1815
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,439
Speaker 1: it with you, she said. I said, because you know,

1816
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:39,240
Speaker 1: we like brothers. But but that right there with Steven

1817
01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:41,880
Speaker 1: has right, that's a blue print of what I would

1818
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,439
Speaker 1: like to have, And I'm not I'm like, Okay, I

1819
01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 1: don't need you to wash clothes. I don't need you

1820
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:50,719
Speaker 1: to do I ain't real to mistgate it. I'm gonna

1821
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 1: find somebody to do that. I don't find somebody to

1822
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:54,760
Speaker 1: wash the clothes. I'm gonna find somebody to cook. But

1823
01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:56,600
Speaker 1: I want you to be stacked like dirty laundy in

1824
01:31:56,640 --> 01:31:58,519
Speaker 1: the dorm room. Come on, grow with you to have

1825
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:00,519
Speaker 1: I would like for you to have a degree. Now,

1826
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:02,839
Speaker 1: if you want to have two, that's fine too. Shunning.

1827
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,320
Speaker 1: But guess what, but don't be in too look shunning.

1828
01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: Guess what if she don't have a degree. But if

1829
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 1: she got a deal break, if she got the basic

1830
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 1: stuff my grandma that your grandmother and my grandmother has,

1831
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,880
Speaker 1: and she just got genuine love and her walk off

1832
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 1: is fire. And she looked good, and some wedge hills

1833
01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 1: and some jeans, and she looked, holla, holla, not even

1834
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 1: that a sun dress and better sun dress. She's got

1835
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:32,599
Speaker 1: a sun dress and some wedge kills. And she looked

1836
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:36,040
Speaker 1: and she looks she got and she a basketball cutting

1837
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: half back there and you better not and used to

1838
01:32:38,120 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: be a cheerleader what or a major red? Oh my god,

1839
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: oh my god. If school got married, oh yeah, I mean,

1840
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 1: and then you know they be a little little fat

1841
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 1: as cheney. But you know what, we're right. Here's the thing.

1842
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:55,680
Speaker 1: And I tell any woman that I've ever been with,

1843
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 1: I became what I became because all iver to do

1844
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 1: is make sure my family was out of this situation.

1845
01:33:02,320 --> 01:33:05,080
Speaker 1: Absolutely to raise my problem. Now, that doesn't mean I'm

1846
01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: not gonna do for you. Not only am I not

1847
01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna do for you, I will do for you. I

1848
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:11,760
Speaker 1: will treat your family, your mom and dad, as if

1849
01:33:11,800 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 1: they were my mom and dad. Absolutely. So if you

1850
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 1: tell me, say, hey, Shannon, can we help my mom

1851
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:20,200
Speaker 1: and dad? Why are you asking me? That's a no brainer, right, done, deal, right.

1852
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:24,639
Speaker 1: But I need you to understand that my family, that's

1853
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 1: that's it for me. I'm not now my kids know

1854
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: I'm not first option. I'm last resort. So once you

1855
01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: got I need you to I need your brainstorm. I

1856
01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 1: sent you to school or you got a good degree. Hey,

1857
01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 1: my youngest daughter is one year away from being a doctor.

1858
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:41,879
Speaker 1: My sons, like I said, yes, my daughters, the human resources.

1859
01:33:42,080 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: I said, y'all figure it out. Now. If you can't

1860
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:46,720
Speaker 1: figure it out, okay, let's let's see what we can do.

1861
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:50,880
Speaker 1: See if dad can help you. Right, But next to me,

1862
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 1: you good, right, your mom and dad good. But don't

1863
01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 1: and don't be don't. It's not a competition. What I've

1864
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 1: learned is that the women that I daid felt like

1865
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: they were in competition with the kids. And it's no oh, no, no, no, no, no, no,

1866
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:10,360
Speaker 1: we're not having that. Nah. I The biggest turn off

1867
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:14,839
Speaker 1: for me is the half that I've dated a selfish

1868
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 1: woman before. Uh with that dang seem like I find

1869
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 1: that's all I find. Yeah, man, asking about everything is

1870
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,240
Speaker 1: about her and her kid. But you never asked me

1871
01:34:22,360 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 1: how my grandson doing. See, I got a grandson and

1872
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 1: the granddad my grandson lived with me between me and

1873
01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:31,040
Speaker 1: miss pat or whatever when I'm out of town. Right,

1874
01:34:31,360 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: how's how's Grayson? How Grayson? That's important to me? Right?

