WEBVTT - Rickey Smiley 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.280 It actually started out at ninety seven with Little Darrel, 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.480 And when I did it on B ANDT, I came 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.119 out saying, zoo man, Bruce Bruce Comedians like man. He said, 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.080 when this air man your life and the change, they said, 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.520 that was funny. All my life, the grinding all my 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:20.439 life sacrifice Hustle pack Price one a slice, got the 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.160 Bronan dice to swad all my life. I've been grinding 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.840 in all my life. USh all my life. Then grinding 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:31.040 all my life sacrifice, Hustel Paggick Price one slice got 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.479 the brol dice to swath all my life. I've been 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:38.440 grinding in all my life. Hello, welcome to another additional club, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.600 Sha Shay. I am your whole Shannon Sharp. I'm also 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.160 the proprietor Club Sha Shay. And the guy that's stopping 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.080 by for conversation on the drink today he flew all 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.720 the way to La just this morning, stand up comedian, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:54.720 TV host, actor, writer, author, philanthropist, executive producer, taught, rated 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.680 national syndicated radio personality, entertainment business moment. Dam you got 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.480 a lot of titles. How many ledges over thirty years 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.160 in the industry, HBCU alone come on in the Alabama 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:10.240 States findings bone phone, phone phone phone, bone bone phone, bom, 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.160 phone phone boom. You know, yeah, you already know. Yeah, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:19.520 that's okay, Ricky's Boley. What's up? We were talking earlier. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.600 It's nice to finally be phase to phase yea with 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.560 somebody your age eighty six, class of eighty seven. How 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.440 you doing? I'm doing good man? Give me Ricky Smiley 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.240 wakes up at what time and starts his day and 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:39.440 doubs what three thirty? No alarm clock ever? Three thirty? Uh, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.040 full of breakfast, coffee, watch the news, and just drive 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.959 to work. Jump on the tow away in Dallas, Texas, right, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.560 drive up to the studio, do the morning show. The 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.840 morning show lasts for like three and a half hours. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.560 I'm like a long time to talk, bro. Yeah, well 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.640 you know you got a commercial break. Yeah, but I'm say, okay, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.440 commercial breaks every hour for every hour, that's about thirty 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.440 two minutes. Yeah, that's we arguing in between. I got 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.000 a sports guy, rock Teeth. Yeah it's on my morning show. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.080 So were always arguing about something. Okay, it's a rock Teeth, 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:09.920 Super Dave and then the brand and there you got 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.639 Gary in there. Right. So we us talking about news 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.280 relationships or sports, right, and just telling stories or whatever. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.639 So it goes by like that. It's nothing. Your comedian 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.919 been in the business a very long time. What made 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.200 you decide to say I'm gonna start doing radio at 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:32.399 the height of your comedic genius? Man, Steve, I'm talking 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.760 about Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey is like a big brother, okay, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.880 and he's like, Rick, you need to nah na na. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.480 I just about a house. I'm doing comedy shows, my show, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.320 So he said, hey, how are you gonna pay for it? 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.760 He said, So he called me. He said, hey, there's 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.679 a radio opportunity in Dallas. Okay. I was like nah. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.919 I was like, I'm I'm good and so boomerang. His 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.960 bodyguard called me. He cursed me out. He said, hey, man, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:57.120 if you don't take you, if you don't be in 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.320 Dallas by this evening, we ain't blanking with you morning. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.840 And he hung up in my face. Steve called me back. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.079 I'm like, can I come tomorrow? You're like, yeah, you 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.799 can come tomorrow. So I went and I got the job. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.679 They put me on one hip hop station and after 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.560 that it we won, right, We syndicated right, So and 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.359 then we went from the hip hop and they moved 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.200 us over from time joining and retired, so we own 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.840 in like almost one hundred markets now. So this was 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.520 in two thousand and four. Yes, Steve Harvey picks up 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.880 the phone, and we're gonna talk about Steve later because 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.840 I've had, uh said the entertainer. I've had Earthquake. I've 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.679 had so many comedians and everybody swears that Steve and 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.120 not a story with all of them. Okay, earthquake and 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.400 I was roommate, Okay, I mean like sleeping on Earthquake 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.200 couch to go and do shows. And I never went 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.400 to a strip club before I went with Earthquake, Okay, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.480 but I would. I would go into VIP and take 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.120 a nap because I wasn't used to being up there 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.080 late because I was the church organist. Okay, so earthquake 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.960 got me out at the strip club or whatever. But 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:54.480 I would go into the VIP and get on the 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.680 couch and go to sleep. Man, God must with on 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.840 vacation when you coming up in the third all that 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.000 that that's a true story. And I used to open 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.880 for saying that, said r Ron. That was my first manager, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.720 first person to take me on the road. So radio pay, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.240 I mean could because you still be you still do 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.480 stand up. Yeah. So I'm trying to damn how you 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.960 have time? You do? You do radio for three and 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.280 a half hours a day. You do? I mean we're 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.560 gonna talk about all the other stuff. You mean your grandfather, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.920 you're a philanthropist. How do you find the time, Ricky Shunning? 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.839 You make time? You have to create space, Okay, you don't. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.720 You don't take all the engagement. Okay, sometime I just 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.040 want to stay at home and push my grandkids on 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.560 the swing, yes, okay or whatever, and uh I just 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.680 make a little a lot of time for myself. But 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.000 for the past six years, I don't perform in the summer, Okay, 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.960 so I only perform. I remember you're telling me that 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.040 you sums off. Yeah, take summers off. So made, that's 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.560 the time you're on the boat. You what you gotta 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.400 go with me? You was gonna go with me. Gotta 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.880 gotta create some space, Okay, you gotta go with me. Okay. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.520 Uh So that that's a lot of fun. So now 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.600 I feel like I'm living okay, because you just you know, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.160 on a Saturday, it's July you look on Facebook, everybody 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.200 in Jamaica, everybody class reunion, everybody on the beach, and 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.880 you're sitting in an Atlanta airport whining to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.320 only to go to an empty hotel room that night, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.159 to get up the early the next morning to fly 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.720 to another city. And you have to make some time 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.159 to like, Okay, you know what I'm saying. It can't 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.880 just chase money all the time. You gotta make some 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.920 stuff happen. What do you enjoy more? Radio? Stand up? 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.960 Stand up? Nothing? Nothing, beach stand up? Walking on stage. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.320 I'm about to do a Netflix specially okay away, but 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.560 it's nothing like walking on stage and it's thirty five hundred. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.440 I just did the Martin tour. We was performing in 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.840 NBA Arenas. Wow, uh, twenty twelve to twenty thousand people 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.520 in the audience. Man, there was nothing like that walking 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.800 on stage, just getting that heat for a good twenty 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.359 five minutes. But radio is a lot of fun because 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:57.840 radio muscle everything. Helped everything. Stand up help radio. That's up. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.159 That was my next question. Yeah, how did radio prepare 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.760 you for? How did stand up prepare you for? Radio? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.960 And vice versa. A quick with yes. So whatever we're 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.200 talking about, you know, you got a joke for it, 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.600 or you can move the conversation into a comedic you know, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.840 a comedic conversation and get some jokes off r and 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.200 then boom you go into commercial break. But on stage, well, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.520 you're doing that on radio. It's exercising that comedy muscle. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.960 So when you hit the stage, you also got quick 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.600 with right, but there's no commercial break. Correct, Better come 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.760 on with the next joke. Right. So let me ask 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.560 you a question. So, when you're doing stand up, do 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.240 you write your material or you just remember you right 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:36.600 A said, or do you just like, Okay, this is 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.320 what I'm gonna do tonight. Either the jokes I'm gonna 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.680 do and they just flow. I used to write U Sanning, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.160 but now that I'm older, I can just walk on 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.040 stage and just off the top of my head rip 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.159 off a good thirty minutes a non stop people crying, laughing, 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.880 because I've been doing it so long, thirty three years 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.600 a long. Right. Cant Let me ask you this. When 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.240 you walk into an areno, you walk into where you're 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.960 doing the show, do you look at the audience and said, Okay, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.680 these are the jokes I need tonight. Oh yeah, these 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.720 are the jokes I need tonight, shouting believe it or not. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:12.360 I gotta playbook, okay. And I do everything sports based. Okay. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.760 I sit up and watching Nick saving speech before I 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.240 go out and tell jokes. I apply every I started 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.040 out with football, right, I played little league football. Even 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.960 though you denied that I did or whatever you didn't. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.400 I think the records denied it because we couldn't find anything. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.120 I think that's what That's what game, that what gave me, like, oh, 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.640 it's all my homeboys and Burman. I can't why I 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.760 came from Tony Nathan High. He played, he played with 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.920 the dog. Yeah what long high school? That's the high 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.680 school I graduate. And Bobby Bowden came up. I got 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.200 a homeboy and named Google. I asked him. He said, nah, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.640 he don't do that. I'm get saying. Shot came all 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:54.120 the way out here? You did? Did you? Watching folks 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.760 over here in the background lamp the power ever last 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:01.000 one of them. But I do everything sports base, okay. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.520 So I get motivated and get excited and go on 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.360 stage and and and kill it. You mentioned your but 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.480 I knew I have a playbook to answer your question. Yes, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.640 it depends on the audience. You can look at the 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.320 audience and then wet comedian go on in front of you. Right, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.120 So I have like six different acts. Okay, So my man, 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.760 my road manage. He'll tear a page out, said, let's 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.880 do this one tonight, okay, and he'll go and kind 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.000 of tape like lay it on the floor right in 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.960 front of the stage, right, and I and I have 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.960 like footnotes, and I once I do the first two, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.720 I already know where you you you you're in a rhythm, then, yeah, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.160 I'm in a rhythm. You mentioned you were in syndicating 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:41.720 over eighty eighty stations. Yeah, you want to syndicated personality twice. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.080 And when you win that, there's a lot of responsibility 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.959 because now the expectations not only for yourself but from 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.440 everybody that's listening to you. How have you been able 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.320 to manage those expectations? Uh? You just don't change anything, 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.599 shann And you just make sure that you're funny and 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.640 that you're relatable, right that you Uh, you know, most 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.360 of our markets are in the South, so you have 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.000 to open up with a praise break, have a passion 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.800 to come on and give a good word. They want 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.839 to have a good word. Yes, you know you got 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.199 uh you know you're doing your Bernie's jinking, your trunch announcements. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.480 You got u the will This comedian Will Ka comes on. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.240 You got the comedian Benji Brown that comes on once 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.480 a week and do it same. And then you got 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.599 Jeff Jason that comes on and do three things you 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.120 need to know. Then the president of the National Urban League. Right, 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:30.400 I'm saying, you got a variety of news, politics, uh, funny, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.040 spiritual stuff and you know, uh, so to open and 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.880 close the show, so the show is well diverse. Have 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.000 you have you had a minister come on and then 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.240 after you like, I don't know if the spirit heard 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.160 that one. Nah nah, but like like like I know 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.600 what you're talking about. But Pastor Freddie Haynes and down 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.000 to Sexas, Oh, he's he's the regular. He's a regular. Okay, 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.720 the presiding bishop before a Gospel Bishop Joseph Walker Nashville, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.080 he comes on. Okay, brain at heat Right, So any 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.400 pastor that I that I get on, Pastor Slater, other pastors. Okay, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.679 these pastors are really really good. But some preachers can preach, yes, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.959 but they're not so good on radio correct right, But 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.359 I found pastors that that have that can really articulate 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.120 a sixty second message in radio right and get people 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.240 up and motivated. Then follow it with a song or whatever, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.160 and uh, just start the show every morning. Is anyone 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.360 from Mount Zion Missionary Baptist number one Tabernacle on the 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.839 Hill Church, the Old Lord, the Old Lord. Hold my 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.920 mute while I shout Missionary Evangelists, Baptist Church of Guard 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.839 in Christ. You have a great crew. You mentioned the 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.520 Brat gay with the trial k rock Te. What makes 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.480 your relationship so special? Been there for so many years. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.000 It's the chemistry, right, I know where Brat Bratton know 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.319 what I'm thinking. Before I said, I know what she's thinking. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.040 Rock T is kind of like the laugher. He does 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.959 sports or whatever, but he's instigator laugher. Yes, I got 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.959 comedian special hey on. Then you know you got Gary. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.000 I know you're a big fan of Gary. You got 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.760 Gary with the team. Gary's about seventy four years old. Uh, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:13.679 everybody's business and everybody's business. I'm just joking. Gas gave you. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.520 I mean, you do a good job game. You ain't nobody. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.480 I mean the business is out there. So we just you, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.720 just you just giving us the business that that's always 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.439 out there. J'all, Lyon is on. It's a lot of 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.400 fun or whatever. But that just the chemistry, man, and 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.439 how funny everybody is and how how fun it is. