1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to another edition of Club Shasha. I am 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: your host. I'm also the proprietor of Club Shah and 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: I promised you when we started this podcast that I 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: would bringing you some of the biggest and brightest stars 5 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: and athletes in their particular genres. And today I have one. Uh. 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: He's a comedian, he's an actor, he's an executive producer, 7 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: and he's the fastest actor to make the elite Hollywood Club, 8 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: the twenty million Dollar Club. My dog Chris Tuk All 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: my life and grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price, 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,959 Speaker 1: one slice got theron dice swath all my life. I've 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: been grinding in all my life, all my life, the 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle back prices, one slice 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: got the dice to swap all my life. I've been 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: grinding in all my life. What's up? What's up? Man? 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: I ain't got none of that money no more. I 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: don't want nobody following me. It's all on, all of it, 17 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: go all of it. How you've been doing it? How 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: you been doing bro? Man? I'm doing good. Man, I'm 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: doing great. I'm doing great. How are you, bro? I'm good? 20 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: I really can't complain. I'm gainfully employed. I'm doing better 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: than a lot of people. You know, the twenty twenty 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: was bad for a lot of people. A lot of 23 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: people lost their jobs, a lot of people, a lot 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: of family lost loved ones. But I was very fortunate 25 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: and I'm blessed. So yes, yes, man, it was. It 26 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: was a year, man, but we're gonna get through it. Man. 27 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: I remember I was in New York for nine eleven, 28 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: and I thought the world was ending because it was 29 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: the night after. It was the morning after Michael Jackson 30 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: had the big concerts in New York the ninth and 31 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: the ten next day was nine eleven. Woke up, man, 32 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: people call me. You know, they were getting attacking all 33 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: the stuff I said, the world about the end. I 34 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: just laid back down and man, and then some friends 35 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: called to get up. Man. We were getting on the bus. 36 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: We're going up to Jersey, and man, you know, the 37 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: world started back up and we got past that. We're 38 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: gonna get past this pandemic. Man. And I've been taking 39 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: advantage of these last ten eleven months and been focusing, 40 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: been organizing, been praying. And it took a phenomenon to 41 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: get get me to get organized. But but God made 42 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: it happen. So you mentioned the pandemic. So what have 43 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: you actually been up to? Man? You know what, I've 44 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: been resting, you know, because I was touring. I was 45 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: touring and I was going, you know, get home and 46 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: then you get back on a plane, which I loved 47 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: to do. And you know, I started out of doing 48 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: stand up comedy. But I've been resting, organizing, praying, meditating, focusing. Man, 49 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: took I took advantage of this time. Like I said, 50 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: you know, I knew we I know we're gonna get 51 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: out of this. But you know, so I wasn't gonna 52 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: be lazy and not do nothing, got organized, got my rests. 53 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: You know, of course, worked a lot on you know, 54 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: stand up stuff, scripts and producing stuff, but mainly, you know, prayer, 55 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: life and resting and just getting that together. Man. And 56 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: that's been good for me because I'm ready to go. Now. 57 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. We get out of this. I 58 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: don't know how many people know this about you, but 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: I know this about you because I know you're a 60 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: little better than most people. You're an avid golfer. How 61 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: is the golf game coming? Man? It's coming good. I 62 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: finally got a coach because everybody said, get a teacher, 63 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: you know, because you know, I'm we grew up playing 64 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: basketball and baseball and football. You teach yourself, you know, 65 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: Black people think we get yourself. Not in golf. You 66 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: can't teach yourself and golf. You gotta get a teacher. 67 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: And I got a coach, and he's helping me, telling 68 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: me to turn the left hip, turn the left hip. 69 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm gonna swing it. No, No, it's all 70 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 1: about the left hip. So I'm getting better and I'm 71 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: almost getting ready to beat my brother them. So it's 72 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: going good. So my brother always comes to your tournament. 73 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: You have it every year. I don't know if you're 74 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: gonna have it this year. And he always tells me, 75 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk. I'm going to Tucking's tournament. Can 76 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: you beat him? No? Man. I talked to Marcus Allen 77 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: about your brother yesterday. I said, Marcus, I heard your 78 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: stratch golfer. He said, that's good for y'all to say that, 79 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: but that ain't true. I said, what about what about Sterling? 80 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: He said, Sterling is a stratch card. He's better than 81 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: a stratch golfer. I said, I don't even know what 82 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: that means. He said, he's a plus plus plus plus something. 83 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: I said what, and Sterling told me I played. The 84 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: only trophy I got from winning golf is in my room. 85 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: We played at Lake uh Lake. What's the big famous 86 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: one here us here in Atlanta, Georgian Tiger on the 87 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: big Championship. I played on your brother team, on Sterling team, 88 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: and we won. Sterling so cold black. He didn't get 89 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: his trophy. He just left before they gave the trophy. 90 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: He said. I wanted to thank him and hugg him 91 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: and gets him. He was going on on the road 92 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: trip because you know, we talked about the drive everywhere. 93 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: I said, man, it's the only troupe I got, and 94 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: it's a bad trophy. I mean, it's beauf We was 95 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: at Warren Award done tournament. Man, that's the only trophy 96 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: I ever won beside my own golf tournament. They gave 97 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: me a free honorary trophy. He's good. Man. So you 98 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: say you're getting better, let me ask you this. Can 99 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 1: you beat Charles Barkley? I could beat Charles Barkley now 100 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: the way he used to swing. He got a little 101 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: bit better. I could beat y'alls Buckley. My somebody just 102 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: asked me that last night. They were laughing when they 103 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: were saying that King, you played better than job. But 104 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I could beat yall. He came to 105 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: my tournament last year too, but y'all that's my boy. 106 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: But I could beat it, and I'm gonna be able 107 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: to beat him once I get these lessons done well. 108 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to be like golf is the 109 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: new thing because I see a lot of athletes, like 110 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: when they retire football players, basketball, baseball, hockey, and forget 111 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: the professional sport, that golf is the sport that they choose. 112 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: What is it about golf that you thinks a track 113 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: ex athletes and even guys like yourself, Because it's always 114 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: a task, man, It's it's you never figure it out. 115 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: It's always another level of the game. Once you get 116 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: the driving right, hitting it off the tea, you gotta 117 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: work on your irons, you gotta get that right. And 118 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: then you when you get close to the green, you 119 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: gotta get the putting, the chipping and the putting right. 120 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: So it's always a task, and it's always you're trying 121 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: to figure it out. You're thinking the whole time. And 122 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: then the fellowship. When you're on the course with your 123 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: your brothers or buddies and stuff. You know, you get 124 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: to know somebody in four hours. They're gonna let you 125 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: know who they are for real. You can be like, 126 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,239 Speaker 1: oh man, anything telling you talk like that, or you'll 127 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: be like, oh you're pretty smart. Oh man, Think it's 128 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: the last time I'm playing with you, you know, so 129 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna know something about people with after four hours 130 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: of playing golf and then you knocked the ball in 131 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: the woods, you get to experience nature. And I'm always 132 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: in the woods and one time I was talking to 133 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: a deer one time. Did you see my ball? He says, 134 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: it's over there. But you know, I'm a I'm a 135 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: country boy and I grew up by creeks and stuff 136 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: like that, so I love the woods, being out in 137 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: the nature. So it's all that good stuff with golf. 138 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: Who would be your ideal forsom I did force him, 139 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: I would say, Michael Jordan. Jordan, you your brother a 140 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: tyger woods. I'm gonna have a lot of people out there. 141 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: Who who's the one person you would like to play 142 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: with that you said I beat him? Oh, well, my brother, 143 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: my brother because he's been beating me lately, and I've 144 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: been and I'm getting better because I got my lessons. 145 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: So what I just want to keep continually to get him. 146 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: And uh, but we have a lot of fun with 147 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: I don't never want to get too serious that I don't. 148 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: I don't have fun with it because then I'd be like, oh, 149 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: you know, all on another level with that yet. But 150 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: a lot of people take it real serious though. They 151 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: take it, I mean they take it serious serious. Yeah. Yeah, 152 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: but but but my brother, I honestly I would like 153 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: to beat Michael Jordan. I want to go to his course, 154 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: his own course and beat him and then talk about 155 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: him in front of everybody, just people work for him 156 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: and everybody. I would love to do that because Michael 157 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: is a type of guy. If he beat you, if 158 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: he's beating you or beat you in anything, he'll never 159 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: let you forget it. And he's literally talking while the 160 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: while is going on with Michael talk jumped man. I 161 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: remember I went to his party to honor him, and 162 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: he told my girlfriend, what you're doing him? I looked 163 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: at him, Oh that's okay, because I like him. I 164 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: actually like him, and that I agree with him. That's 165 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: how famous he is. He do like me, dab I 166 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: saw you, I saw him. I saw a picture the 167 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: other day and this gentleman just plays. Recently on the 168 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: golf course, you and Debo talk about your relationship with 169 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: Debo and what he meant. What a great guy man. 170 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: I've known him. Devo known me since I was a 171 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: little like a young teenager going to the comedy clubs. 172 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: He used to come to Atlanta and scare everybody out 173 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: of the Company Club. He'd come in there and just yeah, 174 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: let the scream and sell. It scared the comedians. You 175 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: didn't know if he was for real or not. So 176 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: I've known him for a long time. And then we 177 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: end up doing Fridays together. And man, he just made 178 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: that movie work. Man, him and everybody else man made 179 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: made that movie a classic. That was my one of 180 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: my first co starring Roles. And man, he's always gonna 181 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: be etched in my story because we've done a lot 182 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: of movie. We did Fifth Element together, a movie called 183 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: Fifth Element we did Jackie Brown. I did a cameo 184 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: in that and and the last year he came to 185 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: my golf tournament. Last year came to church with us 186 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: after the tournament, the next morning. That's a good Christian brother. 187 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: I did something West Angeles and LA with him last 188 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: year or the year before last, and man, it just 189 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: seemed like last year, the year before last he was around. 190 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: We were around each other a lot, and I was like, man, 191 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: this is cool. I bumped into him at Mark because 192 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: Allen's golf tournament. Man, uh, I said, what's uping matter? 193 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: Then we kept you know, got in kept in touch 194 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: and we just was bumping to each other everywhere, man, 195 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: and and then doing stuff together. So I think God 196 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: that I had to spent some good time with him 197 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: before he passed. Man, good brother. He is a great brother. 