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Speaker 3: Part one of our studio interview with our friends Hannibal Burns.
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Speaker 3: spoke about Chicago, his beginnings in comedy, and more. We're
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Speaker 3: be available on YouTube soon, so be.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, here we go.
Speaker 4: I would think, like if I'm making my for raight
Speaker 4: in the comedy, I would have my defense ready, Like
Speaker 4: how do you deal with hecklers? How do you deal
Speaker 4: with How early you deal with hecklers?
Speaker 5: I mean you try to just win the room back,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I mean it's different early on when they don't know you,
Speaker 6: because then.
Speaker 5: It's just fully combative versus dealing with it.
Speaker 6: Now when people pay money to see you and they
Speaker 6: might have been wanting to see you for a while,
Speaker 6: and then somebody else's ruining their experience, so it's easier
Speaker 6: to light them up and flip.
Speaker 5: You could just say like, hey, they.
Speaker 6: Didn't come here for that ship and they're like, we
Speaker 6: didn't come here for that.
Speaker 7: You ain't got to no Heckler's rule. I've seen a
Speaker 7: lot of comedians have that now, like.
Speaker 6: We just said before the show, but if people want to,
Speaker 6: I mean sometimes people say stuff and you just just
Speaker 6: like it's not they stay in.
Speaker 5: The seats, so it usually it's usually light work.
Speaker 6: I'd rather not talk with them just because I got
Speaker 6: an hour and a half of show and stories.
Speaker 5: So it's not really going to ignore them.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, you don't really ignore if they're
Speaker 6: loud enough because they took focus. So you just try
Speaker 6: to just settle the room and and just you know,
Speaker 6: show them why they're there.
Speaker 4: Who's that was it?
Speaker 2: Said?
Speaker 4: That told us that he makes sure that one of
Speaker 4: his openers is like a shooter like that comes out
Speaker 4: in his mere job is to roost the audience to
Speaker 4: be like, you know, I don't bash you. I think
Speaker 4: Chris Rock also had that. Do you know the white
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, he's good? Oh yeah, who Jce No, no, no,
Speaker 4: it wasn't. Well I know Jesselyn, but it's another guy.
Speaker 4: It's a new guy where he just he intentionally just
Speaker 4: comes down the audience and talks like lights you up
Speaker 4: unprovoked whatever, and it you know, it's I'm surprised that
Speaker 4: he's still living, that's how good he is at roasting.
Speaker 4: But for you, do you always have like your back
Speaker 4: pocket full of like your mama jokes.
Speaker 6: Or or no, you kind of you know, even now,
Speaker 6: you just try to get an idea of where they
Speaker 6: add and just you know why they you know, it
Speaker 6: depends on the situation of what you were talking about.
Speaker 6: A lot of times if they interest especially if they
Speaker 6: interrupted in a story. It's just as simple as saying,
Speaker 6: I don't know why you thought it was cool to
Speaker 6: say that right there. That was a terrible spot for
Speaker 6: you to say that must be drunk, uh yeah, drunk
Speaker 6: or just you know, it's just a heckle by accident.
Speaker 4: So you don't.
Speaker 7: You got no heckle by accident, Like just like I'm sorry,
Speaker 7: I thought that was a question for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 6: Sometimes people talking amongst themselves and it's it's so loud
Speaker 6: it sounds like a heckle But then a lot of
Speaker 6: times too, it's a function of my show not being
Speaker 6: that tight yet, and so it left them too much room. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it left too much room, and so they're like, that's
Speaker 6: my turn. I can't sit with my thoughts that long.
Speaker 6: I got something. And so now as I've been on
Speaker 6: the road with this one and now that the show is,
Speaker 6: you don't really leave too much space for somebody to
Speaker 6: even think of something to say because you're on to
Speaker 6: the next So that's that's what that A lot of
Speaker 6: the hecklers happen if I'm in a in a gap
Speaker 6: and like, oh, where's my next thing?
Speaker 5: But so now where if the ship is like that,
Speaker 5: then they ain't got no room.
Speaker 4: At what point are you taking this series as in,
Speaker 4: this is what I want to do for a living?
Speaker 4: And are you aware of the Chicago paths? I e.
Speaker 4: You know, either go the Second City route, so that
Speaker 4: a Steve Higgins, Yeah, Like, is it general knowledge for
Speaker 4: every comedian in Chicago that either Higgins or a rep
Speaker 4: for Lauren Michaels or anyone SNL related it's going to
Speaker 4: spend three weeks out there and sort of circle the
Speaker 4: Second Cities and the ucb's.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well yeah, around then it was it was known,
Speaker 6: but that wasn't really my path or what I wanted
Speaker 6: to do at the time. I was kind of really
Speaker 6: locked in on stand up. Even getting SNL was a
Speaker 6: after fouling. Seth Myers wanted to meet and I didn't
Speaker 6: know what he wanted to meet about because I was
Speaker 6: I didn't I hadn't submitted a packet. I had submitted
Speaker 6: some stuff the year before, and I thought it was
Speaker 6: that it was so bad that I was blackballed. I
Speaker 6: did that cast submission with some bad I was like,
Speaker 6: here's rock being Jerry Seinfeld. It was some stuff that
Speaker 6: really wasn't as good as I could have. So I
Speaker 6: was thinking, what does he want to meet about? Because
Speaker 6: I didn't added a mine, and I damn it didn't
Speaker 6: take the meeting because I had a price line ticket
Speaker 6: back to Chicago and those guys really they have really
Speaker 6: rigid shame's policies.
Speaker 5: So I was like, what does he want to talk about?
Speaker 4: Because you can't talk about on the phone. Wait, all right,
Speaker 4: So that's another question you get answered for me because
Speaker 4: this is the number one thing every comedian friend of
Speaker 4: mine and the Tonight Show and SNL. Yeah, what is
Speaker 4: a package? And what goes in those package? Because they
Speaker 4: always say to me, well, just have to send me
Speaker 4: a package, right, what's the what's the package?
Speaker 5: The writing package? For SNL or just in general.
Speaker 4: Or if you want to be have you written for
Speaker 4: a late night show before you did SNL or was
Speaker 4: that SNL your entry into writing for a show?
Speaker 5: SNL was my entry?
Speaker 4: Okay, So if I want to submit a package to SNL,
Speaker 4: what is in that package?
Speaker 5: Probably a few handful of sketches.
Speaker 6: This is also you know, I'm just thinking of what
Speaker 6: the format of the show is. I don't know exactly,
Speaker 6: So it'll be a few sketches, probably a commercial parody,
Speaker 6: some weekend update jokes.
Speaker 4: And you have to type this out like submit it
Speaker 4: as a script or you do this like video.
Speaker 5: Or if you submit it as a writer out there
Speaker 5: you would have it typed out.
Speaker 4: Does it help if you have a visual to it?
Speaker 4: Especially now?
Speaker 6: Probably now you know I was my year was O nine,
Speaker 6: so I'm sure now it is definitely more visual because
Speaker 6: they got more visual.
Speaker 5: I think they got different three different.
Speaker 6: Visual camps in there now, so yeah, you know, they
Speaker 6: definitely focusing more on the on the digital. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I think that's what it will be a few sketches maybe, yeah,
Speaker 6: commercial parody, weekend update and that and that. That's just
Speaker 6: a solid submission.
Speaker 4: So you feel as though that your actual stand up
Speaker 4: on that show was your. You didn't officially have to submit.
Speaker 6: I never Yeah, I never submitted anything written up. They
Speaker 6: just I met with Seth. I think the meeting was
Speaker 6: just to see if I was crazy.
Speaker 5: In person or intolerable and then for me the job.
Speaker 4: At the end of the meeting. How many years were
Speaker 4: you at SNL? One year? One season? Wait? What?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: In my mind you were like or maybe I'm just
Speaker 4: lumping you in with Tim and Chay.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We never like Tim Robinson and like all.
Speaker 5: Never overlapped with Chay or who's uh or JB Smooth?
Speaker 4: No, he was the only lone black guy.
Speaker 6: In and h Keena was, Yeah, Keena was. It was
Speaker 6: just yeah, it was me there. Who's Fred Armisen was there?
Speaker 6: As far as Yeah, it was Jenny Slat's one year there? Yeah,
Speaker 6: n Megan Fox was the season premiere. That was your
Speaker 6: That was your that was your first that was first episodes.
Speaker 4: And inside for people, that particular episode is what has
Speaker 4: started the mythical war between Melody Cole and I because
Speaker 4: I had a dope sweater that she liked and she
Speaker 4: ignored him. She's like, oh, I like your sweater. I
Speaker 4: was like, oh thanks, and she like he was like
Speaker 4: and that sort of that's the beginning of our spy
Speaker 4: versus spy on Instagram thing with each other. But for you,
Speaker 4: the one thing, now, I wish i'd known you known
Speaker 4: you during that period because I'm always running the Higgins
Speaker 4: on a Monday after I watch a show, because sometimes
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out how do things get greenlit
Speaker 4: that I can't actually see written on paper? For instance,
Speaker 4: like I would assume that all sketches on that show
Speaker 4: that people have to sit at a table, yeah, and
Speaker 4: physically describe something and you can feedback in the room
Speaker 4: or not. But there's some things that I literally can't
Speaker 4: see it be in formed with, like and at this point,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna fall down the stairs, and trust me, it's
Speaker 4: gonna be funny. Like is there a lot of that
Speaker 4: where it's this faith that Okay, it sounds like you
Speaker 4: know what you're talking about right the bit, Well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people, it's the pitch meeting, the Monday pitch where
Speaker 6: everybody's in the office in Lauren's office and some people
Speaker 6: pitching real ideas, some people pitching fake and then folks
Speaker 6: right on Tuesdays and then it's the read through that
Speaker 6: two thousand and nine twenty ten season was the first
Speaker 6: What's up with that?