1875
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:37,719
Speaker 1: When you can get my grandson to take my grandson

1876
01:34:37,880 --> 01:34:40,280
Speaker 1: and your kid to the jumping gym and have a

1877
01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:42,320
Speaker 1: good time, so I can go downstairs and get on

1878
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:44,639
Speaker 1: the couch and take a nap, right, watch First forty

1879
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 1: eight or whatever. Then hey, I spot you on the food.

1880
01:34:47,439 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 1: I got food ready when you come back, right, either

1881
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:52,400
Speaker 1: on the food or I cooked or something, and we

1882
01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 1: just have a food. And I would really need for

1883
01:34:56,320 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 1: a woman that that would enjoy swimming and athletics stuff, right,

1884
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:03,320
Speaker 1: you know, I ain't nothing like a chick that was

1885
01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:06,720
Speaker 1: sit up and watch a game. A basketball fan or

1886
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:09,760
Speaker 1: football yeah whatever, you're a fan up, whatever your team is, Okay,

1887
01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:12,880
Speaker 1: I got a whole man cave right down downstairs and

1888
01:35:13,040 --> 01:35:14,680
Speaker 1: get down there on the couch and watch but you

1889
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:16,200
Speaker 1: but you can't be talking about why we got to

1890
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:18,640
Speaker 1: watch sports again, because sports pay for all this is

1891
01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 1: that in here, right you do realize that that's what

1892
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:25,920
Speaker 1: pay for this, absolutely absolutely, and the thing we're going

1893
01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:28,320
Speaker 1: through kind of the same thing. Yeah, man, you know,

1894
01:35:28,720 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 1: uh at a comedy show, just knowing how to be right, See,

1895
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 1: I know how somebody that used a certain amount of discretion.

1896
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:39,240
Speaker 1: If you walk in the room, Shannon, Yeah, you see

1897
01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: a chick sitting over there in the corner. I bet

1898
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 1: that's Rickey, smiling away because you automatically, she don't even

1899
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 1: have to be standing next to me because she gives

1900
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 1: you that energy. Right. You know, if you go to

1901
01:35:48,479 --> 01:35:52,560
Speaker 1: a church anything, you see that woman over there, the

1902
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:54,639
Speaker 1: man up there appreaching you already know that's a past

1903
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:57,080
Speaker 1: of white. You're looking at him, look at look at

1904
01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:01,320
Speaker 1: a past of key and shunny or whatever that kind

1905
01:36:01,360 --> 01:36:05,400
Speaker 1: of vibe like like pass the key on unwiped shining.

1906
01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:08,040
Speaker 1: You know somebody like her classy se you like me.

1907
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm little key, I ain't really flash it. Yeah, yeah,

1908
01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: I'm real discreet. I got but people look at me,

1909
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:17,400
Speaker 1: get me because I don't. I don't flash. I ain't

1910
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:18,760
Speaker 1: got the big jewelry. I ain't got a little. I

1911
01:36:18,800 --> 01:36:23,080
Speaker 1: ain't got a twenty twenty twenty seven ride, but I

1912
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 1: got paper. Now, I got paper too, But I drive

1913
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:29,760
Speaker 1: a four and I dried that little cheek that, yeah,

1914
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:31,840
Speaker 1: it's good, A little Ruba kun of two thousand and

1915
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:34,280
Speaker 1: I don't have nothing to prove. I don't. I don't

1916
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:37,040
Speaker 1: do enohing. I don't have nothing to prove shining real

1917
01:36:37,280 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: I did. I did for fourteen years. I had to

1918
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:40,640
Speaker 1: prove something every year, right, and I need to be

1919
01:36:40,720 --> 01:36:42,519
Speaker 1: on this team. And I was kicking, but nah, I

1920
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:44,640
Speaker 1: get that I got. I got a necklace too, but

1921
01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:47,600
Speaker 1: it ain't real because if you snatch it, then you

1922
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:51,559
Speaker 1: have it. Why your coach act like that with time

1923
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:55,000
Speaker 1: and talk about he ain't swack. Time said he ain't swag.