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.439 And you grew really you grew really fast. You're in 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.680 over ten million, ten million listeners daily. What were your 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.240 expectations when you got into radio? Did you did you 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.520 expect or did you think you would be this big 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.240 this quick? Nah? Because we were only on in Dallas, Okay, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.040 So I was happy with that. I'm right, Okay, I'm 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.719 a Dallas Cowboys fan. The Cowboys see that. You got 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.240 my whole life shouting up Calabama? How are you getting 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.000 way to Dallas from Alabama? You're gonna drop after focus. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.800 You gonna how many teams you jump over to get you? 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.400 The Cowboys in the seventies, yeah, you might hate. Yeah, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.959 we all had Dallas Cowboys jock first stealers. Okay, he 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.559 was either one or the other. You were right, you 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.319 are in the seventies, you was either for the cowboys 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.640 or the pits. But all the time, so my granddad said, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.600 were rolling them with the cowboys, That's how I grew up. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.840 I got out hill I had. I had a little 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.240 baby Jerry curror and a pit and a Dallas cowboy 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.000 jogging suit holding the football like then I'll short, I'll 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.440 send it to you. You know, I was thinking that Rick, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.520 everybody that had a Jerry Carrol ain't got new here. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.040 You think them chemics would burns y'all here out It 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.920 did because the Jerry Cruss went from Jerry CRUs to 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.719 Wade new Vote and then Hawaiians Hawaiian silky. Yeah, and 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.080 then after that your hair started thinning like right there, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.080 and you just had to let let it go. Yeah, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.600 But I see that's the say no, you ain't Rick. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.400 The thing was you let it go. You ain't trying 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:43.959 to to the side. You ain't trying to hold on 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.200 to see some people on TV. You need to let 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.360 it go. We talked about it, but we're gonna call 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.720 no name. Let me ask you a question. The breakfast 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.199 club you kind and you kind of do kind of 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.320 what the breakfast club does, uh not not exactly. Uh 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.120 what do you know about those guys there? Any competition, Well, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:04.520 we were at that competition when we were on the 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.080 hip hop station Okay, So it was either the Rickett 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.040 Smiling Morning Show or the Breakfast Club. Well, we were 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.360 known for it was the Funny right or whatever, and 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.040 we were number one in every market, right. Uh. They 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.120 were known for the interviews with Angela ye Alla main 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.880 DJ Envy, who I absolutely who I met for the 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.360 first time. I met him at the White House. This 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.680 past exem was really really nice about him and his wife. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.120 So I'm a big fan of watch all of the interviews, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.120 love their working. Uh, you know everything that But that 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.720 was our competition, right, believe it or not. Our competition 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.200 now it is Steve okay and Steve and one got 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.360 us a job, and now we compete directly against the 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.959 Steve Harvey Morning Show, right, And we always texting each 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.480 other sometime we get on the same phage and in 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.240 the morning like, hey, what are you talking about? Okay, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.480 we're gonna talk about this or whatever. Because when we're 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.120 trying to push something in agenda d L. Steve and 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.520 I we stay on group text, right because we are 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.760 deal and our deal Hugually we worked for the same 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.720 company Steve worked, but the other kinds. But we communicate, right, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.640 so uh, you know, like pastor Warnock and different people 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.679 were trying to help them. We always on the same 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:12.960 page and we all accused. Yeah, you mentioned that Tom Joinner, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.079 you took over Tom Joinner. Steve Harvey's been in the 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.280 radio years. Tabs Smiley was on the radio still is 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:19.960 I think you're still on the radio. Yeah, but he 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.440 used to have a what was that? Was that? Pps? 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.360 A bt that Tavis Smiley used to have that talk 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:29.960 show hEDS and Wendy Williams. Yeah, what is your style? Who? Who? Who? Who? 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.560 Is Ricky Smiley's style based off of more kind of 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.720 like Steve or whatever. But I'm just a little different. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.040 I'm a little sillier. My morning show probably is the 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.440 funniest man right show out of all of them, right, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.200 because it's just the you got Bratt laughing, you got 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.560 rock t Right instigating and laughing. I'm the instigator, right, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.360 I'm not even the funny. The funny one on the 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.280 morning show is comedian special k right or whatever. So 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.520 then you got the voice of reason, you got Maria 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.600 right More on the show. So I show get going. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.680 But it's just it's more comedy than anything out of 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.360 all the warning shows that I listened to. We more funny, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.280 and I don't like to do the controversial stuff. I 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.640 don't like to bring people on and ask the real 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.800 controversial right right, because it just kills the energy. Can 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.160 work for some people, right but but but for me, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.760 I'm not sixty minutes and those and forty hours those 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.400 those type of interviews you right there, right right right. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.320 I just try to keep it light because I want 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.600 the guests to feel confidence, right and open up and 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.960 open up and have a good conversation. I want them 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.800 to come back, yes, you know what I'm saying. Instead 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.200 of asking them about something controversial, let's ask them what's 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.240 your favorite candy? Right? So what do you do before 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.640 you go on stage? I want to get into what 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.960 the listeners don't know about the artists. So that's what 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.120 you know where my success come from. You you mentioned 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.360 Steve Harvey and how Steve Harvey pushed you in the 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.120 direction he was one of your mentors. What is some 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.240 of the advice that Steve told you about when getting 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.720 into the business or being a comedian and getting into 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.600 the radio business. Oh yeah, dressed nice, discipline, discretion, Uh, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.440 be on time, you know, Shannon. Uh. When I opened 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.960 up to Steve Harvey, I had on. Uh, I was 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.480 going with the l L cool jah. You know, I 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.080 had to had the clock that hell hell couls, you know. Yeah, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.200 and uh so he pulled me to the back back 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.720 of the dress and he said, hey, he said, people 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.440 paid their money to come see us tonight. Yeah, he said, 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.200 so this is a Friday. Say you need to wear 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.760 a suit tomorrow. I said, yes, sir, that was my 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.880 first time Steve left Steed. They ain't paying me like 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.800 they paying you. They put this to kind of money 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.600 they paying me. See I'm dress right, but let's see 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.200 I was working at Jeans West. Oh. But you know 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.120 about that? What you know about that? Okay? That three 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.320 much at night, sir, So I had I had a 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.440 little suit. So okay, he said, I'm gonna let you 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.200 introduce me tonight, but tomorrow I would like for you 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.440 to wear a suit. These days, you say that to somebody, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.120 they feelings hurt, right. So I took it like a man. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.520 I'm like, okay, it hurt my feelings, but in a 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.600 in a good way, right, because he didn't have to 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.760 say anything at all. But that was but see you 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.560 when I came up in a row with somebody older 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.080 saying something period. It wasn't no debate, it wasn't no all, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.840 but shut it. It ain't no why So you know 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.720 what I did, Ladies and gentlemen giving up to Steve 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.480 Hardy bought Steve on stage. Then I piled out of 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.320 that parking lot while he was on stage performing, made 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.720 it to my apartment in time, ran back to my room, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.920 put on a suit, went back to the comedy club. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.520 By the time I ran in the door, he was saying, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.760 thank y'all, good night. My name is Steve Harman. I 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.399 went up. But when I came back on save with 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.640 that suit on, he looked at me. He said, you're serious. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.200 Damn right, I'm serious. Right, I want it right because 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.959 I'm not. I'm not waiting until tomorrow. You have right now, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.680 you have one of the ogs. This is what you 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.560 need to do in order to be successful. Dressed for success. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.120 Looked like success, right, feel like success. You will. He's 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:55.720 bigger too, that Steve. I listened to a lot of 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.359 its motivational stuff. Yeah, he says, you have to manifest it. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.800 He says, but you have to feel and you have 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.400 to think a certain way. And I tell a story 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:07.160 a lot of sending because that was life changing. Yes, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.399 that led to me opening up for the Kings of comedy, Yes, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.600 but led to me being around Steve, which led to 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.399 me having a syndicated radio show, which changed my whole life. So, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.800 you know, just the discipline and the destructure that I 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.639 got from my grandfather and my grandmother. Do what you're 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:28.200 told to do, nothing to ask why, just do it right? Period, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:32.679 And it worked out once once you started doing the comedy. Obviously, 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.359 there there are a lot of comedians. I don't know 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.280 who was your favorite. I mean for me growing up 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.399 and listening to prior and listen to Eddie Murphy, who 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.160 was some of the comedians that you wanted to meet. 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.680 You're like, man if I meet him, oh man, I 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.840 was excited when I met John Witherspoon. Man. I met 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.480 Eddie Murphy for the first time at his house. I 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.800 got invited over because I didn't know that Eddie Murphy. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.560 You know, I was hosting Comic View, I was on 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.120 BT every night, Eddie Murphy. I didn't know that Eddie 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.359 Murphy watching b Et cumming you right, And so I 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.240 was out here and he got worried that I was 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.880 staying at the sofa tail and he had a little 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.680 get together at the house. I ended up going over that. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.640 I met Eddie Murphy and that was just a real blessing. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.480 And he repeating my jokes and my prank phone calls 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.280 like I watched Raw and Delirious, like you know how 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.080 they were in high school. Yes, coming to America was 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.240 twelfth grade. Coming to America came out like what and 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.680 he repeating my prank phone calls and that was just 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.800 absolutely amazing. Now, I was shocked coming to American him 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.080 at eighty eight, right, eighty something. Yeah, I think I 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:35.440 might I might have been. I might have been a 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.399 junior college right, you're a sophomore in college here right 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.120 right right? We're college, yeah, Alabama State. But yeah, coming 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:42.920 to America, Yeah, I just to see him in that 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.919 and to be able to like go to his house, right, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.119 and uh, I really tripped out when uh, when Stevie 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.879 Wonder was repeating one of my prank phone called that 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.680 really blew my mind. Wow, because my mama had all 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.199 the albums I have him now, right, but all the albums, 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.639 So I did not know that people was listening to 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.080 those prank phone calls and watching d et cors you 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.159 like that or whatever. So when you said you started 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.400 off you were performing in front of mainly white audiences. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:15.000 Yeah you do. You have to tell jokes different yeah, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.199 so way so so my my audience was white, right, 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.159 So I thought that's the way comedy go. Right, So 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.280 I would never take the mic out of saying like 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.320 I was like, oh gee, you know I could do 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.040 those jokes man. Yeah, hey, by telling the joke and 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.920 they're laughing, you holding onto the mic. So I had 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:36.760 an opportunity to the first black show I did. I 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.600 was opening up for uh, for ice Cube and the 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.239 Ghetto Boys and in the Nice or whatever. So here 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:48.639 I come with a comedy club routine. I came on 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.239 stage with a suit on. I said, I need a mic, 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.240 staying like you dog you open up? Ice cut me 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.960 in the lynch mob. I excuse the lynch mob, all 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:02.080 the dog rappers, and it stuck. Man. They booed me 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.480 so hard. Come on, man, they boomed me. It was ugly. 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.800 And I walked back stage. Ice Cube now they would 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.720 make eye contact with me. No, no, little man going 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.000 over there, don't bring the energy over here. I got 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.840 booed really bad. I got booed up the apolo too, shouldn't, huh. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.320 I got booed on Short Time at the Apolo and 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:24.360 I hadn't even told a joke when they said Birmingham, Alabam. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.480 Mark Curry was the host. When they say from Birmingham, Alabama, 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.119 they were like boot, they boot. So when I was 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.119 coming on stage, Mark Curry, who was the host at 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.520 the time, he said, do your jokes. Played to the camera. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:38.800 He said, your ish gonna air. He said, don't worry 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:41.919 about it. I did. I did five minutes of comedy 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.359 while they was booing and throwing stuff and played to 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.840 the cameras trying to think of my joke. So I 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.080 didn't tell nobody. I was on Short Time the Apolo, right, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.159 so it comes on TV at then your apolo, you 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:54.879 know on Sunday we watched your apolom But bro go 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:56.800 to the scale ring, right, come on, sho't be with me, 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.000 all right, coach, we ain't go there. Way, I ain't 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.280 go there. I couldn't. I can't skate rink. Everybody with 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.240 a skate rink on Sunday. We'll argue about that later, okay. Anyway, 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.720 so I didn't tell anybody. So they took an audience 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.639 that was laughing at another comedian and spice it up 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.560 right laughing. All of a sudden, it was no self 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.240 on some My phone was ringing, my phone was blowing up. 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:23.680 I'll started getting bookings or whatever. When I actually got boomed, Wow, 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:27.280 true story, show time with the Apollo. But that's what 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:29.960 is that feeling? Like, I mean, you don't argue. You 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:31.919 have to get boo. I mean, so, so how did 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.119 how do you remain confident? Like I'm sticky with I 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:35.919 don't care what y'all say. Y'all they laugh at these 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.400 jokes to but y'all gonna laugh tomorrow. Yea. Back then, 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.720 back then, Uh, you would just kind of go on, 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.480 try to do your routine. Now if you boo me, 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:46.960 I would turn all the lights on and step off 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.240 stage and go through the audience and roast every last one. 