Speaker 4: Oh man? Yeah, I love that. Did you have something
Speaker 4: to do?
Speaker 6: Like, No, I didn't have it, but I just you know,
Speaker 6: being there for the beginning was cool, and I remember
Speaker 6: everybody was kind of singing it around the oven.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that's the thing though, like at a pitch table,
Speaker 4: Like that's a bit that relies a lot on repetition,
Speaker 4: mostly Jason Sadac dancing in the background. Yeah, but it
Speaker 4: involves a lot of physical things in which how do
Speaker 4: you literally don't see how that's funny on paper, but
Speaker 4: it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen on
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think the song care in it in
Speaker 6: the in that setting, you know what I mean, Like everybody's.
Speaker 4: Just you know, Coatri Sponge sugar free.
Speaker 5: Yeah with that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, was there a bit that you like, what was
Speaker 7: the bit that you were surprised that actually made it
Speaker 7: to air that you were part of?
Speaker 6: Only had one sketch of my own that made it,
Speaker 6: and then I contributed to others and contributed lines here
Speaker 6: and there. I had Rihanna said one of my lines
Speaker 6: that that that helped me for a little bit, just
Speaker 6: you know, because I popped into Lonely Island office when
Speaker 6: they were working on Shyronni. Because it was just you know,
Speaker 6: it was a time where I realized, Okay, I'm not
Speaker 6: getting stuff on, so let me just pop in and
Speaker 6: try to you know.
Speaker 4: Are you allowed to keep your head in and what's
Speaker 4: going on here?
Speaker 6: And then yeah, you could just you know, yeah, you
Speaker 6: could just pop in territorial like maybe some people you know,
Speaker 6: they weren't, but some people might have been on that.
Speaker 6: They might have some people might have been more closed
Speaker 6: off than others. I'm not even you know, those day
Speaker 6: I felt comfortable going, you know, just to chop it
Speaker 6: up with them.
Speaker 5: So I popped in. They were working on shy Ronnie
Speaker 5: and I had.
Speaker 6: Actually sent him a Bangs video you remember, let me
Speaker 6: take it to the movie and.
Speaker 5: So that's yeah, that's where you got.
Speaker 4: The ha yeah, and so yeah, maybe where it came from.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And then it was a line they was they
Speaker 6: were doing the Schyronnie and then I came up with
Speaker 6: the line this beat cost a lot of money for
Speaker 6: Rihanna to say, and so this to see it, I
Speaker 6: was like, WHOA was Brehanna just said some ship.
Speaker 5: I said, man, that's crazy.
Speaker 8: It sounds like, so did you did you really enjoy
Speaker 8: being a writer? Like it doesn't sound I mean like
Speaker 8: you sound you were thankful for the experience. Yeah, it
Speaker 8: seemed like you just really wanted to just be on
Speaker 8: stage kind of doing you.
Speaker 6: I think before the second half of the season, Chris
Speaker 6: Rockett actually told me to try to get on camera,
Speaker 6: try to get on weekend Update, And so so I
Speaker 6: met with Sad, Hey can I get on Weekend Update?
Speaker 6: Which was it was I feel like it was a
Speaker 6: strong ass because you yourself. I hadn't done anything, but
Speaker 6: it was just you know, well, might as well asked you.
Speaker 6: He said, all right, write something up and we'll we'll
Speaker 6: try it at the table.
Speaker 5: And so I wrote, wrote something.
Speaker 6: I reformatted the picklejuice joke and this other joke about
Speaker 6: rental cars or something. I formatted as me as a
Speaker 6: financial advisor or something like that, and then we tried
Speaker 6: it at the table.
Speaker 5: It went cool, and then we.
Speaker 6: Did it in dress rehearsal actually, and it went cool
Speaker 6: at dress and then it got cut and then we're
Speaker 6: gonna get you next week, and then it never came okay.
Speaker 4: So I have a question about dress rehearsal. So in
Speaker 4: my observations, whenever you guys have the post dress rehearsal meeting,
Speaker 4: when you guys find out if you made the cut
Speaker 4: or not, I automatically know that the people that didn't
Speaker 4: make it, they always rush up to seventeen and they
Speaker 4: just start getting drunk, like yeah, there's a level depressed
Speaker 4: giving family secrets away. No, there's just a level of hope,
Speaker 4: like you know, you're pointing all your hope that this
Speaker 4: makes it, and they do like what they do, like
Speaker 4: an extra six or seven sketches on the rehearsal show
Speaker 4: to see what works, and then they got to cut
Speaker 4: the six and then remix it for the eleven thirty show.
Speaker 4: And usually I would know that some writers that whose
Speaker 4: jokes didn't make it, and you know, you take that
Speaker 4: lonely trip up to seventeen where there's always a stash
Speaker 4: of beer like brown liquor whatever, and people just get
Speaker 4: ungodly drunk and be like all right, I'll try to
Speaker 4: get next week. Like but for you, were you taking
Speaker 4: stuff personal or did you feel like there's a time limit,
Speaker 4: like I gotta get something on next week.
Speaker 6: It was just it was tough to not get stuff
Speaker 6: on because it was just you know, I knew I
Speaker 6: was funny and I was having I was doing well
Speaker 6: it's stand up, you know what I mean, And so
Speaker 6: I was I was having success there. Uh, but yeah,
Speaker 6: it was frustrating to to not to not have stuff
Speaker 6: moving and feeling like I was creative enough to succeed
Speaker 6: in the in the format. I think, you know, if
Speaker 6: I did it another year, because then I would have
Speaker 6: known how to move around in the building and just
Speaker 6: how to collaborate and and how to just learn really yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I learned the system because it's really I mean, it's
Speaker 6: a terrible on boarding process, being honest, you.
Speaker 5: Just right, here's your office peace, like what.
Speaker 9: On board just created last year?
Speaker 5: It was just just get there.
Speaker 4: But the thing was, I always thought that because I
Speaker 4: also recalled you were on thirty Rock a lot that year. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: So was the decision like, okay, well let me try
Speaker 4: did you write for thirty rock or you were.
Speaker 5: Just like I wrote for thirty rock?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, was that a better fit for you?
Speaker 6: Or it was SNL kind of soft fired me. There
Speaker 6: was no real and then you just didn't get a
Speaker 6: call back, just didn't get.
Speaker 5: A call back. And then and then thirty Rock came through.
Speaker 6: I think because Donald had left to do community, so
Speaker 6: didn't they need to.
Speaker 5: They need to feel their diversity spot and so there.
Speaker 4: To punch up Tracy Morgan and guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I punched up. I did a lot of It
Speaker 5: wasn't a general thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, every time I mentioned that on the show, people
Speaker 4: look at me like, I just like, like I landed
Speaker 4: from another planet. But I recall, I don't know if
Speaker 4: you've seen it in jests. I mean, he wasn't saying
Speaker 4: it jokingly. But I was always under the impression that
Speaker 4: Glover's sort of existence on thirty Rock was sort of
Speaker 4: to punch up whatever Tracy Jordan's character was, like, to
Speaker 4: enhance his stuff, like you did like Werewolf, bar mitzvah
Speaker 4: and all that other stuff. And you know, so I
Speaker 4: just assumed that when it came to Tracy's character, they
Speaker 4: needed to not look like all white people writing for
Speaker 4: the show, and.
Speaker 6: That uh nah, that was never explicitly explicitly said. It
Speaker 6: was just you know, you in the room with everybody
Speaker 6: and they go on line through line by the script.
Speaker 5: Everybody pitch of the.
Speaker 6: Line until something is just undeniable and then you write
Speaker 6: it with that.
Speaker 5: And then move along. But yeah, it was yeah, I
Speaker 5: think the day job that was more of a regular job.
Speaker 6: Thirty Rock was like that was every you know what
Speaker 6: I mean, show up at nine or ten or whatever,
Speaker 6: even at at six.
Speaker 8: And so was that challenging because that scene that just
Speaker 8: sounds like the complete opposite it was being a comedian.
Speaker 5: Man, it wasn't. It wasn't for me, man, But I yeah,
Speaker 5: it wasn't.
Speaker 9: Less stressing essnal though. Right.
Speaker 6: The thing with ESSNL though, was that you would have
Speaker 6: weeks off, so you might do two weeks on, two
Speaker 6: weeks off, three weeks on, one week off, and then
Speaker 6: so for that week you could go on the road
Speaker 6: do whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thirty rock was just your on on on. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it wasn't. It wasn't really for me like that.
Speaker 9: How long you do that job?
Speaker 5: One season? I went through one season, but.
Speaker 6: It was early on I was I realized it wasn't
Speaker 6: for me, and I said, man, about to quit this.
Speaker 6: I wrote out pros and cons on the sheet.
Speaker 8: To quit just writing or quit comedy period, no quick
Speaker 8: that that job, and so I just said, let me
Speaker 8: just tough it out for this year and and do it.
Speaker 6: It's a it's a steady paycheck. But then after that,
Speaker 6: because I had cabin fever, I think I went on
Speaker 6: a road for probably eight months straight, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean, just because I was.
Speaker 5: I went everywhere.
Speaker 4: How far in events? Was the Andre Show? And how
Speaker 4: is that pitch to you? And does it make sense
Speaker 4: to you? At the time when that looked like for real.
Speaker 5: I think it was just more I'm doing this.
Speaker 4: Thing and you already know he's crazy, And it.
Speaker 5: Wasn't even it was just you want to It was
Speaker 5: when did we film that?
Speaker 4: Oh? Wait, see like an improved version of Hits from
Speaker 4: the Streets? Yeah, and is well you never done any
Speaker 4: of the have you done any of this street bits
Speaker 4: that he does?
Speaker 6: Or yeah, we did some street stuff in New York?