1924
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:58,720
Speaker 1: He was. Who is swag? If I eat swag? If

1925
01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:03,479
Speaker 1: I ain't swack, right, who's smack? Uh? Edie Rob because

1926
01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:09,920
Speaker 1: he's still at Alabama State. I played again any Rob

1927
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:12,720
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, Eddie Jacksonville, So I do Eddy Rob. I

1928
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:16,000
Speaker 1: know we used to work out together. Listen man, Eddie Rob,

1929
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:19,720
Speaker 1: both of my friends. I'm yeah. Eddie Rob helped me

1930
01:37:19,840 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: get my house that I'm in now. I didn't have

1931
01:37:22,439 --> 01:37:25,400
Speaker 1: enough money at the closing table. I ain't gonna lie here.

1932
01:37:25,479 --> 01:37:29,120
Speaker 1: I know he hate you never. He is such a friend.

1933
01:37:29,240 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 1: He is a frat brother. He's a friend or whatever.

1934
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:34,560
Speaker 1: He came through from me. Man one time when I

1935
01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:36,840
Speaker 1: just didn't have it, you know what, And I love

1936
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:38,840
Speaker 1: I love him for that. It never. It's funny that

1937
01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:42,000
Speaker 1: you say that I had one of the first Seal Mercedes. Yeah,

1938
01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:46,599
Speaker 1: hudor huh. I sold it to him, Eddie Rob. Ask him,

1939
01:37:46,800 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 1: next time you see it, I sold it to Yeah,

1940
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:51,479
Speaker 1: I had that car. I had it for like, I

1941
01:37:51,560 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 1: had it for like three months. Right. My homeboy knew

1942
01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 1: Eddie Rob. And he said, Eddie said, you want to

1943
01:37:57,160 --> 01:38:01,280
Speaker 1: buy your car? I said, huh, okay, I sold it

1944
01:38:01,320 --> 01:38:03,120
Speaker 1: to him. I think I had like eight hundred miles,

1945
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:04,880
Speaker 1: not even have eight hundred miles. Maybe I think I

1946
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 1: about to drove it like five times now. Ed Robert

1947
01:38:07,400 --> 01:38:09,759
Speaker 1: good dude. Hell hell, he'd do a lot of stuff

1948
01:38:09,800 --> 01:38:13,400
Speaker 1: at at Alabama State University. Man. And uh uh, you

1949
01:38:13,520 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 1: know he's a wonderful frat brother man. Uh, shout out

1950
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:20,360
Speaker 1: the Gamma seed. Why why ain't playing saying you got

1951
01:38:20,439 --> 01:38:23,640
Speaker 1: Omega all over you? Man? Because I will maybe you

1952
01:38:23,640 --> 01:38:25,240
Speaker 1: think i'ma let you will me to wear my clothes

1953
01:38:25,280 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: and dropped my car. My brother, go up that brother.

1954
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:31,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk after the show. You are definitely you

1955
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 1: are de Jalen hurts I was jo Jaylen hurts I was.

1956
01:38:35,960 --> 01:38:39,320
Speaker 1: I was in at Me five me Michael Jordan joined

1957
01:38:39,400 --> 01:38:43,000
Speaker 1: us the wonderful Fraternity of Omega. Softh I do grad

1958
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:45,560
Speaker 1: chapter in corporate. It don't matter. We just need a

1959
01:38:45,600 --> 01:38:48,240
Speaker 1: good man like yourself. Okay, I think about it. Yes, sir,

1960
01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:51,200
Speaker 1: I heard you used to charge people to sit at

1961
01:38:51,240 --> 01:38:53,000
Speaker 1: your luck at the table with you at lunch. Yeah,

1962
01:38:53,040 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: Alabama State in the South Hall. Yeah, we're gonna charge

1963
01:38:56,400 --> 01:38:58,360
Speaker 1: your a quarter or something to sit there because that

1964
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:00,479
Speaker 1: was a whole comedy show. Weren't getting up The jokes

1965
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:04,519
Speaker 1: are free? Yeah? Yeah, so you literally did they know

1966
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:06,479
Speaker 1: you're working on your material, but there huking on it.

1967
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:11,760
Speaker 1: Then my college roommate Bend was hilarious. Man. Uh he's

1968
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:15,320
Speaker 1: from Andalusia, Alabama. Bend was country is a brown first

1969
01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: of all Alabama ain't no, ain't no city parts of Alabama.