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.440 I give it to him like I don't care because 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:56.720 something wrong with everybody? Right, I don't care how good 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:58.920 you look. I can find something wrong with you. I'll 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.920 make you anxious, right, Okay, you want to boot me? 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:03.639 I had to. I had to get my son. My 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.359 son came home from college. I was sitting in the 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:08.879 kitchen every time I passed by, getting ready to go 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.280 to Uh you know the frat me right. You know 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.240 I heard somebody giggling or whatever. I'm wearing something like this. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.360 I'm just age appropriate, right, exactly. Nothing to win those 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:23.400 tights with a hoodie. I ain't wearing no chrome hard 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.120 gene that called eight thousand days. Come on, man, I'm 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.280 about to be double nickel. And then you know, you 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.120 know by me being a damn my son, I guess 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:32.040 got what I do for a living. Yeah, if you 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.359 want a roast, I went in and cleared that kitchen. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.679 It was spinning kool aid everywhere, like, yeah, you got 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:41.040 you get on yourself like that. What you're trying to 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.560 roast me in front of your friends from college? Uh? Yeah, 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:46.280 you know my son on the basketball right in the 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.040 Alabama state right now, okay or whatever, shout out the 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.840 miligu smiling, but you know it's trying to roast, right, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:53.560 So I got junker. I do this for a living. 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.159 I'm not just your dad, ni yeah right right now, 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:57.960 I'm a comedian. I'll be dead at the minute's go. 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.720 Was like, get your friends laughing that you of them? Yeah, 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.520 open for the ghettos? How how do you how's there's 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:06.960 a comedian. I don't know. I've never been to a 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:10.120 concert where a comedian opened up for people that's gonna 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.200 sing or rap. Well, at that time, Shannon, they started 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:14.800 doing they was having comedians open up all the shows. Okay, 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:16.720 because now mind, I had a great show when I 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:20.520 opened up for Will Downing, King Cohn and Jennifer Holiday. Okay, yeah, 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:25.080 yeah yeah, and uh mister Cooper, Michael Cooper. Yeah, I 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:28.320 opened up for Michael Cooper. Okay. You know, Joe Cribbs 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.720 put me on my first big show, okay, running back 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:34.040 Ruffalo Bills, Yes, sir, he became a promoter. Okay, put 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:36.679 me on my first big show. Okay, little running back 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:38.600 from Auburn. Man. I love him to this day and 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:42.240 thank thankful for the opportunity. But Joe Cribbs saw talent 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:44.280 in me and had me open up for Michael Cooper, 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.400 which meant a lot. So so they was like, okay, 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:49.399 we can have you open up for the ice Cube 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:52.280 and the Lynch Bob and the Ghetto Boy. You thought 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:53.840 that would be a good idea. Who's shark was on 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.480 that show? Oh? Man? I got the pictures, Yeah, I 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:58.239 got boomed. I had a suit, I had a three 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:01.119 piece suit. I was dressed like the Jackson Southern theres. 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:03.520 We don't need to talk about this the Will Smith incident, 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:05.600 but we saw something out here at the Hollywood Bowl 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:09.159 with Dave Chappelle and somebody ran on stage. Are you 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:11.680 afraid now you say that if people start bowling, you're 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:14.520 gonna cut the lights on and you're gonna clear it out. Yeah? 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:16.879 Are you do you get afraid now of telling a 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:19.160 joke that might offend someone or you like, I'm ricking, 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:20.760 this is what I do. I don't you came here 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:22.520 so you don't get it. If you don't, if you're 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:25.640 not appropriate, Shannon, I don't care. If you sensitive, don't 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:28.840 come to my show, stay at home. Right, society is 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.280 too sensitive. Now. You can't say nothing. You can't correct. 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.159 You can't if somebody doing something that affects you. You 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:39.520 can't even correct them when they're what they're doing affect you. Yeah, 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:43.639 I'm gonna, hey, I'm fitted for it is what it is. 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:46.520 I'm gonna say what I need to say, especially if 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:51.520 it directly affects me. Right, I'm offended. I'm offended that 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.520 you're affecting I'm offended that I have to correct you right, 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:58.960 how about that? But they get offended that you offended? Right? Right? 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:02.320 All of this so, uh, culture and all that kind 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.200 of stuff. I'm gonna do my jokes or whatever I 0:26:05.359 --> 0:26:08.399 talk about everybody, I talk about myself, right or whatever. 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.640 I don't care if you're black, white, fat, skinny or whatever. 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:13.840 Everybody gonna get a little bit right. And most of 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:17.400 my comedy is relatable and and it's it's done with love. 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:20.680 It's not mean spirited. That's a difference that comedy is 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.440 not mean spirit So you know when you got Comic 0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:27.280 View and Death Comedy Jam, how did that change your life? Well, 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:30.200 hosting Coming View changed my life. Your money definitely changed 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:34.920 for your appearance, Uh Deaf Comedy Jam. Martin Lawrence was 0:26:35.000 --> 0:26:37.040 the host, So I started. I did a joke about 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:39.600 the queues in the Aka, so I started getting book 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:42.560 for colleges. Right. So, but when I became the host 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:44.600 of b ET Coming View, that means you're on TV 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:48.240 Monday through Friday, number one show. That was a highest 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:51.600 rated season of Comic View on b ET and uh 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:54.080 and I was also the host in two thousand and four. 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:57.080 Right then Bat gave me a show the year after that, 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:59.480 So That was a real staple in my career and 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:03.919 even now. And that was two thousand. My tickets it's 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:06.560 two thousand and twenty three now. My ticket sales has 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:10.720 been consistent for twenty three years. It actually started out 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:13.199 in ninety seven with Little Darren. Right, if I did 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:15.240 a Little Darrel, I've been selling out since ninety seven. 0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:17.160 So you can you still do that joke even though 0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:19.119 you're talking about maybe a special needs I mean, do 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:21.359 you have to do you have to? Oh? Yeah, I 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:24.160 do it. They like it, the special needs. Right, Little 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:28.760 Darren bought out all the special needs uh kids right, 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:32.399 not necessarily kids, but specially an adults. Yeah, they all 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:35.000 came to my show and I they would not let 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:38.840 you leave on stage unless you did. How did you come? 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:41.520 How did you come up with that? It's true? I 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:43.879 had we had Uh he went to our church, right 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:45.879 and uh he would get up there and say, it's 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:50.359 it's a speech, right Shannon, And uh it was. It 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:53.919 was one of those situations where you couldn't laugh, right, 0:27:54.359 --> 0:28:02.399 and your mama looking at you like yeah, So in 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:05.359 situations where you're not supposed to be laughing, that's when 0:28:05.440 --> 0:28:08.560 things are extra funny. Correct. So he Little Darrell would 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:11.520 be out there saying this Easter speech and we would 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.560 be in the cross stand with a straight face, with 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:16.640 tears coming down, eyes right on the leavel can't laugh 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:19.720 just like you pledged, right then not laugh while you're online, right, 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:26.920 So I just simply and and Saturday Entertainer, actually I 0:28:27.080 --> 0:28:29.960 told said the story is said, Saturday Entertainer helped me 0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:32.440 write the joke and do it a certain way. And 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:34.119 when I did it the way said taught me how 0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:36.320 to do it, it blew up on BT and I 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:39.840 was My career took off. That was it. It was 0:28:39.920 --> 0:28:42.520 in the seventy nine cutlers driving down Peach Street. He 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:44.600 had got right in front of that Chick fil a Yeah, 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:47.720 and said, said I had it was another name, but 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:51.080 said it said Little Darrel, said, said my name Little Darryl, 0:28:51.320 --> 0:28:53.720 and said started doing it. We didn't hear my colors. 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:56.840 We didn't setting nine colors driving the uptown coming to club. 0:28:56.920 --> 0:29:01.040 I'm one behind the Houston, yeah, said And I did 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:04.320 the opening week right, you know it's earthquakes old club. Yeah. 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.080 And he told me how to do it and helped 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:08.640 me form it and formulate the joke. And when I 0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:11.200 did it on B ANDT. I came out Stay at 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:13.800 Zoo man Bruce Bruce and comedians like, I'm like, what 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:17.000 what happened? It was like, man, he said, when this air, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:20.320 all the commedians they circled me. I thought, something's wrong, right, 0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:23.000 like man, your life in the change? They said that 0:29:23.960 --> 0:29:26.840 was funny because Mike Epps and Kat Williams was on 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:29.200 that episode the kind of as well, Wow he was 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:32.280 he went on this Alley Cat and Mike Epps had 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:35.040 on the Dallas Cowboys Jersey. I'll never forget it. The 0:29:35.160 --> 0:29:37.320 audience was dead. It was midnight. It was the last 0:29:37.360 --> 0:29:39.440 show they had been taping all day, and here I 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:42.840 came doing Little Darrel or whatever, and it blew up. 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.880 Shannon right, U, No, lie when you say when you 0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:47.719 travel and you were doing it like you do now 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:50.600 and all these comedians, how difficult is it because you 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:53.320 hear the laughter, you know you back there, you hear 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:57.600 what's going on? Yeah, and you like, Dan, what do 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:01.120 you ever think your head? What are you saying? Not 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:04.840 behind the uh uh? Lavelle Crawford, I'm not I'd been 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:07.520 damn If I'm going behind him, I don't care. I 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:10.520 would give a promoter, every dying back, He's not gonna 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:14.160 hey listen, Now, I can almost follow anybody, right, But 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:17.000 what I did a show with Lavelle Crawford in DC 0:30:17.240 --> 0:30:20.200 for New Year's I'm glad that I went first. I 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:23.520 saw him standing in one spot with a suit on 0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:27.480 and a bow tie and totally destroy audience. And I 0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:30.120 just never seen somebody standing one. I'm talking about back 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:32.400 to me, how do you follow that? Right? But I 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:37.760 had to follow Danniell Rawlins one time. Yeah, in Atlanta, 0:30:37.960 --> 0:30:41.560 right at the Philips Arena, sold out on the Martin tour. 0:30:42.080 --> 0:30:47.240 He got a standing ovation and guess who's next me? 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.640 So I had to go to my playbook. Yeah, I 0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:51.520 pulled out, had to go deep. I had to go 0:30:51.640 --> 0:30:53.720 deep in the playbook. But thank god I'm on the 0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:55.480 radio because I think they gave me a little left. 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:57.440 So by the time I came on and say, they're like, yeah, 0:30:57.440 --> 0:30:59.520 this is our guy. We listened to the morning show 0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:01.400 and I was, but they gave me a little cushion 0:31:01.960 --> 0:31:03.560 and so I just I put on a good show 0:31:03.600 --> 0:31:06.120 that night. Also, but that was scary. Give me, give 0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:09.400 me your your mount rushmore of death comedy jam Comedians. 0:31:09.440 --> 0:31:11.840 That's been on death comedy jams, Oh my God, and 0:31:11.880 --> 0:31:14.880 then I want the one the death mount rushmore comic View, 0:31:15.600 --> 0:31:18.560 oh Man, Deaf Comedy Jam. Of course you have to 0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:24.480 start with Martin ham Burger Burger Burger. Uh. You know 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:27.640 Bill Bellamy came out with Booty Call Ye And of 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:29.800 course you can't talk about that if you don't say 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:32.560 Bernie mca ain't scared of you. That was the hottest 0:31:32.680 --> 0:31:35.880 a they'll givens the weal and the ticktock. Ady'll givens 0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:41.120 Bernie mack uh who had a good set like with 0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:45.600 ripped Death Comedy Jam up Hucky Doug Uh what shocking 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:48.640 Duck was big on b on BT comany. That's when 0:31:49.480 --> 0:31:51.920 Rack rack when he blew up. But all of those 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:55.040 coming JB Smooth from Death Coming Baby Smooth, Sleep on 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:58.360 my Couch with Sharyl London, wouldn't coming view or death 0:31:58.360 --> 0:32:01.160 Comedies don't come again? Okay she can she she class 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:04.000 of ninety four. Right, I did Deaf Jam in ninety three, 0:32:04.320 --> 0:32:06.080 but Saryl Underwood and all of them they came in 0:32:06.200 --> 0:32:10.040 ninety four like a year later. Henry Watch had a 0:32:10.160 --> 0:32:12.520 real good set. Uh. He does shows with Mike Epps. 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:16.200 One of the funniest comedians in the country. But uh yeah, 0:32:16.480 --> 0:32:20.200 now b et uh b et you got on ja 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:24.800 Ja killed it on on on Deaf Comedy. Yeah as well. 0:32:25.280 --> 0:32:30.520 H Gary Owen earthquake, earthquake. Wait, that's a dog. That's 0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:35.920 you know what I'm saying, U earthquake? Uh some more, Yeah, 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.520 you know, and all of the guy luster Berry, all 0:32:38.560 --> 0:32:40.960 of the guys that hosted County said was the second 0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:45.160 host d O Hughley was he original host of Beet Comedy. Yeah, 0:32:45.200 --> 0:32:47.200 so you had a lot of talent that uh you 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:50.040 know to come from from the et comtedy. So yeah, 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:52.720 those are some of the goats. Do you think there'll 0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:57.239 ever be another comic view or deaf comedy jam? Uh, 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:00.440 I don't. I don't know. Sh It'll have to die 0:33:00.480 --> 0:33:06.160 down because comedy is so sometimes it feels oversaturated, h 0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:09.560 or whatever. In order for it to be special, it 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:13.680 have to kind of die down for a minute in 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:16.080 boom kind of like all the movies and stuff, right 0:33:16.120 --> 0:33:18.320 thinking during the remake, yes or whatever, it would. It 0:33:18.360 --> 0:33:20.800 would be hard because now you got phones, people have 0:33:21.000 --> 0:33:23.960 more options than they had back then. But you know what, 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:25.880 it's hard or not. Now that you mentioned that, it's 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:28.560 harder to tell a joke more than once because everything 0:33:28.720 --> 0:33:31.080 is recorded. Yeah, so now you know I'll be used 0:33:31.080 --> 0:33:33.600 to get away. You could do it. Yeah, you just 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:35.840 added I still do Little Darrel right now and then, 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:38.000 but I do it different, right, So I mentioned Little 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:40.880 Darren as a recap, right, and then put a spin 0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:43.160 on it and then do something totally different using the 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:46.760 same character that they love. You mentioned earlier that you're 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:49.280 about to do a Netflix special. Is that kind of direction? 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.480 Because Chappelle came back in twenty sixteen. I think he 0:33:51.600 --> 0:33:53.920 signed a deal. Yeah, it was reported. I don't know 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:55.600 how true it is that Eddie Murphy has signed a 0:33:55.640 --> 0:33:58.280 deal with Netflix. He's gonna do a series on Netflix. 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:03.360 Earthquake had one which was spot was fired. Yeah if 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:06.840 that kind oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah. By 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:10.200 the way, Dean Cole, I gave Dan Cole his first job, 0:34:11.360 --> 0:34:13.680 his first writing job, and Dean Cole we used to 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:15.919 do colleges together back in the day. It's it's crazy 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:18.759 because everybody was in this van. I remember Dan Cole 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:21.239 sitting in the backseat of the van, said in the 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:24.239 front of the van, and everybody's like famous now, right, 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:27.839 and it's just so amazing to me. But uh yeah, 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:30.560 I haven't done it special. I did a BT special 0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:34.960 alive stand up on Beet called Open Casking Sharp, but 0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:37.680 it was like thirteen years ago. So now it's time 0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:40.840 to come back with some new heats, you know, some flavor. 