Speaker 6: Did the Black Israelites? I did acting like we did
Speaker 6: beating up the police car. I did draw a police
Speaker 6: officer with a forty. We did Who Get a Stranger?
Speaker 6: I wrote a stranger to let like, who can get
Speaker 6: the most strangers? Let them hold their babies? Which I
Speaker 6: bailed on that when I do it in real life.
Speaker 6: Wait a second, I know I wrote this, but to do.
Speaker 4: So, what's the planning like, because I would assume that
Speaker 4: you would have to go to a place where you
Speaker 4: absolutely know that they do not know who Eric Andre is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I can be in Harlem, Yeah, in the Heights.
Speaker 6: First couple of seasons that wasn't that was that wasn't
Speaker 6: an issue right twenty premiered in twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: How do you guys, like, because he's such a call phenomenon,
Speaker 4: how did you find you know? There were some places
Speaker 4: where I see y'all like went to like Redneck down South, Like,
Speaker 4: how do.
Speaker 6: You think I didn't do those I didn't do those
Speaker 6: travel ones. And that's more on production and and and
Speaker 6: on that that side of the game as far as
Speaker 6: trying to preserve that. But yeah, the early stuff that
Speaker 6: wasn't really too much of an issue. He was would
Speaker 6: have kind of catch people off guard with a lot
Speaker 6: of the early stuff.
Speaker 5: It was it was.
Speaker 4: Has there ever been a situation so dangerous that had
Speaker 4: never made it on air like a TV show?
Speaker 5: Oh? Okay, I mean I think he's gotten arrested before.
Speaker 6: It's been some crazier ones when I haven't been there
Speaker 6: that I've seen, and there might be some other stuff
Speaker 6: that's untold that I don't even I don't even know
Speaker 6: about it if I'm not there, but you.
Speaker 9: Help face it real good, Like the ship was normal.
Speaker 9: I was like, how do you do that?
Speaker 5: It's time?
Speaker 6: I mean, we added out when I break, But I
Speaker 6: do break sometimes.
Speaker 5: I think some of you just bite the inside of
Speaker 5: your cheek to hold in a last there's a little tricks.
Speaker 5: You just gotta grit the teeth feeling.
Speaker 4: One of one of the coolest things I learned and
Speaker 4: doing that show was how vomited is made. So there's
Speaker 4: a husband and wife team and they it's it's like
Speaker 4: they have their own ice cream truck. And what they
Speaker 4: do is they provide, well, no, they provide. If you
Speaker 4: ever watch a show, there's a brandonotato chips that looks
Speaker 4: like Lays, but it's called Let's and you'll see it.
Speaker 4: Just look up Lets potato Chips. It'll be on Community.
Speaker 4: It's been on like Scandal, like that's their that's their trademark,
Speaker 4: like any random snacks and you'll look like in the background,
Speaker 4: be like Let's crackers or whatever, like that's how they
Speaker 4: do it. But they also make, uh, they make blood
Speaker 4: and vomit. Like he handles the art for fake cereal
Speaker 4: and fake bread and all the foods, and she handles vomits.
Speaker 4: And so she rolled in this like cart and she's like, so,
Speaker 4: what's your favorite cereal? And I was like huh, And
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, Golden Grams and uh Captain
Speaker 4: crunching and tricks, right, and then she'll take all that
Speaker 4: and put it in a blender.
Speaker 5: And that was my vomit.
Speaker 4: That was my throw up. It was a cereal wow. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And sometimes they'll you know, they'll put the pump, they'll
Speaker 4: put the pump in your hands. So it's like, that's
Speaker 4: what thing. So I had to throw up on the show.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't even know if that made the
Speaker 4: final cut, but there was a point where like, yeah,
Speaker 4: vomited on the drum set. So it was so tasty. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it tasted real good because they put it was all cereal.
Speaker 4: And we'll be right back after.
Speaker 2: Brought to you by Let's Potato Cheses.
Speaker 4: All right, So we're back with Quest Loves Supreme. All right,
Speaker 4: So I'm going to pick a new approach to a
Speaker 4: question that I know you're tired of answering. I'm not
Speaker 4: even going to ask you the story about this. No, no,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna ask you, do you finally feel as
Speaker 4: though the scarlet letter quote hashtag of that situation is
Speaker 4: now in your rear view mirror or seriously or do
Speaker 4: you wake up it.
Speaker 6: Like, Uh, no, no, it's not in the rare view.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: Sometimes people just hit me.
Speaker 6: It's like, uh, people hit me up freshly mad, like
Speaker 6: they just found out about to this day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this new message, Fuck you man, what the fuck?
Speaker 5: And it's just like, come.
Speaker 6: On, man, I've heard every reaction you could hear the
Speaker 6: to the whole thing, and so it's just kind of
Speaker 6: all that goes in this bugget like because I've heard
Speaker 6: all of it from and I've heard anything you could
Speaker 6: say about it pretty much in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: So it's just no, no, it's uh, it's just one
Speaker 5: of them things.
Speaker 4: How did you work through that?
Speaker 8: Because I just imagine it's crazy to just one day
Speaker 8: just wake up being the most famous person in the
Speaker 8: world for something that is totally unrelated to you, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean.
Speaker 9: And that was public knowledge but never really right right.
Speaker 5: It was a wild time, man, It was a you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: it was uh uh.
Speaker 6: That was the first time I would be on TV
Speaker 6: without knowing I was about to be on TV, and
Speaker 6: so that was, yeah, I'm just chilling and.
Speaker 10: Watching like what, man, I ain't know what because before
Speaker 10: the hat, it was just my TV appearance was you know,
Speaker 10: Eric and it was my comedy special.
Speaker 6: It was my late night stuff where it was like,
Speaker 6: I know, I'm going to be on Comedy Central at nine.
Speaker 5: Thirty, check me out. And so that was the most time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So that that was I was jarring.
Speaker 6: It was a lot of it was it was heavy, man,
Speaker 6: because it kind of we pushed stuff back because of it,
Speaker 6: because I was we were getting ready to announce my
Speaker 6: Comedy Central show, but it was already in motion for
Speaker 6: a year or something before that. But then because that
Speaker 6: was happening, it was like, oh, we are now staying.
Speaker 6: It looked like it's I got the job because of that.
Speaker 6: Some people still think that, but it is what it is.
Speaker 4: So you wanted to hold it back so it didn't
Speaker 4: look like they want to want to drop it right
Speaker 4: in that but I don't, but they just you know,
Speaker 4: we definitely things.
Speaker 6: Were adjusted and moved around because of it, and I
Speaker 6: think it took a lot of a lot of headspace
Speaker 6: creatively and probably you know, in some form affected the
Speaker 6: work I created at that time and maybe even now.
Speaker 7: But you didn't have nobody to lean on in a
Speaker 7: way because you were like the first to do something
Speaker 7: like that to someone who had such a It.
Speaker 4: Was a viral movement that probably introduced the term cancel culture, I.
Speaker 7: Guess, yeah, for somebody who people looked at in a
Speaker 7: totally opposite way. So it's kind of like who you
Speaker 7: lean on when you are stressed about that, because who've
Speaker 7: been through it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? What do you call you? Who's on your side?
Speaker 4: Who was just your squad? Uh?
Speaker 5: Gambling?
Speaker 6: Alcohol, heavy like heavy spending, like those friends just getting
Speaker 6: private jets just as I got it, just like I
Speaker 6: had this ship already.
Speaker 8: We don't say it kind of ended or not end
Speaker 8: it because you know, you say you're still getting messages,
Speaker 8: But when do you feel like you kind of work
Speaker 8: through it?
Speaker 4: And it's like all right, you know, well can you
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three, can you get through a week
Speaker 4: without someone bringing it up?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can get through a week.
Speaker 6: It's not it's not something that's heavy like that. I'm
Speaker 6: chill with what it is now. But the initial ship
Speaker 6: was was crazy because it was like, oh man, this
Speaker 6: is this is intense. It was you know people, you
Speaker 6: know random after that, and I do.
Speaker 5: Want to see you with your show.
Speaker 6: And then I'm talking ship like I'm also I'm like,
Speaker 6: come see me there Moray.
Speaker 4: Who's defending him?
Speaker 9: Uh well, all we're kind of you know, don't let's
Speaker 9: keep it.
Speaker 7: Let's keep it from getting like I know, the black folks,
Speaker 7: I'm like, what you're doing putting our business in public?
Speaker 4: Right? Bo? I forgot about that part. That part, I
Speaker 4: forgot about it, right.
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 4: So for you though, like in terms of like doing
Speaker 4: movies and whatnot, Like I always feel like, for you,
Speaker 4: what is the end game because I've yet to see
Speaker 4: like have you thought about doing your own comedy show,
Speaker 4: like your own series? I know sitcoms are like what
Speaker 4: we call it now? No series? Is it still a
Speaker 4: hustle or is it like where do you want to
Speaker 4: land the plane? Where it's like this is what I'm
Speaker 4: definitively known for.
Speaker 6: Right Uh yeah, there's no singular thing right now. So
Speaker 6: it's it's pretty that's fag minute. I'm not too move
Speaker 6: by film like that as far as me wanting to
Speaker 6: make my own.
Speaker 5: I like docs.
Speaker 6: We did the one I did the one Doctor Handible
Speaker 6: takes Edinburgh. We did one for my festival, I solo fest.
Speaker 6: I think event the event space and just live so
Speaker 6: and and and helping others.
Speaker 5: Dude do great shows too.
Speaker 6: So I got the the the least on the old
Speaker 6: knitting factory space. So I'm taking out your back. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so I'm gonna be running that spot and congratulations.
Speaker 5: So I think.
Speaker 4: Factory, the one in the one in Williamsburg.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gotta got a tenure least there.
Speaker 4: This is a weird, sad question. Did old girl work
Speaker 4: out for you or did you work Yeah?