1970
01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:20,000
Speaker 1: Think about it. It's the only state, it's the only state.

1971
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 1: They call you Obama, and it's a it's a slight.

1972
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:25,120
Speaker 1: Oh come on, nobody call you Obama. What they mean

1973
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:29,120
Speaker 1: Now that's disrespect. If it's on the East coast. When

1974
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:33,000
Speaker 1: the East Coast said it's somebody country, then they just country. Yeah,

1975
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 1: but don't call them Obama. Yeah, don't group us up

1976
01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:38,719
Speaker 1: with the country because it's some country. Parts of DC

1977
01:39:38,920 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 1: through and not like okay, but where the city parts

1978
01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:46,600
Speaker 1: of Alabama, Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville is the biggest city and

1979
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:50,240
Speaker 1: state of Alabama. Now you got the this man said

1980
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:56,200
Speaker 1: Mobile and Birmingham. Right, everybody comes to Alabama. Know, they

1981
01:39:56,280 --> 01:39:59,400
Speaker 1: come to play football. No, Birmingham has one of the largest,

1982
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:02,559
Speaker 1: the second. Aren't the Civil Rights Museum? Yes, and they

1983
01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:05,200
Speaker 1: come to visit the Civil Rights Museum country. Yes, come

1984
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 1: for the food, they come for the hospitality. They come

1985
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,000
Speaker 1: for peace and quiet that you ain't gonna get in Atlanta.

1986
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: Now before the two people in that bad don't damn

1987
01:40:13,160 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 1: outter I guess, but we're trying to We're not stuck

1988
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 1: in traffic trying to get home. You can get home

1989
01:40:17,040 --> 01:40:20,360
Speaker 1: in five minutes. Yeah, well, you know how you mentioned

1990
01:40:20,400 --> 01:40:21,920
Speaker 1: you mentioned to make a side fire you and you

1991
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:24,000
Speaker 1: you're really proud you stayed the purple to goal. Oh

1992
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:25,640
Speaker 1: you got to purplely goal. Oh yeah, what made you

1993
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 1: decide to place that fraternity? Man? I got really excited

1994
01:40:31,240 --> 01:40:33,080
Speaker 1: about the ques when I was going to Alabama State

1995
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 1: when Jesse Jackson was running for president. Uh huh, So

1996
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:41,960
Speaker 1: that was my first I am somebody, damn somebody river man.

1997
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:45,160
Speaker 1: When Jesse Jackson said, just because you're from the project,

1998
01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 1: that don't mean that the Project have to be in you,

1999
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: and that stuck with me my head. A tear came

2000
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: and I heard him speak at Chappa because I actually

2001
01:40:53,439 --> 01:40:57,559
Speaker 1: went to Tuskeg in my freshman year. Okay, couldn't afford

2002
01:40:57,600 --> 01:40:59,680
Speaker 1: to stay there. You know what I'm saying Tuskege is

2003
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: for kids is if your mom and dad still together,

2004
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:03,160
Speaker 1: you had them thing we should go down and play with.

2005
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:05,640
Speaker 1: I don't know what Alabama State had, but I know

2006
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 1: what you had because you leave Alabama State and you

2007
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,519
Speaker 1: make that little dry down eighty five to go to

2008
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:13,519
Speaker 1: go to Skigie and they didn't have a They had

2009
01:41:13,600 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 1: just built the McDonald's when I was there, So it

2010
01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:20,559
Speaker 1: was McDonald's a movie theater, and and the chicken coop

2011
01:41:20,680 --> 01:41:22,880
Speaker 1: next to the Chicken coop was right next to Lina

2012
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:26,120
Speaker 1: Richie's dad's house. You know that, No, you know that

2013
01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: so uh? But but you know some great people come

2014
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:32,360
Speaker 1: out of Tuskegee. Yeah uh. Lina Richie is an alpha

2015
01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: Tom joined the players Q Yeah, and as Skeig is

2016
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:41,280
Speaker 1: so uh, Skigie is rich uh like he should. But

2017
01:41:41,320 --> 01:41:44,040
Speaker 1: I just couldn't afford to attend school that comes way

2018
01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:47,760
Speaker 1: too expensive. So what what made you decide? Because I

2019
01:41:47,880 --> 01:41:50,720
Speaker 1: hear a lot of people, you know, the brotherhood man,

2020
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:54,880
Speaker 1: the manhood many manhood man. You grow up without a dad? Yeah,

2021
01:41:55,040 --> 01:41:57,880
Speaker 1: I didn't have any brothers, okay, and I didn't have

2022
01:41:57,960 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 1: a dad. I found everything I need then, Maga sci five.