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:43.000 You know, I still got it cause I kind of 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:46.879 settled in the radio, but I still perform low key, right, 0:34:47.160 --> 0:34:49.239 So just to kind of put something out that people 0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:50.600 have been asking me to do. Do you write your 0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:53.040 own material? Do you have some writers? I have writers 0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:55.440 for this special to help me punch up the material 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:58.320 that I have. Uh, David Arnold was helping me before 0:34:58.360 --> 0:35:03.200 he passed away. Chris Chris Spencer is gonna be helping 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:07.000 me out. Comedian LaVar Walker Special k other guys helping 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:09.279 me put it together. So I got basic stuff, but 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:11.520 they're just gonna take the stuff that I have and 0:35:11.680 --> 0:35:14.120 punch it up, punch it up and make it really funny. 0:35:14.440 --> 0:35:17.360 Do you think it's harder or easier now for comedians 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:21.480 to get on harder? Really? Even with all the avenues 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:23.160 you got social media, because you see a lot of 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:25.080 these guys they kind of get their start on social 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:28.440 Young DC, Young Fly. Yeah. See haha, Davis. And you 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:31.680 see like Dasy Banks is like flooded. Oh yeah, Well, 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:33.440 if you get on social media and you do some 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:38.200 good sketches, yes, some funny sketches or whatever that would 0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:40.680 get you on. But you're doing sketches, right, but you 0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:42.799 have to catch up in the comedy club. Yeah, because 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:44.600 you can't dottch, you can't do the sketches. You gotta 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:47.400 learn how to perform, right. So I think, uh, we 0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:50.200 had to learn how to perform first and then catch 0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:52.839 up with social media, right as with day Banks now 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:55.160 they blew up on social media and they had to 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:59.120 catch up and get a rhythm on stage as to 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:01.600 how to perform right. And they're really doing a good job. 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:05.879 I just did some shows with be Simone, just hilarious. Yeah. 0:36:06.600 --> 0:36:09.400 D Ray who who who? I don't get along with. 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:11.400 I do a lot of shows. D I don't know 0:36:11.400 --> 0:36:14.359 why the Dray David? Yeah, he bothers me. It why 0:36:14.400 --> 0:36:16.799 he bothers you? Just annoying? He because he got life, 0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:21.359 get he got good yeah, Hazel live stuff. And then 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:23.480 he always in my dressing room making fun of my 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:25.920 clothes and my outfit. He'd be like, you know, like 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:27.799 the last time I we did a show like, man, 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.799 I wear this on the plane, you know. Yeah, yeah, 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:32.520 I like my outfit that I'm talking down to your 0:36:33.440 --> 0:36:35.800 get up down about my outfit, like dyah. He texts 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:38.040 me he has harassed me. I blocked him on several numbers. 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:40.920 I don't know how, and he just but that's that's 0:36:41.040 --> 0:36:42.920 that's you know, there's two people. I don't like him, 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:49.480 d Ray Davids, both of 'em. Ricky, why did you 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:51.600 stay in the South? You had, you had an opportunity. 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:53.880 You did a couple of movies. Weren't talking about peaches, 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:57.840 the peaches, peaches pages. I knew you were talking the 0:36:57.880 --> 0:36:59.680 one to Grow on the tree. Yeah, no, you ain't 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:01.759 talking if you know what Seth Bell. But there I 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:06.000 hear not. They're not as good as you. Like neighborhoods. 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:09.400 I like neighborhoods whatever. But in Alabama, and man, let 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:12.200 me tell you about the South. Man, I don't know, man, 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:15.920 it's just it's different. You can come to LA and 0:37:16.320 --> 0:37:20.600 you can go to New York. Ain't nothing like simplicity, right, 0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:24.960 A quiet like people speaking, tell your people nice, how 0:37:25.040 --> 0:37:29.000 you're doing? Good food? Chef. I'm a hell of a cook. 0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:31.720 Man you know what you want some chicken and dumplings. 0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:34.040 You told me that you want some time I see you, know, 0:37:34.160 --> 0:37:37.400 I follow you every time. I see you, always cooking something. Always. 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:39.920 You ain't got that many people in your eyes to 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.000 be cooking like that. You cook like you got family 0:37:42.040 --> 0:37:44.800 reunions I have. I have four kids, and then I 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:46.719 raised a lot of nieces in this I know. Yeah. 0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:50.040 I had a house fool my chicken and dumplings, my green, 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:52.640 my sauteed greens. I had a cooking show on Fox, 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:56.719 on Fox Soul. I had a cooking show. Absolutely, shan 0:37:56.840 --> 0:37:59.160 I get down in it. Okay, what what's what's your 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:02.560 what's the chicken? Chicken and dumblings? Everybody liked the chicken 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:04.520 and your grandma made him right. Yeah, I know it. 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:06.560 So you like chicken and dumb Yeah, next time you 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:08.800 come to the South, I'll meet you in Atlanta, Okay, 0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:10.680 and I'll bring you a pot of chicken and dumblings. 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:14.760 People go, they square bine. I put celery and carrots 0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:17.880 in there. Well that's chicken dumble. I hope you put 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:19.840 that in the rig. Yeah, absolutely, okay, I make the 0:38:19.840 --> 0:38:22.840 best chicken and dumblings. Okay, what else I have a 0:38:22.880 --> 0:38:26.600 good fried chicken recipe, my collar greens. I do a 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:29.759 great thing. I make a good corn bread dressing, not 0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:34.680 stuffing dressing, right, I make good dressing, good turkey wings, 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:39.280 anything anything southern I have. I take a cooking class. Okay, 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:41.400 so I can do gumbo. I can do shrimp at 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:43.759 the face. I also can cook Italian. I make my 0:38:43.840 --> 0:38:46.759 own tomato sauce from scratch. I will boiled tomatoes a 0:38:46.840 --> 0:38:50.040 big pot of tomatoes for three hours, make a sauce pans, 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:53.640 put a sauce pan with my butter, my wine, my seasonally. 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:56.400 I have a food processor and put it off, and 0:38:56.480 --> 0:38:57.880 I draw all of my stuff up. So when I 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:03.239 make Lazegna spaghetti, I made my own song from scratch. Shunning, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:05.520 don't come on here and try to No. No, I'm 0:39:05.520 --> 0:39:08.000 just sasition your questions. No, no, no, no, I didn't 0:39:08.040 --> 0:39:10.520 know I have doubt in your mind. Shutting. I'm sorry 0:39:10.560 --> 0:39:13.440 for the surprise of my voice. Okay, Shannon, you act 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:22.840 like what you're not married. I was what happened twelve 0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:26.480 years career took off, and uh, you ain't gonna brab me. 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:28.239 You when you would nobody when you were driving that 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:30.680 seventy nine colors, she was righting that with you when 0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:32.480 you read it. When you was the problem, she wouldn't 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:36.880 help me dry. That's that's one of the things that 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:39.320 actually stick out of my mind. Hey baby, can you 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:42.720 get the wheel for an hour? I got to perform 0:39:42.880 --> 0:39:50.000 and and oh man, that was before they started doing this, 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:54.640 before they started grabbing there. Yeah. Man, it's just hard 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:57.120 to have a relationship, man, you all over the place. 0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:02.000 I just from me, Shannon and Jesus Christ himself. Gonna 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:03.719 have to walk her up on the porter, said Ricky. 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.839 She is now Jay. I dated Juicy for a little while. 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:10.600 That didn't work out. Juicy just from the morning from 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.239 the Little Women at Lanta. No you didn't. Yeah, just 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:16.919 for a hot knit it didn't. We went to Appa 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:18.840 Bees and that was that was that was. That was 0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:21.959 a short relationship. Was that didn't left. I ain't gonna 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:25.239 do I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. You're saying, 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:29.080 you say, nope, nope, no, no. We went question I 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:31.200 first date the Apper Bees and the lady bought a 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:34.520 coloring book and crayons over there. It did what happened 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:37.680 but as a grown woman, man, you capable, and they 0:40:37.680 --> 0:40:41.640 didn't know that. They didn't know you should have. I 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:43.920 tried to explain that the lady started crying because she 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:47.080 felt like she offended her. She did, yes, she did. 0:40:47.239 --> 0:40:49.960 But then everybody standing in the APPA bes wonder when 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:52.200 I was putting in the baby car seat, take her 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:56.680 back home, then you go with your food. But I 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:58.600 heard you said. I don't know if it's true. It 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:00.560 was reported that you said, I don't want to be 0:41:00.600 --> 0:41:05.479 as big as Kevin Hart because, yeah, I like my life. 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:08.560 I like the simplicity of my life. Now I'm I'm 0:41:08.880 --> 0:41:13.160 happy for Kevin Hard, Chris rock Nation. I just couldn't imagine. Yeah, 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:17.800 the pressure, the pressure to deliver right in the work schedule, 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:20.200 the workload. I mean, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:24.080 a crazy schedule. Kevin Hart is in every commercial, every movie, 0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:27.360 on the radio. Yeah, he gotta he got his uh, 0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:30.680 he got his his podcast, Yeah, cold his balls, he's 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:35.600 doing this thing, uh something, but la husband everything. Yeah, yeah, 0:41:35.840 --> 0:41:38.239 shutting shutting up for me. Man, you know, I'm fifty four. 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:41.200 I was on the road every weekend for years. I've 0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:43.920 been performing for thirty three years. Right, I feel like 0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:45.840 I don't have anything else to prove. I want to 0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:47.600 do it if I enjoy doing it. I just don't 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:49.640 want the pressure. I just want to sit back in 0:41:49.680 --> 0:41:51.319 the show. I want to go to a football game. 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:53.879 I want to go, you know, go to an Alabama State, 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:56.759 Alabama A and the Magic City Classic. You know, go 0:41:56.920 --> 0:42:01.120 watch Alabama and Auburn. Do you travel with security? Nah? 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:04.040 But thank God for the COVID masks, because boy it works. 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:05.960 I can get in and up and I got the 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:08.279 one with the fisherman. Weare around the next Yeah, I 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:10.040 pull it all the way up the right here and 0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:12.920 have my hat pulled down. I can go anywhere. You 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:18.560 got that from Friday next Friday, Friday after next. All 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:21.160 I needed to set across added on the white wood. Yeah. 0:42:21.400 --> 0:42:24.440 But uh, that actually worked. Man. That that has allowed 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:29.120 me unbelievable freedom to go anywhere, anywhere and not be 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:32.440 not be noticed. That's on days if I don't want to, right, 0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:35.279 if I'm just trying to have some products, right or whatever. 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:37.800 But man, I enjoy a fishing man. I know she 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:39.680 told me I would sitting on the beach. I get 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:41.319 off the air at eight thirty in the morning, if 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:42.880 I do the morning shop from for a lad of 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.080 Dale and we'll sit on the beach all day for 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:49.399 a week, every single day drive over the Beminy you know, uh, 0:42:49.800 --> 0:42:52.239 because I'm a I'm a boat captain, right, and I 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:54.560 drive over to the Muhammas across the ocean. I went 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:58.520 through storms. I'm talking about where you getting like four 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:01.840 to five foot way he's coming at your boat and 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:05.480 just having to the state of course and make it 0:43:05.520 --> 0:43:07.120 to an island or try to make it back to 0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:10.080 the United States or whatever. Man, i'd be out there 0:43:10.160 --> 0:43:12.440 doing some adventures stuff. I've been taking flying lessons so 0:43:12.480 --> 0:43:17.040 I can fly boat captain. Just just I'm just having 0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:20.759 some nice relaxing experiences. Well you always disadventurous, and well 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:23.600 you disadventurous as a child, or did you just become 0:43:23.680 --> 0:43:26.560 this way when I when I became an adult, I 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:30.319 started getting no, we started getting money stuff you got 0:43:30.440 --> 0:43:33.080 to call money to have a boat. Well, well, even 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:35.680 as a child, man, I played nine different instruments. I 0:43:35.760 --> 0:43:38.040 played the bass, guitar, I played a drum, I played 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:40.160 the trumpet, the baritone in the Frenchman of the two book, 0:43:40.400 --> 0:43:43.320 the piano and the organ. And I read music so 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:45.920 I'm a musician. Wow, so I could sit at the piano. 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:48.200 I was a numbers of music at a church for years. 0:43:48.560 --> 0:43:51.080 I played basketball. Didn't make the basketball team, but a 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:53.160 damn sure made the football team. You see, I did 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:55.680 sit down football. Why we gotta come back while we 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:59.120 gotta played? Doing so good? The interview with you ask anybody, 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.000 ask anybody in him I played football or Shannon. The 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:04.120 interview was going so well. It was Floyd beautiful. It's 0:44:04.120 --> 0:44:06.160 still I love the way we were transitioning, getting in 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:08.960 and out of topic. We're in a sports building. Go 0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:12.319 get a football right now, Go round a dead route 0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:14.560 and watch when you turn around, it's in your chest. 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:19.400 Go round a post corner, run a post, hit that corner, 0:44:19.680 --> 0:44:22.200 turn around. I promise you it will be right there. Ricky, 0:44:22.320 --> 0:44:24.920 you fifty four, you don't mind throw a football to 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.960 thirty years. I'm a son that played college ball. Not you. 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:31.120 You don't play collegeball. He does, You don't throw the football? 0:44:31.840 --> 0:44:36.920 I do. I do, Shannon, I still Shannon when I'm backstage. 0:44:37.360 --> 0:44:39.400 Before I go on stage before him, guess one of 0:44:39.440 --> 0:44:43.560 my rituals warming up with a football. Mike Epps said, 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:45.239 I get you ready to go on the stage, Mike 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:49.160 it because it's just get me loose. Mike ELPs DC 0:44:49.360 --> 0:44:52.440 Young Flying. We had to pick up flag football game 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:55.879 backstage before a show in Houston. Mike Ether was like, damn, 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:57.400 ain't know you could throw like this and know you 0:44:57.480 --> 0:44:59.440 had an arm like this. I have an arm. Don't 0:44:59.440 --> 0:45:02.439 get a football, but stop talking about it. We ain't 0:45:02.440 --> 0:45:04.960 got no footballs here. Yes, your dude, we're in the 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:08.080 spot all all these shows, y'all ever in the Fox build. 0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:13.360 You have Fox Studio football downstairs, and you are at 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:15.600 the RAMS facility. We don't have football here. We have 0:45:15.680 --> 0:45:18.240 the cameras, we have microphones. Do get a college football. 0:45:18.239 --> 0:45:20.440 I'll show you can't throw the NFL ball, but I 0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:22.840 can throw the college football. You stole the show in 0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:26.920 Friday after then Friday after next? Yeah, how was that expelled? 0:45:27.080 --> 0:45:30.480 Why we go through this? Man? Brothers? I believe we 0:45:30.520 --> 0:45:34.319 were related, But go ahead. You're originally supposed to play 0:45:34.560 --> 0:45:38.160 Kat Williams character. Yes, and Kat Williams supposed to play 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:41.880 Mike character, and somebody said no, we want you to 0:45:41.960 --> 0:45:46.640 play mikelau right, and then yeah, because Kat william was 0:45:46.719 --> 0:45:49.920 gonna be the Santa Claus, right, and then uh, and 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:52.560 they switched it over, right, because I when I auditioned, 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:55.759 I auditioned for Mighty Mike. Right. You know what when 0:45:55.760 --> 0:45:57.960 I went in there to audition, I'm at the toilet 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:00.960 when when Kat Williams to use the bath room, that 0:46:01.040 --> 0:46:02.680 was that was That's the line I had to use 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:05.560 the audition. So they switched it up. So I'm like, yeah, 0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:08.840 I could do this Santa Claus role Friday. Uh you know, 0:46:09.280 --> 0:46:11.440 but I didn't know that because I did my role 0:46:11.640 --> 0:46:14.800 like in four days, right, they shot all my stuff 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:17.879 in four days. I went back to Birmingham came back 0:46:17.920 --> 0:46:20.560 out because they changed the ending. Did you know that? No? 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:22.799 I didn't know, you know, the ending, but they got 0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:25.799 the fighting or whatever. The ending was me giving out 0:46:26.280 --> 0:46:29.920 Santa Claus giving out presents to his kids. So the 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:32.600 test audists didn't like the way it ended, so they 0:46:32.719 --> 0:46:34.960 changed the ending, so I had to come back. The 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:38.480 scariest thing was laying down in front of that limousine 0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:43.920 and you better hope and pray that he got it 0:46:44.080 --> 0:46:48.279 on dry and not reversed, because that was real. But 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:51.560 I had to really lay there while that limousine peeled off. 0:46:52.080 --> 0:46:54.359 So they they allowed me to get up about three 0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:56.880 or four times to go and look at it to 0:46:57.000 --> 0:46:58.880 make sure. I said, go up, I put in reverse. 0:46:59.160 --> 0:47:00.920 I said, put it in dry. I put it in 0:47:01.000 --> 0:47:02.560 verta time. I got comfortable, I said, okay, let's go 0:47:02.560 --> 0:47:05.319 and say, hey, we're gonna do this one time. One time. 0:47:05.680 --> 0:47:08.520 So they actually did it twice and that was scary. 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:11.800 And the part where the Santa Claus got with the 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:14.080 clothes line right when we were laying on the ground. 0:47:14.080 --> 0:47:18.200 We was in a real backyard somewhere south of La Shannon. 