Speaker 5: I talked with her. She's dope. She's dope. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: gotta when I'm back out in New York, meeting in person.
Speaker 4: But so you're literally going to run that spot.
Speaker 5: From run that spot, yeah, and probably do a month.
Speaker 4: Because they used to be the old home of Okay
Speaker 4: player well used to be upstairs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the space was still Vagan Knitting Factory left there
Speaker 6: August of last year and then the.
Speaker 5: Realtor reached out.
Speaker 6: Hey still you know he was the new I guess
Speaker 6: they had one for a while and then he took
Speaker 6: he took it over as far as marketing it.
Speaker 5: He reached out to me, Hey, man, I know you
Speaker 5: used to do shows here. What you think about it?
Speaker 5: And initially I was like, hell, no, man, why is
Speaker 5: it still open? And that's going on? Why it's it
Speaker 5: been open for a year?
Speaker 6: And then I just kind of started, you know, running
Speaker 6: the numbers in my head. I said, this could be
Speaker 6: really this could be something really cool, man, just to
Speaker 6: and it's a great story to you know, I hosted
Speaker 6: I was. I did the first night there in two
Speaker 6: thousand and nine, which led to me hosting my my
Speaker 6: comedy night there. My comedy night was on Sundays because
Speaker 6: that was my only off day from SNL.
Speaker 4: Were you were you part of even Tarror did hip
Speaker 4: hop karaoke when like I remember DJ Terror?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Was it? Were you there with? Like? Were you running
Speaker 4: that hip hop karaoke?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: We just did that special for my birthday. That was
Speaker 6: my thirtieth birthday. Y'all came through.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought that was like a weekly thing.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, this is dope.
Speaker 6: No, we just did it up for my birthday and
Speaker 6: and and yeah it was twenty thirteen. Okay, thank you
Speaker 6: for coming through. By the way, I was fun. But yeah, man,
Speaker 6: I'm hyped about that because it just gives me. I
Speaker 6: love going to shows and seeing dope shows.
Speaker 7: What's your vision, like in your mind, this is dope
Speaker 7: because you know, folks like you don't do whole venues,
Speaker 7: so you can just put whatever you want to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just the you know, I want to get the
Speaker 6: a dope screen in there, like get the visuals right,
Speaker 6: just you know, really making my own and it's three
Speaker 6: hundred caps, so that's a great.
Speaker 9: What kind of shows you're thinking?
Speaker 5: All types of like just a dope artists man, you know,
Speaker 5: booked to my taste and I.
Speaker 4: Forgotten also factories music also, yeah, I thought you were
Speaker 4: just going to turn.
Speaker 6: It nice comedy. Yeah, it's gonna be everything, you know,
Speaker 6: everything more and more. Yeah, it'd be probably more music,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: It would be lean when you're working out comedy in
Speaker 4: New York, because I know that there's different communities up there,
Speaker 4: like yeah, established comedy seller and then kind of the Vegacy.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say, I don't know what to
Speaker 4: call the Vegas type comedian, but that's always like a
Speaker 4: midtown Manhattan Caroline sort of thing. And then there's like
Speaker 4: the Brooklyn set where like Wyatt or you know, I
Speaker 4: guess they call it alternative. Is Brooklyn really considered like
Speaker 4: the alternative comedy hub? Like, I don't think I would
Speaker 4: see Chris at any spot in Brooklyn.
Speaker 6: So Chris came through nit A bunch word, Yeah, oh Chris,
Speaker 6: Chris came through Neit.
Speaker 5: They've came through Neit.
Speaker 4: Well, there's some people that just have no fear and go.
Speaker 4: But like, is that still is it still not segregated?
Speaker 4: But is it still like the all comedians don't mess
Speaker 4: with the Vegas comedians who don't mess with the whatever
Speaker 4: the a list that comedy Seller represents.
Speaker 6: I'm not one to speak on the current scene right
Speaker 6: now because I haven't been I haven't lived in New
Speaker 6: York full time since twenty sixteen seventeen. I've been out
Speaker 6: been out West, so I'm not really even well versed.
Speaker 6: I just kind of now if I just started doing
Speaker 6: comedy in New York recently, and I'll pop out a seller,
Speaker 6: you know, I'm really not want to speak on all
Speaker 6: the dynamics.
Speaker 4: Is the seller a spot that you trust? Because most
Speaker 4: comedians tell me that you have to work out in
Speaker 4: a spot that is hard, Like Chris is like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm going to Palm Springs, Florida. I'm going to there's
Speaker 4: a spot in Ohio. He wants. He wants an audience
Speaker 4: that he doesn't resonate with whatsoever, and if they can laugh,
Speaker 4: then he knows he has something. But if you're in
Speaker 4: the comedy seller, then it's like your boys are there
Speaker 4: egging you are like, yeah, that's dope, and then it
Speaker 4: doesn't work for me.
Speaker 5: Just doing an hour on the road.
Speaker 6: Now you're trying to headline, so that's where you you know,
Speaker 6: I'd rather I don't really even do that many fifteen
Speaker 6: minutes like pop up on my show. I want to
Speaker 6: do an hour because some of my some of the
Speaker 6: pieces and stories now it's twenty twenty five minutes on
Speaker 6: their own. So I'm not gonna figure that out out there.
Speaker 5: Uh So I.
Speaker 6: Think just working on it. You you get better as
Speaker 6: a headliner by by headlining. And so this recent run
Speaker 6: it made me realize for my last before I put
Speaker 6: out Miami Nights and my last tour was all theaters,
Speaker 6: which is cool and it's and it's nice to be
Speaker 6: able to do, but it made me realize I ain't
Speaker 6: really like really hammered the show in the club and
Speaker 6: just you know, getting the timing right and and doing
Speaker 6: five in a weekend and and having you know, performed
Speaker 6: through you know, waitresses and whatever walking through and just
Speaker 6: you know, get to get the show tight and then
Speaker 6: taking it to theaters, which I'm doing now. And so
Speaker 6: I'm noticing the difference in the inequality and as far
Speaker 6: as just making the show bulletproof through through to just
Speaker 6: working on it. So it's been I'm I'm hype man
Speaker 6: because I've been you know, just been moving around and
Speaker 6: and and it's been It's an exciting time creatively.
Speaker 8: I wanted you to talk about specifically Miami Nights and
Speaker 8: and you know, your decision to put it out on YouTube. Yeah,
Speaker 8: just talking through that whole experience because it was something
Speaker 8: for me. It was really inspired. I mean we talked
Speaker 8: in private about it, but yeah, was really inspiring. I
Speaker 8: think a lot of artists it would. I think it
Speaker 8: would inspired them to hear that story.
Speaker 5: With Miami Knights.
Speaker 6: It was a lot of it was the decision making
Speaker 6: around it was definitely based in emotion because of you know,
Speaker 6: it was me dealing with my my false arrest and
Speaker 6: all of that, and so you know, going to the marketplace, it.
Speaker 5: Was tough for me to put a price on it
Speaker 5: and so like.
Speaker 6: They say this amount, like, motherfucker, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Is because I couldn't just it was not it was
Speaker 6: not business in that way to me. And so that
Speaker 6: was a big part of it. And then just doing
Speaker 6: the negotiation in pandemic and and having a lot of.
Speaker 5: Time to think.
Speaker 6: It was about we were about to go to Netflix,
Speaker 6: we know, right, And it wasn't ont flick talking about
Speaker 6: it. It was delivered to Netflix. We were they were subtitling
Speaker 6: that ship. And I pulled it why because it just
Speaker 6: I was just thinking about it, man, And and it
Speaker 6: was just it was part it was short term vision,
Speaker 6: long term vision where it didn't look like the road
Speaker 6: was happening in the fall, and so and it was
Speaker 6: signing away the entire the entire thing. And I didn't
Speaker 6: think the price point after sitting around thinking about it
Speaker 6: because I wasn't in motion. You're your manager, Uh at
Speaker 6: that time, I did not have management.
Speaker 5: I had agent, Yeah, I had agent.
Speaker 6: That was there was, but it was just you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: me and my thoughts was my manager, and so it
Speaker 6: was just somewhere I didn't I'm I'm happy with the decision.
Speaker 6: I wish I just did it earlier because I know
Speaker 6: they were salted it and I got relationships over there
Speaker 6: that was before they were even at Netflix. But yeah,
Speaker 6: so I decided to go YouTube just to keep the
Speaker 6: keep the ownership of it and and put it out
Speaker 6: that way.
Speaker 7: And YouTube ownership is like, because I was wondering, I'm like,
Speaker 7: don't they still.
Speaker 5: Own no YouTube? Uh?
Speaker 6: And then I took it down from YouTube too because
Speaker 6: I just it was weird releasing something in the in
Speaker 6: the pandemic and not having any live energy around it
Speaker 6: and movement and then and then then so now it's
Speaker 6: just down and I be thinking I'm gonna put it
Speaker 6: back up, but it's no urgency.
Speaker 5: And I kind of like the idea of having a
Speaker 5: special that people.
Speaker 4: Can create your own scarcity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so it's just no, I don't want to,
Speaker 6: you know, I like just having and you know, maybe
Speaker 6: who knows when they'll go out. They'll go out eventually,
Speaker 6: but it's not it's not I have to do it
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 4: It's just well, I'll ask you because I still say
Speaker 4: that that's the two things that I've not seen a
Speaker 4: comedian do yet. And I feel like comedy should be
Speaker 4: something which a comedian will attempt to go in uncharted territory.
Speaker 4: And so there was a what's his name's boy who
Speaker 4: did the comedy special with no audience. Oh, I can't remember,
Speaker 4: the white guy Drew Michael. But also I believe Silverman
Speaker 4: once did a special which it had to been at
Speaker 4: least maybe like eighteen people in the room, like, but
Speaker 4: it was just an intimate which that felt like, oh,
Speaker 4: that must be hard, like to try to make eighteen
Speaker 4: people gut laugh in that manner. But I mean, are
Speaker 4: there for you? Is there any desire to figure that out?