2023
01:42:01,080 --> 01:42:04,960
Speaker 1: I have fathers in the Frat. I have unbelievable uncles

2024
01:42:05,040 --> 01:42:07,680
Speaker 1: in the frat. I have brothers in the frat. I

2025
01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,439
Speaker 1: have nephews in the frat, and I have sons in

2026
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:14,479
Speaker 1: the frat. Right, Omega Scipe fire Man has shout out

2027
01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: to our grand Bostons that's out there in La Ricky Lewis, Yeah,

2028
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:22,080
Speaker 1: who's a real good guy. Uh. Shout out to some

2029
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: of my friend brothers. Anthony Anderson ye dl hugli uh

2030
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 1: shack uh. George Clinton yeah uh he's a brother now,

2031
01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:36,040
Speaker 1: Big time attorney Ben Crump yeah, plays yeah. So it's

2032
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 1: a lot of I would look good at them them

2033
01:42:37,840 --> 01:42:42,479
Speaker 1: gold Man come on. Uh. James Cliburne yeah really Yeah.

2034
01:42:42,520 --> 01:42:44,200
Speaker 1: You ain't know he was a kid? I did not, so,

2035
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,360
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, school, Yeah, no, I think did

2036
01:42:47,439 --> 01:42:49,080
Speaker 1: he go to University of South Carolina? Did he would

2037
01:42:49,080 --> 01:42:51,200
Speaker 1: go to South Carolina State? I think he went to

2038
01:42:51,360 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 1: South Carolina State? Okay, if I'm not mistaken, but he

2039
01:42:54,600 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 1: is definitely a member of Omega sci Fire. Every time

2040
01:42:56,439 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 1: he doing this interview, you see the sci Fire right

2041
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:00,720
Speaker 1: there behind him or whatever. So and the brothers is

2042
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:03,200
Speaker 1: just awesome shinning it would it would definitely change your life.

2043
01:43:03,400 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 1: Ask Michael Joan said, one of the greatest thing ever

2044
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:07,599
Speaker 1: happened to him was pleasure. Don't make a sci Fire,

2045
01:43:07,760 --> 01:43:14,439
Speaker 1: no jumping for the free throw line. What made you

2046
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 1: decide that I'm gonna get out here on this rick?

2047
01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:18,320
Speaker 1: What made you decide to like, I don't want to

2048
01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: learn how to fly a plane? I mean because of

2049
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:22,479
Speaker 1: all the things that you could say. It just curious. Man.

2050
01:43:22,479 --> 01:43:24,840
Speaker 1: I was obsessed with airplanes when I was a kid. Now,

2051
01:43:24,920 --> 01:43:26,920
Speaker 1: my grandfather would take me to the airport and we

2052
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:30,280
Speaker 1: would sit on the car because it's a road, right,

2053
01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:32,920
Speaker 1: it's line up with the runway, right, and we're just

2054
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:36,240
Speaker 1: watching take off and land. Then my uncle Herbert, before

2055
01:43:36,280 --> 01:43:38,280
Speaker 1: he passed away, he was he would take me the

2056
01:43:38,320 --> 01:43:41,320
Speaker 1: air shows. Right. It would be out there watching the airplanes.

2057
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:44,080
Speaker 1: You know all that. I want to learn how to

2058
01:43:44,120 --> 01:43:45,840
Speaker 1: fly a plane. So I saw working at the radio

2059
01:43:45,880 --> 01:43:48,600
Speaker 1: station in Birmingham. The guys were calling in and do

2060
01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:50,599
Speaker 1: the track, and said, how y'all know where the traffic

2061
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 1: and they said, we're in a plane. I said, he said,

2062
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:55,040
Speaker 1: come out and go with us. They said, we do

2063
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:57,400
Speaker 1: morning traffic and we do eating traffic. Right. So I

2064
01:43:57,400 --> 01:43:58,920
Speaker 1: couldn't do it in the morning because I'm doing the

2065
01:43:58,960 --> 01:44:02,080
Speaker 1: morning show, right, So I went one evening, but the

2066
01:44:02,200 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: evening drive right. But getting on work, right, you're in

2067
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: a helicopter the right now, it was in the plane. Really, Shannon,

2068
01:44:07,520 --> 01:44:09,559
Speaker 1: we was in a plane. So he said, hey, I'm

2069
01:44:09,600 --> 01:44:11,320
Speaker 1: gonna let you fly and I'm just gonna do the shot.