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:22.840 Why was maggots in the dirt when was somebody's backyard 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:28.279 for real? The dirt was infested with maggots, like real talk. 0:47:28.360 --> 0:47:31.120 I had to lay down there, right. So that was 0:47:31.200 --> 0:47:33.319 a stunt man that did the clothes line the fall, 0:47:33.840 --> 0:47:36.040 but I had to pick up where he was already down. 0:47:36.520 --> 0:47:39.799 And I'm laying down and I'm looking and I see 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:45.640 maggots in the dirt. True story, it was disgusting. Did 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:47.400 you know you had hit it out the part when 0:47:47.440 --> 0:47:50.120 you did this role? I had no idea, never seen 0:47:50.239 --> 0:47:53.160 the movie, never read the whole script. Friday after next 0:47:53.239 --> 0:47:55.399 come out, I get my kids. Where we going? We're 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:57.520 going into the movies we're going to see Friday after next. 0:47:57.719 --> 0:47:59.919 I have a small role in the movie the movie 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:02.439 Come On, and it starts out with me right first 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:04.640 of all, to see some more name on the screen 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:09.279 done DC Curry and then Ricky smiling, and people in 0:48:09.360 --> 0:48:11.960 the theater store clapped because we're in Birmingham, but they 0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:14.360 didn't know I was in the theater right. And the 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.399 movie go on. Santa Claus get hit by the car 0:48:17.480 --> 0:48:19.359 and my kids started crying. I had to take them 0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:23.400 out side tell him that I was okay, right, and 0:48:25.360 --> 0:48:27.920 and then everybody realized I was in the theater showing 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:32.440 right and start clapping. Everybody was proud. That was the 0:48:32.440 --> 0:48:35.279 first big movie. Then I end up doing uh first 0:48:35.360 --> 0:48:39.080 Sunday yep H with David E. Talbert and I actually 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:43.440 was in the movie with Ice cuping Mike else all 0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:46.080 about the Benjamin. They cut the card out because they 0:48:46.160 --> 0:48:48.759 rewrote it right. But I was snitch Mitch in that 0:48:48.880 --> 0:48:53.080 movie when you did you? Did you freestyle any lines 0:48:53.320 --> 0:48:56.600 because you like Cube saying I have you in this 0:48:56.719 --> 0:48:58.800 movie because I just want Ricky smiling. I want you 0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:01.640 to be you. But here's the base, here's what you 0:49:01.719 --> 0:49:04.480 need to say. Here's what's happening. You're robbing them, right, 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:07.600 he said, don't talk over each other. Everybody just stopped 0:49:07.640 --> 0:49:10.279 talking over each other, like, and once we got it together, 0:49:10.320 --> 0:49:12.600 we shot it a couple of times, running down the 0:49:12.680 --> 0:49:16.680 alley all that stuff or whatever, so it was it 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:18.960 was easy. What made you hit the don cause you 0:49:19.040 --> 0:49:21.160 hit the d man. I was a fan of that. Oh, 0:49:21.239 --> 0:49:25.480 I was a fan. I've been doing that since, even 0:49:25.600 --> 0:49:27.080 doing it right, you know what I'm saying, Like, like 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:29.120 the guys do the grit like I go on stage 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:32.160 right now, I do the gritty right I come on stage, man, 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:35.640 I'll be killing that gritty like like when I'm like, 0:49:35.880 --> 0:49:42.920 I thought, you say you appropriate. My son is a 0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:46.200 college athlete. I can do the gritty. I can do 0:49:46.320 --> 0:49:48.520 the gritty. I'm not gonna do the prep. I'm not 0:49:48.680 --> 0:49:52.120 gonna be washing machine. I can do the duggy. I 0:49:52.160 --> 0:49:55.560 would kill the duggy right now. I had no rick. 0:49:55.640 --> 0:49:58.279 But you that's saying appropriate, Shun. You still got to 0:49:58.360 --> 0:50:01.320 be be relatable in help. I'm I'm fifty four, but 0:50:01.440 --> 0:50:04.640 fifty four it's not old you until you beginning to 0:50:04.680 --> 0:50:06.680 have my shirt tuned to my pants have an adult 0:50:06.760 --> 0:50:09.480 diaper home na, I don't care about the adult diving, 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:12.200 but you should have one jeans and hard about Stacy Adams. No, sir, 0:50:13.120 --> 0:50:16.360 come up, you know what? Okay, First of all, I 0:50:16.560 --> 0:50:18.719 changed clothing in your dressing room. You did. I just 0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:21.520 see one pair of Stacy Adams in your dressing room. Nah? 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:24.160 You so I saw your shoes. Yeah, so don't play 0:50:24.160 --> 0:50:28.399 with me. Say keep it moving. You see y'all see 0:50:28.440 --> 0:50:30.359 money over here? Trying to do I keep people out 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:34.919 of my dress. He got shut. I saw your shoes. Okay, okay, 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:36.880 we're gonna leave it at that. I mean it was 0:50:37.040 --> 0:50:42.000 one pair of ninety clouds of joy. Their shoes in there, 0:50:42.360 --> 0:50:45.319 those square toe gamers. No, none of that stuff. All 0:50:45.400 --> 0:50:49.880 of those shoes was full gossip. Yeah, okay, yeah, the 0:50:49.920 --> 0:50:52.000 residual checks. Do you do you want to do any 0:50:52.040 --> 0:50:53.839 more movies? Would you like to do any more movies? 0:50:53.920 --> 0:50:55.439 Or you like I'm done? I didn't have my share. 0:50:55.560 --> 0:50:57.719 I mean, if there's a situation where I could get 0:50:57.760 --> 0:51:00.520 in and out, like like when I was in baggage plane, right, 0:51:00.920 --> 0:51:02.560 I threw the la and shot that and one day 0:51:02.560 --> 0:51:04.400 and got on the plane and left, and the way 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:06.680 David E. Talbot and land Talbert was some of the 0:51:06.760 --> 0:51:10.360 best producers in the in the in La they spread 0:51:10.400 --> 0:51:12.759 it out through the whole movie. Right, So I like 0:51:12.920 --> 0:51:15.480 to like situation where I can get in, shoot, do 0:51:15.560 --> 0:51:17.759 what I have to do. But but sitting in a 0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:20.480 trailer all day every day. It don't mix with a 0:51:20.600 --> 0:51:23.000 D H D. Right, because I had it right though. 0:51:23.520 --> 0:51:24.719 You know what I'm saying, you Bean, You know how 0:51:24.760 --> 0:51:26.399 you'd be talking to somebody talking to you too long? 0:51:26.920 --> 0:51:29.560 Your brain, your brain go to commercial. Yeah, you talking 0:51:29.560 --> 0:51:34.359 to liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty, got you, you know, yeah, 0:51:34.760 --> 0:51:36.480 talking to me over two minute like e moo e 0:51:36.680 --> 0:51:42.840 moo and Doug, I'm looking at you. In First Sunday, 0:51:43.000 --> 0:51:46.440 Ice c Tracy Morgan can't Waga Hall, the Redder, Divine, 0:51:46.520 --> 0:51:48.839 Red Grand I went, I played football, Red Red Grand 0:51:48.920 --> 0:51:50.839 was on the team of State. Yeah yeah, shout out 0:51:50.840 --> 0:51:53.200 of the Red Grand, Red Grand Happy belated Founders Day. 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:56.279 You know Red Grand and Capel Yeah he capit Yeah, yeah, 0:51:56.360 --> 0:51:59.520 yeah yeah. Red Grand is running from may in Dyeah. 0:51:59.520 --> 0:52:01.920 That's one of the good yes bag you claiming with 0:52:01.960 --> 0:52:04.680 Paula Patton, Laura Lunn and Jail Scott Christy and A Milliard. 0:52:05.480 --> 0:52:09.400 I mean boys, kJ chens J. I mean, bro, I 0:52:09.440 --> 0:52:12.719 mean you don't want to play football. This man here. 0:52:12.760 --> 0:52:14.879 We just won't give it up her because you won't 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:17.239 let it. I want you to respect the fact. See, 0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:19.280 you just respect the fact that I can throw a football. 0:52:19.440 --> 0:52:21.920 Still I stopped talking. Okay, well you know what you boy? 0:52:21.960 --> 0:52:24.560 You okay, okay, okay. You know when you you interview 0:52:24.680 --> 0:52:27.879 Dan y'all went on the football I gotta workout video 0:52:27.960 --> 0:52:31.360 with Kevin Ridley when he was playing that Bama. I 0:52:31.440 --> 0:52:34.439 went to the side plays like, yeah, you're kidding. I said, okay, 0:52:34.480 --> 0:52:36.280 do a five and out. He's turning around that balls 0:52:36.320 --> 0:52:38.279 like that. I got the video on my Instagram. I 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:40.800 show it to you. You No, I'm good. You know 0:52:40.880 --> 0:52:42.960 I was a comedian you know before I played football. Yea, 0:52:42.960 --> 0:52:46.520 I did stand up where the same place you played football. 0:52:48.800 --> 0:52:52.320 In my mind, hold on, I'm gonna send you to 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:53.839 pay I got your I'm gonna send you the picture. Okay, 0:52:53.840 --> 0:52:57.080 I'm gonna show you you do all about the Benjamins. 0:52:57.520 --> 0:52:59.640 He was like, you guys are people over there laughing 0:53:01.239 --> 0:53:08.120 your staff people, people, people Hollywood over there laughing by people, 0:53:08.320 --> 0:53:11.399 and you're boy from St. Louis over here, your people, man, 0:53:11.480 --> 0:53:15.160 they go ahead, shan. So when they told you that, 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:17.480 but you guy, you already got paid. I mean obviously 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:18.480 you wanted to be in there, but they had them 0:53:18.520 --> 0:53:20.680 cut the checks. So you straight when they cut you 0:53:20.719 --> 0:53:22.640 out of all of my the benjaments, Oh yeah, yeah, 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:25.600 that was a good opportunity to be with icequ Yeah. 0:53:26.360 --> 0:53:30.279 It wasn't nothing personal right against me. They rewrote, so 0:53:30.560 --> 0:53:33.879 my part didn't make sense. But Q was like, rick, 0:53:33.960 --> 0:53:36.400 I got something else for you. And then I end 0:53:36.520 --> 0:53:39.439 up doing uh first Sunday. But you know what I'm saying. 0:53:39.440 --> 0:53:42.600 I had a sitcom too on TV one with Ray Jr. 0:53:42.880 --> 0:53:45.040 So I had that show, and then I had a 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:48.160 reality show that was six seasons I called Ricky Smiling 0:53:48.239 --> 0:53:51.000 for Real with my Morning showing my kids. So I 0:53:51.120 --> 0:53:53.239 had a lot of a lot of stuff. I still 0:53:53.280 --> 0:53:54.880 don't understand how you find all the time to do 0:53:54.960 --> 0:53:57.400 all this shout up. I just do I do. I 0:53:57.480 --> 0:54:01.440 consolidate and compartmentalize. Okay, that's so important. I get the 0:54:01.480 --> 0:54:05.279 compartmentalization of it, yes, but but but I just kind 0:54:05.280 --> 0:54:09.920 of do everything like January February marks, right, those are 0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:12.720 your those are your busy months. I will grind okay, 0:54:13.000 --> 0:54:15.320 none stop okay, But a lot of people don't understand. 0:54:15.320 --> 0:54:16.759 When I get off the air man, I'll take a 0:54:16.840 --> 0:54:20.120 three hour nap. Right, I'll go back home and get 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:23.680 in the bed, let the blinds down, get under the 0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:27.040 cover and go to sleep. Right, turn the phone off. 0:54:27.440 --> 0:54:29.359 I don't do this cell phone, my cell phone never, 0:54:29.440 --> 0:54:31.640 and my ring will stay off twenty four seven. Right, 0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:34.320 I got my phone set, so my mama call, or 0:54:34.560 --> 0:54:37.560 my son in college call whatever, it'll ring or whatever. 0:54:37.920 --> 0:54:41.719 But let's just be cash up with them college. I 0:54:41.719 --> 0:54:43.560 have a daughter at bell or a son at Alabamas. 0:54:43.600 --> 0:54:45.400 I got two scenes. I got two born in college. 0:54:45.800 --> 0:54:49.440 But I have the discipline to say no, right. I 0:54:49.560 --> 0:54:51.960 have a discipline to create space for myself, to give 0:54:52.040 --> 0:54:54.360 me time to think. And sometime I wake up, I 0:54:54.560 --> 0:54:58.400 go through my text messages and respond from important to 0:54:58.560 --> 0:55:01.440 less important, from how you during the day, just checking 0:55:01.520 --> 0:55:03.480 on you, to hey I need an answer right now 0:55:03.800 --> 0:55:05.719 this that and we need to make a decision. That's 0:55:05.760 --> 0:55:07.160 how I do. I'd be going through by texts are 0:55:07.239 --> 0:55:12.120 like kay, hey, yeah, yeah, man, you know exactly all 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:14.879 that all that like, no, I ain't been no text, 0:55:14.920 --> 0:55:19.520 No I can't I just yeah, it'd be too much. Bro. 0:55:19.800 --> 0:55:24.800 Yeah you like group chat? No I don't either. No, No, 0:55:24.920 --> 0:55:26.879 it's too because see, now you're getting all this spense, 0:55:26.920 --> 0:55:30.200 especially when yeah, brom that you don't know. Yeah, I'm 0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:32.160 talking to you. I ain't trying to get everybody in 0:55:32.400 --> 0:55:34.359 all these people in the all people do the people 0:55:34.440 --> 0:55:37.920 in their sixties the group group text. Only people in 0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:40.920 their sixties and seventies do stuff like that. What do 0:55:41.000 --> 0:55:43.920 you like more? Radio? Stand up movies, reality TV? Sitcom? 0:55:43.920 --> 0:55:46.040 Because you've been in all, You've been in them all. Well, 0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:50.279 you know I do like reality TV because you like drama. Nah, 0:55:51.120 --> 0:55:53.200 I didn't you see I didn't need the feel it 0:55:53.280 --> 0:55:55.080 on my show. I didn't see the sitcom because I 0:55:55.160 --> 0:55:59.200 was about to ask you, are you like Housewives of Atlanta? Uh? 0:56:00.200 --> 0:56:04.600 Believe it or not, Shannon, You're gonna cringe. My favorite 0:56:04.640 --> 0:56:07.600 TV show that I watched all day. Yeah, first forty eight, 0:56:08.080 --> 0:56:10.040 I like the first forty and two. I can't snippy 0:56:10.040 --> 0:56:12.799 snitch Y'll be dry snitching like mug. It be well 0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:16.120 chieved Burger. They'd be telling him everything. In churches that 0:56:16.640 --> 0:56:20.880 it'd be that damn that damn hunted biscuit churches that. 0:56:22.120 --> 0:56:25.120 You know, I had had churches chicken since eighty since 0:56:25.200 --> 0:56:27.839 eighty two. Yeah, I don't think I've had church of Chicken. 0:56:28.600 --> 0:56:30.040 I mean, if I'm gonna your chicken out, I'm probably 0:56:30.040 --> 0:56:32.560 gonna be Krispy Chicken. I like Chrispy Chicken. Christma Chicken 0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:34.600 is good. I like the papers have been public. You 0:56:34.680 --> 0:56:38.120 want public chicken down and chicken that they fight sh 0:56:38.680 --> 0:56:41.360 and the cakes and they and they desserts and they 0:56:41.480 --> 0:56:44.520 they bakery, yeah, off the chain. But they got chris 0:56:44.719 --> 0:56:47.120 Chicken la. Anybody know they got Chrispy Chick out. But 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:50.880 when my granddad's sister, my grandfather's sister died, yea, they 0:56:51.000 --> 0:56:53.080 had a church's chicken head just can't was banging in 0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:56.520 the eighties, and uh it was that repath yeah, and 0:56:56.560 --> 0:56:59.840 the lady was like, do you want this piece or 0:57:00.080 --> 0:57:02.640 that piece? I said that piece. Back then they wasn't 0:57:02.920 --> 0:57:06.320 wearing rubber gloves. Yeah. And later had a fringdom missing, 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:09.560 and the old lady had a little dark spot right 0:57:09.600 --> 0:57:12.440 there and she grabbed a chicken like that and she 0:57:12.520 --> 0:57:14.680 put it on my plate and it's and it's all 0:57:14.719 --> 0:57:18.680 I saw you done with you you done with church 0:57:18.760 --> 0:57:20.880 and sleep that night but I didn't eat that chicken, 0:57:21.080 --> 0:57:23.080 and I hadn't had a sense because every time I 0:57:23.160 --> 0:57:28.160 see churches chicken, it's all I see coming back. You 0:57:28.360 --> 0:57:32.160 roll for this man, You're roll of all the impressions 0:57:32.200 --> 0:57:35.840 that you've done. What is your favorite one? Uh? I 0:57:35.960 --> 0:57:41.400 have this character little Dad Joe Willie. Joe was my 0:57:41.480 --> 0:57:44.640 favorite Joe Willie, Joe Willie in the Du the Roumannaires. 0:57:44.760 --> 0:57:51.440 So this is poking fun at the gospel group, the 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:55.040 male male course, like when you and I grew up. Yeah, 0:57:55.080 --> 0:57:59.360 I host a male chorus convention in Augusta, Georgia, every 0:57:59.440 --> 0:58:03.160 year every ye at the Bell Auditorium. And Joe Willie 0:58:03.200 --> 0:58:05.360 and the Du the Romans. Joe Willard is a big 0:58:05.440 --> 0:58:07.320 guy that is real physical. Yeah, but I but all 0:58:07.360 --> 0:58:09.520 the other singers are real all men, right, they're in 0:58:09.600 --> 0:58:12.520 their seventies and eighties in real in real lifefe. Okay, 0:58:12.600 --> 0:58:15.200 but I can sing a little bit, but they sing 0:58:15.320 --> 0:58:18.040 in background and it actually sound good. Right. But Joe 0:58:18.080 --> 0:58:20.560 Willie kind of like in a big suit, kind of 0:58:20.560 --> 0:58:22.880 got got gray hair, got the kind of like professor 0:58:22.920 --> 0:58:25.400 clump a little bit. Okay, but he's moving, he moving, 0:58:25.400 --> 0:58:28.160 he jumping, he's spinning, he doing all this stuff. But 0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:30.200 Joe Willie is my favorite character. That's the one I 0:58:30.280 --> 0:58:32.920 have the most fun with. Right. You you mentioned that 0:58:33.040 --> 0:58:34.960 you could you play like seven instruments. You can play 0:58:34.960 --> 0:58:36.560 the piano. You mentioned that you played the piano, You 0:58:36.640 --> 0:58:38.120 played the organ in the church. You play a lot 0:58:38.120 --> 0:58:40.360 of different instruments. Yeah. Have you ever thought about did 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:43.160 you ever think about doing anything in music? Yeah? My 0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:46.240 goal was shunning the be a musician. But I would 0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:49.040 do a comedy show at choir rehearsal. I would get 0:58:49.120 --> 0:58:51.600 seventy five dollars to play at a small church right 0:58:51.800 --> 0:58:55.040 in Birmingham and end up doing doing imperson nations of 0:58:55.120 --> 0:58:58.360 the pastor or somebody in the church or whatever in 0:58:58.440 --> 0:59:01.640 a comedian name. Uh, Chuckie Jenkins took me over to 0:59:01.720 --> 0:59:04.040 the comedy club one night to watch him right, and 0:59:04.120 --> 0:59:05.600 I was like, I can I think I can do 0:59:05.720 --> 0:59:08.280 that cause I'm funny. Right, everybody said all was funny, 0:59:08.760 --> 0:59:12.080 And I went back a couple of months later and 0:59:12.120 --> 0:59:14.920 then open mic night, right, and then I end up 0:59:14.960 --> 0:59:18.080 opening up for George Wallace. Okay, so that was the 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:20.680 first person I opened up for, right, and then UH 0:59:20.800 --> 0:59:23.560 just kind of just kind of went from there. But 0:59:23.840 --> 0:59:29.000 but yeah, I wanted to be a gospel musician, classical pianists. 0:59:29.040 --> 0:59:32.240 I enjoyed playing the instrument. I've been taking lessons since 0:59:32.280 --> 0:59:34.680 the third grade, and I learned how to play by 0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:36.760 ear when I got to Alabama State because I was 0:59:37.160 --> 0:59:40.040 minoring in music, right or whatever, so I had took 0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:44.360 all these applied piano classes, applied trumpet class or whatever. 0:59:44.480 --> 0:59:46.280 So I was. I was really into me and I 0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:49.240 still am. You know, I'm a big soft rock fan, 0:59:49.440 --> 0:59:53.440 so Stilly Dan, the Eagles, Fleetwood Man. I go to 0:59:53.560 --> 0:59:56.600 every Elton John concert. Sometimes I take off to go 0:59:56.760 --> 0:59:59.520 see Elton John, right or whatever. But but I am 0:59:59.560 --> 1:00:02.880 a big Frankie Beverly and Maids, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder 1:00:03.440 --> 1:00:07.480 or whatever. I love music. Were you funny as a kid? 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:09.600 I mean, cause a lot of people getting getting the comedy, 1:00:10.040 --> 1:00:11.840 you know, so kids don't make fun of them me. 1:00:12.000 --> 1:00:14.720 I talked with a list, So me, I make jokes, 1:00:14.760 --> 1:00:16.960 I have get somebody, I make jokes about somebody else 1:00:16.960 --> 1:00:19.120 who the kids start laughing at them, leave me alone. 1:00:19.360 --> 1:00:21.680 So were you naturally funny as a kid? I was 1:00:21.760 --> 1:00:25.560 a laugher. Okay, yeah, I was a laugher, But I 1:00:26.000 --> 1:00:28.600 started learning how to be funny, so I would watch 1:00:28.680 --> 1:00:31.400 the ones that was actually funny, right, and they still 1:00:31.440 --> 1:00:33.760 funny to this day because we all still hang together. 1:00:33.800 --> 1:00:35.440 I got folks, I hang with that we go back 1:00:35.440 --> 1:00:39.000 to elementary school. Okay, So I'm trying, you know, it 1:00:39.160 --> 1:00:42.120 was trying to figure out how can I put this 1:00:42.200 --> 1:00:45.080 on stage? Because I'm doing plays in piano, so so 1:00:45.280 --> 1:00:47.640 being on stage was nothing for me, right, So let 1:00:47.680 --> 1:00:50.200 me figure out how to be funny on stage? Right? Yeah, 1:00:51.000 --> 1:00:54.080 when all these prank calls, did you ever get in 1:00:54.160 --> 1:00:56.800 trouble for doing making me prank calls? Well? Back then, 1:00:57.360 --> 1:01:00.560 before caller ID, we usually have the phone book, right, 1:01:00.720 --> 1:01:02.680 you know, you spend it out of your cousin house, 1:01:03.120 --> 1:01:06.280 had a phone book open. I got in trouble one time. 1:01:06.400 --> 1:01:10.000 I called my neighbor and taught him and his dad. 1:01:10.080 --> 1:01:13.560 They had won some some tickets to see the Commodoors, 1:01:13.840 --> 1:01:15.880 but they have to be at the radio station thirty minutes. 1:01:16.240 --> 1:01:17.960 And when the summer on the front porch and Washington 1:01:18.000 --> 1:01:20.240 run out of the house, hill out of the driveway. 1:01:21.080 --> 1:01:26.760 But they came back real slope. They came back real slope. Man, 1:01:27.000 --> 1:01:28.560 did they ever know it? Did they know what you did. 1:01:28.600 --> 1:01:32.080 They do now they now they know now, But back 1:01:32.120 --> 1:01:33.680 then I wouldn't say nothing because I ain't want to 1:01:33.720 --> 1:01:37.560 get a whipping. Well why do you think, why why 1:01:37.600 --> 1:01:41.840 do you think you're so relatable, especially the black woman 1:01:41.920 --> 1:01:45.240 Bernie's Jenkins, that voice. Why is it so relatable to 1:01:45.320 --> 1:01:49.480 the black community. Uh cause everybody have a Bernie's Jenkin, 1:01:49.600 --> 1:01:53.800 a Miss Janey or whatever. Everybody knows somebody, right, So 1:01:53.920 --> 1:01:56.040 when you do church annwncing. We grew up in the church. 1:01:56.080 --> 1:01:57.360 You know you had the lady to go up there 1:01:57.720 --> 1:02:00.240 and do the church. Now you read it, man come right, 1:02:00.840 --> 1:02:02.840 so to take the church anoun and just make him 1:02:02.880 --> 1:02:06.640 funny or whatever. And uh, you know, you're just talking 1:02:06.680 --> 1:02:08.640 about what people know about and we tried to read 1:02:08.680 --> 1:02:12.560 probably be getting every last all of them. Govern yourself, 1:02:12.720 --> 1:02:17.320 what according to you? Look at Tyler Perry and what 1:02:17.400 --> 1:02:19.560 he's been able to do in Atlanta. Did you look 1:02:19.560 --> 1:02:24.720 at how he got started doing media as a play Hollywood? 