Speaker 4: Or it's just like nah, Like if it ain't broke,
Speaker 4: don't fix it, Like just.
Speaker 5: Do something, just doing a different message with the format.
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh yeah, there's a lot of ways to to
Speaker 6: just try it.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 8: I think to drive through shows you kind of, I
Speaker 8: mean the driving shows you did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so why didn't you like the wor you said
Speaker 4: disasters drive through?
Speaker 5: Man? That shit was just.
Speaker 6: Ye had a huh And it's just a disconnect. There's
Speaker 6: no you can't see faces people either in their cars
Speaker 6: or or sitting on it. It's no connection and so
Speaker 6: that you know, especially you know, I was rusty too,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, with no real and so
Speaker 6: then jumping back out my first gig, it's nothing I
Speaker 6: practiced for the past, you know, eighteen years or whatever.
Speaker 5: So it was just a weird experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: I remember Cleveland was the first show. It was facing
Speaker 6: a highway and it was a train. It was a
Speaker 6: train track to the right, A stage was facing a highway.
Speaker 6: Audience is seeing so I'm so I'm seeing FedEx trucks
Speaker 6: and then the train got really active during my set
Speaker 6: and I hadn't even been on stage in months, so
Speaker 6: I'm and I'm like, whoa, this is terrible. But because
Speaker 6: the audience is listening to radio, that's not their experience,
Speaker 6: so they're not bothered by the train.
Speaker 5: They're not even seeing the trucks.
Speaker 6: So I'm just mother on stage complaining about trucks and trains.
Speaker 5: So it was just one of those was it, man?
Speaker 5: I wanted to and I was.
Speaker 6: We got about six morties and it was It was
Speaker 6: funny to flip because initially I was super excited to
Speaker 6: get that tour going, just to get something going we
Speaker 6: out here, and then I actually announced that because somebody
Speaker 6: else was taking too long. It made sense that they
Speaker 6: was taking too long because it was a dicey situation,
Speaker 6: so they was thinking about it, and so I said, no,
Speaker 6: we about to announce, and I announced, and then we
Speaker 6: get out there and.
Speaker 5: I said, man, I want to cancel the rest of these.
Speaker 5: We kind of figured it out and it got better,
Speaker 5: but it still wasn't.
Speaker 6: It wasn't the ideal it was. It was a it
Speaker 6: was an an ideal situation. As far as it's flipping stuff,
Speaker 6: I mean, you make it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: We did the Hannibal Takes Edinburgh thing where that was
Speaker 6: a bunch of shows in one place, and and adding
Speaker 6: the docu documentary element. I think people liked story and
Speaker 6: seeing it seeing that part of it, I got some
Speaker 6: I got another idea for something for a special that
Speaker 6: involves some some traveling and some some moving around. So
Speaker 6: there is ways to flipp it because there's been so
Speaker 6: much just stand up done, just somebody standing on the stage.
Speaker 6: So anytime you could figure out a different visual element
Speaker 6: or something else, you know, it could just makes it
Speaker 6: be CREATI because the jokes are gonna be the jokes
Speaker 6: no matter what you're doing.
Speaker 5: So it's just how to how to figure out how
Speaker 5: to flip it.
Speaker 8: Man, I wanted you to talk about Isla Feste you
Speaker 8: pulled up because that she was insane. So yeah, how
Speaker 8: do you get how many thousands of people that you
Speaker 8: got to?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a small town.
Speaker 8: That you know you probably couldn't even find on the map.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I Solo fest December twenty nineteen. I had the idea,
Speaker 6: I have a little club. Me and my cousin own
Speaker 6: a club and I sold the Mississippi that's where my
Speaker 6: my mom's side of the family's from.
Speaker 5: And so I had the idea to do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: I wanted to do some shows down there, just to
Speaker 5: draw attention.
Speaker 6: Population of this town is a thousand or less. Uh,
Speaker 6: super small town. But I said, you know what you
Speaker 6: do the right ship people people show up, and so
Speaker 6: I want to do a show down there.
Speaker 5: And then.
Speaker 6: First hear I hit up T Pain, expecting him to
Speaker 6: say no, it was really just a practice call. Just
Speaker 6: a practice call is practice in my pitch. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: let him say no. I hit up T Pain. You
Speaker 6: want to do the show? And I told it I.
Speaker 4: Never thought of that. I need that advice. Right, I'm
Speaker 4: doing this ship wrong. I got to call it Fredda
Speaker 4: doctor Dre.
Speaker 5: I'm expected to know he was. I said, you want
Speaker 5: to do the show? And I sold him thinking it
Speaker 5: he said yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Said what And so then I escalate into it, I said,
Speaker 6: from being a one night thing to a three day festival,
Speaker 6: which was on that sarih.
Speaker 5: But we got the memories and the experience. Uh.
Speaker 6: And then and then it was we was only doing
Speaker 6: it on three weeks notice because the play was to
Speaker 6: do it in December, So this was I guess late
Speaker 6: November that I was trying to execute this and then
Speaker 6: and then, uh, we were gonna do it properly the
Speaker 6: following Memorial Day weekend. Now that we established it and
Speaker 6: everything and then and we did it.
Speaker 5: Was cool, man.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: It's a lot of challenges that you could imagine to
Speaker 6: doing a show in rural Mississippi, but it was it
Speaker 6: was dope to to have it come together after, you know,
Speaker 6: because it's you know, brought a lot of artists down
Speaker 6: and and people. It wasn't thousands of folks, it was,
Speaker 6: you know, a few hundred, but it was it was
Speaker 6: people came from from everywhere to the you know a
Speaker 6: lot of spots in the South, and the folks that
Speaker 6: went to it hadn't seen anything like that there before,
Speaker 6: so you know, you could see that genuine appreciation.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna trying to get that.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get that back rolling and do a lot
Speaker 6: of updates to the club to once once uh get
Speaker 6: my Brooklyn stuff going. The goal is to have that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff trickle down to there and maybe I'll
Speaker 6: start booking folks on the Isola Brooklyn run.
Speaker 5: But uh yeah, I want to, you know, just have
Speaker 5: your multiple multiple venues and and and.
Speaker 6: And build like that and just you know, really really
Speaker 6: do some cool stuff in the live space.
Speaker 4: When you did the Spider Man movie, which one, uh well,
Speaker 4: I recall that at one of the premieres, you had
Speaker 4: sent a sub year to go in your place. Where
Speaker 4: did that come from?
Speaker 6: It was just really I want I was on set
Speaker 6: at TAG and they needed me for that day, and
Speaker 6: I didn't want to not have any presence there.
Speaker 5: You know, I didn't want to just be I can't
Speaker 5: make it. It's a Spider Man. He looked like her.
Speaker 4: How did you know? I don't think he he just na.
Speaker 6: He really looked like me a little bit taller. He
Speaker 6: was bald, uh, and I just.
Speaker 4: Was like, how did you how did you one? How
Speaker 4: did you find him? And what was the game plan?
Speaker 4: And did you warn the Spider Man people that you're
Speaker 4: sending a sub in your place?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: I found him. I tweeted it out, and then I
Speaker 6: wasn't good. I said, I needed to look like I
Speaker 6: need to look alike, uh, you know, have decent comedic time.
Speaker 6: And I forgot what the ad was, but put that out,
Speaker 6: and then there was a bunch of folks that was
Speaker 6: emailing it weren't seriously white folks.
Speaker 5: He was like, come on, man, I'm trying to do something.
Speaker 5: Come on, man, I know he messing around.
Speaker 4: Was able? Was he able to fool anyone in the
Speaker 4: press line that?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 6: Then he reached out he had actually been a stand
Speaker 6: in for me on something for the MTV the Movie
Speaker 6: Awards of VMA or something that shot, so he could
Speaker 6: be trusted to not do nothing too crazy out there,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Some people might get in that environment and.
Speaker 4: Crazy trying to keep working.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he trying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So he kept the cool And so then I
Speaker 6: just sent him all of my credentials and everything that
Speaker 6: they sent me. So when he pulled up to the
Speaker 6: with the car, you know what I mean, and security
Speaker 6: he could just show that and so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And then he got there
Speaker 6: did an interview. It was crazy seeing it progress like
Speaker 6: that because we were watching him on live. There was
Speaker 6: a lot of downtime on the tag sets. So I said,
Speaker 6: what I put that together and just watching that, I.
Speaker 9: Don't think nobody's ever done this before either.
Speaker 4: And you know what, I don't think here's the funny thing,
Speaker 4: uh that was done to me before.
Speaker 2: You were like camal Bell.
Speaker 4: Here, No, here's the hilarious thing. I thought. I told
Speaker 4: the story before. Letterman had hosted the Emmy Award and
Speaker 4: it was disastrous or critics thought it was a disaster job.
Speaker 4: So kind of Letterman's middle finger to the Academy because
Speaker 4: oh shockers, they'd invite me to the nineteen ninety six
Speaker 4: one and so he was nominated for Best Late Night
Speaker 4: Show whatever. So he was like, I'm gonna send out
Speaker 4: a sub. Now this is TUPAC Diawood September thirteenth. Okay,
Speaker 4: so this is let's say September fifth of ninety six.
Speaker 4: I went to the store to buy a suit because
Speaker 4: this is the very first time that I'm drumming for
Speaker 4: DiAngelo for the Brown Sugar Platinum party. This is when
Speaker 4: like this is a very time first time me Pino,
Speaker 4: like everyone's doing that. And Letterman happened to be in
Speaker 4: that store buying a suit for if you remember the
Speaker 4: character on the show, Larry bud Melman. Do you remember
Speaker 4: Larry right, legendary character on the Letterman Show. And so
Speaker 4: Letterman's looking at me in all my primitive exotic glory
Speaker 4: like this, you know, six ft three Afro guy walking in.