2070
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:15,200
Speaker 1: Ask him what. So he was like, okay, here's your rudders.

2071
01:44:15,720 --> 01:44:17,960
Speaker 1: That's what you be. I said, okay, I got that part.

2072
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:20,960
Speaker 1: So he was like, uh, you know, here's your throttle.

2073
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm like okay, he said, you know, he told me

2074
01:44:24,200 --> 01:44:26,080
Speaker 1: exactly whether to do my first time in the plane.

2075
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: I took that baby down the runway. I pushed that

2076
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:31,160
Speaker 1: throttle forward and I balanced because you drive the plane

2077
01:44:31,160 --> 01:44:34,280
Speaker 1: with your feet, so you're driving. He said, okay, you

2078
01:44:34,360 --> 01:44:36,240
Speaker 1: feel the plane get light. I'm like yeah, he said,

2079
01:44:36,280 --> 01:44:38,479
Speaker 1: go ahead and pool. So I went in pool. We

2080
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:41,800
Speaker 1: got up in the air, showed me the altitude me.

2081
01:44:41,920 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: It just showed me everything. Man. I was addicted. Man,

2082
01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:46,479
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can fly a plane. He didn't let

2083
01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:49,200
Speaker 1: me land, but take up. I wouldn't let you took off.

2084
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:54,760
Speaker 1: It's that easy. It's easy, Shannon. Think it's easy for

2085
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:57,920
Speaker 1: a pilot. Shannon, listen to me. You're not a pilot.

2086
01:44:58,240 --> 01:45:01,120
Speaker 1: I am a comedian, Shannon. I am looking to you

2087
01:45:01,160 --> 01:45:06,280
Speaker 1: your television personality. Ye shot on the football field. What

2088
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:08,759
Speaker 1: I do? I can do all things. That's not something.

2089
01:45:08,960 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 1: All things, Shannon. Listen, if if I get if I'm

2090
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:16,160
Speaker 1: getting on the plane and I see you in the cockpit.

2091
01:45:16,240 --> 01:45:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm immediately getting off that plane, Shannon, Shannon. I fly

2092
01:45:20,080 --> 01:45:24,799
Speaker 1: really well and I land just not with me, Shannon,

2093
01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: Come on, Shannon, I was shutting. They took one of

2094
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:29,840
Speaker 1: my Instagram videos down because I was landing the plane.

2095
01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:31,960
Speaker 1: I was feeling at the same time. You only fly

2096
01:45:32,120 --> 01:45:34,439
Speaker 1: with one hand, right, you don't. You don't mean with

2097
01:45:34,600 --> 01:45:36,759
Speaker 1: the with the with the norbles, gripping it tight because

2098
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 1: you're scared. You have to relax and fly okay, Right,

2099
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:42,200
Speaker 1: So I was doing a uh, I was coming in

2100
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:43,920
Speaker 1: the landing for a lot of the airport and they

2101
01:45:43,960 --> 01:45:46,599
Speaker 1: said there was a violation, so they took the video down, right,

2102
01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:49,880
Speaker 1: But I got plenty flight videos or whatever. But you

2103
01:45:49,960 --> 01:45:52,840
Speaker 1: got the I don't have my license hip, but I

2104
01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 1: have to fly with a license pilot, right. But I

2105
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:58,760
Speaker 1: am gonna get my license, so so get ready for that.

2106
01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:01,200
Speaker 1: But I am a boat captain, and it's and it's everything.