1:02:25.240 --> 1:02:29.800 Now we good puts his own money up, becomes a billionaire, 1:02:29.880 --> 1:02:32.680 build this big studio, state of the art rival anything 1:02:32.760 --> 1:02:36.680 to have out here in Hollywood. Yeah, he did. And uh, 1:02:36.760 --> 1:02:39.120 I just saw the the overview of his home that 1:02:39.160 --> 1:02:43.600 he built, not in Douglas. Yeah. Yeah, you think Queen 1:02:43.640 --> 1:02:46.600 Elizabeth got something. He got something, he got something. Yeah, 1:02:47.240 --> 1:02:51.720 how do you know, Tyler? How surprised are you that 1:02:51.800 --> 1:02:54.520 he was able to do that in such a short 1:02:54.520 --> 1:02:56.640 amount of time, because it's not like Tyler's not that. 1:02:56.680 --> 1:02:58.640 I mean, we're probably about the same major maybe give 1:02:58.720 --> 1:03:00.200 U take a year or two. He might be. He 1:03:00.240 --> 1:03:05.320 actually younger than ugh Y. I met Tyler Perry in 1:03:05.480 --> 1:03:09.760 baggage claim at LaGuardia Airport. That had to be many 1:03:09.800 --> 1:03:11.760 many years ago because he didn't know nothing about nobody 1:03:11.880 --> 1:03:14.600 or claim. It was some years ago. Tyler Perry and 1:03:14.720 --> 1:03:19.040 I and Earthquake, Yea and Niss Nash. We was we 1:03:19.200 --> 1:03:22.880 had a pilot on Fox called The Kings of Comedy. 1:03:23.240 --> 1:03:26.160 It was a sketch show like Saturday Night Line. And uh, 1:03:26.240 --> 1:03:28.760 he was like, hey, uh he recognized me from Comic View. 1:03:29.000 --> 1:03:31.000 He said, he I'll just say I'm Tyler Perry. He said, 1:03:31.040 --> 1:03:33.320 I do plays. I said, nice to meet you, and uh, 1:03:33.400 --> 1:03:35.720 he said, how are you getting to the hotel or whatever. 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:37.320 I said, I'm just gonna catch He said, you can 1:03:37.480 --> 1:03:39.200 ride with me. So he had a car, right, So 1:03:39.280 --> 1:03:40.959 I jumped in the car. It was just Tyler Perry 1:03:40.960 --> 1:03:42.880 and I. We were just talking. So he telling me 1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:45.200 about this charty. He said, man, you'd be doing Bernie jinging, 1:03:45.240 --> 1:03:48.080 but I do this character named Medea. So Tyler Perry 1:03:48.240 --> 1:03:50.800 was telling me all of this stuff. And there is 1:03:50.880 --> 1:03:54.160 a sketch that wants to Latham has with Tyler Perry 1:03:54.320 --> 1:03:58.480 doing Mdea and I'm doing Bernie's Jenkin with Niss Nash 1:03:59.040 --> 1:04:01.520 called the You. It's supposed to be making fun of 1:04:02.120 --> 1:04:04.640 the view. Right. We did a sketch called the Pew 1:04:05.280 --> 1:04:07.720 and it didn't get picked up. They picked this show 1:04:07.840 --> 1:04:11.240 that said did said entertainer did or whatever, but it 1:04:11.320 --> 1:04:13.600 didn't get green lit. But we shot the pilot. We 1:04:13.680 --> 1:04:16.160 stayed in New York City for a couple of months, 1:04:16.400 --> 1:04:18.440 right to dinner every night, right, and I knew he 1:04:18.560 --> 1:04:21.400 was gonna be big or whatever because he was talking business. 1:04:21.400 --> 1:04:24.960 I wasn't business savvy back then, but sitting in that 1:04:25.080 --> 1:04:28.840 car with him, uh, Tyler Perry and Nis Nash, earthquake myself. 1:04:28.840 --> 1:04:31.360 We went to dinner every night or whatever, but he 1:04:31.480 --> 1:04:34.439 was staying over in that the only thing that caught 1:04:34.480 --> 1:04:36.920 my eye. I knew he had money. He had money then, 1:04:37.200 --> 1:04:40.240 because we're standing in this this fancy hotel across from 1:04:40.440 --> 1:04:43.960 uh Central Park or whatever. You know that rif Caughton. No, 1:04:44.280 --> 1:04:48.680 it's something else, but it's real or whatever. It's real expensive. 1:04:48.960 --> 1:04:52.200 But I recently stayed there. I left because it's decorated 1:04:52.240 --> 1:04:56.080 like a funeral and and uh, I mean it's set 1:04:56.200 --> 1:04:58.640 up like like when you make funeral rights, like they 1:04:58.720 --> 1:05:01.040 have a bituary. Right. I couldn't stay. I had to 1:05:01.080 --> 1:05:03.160 go to something modern, right when. I made a whole 1:05:03.240 --> 1:05:06.160 video on Instagram about that. But I knew he was 1:05:06.240 --> 1:05:08.920 gonna make it. And I am so proud of him. 1:05:09.000 --> 1:05:12.480 He has given so many people jobs and opportunities and stuff. Man, 1:05:12.520 --> 1:05:14.800 I absolutely, I'm I am a huge fan. People like 1:05:15.640 --> 1:05:19.240 well the Munday, I'm like, listen man, then Chris Fatim 1:05:19.280 --> 1:05:21.560 coming man, A man shouldn't be wearing no dress man, 1:05:21.720 --> 1:05:25.000 Listen he did he listen? Okay? Nobody well beat I 1:05:25.080 --> 1:05:30.440 wear bikini with being all I will right? Ain't nobody 1:05:30.520 --> 1:05:33.280 said nothing nothing? When when Jamie Foxx do, wonder when 1:05:33.320 --> 1:05:37.000 Mark Lawrence do or whatever? Man people have the name? 1:05:37.040 --> 1:05:39.600 When people have taken all that? Rob Williams started out 1:05:39.640 --> 1:05:42.320 with missed out fire right, right before that Flip Wilson, 1:05:42.840 --> 1:05:47.240 Flip Wisson dead, Geraldine come on now and then Benny Hill. 1:05:47.400 --> 1:05:50.040 Yeah you know so man, people do something that you 1:05:50.200 --> 1:05:53.640 do it for the comedy, right. People have over sexualized 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:59.040 and I want too much sometimes yeah, yeah they're reading 1:05:59.080 --> 1:06:01.200 in the stuff and yeah or whatever, man, but the 1:06:01.240 --> 1:06:04.280 stuff if it made people laugh. Our job as comedians, 1:06:04.440 --> 1:06:07.240 right is to make people laugh. And then now people 1:06:07.280 --> 1:06:08.960 want me to do the character now, I don't want 1:06:09.000 --> 1:06:11.520 to do it right because you get criticized, right, right 1:06:11.680 --> 1:06:13.160 or whatever. You know what I'm saying, because I know 1:06:13.240 --> 1:06:15.640 who I am, right, you know, as a person. Yep. 1:06:15.880 --> 1:06:18.520 And I liked Tyler because there no matter what my deal, 1:06:18.640 --> 1:06:20.720 what you think, there's a message and everything that she's 1:06:20.880 --> 1:06:24.520 and it's funny. It is period, point blank. You and 1:06:24.600 --> 1:06:27.440 I both waived. My grandmother raised me. And you talk 1:06:27.480 --> 1:06:29.720 about your grandmother and the influence that she had in 1:06:29.760 --> 1:06:33.280 your life. Oh yeah, skill that yeah, man, Shannon. My 1:06:33.320 --> 1:06:35.880 grandmother's lived across the street from each other. That's how 1:06:35.920 --> 1:06:38.160 my mom and dad met. Okay. My mom and dad 1:06:38.200 --> 1:06:41.840 were musicians. They both played snare drunk okay, and they 1:06:41.920 --> 1:06:44.800 graduated high school and had me a year later. Okay. 1:06:45.000 --> 1:06:49.440 And I had my grandparents and my mom's mom and 1:06:49.560 --> 1:06:52.720 my dad's mom and dad or whatever they was wanted 1:06:52.760 --> 1:06:55.400 from my life. And I had grandparents on Shannon, I 1:06:55.480 --> 1:06:58.280 have touched every last month of my great grandparents. I 1:06:58.400 --> 1:07:00.840 met my grandmamma, mom and dad, at I met my 1:07:00.920 --> 1:07:05.040 granddad mom and dad. I met my other grandmama dad, 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:09.760 and I met my other uh my granddad's mom. Most 1:07:10.200 --> 1:07:13.040 of my great grandparents. I have touched and had relationship 1:07:13.080 --> 1:07:15.560 with my grandmother. My great grandmother was a hundred and 1:07:15.600 --> 1:07:18.200 six years old when she died or whatever. And I 1:07:18.320 --> 1:07:22.200 had ever last one of my uh my grandparents, and uh, 1:07:22.360 --> 1:07:24.640 they've been a blessing to my life. My grandfather, my 1:07:24.800 --> 1:07:28.080 dad died. My dad got killed when I was about 1:07:28.320 --> 1:07:31.919 six seven years old. You can't make for Vietnam, right, yeah? 1:07:31.960 --> 1:07:34.080 And I mean if we think about that, you go 1:07:34.160 --> 1:07:36.720 to Vietnam and you survived that only to come back 1:07:36.840 --> 1:07:39.440 here right and lose your life, lose your life? How 1:07:39.920 --> 1:07:42.560 much of that do you remember? Then I can tell you. 1:07:42.720 --> 1:07:45.560 I can tell you more about my dad's funeral at 1:07:45.840 --> 1:07:47.880 at seven years old, and I can tell you about 1:07:48.360 --> 1:07:51.160 about my grandparents funeral who just recently my granddad who 1:07:51.280 --> 1:07:55.960 just died three years ago. I can tell you where 1:07:56.000 --> 1:08:00.560 everybody sat, where everybody had on. Uh. I think that 1:08:00.680 --> 1:08:04.200 was seventy three or seventy four April v eleventh, when 1:08:04.280 --> 1:08:08.320 my dad died. I'll never forget it. You know, that 1:08:08.520 --> 1:08:11.240 was that was something that It's probably one of the 1:08:11.400 --> 1:08:13.600 only things that made me cry to this day as 1:08:13.640 --> 1:08:16.479 a fifty four year old man, because when I think 1:08:16.520 --> 1:08:22.160 about watching my grandparents sit over here on this front row, 1:08:22.240 --> 1:08:24.960 crime like they crying that they that tear me up 1:08:25.000 --> 1:08:29.519 to this date and to this day or whatever. Uh. 1:08:29.680 --> 1:08:31.960 My grandparents had a chance to see me on beet. 1:08:32.120 --> 1:08:33.759 They had a chance to see me do some movie 1:08:33.800 --> 1:08:36.160 and TV stuff. They saw me on death jam. I 1:08:36.240 --> 1:08:39.400 made him proud. They get They gave me everything with nothing, 1:08:40.000 --> 1:08:42.160 you know what I'm saying. My granddad worked at still Plant, 1:08:42.200 --> 1:08:44.960 my grandma worked at the airport or whatever. They taught 1:08:45.040 --> 1:08:48.919 the class. They taught me table manners, good home training, respect, 1:08:49.040 --> 1:08:52.280 good morning, good evening, Yes ma'am, no ma'am, Which ain't 1:08:52.320 --> 1:08:54.840 nothing wrong with this generation. Try to say that yes 1:08:54.920 --> 1:08:57.639 ma'am and no ma'am. It sounds slavish, and that's a problem. 1:08:57.720 --> 1:09:01.960 It's respect or whatever. And I just appreciate everything that 1:09:02.040 --> 1:09:05.680 they taught me because now that the discipline now that 1:09:05.760 --> 1:09:07.800 I use with my granddad. Well, I'm not gonna wake 1:09:07.840 --> 1:09:10.439 you up for school. No, No, we don't use alarm 1:09:10.479 --> 1:09:12.439 clocks in this house because if you go to bed 1:09:12.520 --> 1:09:14.280 with your job on your mind, you're gonna wake up. 1:09:14.439 --> 1:09:16.760 So take your ass to bed early and then you 1:09:17.040 --> 1:09:19.479 you won't miss the bus. Right, And now I don't 1:09:19.560 --> 1:09:21.320 use an alarm clock to get up and do radio, 1:09:21.360 --> 1:09:23.160 which the show starts at five. That mean you have 1:09:23.240 --> 1:09:24.519 to be up at three thirty. And we'll go to 1:09:24.600 --> 1:09:26.920 bed right six thirty, seven thirty. I'm in the bed, 1:09:27.080 --> 1:09:30.320 lights off, TV, off, sleep at six thirties, you know, 1:09:30.479 --> 1:09:32.839 start getting dark in the fall. Yeah, yeah, I understand 1:09:32.880 --> 1:09:35.880 it shouldn't I be just like this. You put your 1:09:35.920 --> 1:09:38.320 hands together. You put your hand right there and crush 1:09:38.800 --> 1:09:44.599 Shannon Shannon at six thirty. I don't care about if 1:09:44.600 --> 1:09:48.439 I got a company or whatever. Somebody's somebody rolled through. 1:09:48.880 --> 1:09:54.599 It's gonna be early, like even gonna be early. Okay, 1:09:54.960 --> 1:09:58.000 you go go to bed to night this early? You 1:09:58.080 --> 1:10:04.240 were shot? Oh yeah, uh what transpired? Oh my beeper 1:10:04.320 --> 1:10:08.000 went off? Okay, okay, this this this ninety five, My 1:10:08.120 --> 1:10:10.639 beeper went off. So I stopped at the pay phone 1:10:11.120 --> 1:10:14.240 because somebody hit uh. I think, what is it? Four 1:10:14.360 --> 1:10:16.439 one one with nine one one nine one when l 1:10:16.520 --> 1:10:19.360 O V E? When you turn it upside down or whatever. 1:10:19.439 --> 1:10:21.439 So I go to the payphone. No, four one one 1:10:21.960 --> 1:10:24.599 one something like that. Whatever that's how you text back. 1:10:24.640 --> 1:10:26.479 Then Yeah, well I thought the nine one one't been 1:10:26.520 --> 1:10:28.160 of the emergency. That's why you would pull over and 1:10:28.280 --> 1:10:30.960 call no. But I think if you text shale or 1:10:31.040 --> 1:10:34.280 something like that means like like love or something whatever, 1:10:34.520 --> 1:10:36.760 certain certain numbers, they'll put it in. If you're turning 1:10:36.800 --> 1:10:39.760 the beeper upside down, it'll read something else. Okay. So 1:10:39.880 --> 1:10:41.960 I went to the pay phone, and so they was 1:10:42.040 --> 1:10:45.120 robbing this other guy my friends Journey that was at 1:10:45.160 --> 1:10:49.439 the pay phone, and it was like get up. He's like, 1:10:49.479 --> 1:10:52.600 I don't have nothing. It was like boom, sitting, I 1:10:52.680 --> 1:10:56.040 get up. They shot me to make him get it up, 1:10:56.080 --> 1:10:59.800 to let him know that they were serious on that. 1:11:00.240 --> 1:11:03.439 You can laughing. You want to talk about got wo 1:11:03.680 --> 1:11:06.000 whoa I got that to do it? That man, get out. 1:11:06.280 --> 1:11:08.840 Shannon sawed off twelve gauge point blank. He said hold 1:11:08.840 --> 1:11:11.040 on second, you should say, hold on just a second. 1:11:11.120 --> 1:11:13.639 I get you a party. Nah, I rang in there. 1:11:14.200 --> 1:11:15.800 He didn't give me. I was about to run if 1:11:15.840 --> 1:11:17.920 you'd waited one most second. I was about the jet 1:11:18.600 --> 1:11:20.680 because if it would happened. Already got hit by a car, 1:11:20.760 --> 1:11:23.120 almost got hit by a car running across the street 1:11:23.160 --> 1:11:25.960 after I got shot, right, I still shot. As a 1:11:26.000 --> 1:11:28.800 matter of fact, I still have them see that in 1:11:29.280 --> 1:11:32.400 the elbow. Yeah, see those buckshot? Yeah, sawed off twelve 1:11:32.479 --> 1:11:35.720 gauge man like real talk. And you're going to be 1:11:35.840 --> 1:11:38.559 laid in the hospital. What's going through your mind? Well? 1:11:38.760 --> 1:11:40.320 I was in Uh, I wore you at the time. 1:11:40.320 --> 1:11:43.080 You don't mind me. I had to me about twenty one, okay, 1:11:43.320 --> 1:11:45.559 twenty one twenty two. I had already did death coming 1:11:45.600 --> 1:11:48.760 to jam Wow think I think yeah or something on 1:11:48.840 --> 1:11:50.439 b et the old kind of get what they were 1:11:50.479 --> 1:11:54.120 to calm cam yeah or something. Uh so, Uh, I'm 1:11:54.160 --> 1:11:56.840 in the hospital and I'm in ICU. I got all 1:11:56.880 --> 1:11:59.439 these two the things is poop poo, And I look 1:11:59.520 --> 1:12:01.760 up at the TV and I see all these uh 1:12:02.000 --> 1:12:06.360 police cars chasing a white Bronco. I got shot that night. 1:12:06.800 --> 1:12:09.639 You got shot the same night that oj was supposed 1:12:09.640 --> 1:12:12.759 to turn himself here. I got shot when they found 1:12:13.200 --> 1:12:16.800 Nicole Brown Simpson and run Goldman. Okay, I got shot 1:12:16.920 --> 1:12:18.840 that night. You got shot that night. So when I 1:12:18.880 --> 1:12:20.720 went to surgery, when I came, when I woke up, 1:12:20.880 --> 1:12:24.360 I saw a police officers chasing a white Bronco. Wow, 1:12:25.040 --> 1:12:27.160 that's great. And I'm laying there in intensive care of 1:12:27.240 --> 1:12:29.880 watching this and I'm seeing the whole O. J. Simpson 1:12:32.240 --> 1:12:35.439 right right, uh so. Uh but yeah, I was in 1:12:35.520 --> 1:12:38.200 a hospital man for a couple of weeks, and that 1:12:38.360 --> 1:12:41.120 was crazy. It was It was scary. I could have died. Yes, 1:12:42.320 --> 1:12:45.599 I remember the guy the ambulance said, hey man, I said, 1:12:45.600 --> 1:12:47.760 am I gonna be okay? And he was holding my hand. 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:49.599 I said just hold my hand. And I don't never 1:12:49.680 --> 1:12:51.599 forget that man the ambulance he was he was like, Rick, 1:12:51.640 --> 1:12:53.880 you did they catch the guy they shot you? Okay, 1:12:54.280 --> 1:12:59.640 that's a whole story. The guy, the guy that shot me, uh, 1:13:01.120 --> 1:13:05.679 got caught, went to prison for did twenty five years. 1:13:06.479 --> 1:13:08.760 They called me for a parole hearing. So I went 1:13:08.840 --> 1:13:10.880 in there with the attitude, Nah, I wanted him to 1:13:10.920 --> 1:13:13.120 do the rest of his time. Yeah, he violated my 1:13:13.200 --> 1:13:14.880 life and I got in there, I saw his mother 1:13:15.680 --> 1:13:17.920 sitting over there, and then you know, you can look 1:13:18.000 --> 1:13:20.360 and tell people, you know that people struggling. His lady 1:13:20.400 --> 1:13:23.400 probably been going to prison ever since he's been in there. 1:13:23.439 --> 1:13:25.960 She's been going, She'm been going. You feeling sorry for 1:13:26.040 --> 1:13:29.840 his mother. Then I started breaking down, like, Okay, hey, 1:13:30.000 --> 1:13:33.160 my life is good. God is good. Let me get 1:13:33.200 --> 1:13:35.519 this lady back to do what I can to get 1:13:35.600 --> 1:13:38.120 this lady get a son back to her. But I 1:13:38.160 --> 1:13:39.920 could go on with my life and they could go 1:13:40.000 --> 1:13:45.400 on with daylife. Right. And he eventually got out and 1:13:45.479 --> 1:13:48.800 he got killed drag racing. He got killed two months 1:13:48.840 --> 1:13:51.800 after he got out of prison. Then I was taking 1:13:51.840 --> 1:13:53.760 my mom some black eyed peas. I had made some 1:13:53.800 --> 1:13:56.680 black eyed peas that I'm famous for taking my mom 1:13:56.800 --> 1:13:59.839 some black eyed peas. Coincidentally, somebody hit me on Facebook 1:13:59.880 --> 1:14:02.160 and told me that the guy had got killed and 1:14:02.280 --> 1:14:07.760 where the funerals at. Coincidentally, I'm driving down Birmingham. Version 1:14:07.760 --> 1:14:10.840 of Peach Tree is called First Avenue. Okay, so that's 1:14:10.880 --> 1:14:13.559 our main street that go through Birmingham. So I'm driving 1:14:13.600 --> 1:14:19.479 down through Birmingham and run across his funeral procession because 1:14:19.479 --> 1:14:21.479 I saw him coming out of the funeral home and 1:14:21.520 --> 1:14:25.760 I'm gonna jeep with the doors off Rubicon And that 1:14:25.960 --> 1:14:29.439 was more morbid than the ninety shot. That scared me 1:14:30.200 --> 1:14:32.559 more than anything. The guy that shot you, almost took 1:14:32.600 --> 1:14:36.040 your life is in this hearse passing by. That. That 1:14:36.280 --> 1:14:41.240 gave me chills. I didn't sleep for two months. Wow. Unfortunately, 1:14:41.240 --> 1:14:43.560 your daughter was in a situation where she was in 1:14:43.640 --> 1:14:47.200 a road rage at incident and she got shot. Yeah, 1:14:48.120 --> 1:14:49.840 where were you when you got the call? And what's 1:14:49.880 --> 1:14:52.720 going through your mind? I was on the air. I 1:14:52.840 --> 1:14:55.080 was at the radio station. Okay, I was on the air. 1:14:56.080 --> 1:14:58.320 My daughter's mom hit me on the cellphone, Hey, call 1:14:58.400 --> 1:15:01.200 me emergency. I was like, okay, let me do all right, 1:15:01.280 --> 1:15:03.400 y'all ricks By the morning show. Fifteen after the hour, 1:15:03.680 --> 1:15:05.800 we're gonna be talking about blah blah blah. Then look 1:15:05.840 --> 1:15:07.960 at it and then the next text, meister said Aaron 1:15:08.080 --> 1:15:13.720 was shot. And so I just hit I just hit 1:15:13.760 --> 1:15:16.920 the phone to down what she said, Yeah, Aaron got shot. 1:15:17.080 --> 1:15:18.840 I said, how my daughter get shot? My daughter is 1:15:18.880 --> 1:15:22.720 a straight age student, right, my daughter attends Beller University. Right, 1:15:23.080 --> 1:15:26.559 but mohamma daughter gets shot. She said she was at 1:15:26.600 --> 1:15:30.439 a red light and some guys on this side of 1:15:30.560 --> 1:15:34.320 her and this side of her started shooting back and 1:15:34.439 --> 1:15:39.120 forth and she got hit twice. And so this in 1:15:39.200 --> 1:15:41.920 the in the beginning of COVID, Shannon, So I had 1:15:42.000 --> 1:15:45.439 to figure out a flight. So I had to fly 1:15:45.600 --> 1:15:49.240 from Birmingham to Dallas df W Airport, get in a 1:15:49.320 --> 1:15:53.360 car and drive from DFW Airport to love Field Airport 1:15:53.400 --> 1:15:56.840 to get on Southwest Airline to fly to Houston. Only 1:15:56.960 --> 1:15:59.639 did get to Houston and can't go in the hospital 1:16:00.840 --> 1:16:05.679 because it's COVID, right, So that was that was trauma. 1:16:06.000 --> 1:16:08.439 It brought back all of my trauma and UH, to 1:16:08.600 --> 1:16:11.960 this day, I'm still in therapy because it brought back 1:16:12.040 --> 1:16:14.640 up all my old trauma. You getting shot, the men 1:16:14.720 --> 1:16:17.320 getting shot at ninety five and it and and that 1:16:17.640 --> 1:16:20.479 was trauma itself because your daughter got shot, right and shutting. 1:16:20.479 --> 1:16:22.840 I was on the on the air UH a week 1:16:22.960 --> 1:16:26.280 and a half later after she got out to the hospital, 1:16:26.760 --> 1:16:28.720 because when she got out to the hospital, people had 1:16:28.800 --> 1:16:34.920 sent food, turkey leg hunt, UH, the mayor, the city council, 1:16:34.920 --> 1:16:37.200 of the police sheet. It was a lot of flowers 1:16:37.240 --> 1:16:39.200 in the house and it was that Saturday, so it 1:16:39.320 --> 1:16:41.960 felt like a repass. Yeah, the only difference is your 1:16:42.080 --> 1:16:45.120 daughter is sitting right here, right or whatever. So I 1:16:45.240 --> 1:16:48.400 flew back to Dallas. I'm on the air, moving on 1:16:48.520 --> 1:16:51.200 my daughter's Okay, I never forget I was playing. I 1:16:51.320 --> 1:16:53.880 was talking over the intro fifty cent in the club. 1:16:53.960 --> 1:16:57.599 So don't don't go go all right, you'll rica slide 1:16:57.640 --> 1:17:01.040 in the morning show. You're it's been shot and I 1:17:01.160 --> 1:17:04.640 lost it. I was laid out on the floor in 1:17:04.680 --> 1:17:07.640 the studio. A week and a half later, they had 1:17:07.680 --> 1:17:09.439 to walk me out to my car. I couldn't even 1:17:09.479 --> 1:17:12.800 do the rest of the show, Like it took that 1:17:13.040 --> 1:17:15.920 long for it to hit me that my dog. I 1:17:16.000 --> 1:17:18.040 knew she had got shot, but it didn't hit me 1:17:18.120 --> 1:17:20.760 because I went into I got to get my kids here. 1:17:20.800 --> 1:17:22.160 I got to get her Phari and see, I got 1:17:22.240 --> 1:17:24.400 to get my parents here. We got to get to Houston. 1:17:24.760 --> 1:17:26.200 How did we get up to the room and see 1:17:26.240 --> 1:17:28.439 the door that I just went into action, right, And 1:17:28.520 --> 1:17:30.519 I didn't. I didn't process. You have it. You didn't 1:17:30.520 --> 1:17:32.920 grieve properly. I didn't grieve properly. Yeah that's how I 1:17:33.040 --> 1:17:36.559 do now. Yeah. That was that was That was crazy, 1:17:36.600 --> 1:17:38.720 and that was scared. But she's a senior now at 1:17:38.760 --> 1:17:42.439 Belle University, and she's scheduled to graduate in May. My 1:17:42.520 --> 1:17:45.160 son is scheduled to graduate in May, also at the 1:17:45.400 --> 1:17:49.360 Alabama State University, which always beat Savannah State. No, they don't. 1:17:49.479 --> 1:17:51.640 Always don't do that, always don't do That's I know, 1:17:51.720 --> 1:17:53.200 y'a wouldn't be the one I was there. I don't 1:17:53.200 --> 1:17:54.840 know what to happened now, but all I know in 1:17:54.920 --> 1:17:57.560 the whole team, did y'all be Alabama State? Every we 1:17:57.600 --> 1:17:59.880 didn't play played Alabama A and L. We played like, 1:18:00.000 --> 1:18:02.320 did y'all beat them? No? We didn't, Okay, go on, 1:18:02.439 --> 1:18:04.360 go on, next question that that we didn't be Jenn, 1:18:04.360 --> 1:18:06.160 you couldn't catch the ball and throw the ball and 1:18:07.040 --> 1:18:09.719 dolay defense. I didn't, Okay. I was the wide receiver. 1:18:10.080 --> 1:18:14.720 I was hell too. I'm looking at it. You raise 1:18:14.800 --> 1:18:17.400 your kids, but you raise your nieces, your nephews. You 1:18:17.560 --> 1:18:20.240 raised almost fifteen kids, played for them to go to football, 1:18:20.320 --> 1:18:23.240 go to a college. Kids playing football and basketball, something 1:18:23.280 --> 1:18:24.840 that you couldn't do. Why did you do? Why are 1:18:24.840 --> 1:18:27.439 you doing this? The college? Shannon? I knew whether it 1:18:27.560 --> 1:18:29.800 was like to grow up without a father. Huh. Most 1:18:29.880 --> 1:18:33.000 of them didn't have a father, right, I had no choice, right, 1:18:33.160 --> 1:18:34.880 I did when I had to do. Some of 'em 1:18:34.880 --> 1:18:37.519 appreciate it, and some of 'em didn't. Some of 'em 1:18:37.560 --> 1:18:39.200 I talked to, and some of 'em I don't. Some 1:18:39.280 --> 1:18:40.920 of 'em I haven't talked to in years. Hold On, 1:18:41.600 --> 1:18:44.000 it'd be like that, even after you've done everything that 1:18:44.080 --> 1:18:47.120 you've done, bru, it'd be like that, the wrong person 1:18:47.200 --> 1:18:50.120 getting on a child here against you or whatever. It's 1:18:50.160 --> 1:18:52.800 just that white people be naturally jealous, right. And I 1:18:52.800 --> 1:18:55.439 don't know what you're jealous of, because I share everything 1:18:55.560 --> 1:18:57.799 that I had with you. But I had a nephew, 1:18:57.960 --> 1:19:02.679 Terrail that played Uh. I had, uh, three college athletes 1:19:02.720 --> 1:19:04.800 come out of my house when I played basketball from 1:19:04.800 --> 1:19:08.720 my house. College nephew Terrell, who was a running back 1:19:08.760 --> 1:19:10.600 coach at wool On High School, play running back for 1:19:10.640 --> 1:19:14.599 Middle Tennessee State University, and then my son Malika Alabama State. 