Speaker 4: He doesn't know who or what I am. No one knows,
Speaker 4: and they were just like, hey, would you like to suit?
Speaker 4: And I was inadvertently part of the sketch and then
Speaker 4: they were like what are you doing on Sunday? And
Speaker 4: literally the thing flips and Larry bud Melman and I
Speaker 4: are like David Letterman's representatives for the Emmys what And
Speaker 4: all I remember was who's old boy from h Scrubs?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I know Scrubs as in the sound effects
Speaker 4: Don Donald, Yeah, yeah, And that's the moment where Donald,
Speaker 4: like Faison was like in tears, like Tupac just got shot.
Speaker 4: And like literally, yeah, it's like that's how it. But
Speaker 4: I was I was lettermans standing. Yeah, and then maybe
Speaker 4: a week later they realized the show realized like you know,
Speaker 4: this isn't a random guy, like this guy is an
Speaker 4: actual like they put him on. But then but you
Speaker 4: got to go to That made me well yeah, but
Speaker 4: then it also made me a friend of the show.
Speaker 4: And then that's the roots could not get on Letterman
Speaker 4: at that time during that do you want More philadelph period,
Speaker 4: So that kind of opened the door. So yes, I
Speaker 4: was David Letterman's proxy.
Speaker 2: I like, you know, scrubs because the sound effects that.
Speaker 4: I didn't know what show undercats no between between Barker
Speaker 4: Lewis can't lose his scrubs like they were just you
Speaker 4: know him, gentlemen cinema in between transition. That's not that
Speaker 4: I mean, but as they were just showing like.
Speaker 9: Hey, what right, you're right, you're right right?
Speaker 4: Sound effects. Yeah, I don't call it scrubs. I just
Speaker 4: call it.
Speaker 8: But I wanted to ask you, Hannibal, when you're going
Speaker 8: out on tour, when we're touring with rappers, what do
Speaker 8: you pick up?
Speaker 4: Like what do you learn?
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying because stepping into a new
Speaker 8: kind of a new kind of performance. Yeah, what's some
Speaker 8: of the stuff you you're watching for and you learn
Speaker 8: when you watch other MC's perform Just the.
Speaker 6: Just rapping with with force, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: And clarity, Yeah, just that part of it.
Speaker 6: Just make engine create moments for yourself, Like because at
Speaker 6: this point people listening, but they don't know my songs,
Speaker 6: and so I just can't rap at them blindly, and
Speaker 6: so it's just kind of creating the moments either acapellas
Speaker 6: or you walk them into the song explaining with the story,
Speaker 6: or hey, here's the hook to this, or you know
Speaker 6: those parts of it because it's forcing me. I can't
Speaker 6: just lean on y'all know this shit. They do not
Speaker 6: know that shit, but they.
Speaker 5: But they willing to learn. Uh so uh.
Speaker 6: And so that part of it of just energy and
Speaker 6: just you know, yeah this, you know, figuring out the
Speaker 6: pacing of a said and who are.
Speaker 7: Some mcs that you've watched though and you've been like,
Speaker 7: you know what he got that? I need to work
Speaker 7: on that myself, Fante. Okay, I was thinking that when.
Speaker 9: He was talking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just yeah, y'all charismatic motherfucker.
Speaker 9: Yess he on stage. It's a problem.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Fante intro me in Raleigh or yeah, Raleigh was
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen. Because I asked, you want to do something,
Speaker 6: He's like, I'll do the intro and then he went
Speaker 6: up and introed me. He was like, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 6: everybody got everybody standing up?
Speaker 4: Did it too good? It was right.
Speaker 5: I was like, I didn't know that was possible. I
Speaker 5: didn't know you could start a show like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I swear for it was a period of time.
Speaker 8: I was damn near Hannibal's agent and booking agent when
Speaker 8: he came to He called me that same show. He
Speaker 8: called me. I got a call the night before. Hey man,
Speaker 8: I'm coming to Raleigh. I'm saying, you know some ballerinas.
Speaker 4: You were the man in Houston. I was the guy
Speaker 4: and he was like, yo, you know some.
Speaker 8: I'm like, yes, I got this bid I want to do.
Speaker 8: I just I just wrap, but I want ballerinas with it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, and you did, like, bro, let me see
Speaker 4: what I could do.
Speaker 8: And also I knew some people and he got we
Speaker 8: had like three four balleries.
Speaker 4: That was the night Damien was open for you. Damien Lemon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 9: I college with Damien.
Speaker 4: That was a great.
Speaker 2: I love that, you know, Ballerina.
Speaker 8: I was like, and then like you call again and
Speaker 8: the funniest funny this maybe a couple of years later,
Speaker 8: you hit me again. I was like, yo, man, so
Speaker 8: I'm doing the show here where I need somebody to
Speaker 8: open for me, and you know somebody and I had
Speaker 8: a home in mind. That was, you know, making him know.
Speaker 8: He was trying to you know, get in the game.
Speaker 8: And I just hit him like, yo, bro, you want
Speaker 8: to open.
Speaker 4: The handle tonight? He was like yeah, and he went
Speaker 4: and did it and I hit handle the next y.
Speaker 4: I said, how did it go? He was like, oh
Speaker 4: that nigga bombs.
Speaker 5: He wasn't good. It just yeah, it just what you know,
Speaker 5: did he have potential?
Speaker 9: Don't handle? Did he have potential?
Speaker 5: It's uh yeah, you had to ask me right afterwards.
Speaker 5: It's been a couple of years. That was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 8: But it was, you know, it was funny because he
Speaker 8: was you were laughing, like hell just talking about him bomb.
Speaker 4: I thought it was funny. Ship.
Speaker 8: But but nah, man, I when we did that show,
Speaker 8: when we did uh the like the run.
Speaker 4: We did the LB Run in March.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I hit you up and I was like, yo, man,
Speaker 8: you want to do it? Because me and Pool were
Speaker 8: just thinking it was like yo, we didn't want to
Speaker 8: have just uh, you know, a traditional quote unquote like
Speaker 8: we wanted to show me like look man, this is
Speaker 8: really it's really an experience. And you know, I had
Speaker 8: you had sent me some of your music and I
Speaker 8: think you at first just put out the SU tune
Speaker 8: EP and you sent meself and I was like, I
Speaker 8: was like, okay, like this ship is actually like good,
Speaker 8: so you know what I mean. So I hit you
Speaker 8: and you were down to do it. And I remember
Speaker 8: that night I watched the show. That night I watched
Speaker 8: pretty much, I mean maybe all us say for like
Speaker 8: the last pak five minutes, ten minutes, whatever, because I
Speaker 8: had to get ready. But now I watched the show
Speaker 8: Man and it was so dope to see you had
Speaker 8: the crowd like you. I mean, you had them, you
Speaker 8: know what I'm saying, because they, you know, our crowd,
Speaker 8: like they if you was whacked, they didn't let you know,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, but you was with them.
Speaker 8: And even afterwards, you know, we had people coming out.
Speaker 4: They was like, Yo, that was a great show. We
Speaker 4: had a great time. And I didn't even know Hannibal
Speaker 4: Rap you damn ear got a deal that night. I
Speaker 4: don't even know if you realized. Yeah it was a dude.
Speaker 4: It's like, yo, if you want to do something whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: But but nah, I just always appreciate it man, that
Speaker 8: you know, you always like looked out for me and
Speaker 8: just you know, we always just connected you through each
Speaker 8: other opportunities.
Speaker 4: And so that was just a great show that we did.
Speaker 4: And I really appreciate you coming.
Speaker 5: Fine, man, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: Are you looking for a music deal?
Speaker 5: Uh? I don't.
Speaker 6: I'll be over to the conversation. Yeah, I'll be over
Speaker 6: to the conversation. I could use some help lifting.
Speaker 9: Everybody has approached you already.
Speaker 6: I'm no, nobody's approached. Yeah, we'll just you know, we
Speaker 6: keep rocket get yours. Yeah, and I'm and I'm I
Speaker 6: booked myself for my.
Speaker 4: Keep it in passion.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Where does the name come from.
Speaker 5: Esu essue ish?
Speaker 9: I think you Nigerian.
Speaker 6: It's the trickster god from u Nigerian mythology. I looked
Speaker 6: up African mythology.
Speaker 4: I was hoping.
Speaker 9: I was like Nigerian, I want to put that on Hannibal.
Speaker 9: What what's up now?
Speaker 4: I once got scammed by Nigerian.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the continent like literally.
Speaker 4: Called million dollars.
Speaker 2: I have a question.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So, just in general, you do so many different
Speaker 12: types of things voiceover, acting, podcasts, music, comedy, et cetera.
Speaker 12: And I'm sure they all have their own individual challenges.
Speaker 12: But at some point does it all just become one
Speaker 12: thing or just become entertainment and you just say I'm
Speaker 12: just gonna entertain Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, in the right now, the focus is kind of
Speaker 6: really shrunk into just uh, most music in comedy is
Speaker 6: the is the main thing. I haven't been really acting,
Speaker 6: like I did I do. I did one thing last year.
Speaker 6: I did what we do in the Shadows did a day?
Speaker 6: I really I really ain't acting on nothing. If if
Speaker 6: to ask is more than a day, Like if we
Speaker 6: can't get it done in the day, I don't want
Speaker 6: to do it.
Speaker 5: I don't care what it and so.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 6: It's just but if so with the music and comedy,
Speaker 6: what's been cool is some of the some of the
Speaker 6: concepts from comedy.
Speaker 5: You know that I just were just alluded to have.
Speaker 6: Become songs like the Veneers was was just like a
Speaker 6: throwaway joke, like yeah, I got these tv T Veneers.