198 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: He's a great guy. And either take a joke. I 199 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: remember in ninety with the super Bowl, with the Atlanta 200 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,599 Speaker 1: the first super Bowl in Atlanta, I met him in 201 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: the hotel and he walked up to me. We started 202 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: talking with caring on the conversation like what you're doing? 203 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I don't know. He's like, well, hey, 204 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: well let's kick it tonight. So we you know, he 205 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: and I if he and I and were going all 206 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 1: over we going to different places and and I didn't 207 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: really you know, I was like, okay, you know he 208 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: has one green eye and uh and a brown eye. Yes, 209 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: I'm gonna see you know. So we joking and he's 210 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: backing up. I was like, bro, look over the other 211 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,599 Speaker 1: shoulder coming, you're looking at you gonna call us the 212 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: running to somebody. He's like, man looking, Man, I ain't 213 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: know for your jokes. But he started laughing and we 214 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: started we kept a relationship going. But he's he's just 215 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: a great guy. He really, he really was. Man. Just 216 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: a good, good, good hearted person, good Christian brother man. 217 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: And we're gonna miss him. Man, We're gonna miss him. 218 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 1: Good guy. Man. Let's let's talk about Let's talk about Friday. 219 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: That was really your first doubt with your breakout role. 220 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: I mean you, you know, you were a comedian and 221 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people knew you, but that was the 222 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: role that put Chris Tucker on the map. How much 223 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: of that did you get the ad lib? And how 224 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: much of it was scripted that you're like, nah, I 225 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: need to do it like this in order to make 226 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: it meet. Yeah. A lot of it, man, a lot 227 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: of it because uh, you know, I knew I had 228 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: to make it special. I had to, you know, uh, 229 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: spend some time to develop the character, you know, so 230 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: I can make it, you know, make it interesting and 231 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: uh make an impact. Man. But when I got the script, 232 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: it was like sixty pages. But they were writing the 233 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 1: writing at the same time, and by the time we 234 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: got on the set, it was it was done if 235 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: script was done. But but but the director gave me 236 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: free range and ice Cube gave me free range to 237 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: come up with stuff on the set because they knew 238 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: I came from stand up and you know, I'm in 239 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: the moment a lot, and I come up with stuff. So, man, 240 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: a lot of it was was in the moment stuff. 241 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: And it was because you know, it was just a 242 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: great environment, great great actors. Man. Like I said, Tiny 243 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: was just great. When he came up on that screen, 244 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: we really was scared. I was scared. I was like, 245 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: whoa who, I didn't remember this part of the script. 246 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: And I was like, uh, you know, talking my stuff 247 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: in He really that He really made me act for 248 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: good and que of course it was cute and you know, 249 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: all everybody in that movie made that movie work, man, 250 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: And I'm just happy and blessed to be part of it, 251 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: had been a part of it. Did you know it 252 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: was gonna be what it became. Did you think in 253 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: the moment when you're doing that movie, You're like, this 254 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: is it. This is gonna be a blockbuster. Did you know? No? 255 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: I didn't know, but I knew I was prepared because 256 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: I got up, man, I got in the mirror. I said, 257 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm Ima, this is my shot. It wasn't about money, 258 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't about It was about the opportunity. And I 259 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: trying to tap into that now. You know, at this 260 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: point in my career, it was just about the opportunity. 261 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: And I said, this is my shot. I gotta be 262 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: ready when when I got it on my lines, and 263 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: when I'm on that set, whatever comes for me, I'm 264 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: gonna be ready for I'm not gonna let not one 265 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: moment go past me, funny moment or whatever reaction. And 266 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: I was I know I was prepared. And I said, 267 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: if I'm prepared, and you know, I didn't know, I 268 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: knew good things can happen from that. You know, That's 269 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: all I knew. I was prepared. I was ready. But 270 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: did you know by playing that role so well, there 271 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: could never be another Smokey other than you. That's not 272 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: a role that someone else could play. That's not a 273 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: role that someone else can do. No matter how many fridays, 274 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: there could never be another Smoky. Did you know you 275 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: had put together that type of performance. I did not know. 276 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: I had no clue. I knew that that it was 277 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: felt good and it was working, and I was in 278 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: the because when you're in the moment, you don't you 279 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: don't know what you're doing. You just like it's just worked. 280 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: You know, you're just feeling good about it and stuff 281 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: coming out of it. It's like God takes over and 282 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: then you're just going and that's all. I knew that 283 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: I was ready and I was excited about it, and 284 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: because that, you know, I wanted to I was auditioning 285 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: for TV shows because I was on the road so much. 286 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: I was ready to get off the road and get 287 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: into movies and get a bigger audience because I was 288 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: going to city to see the same cities and you know, 289 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: in the same year, you know, I was making a living, 290 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: but I was like, I gotta move to the next level. 291 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: And I was back then. I was just so sensitive 292 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: to that. I knew. I was like, this is the 293 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: time to be on TV or movies. And I always 294 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: wanted to do movies and I got it got Fridays. 295 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: When I came out of auditioning for another movie, I 296 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 1: was up against Dale Hugley. Dale got the part on TV. 297 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: But when I was walking out, my manager's assistance said, 298 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: but you got Fridays. We just fight out. You got Fridays. 299 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: We don't know if you got this yet. But I know. 300 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: All I knew was I was prepared. So I tried 301 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: to always be prepared for stuff. You go back and 302 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: we look at Friday, and we look at some of 303 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: the comedians that were in Friday. Bernie Mack was the pastor. 304 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: John Witherspoon was Pops. What was it like working with 305 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: those guys on the set? Oh my god? Bernie was 306 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: also in that movie. Yeah, Ronaldo Ray, oh man, it 307 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: was just one of that was the highlights for me, 308 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: working with Bernie and mister Witherspoon, John Whitterspon. I told 309 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 1: the director, I said, I gotta have a scene with 310 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: mister Witherspoon, John Werspore, I gotta have a scene. Head, 311 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: all right, we'll write something in all right. And every 312 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: day I was bugging him like what what what? What's 313 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: scene now? Because this is gonna be forever and this 314 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: is this man is a legend. He said, I got 315 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: the scene. You gonna go up to him and you're 316 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: gonna tell me you gotta used the rap bathroom. He 317 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: gonna slam the door on you. I said, that's all 318 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: I need. I just want that moment. He gave it 319 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: to me. Bernie, I was just always a big fan 320 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: of his. I never seen somebody tap a room a 321 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: comedy theator like Bernie mac Man. I went to the 322 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: Wilton in Atlanta, and I got a school I got 323 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: a schooling. I got a lesson from Bernie. Bernie told 324 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: the room up. Man, it was like the Holy Ghost 325 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: was in there. Man, it was like church. It was 326 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: like a pig dick. It was like a family reunion. 327 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: I never seen anything like that. So he's always been 328 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: one of my favorite comedians. Him, Robin Harris, Richard Fer, 329 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: you know, Eddie Murphy, those got Bill Cosby, all those 330 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: guys and some of my greatest favorite One of my 331 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: favorite scenes is when Bernie Mack comes up. He was 332 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: the pastor and you and Q y'all were smoking on 333 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: the porch and he said he needed little Supoy Gola 334 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: coma and you're talking about at the church on what 335 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: was it? Uh? He said talking about his church, about 336 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: this they share and you said about Normandy and West 337 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, twenty twin twins. Yeah, so that was 338 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: all in the moment. Was that in the script or 339 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: did you had lived that part? I had lived. I 340 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: have lived in man, because one thing about when the 341 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: camera stopped, we still was having fun. We was like, 342 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: you got Bernie Mack on the set with me, and 343 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: at John Witherspoon and uh Ice Cu. We were still 344 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: having fun, you know at ice Cue. You know, I 345 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: grew up listening to his music, so it was like 346 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: I was fascinating, you know, sitting next to him. So 347 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: we're talking about stories and stuff. So we were we 348 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: were just having fun. Man. I was in a good 349 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: mood and we was like coming up with stuff every 350 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: two seconds, you know, even when we won't filming. It 351 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: was a lot of that stuff was great. You do 352 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: the movie. It's a success beyond success, beyond success beyond successful. 353 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: Did you do such a great job you priced yourself 354 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: out of the sequel or did you not want to 355 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: come back or did you want to move on to 356 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: say I did that. I'm done with that. I want 357 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: to go to something else. I wanted to move on 358 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: because when I when I did something, I never I 359 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: never wanted to do it again. I was like, back then, 360 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: I was all about going to the next level. Like 361 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: I said, I had a good sense of like, Okay, 362 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: now it's time to go do an action movie whatever 363 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: it is, you know, so what you wanted me to 364 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: do A Fridays, I was like, nah, nah, I want 365 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 1: to go through something else. We don't did that, you know, 366 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: because studios think about the money and then users like, oh, 367 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: we can make some money with this. I was thinking 368 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: about my career saying, no, I want to go through 369 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: money talk or something. Let me do my whole movie 370 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: with Charlie Sheen. I did that movie instead. Oh thank 371 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: you man, thank you. Charlie is my boy, man, He's 372 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: still my boy. But yeah, it was all it was 373 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: for me. It was about going to the next level, 374 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: keep keep, you know, going to the next time. They 375 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: woulddn't believe I didn't want to do another one, but 376 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: I was just and I was right when I think 377 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: back on it, and I was like, this is time 378 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: to do something, dude. Dude. We did that and I 379 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 1: did everything I can do when I was prepared and 380 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: I'm satisfied with it, Let's go to the next one. 381 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: Do you believe had you done a second Friday that 382 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: would have people would have looked at you and said, 383 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: that's the only type of movies he can do. I 384 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: think it, Uh would have would have probably didn't minished 385 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: the minished the first one, because sometimes you can't get 386 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: something out of certain movies, you can't get nothing else 387 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: out of it. But they were able to do it 388 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: with with Friday's two and three. They figured out the 389 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: way to do it. But uh, I just was where 390 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: I was, and I think it's the right way to 391 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: do it was at that time, and uh not to 392 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: not to go back on it, because you know, then 393 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: it became a classic, and so you know I didn't, 394 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't. I didn't mess with him. Glad 395 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: I didn't mess with it. But something like you know, 396 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 1: the rush hour movies, action movies, it's a little bit 397 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,359 Speaker 1: more easier to do one, two and three. And then 398 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,479 Speaker 1: they offered me twenty five million. I said, oh, you know, well, 399 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: let's let's get off tomorrows for a minute, and going no, no, no, 400 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 1: It was it made sense because I knew that we 401 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: could do something else with it. And it was a 402 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: you know, it was what it was, you know, the 403 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: rush hours and stuff. Can you believe of all the 404 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: things that you've accomplished that people still go back and 405 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: they talk about Friday and they quote you from Friday 406 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: and they do all these things. Can you believe the 407 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: staying power that you had in that movie? No, man, 408 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: I you know I never could. You know, sometimes when 409 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: God bless you, man, you bless you more than what 410 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: you can even dream. And that's one of those things. 