1:19:14.680 --> 1:19:16.640 So I had a college athletes to come out of 1:19:16.680 --> 1:19:20.120 the house and stuff, and uh, you know, and and 1:19:20.240 --> 1:19:22.840 all of the nieces and nephew wasn't biological. Some of them, 1:19:22.880 --> 1:19:26.280 Shannon just didn't have nothing and nowhere to go. And 1:19:26.400 --> 1:19:28.599 I had to help them. And they're off doing good 1:19:28.640 --> 1:19:32.840 and doing big things. Now, nephew that has this doctor degree. 1:19:32.920 --> 1:19:36.479 My nephew Deltrick, got some Greeks in the house. My 1:19:36.560 --> 1:19:40.960 daughter's at Aka, you know, couple of cues in the 1:19:41.040 --> 1:19:44.120 house or whatever, and a capita. So I we got 1:19:44.200 --> 1:19:47.880 degrees on the wall. Education matter. Uh, sent a couple 1:19:47.880 --> 1:19:50.320 of kids at IMG Academy that's where my son went 1:19:50.880 --> 1:19:53.000 or whatever. So I performed, Man, just why I can 1:19:53.200 --> 1:19:56.880 educate and give them an opportunity because I don't need anything, right, 1:19:57.520 --> 1:20:01.200 I'm what are some of the child? Just being a 1:20:01.320 --> 1:20:04.519 single father and then in the process of becoming a 1:20:04.600 --> 1:20:07.760 single father, how rewarding is it when you see the 1:20:07.880 --> 1:20:13.639 manifestation of your work. Uh. The challenging part is especially 1:20:13.680 --> 1:20:16.920 with your with your life. Yeah, well well it wasn't 1:20:16.960 --> 1:20:18.760 really that challenge and being a single father, because I 1:20:18.800 --> 1:20:20.600 had to help you hiring somebody. I had laid it 1:20:20.680 --> 1:20:23.400 from my church. Right, name is Pat. Okay, it's Pat, 1:20:23.520 --> 1:20:27.120 no nonsense, she don't play, she'll knock him out, she'll 1:20:27.160 --> 1:20:29.880 cuss him out or whatever, and she holding in and down. 1:20:30.400 --> 1:20:33.240 It's Pat. And before miss Pat, Miss Bishop would help 1:20:33.320 --> 1:20:35.120 me out with that. So I can easily jump on 1:20:35.200 --> 1:20:36.920 the plane and go out of town and do what 1:20:37.040 --> 1:20:39.720 I need to do. I had I had had a 1:20:39.720 --> 1:20:42.800 support system or whatever. And what was the second question 1:20:43.000 --> 1:20:45.760 that the manifests and the seed that your hard work? 1:20:46.360 --> 1:20:50.280 Paul Shannon uh to lay in the hotel room and 1:20:50.680 --> 1:20:55.960 watch my nephew playing for Nettle Tennessee State University right 1:20:56.479 --> 1:20:58.840 run up and run a touchdown. And I'm sitting in 1:20:58.880 --> 1:21:02.320 the bed and I remember him sitting in my left 1:21:02.439 --> 1:21:05.800 crying because his father got killed. His father was my 1:21:06.000 --> 1:21:08.719 one of my best friends, my friend brother. I remember 1:21:08.760 --> 1:21:11.439 you told me that you raised him. Yeah, man, and 1:21:11.560 --> 1:21:13.960 I'll never forget. Two days before Christmas, he came in 1:21:14.040 --> 1:21:15.519 my room. He had that look in his face and 1:21:15.560 --> 1:21:18.720 he started crying, and he's setting my left man and 1:21:18.800 --> 1:21:20.559 had his head on my shoulder. I said, listen, man, 1:21:20.600 --> 1:21:23.280 it's gonna be okay. I said, I know how you feel. Man. 1:21:23.520 --> 1:21:26.000 My dad died too, and we talked about it. I said, 1:21:26.040 --> 1:21:28.800 but you will smile. I said, you will smile. Now 1:21:29.320 --> 1:21:32.479 he's helping other kids that don't have fathers twenty six 1:21:32.560 --> 1:21:35.120 years or graduated college in high school running back coach. 1:21:35.520 --> 1:21:38.360 But to see them kids on TV, to see my 1:21:38.479 --> 1:21:42.479 son on the big screen at Alabama state and he's 1:21:42.479 --> 1:21:44.840 getting ready to go into law school, right, you know. 1:21:45.120 --> 1:21:46.960 And to see what my daughter's doing in all the 1:21:47.040 --> 1:21:50.200 degrees on the wall, all of the kids that we've helped, Shannon, 1:21:50.840 --> 1:21:53.960 it's been a that's the reward, I don't I just 1:21:54.080 --> 1:21:55.760 want them to do good and I wanted them to 1:21:55.840 --> 1:21:59.160 have a chance or whatever because I had uncles step 1:21:59.280 --> 1:22:02.240 up to the plate, and I know how important that is, right, 1:22:02.400 --> 1:22:05.080 So to have an uncle Ricky or somebody that's gonna 1:22:05.120 --> 1:22:07.519 hold you accountable to step up to the plate and 1:22:07.600 --> 1:22:09.479 be there for you and for you to become something, 1:22:09.960 --> 1:22:12.560 it's everything. Was it important for you to break the 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:17.800 statement that black men aren't in their kid's life? Absolutely? Yeah, 1:22:17.800 --> 1:22:19.680 we are. We absolutely. I went through that and we 1:22:19.760 --> 1:22:22.080 want to be here, damn right, and they ain't going nowhere. 1:22:23.400 --> 1:22:27.120 I went through that with my oldest son, you know, 1:22:27.720 --> 1:22:30.840 having a hard time seeing him that all work worked 1:22:30.880 --> 1:22:33.160 out or whatever. I've been through the court system. I've 1:22:33.240 --> 1:22:37.960 had judges that wasn't fair. A judge in Alabama said, Uh, 1:22:38.040 --> 1:22:41.519 the reason I don't award men because they are their kids, 1:22:41.560 --> 1:22:45.760 because I've never seen a cow follow his pappy. That 1:22:45.960 --> 1:22:49.120 was quoted by a judge in the state of Alabama. 1:22:49.560 --> 1:22:52.360 Now that the laws are changing, they have father Father's 1:22:52.600 --> 1:22:55.800 Rights movement. Men do hair, I mean my daughter. I 1:22:55.960 --> 1:22:59.599 do them. Little dog dog on U two little ampro puffs. 1:23:00.000 --> 1:23:01.639 I know how to put that part down the middle 1:23:01.680 --> 1:23:04.760 and get that pink old moisturizing rubbing in my daughter head. 1:23:04.880 --> 1:23:07.200 Dropped that part down the middle, put them two little 1:23:07.280 --> 1:23:10.000 things and in them little autfro puss ye on. The 1:23:10.080 --> 1:23:11.880 mistake I made was sending her to school and then 1:23:12.000 --> 1:23:14.960 some pajamas because I thought it was an outfit from 1:23:15.040 --> 1:23:17.400 Limited Too. But I thought it was an outfit, but 1:23:17.400 --> 1:23:18.920 I didn't know that it was a pajama. But she 1:23:19.000 --> 1:23:20.880 thought she was gonna get fuss that, so she didn't 1:23:20.920 --> 1:23:23.000 say anything. And I get a phone call from the 1:23:23.040 --> 1:23:25.320 school and said my daughter was at school crying because 1:23:25.320 --> 1:23:26.840 she didn't want to go to class because she had 1:23:26.880 --> 1:23:29.080 on pajama. I said, it's not jumps, that's a brand 1:23:29.120 --> 1:23:31.559 new outfit. I had just bought it from Limited Too, Right, 1:23:31.640 --> 1:23:33.600 what kind of find out It was pajama but I 1:23:33.720 --> 1:23:36.880 thought it was an outfit, so it was jama outfit. 1:23:37.000 --> 1:23:42.720 It was pajama bed and not class. But but yeah, man, 1:23:42.800 --> 1:23:46.840 it's it's uh, Shannon, it was fun man, Uh being 1:23:46.880 --> 1:23:50.240 an uncle being in the house, screaming up the steps. Hey, 1:23:50.760 --> 1:23:53.640 stop jumping on running up the steps, going up there 1:23:53.680 --> 1:23:56.840 with the belt popping. Everybody oncet and sit down, sit down, 1:23:57.160 --> 1:24:00.360 sit down, nobody crying the lynks. Then hurt, you know, 1:24:00.680 --> 1:24:02.639 go to bed, Go to bed, go to bed, take 1:24:02.680 --> 1:24:05.240 a shower. Haven't you had him? Man? That was fun, right, 1:24:05.600 --> 1:24:08.000 the whole highlight of my life. You know, Dad's gonna 1:24:08.000 --> 1:24:12.720 do nothing but this. Hey, don't maybe come out there. 1:24:13.040 --> 1:24:14.400 That's it. You don't have to say, don't make me 1:24:14.439 --> 1:24:17.360 come up there. You're just hey. Then the stomping stop. 1:24:17.720 --> 1:24:19.760 So I have so I have my grandson there now, Yeah, 1:24:19.760 --> 1:24:22.880 you adopted your grandson. Yeah, so I'm I just became 1:24:22.920 --> 1:24:26.240 a first time grandfather. Yeah so let me so, so 1:24:26.439 --> 1:24:28.760 give me, give me some pointers. What what what did 1:24:28.800 --> 1:24:31.479 the grandson call you? Pop? Pop? Pop pop? I don't. 1:24:31.520 --> 1:24:33.960 I'm not a fan of it. I won't if somebody 1:24:34.000 --> 1:24:37.160 can give me something, help. I like geepop. Now my 1:24:37.240 --> 1:24:40.800 granddaughters something to start trying to train them to start 1:24:40.880 --> 1:24:43.840 saying geepop because they got a little swag, a little swag. 1:24:43.880 --> 1:24:47.080 So popa is still there. P o p Yeah, but 1:24:47.240 --> 1:24:49.640 gee pop right. You know what I'm saying now. My 1:24:49.680 --> 1:24:53.760 grandson called it pop pop pop pope. But I'm trying 1:24:53.760 --> 1:24:57.599 to I'm gonna be Papa Shake oh Man, pop pop 1:24:57.800 --> 1:25:03.040 Papa Rick, Papa Rick Shannon. I'm for real, you're laughing, 1:25:03.120 --> 1:25:05.519 but I'm dead. But you're gonna be Papa Shame Papa 1:25:05.960 --> 1:25:11.120 brand baby here yet, yes here? Okay? How two weeks? Okay, 1:25:11.400 --> 1:25:14.559 my granddaughter. That was just boring. Congratulations first of all, 1:25:14.960 --> 1:25:18.920 congret broh girl, a boy boy, let me tell you something. 1:25:19.600 --> 1:25:21.920 Let me tell you something. Oh, I can sit back, 1:25:21.920 --> 1:25:24.040 I can cross my legs on this one. I already 1:25:24.080 --> 1:25:25.760 have told him. I'm gonna have a kid just like 1:25:25.960 --> 1:25:28.080 just like you were. When I bring him back to you, 1:25:28.200 --> 1:25:29.840 he gonna be just like you were when you came 1:25:29.920 --> 1:25:33.360 to me. No more, nothing less, nothing more, nothing less. 1:25:33.680 --> 1:25:36.960 You think you loved your kid when that boy looking 1:25:36.960 --> 1:25:39.560 you in the eye and smile and you calming his 1:25:39.640 --> 1:25:41.320 hair to the side. I got all the video. Yeah 1:25:41.400 --> 1:25:43.760 that's what I do. I have his hair like mine. Yeah, yeah, 1:25:44.240 --> 1:25:46.439 with the old school part. Then I I did that. 1:25:46.560 --> 1:25:49.840 I did that on Facebook. Blew up just in there. 1:25:52.600 --> 1:25:54.280 You know, people get bad at me on favor because 1:25:54.280 --> 1:25:56.519 I talk heavy to him. Let's to make him tough, right, 1:25:56.680 --> 1:25:58.080 so when they go out in the real way, he 1:25:58.120 --> 1:26:00.880 ain't sensitive. Right. I talked to him and our coach 1:26:01.000 --> 1:26:03.680 tone like my granddad taught to me work. Yes, So 1:26:03.840 --> 1:26:07.479 my grandson right now is tough. It's tough as nails, 1:26:07.800 --> 1:26:11.080 because I don't care about the curly hair, right, I 1:26:11.120 --> 1:26:13.000 don't care about the cut, and it's all of them 1:26:13.080 --> 1:26:16.160 cute right until they become fifteen sixty. Can't do nothing 1:26:16.240 --> 1:26:18.479 with him, that's right. That's let you tell my kids. 1:26:18.479 --> 1:26:20.080 I said, if now, if you're gonna stay your side, 1:26:20.240 --> 1:26:22.360 if you're gonna stay like seven to eight, I'll let 1:26:22.400 --> 1:26:24.200 you run them up. Right. But at some point in time, 1:26:24.200 --> 1:26:26.640 you're gonna be a teenager, you're gonna be an adult, right, 1:26:26.720 --> 1:26:27.920 and all of a sudden that I ain't gonna be 1:26:28.000 --> 1:26:32.639 cute right, right? But but man pushing my grandson teaching 1:26:32.680 --> 1:26:36.599 My grandson just turned six and can swim the length 1:26:36.640 --> 1:26:39.960 of the pool and with no life jacket. My granddaughter 1:26:40.720 --> 1:26:42.559 is jumping in the deep end of the pool now 1:26:43.080 --> 1:26:46.880 and she's only three. Wow, teaching him to swim, shouting 1:26:46.880 --> 1:26:49.000 you out to see him throw a football. At six, 1:26:49.240 --> 1:26:51.160 we get in the living room. You ain't teaching that? 1:26:51.280 --> 1:26:54.720 Who you got to working with him? Me? I mean, 1:26:54.880 --> 1:26:56.920 I know you're Alabama fans, So Bryce, you don't come over? 1:26:57.479 --> 1:27:01.320 No me, Shannon, what about Mac Jones? Dayla hurt? Don't 1:27:01.320 --> 1:27:04.400 don't don't don't. Ask Cavin Ridley called Cavin Ridley. Ask 1:27:04.479 --> 1:27:08.320 Caven Ridley asking. It's say you and I both fifty 1:27:08.360 --> 1:27:12.040 four ms. Only give me some tips on dating. You 1:27:12.200 --> 1:27:15.560 like fifth you like you? Let me see fifty to 1:27:15.640 --> 1:27:19.240 fifty five, you're like forty five to fifty. You're like 1:27:19.400 --> 1:27:21.840 forty to forty five. I'll take like thirty to forty, 1:27:22.000 --> 1:27:26.439 I'll take I'll take thirty eight to fifty, thirty eight, 1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:34.000 fifty to fifty slam sexy but genuine, genuine and sincere. 1:27:34.680 --> 1:27:37.719 Now I need sexiness. I have to have it because 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:39.600 I can't be with you just because you you're a 1:27:39.680 --> 1:27:43.240 good person. You gotta be sexy too. You see what 1:27:43.280 --> 1:27:49.599 I'm saying you you can't be you know the land 1:27:49.640 --> 1:27:54.880 they tried to come on that who who tried to 1:27:54.920 --> 1:27:56.439 hook They tried to hook you up with? Who with 1:27:56.600 --> 1:27:58.599 what a check? That was on my six hundred pound 1:27:58.640 --> 1:28:00.320 life says, she's a good she has a good hard 1:28:00.560 --> 1:28:03.320 Uh but I wouldn't even do it. Well, you might 1:28:03.360 --> 1:28:05.240 need to donate that, but I'm talking about you trying 1:28:05.240 --> 1:28:07.479 to be with me. I mean, I'm needing more than hard. 1:28:07.680 --> 1:28:10.640 I need, I need, I need sexy. Yeah, you know 1:28:10.760 --> 1:28:13.960 your walk off got to be fire. Yeah, you're walked 1:28:14.000 --> 1:28:16.120 by I got to be fired. Yeah, you're walked by 1:28:16.160 --> 1:28:19.000 Aaron got to smell like name the markers. I mean 1:28:19.040 --> 1:28:20.599 you you so you wanted them? Ways you walked by 1:28:21.800 --> 1:28:24.360 every time? Can that keep you out the street? Yeah? 1:28:24.680 --> 1:28:26.960 You know what I'm saying. Okay, what about so okay, 1:28:27.000 --> 1:28:29.599 what about twenty eight to thirty five? Now I can't 1:28:29.640 --> 1:28:32.479 do nothing that twin to come my daughter twenty okay, okay, 1:28:32.520 --> 1:28:35.960 what about thirty five? I'm thirty, thirty to thirty thirty 1:28:36.000 --> 1:28:39.720 to thirty five now not thirty but thirty. I'm two 1:28:39.800 --> 1:28:41.320 or thirty five, And I don't mind. Yea, I have 1:28:41.360 --> 1:28:43.800 a kid, A kid. I ain't never mind that. I 1:28:43.840 --> 1:28:45.960 don't care nothing about that. You know what I'm saying. Actually, 1:28:46.080 --> 1:28:50.559 my first my college girlfriend had a kid, right right, 1:28:50.720 --> 1:28:52.920 Because unless you know what I noticed, ain't nobody want them. 1:28:52.920 --> 1:28:55.439 I saw that girl. I saw man got me to five. 1:28:55.560 --> 1:28:57.840 I won. But here's the thing. I saw Walk. He 1:28:57.960 --> 1:29:00.760 was on campus because we we'll first. You know, we 1:29:00.800 --> 1:29:03.160 went football players. We went to school. We practiced first 1:29:03.360 --> 1:29:06.080 right before they before they the regular students got back. 1:29:06.120 --> 1:29:09.080 We already had a game, right So I saw Walk 1:29:09.120 --> 1:29:11.479 across that camp. But for three weeks straight. Yeah, I 1:29:11.560 --> 1:29:13.680 told my roommate, I said, I'm gonna make that girl 1:29:13.720 --> 1:29:15.679 with my girlfriend. I said, that's gonna be my girlfriend. 1:29:15.760 --> 1:29:17.120 You know back then we just said that's gonna be 1:29:17.160 --> 1:29:20.479 the wife. Yeah, walked by, walked by one day. I said, 1:29:20.479 --> 1:29:22.840 I said, uh, you mind if I walk into your dorm. 1:29:22.920 --> 1:29:25.400 She's like yeah. We started talking, carried on. I saw 1:29:25.439 --> 1:29:28.120 in the hallway. Next day class we started talking. I 1:29:28.240 --> 1:29:31.400 was like, you know what, you know, get dob moment, 1:29:32.120 --> 1:29:36.599 dob moment. They see me talk to this. Everybody, Hey 1:29:36.800 --> 1:29:39.639 got big. No, everybody tried to talk to that dude. 1:29:39.960 --> 1:29:42.120 I let y'all have three weeks. Every I let y'all 1:29:42.120 --> 1:29:45.280 have a three weeks. Everything start three. It ain't nobody 1:29:45.400 --> 1:29:48.120 Walter until I started talking with her. But that couldn't 1:29:48.120 --> 1:29:50.000 beat my time, Like my greatest I had to laid 1:29:50.000 --> 1:29:53.600 down a blistering time. It was over for you. I 1:29:53.720 --> 1:29:57.840 put out a blistering time. Oh my mama ain't do nothing, 1:29:59.360 --> 1:30:02.720 so she hipped him pole. Oh admitted. But anyway, that's 1:30:02.760 --> 1:30:06.000 out here, So give me some data advice, Uh, dating advice. 1:30:06.120 --> 1:30:09.759 Man shouting for real man, finding somebody that's genuine, sincere 1:30:09.960 --> 1:30:13.439 and kind and fair attention. How you I don't know 1:30:13.479 --> 1:30:15.240 about I don't know about La, but I tell you 1:30:15.360 --> 1:30:17.519 a good dating pool. Uh you want to find a 1:30:17.800 --> 1:30:22.040 man Dallas. I've had the best relationships in Dallas, Texas. Man. 1:30:22.840 --> 1:30:26.280 Not not Houston, Houston if you in your thirties, but man, 1:30:26.280 --> 1:30:28.880 if you're in your forties and fifties, man, Dallas, Texas. Man, 1:30:28.960 --> 1:30:33.400 have some nice, beautiful, genuinely sincere. You got Bishop Jake's 1:30:33.520 --> 1:30:36.160 Church there, you got past the Haynes shirts there. It's 1:30:36.240 --> 1:30:39.400 it's kind of like the Bible Belt is Midwest with 1:30:39.560 --> 1:30:43.120 a Southern feel to it. Classy them them little Erica 1:30:43.200 --> 1:30:47.519 Bay dude, h natural outfro be wearing that little African 1:30:47.720 --> 1:30:50.479 awe and sexy gonna make sure you're make sure you. 1:30:50.800 --> 1:30:53.760 I'm talking about the chicks that's gonna make sure you straight. Yeah, 1:30:53.920 --> 1:30:57.920 cause cause see, I don't need your money. Right. If 1:30:57.960 --> 1:31:00.479 you have a job in a career, that's fine, right, 1:31:00.760 --> 1:31:03.320 But man, if if you can help me organize my 1:31:03.479 --> 1:31:07.680 life with Margie, Marjorie did for Steve, right, that's what 1:31:07.800 --> 1:31:11.080 I want, right, man, man, man, man, listen, when Steve 1:31:11.240 --> 1:31:13.439 got with Marjorie, Man, I see a whole different not 1:31:13.600 --> 1:31:17.280 only in his happiness, his career. Okay, that type and 1:31:17.320 --> 1:31:22.000 then you know March bow leg too. I was walking 1:31:22.080 --> 1:31:24.519 up behind Marjorie in the airport. Man, I'm getting ready. 1:31:24.560 --> 1:31:26.840 While I was walking up on I said, oh my god, 1:31:27.520 --> 1:31:29.400 I did. She looked at me. She said, oh, I said, 1:31:30.280 --> 1:31:31.960 I was gonna holler at you. But I ain't know 1:31:32.000 --> 1:31:34.439 it with you, she said. I said, because you know, 1:31:34.479 --> 1:31:39.240 we like brothers. But but that right there with Steven 1:31:39.320 --> 1:31:41.880 has right, that's a blue print of what I would 1:31:41.920 --> 1:31:44.439 like to have, And I'm not I'm like, Okay, I 1:31:44.800 --> 1:31:46.400 don't need you to wash clothes. I don't need you 1:31:46.479 --> 1:31:50.719 to do I ain't real to mistgate it. I'm gonna 1:31:50.720 --> 1:31:52.920 find somebody to do that. I don't find somebody to 1:31:52.960 --> 1:31:54.760 wash the clothes. I'm gonna find somebody to cook. But 1:31:54.840 --> 1:31:56.600 I want you to be stacked like dirty laundy in 1:31:56.640 --> 1:31:58.519 the dorm room. Come on, grow with you to have 1:31:58.720 --> 1:32:00.519 I would like for you to have a degree. Now, 1:32:00.520 --> 1:32:02.839 if you want to have two, that's fine too. Shunning. 1:32:02.960 --> 1:32:05.320 But guess what, but don't be in too look shunning. 1:32:05.400 --> 1:32:08.960 Guess what if she don't have a degree. But if 1:32:09.000 --> 1:32:11.960 she got a deal break, if she got the basic 1:32:12.120 --> 1:32:15.160 stuff my grandma that your grandmother and my grandmother has, 1:32:15.680 --> 1:32:18.880 and she just got genuine love and her walk off 1:32:19.080 --> 1:32:22.120 is fire. And she looked good, and some wedge hills 1:32:22.240 --> 1:32:25.000 and some jeans, and she looked, holla, holla, not even 1:32:25.080 --> 1:32:29.439 that a sun dress and better sun dress. She's got 1:32:29.920 --> 1:32:32.599 a sun dress and some wedge kills. And she looked 1:32:32.640 --> 1:32:36.040 and she looks she got and she a basketball cutting 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:38.080 half back there and you better not and used to 1:32:38.120 --> 1:32:41.360 be a cheerleader what or a major red? Oh my god, 1:32:42.360 --> 1:32:46.400 oh my god. If school got married, oh yeah, I mean, 1:32:46.520 --> 1:32:48.599 and then you know they be a little little fat 1:32:48.680 --> 1:32:52.160 as cheney. But you know what, we're right. Here's the thing. 1:32:53.040 --> 1:32:55.680 And I tell any woman that I've ever been with, 1:32:57.040 --> 1:33:00.240 I became what I became because all iver to do 1:33:00.320 --> 1:33:02.160 is make sure my family was out of this situation. 1:33:02.320 --> 1:33:05.080 Absolutely to raise my problem. Now, that doesn't mean I'm 1:33:05.120 --> 1:33:07.080 not gonna do for you. Not only am I not 1:33:07.160 --> 1:33:09.080 gonna do for you, I will do for you. I 1:33:09.160 --> 1:33:11.760 will treat your family, your mom and dad, as if 1:33:11.800 --> 1:33:13.400 they were my mom and dad. Absolutely. So if you 1:33:13.560 --> 1:33:15.439 tell me, say, hey, Shannon, can we help my mom 1:33:15.520 --> 1:33:20.200 and dad? Why are you asking me? That's a no brainer, right, done, deal, right. 1:33:20.720 --> 1:33:24.639 But I need you to understand that my family, that's 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:27.280 that's it for me. I'm not now my kids know 1:33:28.040 --> 1:33:32.439 I'm not first option. I'm last resort. So once you 1:33:32.560 --> 1:33:34.240 got I need you to I need your brainstorm. I 1:33:34.280 --> 1:33:36.120 sent you to school or you got a good degree. Hey, 1:33:36.200 --> 1:33:39.040 my youngest daughter is one year away from being a doctor. 1:33:39.600 --> 1:33:41.879 My sons, like I said, yes, my daughters, the human resources. 1:33:42.080 --> 1:33:44.320 I said, y'all figure it out. Now. If you can't 1:33:44.360 --> 1:33:46.720 figure it out, okay, let's let's see what we can do. 1:33:46.920 --> 1:33:50.880 See if dad can help you. Right, But next to me, 1:33:52.360 --> 1:33:55.280 you good, right, your mom and dad good. But don't 1:33:55.320 --> 1:33:58.880 and don't be don't. It's not a competition. What I've 1:33:59.000 --> 1:34:01.120 learned is that the women that I daid felt like 1:34:01.160 --> 1:34:04.880 they were in competition with the kids. And it's no oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, 1:34:05.120 --> 1:34:10.360 we're not having that. Nah. I The biggest turn off 1:34:10.560 --> 1:34:14.839 for me is the half that I've dated a selfish 1:34:14.880 --> 1:34:17.559 woman before. Uh with that dang seem like I find 1:34:17.560 --> 1:34:20.120 that's all I find. Yeah, man, asking about everything is 1:34:20.160 --> 1:34:22.240 about her and her kid. But you never asked me 1:34:22.360 --> 1:34:24.960 how my grandson doing. See, I got a grandson and 1:34:25.040 --> 1:34:28.400 the granddad my grandson lived with me between me and 1:34:28.479 --> 1:34:31.040 miss pat or whatever when I'm out of town. Right, 1:34:31.360 --> 1:34:35.360 how's how's Grayson? How Grayson? That's important to me? Right? 