Speaker 6: And then and then something else, you know, struck where
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, that could be a song.
Speaker 5: And even now I tell this, you know, I tell
Speaker 5: this whole story and my.
Speaker 6: Stand up about you know, uh, going to my grandmother's funeral,
Speaker 6: leaving the funeral and then being in uh like just
Speaker 6: driving aimlessly. I ended up stopping in Shreveport gambling, drinking,
Speaker 6: and it's the whole thing. And I'm leaving Shreveport. This
Speaker 6: guy gets shot at the gas station while I'm there.
Speaker 5: He dies, and this.
Speaker 6: Whole thing, it's a wild They whoa just because I
Speaker 6: ended up drinking too much in gambling at the casino,
Speaker 6: they took my keys even though I wasn't driving, and
Speaker 6: it held up and then I ended up being a
Speaker 6: goddamn murder witness.
Speaker 5: And so, uh, it was a wild, wild week.
Speaker 6: And so but then I talk about that in comedy
Speaker 6: in one way, and then I also talk about it
Speaker 6: in the song that the same story. But then the
Speaker 6: comedy has different expectations than the than the storytelling and
Speaker 6: the music. When in the music I just focused on
Speaker 6: the details of the story and moving it along. Is
Speaker 6: not much humor in it, where you know, with that
Speaker 6: type of stuff in comedy, you gotta flip it or
Speaker 6: it's just gonna be real depressing and dark in the room.
Speaker 6: But you know it's a little So it's just having
Speaker 6: those It's the same things. Certain ideas for a stand
Speaker 6: up lending himself to a sketch or something might expand
Speaker 6: to a movie, or it might be a conversation topic.
Speaker 6: It's just about how you choose to position any idea.
Speaker 8: How did you link with Keifer that he's one of
Speaker 8: my favorite musicians?
Speaker 4: Like, Keith is so dope, man.
Speaker 6: I heard he produced YadA YadA and it's in Pact
Speaker 6: and I heard that track and I just love pack
Speaker 6: performance and right on that and I love to beat too,
Speaker 6: just the feeling of the key, and so I just
Speaker 6: reached out to him in twenty twenty. Yo, it's just
Speaker 6: dope when I'm starting to do music, and he sent me.
Speaker 6: He sent me a few beats and the one that
Speaker 6: kept about three. It's just the way his chords are.
Speaker 6: It's just really take you to a thoughtful place and
Speaker 6: you start.
Speaker 5: Just like, oh yeah, another thing.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 6: It just brings a lot, like his music brings a
Speaker 6: lot out of me as a as a writer. There's
Speaker 6: another track we have, uh the two that just kind
Speaker 6: of it puts you in that reflective place. And so yeah,
Speaker 6: he's he's a really dope artist and just his music,
Speaker 6: he's just really makes me realize. Oh I got a
Speaker 6: lot to say. Sometimes you hear stuff you're like, oh
Speaker 6: was it that? When I when it when the right
Speaker 6: beat of his it's just everything starts flowing.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You know often hizam songs that I don't know,
Speaker 4: you know who they are, And for some reason, I've
Speaker 4: been very late to the the Chris and Chris I
Speaker 4: always said, q Quelle Chris and the Gene Gray Project. Yeah, everything,
Speaker 4: And that was brilliant man. Yeah, I was like Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: And then I was like ship Like I religiously re
Speaker 4: pitch Fork and I missed that review he was year
Speaker 4: it's like I think twenty seventeen or eighteening like that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I heard it somewhere and it was the song
Speaker 4: joined that you were on, Like are you ever going
Speaker 4: to work with them again?
Speaker 5: Or I got some I got a couple unreleased joints with.
Speaker 6: Actually, I got a bunch of stuff that I gotta
Speaker 6: just start letting let.
Speaker 8: Him fly now you kull opened my eg like y'all
Speaker 8: are like just some of my favorite artists. Man, like
Speaker 8: y'all y'all does like I really fuck with y'all. Man,
Speaker 8: it's off the beaten path, but it's still you know quality.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, he's.
Speaker 6: A dope, a dope producer, man, he's dope producer. Where
Speaker 6: it's one track that sound like a soul track that
Speaker 6: I and then I had it for a while and
Speaker 6: I said, what's the sample on this? And he sent
Speaker 6: me what the sample was and it was just some
Speaker 6: just Japanese cartoon theme song.
Speaker 5: But I thought it was.
Speaker 6: I thought it was a seventy soul sample or something,
Speaker 6: no ages something.
Speaker 5: It's not what you think it is, but it was.
Speaker 5: It was dope to.
Speaker 6: That type of sampling where it's not. We completely flipped
Speaker 6: it and put it in another world.
Speaker 4: You know, Before I close, I would like to ask you,
Speaker 4: and I guess he went on record about it before,
Speaker 4: but he talk about like how sobriety has changed you
Speaker 4: and transformed you to who you are now, just like
Speaker 4: as a family, man, and.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm not sober.
Speaker 4: I felt right. It was great. No, I saw this
Speaker 4: interview where you were like really getting.
Speaker 6: Sober on certain day. I was sober at that interview.
Speaker 6: I was sober around that time. But that was probably
Speaker 6: I'm guessing that was twenty nineteen, twenty twenty or something
Speaker 6: like that is the This.
Speaker 4: Is the perfect ending of an interview. Yeah, I swear
Speaker 4: to that heart felt answer about.
Speaker 6: Like no at that time stuff. Yes, for sure, I
Speaker 6: had a good run three. By the way, I want
Speaker 6: to apologize for you know, I I ran on the
Speaker 6: stage when y'all would do an event sponsored by butt Light.
Speaker 9: That I need this story now.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. It's really not a big deal. It's like,
Speaker 4: you know, you do those it was like super Bowl
Speaker 4: time or something like.
Speaker 5: This, south By Southwest, same.
Speaker 11: Thing, you know, And when it took opera gigs, sure,
Speaker 11: there's there's there's regular gigs, and then there's opera gigs
Speaker 11: and you know, you know, handm.
Speaker 4: What was there. So we were like, hey, just get on,
Speaker 4: I can talk. And he talked about the taste of
Speaker 4: the beer was not too savory. Ship there was like
Speaker 4: a president but moment Sean g was catching a heart
Speaker 4: attack because he don't want to drop the best. But
Speaker 4: we was laughing ass off this.
Speaker 5: No, y'all did laugh time, non't.
Speaker 2: He remembers a different.
Speaker 5: I remember completely. I didn't ask to go on stage.
Speaker 5: Y'all did tell me.
Speaker 6: I just went up there because yes, Sir Seth Herzog
Speaker 6: was hosted.
Speaker 4: It was secifically.
Speaker 6: It was a it was a special drink that they had,
Speaker 6: like bud Line or something.
Speaker 5: And I mean, like, hey, what y'all, y'all got no
Speaker 5: other ship.
Speaker 4: He was like a d Ruby Davis d okay. And
Speaker 4: I learned what a spoonerism was two days ago. So
Speaker 4: that's an example of spoonerism where you say, then, yeah,
Speaker 4: a word, what I call you? Conte pullman? You know
Speaker 4: what I mean? You ever calls you that?
Speaker 3: Let me know, that's sounds like a totally different situation.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, but it's it's I maybe because the years
Speaker 4: have went by. Wait, was that a serious moment or.
Speaker 5: It wasn't serious? But it was just it was uh,
Speaker 5: I think I was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: But then after now that I uh understand the economics
Speaker 6: of traveling with a band, then I felt even more
Speaker 6: bad about it. I was like, oh, they got like
Speaker 6: twenty people with them.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've never lost the account, you know, I
Speaker 4: know it was I think, I mean the but light
Speaker 4: people were definitely I believe up in the arms and showing.
Speaker 4: Was like a little nervous, but whatever.
Speaker 9: They've had bigger battles since.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well I'm I'm glad we got to make
Speaker 4: this happen. Do you have anything that shirt Hebrew?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Hebrew Hebrews.
Speaker 6: He had a installation in Chicago in twenty twenty never More.
Speaker 6: It was a bunch of his art and different pieces.
Speaker 4: My favorite. I just bought a piece off of him.
Speaker 4: We bought a couple of weeks.
Speaker 7: Ago and put us on Hebrew Hebrew brantly but not
Speaker 7: spelled like he brow.
Speaker 4: Not not e w, but h e b r U.
Speaker 4: That's Hebrew Brantley.
Speaker 2: Not like people different different, different, different trick people.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's he's one of us. Okay, a differ different tricks.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but no, he trying to see what this
Speaker 4: conversation is going to figure out what Steve I'm about
Speaker 4: to play.
Speaker 9: I'm got to talk about original Hebrew.
Speaker 6: So I went to Hebrew Studio when I first moved
Speaker 6: to La in twenty nineteen. He was showing me think
Speaker 6: and then he was like, yeah, it's one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, I didn't know. It was like
Speaker 6: I knew you were doing good. He was like, here,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna gift you these prints. Brother, Like, thank you
Speaker 6: very much. He's out of my budget.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, I know he yeah he's dope co Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's yeah, that's my bizarro for soth.
Speaker 8: But but nah, man, I'm glad you. You know, we
Speaker 8: finally got a chance to do this. You've just always
Speaker 8: just been one of my favorite comedians and just.
Speaker 4: You know, one of my you know, this is our
Speaker 4: second episode.
Speaker 7: I got a list of a couple of other folks
Speaker 7: that you can do what you did for us with
Speaker 7: the other dude.
Speaker 9: I just was thinking that, that's all I was.
Speaker 4: Thinking, mm hmm.
Speaker 9: I just we'll talk about it.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about about? Other folks? From me
Speaker 4: to y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all play out. Yeah, where did
Speaker 4: this come from?
Speaker 5: Uh? The harmonica?