2107
01:46:01,280 --> 01:46:03,400
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff. It's the same, right, going across

2108
01:46:03,439 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: the ocean and flying in the air like when you

2109
01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:08,640
Speaker 1: got when it's wuffy or whatever, same thing, you know,

2110
01:46:08,720 --> 01:46:10,920
Speaker 1: and the sky. But flying is easy because in a

2111
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 1: car you got gas brakes, radio a car, right, here,

2112
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:17,599
Speaker 1: car right here, a car right here, car behind your

2113
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:20,680
Speaker 1: trucks passing by, and the plane is just you and

2114
01:46:20,800 --> 01:46:22,400
Speaker 1: on the thing. Even if you can't see, you just

2115
01:46:22,520 --> 01:46:24,960
Speaker 1: focus on your instruments. Like I can drive a boat

2116
01:46:25,040 --> 01:46:28,679
Speaker 1: in the dark by reading my navigational system and bag

2117
01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:31,040
Speaker 1: it in a fifty four boat in a fifty four

2118
01:46:31,120 --> 01:46:33,840
Speaker 1: foot sea ray in and bag it in and jump

2119
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:35,680
Speaker 1: off and pull it in and tie it up and

2120
01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:39,439
Speaker 1: docket in everything. It's just fun, man, it's lightning, something different.

2121
01:46:39,720 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 1: It's outside of the box. I swim with sharks. I'm

2122
01:46:42,360 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 1: like the most interesting man like that. When you out here,

2123
01:46:45,280 --> 01:46:46,880
Speaker 1: you out here in the la you swimming amongst them.

2124
01:46:46,920 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 1: Trust me, Now, I don't swim. I swim with the

2125
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:51,280
Speaker 1: sharks in the Bahamas. Oh no, these sharks out here

2126
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:52,800
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You walk well, you ain't swimming, you

2127
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 1: just walk in. It's an everything, Yeah, it's an American

2128
01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:01,080
Speaker 1: carnage going on, yeah, and everything. Yeah. We shouldn't have

2129
01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 1: a conversation about gun violence because it's it's really bad

2130
01:47:04,560 --> 01:47:07,640
Speaker 1: and unstable. Talk about it. Go ahead, yeah, man, you know,

2131
01:47:07,760 --> 01:47:09,679
Speaker 1: just being a gunshot, then to be in a household

2132
01:47:09,720 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 1: of five and two of us are gunshot the man.

2133
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:16,720
Speaker 1: I am just really pro protecting yourself, man, because at

2134
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:19,800
Speaker 1: this point you can't do nothing about the guns because

2135
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:22,840
Speaker 1: they won't change the loss. But damn you have one.

2136
01:47:23,080 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 1: Me and my kids are on right, and we take

2137
01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:30,880
Speaker 1: technical training in situational training, right, So the southern thing

2138
01:47:30,920 --> 01:47:32,879
Speaker 1: I couldn't have. I mean, growing up in the household,

2139
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:35,720
Speaker 1: we always had guns. Guns were always loaded. There was

2140
01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: never a situation in which the gun was not loaded.

2141
01:47:38,439 --> 01:47:40,240
Speaker 1: If my grandpa said, what good is the unloaded gun?

2142
01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:42,760
Speaker 1: If you need are having one and not having it

2143
01:47:42,840 --> 01:47:45,040
Speaker 1: on your inner hoster. Yeah, so you just have to

2144
01:47:45,080 --> 01:47:49,759
Speaker 1: protect yourself because this is just thirty years ago. Thirty

2145
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:52,439
Speaker 1: years ago, this thing about thirty years Yeah, that's when

2146
01:47:52,640 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 1: when it got to a point where you can't say

2147
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:58,400
Speaker 1: nothing to nobody's kid. You can't correct nobody, right, what

2148
01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: do you have now? What do you have now? Look

2149
01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:05,960
Speaker 1: at what's going on now, kid, people in their thirties,

2150
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:07,760
Speaker 1: most of them, a lot of the crimes people at

2151
01:48:07,760 --> 01:48:11,400
Speaker 1: twenties and thirties. You can't correct or say anything to

2152
01:48:11,560 --> 01:48:16,759
Speaker 1: anybody's kids up there, and they go there, correct you, Shannon,

2153
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:20,559
Speaker 1: They're doing everything now. It's unsafe. Now when I perform,

2154
01:48:20,640 --> 01:48:23,640
Speaker 1: and I got two uniform police officers with me, and

2155
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:25,439
Speaker 1: I just pay them out of my pocket. I cash

2156
01:48:25,439 --> 01:48:27,679
Speaker 1: shop and I pay them under the table or whatever.