1:34:35.560 --> 1:34:37.719 When you can get my grandson to take my grandson 1:34:37.880 --> 1:34:40.280 and your kid to the jumping gym and have a 1:34:40.360 --> 1:34:42.320 good time, so I can go downstairs and get on 1:34:42.400 --> 1:34:44.639 the couch and take a nap, right, watch First forty 1:34:44.680 --> 1:34:47.320 eight or whatever. Then hey, I spot you on the food. 1:34:47.439 --> 1:34:50.000 I got food ready when you come back, right, either 1:34:50.080 --> 1:34:52.400 on the food or I cooked or something, and we 1:34:52.520 --> 1:34:56.240 just have a food. And I would really need for 1:34:56.320 --> 1:35:01.120 a woman that that would enjoy swimming and athletics stuff, right, 1:35:01.280 --> 1:35:03.320 you know, I ain't nothing like a chick that was 1:35:03.360 --> 1:35:06.720 sit up and watch a game. A basketball fan or 1:35:06.800 --> 1:35:09.760 football yeah whatever, you're a fan up, whatever your team is, Okay, 1:35:09.840 --> 1:35:12.880 I got a whole man cave right down downstairs and 1:35:13.040 --> 1:35:14.680 get down there on the couch and watch but you 1:35:14.800 --> 1:35:16.200 but you can't be talking about why we got to 1:35:16.240 --> 1:35:18.640 watch sports again, because sports pay for all this is 1:35:18.800 --> 1:35:22.360 that in here, right you do realize that that's what 1:35:22.479 --> 1:35:25.920 pay for this, absolutely absolutely, and the thing we're going 1:35:25.960 --> 1:35:28.320 through kind of the same thing. Yeah, man, you know, 1:35:28.720 --> 1:35:32.920 uh at a comedy show, just knowing how to be right, See, 1:35:32.960 --> 1:35:36.439 I know how somebody that used a certain amount of discretion. 1:35:36.680 --> 1:35:39.240 If you walk in the room, Shannon, Yeah, you see 1:35:39.280 --> 1:35:42.040 a chick sitting over there in the corner. I bet 1:35:42.120 --> 1:35:44.479 that's Rickey, smiling away because you automatically, she don't even 1:35:44.479 --> 1:35:46.320 have to be standing next to me because she gives 1:35:46.360 --> 1:35:48.400 you that energy. Right. You know, if you go to 1:35:48.479 --> 1:35:52.560 a church anything, you see that woman over there, the 1:35:52.600 --> 1:35:54.639 man up there appreaching you already know that's a past 1:35:54.680 --> 1:35:57.080 of white. You're looking at him, look at look at 1:35:57.160 --> 1:36:01.320 a past of key and shunny or whatever that kind 1:36:01.360 --> 1:36:05.400 of vibe like like pass the key on unwiped shining. 1:36:05.560 --> 1:36:08.040 You know somebody like her classy se you like me. 1:36:08.120 --> 1:36:11.400 I'm little key, I ain't really flash it. Yeah, yeah, 1:36:11.479 --> 1:36:15.320 I'm real discreet. I got but people look at me, 1:36:15.920 --> 1:36:17.400 get me because I don't. I don't flash. I ain't 1:36:17.400 --> 1:36:18.760 got the big jewelry. I ain't got a little. I 1:36:18.800 --> 1:36:23.080 ain't got a twenty twenty twenty seven ride, but I 1:36:23.120 --> 1:36:25.960 got paper. Now, I got paper too, But I drive 1:36:26.000 --> 1:36:29.760 a four and I dried that little cheek that, yeah, 1:36:29.760 --> 1:36:31.840 it's good, A little Ruba kun of two thousand and 1:36:32.120 --> 1:36:34.280 I don't have nothing to prove. I don't. I don't 1:36:34.360 --> 1:36:37.040 do enohing. I don't have nothing to prove shining real 1:36:37.280 --> 1:36:38.880 I did. I did for fourteen years. I had to 1:36:38.920 --> 1:36:40.640 prove something every year, right, and I need to be 1:36:40.720 --> 1:36:42.519 on this team. And I was kicking, but nah, I 1:36:42.680 --> 1:36:44.640 get that I got. I got a necklace too, but 1:36:44.680 --> 1:36:47.600 it ain't real because if you snatch it, then you 1:36:47.800 --> 1:36:51.559 have it. Why your coach act like that with time 1:36:51.720 --> 1:36:55.000 and talk about he ain't swack. Time said he ain't swag. 1:36:55.080 --> 1:36:58.720 He was. Who is swag? If I eat swag? If 1:36:58.960 --> 1:37:03.479 I ain't swack, right, who's smack? Uh? Edie Rob because 1:37:03.479 --> 1:37:09.920 he's still at Alabama State. I played again any Rob 1:37:10.240 --> 1:37:12.720 in Tennessee, Eddie Jacksonville, So I do Eddy Rob. I 1:37:12.800 --> 1:37:16.000 know we used to work out together. Listen man, Eddie Rob, 1:37:16.800 --> 1:37:19.720 both of my friends. I'm yeah. Eddie Rob helped me 1:37:19.840 --> 1:37:22.280 get my house that I'm in now. I didn't have 1:37:22.439 --> 1:37:25.400 enough money at the closing table. I ain't gonna lie here. 1:37:25.479 --> 1:37:29.120 I know he hate you never. He is such a friend. 1:37:29.240 --> 1:37:32.240 He is a frat brother. He's a friend or whatever. 1:37:32.320 --> 1:37:34.560 He came through from me. Man one time when I 1:37:34.680 --> 1:37:36.840 just didn't have it, you know what, And I love 1:37:37.000 --> 1:37:38.840 I love him for that. It never. It's funny that 1:37:38.880 --> 1:37:42.000 you say that I had one of the first Seal Mercedes. Yeah, 1:37:42.080 --> 1:37:46.599 hudor huh. I sold it to him, Eddie Rob. Ask him, 1:37:46.800 --> 1:37:49.400 next time you see it, I sold it to Yeah, 1:37:49.640 --> 1:37:51.479 I had that car. I had it for like, I 1:37:51.560 --> 1:37:54.599 had it for like three months. Right. My homeboy knew 1:37:54.640 --> 1:37:57.120 Eddie Rob. And he said, Eddie said, you want to 1:37:57.160 --> 1:38:01.280 buy your car? I said, huh, okay, I sold it 1:38:01.320 --> 1:38:03.120 to him. I think I had like eight hundred miles, 1:38:03.400 --> 1:38:04.880 not even have eight hundred miles. Maybe I think I 1:38:04.880 --> 1:38:07.360 about to drove it like five times now. Ed Robert 1:38:07.400 --> 1:38:09.759 good dude. Hell hell, he'd do a lot of stuff 1:38:09.800 --> 1:38:13.400 at at Alabama State University. Man. And uh uh, you 1:38:13.520 --> 1:38:17.080 know he's a wonderful frat brother man. Uh, shout out 1:38:17.120 --> 1:38:20.360 the Gamma seed. Why why ain't playing saying you got 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:23.640 Omega all over you? Man? Because I will maybe you 1:38:23.640 --> 1:38:25.240 think i'ma let you will me to wear my clothes 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:28.240 and dropped my car. My brother, go up that brother. 1:38:28.240 --> 1:38:31.640 We're gonna talk after the show. You are definitely you 1:38:31.760 --> 1:38:35.000 are de Jalen hurts I was jo Jaylen hurts I was. 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:39.320 I was in at Me five me Michael Jordan joined 1:38:39.400 --> 1:38:43.000 us the wonderful Fraternity of Omega. Softh I do grad 1:38:43.080 --> 1:38:45.560 chapter in corporate. It don't matter. We just need a 1:38:45.600 --> 1:38:48.240 good man like yourself. Okay, I think about it. Yes, sir, 1:38:48.439 --> 1:38:51.200 I heard you used to charge people to sit at 1:38:51.240 --> 1:38:53.000 your luck at the table with you at lunch. Yeah, 1:38:53.040 --> 1:38:56.400 Alabama State in the South Hall. Yeah, we're gonna charge 1:38:56.400 --> 1:38:58.360 your a quarter or something to sit there because that 1:38:58.439 --> 1:39:00.479 was a whole comedy show. Weren't getting up The jokes 1:39:00.520 --> 1:39:04.519 are free? Yeah? Yeah, so you literally did they know 1:39:04.600 --> 1:39:06.479 you're working on your material, but there huking on it. 1:39:06.600 --> 1:39:11.760 Then my college roommate Bend was hilarious. Man. Uh he's 1:39:11.800 --> 1:39:15.320 from Andalusia, Alabama. Bend was country is a brown first 1:39:15.360 --> 1:39:18.000 of all Alabama ain't no, ain't no city parts of Alabama. 1:39:18.200 --> 1:39:20.000 Think about it. It's the only state, it's the only state. 1:39:20.080 --> 1:39:22.280 They call you Obama, and it's a it's a slight. 1:39:22.520 --> 1:39:25.120 Oh come on, nobody call you Obama. What they mean 1:39:26.000 --> 1:39:29.120 Now that's disrespect. If it's on the East coast. When 1:39:29.160 --> 1:39:33.000 the East Coast said it's somebody country, then they just country. Yeah, 1:39:33.080 --> 1:39:35.760 but don't call them Obama. Yeah, don't group us up 1:39:36.280 --> 1:39:38.719 with the country because it's some country. Parts of DC 1:39:38.920 --> 1:39:41.880 through and not like okay, but where the city parts 1:39:41.960 --> 1:39:46.600 of Alabama, Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville is the biggest city and 1:39:46.920 --> 1:39:50.240 state of Alabama. Now you got the this man said 1:39:50.360 --> 1:39:56.200 Mobile and Birmingham. Right, everybody comes to Alabama. Know, they 1:39:56.280 --> 1:39:59.400 come to play football. No, Birmingham has one of the largest, 1:39:59.479 --> 1:40:02.559 the second. Aren't the Civil Rights Museum? Yes, and they 1:40:02.600 --> 1:40:05.200 come to visit the Civil Rights Museum country. Yes, come 1:40:05.280 --> 1:40:07.240 for the food, they come for the hospitality. They come 1:40:07.280 --> 1:40:10.000 for peace and quiet that you ain't gonna get in Atlanta. 1:40:10.080 --> 1:40:13.080 Now before the two people in that bad don't damn 1:40:13.160 --> 1:40:15.240 outter I guess, but we're trying to We're not stuck 1:40:15.280 --> 1:40:17.000 in traffic trying to get home. You can get home 1:40:17.040 --> 1:40:20.360 in five minutes. Yeah, well, you know how you mentioned 1:40:20.400 --> 1:40:21.920 you mentioned to make a side fire you and you 1:40:22.120 --> 1:40:24.000 you're really proud you stayed the purple to goal. Oh 1:40:24.000 --> 1:40:25.640 you got to purplely goal. Oh yeah, what made you 1:40:25.720 --> 1:40:31.240 decide to place that fraternity? Man? I got really excited 1:40:31.240 --> 1:40:33.080 about the ques when I was going to Alabama State 1:40:33.120 --> 1:40:35.880 when Jesse Jackson was running for president. Uh huh, So 1:40:36.000 --> 1:40:41.960 that was my first I am somebody, damn somebody river man. 1:40:42.000 --> 1:40:45.160 When Jesse Jackson said, just because you're from the project, 1:40:45.280 --> 1:40:47.080 that don't mean that the Project have to be in you, 1:40:47.680 --> 1:40:50.479 and that stuck with me my head. A tear came 1:40:50.520 --> 1:40:53.439 and I heard him speak at Chappa because I actually 1:40:53.439 --> 1:40:57.559 went to Tuskeg in my freshman year. Okay, couldn't afford 1:40:57.600 --> 1:40:59.680 to stay there. You know what I'm saying Tuskege is 1:40:59.680 --> 1:41:01.439 for kids is if your mom and dad still together, 1:41:01.439 --> 1:41:03.160 you had them thing we should go down and play with. 1:41:04.240 --> 1:41:05.640 I don't know what Alabama State had, but I know 1:41:05.640 --> 1:41:08.880 what you had because you leave Alabama State and you 1:41:09.000 --> 1:41:11.519 make that little dry down eighty five to go to 1:41:11.600 --> 1:41:13.519 go to Skigie and they didn't have a They had 1:41:13.600 --> 1:41:16.040 just built the McDonald's when I was there, So it 1:41:16.120 --> 1:41:20.559 was McDonald's a movie theater, and and the chicken coop 1:41:20.680 --> 1:41:22.880 next to the Chicken coop was right next to Lina 1:41:23.000 --> 1:41:26.120 Richie's dad's house. You know that, No, you know that 1:41:26.320 --> 1:41:29.320 so uh? But but you know some great people come 1:41:29.360 --> 1:41:32.360 out of Tuskegee. Yeah uh. Lina Richie is an alpha 1:41:35.640 --> 1:41:38.320 Tom joined the players Q Yeah, and as Skeig is 1:41:38.360 --> 1:41:41.280 so uh, Skigie is rich uh like he should. But 1:41:41.320 --> 1:41:44.040 I just couldn't afford to attend school that comes way 1:41:44.160 --> 1:41:47.760 too expensive. So what what made you decide? Because I 1:41:47.880 --> 1:41:50.720 hear a lot of people, you know, the brotherhood man, 1:41:50.880 --> 1:41:54.880 the manhood many manhood man. You grow up without a dad? Yeah, 1:41:55.040 --> 1:41:57.880 I didn't have any brothers, okay, and I didn't have 1:41:57.960 --> 1:42:01.040 a dad. I found everything I need then, Maga sci five. 1:42:01.080 --> 1:42:04.960 I have fathers in the Frat. I have unbelievable uncles 1:42:05.040 --> 1:42:07.680 in the frat. I have brothers in the frat. I 1:42:07.800 --> 1:42:10.439 have nephews in the frat, and I have sons in 1:42:10.520 --> 1:42:14.479 the frat. Right, Omega Scipe fire Man has shout out 1:42:14.520 --> 1:42:19.120 to our grand Bostons that's out there in La Ricky Lewis, Yeah, 1:42:19.439 --> 1:42:22.080 who's a real good guy. Uh. Shout out to some 1:42:22.160 --> 1:42:26.519 of my friend brothers. Anthony Anderson ye dl hugli uh 1:42:26.880 --> 1:42:31.439 shack uh. George Clinton yeah uh he's a brother now, 1:42:32.120 --> 1:42:36.040 Big time attorney Ben Crump yeah, plays yeah. So it's 1:42:36.040 --> 1:42:37.800 a lot of I would look good at them them 1:42:37.840 --> 1:42:42.479 gold Man come on. Uh. James Cliburne yeah really Yeah. 1:42:42.520 --> 1:42:44.200 You ain't know he was a kid? I did not, so, 1:42:44.479 --> 1:42:47.360 if I'm not mistaken, school, Yeah, no, I think did 1:42:47.439 --> 1:42:49.080 he go to University of South Carolina? Did he would 1:42:49.080 --> 1:42:51.200 go to South Carolina State? I think he went to 1:42:51.360 --> 1:42:54.439 South Carolina State? Okay, if I'm not mistaken, but he 1:42:54.600 --> 1:42:56.439 is definitely a member of Omega sci Fire. Every time 1:42:56.439 --> 1:42:58.200 he doing this interview, you see the sci Fire right 1:42:58.240 --> 1:43:00.720 there behind him or whatever. So and the brothers is 1:43:00.760 --> 1:43:03.200 just awesome shinning it would it would definitely change your life. 1:43:03.400 --> 1:43:05.280 Ask Michael Joan said, one of the greatest thing ever 1:43:05.320 --> 1:43:07.599 happened to him was pleasure. Don't make a sci Fire, 1:43:07.760 --> 1:43:14.439 no jumping for the free throw line. What made you 1:43:14.520 --> 1:43:16.120 decide that I'm gonna get out here on this rick? 1:43:16.280 --> 1:43:18.320 What made you decide to like, I don't want to 1:43:18.400 --> 1:43:20.120 learn how to fly a plane? I mean because of 1:43:20.120 --> 1:43:22.479 all the things that you could say. It just curious. Man. 1:43:22.479 --> 1:43:24.840 I was obsessed with airplanes when I was a kid. Now, 1:43:24.920 --> 1:43:26.920 my grandfather would take me to the airport and we 1:43:26.960 --> 1:43:30.280 would sit on the car because it's a road, right, 1:43:30.439 --> 1:43:32.920 it's line up with the runway, right, and we're just 1:43:33.040 --> 1:43:36.240 watching take off and land. Then my uncle Herbert, before 1:43:36.280 --> 1:43:38.280 he passed away, he was he would take me the 1:43:38.320 --> 1:43:41.320 air shows. Right. It would be out there watching the airplanes. 1:43:42.360 --> 1:43:44.080 You know all that. I want to learn how to 1:43:44.120 --> 1:43:45.840 fly a plane. So I saw working at the radio 1:43:45.880 --> 1:43:48.600 station in Birmingham. The guys were calling in and do 1:43:48.640 --> 1:43:50.599 the track, and said, how y'all know where the traffic 1:43:50.720 --> 1:43:53.120 and they said, we're in a plane. I said, he said, 1:43:53.160 --> 1:43:55.040 come out and go with us. They said, we do 1:43:55.160 --> 1:43:57.400 morning traffic and we do eating traffic. Right. So I 1:43:57.400 --> 1:43:58.920 couldn't do it in the morning because I'm doing the 1:43:58.960 --> 1:44:02.080 morning show, right, So I went one evening, but the 1:44:02.200 --> 1:44:04.360 evening drive right. But getting on work, right, you're in 1:44:04.360 --> 1:44:07.360 a helicopter the right now, it was in the plane. Really, Shannon, 1:44:07.520 --> 1:44:09.559 we was in a plane. So he said, hey, I'm 1:44:09.600 --> 1:44:11.320 gonna let you fly and I'm just gonna do the shot. 1:44:11.360 --> 1:44:15.200 Ask him what. So he was like, okay, here's your rudders. 1:44:15.720 --> 1:44:17.960 That's what you be. I said, okay, I got that part. 1:44:18.400 --> 1:44:20.960 So he was like, uh, you know, here's your throttle. 1:44:21.160 --> 1:44:24.040 I'm like okay, he said, you know, he told me 1:44:24.200 --> 1:44:26.080 exactly whether to do my first time in the plane. 1:44:26.720 --> 1:44:28.920 I took that baby down the runway. I pushed that 1:44:29.040 --> 1:44:31.160 throttle forward and I balanced because you drive the plane 1:44:31.160 --> 1:44:34.280 with your feet, so you're driving. He said, okay, you 1:44:34.360 --> 1:44:36.240 feel the plane get light. I'm like yeah, he said, 1:44:36.280 --> 1:44:38.479 go ahead and pool. So I went in pool. We 1:44:38.520 --> 1:44:41.800 got up in the air, showed me the altitude me. 1:44:41.920 --> 1:44:44.120 It just showed me everything. Man. I was addicted. Man, 1:44:44.360 --> 1:44:46.479 I'm like, I can fly a plane. He didn't let 1:44:46.560 --> 1:44:49.200 me land, but take up. I wouldn't let you took off. 1:44:51.000 --> 1:44:54.760 It's that easy. It's easy, Shannon. Think it's easy for 1:44:54.880 --> 1:44:57.920 a pilot. Shannon, listen to me. You're not a pilot. 1:44:58.240 --> 1:45:01.120 I am a comedian, Shannon. I am looking to you 1:45:01.160 --> 1:45:06.280 your television personality. Ye shot on the football field. What 1:45:06.360 --> 1:45:08.759 I do? I can do all things. That's not something. 1:45:08.960 --> 1:45:13.960 All things, Shannon. Listen, if if I get if I'm 1:45:14.000 --> 1:45:16.160 getting on the plane and I see you in the cockpit. 1:45:16.240 --> 1:45:19.800 I'm immediately getting off that plane, Shannon, Shannon. I fly 1:45:20.080 --> 1:45:24.799 really well and I land just not with me, Shannon, 1:45:24.920 --> 1:45:27.720 Come on, Shannon, I was shutting. They took one of 1:45:27.760 --> 1:45:29.840 my Instagram videos down because I was landing the plane. 1:45:29.880 --> 1:45:31.960 I was feeling at the same time. You only fly 1:45:32.120 --> 1:45:34.439 with one hand, right, you don't. You don't mean with 1:45:34.600 --> 1:45:36.759 the with the with the norbles, gripping it tight because 1:45:36.760 --> 1:45:39.639 you're scared. You have to relax and fly okay, Right, 1:45:40.160 --> 1:45:42.200 So I was doing a uh, I was coming in 1:45:42.280 --> 1:45:43.920 the landing for a lot of the airport and they 1:45:43.960 --> 1:45:46.599 said there was a violation, so they took the video down, right, 1:45:46.680 --> 1:45:49.880 But I got plenty flight videos or whatever. But you 1:45:49.960 --> 1:45:52.840 got the I don't have my license hip, but I 1:45:52.920 --> 1:45:55.640 have to fly with a license pilot, right. But I 1:45:55.800 --> 1:45:58.760 am gonna get my license, so so get ready for that. 1:45:58.880 --> 1:46:01.200 But I am a boat captain, and it's and it's everything. 1:46:01.280 --> 1:46:03.400 Some of the stuff. It's the same, right, going across 1:46:03.439 --> 1:46:05.200 the ocean and flying in the air like when you 1:46:05.320 --> 1:46:08.640 got when it's wuffy or whatever, same thing, you know, 1:46:08.720 --> 1:46:10.920 and the sky. But flying is easy because in a 1:46:11.040 --> 1:46:15.080 car you got gas brakes, radio a car, right, here, 1:46:15.360 --> 1:46:17.599 car right here, a car right here, car behind your 1:46:17.600 --> 1:46:20.680 trucks passing by, and the plane is just you and 1:46:20.800 --> 1:46:22.400 on the thing. Even if you can't see, you just 1:46:22.520 --> 1:46:24.960 focus on your instruments. Like I can drive a boat 1:46:25.040 --> 1:46:28.679 in the dark by reading my navigational system and bag 1:46:28.800 --> 1:46:31.040 it in a fifty four boat in a fifty four 1:46:31.120 --> 1:46:33.840 foot sea ray in and bag it in and jump 1:46:33.960 --> 1:46:35.680 off and pull it in and tie it up and 1:46:35.760 --> 1:46:39.439 docket in everything. It's just fun, man, it's lightning, something different. 1:46:39.720 --> 1:46:42.280 It's outside of the box. I swim with sharks. I'm 1:46:42.360 --> 1:46:44.880 like the most interesting man like that. When you out here, 1:46:45.280 --> 1:46:46.880 you out here in the la you swimming amongst them. 1:46:46.920 --> 1:46:49.280 Trust me, Now, I don't swim. I swim with the 1:46:49.320 --> 1:46:51.280 sharks in the Bahamas. Oh no, these sharks out here 1:46:51.280 --> 1:46:52.800 I'm talking about. You walk well, you ain't swimming, you 1:46:52.880 --> 1:46:57.960 just walk in. It's an everything, Yeah, it's an American 1:46:58.040 --> 1:47:01.080 carnage going on, yeah, and everything. Yeah. We shouldn't have 1:47:01.160 --> 1:47:04.439 a conversation about gun violence because it's it's really bad 1:47:04.560 --> 1:47:07.640 and unstable. Talk about it. Go ahead, yeah, man, you know, 1:47:07.760 --> 1:47:09.679 just being a gunshot, then to be in a household 1:47:09.720 --> 1:47:13.519 of five and two of us are gunshot the man. 1:47:13.640 --> 1:47:16.720 I am just really pro protecting yourself, man, because at 1:47:16.800 --> 1:47:19.800 this point you can't do nothing about the guns because 1:47:19.800 --> 1:47:22.840 they won't change the loss. But damn you have one. 1:47:23.080 --> 1:47:25.800 Me and my kids are on right, and we take 1:47:26.040 --> 1:47:30.880 technical training in situational training, right, So the southern thing 1:47:30.920 --> 1:47:32.879 I couldn't have. I mean, growing up in the household, 1:47:32.880 --> 1:47:35.720 we always had guns. Guns were always loaded. There was 1:47:35.800 --> 1:47:38.040 never a situation in which the gun was not loaded. 1:47:38.439 --> 1:47:40.240 If my grandpa said, what good is the unloaded gun? 1:47:40.280 --> 1:47:42.760 If you need are having one and not having it 1:47:42.840 --> 1:47:45.040 on your inner hoster. Yeah, so you just have to 1:47:45.080 --> 1:47:49.759 protect yourself because this is just thirty years ago. Thirty 1:47:49.880 --> 1:47:52.439 years ago, this thing about thirty years Yeah, that's when 1:47:52.640 --> 1:47:54.280 when it got to a point where you can't say 1:47:54.360 --> 1:47:58.400 nothing to nobody's kid. You can't correct nobody, right, what 1:47:58.520 --> 1:48:02.479 do you have now? What do you have now? Look 1:48:02.520 --> 1:48:05.960 at what's going on now, kid, people in their thirties, 1:48:06.000 --> 1:48:07.760 most of them, a lot of the crimes people at 1:48:07.760 --> 1:48:11.400 twenties and thirties. You can't correct or say anything to 1:48:11.560 --> 1:48:16.759 anybody's kids up there, and they go there, correct you, Shannon, 1:48:16.800 --> 1:48:20.559 They're doing everything now. It's unsafe. Now when I perform, 1:48:20.640 --> 1:48:23.640 and I got two uniform police officers with me, and 1:48:23.720 --> 1:48:25.439 I just pay them out of my pocket. I cash 1:48:25.439 --> 1:48:27.679 shop and I pay them under the table or whatever. 1:48:28.040 --> 1:48:31.519 And uh cause I'm scared people getting shot backstage, people 1:48:31.560 --> 1:48:35.800 getting shot running up on stage. Uh you get your money. 1:48:35.920 --> 1:48:38.000 They thank you, got money, thank you got paid for 1:48:38.080 --> 1:48:40.320 a comment to show in cash set up to rob 1:48:40.760 --> 1:48:43.080 up to rob you, and all this kind of stuff. Man, 1:48:43.120 --> 1:48:46.080 it's dangerous, right, It's seriously dangerous. So you have to 1:48:46.160 --> 1:48:48.960 move real careful now, so you think differently now than 1:48:49.000 --> 1:48:52.280 when you first started business. I assume that you are 1:48:52.360 --> 1:48:55.400 fitting to robbing. Shoot me coming out of a grocery store. 1:48:56.080 --> 1:48:58.160 You ought to see me paying the parking lot and 1:48:58.240 --> 1:49:01.120 looking around, I can conrect and every face I saw 1:49:01.200 --> 1:49:04.160 in the grocery store and identify anybody that was in 1:49:04.240 --> 1:49:07.040 the grocery store in every car that's in the parking lot. 1:49:07.479 --> 1:49:09.479 And I know how to get to my car without 1:49:09.560 --> 1:49:12.160 you knowing that I'm going to that particular car. I 1:49:12.360 --> 1:49:15.200 move a certain way right because I'm a gunshot victim, 1:49:15.240 --> 1:49:18.800 and I see what's going on because it's the details, 1:49:19.040 --> 1:49:22.400 the details. A small detail is the difference between light 1:49:22.479 --> 1:49:26.000 and death. You just have to assume that somebody's going 1:49:26.040 --> 1:49:27.519 to do something to you. And people can say all 1:49:27.560 --> 1:49:30.280 they want to. You can't live in fear. The hell 1:49:30.360 --> 1:49:32.200 you better live in fear because look at the time 1:49:32.240 --> 1:49:35.200 we're living in You can't say that now, right, so 1:49:35.360 --> 1:49:37.920 you'll be dead, you know what I'm saying. So we 1:49:38.040 --> 1:49:40.840 just got to figure out how to protect ourselves because 1:49:40.840 --> 1:49:42.800 you can't do nothing about the gun laws, right. We 1:49:42.960 --> 1:49:46.240 just hope and pray that people in the community stop 1:49:46.520 --> 1:49:49.720 killing each other, right or whatever. But until then, you 1:49:49.880 --> 1:49:51.719 have to do what you have to do to protect 1:49:51.800 --> 1:49:53.680 you and your family, right, Because I don't want my 1:49:53.800 --> 1:49:57.840 grandson burying me, have me up in a cask and 1:49:57.920 --> 1:49:59.760 my grandson sitting on the front row crime like I 1:49:59.800 --> 1:50:02.439 did my dad. It's not fair to him. Right for 1:50:02.640 --> 1:50:05.960 some damn twenty three to thirty three year old that 1:50:06.120 --> 1:50:08.240 don't have no didn't have no manners at home training 1:50:08.320 --> 1:50:10.800 and grew up entitled, and feel like it kills somebody 1:50:10.880 --> 1:50:15.800 because then he ain't got nothing. Right. There you go, Ricky, 1:50:16.160 --> 1:50:18.000 thanks for stopping by. I really appreciate it. Thank you 1:50:18.040 --> 1:50:20.519 for having HBC you alarm to another. Yes, all the 1:50:21.000 --> 1:50:22.960 continued success and all the best brother. Thank you man. 1:50:22.960 --> 1:50:26.040 I love you, Man, I appreciate you all my life. 1:50:26.240 --> 1:50:30.960 The grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle backy pricing, Want 1:50:31.000 --> 1:50:33.599 a slice, Got the brother the dice to swad all 1:50:33.680 --> 1:50:36.240 my life. I'll been grinding in all my life, all 1:50:36.320 --> 1:50:40.759 my life. Then grinding all my life sacrifice, hustle backy price, 1:50:41.439 --> 1:50:44.280 Want a slice, Got the brother, dice to swath all 1:50:44.320 --> 1:50:46.080 my life. I've been grinding in all my life.