Speaker 4: Yes? This?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 5: I got one.
Speaker 6: We were just in I think it was yeah, beginning
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty, I said guitar Center with Harry Allen Kane,
Speaker 6: and she was like, let's get harmonica's and I was like,
Speaker 6: why not? And so then I was just and then
Speaker 6: I was playing harmonica, and then I think I was
Speaker 6: playing it online, just joking around, and then uh, Frederick
Speaker 6: was like, let.
Speaker 5: Me get you a good harmonica.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Frederick, Frederick, let me get.
Speaker 5: You a good harmonica.
Speaker 6: So he sent this one and then uh, and then
Speaker 6: before I was about to come here for the podcast,
Speaker 6: I saw it.
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm a fucking up with the harmonica.
Speaker 4: One of the secret talents. Do you have talents?
Speaker 5: But I just want to I'm working on drums.
Speaker 6: I got drunkard at the crib and so and I
Speaker 6: want to learn keys, and I think I'll make my
Speaker 6: best music after I got kind of proficiency had an.
Speaker 5: Instrument for three or four years, you know.
Speaker 6: And and so I do want to at some point
Speaker 6: be able to drum in some in a band or
Speaker 6: sit in and and not have people.
Speaker 5: Be like fucking up, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 5: want to be able to do that.
Speaker 6: And I think it's definitely helped my production and and
Speaker 6: and music creation. So I think once I you know,
Speaker 6: keys and drums it'll it'll take the music up.
Speaker 4: At the time in the pandemic. Uh, we did a
Speaker 4: bit where you were, uh cooking and whatnot. So how's
Speaker 4: how's your like? Once the pandemic was over, have you
Speaker 4: stopped your.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you about that, because that I was when
Speaker 6: we did that was the quest love, what was the
Speaker 6: name of that food? I didn't I had a misunderstanding
Speaker 6: on what the demands for that was gonna be. And
Speaker 6: I job because then because I was like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 6: do that, and and then and so uh, I had
Speaker 6: a little bit of mushrooms because I was like, hey,
Speaker 6: we just were just out here at it, but.
Speaker 5: I didn't know what. And then I opened They said
Speaker 5: the kid is outside your door.
Speaker 6: And I opened my door and it's lights and a
Speaker 6: camera and I was like, oh, no, I ain't know.
Speaker 4: So I asked. This was during the pandemic. I guess
Speaker 4: the Food Network had asked me to put together an
Speaker 4: hour special asking my notable friends, you know, for recipes
Speaker 4: and whatnot.
Speaker 5: What did you make? I forget. I just remember.
Speaker 6: I just remember the panic of having these people on
Speaker 6: zoom and they were like, you know, put the lights
Speaker 6: there and keep plugging in and just I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 6: I didn't know I was about to be a.
Speaker 5: Guy for Up in the Air.
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you remember the part where I was so overwhelmed.
Speaker 5: I was just like, man, you just.
Speaker 6: If you just closed the laptop, everything's over. I was like, no,
Speaker 6: you can't do that. At the quest love tough it out.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 9: Just now, I gotta look this up because you might
Speaker 9: have made some No, I don't even know.
Speaker 6: I think I just showed you the pantry or something,
Speaker 6: or it wasn't even it wasn't that.
Speaker 4: Ye see your kitchen, and yeah, I swear you made something.
Speaker 4: Tiffany asked me fried chicken on the air fryer.
Speaker 9: Did the hannimal.
Speaker 2: The fact that Handle doesn't even remember.
Speaker 5: I didn't make it. I didn't make anything.
Speaker 6: Showed your bare season I just showed some seasonings and
Speaker 6: and just waiting for my high to go down. I
Speaker 6: sweated on camera, set up lights. I remember setting up
Speaker 6: lights more than anything.
Speaker 4: All right, So gamming is your secret talent. I know
Speaker 4: you stopped drinking for a minute.
Speaker 8: You have like other drugs that you just preferred more
Speaker 8: so now, like mushrooms, more so.
Speaker 5: Than I'm noticing, Like I don't really I think on
Speaker 5: the road. Now.
Speaker 6: I think with the drinking, I think it's adjusting. I
Speaker 6: got sober in a in a certain time, and now
Speaker 6: I'm adjusting to a different level of stimuli and a
Speaker 6: different life.
Speaker 5: And so that's uh.
Speaker 6: You know, with with doing music and and another level
Speaker 6: of activity where the traveling and that part of.
Speaker 5: It is what's sort of getting me.
Speaker 6: But when I'm here and at home, I'm in the studio,
Speaker 6: I'm just you know, seeing my daughter. So it doesn't
Speaker 6: it doesn't, it doesn't pull me like that one.
Speaker 4: Ho is she? Now?
Speaker 5: She too? Doing some change. It's doing some change.
Speaker 6: She got some uh, she got strong, she had strong
Speaker 6: musical opinions. Now oh wow, once she really want to
Speaker 6: hear Moanna one of the Moana songs. And if you
Speaker 6: play the wrong one, not that one, not that one.
Speaker 6: She used to vibe to my stuff. But and she
Speaker 6: but now it's like, nah, not that one. I'll be
Speaker 6: playing her other stuff.
Speaker 4: You got to the age of seven to program your
Speaker 4: child to have good taste before she.
Speaker 5: Just yeah, no, radio gonna make it happen. We're gonna
Speaker 5: we're gonna make it happens.
Speaker 4: Dope. Actually, okay, before I close, I kind of need advice.
Speaker 4: So this is like a community question for you people,
Speaker 4: and Annimal you can you can chime in. Uh, our
Speaker 4: crew behind the cameras can chime in as well. I
Speaker 4: need a creative idea for Halloween and I don't know
Speaker 4: what to be.
Speaker 5: What yeah for you means party costume.
Speaker 4: I'm literally running out of party Yeah Heidi.
Speaker 8: Heidi coon, Yeah he winn't he can't do that.
Speaker 4: She like a or something. Wow, thank you, Steve, I
Speaker 4: appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Today go is uh tie trip it and just be
Speaker 6: really energetic everywhere.
Speaker 4: You could go was my bass player on this on
Speaker 4: this l O run. And also I also blame Thattius
Speaker 4: for like Fattius in the Roots shout out. You know,
Speaker 4: we had a COVID situation with Mark, so Fatty's had
Speaker 4: to replace Mark on the LL tour and he made
Speaker 4: us a thirty year old group again, like all that
Speaker 4: dance and all that energy and you kind of you
Speaker 4: saw the last night. So Fattius actually broke his leg.
Speaker 4: Fatti's broke his leg in Atlanta, so he was not
Speaker 4: supposed to be on his leg or dance or whatever,
Speaker 4: so he pretty much I don't even know if the
Speaker 4: audience knows that he was hopping on one foot the
Speaker 4: entire time. Wow, the entire show. Yeah, those trippets are
Speaker 4: are a special.
Speaker 2: How about Black Doc from Back to the Future.
Speaker 9: That's not as fun. That's just a colt.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to do anything that short of Charlie
Speaker 4: Brown just putting a bunch of holes in the sheet
Speaker 4: and saying I got a rock. You could be Denzel's
Speaker 4: character in me. Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 9: You could do Frederick Douglass.
Speaker 4: I mean, coach prompt.
Speaker 8: But if you do Frederick, that could be fair. If
Speaker 8: you do, you got to go all the way. You
Speaker 8: gotta show up to the party with a white woman.
Speaker 7: That's a harsh reality that I wasn't ready to face today.
Speaker 8: Commit you gotta go all way in he was.
Speaker 4: I like, that's a great question.
Speaker 9: The Lion the Wiz is making a comeback.
Speaker 5: Let me see I got Muneo line.
Speaker 4: It was Muno line. Uh yeah, I might field it
Speaker 4: in this year. Man, Like, I don't know she's gonna do.
Speaker 9: That's man ship. How she don't run the ideas?
Speaker 4: No, she you know, she's whatever she's doing. I know
Speaker 4: she's preparing the last week of September. So my favorite
Speaker 4: costume I saw I'll do And this was years ago.
Speaker 4: It was a root show and y'all came out in
Speaker 4: the dead presence make up. Oh that's right. They used
Speaker 4: to do that. Y'all don't dress well. We used to
Speaker 4: do Halloween shows. But you know, yeah, all right, I
Speaker 4: be half me Sandell. That's the last word I say, Claire,
Speaker 4: all right and Bannable hers. Yes, this is Let's cove,
Speaker 4: and thank you for listening to our very long part.
Speaker 4: This is Is this a three hour man? Listen?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 9: Two half to half?
Speaker 4: That's not bad. Okay. I love these quality shows when
Speaker 4: we get together and talk. So this was a long
Speaker 4: time in the coming to. You can call it through.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 9: That's how we do it live from your venue. All right,
Speaker 9: all right, come on, man, thats gonna be.
Speaker 4: Called at the Knitting Factory.
Speaker 9: What's gonna be called?
Speaker 4: Have you wait? You're not calling it the knitting Factory?
Speaker 5: No, that's no.
Speaker 6: God, create a new I got a working title I
Speaker 6: Solo Sessions, but I'm still I'm still brainstorm the Fittingnactory.
Speaker 4: And that's out. Jake and Brittany, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: And the next go around, this is.
Speaker 12: Sugar Steve Thank you for listening to Quest Love Supreme.
Speaker 12: This podcast is hosted by a Mere Quest Love Thompson,
Speaker 12: Liah Saint Clair, Pompte Coleman, Sugar, Steve Mandel, and unpaid
Speaker 12: Bill Sherman.
Speaker 4: The executive producers are a mere Quest.
Speaker 12: Love Thompson, Sean g and Brian Calhoun. Produced by Britney Benjamin,
Speaker 12: Jake Payne and Liah Saint Clair. Edited by Alex Conroy.
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