411 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: Because it was just a small movie. We filmed it 412 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: in twenty days, and I didn't get you know, about 413 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars four it or whatever. I didn't care. 414 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: I just was the opportunity. But I can't believe how 415 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: about you got I got about ten thousand dollars because 416 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 1: the movie costs they took well, they got different stories, 417 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: but it was either two million or three million to do. 418 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: We only I know we had twenty days because it 419 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: directly reminded me every day. We got twenty days, man, 420 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: because you then I mess up. We only had two tapes. 421 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: We can only take two tapes. That mean, you know, 422 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: I can only do my lines twice if I mess 423 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: up one time? You get one more time and that's it. 424 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: We're gonna cut your part. So I knew we were 425 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: and we was on a street, one street the whole time, 426 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: and then we went some stuff in the studio, little 427 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: scenes in the studio, like bedroom scening like that. But 428 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: we it was. It was that small of a movie. 429 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: But the that was the beauty of it because it 430 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: allowed me to get into the character. It wasn't no 431 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: big distractions like big, big movies sets. You gotta light 432 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: people and sound on people all everybody want to be 433 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: a star. But that movie is just a camera and 434 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: me and Cube on on on the porch, and you know, 435 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: and then you know, magic came out of it, you know. 436 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: And now with the advent of the internet, you see 437 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: all the smoking impersonations. You see all this. You got 438 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: knocked out, you see that. Uh you know that, you 439 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: see everybody you're doing this. Yeah, Gabrielle Union and d 440 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: Wade re enacted one of your scenes. Oh yeah, yeah 441 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: they did. They did an unbelievable job. Oh I'm getting that. 442 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: I gotta see that. I gotta see that. So I 443 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: look at you. And when you had to part with 444 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: a phase, our big big word, I mean Big Pern. Yeah, 445 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: that was I mean that was some some great acting. 446 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 1: I mean it was just like, thank you. How how 447 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: were you able to do because you went from like 448 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: you smoking next to Que smoking, do it with Bernie 449 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: Mack smoking, talking to Pop smoking, talking to Qu's mom, 450 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: till now all of a sudden it's you and you're 451 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: leaning in the car and you're trying to uh shice 452 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: them out of his money. You know, how did you 453 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: go from this this because like you said, you only 454 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: had twenty days shoot this entire movie. Yeah, yeah, well 455 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: the beauty about the scene with me and Big Worm 456 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: with PHAs On Love. We were best friends, so we 457 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: clowned around all day every day, you know, going to 458 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: the comedy clubs that night, every night, going to different 459 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: comic clubs performing. We clowned around every day. So it 460 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: was so easy to work with him. But we were 461 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: laughing a lot. Phase One would laugh all the time 462 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: because he looking at me, like look at him trying 463 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: to be serious, and because I had to stay in character, 464 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: I would make him laugh off camera because he was 465 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: making me laugh. So it was so easy because we 466 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: were friends and to get that that stuff good. And 467 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: then Vernie Mac of course, you know he's one of 468 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: the heroes. Fan I was fan of him, so everybody, 469 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: everybody I had a connection with, watching John Willerspool and 470 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 1: h you know, watching and Q growing up with his mute, 471 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: so everybody. It was just every time I was with him, 472 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: I was excited and it was it was just easy 473 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: to do. It was easy. How did you come up 474 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: with the line when the the girl that qued me 475 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: Alonge's character Q had a crush on her and she 476 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: says she had a friend that she want to hook 477 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: you up with. Yeah, and you said she got a 478 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: look like Janet Jackson. Yeah, okay, So how did you 479 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: come up with that part? Was that written in or 480 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: did you add little Janet Jackson more like Freddie Jackson? Well, 481 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: that was written in that That part was rick. But 482 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,239 Speaker 1: on the phone when I got on the phone with her, 483 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: like yeah, you know what, daddie lived right, All that 484 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: was just me saying, Okay, I'm on the phone with somebody. 485 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: Nobody was on the other line, and I'm like, okay, 486 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: all right. Control that was all me, and uh and 487 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: then I Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson, That's all me. And 488 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: then and then I auditioned on the part of of 489 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: the girl. When I walk up to the girl and 490 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: I found out she wasn't what I thought she was. 491 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: That's how I got Fridays, because I was like, I 492 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: know you're hungry. You know my mama don't like a 493 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: lot of people with me when I pick them up, 494 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: no want you. And then you take the wig off 495 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: of the damn all. That was how I got the part. 496 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: I just made that up in the room and they 497 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,919 Speaker 1: wrote it down when I was auditioning. Give me your 498 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: top five hood classics of all times? A New Jack City, 499 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: New Jack City. I like New Jack City, boys in 500 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: the hood, boys in the hood, the Mac Mac and 501 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna you're talking about hood hood classics. H because 502 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: I always say scar faces, the hood classes of the 503 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 1: BEA because I love Scoff. We grew up. We accidentally 504 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: saw that in Madenee. We were kids. My mom and 505 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: dad didn't even know what we was watching. We was gone. 506 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: They sent U to the movie and I said, WHOA, 507 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: this is acting. I thought I was in, you know, 508 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: the whole big old drug world with that. But the 509 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,239 Speaker 1: other who could be off hand? Maybe minutes to decide, Oh, 510 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: uptown Saturday night, uptown Saturday night, let's do it again. 511 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: Those in there, you ain't gonna put not gonna put 512 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: Friday in their house. Oh yeah, yeah, you know what, 513 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: I gotta put my movie in there. Yeah, Fridays in there. 514 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: It's hard to have a Hood classic any of them, 515 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: O rushmore, any of them without Friday being in it. 516 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: Thank you many good. Look at our big bro. That's right, 517 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: that's right. You grew up in Atlanta. What was it 518 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: growing up in Atlanta during the time? And what did 519 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: you want to be? What when you were growing up? 520 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: You know, I was blessing. I found out early, you know, 521 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 1: uh that I like entertainment, you know, going to the 522 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: movie seeing uh stir crazy with Richard Pryor and Jean 523 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: Jean Jean Wilder trying walking down to prison talking about 524 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: we been we bet. I was just fascinated when when 525 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: when Richard Pryor came on the scene Eddie Murphy in 526 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: forty eight hours, you know he was he was in 527 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: the prison like case case. You know, I was like 528 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: cat on Eddie, you know. So I and then I 529 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,479 Speaker 1: when I go to when I went to school, uh, 530 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: you know, while I'm the youngest of six kids, so 531 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 1: I I watched a lot I observed a lot because 532 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: you know, you can't say that you the youngest and 533 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: all you got three older brothers, two sisters. They say, 534 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: shut up or it is what you know. So I 535 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: just watched them, I you know it was. And I 536 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: watched them make mistakes. You know they did. They get 537 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: a whooping, and I'll be like, what they do. I 538 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: don't I don't want to a whipping when I could 539 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: get older like that what happened. I ain't take out 540 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: the garbage like I'm gonna make sure I take out 541 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: the garbage when it's my turn, shooter, And it told 542 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: you good God. So I learned a lot at a 543 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: young age. And then I you know that, you know, 544 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 1: it was this comedy all around us, because you know, 545 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: a big family, there's always something people trying to get 546 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: in the bathroom. Get out of the bathroom. Girl, we're 547 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: trying to go to school. And I'm a shott w 548 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: y'all man, and I know. So it was always something 549 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: going on in the house, and it just I was 550 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: just around funny stuff and I didn't even know it. 551 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: And I was funny, I guess too, And went to 552 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: school and people saying, then you're funny you're like Eddie 553 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: Murphy or something. I'm like, what's your talent? Man? And 554 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: then you know I don't dress out for pee. I 555 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: would preach to the whole everybody who didn't dress that 556 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: in the in the bleachers, I'd be like, all right, 557 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,719 Speaker 1: get your books, your bibles out, and I would make 558 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,439 Speaker 1: them laugh about thirty minutes. Even the teacher come over 559 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: there and be like, what is going this food? And 560 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: then they said you need to host the talent show 561 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: because you you got something. I said, well, how much 562 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 1: they paying? Are they paying anything? And they can get 563 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: some good grades or something. No, you just go. So 564 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: I got like thirty to thirty dollars to host a 565 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: talent show. Got told my first joke. They laughed. I said, 566 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: this is it. This is what I'm gonna do, because 567 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: you know, school wasn't easy for me. So I said, 568 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: I ain't going to college. I badly got out of 569 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: high school. I'm gonna finish this right now. I'm lucky 570 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: I got out of here. So, yeah, that you went 571 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: to Columbia which is the Decatur right, Yeah, Decata in Georgia. 572 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: Yeah in Decata, Decata. Now y'all have some athletes. That 573 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: was that track when Torrens went to Ucator went to Columbia. Yeah, 574 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: you know, I know, I know a little bit of 575 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,479 Speaker 1: they had awesome track track program. Off the chain, that's right, 576 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: that's right. She graduated with my brothers sister, older sister. Yeah, 577 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: but what was for I mean, you went to a 578 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: school that was vague, that had good high school athletic program. 579 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: You never wanted to play sports. I did play sports. 580 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to go pro like you, but I both 581 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: went for my rest in practice. That was that was 582 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: that was God saying you better go figure something. That 583 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: I jumped up, man to catch a ball to you know, 584 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: just to catch if we just on getting ready for 585 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: pras I jumped up and instead of coming down on 586 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: my butt bone, I said, oh, I'm embraced myself. Look, 587 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: broke both of my wrists and even the doctors was laughing. 