2157
01:48:28,040 --> 01:48:31,519
Speaker 1: And uh cause I'm scared people getting shot backstage, people

2158
01:48:31,560 --> 01:48:35,800
Speaker 1: getting shot running up on stage. Uh you get your money.

2159
01:48:35,920 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 1: They thank you, got money, thank you got paid for

2160
01:48:38,080 --> 01:48:40,320
Speaker 1: a comment to show in cash set up to rob

2161
01:48:40,760 --> 01:48:43,080
Speaker 1: up to rob you, and all this kind of stuff. Man,

2162
01:48:43,120 --> 01:48:46,080
Speaker 1: it's dangerous, right, It's seriously dangerous. So you have to

2163
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:48,960
Speaker 1: move real careful now, so you think differently now than

2164
01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:52,280
Speaker 1: when you first started business. I assume that you are

2165
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:55,400
Speaker 1: fitting to robbing. Shoot me coming out of a grocery store.

2166
01:48:56,080 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: You ought to see me paying the parking lot and

2167
01:48:58,240 --> 01:49:01,120
Speaker 1: looking around, I can conrect and every face I saw

2168
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:04,160
Speaker 1: in the grocery store and identify anybody that was in

2169
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:07,040
Speaker 1: the grocery store in every car that's in the parking lot.

2170
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: And I know how to get to my car without

2171
01:49:09,560 --> 01:49:12,160
Speaker 1: you knowing that I'm going to that particular car. I

2172
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:15,200
Speaker 1: move a certain way right because I'm a gunshot victim,

2173
01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:18,800
Speaker 1: and I see what's going on because it's the details,

2174
01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:22,400
Speaker 1: the details. A small detail is the difference between light

2175
01:49:22,479 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: and death. You just have to assume that somebody's going

2176
01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:27,519
Speaker 1: to do something to you. And people can say all

2177
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:30,280
Speaker 1: they want to. You can't live in fear. The hell

2178
01:49:30,360 --> 01:49:32,200
Speaker 1: you better live in fear because look at the time

2179
01:49:32,240 --> 01:49:35,200
Speaker 1: we're living in You can't say that now, right, so

2180
01:49:35,360 --> 01:49:37,920
Speaker 1: you'll be dead, you know what I'm saying. So we

2181
01:49:38,040 --> 01:49:40,840
Speaker 1: just got to figure out how to protect ourselves because

2182
01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:42,800
Speaker 1: you can't do nothing about the gun laws, right. We

2183
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 1: just hope and pray that people in the community stop

2184
01:49:46,520 --> 01:49:49,720
Speaker 1: killing each other, right or whatever. But until then, you

2185
01:49:49,880 --> 01:49:51,719
Speaker 1: have to do what you have to do to protect

2186
01:49:51,800 --> 01:49:53,680
Speaker 1: you and your family, right, Because I don't want my

2187
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:57,840
Speaker 1: grandson burying me, have me up in a cask and

2188
01:49:57,920 --> 01:49:59,760
Speaker 1: my grandson sitting on the front row crime like I

2189
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:02,439
Speaker 1: did my dad. It's not fair to him. Right for

2190
01:50:02,640 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 1: some damn twenty three to thirty three year old that

2191
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:08,240
Speaker 1: don't have no didn't have no manners at home training

2192
01:50:08,320 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 1: and grew up entitled, and feel like it kills somebody

2193
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:15,800
Speaker 1: because then he ain't got nothing. Right. There you go, Ricky,

2194
01:50:16,160 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 1: thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate it. Thank you

2195
01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:20,519
Speaker 1: for having HBC you alarm to another. Yes, all the

2196
01:50:21,000 --> 01:50:22,960
Speaker 1: continued success and all the best brother. Thank you man.

2197
01:50:22,960 --> 01:50:26,040
Speaker 1: I love you, Man, I appreciate you all my life.

2198
01:50:26,240 --> 01:50:30,960
Speaker 1: The grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle backy pricing, Want

2199
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:33,599
Speaker 1: a slice, Got the brother the dice to swad all

2200
01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:36,240
Speaker 1: my life. I'll been grinding in all my life, all

2201
01:50:36,320 --> 01:50:40,759
Speaker 1: my life. Then grinding all my life sacrifice, hustle backy price,

2202
01:50:41,439 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 1: Want a slice, Got the brother, dice to swath all

2203
01:50:44,320 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 1: my life. I've been grinding in all my life.