588 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: They're like, how did you do this? I submit just 589 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: to take me to the doctor, thinking the hospital, and 590 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,479 Speaker 1: that's when I quit. I said, I said, I need 591 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 1: to do something else. But yeah, man, I love sports 592 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: and you know, wanted wanted to be go pro like 593 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: everybody else. But you realize at a very young age. 594 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: So during the comedic thing when you were in high 595 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: school or coming up? Was it to make people laugh 596 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: or to make make sure people weren't laughing at you? 597 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: Because I have a funny side. But I used to 598 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: talk with a list and I when I found at 599 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: a very young age that if I made other people 600 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: laugh at someone else, they wouldn't notice what I got 601 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: going on, and so I could keep them up off me. Yep, yep, yeah, 602 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: yeah it was it was us. See I probably would 603 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: have talked about you see, I probably not I would 604 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: do it now. I was one of those guys that 605 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: I would just make people laugh because it was it 606 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: was really cost I didn't really want to do the work. 607 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: Some of the work was hard for me. I was like, shoot, man, 608 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: what y'all doing? Hey? Hey, hey, you know I mean 609 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: messing with people who studied, did their homework. Hey, come home, 610 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: give me some hands ups, and they'd be like, shot, 611 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: I will shut up, teased to looking right at those food. 612 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: I was one of those and then but I wouldn't 613 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: make people laugh because they you know, it was easy 614 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: to do. So I be like I just started up 615 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: and get get and get the class going. So how 616 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 1: old were you or when did you start doing the 617 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson impressions. Then Eddie Murphy from 618 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: from high school. You know, he was the man for 619 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: me and uh and Michael too. As a kid. Oh man, 620 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: I remember my play brother up the street used to 621 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: dance just like Michael Jackson. He had the prettiest girlfriend. 622 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: I said, man, I want to be like this man, 623 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: this dude here, and I want to dance like Michael 624 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: like he danced. So we always had dance Michael Jackson 625 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: contests and he would. He brought down Eddie Murphy s 626 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: delirious that he did on HBO because he had cable 627 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: before they put the cable down in the street while 628 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: we lived down on the street by the circle. He 629 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: already had cable and he had a BC because he 630 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: was the only child. We weren't you know, we had 631 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: to wait. You know, had the stereo. You remember the stereo, 632 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: So he had all that stuff. He brought the lyrics 633 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: down and it was over. We got cable right when 634 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: Rocky three became up. We came out on HBO and 635 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: we was like watch Rocky three and the lyrics all 636 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: day and we just had a ball. So what's your 637 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: goal to lines. When you're gonna impersonate Eddie, You're gonna 638 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: impersonate Mike. What's your line? What's your go to well Eddie? 639 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: You know I just talked like like I'll do the 640 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: last you crazy? So what's up? That's up? He's a 641 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: little older than that. He talked a little like west 642 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: Side Man, how are you doing? Brouh? He just talked 643 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: low and rich. But Michael, I would go, Chris, what 644 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: are you? What are you doing? Chris? What? What's Chris? 645 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: How are you? How are you? What I used to 646 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: talk to? He was so kind when you a lot 647 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 1: of people, some people don't like when they get mimicked 648 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: or they get made. So how was it when they 649 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: found out you were doing it and then you saw 650 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: them for the first time? Oh, Michael. Michael loved it 651 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: because I heard from his nephews that he was a 652 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: big fan of mine because they showed him the movies. 653 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: They showed him the movies, and Michael was loved it, man, 654 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: because he knew everything I did had a little bit 655 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: of Michael in it. It was from Fridays, I'm dancing 656 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: on the porch in the montage doing Michael Dance, Money Talks, Rush, 657 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: hour doing the karaoke thing, and even in a death 658 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: cham I talked about Michael whether Michael was a pimp, 659 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: so he knew that if we had kindred experience or something. 660 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: And I was a big fan for sure. You said 661 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: some of your early influences was Eddie Murphrey, Richard pryor 662 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: who are some of the other comedians when you were 663 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: growing up. You're like, okay, I like his style, but 664 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: definitely Bernie Matt, I guess said bern Mac was just 665 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: just funny, naturally funny. Robin Harris. I didn't get a 666 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: chance to meet him, but I heard his albums and 667 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: I saw him in the movies, Spike Lee movies and uh, 668 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: different movies like that. I just thought they were, I like, 669 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: naturally funny comedians and uh and today, of course, you know, 670 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: uh Dave Chappelle, you know a friend of mine. People 671 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: like that. Man, it's just just just just make me laugh. 672 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: They have to be funny. What was it like performing 673 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: on the comedy tour in Atlanta because Atlanta had used 674 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: to I don't know if it's still like it like 675 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 1: like this now, but Atlanta used to have a bunch 676 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: of comedy places, Uptown comedy through right there on Pea Street. 677 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: I used to go there all the time. Yeah, yeah, 678 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: it's still man, there's so many funny young brothers out there. Man, 679 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: you can't even count them on one hand, man on 680 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: one hand. And it's still strong and they're still doing 681 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: comedy even during the pandemic. Many they still out there 682 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: and still open. People ain't stopping man. So uh yeah, man, 683 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see who else is out there. 684 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: But we definitely got a good, uh track record of 685 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: a lot of great comedians coming out of Atlanta. What 686 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: made you decide to move to LA and not New 687 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: York to do your comedy Because everybody, all the comedians 688 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: was coming down to the Comedy Act Theater and they 689 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: were they were coming from LA, like DL Hughley and 690 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: Jamie Fox and all those guys would come down and 691 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,239 Speaker 1: they would see me open up with for him at 692 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: times and they were like, man, you need to go 693 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,479 Speaker 1: to LA. You you work, You're pretty good. You can 694 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: get there. And I was like, okay, you really think 695 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: So they was like, yeah, man, you need to go 696 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: to LA. So I knew that LA was the place 697 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: for the movies and television and all that stuff and 698 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: New York was more theatrical, so that's what made me 699 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: go out to La. So what was it like, your 700 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: your mom, You're like, Okay, I'm gonna go. I've been 701 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: to mom, I'm been Mom, Dad, I've been, I've been 702 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: to go it alone. I've been there, I've been the deal. 703 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: What were your emotions like, because you know, you know, 704 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: that's not like I got a job lined up. I'm 705 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: going out there, I'm going to work. You're going to 706 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 1: do comedy. You gotta get called, you gotta get called back, 707 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: you gotta get readings. There's no guarantee any of this 708 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 1: is going to happen. Yeah, yeah, they were. You know, 709 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: my mom and daddy was so so supportive, but they 710 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: probably was so so happy I found something that I 711 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: need I was gonna do because they My mom thought 712 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: I was gonna live with her forever, and she right 713 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: because I built to the house and I stayed with 714 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: her right now. She's right, but she said, I'm just 715 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: I have to start. You go be with me, baby. 716 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: You know, I was just gonna to help you out. 717 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: But I was fortunate enough man to have I knew 718 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: somebody in LA and I think I moved with my 719 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: girlfriend from high school. Father lived in La, so I 720 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: had a place to stay. My mama felt comfortable about 721 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: where I was going because she knew I wouldn't be 722 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: out there by myself. So it was just it just 723 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: it was just gotten man. It worked out. So in 724 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: other word, you kept the girlfriend from high school so 725 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: you have a place to stay when you came out 726 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 1: here with a father hunt. Oh no, she was fine. 727 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: I wouldn't try, didn't leave her. I was like, hey, 728 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: because you just asked your dad, because I didn't think 729 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: he was gonna agree with it, like you crazy gonna 730 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: be living up at my house with my daughter, sleeping 731 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 1: with my daughter? No, but he was cool with He 732 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, come on, tell him, come on out. 733 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 1: And it was just things just fell into place. As 734 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: soon as I graduate from high school, a comedy club 735 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: open up, Comedy act Theater where Robin Harris and everybody 736 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: came from, you know. Uh, and then you know, when 737 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: I was ready to move to La, my girlfriend father 738 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: was living out there already, and uh, I told her, 739 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: asked can we go? I thought he was gonna say no, 740 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: and I was not to get another plan. He said, yeah, 741 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: it's okay. They kicked me out two months later, but 742 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: I had I had two months to find a roommate, 743 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: and I was and then I was out. I was 744 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,919 Speaker 1: on the road rolling in. They were coming home from work. 745 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 1: I was just getting up on the couch because I 746 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: was out all night on the comedy clubs and they 747 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: would come home and work and I was like, hey, 748 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: getting up off the couch. And his wife at the time, 749 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: his new wife, was like, he needed to go, He 750 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 1: need to go. He ain't paying a rent and he's 751 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 1: just sleeping all day. So then I found me a 752 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,560 Speaker 1: roommate and that's the rest is history. What are some 753 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: of the advice that you would give young and up 754 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: and coming comedians. Trust your you know, uh, trust your dreams, man, 755 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: go out to your dreams. I went out the mind 756 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: and it all happened even more than I ever can 757 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 1: imagine happen. But you know, every moment was a surprise. 758 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 1: And when a door when then when a door closed, 759 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: another one opens up. Like I was telling you I 760 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: was going for a TV show. I didn't get that, 761 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: but I walked out of that audition. I got Fridays. 762 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: So don't get frustrated when the door closed. To just 763 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: look at the find a positive in it and keep moving. 764 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: But keep working. Like Marvin Gay said, stay on the 765 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: floor and keep dancing, because that's the only way somebody 766 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: gonna see you for the next part. And when you 767 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,799 Speaker 1: when you're working, even if it's something small, somebody might 768 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 1: see and say, oh, I get to look for the 769 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 1: next part. So you gotta just keep doing what you 770 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,799 Speaker 1: can do to keep going to you know, to get 771 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: to where you want to go? Was Death Comedy Jam 772 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: the show? Because I remember Dal ended up I think 773 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: DL ended up hosting that, and some of the great 774 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: comedians have come through there. Martin Lawrence was the whole 775 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: for a while, Dave Chappelle, Bernie Mac, Steve Hard, I 776 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,239 Speaker 1: mean so many. Yeah, what was it? What was it 777 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: like auditioning being on Death Comedy Jam? Did you know 778 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,640 Speaker 1: a lot of the brothers and sisters that you were 779 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: out there against, we're gonna turn out to be what 780 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: they later became. You know. I was on the Shame 781 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 1: Show as Burning Matt. He was the headliner, and I 782 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: started the first Death Jam and I went up and 783 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,239 Speaker 1: I thought I blew the place away. I thought that, 784 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,400 Speaker 1: you know, that was nobody gonna follow me. And I 785 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,919 Speaker 1: went upstairs you know, the US, the bathroom or sank 786 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: in New York wherever we were. And I saw a 787 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: guy out there and I said, hey, man, you're a comedian. 788 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: Somebody said yep. I said, what's your name? I'm burning 789 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: him up? I said, okay, you going up? He said yeah, 790 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 1: I'm going to I said. I thought to myself, all right, 791 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,840 Speaker 1: good luck, you know, because comedian went after me bomb 792 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,760 Speaker 1: and then Burnie went up there, told the house down, 793 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: and I said, oh man, I gotta get back to work. 794 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: I gotta get less up together. But that Death Jam 795 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: was my platform that really got got me. My first 796 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 1: agent got me. Uh you know. That was the reason 797 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: why you know, they got me for Fridays. They saw you. 798 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,439 Speaker 1: You know, I was rising up on the Depth Jam 799 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,360 Speaker 1: and Depth Jam two and all that stuff. So that 800 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,400 Speaker 1: was my first big platform. And then Friday's, you know, 801 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 1: was the movie stuff platform. Give me, give me your 802 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: mount rushmore comedians. You only get four, your four best 803 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 1: comedians all time, Richard Pryor, Robin Harris, Eddie Murphy. I 804 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: gotta say, Bill, cosby those guys you left. I'm just 805 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: saying the guys you left off, that is right and wrong. 806 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:44,879 Speaker 1: You left off Chappelle. You left off Seinfeld, you left 807 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 1: off Lenny Bruce, you left off Red Fox. Yeah, yeah, 808 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 1: well those gotten. The Red Fox is up there too. 809 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: But he was waving Fred Well, I know all about 810 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 1: him because I do comedy and I studied him. But 811 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 1: and Chappelle is in my generation, so he's all that 812 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: that level with with with me, and he's one of 813 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,320 Speaker 1: the greatest. Don't let me, don't long be mistaken. But 814 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: at none of 'em gonna touch Richard. Ain't none of 815 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,759 Speaker 1: us gonna ever touch Richard. Ain't none of us gonna 816 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: ever touch Robin Harris, And none of us go ever 817 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: touch Eddie Murphy and in movies and stand up and 818 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,400 Speaker 1: and and and Bill Cosby, he's one of the greatest. 819 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,359 Speaker 1: Richard Pryor used to imitate Bill Cosby and and then 820 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: and then I gotta say Dick Gregory. So it's it's 821 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,840 Speaker 1: so many, man, it's so it. Do you believe that 822 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,279 Speaker 1: had Robin and Burnie lived longer, they would have had 823 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,920 Speaker 1: a greater place in the uh in the comedic hierarchy, 824 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,040 Speaker 1: Oh for sure. Robin Harris was about to be out 825 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: of this world. He would have been like Eddie and 826 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 1: and and up there and probably big, just as big 827 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: as Eddie and Bernie was going. It wasn't then he 828 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 1: couldn't do drama comedy. He was gonna. He was there. 829 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,359 Speaker 1: He was already there too because he stayed here long. 830 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,720 Speaker 1: So yeah, those guys are they owned that amount Rushmore 831 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: for sure? Man. So when you you write jokes, do 832 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: you just sit down? I mean, so, how how did 833 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: it happen? I mean, you know, I've talked to rappers 834 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 1: and entertainers. Then they says, okay, if I'm gonna write 835 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 1: a song, you know, I might be laying down, I 836 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 1: wake up and I start writing, or I might be 837 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 1: eating and something coming to my head and I just 838 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: put it down. I start writing. How do you write jokes? 839 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,279 Speaker 1: How long did it take you take you to write 840 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: a set? Yeah, it takes it. You know when it 841 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,399 Speaker 1: comes to me. When it comes to me, I usually 842 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: don't sit down and think of stuff. I let it 843 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: come to me and then I will write it down, 844 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,840 Speaker 1: or I will get in uh, you know, get in 845 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 1: a mood or something and then it just all come 846 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,800 Speaker 1: to me and it's like whatever, wherever it is, wherever 847 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,279 Speaker 1: I am I'm at, or if I go to the 848 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,399 Speaker 1: comic club that night. Some come to me. But yeah, 849 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,399 Speaker 1: I write you down stuff throughout you know, the year 850 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: or you know, and but but I just let it 851 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: come to me because so much stuff, uh just just 852 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,360 Speaker 1: comes and then I keep, you know, some stuff I 853 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 1: let go and some stuff I keep with it. A 854 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,840 Speaker 1: difficult transition from go from stand up to acting, and 855 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,279 Speaker 1: there's a natural transition that a lot of comedians have 856 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: gone on to be actors, from Red Fox to Richard 857 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 1: Pryor to Eddie Murphy, yourself, Bernie Mack, Robin Harris. I 858 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 1: mean so many guys, said the entertainer Bruce. I mean 859 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 1: so many guys. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's it's a total 860 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,360 Speaker 1: it's totally it's totally different. Stand up and acting is 861 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,239 Speaker 1: totally different. You have to like can stand up, you're 862 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: more animated and you're more wired in the movies. You 863 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 1: gotta tone all that down and then you gotta come 864 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,480 Speaker 1: up when you when you need to come down when 865 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,240 Speaker 1: you need to. I noticed that when I started doing acting. 866 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,040 Speaker 1: I said, oh man, I gotta take this down, you know, 867 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,360 Speaker 1: because they got your your head and a hundred you know, 868 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: close up and you're moving all around here. I'm like, 869 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,799 Speaker 1: I can't do that here. I gotta calm down right 870 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,239 Speaker 1: here and look, you know a certain way, so you 871 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,719 Speaker 1: gotta adapt to that. And then also you gotta go 872 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,479 Speaker 1: deeper because you're playing a part. And then you gotta 873 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: you know, you gotta, you gotta go deep than uh 874 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,239 Speaker 1: than uh. Stand up? Stand up? It's you, it's your life, 875 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,359 Speaker 1: and it's it's hard too at times. But acting it's 876 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: another level. It's another level. But you're using that act. 877 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,920 Speaker 1: When you got that comedy tool and take it to acting, 878 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200 Speaker 1: it's it's good. Have you ever forgot a line while 879 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: you're doing stand up? Oh? All time, all time? But 880 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: stand up so good because you got the audience right there, 881 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: and something might happen. You might ask the question and 882 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 1: boom that breaks you to a whole another thing and 883 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: then you go back to whatever you forgot and uh, 884 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,799 Speaker 1: you good again. But stand up and nothing like stand up? 885 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: I love standing. What are some of the obstacles that 886 00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 1: you had to overcome where the doors slamming in your face? 887 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: There were the opportunities that you felt you were deserving 888 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,080 Speaker 1: of that you didn't get and you're like, man, I 889 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:48,839 Speaker 1: don't know, this might not be for me because they 890 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:53,439 Speaker 1: be bull jiving. You know what that that I've been blessed. Man. 891 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 1: It was like for me, uh you know things, doors 892 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 1: was just opening. It was just it was it was 893 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 1: just God. Because, like I said, deaf Jam, I lost. 894 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,479 Speaker 1: I was in a competition. I lost the competition because 895 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,840 Speaker 1: I didn't have enough time for the second round. But 896 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: the deaf Jam producer ran backstage and he saw me. 897 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 1: He said, Man, I want you on the first death Jam. 898 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,360 Speaker 1: You perfectly what we want for death Jam. All you 899 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,640 Speaker 1: need to do is seven minutes five minutes. I was like, 900 00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: like like when I got Fridays, it was like I 901 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 1: was sad and then I was happy again. It was 902 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: like when the door closed, another door open. And then 903 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 1: when I went to the comedy club down here, when 904 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,840 Speaker 1: it first opened, I was too young to get in. 905 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,320 Speaker 1: They had a liquor license. The manager he let me 906 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,000 Speaker 1: in because I was just kept hanging around the front door. 907 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,719 Speaker 1: And then Ricky Harris, another comedian, he was headlining one 908 00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 1: weekend and he said he told the manager let him in, 909 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: and he wasn't coming in to work so he was 910 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,239 Speaker 1: late already. So Gary, the manager said, let him in. 911 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 1: You better not drink that though, But I so I 912 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,080 Speaker 1: went in and I didn't drink, and uh, you know 913 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,840 Speaker 1: he didn't see me drink, but I went in. I 914 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,719 Speaker 1: make sure that and you know, doors was just open. 915 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 1: Was always obstacles, but you know God opened those doors swimming. 916 00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,400 Speaker 1: I'm looking at a house party House Party three in 917 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,800 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, Kid played teacher camera Bernie mack Lisa 918 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,560 Speaker 1: left that low pet rest are Soul, Marcus Huston, Eddie Griffin. 919 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: What was that? What was that like? What was that 920 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,279 Speaker 1: set like that? That was a great set, man. And 921 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,880 Speaker 1: I was only there for like two days. And that 922 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,800 Speaker 1: was really my first movie role when I did that. 923 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,600 Speaker 1: And uh and and then at the premiere, I told 924 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,239 Speaker 1: you that's how I got my agent. He came up 925 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,800 Speaker 1: to me and said, man, you got an agent because 926 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,719 Speaker 1: I guess he saw my little part that I did 927 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,440 Speaker 1: in House Party three. But I played a part Johnny Booze, 928 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,759 Speaker 1: and man, I just, uh, I had to do something 929 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,600 Speaker 1: real quick because I only had like a second to 930 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,880 Speaker 1: make make the character to do something. So it was 931 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:44,440 Speaker 1: it was it was a lot of fun. Man. It 932 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,720 Speaker 1: was just uh, you know, animated and you know Johnny 933 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: Booze character and just came up with something real quick 934 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,400 Speaker 1: man and uh, and it stayed in the movie, so 935 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,240 Speaker 1: it was it was good Their President's another hood classic 936 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,080 Speaker 1: work with Lorenz t How was that? Oh? Man, so 937 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: much fun working with the Hughes brothers, Lorenz take my 938 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,960 Speaker 1: Buddy bo Kin, Whip Vine, so many other greats. Man, 939 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,400 Speaker 1: it was awesome. Man. The music they had, you know 940 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,360 Speaker 1: in the movie and playing around the set and you 941 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,360 Speaker 1: know it was a time a period piece. Uh. We 942 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 1: had so much fun, man again. And it got me 943 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,200 Speaker 1: to show another side of me, serious side, uh, playing 944 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,360 Speaker 1: that character Skippy and Dead Presidents. Man. So I was 945 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,200 Speaker 1: happy to do that soccer show. At the same time, 946 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 1: I had Fridays out that year in two and ninety 947 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,680 Speaker 1: five with comedy, and then on the other side, I 948 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,319 Speaker 1: had Debt, you know, Dead Presidents with a serious side side. 949 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,880 Speaker 1: I was happy to show both sides of me. Did 950 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:42,799 Speaker 1: you ever worry about being tight cast? Not at that time? 951 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,399 Speaker 1: And uh, but I never worried about it at all 952 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: because I know what I could do. You know a 953 00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,120 Speaker 1: lot of people might haven't saw a lot of it yet, 954 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,160 Speaker 1: but I never worry about it because I know, like, uh, 955 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,839 Speaker 1: once they you know, once I do something different, they 956 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,520 Speaker 1: can be Okay. I knew he could do it, but 957 00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,520 Speaker 1: I was just wanting to see it. Like when I 958 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,960 Speaker 1: did Civilizie Playbook, that was you know, that was a 959 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,680 Speaker 1: smaller part, but it was it was different, more dramatic 960 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,000 Speaker 1: and than of course Dead President. But you know that's 961 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,759 Speaker 1: always on the back of our minds that you know, 962 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,799 Speaker 1: you don't want to be typecasts, you know, that's your question. Yeah, 963 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,640 Speaker 1: we do type cast actors cash checks. That's right, they do, 964 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,960 Speaker 1: they do you do, that's right. Jim Carrey made a 965 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,960 Speaker 1: lot of money playing playing the part detective. That's right. 966 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:33,239 Speaker 1: That's that's right. You know, you do what you do best, 967 00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,759 Speaker 1: and you know, if you could do something else, that's great, 968 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,799 Speaker 1: but hey, that's all you could do, and you're doing 969 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,040 Speaker 1: good at it. That's okay. You mentioned ninety five you 970 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,120 Speaker 1: had the Fridays and Dead President, but ninety seven might 971 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,080 Speaker 1: have been one of your best years because you have 972 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,479 Speaker 1: Money Talk, you have fifth element. Uh, Jackie Brown, Yeah, 973 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 1: what was ninety seven like for you? Ninety seven was fun? Man, 974 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,640 Speaker 1: it was it was do you know I was producing 975 00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,759 Speaker 1: Money Talks with Charlotte Sheen, my own movie, and that 976 00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,920 Speaker 1: was another level. Uh, And it was great, you know, 977 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,440 Speaker 1: being around great actors like Charlie Sheen and Paul Savino 978 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,759 Speaker 1: who that was in Money Talks that movie. And then 979 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,000 Speaker 1: I work with Quentin Tarantino and then Samuel Jackson and 980 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,919 Speaker 1: that Jackie Brown. That was fun because Quentin's great, great writer. 981 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,920 Speaker 1: You know, he's just whatever the words he right, you 982 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,360 Speaker 1: could just say right from the page because it sounds 983 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,759 Speaker 1: like you're talking. So that was, you know, fun and 984 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,719 Speaker 1: a learning experience. And fifth element was great because I 985 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,000 Speaker 1: went to Europe with working with Lucason, one of the 986 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,600 Speaker 1: greatest French directors ever, and you know, out there man 987 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 1: having fun and on this big set, you know, playing 988 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,480 Speaker 1: a crazy character. Man that I could go all the way, 989 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,759 Speaker 1: you know, as far as I want, you know, in 990 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:44,040 Speaker 1: that character Ruby Rod, you know space character. That was 991 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: just a gift and I was scared to do it. 992 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,720 Speaker 1: But once I got in that outfit and got going, 993 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,160 Speaker 1: I said, man, this is gonna be fun. And it 994 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,439 Speaker 1: turned out to be one of my favorite characters. Which 995 00:46:54,520 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: is harder producing, directing the movie, acting in the movie, 996 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,880 Speaker 1: And which do you like better? I like acting in 997 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,239 Speaker 1: a movie and having some a little bit of say so, 998 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,040 Speaker 1: a little bit of control. Uh, And that's what mostly. 999 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,640 Speaker 1: You know, if you get an executive producer, uh whatever, 1000 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,759 Speaker 1: you know, credit, You know that because you want to 1001 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 1: have a little bit of like so you can make 1002 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,239 Speaker 1: the movie better, only because you want to participate. You 1003 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,680 Speaker 1: wanna make make the project a movie better. So I 1004 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:27,160 Speaker 1: would say, you know, the acting is the hardest and 1005 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,880 Speaker 1: it's the for me, it's the most rewarding thing to do, 1006 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,960 Speaker 1: because that's what I do best. I think you've been 1007 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,200 Speaker 1: on the set with a lot of great actors, Charlie Sheen, 1008 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,319 Speaker 1: Bruce Williws, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert de Niro. Which one 1009 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,799 Speaker 1: of those guys or those or any of those who 1010 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,839 Speaker 1: brought out the best Chris Chris Tucker. I would say, Man, 1011 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,080 Speaker 1: I would say Charlie Sheen because he was just a 1012 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,320 Speaker 1: nice He's just a nice guy. He made sure I 1013 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,239 Speaker 1: got first credit. I never forget that. They, you know, 1014 00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,239 Speaker 1: the studio wanted him to be first credit at the 1015 00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,640 Speaker 1: time because he was, you know, a big star. You know. 1016 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,840 Speaker 1: He said, no, you brought this jack you should be 1017 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,000 Speaker 1: Uh your name should be first, you should be the man, 1018 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,239 Speaker 1: you should be upfront. So I was I never forgot 1019 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,279 Speaker 1: that young kid, somebody like on his level, Uh, tell, 1020 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,760 Speaker 1: you know, telling the studio, no, this is his movie. 1021 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,279 Speaker 1: I'm just starting. I'm you put me second credit. So 1022 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,040 Speaker 1: I always remember Charlie for that. And then of course, uh, 1023 00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,800 Speaker 1: you know Jackie Chan, you know, just having fun with 1024 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,440 Speaker 1: him and growing up watching his movies too it and 1025 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,480 Speaker 1: I knew I could be man, be funny and be 1026 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,279 Speaker 1: physical and all that stuff in rush hours, So I 1027 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,480 Speaker 1: knew that was a great vehicle for me. Man the 1028 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,520 Speaker 1: show show show my talents. I've had some rappers on 1029 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,479 Speaker 1: here and they say when they could laugh or someone 1030 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,359 Speaker 1: has them on the feature, they're trying to kill it. Yeah, 1031 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:43,560 Speaker 1: I know this is your album, this is your song, 1032 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,319 Speaker 1: but I'm trying to kill you on your own song. Yeah. 1033 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,600 Speaker 1: When you're in a movie or you're in a scene 1034 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,080 Speaker 1: with an actor, are you trying to like, yeah, I 1035 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:57,520 Speaker 1: noticed your movie, but they don't remember me. You know what, No, 1036 00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,640 Speaker 1: Because I gotta get feed I gotta get feedback for people, 1037 00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,719 Speaker 1: like like when I was in Money Talks and what's 1038 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,640 Speaker 1: his name of Savino, Paul Savina working with a great 1039 00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,320 Speaker 1: acting like that, the kids working with other great actors, 1040 00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,879 Speaker 1: because they gonna give you some stuff and you're gonna 1041 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,120 Speaker 1: bring the best out of you. You know, Charlie Sheen, 1042 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,720 Speaker 1: you know, great actor. Uh, if you're working with great actors, 1043 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,560 Speaker 1: bet they gonna bring it out of you and you're 1044 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:22,480 Speaker 1: gonna be like whoa, and you'll be in the moment 1045 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,480 Speaker 1: more and acting it's a little different because it's a teamwork, 1046 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,880 Speaker 1: you know, like football team. It's teamwork. You want to 1047 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,280 Speaker 1: we want to work with the best and the best directors. 1048 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:37,160 Speaker 1: Rush Hour? Why and did you know it was gonna 1049 00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:42,040 Speaker 1: be what they became? Uh? No, it was the same 1050 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,839 Speaker 1: thing when I did Friday. So I did the first 1051 00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,360 Speaker 1: Rush Hour. Uh never wanted to do a ne another 1052 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,319 Speaker 1: one because that was just like I never even thought 1053 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:50,879 Speaker 1: like that. I was like, just do a great job 1054 00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,960 Speaker 1: with this one and move on, do another great job 1055 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,920 Speaker 1: for another movie. But you know, like I said, they 1056 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,160 Speaker 1: all I didn't have nothing on the table at the time, 1057 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,200 Speaker 1: and they offered me another one for the Rush Hour too, 1058 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,680 Speaker 1: and then I said, oh right, I just do it. 1059 00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,640 Speaker 1: I don't have nothing at that time, and we did it, 1060 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,239 Speaker 1: and we had fun with that one and with the 1061 00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,920 Speaker 1: third one. Uh, you know, the same thing that happened. 1062 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,240 Speaker 1: But no, I didn't know it was gonna be franchise 1063 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,800 Speaker 1: a franchise, and I appreciate it, and I'm glad that 1064 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,400 Speaker 1: it had enough legs to go, you know, last that 1065 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,680 Speaker 1: last like that. But yeah, I didn't know so because 1066 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,000 Speaker 1: that was really like the first time be like you 1067 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,400 Speaker 1: could be you, you could still be funny, but you 1068 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:32,520 Speaker 1: had a more of a drama. You were actually like 1069 00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,960 Speaker 1: a detective. You're actually James Carter was actually trying to 1070 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,680 Speaker 1: catch somebody. Yeah. Yeah, And that was like a movie 1071 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: that I grew up watching Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop 1072 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,960 Speaker 1: forty eight Hours. So there were things that I always 1073 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,640 Speaker 1: dreamed of, like, man, I gotta get to the to 1074 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,840 Speaker 1: that level, you know, one day, you know, like like 1075 00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,360 Speaker 1: like my heroes, childhood heroes, Richard Pryor and in his 1076 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,919 Speaker 1: movies and stuff. So yeah, what type of physical shape 1077 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 1: do you need to be in to do those type 1078 00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,839 Speaker 1: of movies? Did you do any of your own stuff? 1079 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,680 Speaker 1: Do you like doing your own stunts? I did all 1080 00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,080 Speaker 1: of my stunts in the first Rush Hour. I made 1081 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,320 Speaker 1: sure I got in shape because I knew that, you know, 1082 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,920 Speaker 1: Jackie Chan did his own stunts by watching you know, 1083 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,840 Speaker 1: researching him and watching that you know him saying I 1084 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:13,359 Speaker 1: do my own stunts. So I made sure I got 1085 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,839 Speaker 1: in shape and for the second one, I made sure 1086 00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,000 Speaker 1: I got even more better shape because work, you know, 1087 00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,279 Speaker 1: action movies, it's a lot, it's a lot. It's a lot. 1088 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,319 Speaker 1: You're going to set. You might be there all day 1089 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,759 Speaker 1: because they gonna need you to fall or jump off 1090 00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,320 Speaker 1: something and this that that. So it takes action movies. 1091 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:30,960 Speaker 1: You need to be in shape and you're working in 1092 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,280 Speaker 1: the middle of the night, sometimes early in the mornings, 1093 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,640 Speaker 1: and you want to be healthy enough to be able 1094 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,360 Speaker 1: to have that energy that you you know, come across 1095 00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,960 Speaker 1: on the screen and physical stuff you need to uh 1096 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:47,719 Speaker 1: do you know to make the scene work? How did 1097 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,040 Speaker 1: you get paid? With Jackie Chan and Rush Hour? And 1098 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,040 Speaker 1: I read what Jackie Chance says like when he first 1099 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,359 Speaker 1: met you, he wasn't so sure about y'all own, Yeah, 1100 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,720 Speaker 1: because it was it was well. I was doing movies 1101 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,600 Speaker 1: with with New Line Cinema and Jackie. They bought a 1102 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,200 Speaker 1: lot of his movies, uh A Newline bought a lot 1103 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,719 Speaker 1: of his movies that he did overseas and you know, 1104 00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,239 Speaker 1: in in Hong Kong, and they had a relationship with him, 1105 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,399 Speaker 1: and then they had the relationship from Fridays and money 1106 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,840 Speaker 1: talks with me, and we me and my manager at 1107 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,760 Speaker 1: the time, he was looking for something bigger and seeing 1108 00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,360 Speaker 1: what the studio had, and they said, well, when we 1109 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,040 Speaker 1: wanted to partner up with somebody else, they said, we 1110 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,399 Speaker 1: got Jackie Chan's got a projecting, but somebody They looking 1111 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,520 Speaker 1: at somebody else. I think it was Wesley's Night's, Martin 1112 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,680 Speaker 1: Lawrence and a few other people, and they said, they're 1113 00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,920 Speaker 1: looking at other people, but maybe maybe you know, he 1114 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,000 Speaker 1: might it might work. So we uh went out there 1115 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,600 Speaker 1: try to get this script, the Rush Hour script, and 1116 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,160 Speaker 1: do the movie with Jackie and Uh. It came together 1117 00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,960 Speaker 1: because the one of the producers wanted me in the movie. 1118 00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,280 Speaker 1: They wanted somebody to a fresh face, just like in Fridays. 1119 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:52,120 Speaker 1: They wanted a fresh face, somebody who wasn't already established. Uh, 1120 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,360 Speaker 1: and I got the role. I got to part with 1121 00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,640 Speaker 1: Rush Hour because we had a history with Newline and 1122 00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,880 Speaker 1: Jackie was working with them, and they put us together. 1123 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,720 Speaker 1: So that's how that happened. Did you know the magic 1124 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,439 Speaker 1: that you guys would create? Did you know it would 1125 00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,600 Speaker 1: be this when you two guys got together. I felt 1126 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,160 Speaker 1: it because I was comfortable. I was comfortable around Jackie 1127 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,560 Speaker 1: because he was humble. You know, he still is great, 1128 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,960 Speaker 1: great guy, great man. And of course I you know, 1129 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,320 Speaker 1: he was a hero of mine because I you know, 1130 00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,600 Speaker 1: Jackie Chance was cool, but I knew that I could 1131 00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,400 Speaker 1: say whatever I want to say around him, and we 1132 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,360 Speaker 1: had good chemistry and from the start, you know, and 1133 00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,799 Speaker 1: and so I think out of that, you know, great 1134 00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,960 Speaker 1: things happened. In two thousand and six, you negotiate the 1135 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:44,000 Speaker 1: contract twenty five million dollars for Rush Hour, You the 1136 00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,080 Speaker 1: first I think, if I'm not mistaken, the crypt to 1137 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,960 Speaker 1: crack that threshold? Did did it add pressure on being 1138 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,600 Speaker 1: the highest paid actor at the time in entertainment? What 1139 00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,880 Speaker 1: was going through your mind? Here the black kid from Atlanta, 1140 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:04,240 Speaker 1: Georgia form a stand up and now I'm the highest paid. 1141 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,480 Speaker 1: I didn't go to Juilliard, I didn't go to one 1142 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,439 Speaker 1: of these prominent acting school. I ain't go to Yale 1143 00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,439 Speaker 1: or this or that. But here it was a black 1144 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,799 Speaker 1: a black kid from Atlanta on a black man now 1145 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,800 Speaker 1: and I'm the highest paid in the world. Yeah, you know, 1146 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,719 Speaker 1: I didn't think of it. Man. I was so you know, 1147 00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,040 Speaker 1: I was so like back then, I said, after the 1148 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,640 Speaker 1: success of the first Rush yout I said well, my 1149 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,799 Speaker 1: movie made over one hundred and something million dollars. Tom 1150 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,360 Speaker 1: Cruise movie made over one hundred and something. He's getting 1151 00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,399 Speaker 1: twenty million. I said, I need to get twenty millions. 1152 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,080 Speaker 1: So I just went in there and told the studio. 1153 00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:34,640 Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, I want to do another one. 1154 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:38,400 Speaker 1: I want twenty million. And they said okay, because they 1155 00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,239 Speaker 1: knew that it was gonna make a whole bunch of money. 1156 00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,520 Speaker 1: And I and I and I felt like I was 1157 00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,560 Speaker 1: worth that because I knew this. I knew the movie 1158 00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,800 Speaker 1: was gonna make some more money too, and I just 1159 00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,200 Speaker 1: was I guess that's the business side of me that said, 1160 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,120 Speaker 1: go ahead and ask for it. This is time to 1161 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,560 Speaker 1: ask for it, and they get it. Do you wish 1162 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,759 Speaker 1: you to throw it out a higher number? You know, no, 1163 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:04,759 Speaker 1: because it worked out. It worked out. Uh. Hold on, 1164 00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,440 Speaker 1: did Eddie Murphy turn this movie down? No, Eddie was 1165 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,440 Speaker 1: never attached to uh Rush Hours. You know, it was 1166 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,200 Speaker 1: only I think Martin was it was it was considering 1167 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,719 Speaker 1: Martin and Wesley, but yeah, that was the only thing 1168 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,480 Speaker 1: I heard. But Eddie, I don't think he was ever involved. 1169 00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:29,399 Speaker 1: You've also been had a lot of cameos and music videos. Yeah, 1170 00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:35,480 Speaker 1: I mean, anybody that's ever been around you to it's 1171 00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,040 Speaker 1: hard not to life. You're an easy person to life 1172 00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:42,600 Speaker 1: because you're like, you're exactly what people would think you 1173 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,799 Speaker 1: would be. I mean when they see you, they see 1174 00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,080 Speaker 1: you in those movies and they's like, I wouldn't high hear. 1175 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:48,799 Speaker 1: And when people ask me to say, man, you don't, 1176 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,480 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I know, I know. Chris. What 1177 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,640 Speaker 1: was he like? What you see on TV? He's exactly 1178 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:58,319 Speaker 1: like that I'm talking about, nothing different. He's fun, He's 1179 00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,560 Speaker 1: that make you laugh. He's exactly what you think. Whatever 1180 00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,120 Speaker 1: you thinking, that's what he is. Thank you, man, Thank you. 1181 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,239 Speaker 1: I try to be man no and that that's that's 1182 00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,239 Speaker 1: all you can be, you know, just be you. Yep, 1183 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,160 Speaker 1: And I mentioned you you have a lot you like 1184 00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,200 Speaker 1: in twopart California Lottle, Doctor Drake keep the Heads Ringing 1185 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,600 Speaker 1: Maze and didn't Feel So Good? What is it about me? 1186 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,279 Speaker 1: Why they keep? Why they keeps you are having you 1187 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,160 Speaker 1: in in their video because you know, I guess it's 1188 00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,560 Speaker 1: the culture, man, because they know I love music and 1189 00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,239 Speaker 1: hip hop, R and B like you and everybody video 1190 00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:37,680 Speaker 1: you dancing and everybody video you like? Did hey I've 1191 00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,120 Speaker 1: been in the video he did it. I like music, man, 1192 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,560 Speaker 1: I like I like you know, a country, I like gospel, 1193 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,520 Speaker 1: I like everything. Man. So it's just part of me, 1194 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,879 Speaker 1: and that's part of part of my my spirit man, 1195 00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, put I put music on and have fun, 1196 00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:55,200 Speaker 1: dance and laugh, and that keeps me happy. Uh So 1197 00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,680 Speaker 1: it's a part of me. And then you know, and 1198 00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,719 Speaker 1: the movies and the soundtracks come together and you know 1199 00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,000 Speaker 1: with keep your Head Ring with Doctor Dree that was 1200 00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,680 Speaker 1: on Fridays. Uh. Michael Jackson we were friends and he 1201 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:09,400 Speaker 1: I got into rock my World video, which you know 1202 00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,879 Speaker 1: was a blessing, you know, uh because Michael don't put 1203 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,759 Speaker 1: everybody in the videos. Only a chosen to be in 1204 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,160 Speaker 1: his videos. And I was. And every time that sung 1205 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,320 Speaker 1: come on, I got great memories to come back, you know. 1206 00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,320 Speaker 1: On that, it seemed like comedians are getting discovered a 1207 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,560 Speaker 1: different way now because now since the advent of social media, 1208 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,120 Speaker 1: we see a lot of guys on ig you know, 1209 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:32,080 Speaker 1: doing little stuff, doing skids and maybe they're doing TikTok 1210 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,760 Speaker 1: or they're doing IG live. Yeah. Are there some some 1211 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,400 Speaker 1: comedians up and coming comedians that you look like, Okay, 1212 00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:41,000 Speaker 1: this is your young brother, this young this young female 1213 00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,920 Speaker 1: has a chance, you know what. I need to get 1214 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,440 Speaker 1: on more and see who's out there, because it's a 1215 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,120 Speaker 1: lot of talented people out there. Man. And one kid, 1216 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,080 Speaker 1: I think you mentioned and one kid imitates me on 1217 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,920 Speaker 1: TikTok man, and I think that that kids just talented man. 1218 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:59,920 Speaker 1: Uh but uh, and he's gonna go far. But it's 1219 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:03,600 Speaker 1: it's uh definitely a new platform. Like we had death 1220 00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,560 Speaker 1: Jam and they got into the movies. This is a 1221 00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:10,320 Speaker 1: platform that's getting a lot of people uh going to 1222 00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:14,080 Speaker 1: the next level, you know. Uh like Justin Beaver got discovered, 1223 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:18,160 Speaker 1: uh doing something on on social media, and then Drake 1224 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,440 Speaker 1: and what he did a little tweet too. But that's 1225 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,040 Speaker 1: the new platform. That's a new format. So that's yeah, 1226 00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,160 Speaker 1: you Uh the old comedians had def Jam, had comic view, 1227 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:29,840 Speaker 1: comic launched a lot of careers. So so what's what's 1228 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,520 Speaker 1: the new media, what's the new what's the new uh 1229 00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,160 Speaker 1: avenue for comedians to be what's the next death Jam, 1230 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:41,000 Speaker 1: what's the next comic view. I think it's gonna continue 1231 00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:44,720 Speaker 1: to be uh something like TikTok and social media man 1232 00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,600 Speaker 1: and all that stuff, Twitter and all that. It's gonna 1233 00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:49,600 Speaker 1: continue to be that for a while and people are 1234 00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,200 Speaker 1: gonna be discovered off of that and then go into 1235 00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,640 Speaker 1: uh you know, of course screaming uh you know, and 1236 00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,880 Speaker 1: all the you know platforms like that Netflix and uh 1237 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:02,640 Speaker 1: Prime at Amazon Prime and HBO Max, and they're gonna 1238 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,960 Speaker 1: get selling shows and they're gonna be buying them up, man, 1239 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,360 Speaker 1: because it's just uh, it's just wide open right now, 1240 00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,480 Speaker 1: which is good, you know. And you mentioned earlier to 1241 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,120 Speaker 1: the pandemic has been a blessing and a curse because 1242 00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:20,440 Speaker 1: now you're getting guys doing Netflix features for comedy and 1243 00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:24,040 Speaker 1: they're getting a boatload of money. You just perform right 1244 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,760 Speaker 1: there and and everything's taken care of and they just 1245 00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,760 Speaker 1: run it. Yeah. Yeah, it's a blessing, man, because you know, 1246 00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,400 Speaker 1: back in the day it was only HBO or Showtime. 1247 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,120 Speaker 1: Now you got you got so many different places you 1248 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:42,040 Speaker 1: could take a comedy special, a show or something like that, 1249 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:44,560 Speaker 1: and so it's it's it's wide open. If you got 1250 00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,840 Speaker 1: the talent and you're willing to do the work, you 1251 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:48,960 Speaker 1: you know, you could get out there and make it 1252 00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,160 Speaker 1: in this business. For sure. How have you been. You 1253 00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,240 Speaker 1: look at Dave Chappelle and he had it all. He 1254 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,880 Speaker 1: was on Comedy Central. He's doing this sketch comedy and 1255 00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,200 Speaker 1: he was at the Apex and he walked all off 1256 01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,360 Speaker 1: the way from it, and then gradually he took steps 1257 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,480 Speaker 1: and he built it back up. And now he's back. 1258 01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,600 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people believe that he's right now, 1259 01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:12,760 Speaker 1: he's the goal standard when it comes to comedians. How 1260 01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:17,680 Speaker 1: has his resurgence reinvigorated you? I mean yeah, because you know, 1261 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,480 Speaker 1: he did the right thing. He was uncomfortable with something 1262 01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,000 Speaker 1: and he wanted his freedom to express itself in his 1263 01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,080 Speaker 1: art and he did the right thing and it and 1264 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,600 Speaker 1: it helped him come back to where he is today. 1265 01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,560 Speaker 1: And and everything that he left on the table he 1266 01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:35,080 Speaker 1: got that and and double and more, you know. Uh, 1267 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,000 Speaker 1: and we kind of got like some of a similar walk. 1268 01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,240 Speaker 1: You know. I kind of took long breaks and got 1269 01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,800 Speaker 1: my you know, and lived my life and uh, you know, 1270 01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,480 Speaker 1: you know, travel all over the world and grew up 1271 01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,840 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and you know, toured and been 1272 01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,600 Speaker 1: touring and stuff. But and and ready to do more, 1273 01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,360 Speaker 1: you know, movies and all types of stuff. I'm still 1274 01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,280 Speaker 1: young and can do that thing. Uh. And so we 1275 01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,360 Speaker 1: kind of got the same kind of walk, and we 1276 01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,360 Speaker 1: we uh encourage each other in that in that in 1277 01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:06,880 Speaker 1: that aspect aspect, and man, you gotta have time, you 1278 01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,240 Speaker 1: gotta grow. And I think I truly the art, good 1279 01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,919 Speaker 1: art come from your real life experiences, and you don't 1280 01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,840 Speaker 1: have that balance and real life experiences like when we 1281 01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,880 Speaker 1: grew When I grew up, that was all the Friday stuff, 1282 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,720 Speaker 1: that was all the depth cham stuff. Now the stuff 1283 01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,960 Speaker 1: that I'll do from this point on is where I've been, 1284 01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,920 Speaker 1: you know, these last twenty years, you know, growing up. 1285 01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:31,360 Speaker 1: I think if they were to remake Friday, and Tube 1286 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,000 Speaker 1: said they might be thinking about it, he says, they're 1287 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,040 Speaker 1: writing it right now, would you want to come back 1288 01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,120 Speaker 1: in it? And would you want to come back and smoky? 1289 01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,560 Speaker 1: You know what I You know, it's people. Some people 1290 01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:47,040 Speaker 1: say do it, some people say don't. But for me personally, 1291 01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,080 Speaker 1: I probably won't because I never I never want to 1292 01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,520 Speaker 1: short change my audience and my fans because you know, 1293 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,520 Speaker 1: they I know they want it because that's what they 1294 01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:57,760 Speaker 1: know and they love it, and I'm glad they love it. 1295 01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,040 Speaker 1: But I don't want to come back in something and 1296 01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:04,160 Speaker 1: that that I probably can't do what they what they want, 1297 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,920 Speaker 1: you know, uh me to do because I've you know, 1298 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:12,200 Speaker 1: I've grown, uh and not not only I'm different, right right, 1299 01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:14,400 Speaker 1: that's a that was a twenty five that was a 1300 01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:16,920 Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty four year old Chris Tucker. And this 1301 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,320 Speaker 1: is the whole different Chris Tucker. It's a whole another 1302 01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,160 Speaker 1: Chris Tucker. And you know you don't want to short 1303 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,520 Speaker 1: change your fans for money, and uh, you know you 1304 01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,800 Speaker 1: don't try to. And that's one thing I think, and 1305 01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:28,880 Speaker 1: it's best to keep that one, you know, because I 1306 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,760 Speaker 1: can't do what I did when I watched Fridays. Now, 1307 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't, I can't do that. That was 1308 01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:35,840 Speaker 1: where I was and I was acting. But now I'm 1309 01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,480 Speaker 1: in my forties. Now I could do something better because 1310 01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,800 Speaker 1: you like that character. Imagine what I'm gonna do in 1311 01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:47,320 Speaker 1: the future. You're from Atlanta, As I mentioned, the fourth 1312 01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,560 Speaker 1: team in Atlanta haven't had the greatest success. We've got 1313 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:55,240 Speaker 1: the Falcons, we got the Braves. Uh uh. Go out 1314 01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,040 Speaker 1: to Hank. Hank Aaron, Hank Aaron. We're gonna talk about 1315 01:02:58,480 --> 01:02:59,880 Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, let's talk about Hank. We 1316 01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,480 Speaker 1: just lost Hank earlier this morning. I think he was 1317 01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:05,440 Speaker 1: eighty six years of age. Atlanta and icon. When you 1318 01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,360 Speaker 1: think about legends of Atlanta, you think about obviously doctor King, 1319 01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,000 Speaker 1: you think about Hank Karen, you think about Andrew Young, 1320 01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,000 Speaker 1: Maynard Jackson, some of some of the greats. And now 1321 01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,040 Speaker 1: twenty years from now, we're gonna be thinking about Keisha 1322 01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:22,960 Speaker 1: Bottoms and we're gonna think about our great mayor. Uh 1323 01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,720 Speaker 1: And Keisha Bottoms is the mayor right now Toorsia Brown. 1324 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,320 Speaker 1: But talk about Hank because I know you had a 1325 01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:33,960 Speaker 1: personal relationship with mister Aaron. Oh Man, I've been blessed 1326 01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,760 Speaker 1: man to meet so many great legends, and we stand 1327 01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:40,600 Speaker 1: on the shoulders as so many greats man in my profession, 1328 01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:43,520 Speaker 1: uh and and others Man and I met I've had 1329 01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,640 Speaker 1: because I'm from Atlanta. I had a chance to meet 1330 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:49,080 Speaker 1: mister Aarons several times. And you know, and I was 1331 01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,080 Speaker 1: surprised he knew my name, you know, first like him 1332 01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,440 Speaker 1: people like him and Bill Russell and Jim Brown and 1333 01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,320 Speaker 1: Bill Withers. I you know, I hung out with all 1334 01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,800 Speaker 1: these people because God blessed me to be in there 1335 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,720 Speaker 1: in their circle, in their world. But you know I 1336 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,000 Speaker 1: did his party last year, his birthday party. His wife, 1337 01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,080 Speaker 1: Miss Aaron, invited me to go up and say some words, man, 1338 01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:09,920 Speaker 1: And I just I just get a kick out of 1339 01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,080 Speaker 1: being around him. People like ambassating young and you know, 1340 01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,080 Speaker 1: I called him on Mark Luke King Weekend. But he 1341 01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:20,560 Speaker 1: was such a down to earth legend and icon iconic person. 1342 01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:22,520 Speaker 1: But he was so humble and that's what I would 1343 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,520 Speaker 1: always remember. He was like, hey, Chris, I'm like this 1344 01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,000 Speaker 1: han'k Garon, he said my name, you know, and some 1345 01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,720 Speaker 1: people get me like that, and he's one of them 1346 01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:34,080 Speaker 1: that he's just humble. He shows you that he cares 1347 01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,360 Speaker 1: and he don't wear this I'm Hank Garon on my 1348 01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:38,560 Speaker 1: shoulder like a lot of people we know too. And 1349 01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,000 Speaker 1: he never did that with me and always always just 1350 01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,880 Speaker 1: gave me that reinsurance like you're gonna be all right, 1351 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,600 Speaker 1: keep moving young man. Another Atlanta icon we lost earlier. 1352 01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,520 Speaker 1: Also John Lewis. You can't have him out rushmore of 1353 01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:55,320 Speaker 1: legends in Atlanta without putting on that platform. Yeah, man, 1354 01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:58,080 Speaker 1: I called. I called him also on you know, a 1355 01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,400 Speaker 1: couple of weeks before he passed. I you know, I 1356 01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:02,600 Speaker 1: was praying and I got out to someone call John, 1357 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:04,840 Speaker 1: and I got him on the phone. I was so surprised, 1358 01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,160 Speaker 1: I thought, I was gonna leave a message, and he said, uh, yes, 1359 01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,200 Speaker 1: And I think I was just thinking him thanking him 1360 01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:13,160 Speaker 1: for everything he's done, Like I called him bassling young 1361 01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:16,160 Speaker 1: and he's just all, don't thank you, young man, thank you, 1362 01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:18,400 Speaker 1: and I was and I thank god I was able 1363 01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,720 Speaker 1: to talk to him a forty pass. Uh you was 1364 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,680 Speaker 1: at Chris You was at Kobe's final game? Yeah, obviously 1365 01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:30,600 Speaker 1: you know Kobe twenty years he wasn't what he once was. 1366 01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:36,160 Speaker 1: But did you even in your wildest imagination envision that 1367 01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:41,439 Speaker 1: Kobe would go out in his last game and drop sixty? Never? Man, 1368 01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:45,080 Speaker 1: that dude was great for real. He was great for real, 1369 01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:49,080 Speaker 1: and you know he's he would go down like the legends, 1370 01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:52,640 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee and so many greats. That's just mystery around 1371 01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:55,840 Speaker 1: their work ethic and things they did to prepare to 1372 01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:59,560 Speaker 1: be great. And I never thought that. Uh yeah, he 1373 01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,040 Speaker 1: was old that many points, but he just showed, you know, 1374 01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:04,920 Speaker 1: he had that annoint him, man, And uh he was 1375 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:09,360 Speaker 1: one of the greatest. You like basketball, see you at 1376 01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:12,720 Speaker 1: the All Star Games a couple of times. Construct give 1377 01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,640 Speaker 1: me your give me your starting five. If you can 1378 01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:18,840 Speaker 1: build a team starting five, any player past and present 1379 01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:23,120 Speaker 1: who you're starting five, Well, Bill Russell because he know 1380 01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:31,120 Speaker 1: my name. Michael Jordan's okay, Kobe Magic and Kareem you 1381 01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:33,720 Speaker 1: know what, Tuck oh On, how are you gonna leave 1382 01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,920 Speaker 1: gold James off the list? You got all you got? 1383 01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:41,280 Speaker 1: You ain't putting lebron oh Man forgive? You know what? 1384 01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,440 Speaker 1: That's my boy too, Okay, putting the bros on that 1385 01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:51,040 Speaker 1: he's coming in for the guys. I you got gotta 1386 01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,920 Speaker 1: have a boy lebrons on that for sure. If if 1387 01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:55,640 Speaker 1: you could do what what if you could do it 1388 01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,640 Speaker 1: all over again? What? What would you change? What would 1389 01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:01,200 Speaker 1: Chris Tucker changing by anything? Maybe change nothing, But if 1390 01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,360 Speaker 1: you could change something or you wanted to change something, 1391 01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,080 Speaker 1: what would Chris Tucker changed about his career to date? 1392 01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:10,160 Speaker 1: I wouldn't change anything that comes to mind. But I'll 1393 01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,480 Speaker 1: tell you what. You know, any mistakes that you make 1394 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,240 Speaker 1: or I might have made their learning experiences. So you 1395 01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:19,480 Speaker 1: don't want to change learning experiences. You gotta make sure 1396 01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:23,680 Speaker 1: you learn quick and don't keep making the same mistakes. Uh, 1397 01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,080 Speaker 1: And so I don't. I wouldn't change anything, and I would, 1398 01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:29,280 Speaker 1: uh you know take I would? I pray that I 1399 01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,200 Speaker 1: never forget the mistakes that I might have made and 1400 01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:38,880 Speaker 1: learn from them and keep moving. Huh, We're gonna wrap 1401 01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:46,720 Speaker 1: with this one, Tuck, Yes, sir, if how do I 1402 01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:54,520 Speaker 1: say this? Your career has been you know you you 1403 01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,640 Speaker 1: said you know, you took you, You've been like the 1404 01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:00,959 Speaker 1: Chappelle Chappelle walked away, you walked away, you came back. 1405 01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,640 Speaker 1: What are we gonna see from Tuck in the next 1406 01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,640 Speaker 1: ten years? Are you gonna do more acting? You're gonna 1407 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:11,360 Speaker 1: be more behind the camera? What if? What if? What 1408 01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:15,720 Speaker 1: should we expect from Chris Tucker from today moving forward? 1409 01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:20,080 Speaker 1: I you know what a lot of good things, man. 1410 01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:21,760 Speaker 1: I want to do it all. You know, I want 1411 01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:23,479 Speaker 1: to do it all. You know, of course, more acting, 1412 01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,679 Speaker 1: more more of or more of where whatever whatever, whatever 1413 01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,360 Speaker 1: gods wherever god gods can be honest with you, and 1414 01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:30,800 Speaker 1: and and then I and I want to say, the 1415 01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,639 Speaker 1: time I took off was so important and I see 1416 01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:36,479 Speaker 1: the fruits of that now, like I could, you know, 1417 01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,439 Speaker 1: like I told you, I called Congressman John Lewis because 1418 01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,720 Speaker 1: I was around him, and I and I and I 1419 01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,440 Speaker 1: became I know, I knew him because I was available 1420 01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:48,839 Speaker 1: to go down to the Pederman Bridge, the Edmund Pederman 1421 01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:52,360 Speaker 1: Bridge when he invited me and you know Bill, No, 1422 01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:57,080 Speaker 1: Bill Withers, hang out with with Bill Withers, and and 1423 01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,200 Speaker 1: my and my buddy who used to take the just 1424 01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:03,880 Speaker 1: uh Muhammad Ali, I'm gonna think of his name, Oh 1425 01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:10,560 Speaker 1: no not how would be? How would be to to 1426 01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:15,320 Speaker 1: uh build with us? And then uh Ambassador Young And 1427 01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:18,400 Speaker 1: you know, I think God that he allowed me to 1428 01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,080 Speaker 1: step back so I could be camp so I can 1429 01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:22,960 Speaker 1: know them and be friends with them, and now you know, 1430 01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,840 Speaker 1: hopefully they stay down around forever. But I was able, 1431 01:09:25,880 --> 01:09:29,840 Speaker 1: I'm able to say I knew them. They they gave 1432 01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,439 Speaker 1: me good advice and and and stuff like that. I 1433 01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:35,040 Speaker 1: would have never known these people. Bob's just good, straight 1434 01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:37,560 Speaker 1: on my career and just worried about me. So I 1435 01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:41,200 Speaker 1: can always have that wisdom to go forward. Uh Sydney 1436 01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:45,040 Speaker 1: Portier going to lunch with him and Harry Belafonte, these guys. 1437 01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,240 Speaker 1: Knowing these guys and spending that time. So those things 1438 01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:51,320 Speaker 1: you can't you you can't imagine it unless you you're 1439 01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:53,320 Speaker 1: willing to say, oh, you know, I'm gonna leave that, 1440 01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:55,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna step back for a minute. Let me let 1441 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,320 Speaker 1: me grow as a man and as a person and 1442 01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:00,280 Speaker 1: travel the world and stuff. I wouldn't never experience those 1443 01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:03,479 Speaker 1: things if I wouldn't have faith and faith in God, 1444 01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:05,800 Speaker 1: and those things can never be taken away from me. 1445 01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:08,760 Speaker 1: And I still got, you know, a great career you 1446 01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,880 Speaker 1: know coming, you know, ahead of me. But just to 1447 01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:15,160 Speaker 1: say to say that I want to do it all 1448 01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,519 Speaker 1: and I'm able to do it, to produce, direct, and 1449 01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:22,680 Speaker 1: and write and find discover other great actors, comedians, uh, 1450 01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:27,000 Speaker 1: you know along along the way. So yeah, I want 1451 01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:28,840 Speaker 1: to do it all and I'm looking forward to doing 1452 01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:33,120 Speaker 1: it all. You know, Uh, wherever God takes me. You 1453 01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,400 Speaker 1: gotta get your super Bowl. Pick who you got getting 1454 01:10:35,479 --> 01:10:37,800 Speaker 1: to and who's winning the super Bowl? Well, I'm gonna 1455 01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,080 Speaker 1: tell you my boy, Brady. I love Brady. I met 1456 01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:43,120 Speaker 1: Brady and Michael George's golf tournament, and I thought he 1457 01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:45,800 Speaker 1: was black at first because somebody said, just like you said, 1458 01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:48,479 Speaker 1: what's up, Tuck. Somebody said what's up, Tuck? I said, well, 1459 01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:51,080 Speaker 1: who this brother is? I turned around. It's Tom Brady. 1460 01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,479 Speaker 1: And ever since then, I love Tom Brady. I said, 1461 01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,000 Speaker 1: all that's about the allful life r right there, because 1462 01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,360 Speaker 1: he's just down. So I'm going with Tom on that. 1463 01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:02,880 Speaker 1: And I love Aaron I never met Aaron Rogers, so 1464 01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,320 Speaker 1: I'm going with Tom all the way on that. But 1465 01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,880 Speaker 1: the Chiefs I'm going with. I'm going with my boy 1466 01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:12,400 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and I'm going I'm going on me. I'm 1467 01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:13,960 Speaker 1: going home. I had a chance to meet him at 1468 01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,439 Speaker 1: the All Star Game, man, I slipped on that. When 1469 01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:18,479 Speaker 1: I don't miss stuff like that. He was sitting across 1470 01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:20,479 Speaker 1: the way and I didn't get in the end of 1471 01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:22,920 Speaker 1: the All Star Chicago, I didn't get a chance to 1472 01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,519 Speaker 1: shake his hand. But I'm going with him. I know 1473 01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,479 Speaker 1: he felt felt my spirit, and I'm going with him. 1474 01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,960 Speaker 1: The Chiefs, uh and Brady Chiefs and Brady's in the 1475 01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,920 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and I'm not gonna call that because both 1476 01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:35,719 Speaker 1: of them my boys. So I'm gonna see what happened. 1477 01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:39,679 Speaker 1: Let descinitely take his course that history. NBA. Who wins 1478 01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:47,600 Speaker 1: the championship this year nets Lakers, Clippers, Celtics Sixers. But 1479 01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:51,880 Speaker 1: the Clippers have a a they have a bendetta. They 1480 01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:55,160 Speaker 1: have they gotta win this year. So I think the 1481 01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,040 Speaker 1: Clippers gonna be there fighting like cats, cats and dogs, 1482 01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:02,240 Speaker 1: with my boy Lou hitting them up and and my 1483 01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,000 Speaker 1: boy down. And you know they got this. They got 1484 01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,640 Speaker 1: a special men. You coming that in the place though 1485 01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:08,800 Speaker 1: on four sight you don't. They got a special me. 1486 01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:13,679 Speaker 1: Limber wings that little ticket tip the ticket that will 1487 01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:18,240 Speaker 1: be biting at that place. Where is that at? Where's 1488 01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:23,080 Speaker 1: that you thought? There is that magic? Oh yes, sir, yes, 1489 01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:28,960 Speaker 1: sir baby for winging man Tuck. I appreciate it, Bro, 1490 01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:31,479 Speaker 1: I appreciate the time of the day. Love you man, 1491 01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:35,160 Speaker 1: Thank you bro. This is awesome. All my life, running 1492 01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:40,320 Speaker 1: all my life, sacrifice, hustle back pricing. One slice got 1493 01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,760 Speaker 1: the bron dice to swap all my life. I've been 1494 01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:46,040 Speaker 1: grinding all my life, all my life and running all 1495 01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:51,080 Speaker 1: my life, sacrifice, hustle back prices. One slice got the 1496 01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:53,800 Speaker 1: bron dice to swap all my life. I've been running 1497 01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:54,479 Speaker 1: all my life.